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The | The Fedora OLPC project seems to have found a friend at Rochester Institute of Technology<ref>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rochester,_NY</ref>. Fedora Ambassador Karlie Robinson met RIT professor Stephen Jacobs at an OLPC Grassroots meeting on January 22 and learned of Jacobs' interest in doing a class around the XO. | ||
Karlie brought Professor Jacobs up to speed on what | Days later, David Nalley announced the Fedora Ambassador Developers Project and Karlie brought Professor Jacobs up to speed on what Fedora is doing around the XO,<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2009-February/msg00033.html</ref> where Fedora is providing XOs to those who will do development work. The deal revolved around getting XOs for Jacobs classroom in exchange for the RIT students working on [[User:Gdk|Greg DeKoenigsberg's]] 4th Grade Math project[http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Gdk/4th_Grade_Maths]. | ||
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Revision as of 23:00, 22 March 2009
Ambassadors
In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
RIT Pitches in on OLPC Project
The Fedora OLPC project seems to have found a friend at Rochester Institute of Technology[1]. Fedora Ambassador Karlie Robinson met RIT professor Stephen Jacobs at an OLPC Grassroots meeting on January 22 and learned of Jacobs' interest in doing a class around the XO.
Days later, David Nalley announced the Fedora Ambassador Developers Project and Karlie brought Professor Jacobs up to speed on what Fedora is doing around the XO,[2] where Fedora is providing XOs to those who will do development work. The deal revolved around getting XOs for Jacobs classroom in exchange for the RIT students working on Greg DeKoenigsberg's 4th Grade Math project[1].
(This item corrects an identical item reported in FWN Number 166)
Fedora at CUE
Karsten Wade represented Fedora at last week's Computer-Using Educator (CUE) conference in Palm Springs, California. Karsten gave a talk about the advantages of bringing a culture of participation to the classroom.
A detailed report of what happened at CUE can be picked up at Karsten's blog[1], specifically the items entitled "Stumbling around in the K-12 space" and "Moodle as a killer K-12 app."
- ↑ http://iquaid.org/%7C i, quaid
Got Ambassador News?
Any Ambassador news tips from around the Fedora community can be submitted to me by e-mailing lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org and I'd be glad to put it in this weekly report.