[Sugar-devel] Programming Languages

2019-01-23 Thread James Cameron
# Sugar Labs Programming Languages At Sugar Labs we have opportunities for contributing with many different programming languages and libraries; ## Python, PyGObject, GTK+, Pygame, GStreamer, * Sugar, * Activities for Sugar, * Sugar Toolkit (API), * Sugar Datastore (API), ## JavaScript, HTML5 a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Abandoned or orphaned activities

2019-01-23 Thread Tony Anderson
Naturally, the key is volunteer activity by the community. As always identify the non-working activities, identify common problems which can be handled such as conversion to GTK3, and anyone who wants take that on. For testers and reviewers, get help from out users. If we set up a 'help' path t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Abandoned or orphaned activities

2019-01-23 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks for clarifying; I'd misunderstood 😂 On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 7:29 PM James Cameron No, thanks! What my time can accomplish was given only as an > indication of the size of the solved part of the overall problem. > > OLPC continues to pay me to work on our education solution, which > includes

Re: [Sugar-devel] Abandoned or orphaned activities

2019-01-23 Thread James Cameron
No, thanks! What my time can accomplish was given only as an indication of the size of the solved part of the overall problem. OLPC continues to pay me to work on our education solution, which includes Sugar and these activities. The rest of my time is already sold. On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 07:2

[Sugar-devel] Evaluating open source communities

2019-01-23 Thread James Cameron
Cintia Del Rio gave a talk at linux.conf.au, "Finding your tribe - choosing open source communities". I recommend it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTdJgpxkrhU https://2019.linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/227/ -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ _

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestions for GSoC 2019

2019-01-23 Thread Amaan Iqbal
James Cameron wrote: > You replied to me, but that wasn't me you quoted, it was Rahul. Ya, I know. I just replied to all. > However, it would be wrong > to set expectations of colourful software by adding lots of colour to > the web site. I just meant to update the color palette, never to have

Re: [Sugar-devel] [UKids] [Announcement] Sugarizer v1.1 is available for your device

2019-01-23 Thread Lionel Laské
Hi Simon, Thanks for your interest on Sugarizer. If you're running Sugarizer Server into Docker, the file to update is env/docker.ini (not env/sugarizer.ini). You could see (and eventually change) this settings here: https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server/blob/master/docker/Dockerfile-server.t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Abandoned or orphaned activities

2019-01-23 Thread Martin Dengler
First, what are the numbers: extrapolating from this N=1 sample, how many activities can be maintained by a very experienced python and Sugar developer? Regards Martin > On Jan 23, 2019, at 07:27, Dave Crossland wrote: > > James, are you soliciting SL pay you as a contractor to fix Activities

Re: [Sugar-devel] Abandoned or orphaned activities

2019-01-23 Thread Dave Crossland
James, are you soliciting SL pay you as a contractor to fix Activities not on the list? On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 1:15 AM James Cameron Nice idea, but hasn't happened yet, and I don't expect it to ever > happen without scaling up the number of testers and fixers. > > We just don't have enough people

Re: [Sugar-devel] Abandoned or orphaned activities

2019-01-23 Thread Tony Anderson
My naive view is that if we seriously undertake the task, others will join. As an example, now that we have Sugar on Ubuntu 18.04, we could easily install every activity on a laptop and test in Sugar by launching to see if it shows the opening screen or gives 'failed to start'. In the latter