Thanks Andre for the update I really appreciate.<br><br>I hope someone recorded that if so it looks like it should appear in the future on this page (items):<br><br><a href="http://us.pycon.org/zope/talks/2007/fri/track3/004/talkDetails">
http://us.pycon.org/zope/talks/2007/fri/track3/004/talkDetails</a><br><br>I'm also hoping your talk for crunchy will be recorded. It would also be a good occasion to have an interview with Ron Stephens for the Python 411 podcast (I'm sure he will be interested).
<br><br>francois<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andre Roberge</b> <<a href="mailto:andre.roberge@gmail.com">andre.roberge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I just attended a great talk on OLPC. I thought I should share my<br>first reactions with folks not fortunate enough to be able to attend.<br><br>BTW, if anyone feels this is a bit of an abuse of this list, feel free<br>
to let me know (I won't be offended). I recognize that these are not<br>well polished notes and perhaps should rather find their way on my<br>blog.<br><br><br>The first part was about school and learning - great stuff. Goal:
<br>changing the way kids learn (no mention as this point about laptops).<br>Art would have been pleasantly surprised. This was done in a<br>"non-preachy" way, unlike the way some home-schooling advocates<br>present their stuff. (no offense meant to anyone on this list).
<br><br>A big chunk of the talk dealt with technical/hardware issues - all<br>done in a very relevant way, but not exactly relevant for edu-sig.<br><br>Some excellent reasons were given as to why Python was chosen as *the*
<br>development language. There is actually a button on the keyboard<br>which is meant to "display the source"; click on it and you're<br>presented with the actual Python source code used to run the<br>application being viewed/used. The user can then modify the source
<br>(like smalltalk I guess, like Paul F. [?] sometimes mentions on this<br>list) and run the modified version.<br><br>One open issue (as I understand it) is that of finding the "best<br>practice" for plugins. The idea is that the core programs should be
<br>as small as possible but easy to extend via plugins. I thought that<br>there already was a "well known and best way" to design plugins - and<br>it was on my list of things to learn about (to eventually incorporate
<br>rurple within crunchy).<br><br>There is a real need to have more people involved in the development.<br>This project presents a real opportunity to "make a real difference"<br>to a lot of kids out there.<br>
<br>Overall, I was extremely impressed with the talk - it was a job well<br>done and a fantastic start to the conference.<br><br>André<br>_______________________________________________<br>Edu-sig mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Edu-sig@python.org">
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