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Charlie Schweik | 7 Jan 2010 16:13
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Reminder: Call for papers for "The Politics of Open Source" conference

Please circulate the call for papers below.
The deadline for paper submissions is this *Sunday, January 10, 2010*. 
Visit www.umass.edu/jitp for more information and a complete call for 
papers.

JITP 2010: The Politics of Open Source
A two-day University of Massachusetts Amherst conference jointly 
sponsored by:

Google
Department of Political Science, UMass Amherst
Science, Technology, and Society Initiative (STS)
Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP)
Qualitative Data Analysis Program (QDAP)
National Center for Digital Government (NCDG)
Department of Computer Science, UMass Amherst
Center for Public Policy and Administration

KEYNOTE & DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

Eric von Hippel is Professor and Head of the Innovation and 
Entrepreneurship Group at the Sloan School of Management at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Fellow at the Berkman Center 
for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He specializes in 
research related to the nature and economics of distributed and open 
innovation. He also develops and teaches about practical methods that 
firms can use to improve their product and service development 
processes. He is the author of Democratizing Innovation (MIT Press, 
2005) and The Sources of Innovation (Oxford, 1988).
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Manusheel Gupta | 24 Jan 2010 01:24
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SocialCalc on Sugar version #5 release

Dear friends,

We are delighted to announce the release of the version #5 of SocialCalc activity on Sugar. We have introduced a number of features in SocialCalc on Sugar since the last community release -


1. Localization in Spanish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Chinese (simplified), French, German and Portuguese.
2. Ability to read and edit single sheet Excel .xls files.
3. Sharing of activity over the mesh network.
4. Ability to read and edit single sheet Lotus notes.
5. Optimization of the save files. The sheet extents will include just the part that has data. This feature also "canonicalizes" the saved data in other ways, such as removing no longer used formats and color definitions from the save file.
6. Localization made easy, especially of text in the user interface. All of the text that is normally seen during operation is now easily localizable by changing a single file, socialcalcconstants.js.


Please visit -

1. SocialCalc on Sugar - http://seeta.in/j/products-and-services/socialcalc-on-sugar.html

2. SocialCalc on Sugar wiki page - http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalc_on_Sugar

3. Download pages - the version #5 along with its source code can be downloaded from http://seeta.in/j/downloads.html or from activities.sugarlabs.org.


4. For Educators

    Video on using Charting Tools - http://www.scalablec.com/videos/14/socialcalc-charting-tools-video-tutorial
    Guide for using Charting Tools - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ndoiron/SocialCalc


We look forward to hearing your feedback and experience with SocialCalc on Sugar. We started a group about SocialCalc on Sugar for educators, content engineers, developers, translators, curriculum developers, testers and graphic designers on ScalableC (www.scalablec.com) to share ideas, collaborate and engineer curriculum materials and develop case-studies on using SocialCalc on Sugar at schools. Please join the group if you are a member at ScalableC. If you are not a member, please ask for an invitation at http://www.scalablec.com/register.php with the message "interested in joining SocialCalc on Sugar group".

If you would like to put in a feature request, or submit a bug report, please do so at http://testtrack.seeta.in , or e-mail us at socialcalc.sugar-F6hFgnq8Log@public.gmane.org.

Hope you enjoy working with SocialCalc on Sugar.


Regards,

SocialCalc on Sugar Team

































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Manusheel Gupta | 24 Jan 2010 01:25
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SocialCalc on Sugar - Developers' Guide and Opportunity for Developers and Content Creators

Dear friends,

Please visit the developers' guide documented for each feature -

a. Collaboration of SocialCalc in Sugar - http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Collaboration_in_SocialCalc_on_Sugar
b. Localization Infrastructure - http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=SocialCalc_Localization
c. Interoperability between SocialCalc on Sugar and Excel (.xls format only) - http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=File:Interoperability_SocialCalc_on_Sugar_and_Excel.pdf
d. Interoperability between SocialCalc on Sugar and Lotus Notes - http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Interoperability_between_SocialCalc_on_Sugar_and_Lotus_Notes
e. Manual for Programmers - http://seeta.in/wiki/index.php?title=Guide


Opportunity for Developers and Content Creators -

We are looking for developers and content creators, who are interested in participating with us in a number of initiatives -

1. Develop teacher training videos for SocialCalc on Sugar in their local languages;

2. Develop interoperability between SocialCalc on Sugar and Excel (from MS Office 2007 - xlsx format), Apple iwork Numbers, Google Spreadsheet, Gnumeric, Open Spreadsheet format and KSpread;

3. Engineer features to modify the charts (like colors, fonts, scale etc.);

4. Integration of SocialCalc with Paint, Write, Arithmetic, Physics, Turtle Art and E-Toys and other Sugar activities;

5. Development of 2-D and 3-D area charts and surface charts;

6. Creation of shapes like rectangles, block arrows, equation shapes;

7. Creation of templates that could be used as teacher tools (example - income task problem sums);

8. Localization of SocialCalc on Sugar.


If you are interested, please write to us at socialcalc.sugar-F6hFgnq8Log@public.gmane.org.


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SocialCalc on Sugar Team




























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Manusheel Gupta | 28 Jan 2010 23:42
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Global Game Jam 2010, India

FYI

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Global Game Jam 2010, India

Global Game Jam is a collaborative game development event focused towards bringing talented individuals together to develop open source games in a very short span of time (48 hours).Participants rapidly prototype video game designs and inject new ideas to help develop neat games and contribute towards growing the game industry.The GGJ is open source, hardware & software agnostic and all projects are protected under a creative commons license. The members of the gaming community are encouraged to try out new ideas and push themselves within reason.

Date - January 29-31

Venue - University of Delhi

Time - 5 pm, Indian Standard Time

Please join the group Global Game Jam 2010 at ScalableC - http://www.scalablec.com/group_home.php?gid=9. If you are not a member, kindly send a request at http://www.scalablec.com/register.php with the message "Interested in participating at Global Game Jam 2010".

For any queries/questions/feedback, please contact ggj2010.india-F6hFgnq8Log@public.gmane.org.








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