On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 2009/11/17 Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com>: > > It's an excellent point; after all, Mingoville > > http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I believe claims over 1 > > million users, 100+ activities for children to practice English. > > > > But there's another facet: dominant languages such as English, > > Spanish, French, put pressure on minority languages. Sugar has a role > > to play supporting many languages, not just in the interface, but in > > content. There have been suggestions in the past that we position > > Sugar as a great way to learn English, and indeed it can be > > (especially in a connected environment), but I feel English should not > > be privileged over local languages. > > Can we make Sugar a good platform for publishing e-books? Anybody has > already thought of what it would take? > Going along the same lines but in a different direction then Tomeu....This teacher asked for a simple book creation tool for kids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRcKP1MJQs Might not be hard to create a Turtle Art Template that prints in a way that lets you fold the printed page to create a book. > Regards, > > Tomeu > > > My concern is the timing... Sebastian is under pressure for a December > > 8th launch and will need help collating books. > > > > The Blueberry launch is also threatened by sugaronastick.com, which as > > long as it is up will create confusion. > > > > Sean > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Yama Ploskonka <yamap...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> sorry to keep the off-topic on topic, :-), but in my experience the > >> possibility to access stuff in English is one of the biggest calls for > Sugar > >> use, especially maybe in non-English places. > >> > >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Carlo Falciola <cfalci...@yahoo.it> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Sebastian, > >>> really have absolutely no issue regarding the provider. > >>> Once I realized that in that site there weren't non EN titles you I > just > >>> made a quick Google-search for multilingual ebooks sites. > >>> > >>> My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate the opportunity to put > a > >>> little sample in more that one language. > >>> > >>> ciao carlo > >>> > >>> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas <sebast...@when.com> ha scritto: > >>> > >>> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas <sebast...@when.com> > >>> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) > >>> > A: "Carlo Falciola" <cfalci...@yahoo.it> > >>> > Cc: "iaep" <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org> > >>> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22 > >>> > Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too > >>> > quick with this. :) > >>> > > >>> > This e-mail was supposed to be about discussing good sample > >>> > titles, not > >>> > about announcing anything with regard to the book provider > >>> > we were > >>> > using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look into it... > >>> > > >>> > Cheers, > >>> > --Sebastian > >>> > > >>> > Carlo Falciola wrote: > >>> > > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of > >>> > ePub version, but (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have > >>> > books from several different languages... > >>> > > Maybe one out of a selection of > >>> > languages would make sense... > >>> > > > >>> > > ciao carlo > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas<sebast...@when.com> > >>> > ha scritto: > >>> > > > >>> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas<sebast...@when.com> > >>> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick > >>> > (Blueberry) > >>> > >> A: "SoaS"<s...@lists.sugarlabs.org>, > >>> > "iaep"<iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org> > >>> > >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36 > >>> > >> Hi all, > >>> > >> > >>> > >> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected > >>> > e-books > >>> > >> in the > >>> > >> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing > >>> > >> high-quality e-books > >>> > >> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical > >>> > >> simplicity), we're > >>> > >> going to use e-books from epubBooks > >>> > (www.epubbooks.com)! > >>> > >> > >>> > >> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland > >>> > (which > >>> > >> comes with nice > >>> > >> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody > >>> > to go > >>> > >> through the > >>> > >> catalog on that website and to point out > >>> > favorites. > >>> > >> > >>> > >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :) > >>> > >> > >>> > >> --Sebastian > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >>> > >> SoaS mailing list > >>> > >> s...@lists.sugarlabs.org > >>> > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > > -- > «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. > What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David > Farning > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > s...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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