[boston-pig] Fwd: OLPC Jam later this month. Interesting

[Nate Aune]

I thought some of you might be interested in the OLPC Physics Game Jam
Boston taking place the weekend of Aug. 29-31. Game developers will
compete in teams of 2-4 to design and implement a physics-based game
for the One Laptop per Child XO laptop. In addition to
OLPC/Jam-related swag for all participants, one team will win an XO
laptop. http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/18/2258228

As some of you may know, the XO laptops have Python at their core, and
use Python to build OLPC applications.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Python_Environment

they also include Pippy, which is a program to teach programming to
kids using Python. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy

Nate

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Fisher <tibbon at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:43 AM
Subject: OLPC Jam later this month. Interesting
To: Nate Aune <natea at jazkarta.com>


http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Physics_Jam
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/18/2258228

Python programmers in teams working on physics engine stuff for OLPC
in a weekend competition.

-Dave



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