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[IAEP] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84

2009-03-26 Thread Anne Gentle

Hi all -
I am thinking the Sugar Guide is ready for one last look before I publish to
PDF and HTML.

It's still on the WRITE side of FLOSS Manuals, so feel free to do any
last-minute proofing and edits here:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/WebHome

We had some technical hurdles to overcome since it's our first version
update on a manual (way to lead the way Sugar!). But I think enough bugs are
worked out to allow publishing tomorrow (Friday 3/27).

Final items:

   1. Walter or someone with python knowledge, could you review the
   "Modifying Sugar" chapter at
   http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/ModifyingSugar? I had to
   take all the code examples (python and svg xml) and put them into images so
   that the PDF generation will work.
   2. There's a problem with misnumbered chapters for which I've logged a
   trac issue and Aco has taken: http://adam.engagetv.com/trac/ticket/81.
   3. Walter, David, and Adam - let's talk about getting an ISBN for this
   book if we want to sell it on Amazon. If we do decide to sell it on Amazon,
   we'll need a new book cover to match Crown Quarto dimensions. (The
   dimensions are 190mm x 250mm and the page count is 226.)

Thanks, all, for your assistance and patience.

Anne

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Re: [IAEP] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84

2009-03-26 Thread Caryl Bigenho


Hi...

The new Sugar manual looks very professional. You folks have done a great job.

 I was, however, disappointed to find that, although running it on a Mac is 
mentioned, the instructions for doing it are not included.  The education world 
in the US is mostly a Mac world.  A lot of people would like to run it on their 
classroom machines.

If it currently only works on Intel based machines, could we at least include 
instructions for that?  Meanwhile, is anyone working on getting it to run on 
Power PC Macs?  I have both and can test it whenever it is ready and you send 
me the info on getting it.

Caryl

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> Hi all -
> I am thinking the Sugar Guide is ready for one last look before I publish to
> PDF and HTML.
> 
> It's still on the WRITE side of FLOSS Manuals, so feel free to do any
> last-minute proofing and edits here:
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/WebHome
> 
> We had some technical hurdles to overcome since it's our first version
> update on a manual (way to lead the way Sugar!). But I think enough bugs are
> worked out to allow publishing tomorrow (Friday 3/27).
> 
> Final items:
> 
>1. Walter or someone with python knowledge, could you review the
>"Modifying Sugar" chapter at
>http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/ModifyingSugar? I had to
>take all the code examples (python and svg xml) and put them into images so
>that the PDF generation will work.
>2. There's a problem with misnumbered chapters for which I've logged a
>trac issue and Aco has taken: http://adam.engagetv.com/trac/ticket/81.
>3. Walter, David, and Adam - let's talk about getting an ISBN for this
>book if we want to sell it on Amazon. If we do decide to sell it on Amazon,
>we'll need a new book cover to match Crown Quarto dimensions. (The
>dimensions are 190mm x 250mm and the page count is 226.)
> 
> Thanks, all, for your assistance and patience.
> 
> Anne
> 
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Re: [IAEP] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84

2009-03-26 Thread Sean DALY

Greetings Caryl,

I agree with you and in fact I've been very pleased to run Sugar v0.84
at full screen in virtualization on a Mac Mini, following the
instructions at this link: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads
easily reachable from the homepage of www.sugarlabs.org

(note: the download link onthe "Sugar on a Stick VirtualBox" page
appears to be broken it should be
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas2-20090321.tar.gz)

We are still updating those wiki pages and the Mac page does need to
make clearer that Sugar will only run on an Intel processor Mac. It's
a pity because I'm sure lots of schools have older Macs (I have a
bunch at the house myself).

thanks

Sean



On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Caryl Bigenho  wrote:
> Hi...
>
> The new Sugar manual looks very professional. You folks have done a great
> job.
>
>  I was, however, disappointed to find that, although running it on a Mac is
> mentioned, the instructions for doing it are not included.  The education
> world in the US is mostly a Mac world.  A lot of people would like to run it
> on their classroom machines.
>
> If it currently only works on Intel based machines, could we at least
> include instructions for that?  Meanwhile, is anyone working on getting it
> to run on Power PC Macs?  I have both and can test it whenever it is ready
> and you send me the info on getting it.
>
> Caryl
>
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>> Message: 6
>> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:52:08 -0500
>> From: Anne Gentle 
>> Subject: [IAEP] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84
>> To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, disc...@lists.flossmanuals.net
>> Message-ID:
>> <1a4c3e670903260652y7221a289x3bc578adef45a...@mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> Hi all -
>> I am thinking the Sugar Guide is ready for one last look before I publish
>> to
>> PDF and HTML.
>>
>> It's still on the WRITE side of FLOSS Manuals, so feel free to do any
>> last-minute proofing and edits here:
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/WebHome
>>
>> We had some technical hurdles to overcome since it's our first version
>> update on a manual (way to lead the way Sugar!). But I think enough bugs
>> are
>> worked out to allow publishing tomorrow (Friday 3/27).
>>
>> Final items:
>>
>> 1. Walter or someone with python knowledge, could you review the
>> "Modifying Sugar" chapter at
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/ModifyingSugar? I had to
>> take all the code examples (python and svg xml) and put them into images
>> so
>> that the PDF generation will work.
>> 2. There's a problem with misnumbered chapters for which I've logged a
>> trac issue and Aco has taken: http://adam.engagetv.com/trac/ticket/81.
>> 3. Walter, David, and Adam - let's talk about getting an ISBN for this
>> book if we want to sell it on Amazon. If we do decide to sell it on
>> Amazon,
>> we'll need a new book cover to match Crown Quarto dimensions. (The
>> dimensions are 190mm x 250mm and the page count is 226.)
>>
>> Thanks, all, for your assistance and patience.
>>
>> Anne
>>
>> --
>> Anne Gentle
>> email: annegen...@justwriteclick.com
>> blog: www.justwriteclick.com
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Re: [IAEP] [FM Discuss] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84

2009-03-26 Thread Jay Maechtlen

Anne
In the 'getting' chapter
there are links that aren't spelled out.

the heading
Installing for Windows computers

is much larger than the preceding headings, suggesting that you're
getting Sugar, not SoaS.

Anne Gentle wrote:
Hi all -
I am thinking the Sugar Guide is ready for one last look before I
publish to PDF and HTML.

It's still on the WRITE side of FLOSS Manuals, so feel free to do any
last-minute proofing and edits here:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/WebHome

We had some technical hurdles to overcome since it's our first version
update on a manual (way to lead the way Sugar!). But I think enough
bugs are worked out to allow publishing tomorrow (Friday 3/27).

Final items:

Walter or someone with python knowledge, could you review the
"Modifying Sugar" chapter at http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/ModifyingSugar?
I had to take all the code examples (python and svg xml) and put them
into images so that the PDF generation will work.
There's a problem with misnumbered chapters for which I've
logged a trac issue and Aco has taken: http://adam.engagetv.com/trac/ticket/81.
Walter, David, and Adam - let's talk about getting an ISBN for
this book if we want to sell it on Amazon. If we do decide to sell it
on Amazon, we'll need a new book cover to match Crown Quarto
dimensions. (The dimensions are 190mm
x 250mm and the page count is 226.)

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