On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Iain Brown Douglas <i...@browndouglas.plus.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 11:39 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: >> Iain, Sean, Sam, >> >> >> _Please_consolidate_the_changes_before_send_to_Peter_. >> > Thanks, Gonzalo, is good advice. >
I've just spent two hours manually providing updates. It will be live on staging shortly. Please provide any further updates against that. > My apologies to the other contributors, Sam, Walter and Sean for > clouding their perfectly useful work. > > The text that I have called the "Walter/Sam contribution" is on this > thread. > > Sean's "improved" text reads: > > #-# > > Sugar on a Stick is a Fedora-based operating system featuring the > award-winning Sugar Learning Platform and designed to fit on an ordinary > USB thumbdrive ("stick"). > > Sugar sets aside the traditional "office-desktop" metaphor, presenting a > child-friendly simple graphical environment. Sugar automatically saves > the child's progress to a "Journal" on your stick, so teachers and > parents can easily pull up "all collaborative web browsing sessions done > in the past week" or "papers written with Daniel and Sarah in the last > 24 hours" with a simple query rather than memorizing complex file/folder > structures. Applications in Sugar are known as Activities, some of which > are described below. > > It is now deployable for the cost of a stick rather than a laptop; > students can take their Sugar on a Stick thumbdrive to any machine - at > school, at home, at a library or community center - and boot their > customized computing environment without touching the host machine's > hard disk or existing system at all. > > #-# > > I feel that this is the limit of my ability to achieve consensus. > > I have a plain text copy of the above two elements plus Sean's > proof_reading_corrections, if it is required. > > Iain > >> Peter, >> when need this be finished? >> >> >> Gonzalo >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Peter Robinson >> <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Iain Brown Douglas >> <i...@browndouglas.plus.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 15:00 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> >> > Hi Peter, >> >> >> > >> >> >> > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:01 PM Peter Robinson >> <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Iain Brown Douglas >> >> >> >> <i...@browndouglas.plus.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Thanks, Sean, for the careful proof reading. >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > Fair copy attached. >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > I originally included the section "Multimedia", as >> it is the set of >> >> >> >> > Activities in >> http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/ >> >> >> >> > but not in the Walter/Sam contribution. >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > I think it is the weakest section. Chat jars a bit >> on the page, as >> >> >> >> > "Chat" is used in the "Spins page template" to >> refer to IRC. >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> > My memory is that Jukebox is not part of the core >> set (due to non-free >> >> >> >> > components?). >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> You're memory is wrong! It uses gstreamer and there a >> number of free >> >> >> >> codecs that come as standard. >> >> > Thanks, Peter, for the correction. >> >> > >> >> > So as a heading, ==Multimedia== containing Jukebox, >> Record, Imageviewer >> >> > you feel should remain? >> >> >> >> I really don't care what it's called but those three are >> staying, >> >> right where they are. A lot of people want to view photos, >> listen to >> >> music etc. As to what it's called, I'm not particularly >> bothered. >> >> >> >> >> Maybe you could download SoaS 22 and >> >> >> >> actually test it and see what's there! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Perhaps the section Multimedia as it stands should >> be deleted. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Not going to happen. This isn't time for >> bikeshedding, it's time for >> >> >> >> tweaking the content as it stands. >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Talking about the headers is not bikeshedding. The >> headers on the page are >> >> >> > not very relevant to an education focused desktop >> environment - they are >> >> >> > headers for a traditional dekstop environment. >> >> >> >> >> >> I was talking about "Multimedia as it stands should be >> deleted" so I >> >> >> have no idea why you're talking about the header names. >> I have stated >> >> >> before the header names need to be updated. I'm still >> awaiting what >> >> >> they should be updated to. >> >> > >> >> > ... awaiting? >> >> > >> >> > Understanding and creating content >> >> > Learning by doing >> >> > Getting technical >> >> > Exploring the wider world >> >> > Multimedia >> >> > Reflection on what you've learned >> >> > >> >> > is from earlier contributions and both my attachments to >> this thread. >> >> >> >> As I've said to Sean before, I don't have the time to >> reconcile >> >> opinions coming in from a number of locations. >> > Peter, that is why I have tried to help by drawing the >> contributions >> > onto one attachment, are you receiving your email without >> attachments? >> >> >> No, I drop all attachments from mailing lists unless they are >> text >> patches, they're generally just spam or viruses. >> >> In plain text inline emails please. >> >> I want ONE update. I don't have the time to merge them. I've >> already >> wasted a lot of time I really don't have on this! >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Gonzalo Odiard >> >> SugarLabs - Software for children learning >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing