[IAEP] Unified Objects (was Unified bundles)

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Stone
Wade,

Here are a couple of /very/ quick thoughts for you. Please let me know which
ones are helpful and which are simply confusing (or misguided).

Michael



The basic premises of this rant are that 

   we need to be able to mix, match and dissect activities

so therefore activities should consist of remixable facets, i.e.

   nestable layered segments.

Furthermore, 

   Filesystems rock for nestable layered segments, so let's use more of them!



Now here's a mess of ideas from which these three basic intuitions originate:

1. It would be nice to be able to generate various views of what the user can
do with shell globs rather than by writing complicated queries over in-memory
data-structures that have to be fully loaded and locked into RAM before you can
render anything...

2. Activities need to expose their API to the shell. In particular, we /need/
to be able to get an activity to self-test a system for deps, to run
non-graphical tests, to run graphical tests, to run network tests, to run a
demo or tutorial of itself, to show its source, ...

3. One interesting way to think about (1) and (2), which I have previously
discussed with Eben, is in the context of the Plan 9 plumber. Go read about it.

4. Modifying activities is currently a pain in Sugar because you have to reboot
sugar for changes to take effect. Let's use inotify/dnotify/FAM/ or
git-like fast change detection to fix that.

5. Scott has worked out some cool ideas for browsing, tagging, and version
control in his journal2 and olpcfs2 work. Scott -- did you ever implement the
GIO-based launcher?

6. Filesystems can be efficiently and incrementally shared over networks in
standard ways; e.g. 9P, rsync, cerebro. Furthermore, we can ride the wave of
advances in network filesystem research over the coming years.

7. If activities are supposed to have per-activity or even per-instance
permissions, then Rainbow really needs a way to authoritatively distinguish
activities (instances). This certainly means that some control of permissions
is needed. If networks are involved, then this also means cryptography.
Naturally, the crypto can be optional, can be implemented later, etc.; however,
the spec still needs to define something workable. The major thing needed at
the moment is a per-thread public key to be used to sign manifests of
updates and a minimum cover over which to generate a manifest. (We might also
specify a more inclusive cover as a handy error-detection mechanism.)

8. Pursuant to (7), it would be really good to use the same format for journal
entries as for activities themselves. That way, the search, plumbing, network
browsing, version control, permissions, and crypto stuff can be shared.

9. A rough list of facets that this format should expose: 

   translations, 
   HTML help, 
   automated tests, 
   permissions, 
   integrity data,
   arch-specific optimizations, 
   public APIs (incl. data, e.g. sound or icon libraries) for other activities, 
   and UI continuations, i.e. resumable instances, i.e. Journal entries
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Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Beta Image and Boot Helper - please TEST!

2009-04-09 Thread Sean DALY
fabulous work!

I'd love to create a label but i'm really underwater right now :-(

Sean


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 I think we might have some news you could be interested in:

 The SoaS Beta image has been composed and uploaded, so you can grab it
 now already, even if it's scheduled for release tomorrow. The link is
 here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-beta.iso

 Secondly, we've a boot helper now based on F11 ready! So if your BIOS
 doesn't support booting from an USB key, you can just download this
 additional iso, burn it to a CD and boot from it while having your USB
 key plugged in: http://people.sugarlabs.org/sdz/soas-boot.iso

 Note that if you're going to use the boot helper, your USB key (or other
 device) needs to be named FEDORA. This is really a requirement! Both the
 liveusb-creator and the livecd-iso-to-disk script support this now. The
 latter one changes this automatically when being run with the --format
 argument (this removes all your data on the key, though). You can grab a
 new version here: http://people.sugarlabs.org/sdz/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh

 Please test this combination, as it's an important part to get SoaS
 working on older hardware! Finally, if somebody could create a CD label
 for the boot helper disk, this would be really great!

 Thanks and happy testing!
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Re: [IAEP] Prep for FOSS VT

2009-04-09 Thread Sean DALY
Caroline - can you tell me how you are burning SoaS on your Mac?

thanks

Sean


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
 We have a beta release and I have a way to burn multiple USBs on my mac.
 When it boots it works pretty well!  It even connects to a Jabber server for
 collaboration.  People who get it to boot will be impressed.

 The bad news is the current beta release is not working at all with the
 Boot Helper CD

 The error is Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good
 luck!

 bash: no job control in this shell.

 This is a shame because giving people a CD is much easier then walking them
 through changing their BIOS.  Also at the wild (as evidenced by the YMCA and
 the Gardner School) many computers (about 50% of the Y and the entire
 computer lab at the Gardner) can't be made to boot from a USB.  With luck
 the laptops people will be carrying at the conference will be newer and boot
 from USBs.

 So I'm debating whether I burn both SoaS1 and SoaS2 so we have something for
 people who need to use a CD?  Any hope of getting the boot helper fixed?

 The other thing that would be really excellent for Friday would be a working
 Virtual Box install.  If we got one working we could burn it onto a couple
 of sticks and just pass it around to the Mac users.

 The final thing on my wish list is a way to show off eBooks.

 Great work and thanks to all who have worked so hard. We have made
 tremendous progress!

 Cheers,
 Caroline



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[IAEP] design meeting

2009-04-09 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
Hi there


I'd like to propose a design meeting this Sunday to discuss a test protocol
that we can use to help evaluate the Home view. Please join us at 11am EST
(3pm UTC) on Sunday at #sugar-meeting.

Cheers,


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Re: [IAEP] Prep for FOSS VT

2009-04-09 Thread Sean DALY
Thanks Caroline what syntax are you using for the dd command? Are you
using bs= or count= values?

I think there may be a more elegant CLI command to unattach or
dismount volumes reducing Mac complaints and unwritten-to sticks, I
had bookmarled a link on that wiill look for it

I guess you are using an Intel Mac under Tiger v10.4 or Leopard v10.5?

many thanks


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:

 This is far from elegant but here is what I'm doing.

 I used a windows machine to make a USB Stick.
 I used dd in a terminal to make an image of it.
 Compress the image
 Rename it .Z
 Open up DiskUtility
 now I'm ready to burn.

 Put in a fresh USB stick.
 Use Information in Disk Utility to find the disk number.
 UnMount the disk (don't eject! use unmount in Disk Utility)
 Open a new window in Terminal. (Command T)
 sudo zcat ./SoaS2-Beta-4-8.img.Z  /dev/disk1 (change disk number for each
 disk)

 Repeat with the next USB until both hubs are full.

 Its not returning in the terminal when its done. After a while (about 30 min
 or so) they all stop flashing. I can't eject them. I just pull the plug on
 the port and let the mac complain at me.
 I spot check a few to see if the boot starts. So far I have 4 USBs that seem
 to be bad and even with repeated tries give me boot error.

 Reboot the mac, an hour after I've finished system is still using 90% of the
 CPU.

 Certainly in now way teacher ready but seems to be working.  The real test
 will be tomorrow.


 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:

 Caroline - can you tell me how you are burning SoaS on your Mac?

 thanks

 Sean


 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Caroline Meeks
 carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
  We have a beta release and I have a way to burn multiple USBs on my mac.
  When it boots it works pretty well!  It even connects to a Jabber server
  for
  collaboration.  People who get it to boot will be impressed.
 
  The bad news is the current beta release is not working at all with the
  Boot Helper CD
 
  The error is Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell. Good
  luck!
 
  bash: no job control in this shell.
 
  This is a shame because giving people a CD is much easier then walking
  them
  through changing their BIOS.  Also at the wild (as evidenced by the YMCA
  and
  the Gardner School) many computers (about 50% of the Y and the entire
  computer lab at the Gardner) can't be made to boot from a USB.  With
  luck
  the laptops people will be carrying at the conference will be newer and
  boot
  from USBs.
 
  So I'm debating whether I burn both SoaS1 and SoaS2 so we have something
  for
  people who need to use a CD?  Any hope of getting the boot helper fixed?
 
  The other thing that would be really excellent for Friday would be a
  working
  Virtual Box install.  If we got one working we could burn it onto a
  couple
  of sticks and just pass it around to the Mac users.
 
  The final thing on my wish list is a way to show off eBooks.
 
  Great work and thanks to all who have worked so hard. We have made
  tremendous progress!
 
  Cheers,
  Caroline
 
 
 
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  Solution Grove
  carol...@solutiongrove.com
 
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  505-213-3268 - Fax
 
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Re: [IAEP] design meeting

2009-04-09 Thread David Farning
Sounds Great.

Is the main issue unifying the look and feel of the Sugar Labs web services?

Secondly, would you contact Fed Grose (CCed) about scheduling the
meeting on the Sugar Labs gCalendar?  I looks like he has made enough
improvement that it is worth trying again.

thanks
david

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt
christianm...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi there


 I'd like to propose a design meeting this Sunday to discuss a test protocol
 that we can use to help evaluate the Home view. Please join us at 11am EST
 (3pm UTC) on Sunday at #sugar-meeting.

 Cheers,


 Christian

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Re: [IAEP] design meeting

2009-04-09 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
Hi David--this is mainly for the Sugar UI. We can talk about the unified nav
bar during another meeting.

Fred, let me know if we can use gCalendar...

Thanks!


Christian

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.orgwrote:

 Sounds Great.

 Is the main issue unifying the look and feel of the Sugar Labs web
 services?

 Secondly, would you contact Fed Grose (CCed) about scheduling the
 meeting on the Sugar Labs gCalendar?  I looks like he has made enough
 improvement that it is worth trying again.

 thanks
 david

 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt
 christianm...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi there
 
 
  I'd like to propose a design meeting this Sunday to discuss a test
 protocol
  that we can use to help evaluate the Home view. Please join us at 11am
 EST
  (3pm UTC) on Sunday at #sugar-meeting.
 
  Cheers,
 
 
  Christian
 
  --
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  http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com
 
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Re: [IAEP] design meeting

2009-04-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 16:03, Christian Marc Schmidt
christianm...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi there


 I'd like to propose a design meeting this Sunday to discuss a test protocol
 that we can use to help evaluate the Home view. Please join us at 11am EST
 (3pm UTC) on Sunday at #sugar-meeting.

I won't be able to attend, but will follow up afterwards.

Regards,

Tomeu

 Cheers,


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Re: [IAEP] Prep for FOSS VT

2009-04-09 Thread Caroline Meeks
dd if=/dev/disk1 of=./SoaS-Beta.img

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks Caroline what syntax are you using for the dd command? Are you
 using bs= or count= values?

 I think there may be a more elegant CLI command to unattach or
 dismount volumes reducing Mac complaints and unwritten-to sticks, I
 had bookmarled a link on that wiill look for it

 I guess you are using an Intel Mac under Tiger v10.4 or Leopard v10.5?

 many thanks


 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Caroline Meeks
 carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
 
  This is far from elegant but here is what I'm doing.
 
  I used a windows machine to make a USB Stick.
  I used dd in a terminal to make an image of it.
  Compress the image
  Rename it .Z
  Open up DiskUtility
  now I'm ready to burn.
 
  Put in a fresh USB stick.
  Use Information in Disk Utility to find the disk number.
  UnMount the disk (don't eject! use unmount in Disk Utility)
  Open a new window in Terminal. (Command T)
  sudo zcat ./SoaS2-Beta-4-8.img.Z  /dev/disk1 (change disk number for
 each
  disk)
 
  Repeat with the next USB until both hubs are full.
 
  Its not returning in the terminal when its done. After a while (about 30
 min
  or so) they all stop flashing. I can't eject them. I just pull the plug
 on
  the port and let the mac complain at me.
  I spot check a few to see if the boot starts. So far I have 4 USBs that
 seem
  to be bad and even with repeated tries give me boot error.
 
  Reboot the mac, an hour after I've finished system is still using 90% of
 the
  CPU.
 
  Certainly in now way teacher ready but seems to be working.  The real
 test
  will be tomorrow.
 
 
  On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Caroline - can you tell me how you are burning SoaS on your Mac?
 
  thanks
 
  Sean
 
 
  On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Caroline Meeks
  carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
   We have a beta release and I have a way to burn multiple USBs on my
 mac.
   When it boots it works pretty well!  It even connects to a Jabber
 server
   for
   collaboration.  People who get it to boot will be impressed.
  
   The bad news is the current beta release is not working at all with
 the
   Boot Helper CD
  
   The error is Bug in initramfs /init detected. Dropping to a shell.
 Good
   luck!
  
   bash: no job control in this shell.
  
   This is a shame because giving people a CD is much easier then walking
   them
   through changing their BIOS.  Also at the wild (as evidenced by the
 YMCA
   and
   the Gardner School) many computers (about 50% of the Y and the entire
   computer lab at the Gardner) can't be made to boot from a USB.  With
   luck
   the laptops people will be carrying at the conference will be newer
 and
   boot
   from USBs.
  
   So I'm debating whether I burn both SoaS1 and SoaS2 so we have
 something
   for
   people who need to use a CD?  Any hope of getting the boot helper
 fixed?
  
   The other thing that would be really excellent for Friday would be a
   working
   Virtual Box install.  If we got one working we could burn it onto a
   couple
   of sticks and just pass it around to the Mac users.
  
   The final thing on my wish list is a way to show off eBooks.
  
   Great work and thanks to all who have worked so hard. We have made
   tremendous progress!
  
   Cheers,
   Caroline
  
  
  
   --
   Caroline Meeks
   Solution Grove
   carol...@solutiongrove.com
  
   617-500-3488 - Office
   505-213-3268 - Fax
  
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  --
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  Solution Grove
  carol...@solutiongrove.com
 
  617-500-3488 - Office
  505-213-3268 - Fax
 




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Re: [IAEP] design meeting

2009-04-09 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
Hi Tomeu--I think it's important that you are there, since I wanted to talk
about our upcoming observations. Should we reschedule for the following
weekend, or is tomorrow afternoon a possibility?


Christian

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:

 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 16:03, Christian Marc Schmidt
 christianm...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi there
 
 
  I'd like to propose a design meeting this Sunday to discuss a test
 protocol
  that we can use to help evaluate the Home view. Please join us at 11am
 EST
  (3pm UTC) on Sunday at #sugar-meeting.

 I won't be able to attend, but will follow up afterwards.

 Regards,

 Tomeu

  Cheers,
 
 
  Christian
 
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Re: [IAEP] design meeting

2009-04-09 Thread Eben Eliason
I'd like to attend, but I won't be available until at least 7pm
tomorrow. I'm available on this or the following weekend.

Eben


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt
christianm...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Tomeu--I think it's important that you are there, since I wanted to talk
 about our upcoming observations. Should we reschedule for the following
 weekend, or is tomorrow afternoon a possibility?


 Christian

 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:

 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 16:03, Christian Marc Schmidt
 christianm...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi there
 
 
  I'd like to propose a design meeting this Sunday to discuss a test
  protocol
  that we can use to help evaluate the Home view. Please join us at 11am
  EST
  (3pm UTC) on Sunday at #sugar-meeting.

 I won't be able to attend, but will follow up afterwards.

 Regards,

 Tomeu

  Cheers,
 
 
  Christian
 
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Re: [IAEP] design meeting

2009-04-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 16:59, Christian Marc Schmidt
christianm...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Tomeu--I think it's important that you are there, since I wanted to talk
 about our upcoming observations. Should we reschedule for the following
 weekend, or is tomorrow afternoon a possibility?

Tomorrow afternoon doesn't work neither :/

I'm available next week from monday afternoon (UTC) and I expect I
will be able to attend on next weekend as well.

Regards,

Tomeu

 Christian

 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:

 On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 16:03, Christian Marc Schmidt
 christianm...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi there
 
 
  I'd like to propose a design meeting this Sunday to discuss a test
  protocol
  that we can use to help evaluate the Home view. Please join us at 11am
  EST
  (3pm UTC) on Sunday at #sugar-meeting.

 I won't be able to attend, but will follow up afterwards.

 Regards,

 Tomeu

  Cheers,
 
 
  Christian
 
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Re: [IAEP] May MiniCamp

2009-04-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/4/9 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org:
 I would like to recommend the we plan on holding the May MiniCamp in
 Paris around the weekend of May 16.

+1

Can we book our tickets now? ;)

Tomeu

 The primary benefit of Paris is co-locating with a scheduled OLPC
 France event being held that weekend.  The opportunity to meet with
 OLPC France presents some great opportunities to work together; Going
 to meet the community in their homes,  identifying lead users,
 receiving vital feedback.

 By going to work with OLPC France, we can communicate that while Sugar
 Labs is an upstream part, it is not the central part of the 'iaep'
 project.  The most important part is where the student and teacher
 come together to learn.  Sugar Labs is focused on creating a great
 learning platform to benefit the entire ecosystem.  In this role,
 Sugar Labs serves as a hub for communication and collaboration.

 Secondly, Sugar Labs needs to identify and engage _lead_users_.  Sugar
 in not yet ready to be sold in retail stores nor is it ready for
 _easy_ deployment around the world.  There is still a lot of work in
 making sure the software works on your hardware, setting up a
 collaboration server, and creating the learning content to match daily
 lesson plans.  Lead users are people with passion or a particular
 expertise who have the motivation and ability to help improve the
 Sugar experience... for everyone.

 Finally,  working for the weekend with OLPC France allow us both to
 observe and receive feedback.  Sugar Labs can learn more about what
 OLPC France is doing and what their needs are.  OLPC France can learn
 that Sugar Labs is _just_ a group of volunteers with a working
 knowledge of computer science, education theory, and a bit of
 economics trying to help kids learn more effectively.  Sugar Labs
 success is based on the premise of creating and fostering a ecosystem
 to build on top of the learning platform.

 There may be limited travel stipends available to people willing to
 hold workshops.

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Re: [IAEP] May MiniCamp

2009-04-09 Thread Sean DALY
+1

in particular because the May 16th event will provide an excellent
opportunity for press coverage!

where we can show Sugar running on its original native platform...
and a bunch of other ones besides :-)

Sean


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
 2009/4/9 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org:
 I would like to recommend the we plan on holding the May MiniCamp in
 Paris around the weekend of May 16.

 +1

 Can we book our tickets now? ;)

 Tomeu

 The primary benefit of Paris is co-locating with a scheduled OLPC
 France event being held that weekend.  The opportunity to meet with
 OLPC France presents some great opportunities to work together; Going
 to meet the community in their homes,  identifying lead users,
 receiving vital feedback.

 By going to work with OLPC France, we can communicate that while Sugar
 Labs is an upstream part, it is not the central part of the 'iaep'
 project.  The most important part is where the student and teacher
 come together to learn.  Sugar Labs is focused on creating a great
 learning platform to benefit the entire ecosystem.  In this role,
 Sugar Labs serves as a hub for communication and collaboration.

 Secondly, Sugar Labs needs to identify and engage _lead_users_.  Sugar
 in not yet ready to be sold in retail stores nor is it ready for
 _easy_ deployment around the world.  There is still a lot of work in
 making sure the software works on your hardware, setting up a
 collaboration server, and creating the learning content to match daily
 lesson plans.  Lead users are people with passion or a particular
 expertise who have the motivation and ability to help improve the
 Sugar experience... for everyone.

 Finally,  working for the weekend with OLPC France allow us both to
 observe and receive feedback.  Sugar Labs can learn more about what
 OLPC France is doing and what their needs are.  OLPC France can learn
 that Sugar Labs is _just_ a group of volunteers with a working
 knowledge of computer science, education theory, and a bit of
 economics trying to help kids learn more effectively.  Sugar Labs
 success is based on the premise of creating and fostering a ecosystem
 to build on top of the learning platform.

 There may be limited travel stipends available to people willing to
 hold workshops.

 david
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[IAEP] Benefits of collaboration

2009-04-09 Thread Edward Cherlin
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