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Greetings from Porto Alegre, Brasil!
As I write this from breakfast, the sun is coming up over the city. I'll soon be joined by the ten of us who have traveled here to represent Squeakland Foundation and our respective Etoys organizations. Most of us flew in yesterday, then met last night for a wonderful dinner hosted by Intel, one of the conference sponsors. It was very nice seeing everyone last night. While we speak frequently together through Skype and Qwaq, there's nothing quite like meeting in person. At dinner we had time to discuss ours lives outside Etoys, getting to know each other in a way that's much harder to do through the Internet. Today should be quite a day. At this point, more than 280 people have registered for the conference. Given that the main conference room seats 250, it might be standing room only. We plan to chat throughout the conference on Etoys chat channel (http://chat.squeakland.org ), which you can read later at the chat log (http://squeakland.org/sm/storybot ). Stop by and say hello so you can be part of the event, from wherever you happen to be now. Have a look at the schedule (http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/brasil/schedule/ ) to follow along. We'll be getting the English translation of the schedule up soon. And remember, we're following up this conference in a few weeks with another at UCLA in Los Angeles. Please come join us there. You can register (http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/register/) on the Squeakfest USA website. Special thanks to Marta Voelcker and the rest of her team for organizing this event. Their hard work really shows. _______________________________________________ squeakland mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland |
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Dear squeakers! We had such a great Day here in Porto Alegre! It is so wonderful to meet people that
share the same dreams and are so happy to get together and learn from each
other. About 240 people at least showed
up today! During the morning we were all in the
main room ( auditorium), after lunch, the three extra rooms, each one with 20
laptops, hosted several activities. The conference got very interactive (
just the way we wanted!). I am so happy that among participants
there are many teachers and coordinators form several cities, who had
never heard about etoys before, it is wonderful to have the possibility to get
them immersed in this magic squeakfest atmosphere ! Well, there is so much to tell but I am
so tired! I would like to thank form the bottom of
my hart to all those that helped us to make this happen and especially for
Kim Rose that has encouraged us to believe in this dream, go for it, and made
it happen! Here are some pictures: http://www.indicefoto.com/modules/sala_imprensa_novo/index.php?evento=fest336 type the password fest336 and then click in ACEITO more to come! Kind regards, marta -----Mensagem original----- Greetings from Porto Alegre, Brasil! As I write this from breakfast, the sun is coming up over
the city. I'll soon be joined by the ten of us who have traveled
here to represent Squeakland Foundation and our respective
Etoys organizations. Most of us flew in yesterday, then met
last night for a wonderful dinner hosted by Intel, one of the conference
sponsors. It was very nice seeing everyone last night. While we
speak frequently together through Skype and Qwaq, there's nothing quite
like meeting in person. At dinner we had time to discuss ours lives
outside Etoys, getting to know each other in a way that's much harder to
do through the Internet. Today should be quite a day. At this point, more than 280
people have registered for the conference. Given that the main
conference room seats 250, it might be standing room only. We plan to chat throughout the conference on Etoys chat
channel (http://chat.squeakland.org ), which you can read later at the chat log
(http://squeakland.org/sm/storybot ). Stop by and say hello so you can be part of the event,
from wherever you happen to be now. Have a look at the
schedule (http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/brasil/schedule/ ) to follow along. We'll be getting the English
translation of the schedule up soon. And remember, we're following up this conference in a few
weeks with another at UCLA in Los Angeles. Please come join us
there. You can register (http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/register/)
on the Squeakfest USA website. Special thanks to Marta Voelcker and the rest of her team
for organizing this event. Their hard work really shows. _______________________________________________ squeakland mailing list http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland _______________________________________________ squeakland mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland |
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