Re: [Sugar-devel] youtube ...
Video is, of course, the most stressful work one can ask of a system, and the most common YouTube codecs these days (On2 VP6 and H.264) are very processor-intensive. Usually,the best workaround is to try to keep the framerate but downsize to postage-stamp. No idea how that could be done though. Sean On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:57 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:36 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Gross daniel.gr...@utoronto.ca wrote: Hello, I tried running youtube on the OLPC. The browser showed to click here to run flash, but flash never ran. Did anyone manage to run youtube in the browser? Is there a flash puggin needed? If so, does it exist? Gnash, which OLPC uses by default, is terrible in that version of the OS. Even if you installed the official Flash plugin from Adobe, it is too much overhead for the XO to handle. The best Youtube support I have seen on the XO is in debxo using totem plugins (written in C afaict and directly playing the video file through RSS magic) FWIW, I have not been able to get youtube on gnash working on ubuntu 8.10 but it works fine on 9.04. But Ubuntu as a rule doesn't work well on the XO :( So, when sugar runs on ubuntu 9.04 we will be getting pretty close! I have not tried the latest version of Gnash in Jaunty, but if this is the case it will be most welcome, and will greatly ease the deployment of Sugar in schools. Still no luck getting the standard 9.04 Sugar packages to install and run on Sugar. I could not do more testing of gnash in Sugar. But, when viewing youtube videos in gnash/firefox viewer on gnome both CPUs maxed out on my dual core 1.6GHz laptop:( david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Proposal of Google Summer of Code
Your mistake was that you created a document instead of a proposal in google's web app. I have forwarded your message and explained the situation to google's GSoC administrator to see what we can do. There's nothing else I can do to help you. Sincerely, Jameson On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício nathalia.sautc...@gmail.com wrote: Jameson, I did understand. I put my proposal in the Google's web app before the deadline. But, I checked now and it is not there anymore. I am desperate since I put a lot of effort on getting writing my proposal and everybody saw it during the last days. There are someting that could be done? I really want to participate in this GSoC and I can't understand why my proposal is not there Also, I put my proposal in the documents list inside the GSoC web, which you can check in the attached screenshot. It's is a copy of my proposal, and it is not modified after the deadline. Could Google consider this copy? Regards, Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício http://febracev.wordpress.com/ Antes de imprimir, pense em sua responsabilidade social e com o MEIO AMBIENTE. On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.comwrote: Nathalia, I am truly sorry, but since you did not get your application into Google's web app by the deadline, we are unable to consider you for Google Summer of Code. However, we would be happy if you are still interested in doing the project, and could probably assign you an unofficial mentor (I'll have to see how many slots Google assigns us before I can say that definitely though). I tried to make this clear, and it was clearly stated in several places on the mailing list, wiki, and google's site. I am sorry that I did not manage to get this message to you. Thanks, Jameson 2009/4/3 Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício nathalia.sautc...@gmail.com Thanks a lot for all the feedbacks. It is very important. I improve my proposal, if anyone could read it I'm pleased. Regards Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício http://febracev.wordpress.com/ Antes de imprimir, pense em sua responsabilidade social e com o MEIO AMBIENTE. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org wrote: I had this idea when I was making the very first mockups of Paint, and I think it's a great idea! Check out the mockup: it's the brush with the little gear next to it, which I always referred to as the behavior brush. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Activity_paint_tools.jpg The secondary palette for the brush would offer a list of different behaviors (which should be object which can be copied, shared, installed, etc., ideally). More importantly, the behaviors would be defined by simple scripts which took some basic pre-defined parameters (or maybe even allowed the creator of the behavior to define new parameters, linked to sliders or checkboxes or what have you...not sure), offered some predefined ways to size the brush, set colors, draw shapes, and make brush strokes, and thus allowed creation of behaviors with some simple syntax. As an example, you could have a mirror behavior which read in the current coordinates, and then made two marks with the brush mirrored across the middle of the canvas. A custom parameter could define which axis (or axes) were mirrored. You could have brushes which added randomness to the position making squiggly lines; or a brush which set the color based on the time to draw rainbow strokes; or a brush that worked like an airbrush of star shapes. The possibilities are endless, I think. Anyway, as Ben said, focus isn't on activities; but I wanted to chime in since I think this is truly a fantastic idea and I'd love to see it happen. Eben PS. I also had plans to allow behavior shapes, as well: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Activity_paint_shapes_polygon.jpg On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício nathalia.sautc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody, I put my GSoC Proposal here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2009/Oficina If somebody has a feedback send me an e-mail (personally or in this list) or put in the discussion page in wiki. Thanks a lot... Regards Nathalia Sautchuk Patrício http://febracev.wordpress.com/ Antes de imprimir, pense em sua responsabilidade social e com o MEIO AMBIENTE. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)
Caroline Meeks wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com mailto:sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi Caroline, thanks for giving this a try! I added some comments below... By the way, would it be okay for you to get a final image by April 7th or do you need one earlier? The ability to burn more then one USB at a time is still not working. If it works April 7th is fine. If it doesn't life is not going to be fun for me. Heh. Okay, I guess we'll see this tomorrow... ;) What of my wish list do you think I will get? Thanks, Caroline *Here is my wish list.* Add to favorites Ring: Slider Puzzle, Jigsaw Puzzle, Story Builder, Typing Turtle, Cartoon Builder, I hope that everything works well, as I tried to add them manually. That will turn out in the next snapshot, which should be ready tomorrow. Take out of the favorites Ring Log, Terminal. Read Add a book or two for Read then add Read back to the favorites ring Hm, we'd need some books to grab (preferable from a.sl.o)... Add Scratch and let me test it. It doesn't seem to be on the Activities Portal yet. Well, this is kind of strange. I can see it's wiki page on laptop.org (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Scratch), but it seems like if it doesn't even have a GIT repo anymore (!) - that seems to be unavailable. As far as I know, it has also not been migrated to SugarLabs, either, so I'm a bit lost. Is there still any development on this? Fix: Colors, Flipsticks and IRC and add the to the favorites Ring IRC is working here. Colors is reporting that it cannot find 'proper binary blobs' (fails with 'from colorsc import *'), and so is Bounce (fails with 'from pongc import *'). Maybe we're still missing some dependencies, I'm not yet sure... probably the activity maintainers know. I'm open to dissenting opinions here, this is just my current impressions of what would make a good demo stick. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Deadlines for upcoming FOSSVT Release
Hi all, as you'll have noticed, we're currently readying Sugar on a Stick for release, which is scheduled for April 10th. The roadmap is located here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap So here's a quick heads-up for activity packagers and maintainers! I know, it's quite of short notice... * SoaS will be frozen as of April 7th. The final image will be already composed on that date, as it takes some time to get everything together for FOSSVT. * Sugar 0.84.2 is the version scheduled for inclusion. * If you want to get your latest bits included, please get them ready as soon as possible! We really need to get this done within the next two days, as we can spend only tomorrow on testing. If your package belongs to sucrose, you might need to get it build in koji, as well. Please ping or e-mail me, if you've any concerns. Again, this is urgent! Thanks and let's make this an awesome release, --Your SoaS Team ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal: Multimedia Broadcasting
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: I'm not aware of any problems using UDP broadcast on 802.11abg. Could you elaborate? Broadcast frames will be sent at the lowest speed -- IIRC, ot should be the lowest common speed supported by all associated nodes, but the experimental outcomes lead to suspicion that many APs just go straight for the lowest. That's 1Mbps. And it takes over all the air time too, starving all other users. So there is room for very interesting work in finding viable ways to broadcast and unicast screencasts, but it will necessarily be a lot of heavy lifting looking at the 802.11abg (and maybe even s) layer in making broadcast work for many users in dense environments. btw: sugar-dev back on the cc list - cheers, martin -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)
One choice -- Newberry medal winning children's books by women authors: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_collections/newbery/newbery.html I have converted these to epub format including the illustrations found at the website, very compact and accessible via fbreader. How should they be packaged to make them available? On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.comwrote: Caroline Meeks wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com mailto:sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi Caroline, thanks for giving this a try! I added some comments below... By the way, would it be okay for you to get a final image by April 7th or do you need one earlier? The ability to burn more then one USB at a time is still not working. If it works April 7th is fine. If it doesn't life is not going to be fun for me. Heh. Okay, I guess we'll see this tomorrow... ;) What of my wish list do you think I will get? Thanks, Caroline *Here is my wish list.* Add to favorites Ring: Slider Puzzle, Jigsaw Puzzle, Story Builder, Typing Turtle, Cartoon Builder, I hope that everything works well, as I tried to add them manually. That will turn out in the next snapshot, which should be ready tomorrow. Take out of the favorites Ring Log, Terminal. Read Add a book or two for Read then add Read back to the favorites ring Hm, we'd need some books to grab (preferable from a.sl.o)... Add Scratch and let me test it. It doesn't seem to be on the Activities Portal yet. Well, this is kind of strange. I can see it's wiki page on laptop.org (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Scratch), but it seems like if it doesn't even have a GIT repo anymore (!) - that seems to be unavailable. As far as I know, it has also not been migrated to SugarLabs, either, so I'm a bit lost. Is there still any development on this? Fix: Colors, Flipsticks and IRC and add the to the favorites Ring IRC is working here. Colors is reporting that it cannot find 'proper binary blobs' (fails with 'from colorsc import *'), and so is Bounce (fails with 'from pongc import *'). Maybe we're still missing some dependencies, I'm not yet sure... probably the activity maintainers know. I'm open to dissenting opinions here, this is just my current impressions of what would make a good demo stick. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [Updated Invitation] Wiki Team @ Mon Apr 6 1pm – 2pm (sugar-de...@lists .sugarlabs.org)
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