Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Technical Service Request - Project: Sugar Network

2017-04-24 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Laura I sympathize with your concern for active users. But my recommendation is to use this as motivation to shut down Sugar Network. In my opinion: Everything associated with the old Python codebase has entered terminal decline, is no longer sustainable, and should be archived and turned

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] motion for a new mission statement

2017-04-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Tony Anderson... here's another +1 Caryl From: IAEP on behalf of James Cameron Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 3:04:21 PM To: Tony Anderson Cc: IAEP SugarLabs; sugar-devel; Dave Crossland Subject: Re: [IAEP]

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] motion for a new mission statement

2017-04-24 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 05:10:36PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: > Hey, I think we are making progress! I appreciate your loyalty to > your employer. > > Thanks for clarifying that when I installed Sugar (sucrose) on > Ubuntu I was installing the Debian package. > > My problem with SOAS is this

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-24 Thread James Simmons
I believe in constructionist learning as much as anyone, but before Sugar can benefit anyone it needs to be available and used. At least to some extent it needs to fit in with what schools are already doing, and it needs to run on what they already have. The resistance to Common Core standards

[IAEP] and thanks for all the fish

2017-04-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Dear Sugarlabs enthusiasts. I have come to realize that the actitivites on this list are largely irrelevant for me, and will therefore unsubscribe. If at some point in the future you decide to establish a mailinglist for the pedagogical aspects of Sugar - separate from technical and

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] motion for a new mission statement

2017-04-24 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Jonas IAEP is the catch all list for things that are not development or localization. This is why it is filled with threads on sugar organizational issues (the slobs list is not open so that slob issues are duplicated on iaep). Believe me, I would live iaep to discuss education. Tony On

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Technical Service Request - Project: Sugar Network

2017-04-24 Thread Laura Vargas
> > > I think we can wait a bit longer for Adam and Sameer to register their > votes. > > -walter > >> >> Walter, Now that motion failed, I'm totally out of ideas on how to achieve our maintenance goals. Spam was not a problem for the first 3 years of Sugar Network and now it consumes lot's of

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] motion for a new mission statement

2017-04-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Tony Anderson (2017-04-24 11:10:36) > Thanks for clarifying that when I installed Sugar (sucrose) on Ubuntu > I was installing the Debian package. Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian. > My problem with SOAS is this page; > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation. It

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] motion for a new mission statement

2017-04-24 Thread Tony Anderson
Hey, I think we are making progress! I appreciate your loyalty to your employer. Thanks for clarifying that when I installed Sugar (sucrose) on Ubuntu I was installing the Debian package. My problem with SOAS is this page; http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation. It