EduJAM/2013

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EduJam 2013!!!

This page is for planning the EduJAM! summit in Paraguay October 10th to 13th 2013.

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Main goals

  • Sharing experiences among global Sugar and OLPC deployments
  • Encouraging the creation of local communities and strengthening existing ones
  • Getting updates on the current activities of OLPC, Sugar, TurtleArt and technology and learning projects of MIT
  • Encouraging the participation of local communities in the overall project

Program

A first sketch of the event (preliminary, see also update here!)

final program (2MB jpg)

 

is as follows:

Program committee:

  • Gonzalo Odiard
  • Walter Bender
  • Leticia Romero
  • Martín Abente
  • Claudia Urrea
  • Mary Gomez

Attendees

If you want to attend, please write us: edujam@googlegroups.com

Including Volunteer Organizers: Martín Abente, Walter Bender, Pablo Flores, Gonzalo Odiard, Leticia Romero, Micaela Acosta

Add yourself to this list:

  • Claudia Urrea
  • Leticia Romero
  • Micaela Acosta
  • Martín Abente
  • Walter Bender
  • Pablo Flores
  • Gonzalo Odiard
  • Manuel Quiñones
  • Tony Forster
  • Ignacio Escudero
  • Henry Coca Garamendi
  • Andres Aguirre
  • Juan Bautista Sartorio
  • Gary Servin
  • Carla Oros
  • María Elena García


See also https://www.facebook.com/events/437684979683491/ , 49 going, 17 maybe as at 26 September

Hackaton

At Sunday 13th, we will do a Hackaton, a developing workshop, with tasks for every level. The idea is allow participation of every one who want learn how to, or help in Sugar and activities development.

Some proposals:

  • Instalation and test of new features in Sugar 0.100
  • Bugs triage
  • Finance activity (proposed by PY)
  • Create a Wikipedia Guaraní activity.
  • Translation of Help activity to "es"
  • Activities improvements
  • Web activities workshop.
  • Collaboration blocks for Butia
  • Turtle Blocks export to HTML5/Javascript

NOTE: If participants go with their own computers for development, is encouraged the installation of sugar-build (http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html)

SPANISH:

El domingo 13, vamos a realizar un Hackaton, una actividad de desarrollo, con tareas para cada nivel. La idea es permitir la participación de todo el que quiera aprender o ayudar en el desarrollo de Sugar.

Algunas ideas:

  • Instalacion y prueba de nuevas caracteristicas de sugar 0.100
  • Control de bugs.
  • Actividad Finance (lo que pidieron ustedes)
  • Armar una wikipedia Guaraní.
  • Traduccion de la actividad Help en -> es
  • Mejoras en actividades
  • Taller de actividades web
  • Bloques de colaboracion por Butia
  • Turtle Blocks exportar a HTML5/Javascript

NOTA: A quienes llevan sus computadoras para desarrollar se les recomienda instalar sugar-build (http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html)

Location

Thursday and Friday:

Facultad Politecnica de la Universidad Nacional de Asuncion (UNA)  

Saturday:

Universidad del Norte de Caacupe

Sunday:

ABC Color


The program is also showing events at Paraguay Educa and the Sheraton

 

Accommodation

We'll put here some more information about possible places for staying.

map

The following 4 are from edujam.wix:

Near UNA (Universidad Nacional de Asunción):

  • Badenia Hotel Garni 2, Fernando De La Mora, Paraguay
  • Hotel del Sur Av Mariscal José Félix Estigarribia, San Lorenzo, Paraguay
  • Liz Hotel Gral Genes, San Lorenzo, Paraguay
  • Hotel Universitario P. J. Carles, San Lorenzo, Paraguay

Paraguay (generally) uses 220V European electrical outlets so please consider bringing a small converter.

Wifi access will be sought where possible, but not guaranteed.

Transport

Saturday's Turtle Art Day is in Caacupe, 30 km from Asuncion. A bus is being provided. See registration below.

Registration

http://bit.ly/edujam2013

Paraguay

Visas are not required for most US, Canada, Europe.

My advice on phoning the embassy is that Australian and New Zealand citizens need a visa [1]which costs US$135 for Australians or US$140 New Zealanders. The embassy is in Canberra and processing takes 2-5 days plus mailing time. However Wikipedia indicates that you can get a visa on arrival at the Asuncion main airport [2] this may be true and the phone advice incomplete or Wikipedia may be out of date.

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