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Squeak Etoys has been demonstrated on Classmate, XO, and iPad at LinuxTag Berlin 2010...

The official Squeakfest website is now live and ready for you to propose a presentation, workshop, or panel. http://squeakfest.org The dates for Squeakfest USA in Wilmington NC are July 26, 27, 28. The theme for this year's conference will be "Etoys in the STEM classroom." As we are in the place where the NSF project Using Squeak to Infuse Technology (USeIT) is reaching it's 3rd year, we will see and learn a lot about their experiences. If you've got experience teaching with Etoys, we'd love to hear about it, as would the attendees of the conference. We're also very interested...

Thanks to the diligent work of Cathie and others, we were able to send the application of Squakland Foundation to become part of the Software Freedom Conservancy today! We know that the process will take some time, since the SFC has a backlog for acceptance of projects of up to three to six months. But this process has now started!...

Dear Squeakers, I'm happy to tell you that we have a new Squeakland Board in place! On our last board meeting at April, 27 we came up with a list of candidates, and everyone accepted. We now have Rita Freudenberg, Cathleen Galas, Walter Bender, Scott Wallace, Ted Kaehler, Randall Caton, Elliot Miranda, Cherry Withers, Kathleen Harness, Marta Voelker, Milan Zimmerman, Carlos Rabassa, and Korakurider on the board. http://www.squeakland.org/about/people/ I want to thank everyone on the previous board for all the work you did during the last year, especially the leaving board members Kim Rose, Yoshiki Oshima, and Tim Falconer. On...

Hello everyone, I'm back from Haiti, both literally and figuratively. Since the earthquake, nearly all of my time has been spent on the seven Etoys pilots that have started or will soon start in four different regions of Haiti. To follow our progress, read the Waveplace blog and see the two videos at http://waveplace.org/news/. We'll be adding a great many photos in the next few days. Connectivity was very bad, so we are only uploading photos now. While it may appear that Haiti has benefitted at the expense of Squeakland so far this year, I think quite the opposite is...

We are happy to announce another opportunity for a face to face gathering and sharing of experiences and materials relative to the usage of Etoys. Squeakfest USA August 10, 11 and 12th Los Angeles, CA at the Faculty Center, UCLA Campus We'll have more info on the Squeakland website shortly, but until then, please save the date! Please forward this email and share with friends and colleagues. This will be a gathering of users and practitioners of Etoys -- teachers, researchers, and developers to share and learn. Newcomers to Etoys are most welcome too! We hope to see you in...

Our first book sprint was a great kick-off for our effort to write the Etoys Reference Manual. Here you can read how it went and how we plan to go on: We started the sprint on Monday, December 7th, with a first discussion about the structure, target audience and FLOSS Manuals. We started writing the first parts then and met again for an audio call on Tuesday. We had a longer discussion and agreed on the structure now available on the wiki page: http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/Book+Sprint On the other days I had audio chats with Cherry, Randy and Stephen Thomas, mostly about...

We're in day two of our Etoys book sprint! Please spend time with us in the Etoys chat channel to help motivate everyone. Usually book sprints are done in person, so we're using our chat channel as a way to spend time together. It's a great way to meet other Etoys enthusiasts and help the writers at the same time. There are two ways to visit our chat channel . . . 1) visit http://chat.squeakland.org and put your nickname in place of "squeaker###". Simply type messages at the bottom of the screen and click Enter. 2) download and install an...

We just had our kick-off audio chat for the book sprint. It is wonderful to have so many great people working together on the Etoys manual! For now, we start writing at FLOSS Manuals Etoys . if you have any questions or want to discuss, try the IRC and start your question with @help ... In case everyone has finally gone to sleep, check out the book sprint page on our wiki or send an email to rita@squeakland.org We will have our next audio chat tomorrow, December 8 at 3 pm EST, 12 PST....