Re: [IAEP] Sugar 0.106 Release Video sources?

2016-05-16 Thread Dave Crossland
On 16 May 2016 at 18:56, Sam P. wrote: > It was just a small project made with kdenlive... > Cool! I couldn't find one for 0.108... would be great to organize one for the upcoming 0.110 :) > What are the source files you desire? > Well, all of them :) How big are they? :)

Re: [Sugar-devel] Beautiful Soup

2016-05-16 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Kindly, I'm confused about this js fiddler activity; why are you putting effort into writing a fiddle program, instead of merely packaging an existing libre fiddle program for Sugar? Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-05-16 Thread Dave Crossland
On 16 May 2016 at 16:32, Lionel Laské wrote: > 2016-05-15 19:45 GMT+02:00 : > >> >> 2. I want to keep working on learning how to make GTK mockups for sugar, >> this is going a little slow for me but I'm getting there. >> >> > Does

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-05-16 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 16 May 2016 at 17:07, Sam P. wrote: > Lionel - we've already discussed this before. > Sure, and while I posited a conclusion (that JS is strategic but Py is perhaps richer today) I am happy to revise it. In particular my reasoning for Py was that the Sugar Desktop has

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

2016-05-16 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 10 May 2016 at 03:31, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: > > Iain, how is your slideshow coming along? :) > > The slideshows are good to go! I managed to eliminate the display > problems in Browse and made a pull request > >

[IAEP] Sugar 0.106 Release Video sources?

2016-05-16 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! WOW! I just came across https://youtu.be/PXFaXAGIw04 :D Where are the source files for this? :) -- Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [Sugar-devel] Python code standards?

2016-05-16 Thread Dave Crossland
On 16 May 2016 at 09:47, Walter Bender wrote: > I don't recall where in the scripts it lives, but the build system does > run pyflakes and pep8 on the code and kicks out errors if there are any > errors detected. > So we have integration but its not continuous :D

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-05-16 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! On 16 May 2016 at 05:35, Yash Agarwal wrote: > Here's my reply to Dave's Questions: > Thanks Yash! That's all great :D Harshita, would you like to make your first blog post on the project with your answers to these self-evaluations and include our 3 sets of answers

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-05-16 Thread Dave Crossland
On 16 May 2016 at 05:46, Yash Agarwal wrote: > @Dave I have reported the Issue > in our repo > and I will make the blog post by tomorrow after I complete the FLOSS Manuel > Awesome!! :D

Re: [Sugar-devel] Python code standards?

2016-05-16 Thread Dave Crossland
How is http://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/ used? Where is the Continuous Integration for sugar code? If there isn't any, I will set up Travis CI to run flake8 on each repo in the sugarlabs github organization (

Re: [IAEP] Sugar network / School Network

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! On 15 May 2016 at 13:29, Laura Vargas wrote: > Sugar Network is up the air, and it has more than 35.000 users. You can > find the stats here> http://network.sugarlabs.org/stats-viewer/ > WOW!!! That stats page is AMAZING!! :D But having looked at the SN wiki pages

Re: [IAEP] Github Student Developer Pack

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 May 2016 at 20:16, Walter Bender wrote: > > "If your company produces developer tools and wants to be included in the > pack..." > > What do we offer from Sugar Labs? Hmm; Sugar has no developer tools, from what I have seen so far; eg, you write TurtleBlocksJS in

Re: [IAEP] Github Student Developer Pack

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 May 2016 at 17:27, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > > > On 15 May 2016 at 09:32, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Seems

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SL member list/joining criterion

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 May 2016 at 17:30, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > I hope we can make it better for 2017. I agree with you about there being these 2 things that are needed for an election: 1. A list of active members There are some 'ambient' lists of members - eg, the wiki's usernames

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SL member list/joining criterion

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 May 2016 at 17:33, Sebastian Silva wrote: > I still think affirmative action to remain / become a member should be > required. > $12 sounds good to me ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 May 2016 at 13:45, Yash Agarwal wrote: > Mondays is good for me too, though sadly I won't be able to attend the IRC > meeting this wed(18th May) due to an prior family commitment. > Okay cool, I set up a HOA page, will see you there :)

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 May 2016 at 17:41, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > I'd like it if we had a more concrete idea of what we are building, my >> hope is that next week we can work on this (more mocks and critique, so we >> can hit the ground running at the end of the bonding perio

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 May 2016 at 17:53, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > - Working with the mentors and other org members on refining their project >> plan. This might include finalizing deadlines and milestones, adding more >> detail, figuring out potential issues, etc. >&g

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Yash On 28 April 2016 at 23:10, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > - Becoming familiar with the community practices and processes. (This > often involves a mix of observation and participation.) > I think you've done good on this! You've asked good questions and made so

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 15 May 2016 at 12:43, Eli Heuer wrote: > I think a weekly Google Hangouts on Air is a great Idea! Monday works for > me, I'm looking forward to it. > > My responses to dave's questions: > > > How have you found the experience so far? > > Wonderful! I'm new to

Re: [IAEP] Github Student Developer Pack

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 May 2016 at 09:32, Walter Bender wrote: > Seems like a good idea for Sugar Labs!!! Wonder what sort of packaging > they require? > (Please could you re-express this, I didn't understand what you mean :) ___ IAEP -- It's

Re: [IAEP] SoaS Review/Article

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 May 2016 at 12:56, Chris Leonard wrote: > Peter, Thanks for the update on SOAS status in F24. I am much > comforted knowing that Sugar labs has a champion so close to the heart > of the process. > This is great!!! :D

Re: [IAEP] Sugar network / School Network

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Laura I hear you, but this is a wiki, it is meant to be edited and re-edited towards being up to date. I am not deleting anything, but marking pages that I think are totally obsolete as such, and marking pages that somewhat dated and can be refreshed also. In this particular case, I read in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Beautiful Soup

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 May 2016 at 03:44, Tony Anderson wrote: > In testing the jsfiddle feature from last year's GSOC, there was a need to > use BeautifulSoup for prettyprinting. This package is included in > Sugar 0.106 but is version 3. This should be updated in future releases to >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Beautiful Soup

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 May 2016 at 05:03, Tony Anderson wrote: > It is already in the Sugar image (13.2.5). I'm confused... do you mean the OLPC OS image? :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

[IAEP] Github Student Developer Pack

2016-05-15 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi https://education.github.com/pack Nice deal -- Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[Sugar-devel] Python code standards?

2016-05-14 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi What code standards should we use today in 2016 for python code? :) Python 2.7 + PEP8? -- Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-05-14 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Yash, Eli, Harshita and sugar-devel We're well into the GSOC community bonding period, so now is a good time to do a review of ourselves. I guess a few quick/simple self evaluation questions might be, How have you found the experience so far? What did you like? What do you think can be done

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SL member list/joining criterion

2016-05-14 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 14 May 2016 at 23:13, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > >> >> On May 14, 2016 10:26 PM, "Walter Bender" <walter.ben...@gmail.com> >> wro

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] GPLv3 motion

2016-05-14 Thread Dave Crossland
On 14 May 2016 at 21:12, Walter Bender wrote: > 1 member choosing not to vote). Isn't that de facto abstaining? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] GPLv3 motion

2016-05-14 Thread Dave Crossland
On 14 May 2016 at 21:12, Walter Bender wrote: > 1 member choosing not to vote). Isn't that de facto abstaining? ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SL member list/joining criterion

2016-05-14 Thread Dave Crossland
On May 14, 2016 10:26 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > > what is the harm in keeping them on the list? (Our membership list has never been well-correlated with the active contributors in any case.) The harm is two fold. Initially that the list says it is a list of active

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSOC Project: Git Backend

2016-05-14 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I came across this on the wiki, seems interesting: https://semweb4u.wordpress.com/tag/semanticxo/ On 13 May 2016 at 12:25, Vikram Ahuja wrote: > Hi all, > I will be working on the Git Backend project during GSOC 2016. I would > like to discuss this project with

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-13 Thread Dave Crossland
On 13 May 2016 at 00:26, Yash Agarwal wrote: > Are we meeting at 8 am or 12.30pm ? I thought we changed the timings 8am Friday, 12.30 Monday and Wednesday ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Sadly I can't make the meeting tomorrow at 8am NYC time, I have an immigration appointment at 9am and no cell phone :/ As always I'll check the #sugar-meeting logs later in the day :) Please do make little blog posts with what you are learning about from reading the python libraries

Re: [IAEP] SL member list/joining criterion

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Adam On 12 May 2016 at 15:33, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> 1. A section of the doc is available live here, >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Mem

Re: [CREATE] LGM 2016 London Reimbursement Form Online

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Thank you Louis! :) ___ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create

Re: [IAEP] SL member list/joining criterion

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi 1. A section of the doc is available live here, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members/List 2. That doc shows 279 members I've requested access to the doc :) Thanks Samson! Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] another motion (Quispe trip to Translation Summit)

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! On 12 May 2016 at 11:33, Chris Leonard wrote: > I would note that, as requested, Edgar provided a brief write-up of > the event afterwards (in Spanish), which I have > Google-assisted-translated and will be posting (in both Spanish and > English) on the blog that

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] another motion (Quispe trip to Translation Summit)

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! On 12 May 2016 at 11:33, Chris Leonard wrote: > I would note that, as requested, Edgar provided a brief write-up of > the event afterwards (in Spanish), which I have > Google-assisted-translated and will be posting (in both Spanish and > English) on the blog that

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
On 12 May 2016 at 11:09, Sean DALY wrote: > Sam - I'm not aware that anyone here is other than "us volunteers". > Well, there's now a paid Translatoins Manager ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
On 12 May 2016 at 11:09, Sean DALY wrote: > Sam - I'm not aware that anyone here is other than "us volunteers". > Well, there's now a paid Translatoins Manager ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 12 May 2016 at 10:51, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Dues are a bad idea! > Sorry folks > Please could you explain why you think this? -- Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 12 May 2016 at 10:51, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Dues are a bad idea! > Sorry folks > Please could you explain why you think this? -- Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 12 May 2016 at 09:42, Walter Bender wrote: > As Adam has pointed out, this motion has failed to pass. It seems that > there is some support of the idea of offering at least a portion of the > GSoC stipend to mentors who need/request the funds, but the form of the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 12 May 2016 at 09:42, Walter Bender wrote: > As Adam has pointed out, this motion has failed to pass. It seems that > there is some support of the idea of offering at least a portion of the > GSoC stipend to mentors who need/request the funds, but the form of the

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [SLOB] GPLv3 motion

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
On 12 May 2016 at 09:19, Walter Bender wrote: > the motion has passed. Thanks Walter! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 May 2016 at 22:28, Sam Parkinson wrote: > Is a membership fee for volunteers even something that any other Free > Software orgs do? GNOME doesn't seem to. > Its very common for clubs/nonprofits to do this. FSF, Conservancy, TUG, UKTUG run membership programs,

[Sugar-devel] [background reading] Performance Culture

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I thought I'd share this thoughtful piece on 'performance culture' :) http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/04/10/performance-culture/ -- Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

[Sugar-devel] Sugar's requirements?

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi What are Sugar's requirements for system libraries? Python 2.7 and GTK+3 (and also still 2?) freedesktop.org or GNOME libraries like dbus, networkmanager? And, what hardware is required? Webcam? Microphone? Accelerometer? I read in the historical archives that it would not run on Windows

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
ively follow the > discussion. Just to clarify... what is a member? I really want to > contribute to this project, but I don't want to have to pay to work for > free. :) > > > On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:21:01 -0500 *Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com > <d...@lab6.com>>

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 May 2016 at 14:05, Laura Vargas wrote: > there are ~US$65,000 available for planning/distributing among > activities/teams/projects etc. I think its essential that this be spent in ways that led directly to further income, to grow the project.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 May 2016 at 13:53, Adam Holt wrote: > Personally I'd be in favor of splitting $500 GSoC payments between > organization and mentors-in-need ($250 each) particularly those mentors in > low-income countries (of those most demonstrably catalyzed by a $250 > Honorarium) if

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 May 2016 at 13:53, Adam Holt wrote: > Personally I'd be in favor of splitting $500 GSoC payments between > organization and mentors-in-need ($250 each) particularly those mentors in > low-income countries (of those most demonstrably catalyzed by a $250 > Honorarium) if

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 May 2016 at 13:03, Laura Vargas wrote: > Sorry I missed to explain this. By the date of the agreement (2012), the > Project agreed that, on the Effective Date, $1,887.44 (10% of the existing > Project Fund on the Effective Date), will be donated to Conservancy’s >

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 May 2016 at 13:03, Laura Vargas wrote: > Sorry I missed to explain this. By the date of the agreement (2012), the > Project agreed that, on the Effective Date, $1,887.44 (10% of the existing > Project Fund on the Effective Date), will be donated to Conservancy’s >

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 May 2016 at 12:50, Laura Vargas wrote: > You are totally right Adam, I'm sorry I did not notice these were > cumulative values. Corrected table would look like this: > > > > Total Income 10% of Total Income > > > > 2015 $9.028,56 $902,86 > 2014 $49.622,18 $4.962,22 >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 May 2016 at 12:50, Laura Vargas wrote: > You are totally right Adam, I'm sorry I did not notice these were > cumulative values. Corrected table would look like this: > > > > Total Income 10% of Total Income > > > > 2015 $9.028,56 $902,86 > 2014 $49.622,18 $4.962,22 >

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting summary (one of many)

2016-05-10 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Walter! Thanks for clarifying, that all makes good sense :) -- Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting summary (one of many)

2016-05-10 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Walter! Thanks for clarifying, that all makes good sense :) -- Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [IAEP] My agreed duties for Sugar Labs? :)

2016-05-10 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 10 May 2016 at 01:43, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On May 10, 2016 12:06 AM, "Dave Crossland" <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Adam (and all) > > > > I remember that you asked me to do something after each board meeting, >

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting summary (one of many)

2016-05-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 May 2016 at 17:11, Walter Bender wrote: > I will send a separate email for each motion discussed so that we can > vote by email. > I can only see 3 email threads, [IAEP] [SLOB] Finance Manager Motions [IAEP] [SLOB] Yoruba i18n motion [IAEP] [SLOB] GSoC mentor

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting summary (one of many)

2016-05-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 May 2016 at 17:11, Walter Bender wrote: > I will send a separate email for each motion discussed so that we can > vote by email. > I can only see 3 email threads, [IAEP] [SLOB] Finance Manager Motions [IAEP] [SLOB] Yoruba i18n motion [IAEP] [SLOB] GSoC mentor

Re: [IAEP] My agreed duties for Sugar Labs? :)

2016-05-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 10 May 2016 at 10:12, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> On 10 May 2016 at 01:43, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: >> >>

Re: [IAEP] My agreed duties for Sugar Labs? :)

2016-05-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 10 May 2016 at 01:43, Adam Holt wrote: > Likewise posting SFConservancy's travel/expense/reimbursement policies > (etc) publicly would be wonderful if someone can dig up copy, and post it > here: > > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance#For_funding_travel > They are here,

Re: [IAEP] My agreed duties for Sugar Labs? :)

2016-05-10 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 10 May 2016 at 01:43, Adam Holt wrote: > posting recent motions that have passed here: (receiving 4 affirmative > votes, from SL Board members) > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions > Ah yes, in addition to posting the minutes/log, I think that was

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

2016-05-09 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! The wiki gardening weekend is coming up in a few days! Who would like to join myself, Walter and Bernie the weekend of May 14-15 in Boston? :) Iain, how is your slideshow coming along? :) For hosting Eli and I, I booked us a bunk each in the Boston Hotelling International hotel:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-09 Thread Dave Crossland
On 9 May 2016 at 14:39, Harshita Srivastava wrote: > Would any time between 11am to 3pm New York time be suitable for the > meeting? :) > I'm at work in the daytime but I can make time at lunch - 12.30pm - 1pm - on Mondays and Wednesdays. The Friday meeting at 8am is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-09 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Earlier today, Eli and Yash met on IRC for about an hour, and Yash made a quick blog post about it - thanks Yash! I propose meeting every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8am NYC time for 30 minutes to sync up :) Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 8 May 2016 at 23:42, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > The ufo3 branch of defcon is probably the most important bit, as defcon is > the bedrock of all python font editing tools, and the ufo3 branch is under > active development but feature complete :) > > https://

Re: [Sugar-devel] Python Versions?

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks! On 8 May 2016 at 23:23, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> wrote: > Currently Sugar supports up to Python 2.7 > > El 08/05/16 a las 22:27, Dave Crossland escribió: > > > Hi > > What python version(s) should Sugar Activities be writ

[Sugar-devel] Python Versions?

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi What python version(s) should Sugar Activities be written in? -- Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [IAEP] [GSOC] Project: Journal Rethink discussion

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
So this is more like tagging blog posts than a folders-filesystem> ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 8 May 2016 at 16:44, Harshita Srivastava wrote: > I have set up the Sugar development environment and tried the code in it > too. Everything is working fine :) > Kindly tell me the further steps to proceed :) > I recommend reading the TruFont source code -

Re: [IAEP] [GSOC] Project: Journal Rethink discussion

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 8 May 2016 at 06:14, wrote: > I think that the idea of providing a way of sorting learning into > "mini-journals" is very helpful. Users can make a mini-journal for a unit > of work in school, an assignment/project or a group activity that a teacher > is running. > Where is

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-07 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 7 May 2016 at 16:09, Lionel Laské <lionel.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2016-05-07 22:06 GMT+02:00 Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com>: > >> Do you think having the motion as it is with $Y = 0 is ok? >> > > Yep. > Okay good :) Caryl, is your intention f

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-07 Thread Dave Crossland
Do you think having the motion as it is with $Y = 0 is ok? ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-07 Thread Dave Crossland
Do you think having the motion as it is with $Y = 0 is ok? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 7 May 2016 at 11:47, Chris Leonard wrote: > > I'm looking for an executed copy of the current SugarLabs-SFC FSA to > > confirm, unfortunately the wiki version looks at variance with the > > template, but as a wiki page, it has no "official" status. > > > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 7 May 2016 at 11:47, Chris Leonard wrote: > > I'm looking for an executed copy of the current SugarLabs-SFC FSA to > > confirm, unfortunately the wiki version looks at variance with the > > template, but as a wiki page, it has no "official" status. > > > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 7 May 2016 at 10:51, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> wrote: > > > El 07/05/16 a las 09:52, Dave Crossland escribió: > > > Walter seconded the motion > > From Walter's email: > "Members of the oversight board, please reply to this email soli

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 7 May 2016 at 08:53, Sebastian Silva wrote: > With Walter recusing himself and you dissaproving Walter seconded the motion ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-06 Thread Dave Crossland
ely for > missing one or both dutires twice, even if separated by 2 years? If so, we > need to spell it out. If conversely we want to fire the Financial Manager > immediately, for failing to fulfill 1 duty or the other, then we should say > that more explicitly. > > > > On Fr

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-06 Thread Dave Crossland
ely for > missing one or both dutires twice, even if separated by 2 years? If so, we > need to spell it out. If conversely we want to fire the Financial Manager > immediately, for failing to fulfill 1 duty or the other, then we should say > that more explicitly. > > > > On Fr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Harshita! On 29 April 2016 at 15:49, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > I've added you to the https://github.com/sugarlabs/font-editor-activity > repo, and Yash has added his proposal to the gh-pages branch. Please check > it out, set up a Sugar development environme

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 6 May 2016 at 10:35, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > I am hoping all the differences have been ironed out and that my motions > receive a majority vote. I just checked https://docs.google.com/document/d/16jIFuZ9bX-Bv675BpA1KmcEcRcX4PRCOUEX0ICRUkOc/edit and it still has a lot

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 6 May 2016 at 10:35, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > I am hoping all the differences have been ironed out and that my motions > receive a majority vote. I just checked https://docs.google.com/document/d/16jIFuZ9bX-Bv675BpA1KmcEcRcX4PRCOUEX0ICRUkOc/edit and it still has a lot

[Sugar-devel] Minecraft-like Activity?

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
great promise and a fantastic idea, other things came up on the other lanes though and like many great ideas was left behind. I would love to hear that it took hold in those areas it seemed a great fit for. -tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on an PocketCHIP requires UI to work at 640x480

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
On 5 May 2016 at 18:11, Walter Bender wrote: > I should try to dig up the grayscale fonts I designed for IBM back in the > day. The worked well on low-res screens. Bitmap fonts aren't subject to copyright so not IBM nor anyone else owns them :)

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on an PocketCHIP requires UI to work at 640x480

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
On 5 May 2016 at 17:05, Eli Heuer wrote: > One thing that frustrates me with many activities on my XO-1 is small, > blurry, unreadable text. Vera is not great :/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on an PocketCHIP requires UI to work at 640x480

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
On 5 May 2016 at 16:14, Walter Bender wrote: > Pretty extreme but pretty cool. FWIW, the first 15 years or so of my > computing career was spent working at 640x480 :) I guess what I really want is a CHIP in a rugged case with a 10" Pixel Qi screen for $100 :)

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on an PocketCHIP requires UI to work at 640x480

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
d message -- From: Ben Young (Next Thing Co. Crew) <supp...@nextthing.co> Date: 5 May 2016 at 14:49 Subject: [Next Thing Co.] Re: Sugar on an PocketCHIP? To: Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> Hi Dave, There's some instructions on the Sugar Labs wiki [https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/D

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
before it comes up for vote... Send an email to > this thread. > > Caryl > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 3, 2016, at 6:44 AM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > > On 3 May 2016 at 09:37, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Why does t

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
before it comes up for vote... Send an email to > this thread. > > Caryl > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 3, 2016, at 6:44 AM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > > On 3 May 2016 at 09:37, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Why does t

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-03 Thread Dave Crossland
On 3 May 2016 at 09:37, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Why does the vision statement say "but not phones"? I run Sugarizer on my > iPhone and Ed's Android phone. There are some formatting issues but they > are easily overcome. In the real world of developing countries, children >

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 13 April 2016 at 10:48, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > Who would like to join myself, Walter and Bernie the weekend of May 14-15 > in Boston? :) > Eli Heuer (the other Font Editor GSOC Mentor) will join me on the trip up from NYC to Boston that weekend :) I just book

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Font Editor: thoughts on UI/UX

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 May 2016 at 13:57, Walter Bender wrote: > We may need to add splines to Turtle Blocks to make this real. Would not > be too difficult. > Eli will join the wiki gardening weekend so lets discuss it then :) ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Font Editor: thoughts on UI/UX

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I think the idea is that instead of drawing a bezier contour outline for a letter, some logo code draws the letter - that code could be written or constructed by placing blocks. On 2 May 2016 at 11:44, Walter Bender wrote: > Not 100% clear what you mean by Turtle

Re: [IAEP] 2015 SocialHelp Survey?

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
m.parkins...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Dave, >> >> I'm no longer afk. I have collated the results into the attached >> spreedsheet. >> >> Previously, I also wrote up an analysis of the results. It is also >> attached. >> >> Thanks

[Sugar-devel] Consolidating github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs to sugarlabs/www-sugar

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I would like to raise the topic of https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/issues/20 on this list for comments from you all :) -- Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

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