Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world

2009-08-13 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
David Farning schrieb: > And yes, Christoph I _am_ holding your writing to a higher standard. > Several times, you have described yourself as the voice of the > project. David, just for the record: I definitely don't consider myself "the voice" of Sugar Labs, that's just ludicrous and I can't rem

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-13 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Physics is so cool! One of the students today did a really great job with > it:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nseWyxaN6g > Does anyone have an idea for a 1 hour or so lesson I could do with > Physics that would teach a Physics concept and 

Re: [IAEP] Yet more feedback from Boston! - Chat and Speak

2009-08-13 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Neither wind nor rain nor flaming emails will deter me from telling you > about what happened with kids and Sugar today in Boston! You however are > free to use your delete key at any time. > Today, working with 6th grade students at the Muse

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Friday 14 Aug 2009 12:41:47 am David Van Assche wrote: > As this is a pretty > controlled environment, we should be able to get some automated statistics. > I'd love to hear some ideas on this. Have you looked at Munin (munin.sf.net)? I use Munin to collect base system statistics. The cpu/ram/n

[IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-13 Thread Caroline Meeks
Physics is so cool! One of the students today did a really great job with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nseWyxaN6g Does anyone have an idea for a 1 hour or so lesson I could do with Physics that would teach a Physics concept and still be incredibly engaging? -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grov

[IAEP] Computer ClubHouse at the Boston Museum of Science

2009-08-13 Thread Caroline Meeks
http://www.computerclubhouse.org/ The Computer Clubhouse is an international network of computer centers for youth. Their "flagship" clubhouse is housed in the Museum of Science in Boston and they were kind enough to host us for two days this week. Keith has also mentioned that he would be able t

[IAEP] Yet more feedback from Boston! - Chat and Speak

2009-08-13 Thread Caroline Meeks
Neither wind nor rain nor flaming emails will deter me from telling you about what happened with kids and Sugar today in Boston! You however are free to use your delete key at any time. Today, working with 6th grade students at the Museum of Science Computer Clubhouse I learned not to start a Sugar

[IAEP] develer.com: switch to new uplink, Aug 13 23:00 UTC

2009-08-13 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Today Develer will be switching its public infrastructure to a new 10mbit symmetrical uplink operated by Consiagnet on a dedicated, redundant foil cable. All hosted machines will change their IPs to the new 83.149.158.208/28 subnet (16 public IPv4 addresses). The machine bender.sugarlabs.org, whi

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Also please share your ideas on have to better this feedback on the deployment team, meetings and wiki-pages. as a side note. we need also more feedback from XO deployments with Sugar, are OLPC and Countries willing to help ?. or just passing all the responsibility to SugarLabs?. I know that man

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Farning
David, Thank you, that is exactly the direction that we need to head! david On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:11 PM, David Van Assche wrote: > From my end, I can offer extensive feedback on Sugar usage in Andalucian > schools, when we ship our next release in September. As this is a pretty > controlled

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
>From my end, I can offer extensive feedback on Sugar usage in Andalucian schools, when we ship our next release in September. As this is a pretty controlled environment, we should be able to get some automated statistics. I'd love to hear some ideas on this. What could we install on the client sug

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Van Assche wrote: [snip] > Or are you saying the feedback is getting through and I'm just not seeing > it? We all seem to agree that feedback is important. We mostly agree that there is value in feedback from all deployments, big and small. We are currently

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying... all I said was "we need more data from the field" I am in no way blaming anyone for not getting feedback, on the contrary, I am frustrated that the calls for feediback are not being heard enoguh, and I am well aware of people's efforts to try an

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 15:51, David Van Assche wrote: > H... I have to agree with Christoph here. I didn't really see it as > being dramatic at all, but quite factual in fact. The western small > deployments really don't give us any useful stats on what is happening on a > larger scale in the

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
H... I have to agree with Christoph here. I didn't really see it as being dramatic at all, but quite factual in fact. The western small deployments really don't give us any useful stats on what is happening on a larger scale in the third world. And its important to acknowledge the differences b

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Sean DALY schrieb: >> >> IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to >> all teachers and Learners. The observations and take-aways need to be >> triaged of course, starting with what can/should be done by Suga

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Sean DALY schrieb: >> IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to >> all teachers and Learners. The observations and take-aways need to be >> triaged of course, starting with what can/should be done by Sugar >

[IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Sean DALY schrieb: > IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to > all teachers and Learners. The observations and take-aways need to be > triaged of course, starting with what can/should be done by Sugar > Labs, but I am convinced many learnings will benefit large > depl

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Competitive landscape: Intel Classmate executive blog post re updated software

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
This actually looks like a commercial ripoff of iTalc, an opensource app that does exactly what synchronous Eyes does: http://italc.sourceforge.net/ On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Christoph Derndorfer < e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > Thanks for the link, definitely an interesting artic

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Competitive landscape: Intel Classmate executive blog post re updated software

2009-08-13 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Thanks for the link, definitely an interesting article! Some of the features provided by that "SMART Classroom Suite" (http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SynchronEyes+Classroom+Management+Software/) would also be very useful additions for Sugar... Cheers, Christoph Sean DALY schrieb:

[IAEP] Leading and Learning article

2009-08-13 Thread Roland Gesthuizen
The ISTE journal "Learning & Leading" current issue Vol 37.1 has a netbook article on page 14. You can download and read the free online PDF version from this link. http://tr.im/wjuI It is a good 4 page summary of the different options spanning thick, ultraportable and thin computers and gives goo