[IAEP] OOo4Kids available for Sugar!
http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2009/11/ooo4kidsactivityxo-is-available.html Eric has announced availability of the Sugar port of OOo4Kids. I haven't had the chance to test it yet. What's the procedure to add an Activity to activities.sugarlabs.org? So we can ask Eric to do that. thanks Sean ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] OOo4Kids available for Sugar!
The basics of uploading to activities.sl.o sounds like something the marketing guy should know:) I am on IRC so I can walk you through the process. (you can upload it and then I will assign eric as author/developer so he owns and maintains the project) david On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2009/11/ooo4kidsactivityxo-is-available.html > > Eric has announced availability of the Sugar port of OOo4Kids. > > I haven't had the chance to test it yet. > > What's the procedure to add an Activity to activities.sugarlabs.org? > So we can ask Eric to do that. > > thanks > > Sean > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] OOo4Kids available for Sugar!
Hi Sean, Le lundi 16 novembre 2009 à 11:06 +0100, Sean DALY a écrit : > http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2009/11/ooo4kidsactivityxo-is-available.html > > Eric has announced availability of the Sugar port of OOo4Kids. > > I haven't had the chance to test it yet. > I tested it on the XO and on other platforms (ubuntu, debian, mandriva), in an emulated environment with wine and sugar, and on mips based netbooks (gdium with mandriva-mips and yeeloong with gnewsense/debian). A small report intended for the end users is available on OLPC France's blog: http://olpc-france.org/blog/2009/11/ooo4kids-rikiki-maouss-costaud/ On the XO, the installation procedure succeded only from the terminal, unarchiving the xo archive on the "~/Activities/" dirctory. The activity feels light, launchs quick and is perfectly usable and user friendly on the XO 1.0. Regards, Samy > What's the procedure to add an Activity to activities.sugarlabs.org? > So we can ask Eric to do that. > > thanks > > Sean > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] OOo4Kids available for Sugar!
believe me, there is no shortage of things I "should" know ;-) IRC not possible for me right now, but the marketing guy thinks he could work on a link on the homepage of a.sl.o explaining to any potential Activity developer (myself included) how to do it Sean On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:16 AM, David Farning wrote: > The basics of uploading to activities.sl.o sounds like something the > marketing guy should know:) > > I am on IRC so I can walk you through the process. (you can > upload it and then I will assign eric as author/developer so he owns > and maintains the project) > > david > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Sean DALY wrote: >> http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2009/11/ooo4kidsactivityxo-is-available.html >> >> Eric has announced availability of the Sugar port of OOo4Kids. >> >> I haven't had the chance to test it yet. >> >> What's the procedure to add an Activity to activities.sugarlabs.org? >> So we can ask Eric to do that. >> >> thanks >> >> Sean >> ___ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] OOo4Kids available for Sugar!
The relevant information is on the wiki is at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library . Uploading specific information is at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Authors Please note, I wrote those processes before anyone besides me had actually uploaded an activity:( I am not sure how close they match the reality of current activities policy and procedures. david On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:18 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > believe me, there is no shortage of things I "should" know ;-) > > IRC not possible for me right now, but the marketing guy thinks he > could work on a link on the homepage of a.sl.o explaining to any > potential Activity developer (myself included) how to do it > > Sean > > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:16 AM, David Farning > wrote: >> The basics of uploading to activities.sl.o sounds like something the >> marketing guy should know:) >> >> I am on IRC so I can walk you through the process. (you can >> upload it and then I will assign eric as author/developer so he owns >> and maintains the project) >> >> david >> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Sean DALY wrote: >>> http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2009/11/ooo4kidsactivityxo-is-available.html >>> >>> Eric has announced availability of the Sugar port of OOo4Kids. >>> >>> I haven't had the chance to test it yet. >>> >>> What's the procedure to add an Activity to activities.sugarlabs.org? >>> So we can ask Eric to do that. >>> >>> thanks >>> >>> Sean >>> ___ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> >> > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] OOo4Kids available for Sugar!
David Farning writes: > The relevant information is on the wiki is at > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library . > > Uploading specific information is at > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Authors I have an account on a.sl.o, I can upload the .xo bundle. Eric, should I wait or should I go? -- Bastien ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Book reading demo suggestions
Hi, I just downloaded Read eTexts 17 and it doesn't seem to include search anymore. This could well be a good thing, but now I'm faced with figuring out where to go and what book format I should use. :) What are a couple good books and formats I could use for demos? I'd like children's books with pictures if possible. Thanks! Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] OOo4Kids available for Sugar!
I thought Erik was planning to upload the .xo file himself (as per our conversation last week). In any case, this is a very nice development for Sugar and Open Office. -walter On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Bastien wrote: > David Farning writes: > >> The relevant information is on the wiki is at >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library . >> >> Uploading specific information is at >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Authors > > I have an account on a.sl.o, I can upload the .xo bundle. > > Eric, should I wait or should I go? > > -- > Bastien > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] OOo4Kids available for Sugar!
Walter Bender writes: > I thought Erik was planning to upload the .xo file himself (as per our > conversation last week). Okay, let's go this way then. -- Bastien ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-11-16
=== Sugar Digest === 1. I am writing this update today while waiting to see if I will called to jury duty. I was originally supposed to report last week, but a deferment was granted since I was in Bolzano. I am not sure why I had never been called before—both my wife and children have served several times. But unlike the airport in Rome, there is at least a place to sit and plug in my laptop and get on-line while I wait, so here it goes. I was in Rome overnight in transit from Bolzano, where we held a week-long Sugar Camp [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/Sugarcamp_Bolzano_2009]. Bolzano is in South Tyrol, in the Italian Alps. The autonomous regional government is a user of free software and is exploring ways in which they can engage the FOSS community more deeply. They have a regional development organization, TIS [http://www.tis.bz.it/], that fosters FOSS projects in the region, provides infrastructure and support, and an annual Free Software Week. It was in the context of [http://www.freesoftwareweek.org/ Free Software Week] that we came to Bolzano. Rather than meet at TIS, we (Simon Schampijer, Tomeu Vizoso, Dave Farning, Sean Daly, Stefan Unterhauser (Dogi), Carlo Falciola, Adam Holt, Christian Vanizette, and I) spent the week at [http://www.cts-einaudi.it/ CTS Luigi Einaudi], a technical school a short walk from the city center. We were given a comfortable room with Internet access, just upstairs from the school's coffee bar and next door to where the [http://live.gnome.org/ZeitgeistHackFest2009 Gnome Zeitgeist team] was meeting. Over the course of the week, we interacted with teachers, students, developers, and a variety of people in the region who have an interest in Sugar. We had a busy week. My typical day was to get up at 6:00, go down stairs for an early breakfast with David, who would have already been up for at least an hour, take a 20-minute walk to the school, arriving at 8:00, in time for the first espresso of the day. We'd write code, discuss ideas, brainstorm, and write more code until 20:00, at which point we'd make a plan for dinner—usually a pizza or some knudel and the local weizenbier or a glass of lagrein. Somehow or other, we would never manage to get back to the hostel until after midnight. Pizza, Python, and friends, surrounded by the Dolomites—not a bad way to spend the week. We made progress on the roadmap for 0.88, having brainstormed on a number of topics [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Ideas_0.88_0.90.pdf]. The themes that rose to the top were: a simplified collaboration model; resolution of some outstanding issues regarding the Home View, e.g., how to best launch new verses resume activities; and some changes to the Journal—possibly the incorporation of versions and a better integration of the Journal into the activity workflow, e.g., making it possible to modify the description field while the activity is open. Other themes include accessibility and testing. Simon organized the discussions through the week. He kept us focused and productive. He also got some hacking in, spending time working through many of the issues associated with providing global support for spell-check. In doing this, he'll have laid out the framework for providing other global services. Tomeu spend most of his week being interrupted by people asking him questions. (Five minutes of Tomeu time usually was enough to keep me busy for a few hours.) But he did manage to make progress on his work on Python introspection. This work will lead to a much more efficient use of Python modules in Sugar. David and Dogi (working with Bernie and Aleksey from afar) did an overhaul of some of our back-end systems, which had been becoming stressed as more and more people are using Sugar. (For example, we've already surpassed 1.5-million downloads from activities.sugarlabs.org. It was just a few weeks ago that we reached the 1-million milestone.) They have also stream-lined the process for setting up local mirrors. We encourage you to set up a mirror in your region. (Argentina and Paraguay have recently set up mirrors.) Carlo help us in drafting [[a set of guidelines]] by which third parties might work with Sugar Labs in establishing various value-added services to the Sugar user community. We will be discussing these guidelines over the next few weeks. We also spent time with Patrick Ohnewein from TIS to discuss opportunities specific to South Tyrol. Sean and Christian discussed a number different opportunities regarding marketing. One idea that emerged is ''The Sugar Journal'', along the lines of ''The Perl Journal'', which would include articles written by teachers, developers, and other community members. For my part, I spent most of the week sketching out some ideas. I coded up a [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xb44q3_color-selector-2_tech] for both the control panel (it has changed a bit since I made the screencast) and the initial start screen and started coding up an activity to
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-11-16
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > === Sugar Digest === > > 1. I am writing this update today while waiting to see if I will > called to jury duty. I was originally supposed to report last week, > but a deferment was granted since I was in Bolzano. I am not sure why > I had never been called before—both my wife and children have served > several times. But unlike the airport in Rome, there is at least a > place to sit and plug in my laptop and get on-line while I wait, so > here it goes. I had noticed that there was very little traffic on the lists and IRC about SugarCamp Bolzano. As Walter points out, we got a tremendous amount done, but very little of it worthy of headlines. My kind of Meeting! A very interesting dynamic was that almost _no_ time was spent talking about what Sugar Labs _should_ do. Rather it was a chance to work on all of the nagging issues that are hard to get started on when your primary resources are IRC, mailing lists, and google. Kudos to Simon for a very well organised week. My only gripe was the lack of sound absorption material on the walls. Dogi has a very low pitch to his voice. It was sometime hard for me to hear him when there were other discussions happening in different parts of the room. As far as gripes go it is not a very serious one:) As for me, I am enjoying one last morning watching the sun rise over the mountains before it is time to head home. Thanks for a good week. david > I was in Rome overnight in transit from Bolzano, where we held a > week-long Sugar Camp > [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/Sugarcamp_Bolzano_2009]. > Bolzano is in South Tyrol, in the Italian Alps. The autonomous > regional government is a user of free software and is exploring ways > in which they can engage the FOSS community more deeply. They have a > regional development organization, TIS [http://www.tis.bz.it/], that > fosters FOSS projects in the region, provides infrastructure and > support, and an annual Free Software Week. It was in the context of > [http://www.freesoftwareweek.org/ Free Software Week] that we came to > Bolzano. > > Rather than meet at TIS, we (Simon Schampijer, Tomeu Vizoso, Dave > Farning, Sean Daly, Stefan Unterhauser (Dogi), Carlo Falciola, Adam > Holt, Christian Vanizette, and I) spent the week at > [http://www.cts-einaudi.it/ CTS Luigi Einaudi], a technical school a > short walk from the city center. We were given a comfortable room with > Internet access, just upstairs from the school's coffee bar and next > door to where the [http://live.gnome.org/ZeitgeistHackFest2009 Gnome > Zeitgeist team] was meeting. Over the course of the week, we > interacted with teachers, students, developers, and a variety of > people in the region who have an interest in Sugar. > > We had a busy week. My typical day was to get up at 6:00, go down > stairs for an early breakfast with David, who would have already been > up for at least an hour, take a 20-minute walk to the school, arriving > at 8:00, in time for the first espresso of the day. We'd write code, > discuss ideas, brainstorm, and write more code until 20:00, at which > point we'd make a plan for dinner—usually a pizza or some knudel and > the local weizenbier or a glass of lagrein. Somehow or other, we would > never manage to get back to the hostel until after midnight. Pizza, > Python, and friends, surrounded by the Dolomites—not a bad way to > spend the week. > > We made progress on the roadmap for 0.88, having brainstormed on a > number of topics > [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Ideas_0.88_0.90.pdf]. The themes > that rose to the top were: a simplified collaboration model; > resolution of some outstanding issues regarding the Home View, e.g., > how to best launch new verses resume activities; and some changes to > the Journal—possibly the incorporation of versions and a better > integration of the Journal into the activity workflow, e.g., making it > possible to modify the description field while the activity is open. > Other themes include accessibility and testing. > > Simon organized the discussions through the week. He kept us focused > and productive. He also got some hacking in, spending time working > through many of the issues associated with providing global support > for spell-check. In doing this, he'll have laid out the framework for > providing other global services. > > Tomeu spend most of his week being interrupted by people asking him > questions. (Five minutes of Tomeu time usually was enough to keep me > busy for a few hours.) But he did manage to make progress on his work > on Python introspection. This work will lead to a much more efficient > use of Python modules in Sugar. > > David and Dogi (working with Bernie and Aleksey from afar) did an > overhaul of some of our back-end systems, which had been becoming > stressed as more and more people are using Sugar. (For example, we've > already surpassed 1.5-million downloads from activities.suga
