Re: [Grassroots-l] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! "Class Acts" Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread DancesWithCars
me churning too, so option 5: Terminal screen Hello Children screen text in all languages option 6: magic markers for kids (and overgrown ones) to make their own T Shirt / book graphic winner gets on the front/back/ flap page of the production version option 7: constructionist with St. Nick/ Wal

Re: [Grassroots-l] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! "Class Acts" Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Cole
Not to cloud the issue too much at the last minute, but ideas keep popping into my head. This next one would only play in English, and where one is not too sensitive to typos... ;-) * O*pen Boo*X* Or, come up with your own pair of words that have O and X... Perhaps something with the O and X m

Re: [Grassroots-l] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! "Class Acts" Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Cole
How about something like "Open" or "Open Me" with something suggesting either opening something that looks ambiguously like a book or a laptop (or perhaps an activity)? The double-play on "open" would resonate with some, while leaving another meaning for the uninitiated. "Open Me. Look inside,"

RE: [support-gang] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! "Class Acts" Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I'm not a graphic artist so I just "cobbled" the pdf together on a ppt file and exported as pdf. My intent is to have the "O" at the end (in XO) have a happy face in it. The slashes across the Os above that need to be the same width as the lines in the letters. Did the best I could wit

Re: [IAEP] Deployment Team meeting on Wednesday September 2nd - 14:00 UTC

2009-08-31 Thread Pilar Saenz
Hi Bastien, 2009/8/30 Bastien : > Pilar Saenz writes: > >> Next deployment team meeting Wednesday September 2nd - at 14 UTC (9 EST) on >> irc.freenode.net (English channel: #sugar-meeting Spanish channel: >> #sugar-reunion). > > This date I cannot attend, I will be in a plane. > :-( we'll miss y

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Jim Gettys
Early in OLPC, we seriously wanted to go with Java: but Sun's licensing was a serious issue we could not get around, despite a number of attempts by Walter to talk with Sun and see if it could get fixed. Part of the issue caused by this licensing was the "all or nothing" part of it: as shipped,

Re: [IAEP] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! "Class Acts" Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Holt wrote: > Please vote for the back of our T-Shirt -- Mike Lee's image will be on the > front of the shirt: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3865753915/in/photostream/ > But we need your help for the back!!! > > Proposal #1 (yes the "constuctionist asses

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
Hi, and thanks for trying it out! On 2009-08-29, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> I haven't been able to test that .xo link on an actual OLPC yet, so >> feel free to pass along bug reports, experiences, etc. > > These days I'm running F11-on-XO1 on my XO-1s -- SarynPaint launches > and runs on both my s

SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! "Class Acts" Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Holt
Please vote for the back of our T-Shirt -- Mike Lee's image will be on the front of the shirt: http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/3865753915/in/photostream/ But we need your help for the back!!! Proposal #1 (yes the "constuctionist assessment" parody's intentional!) NO NINO LEFT BEHIND P

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 16:56, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: > Honestly,  I think the lack of Java on the XO has more with python > defensiveness then anything else. Honestly, I don't think so. Most or all of the Sugar developers had zero python experience when joined the project. And we are way too bu

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Honestly, I think the lack of Java on the XO has more with python defensiveness then anything else. I draw this conclusion partly from the fact that it has been pretty crippling lack since initial inception of the XO, but one that there is great resistance to fixing nonetheless. On Mon, Aug 31,

Re: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC

2009-08-31 Thread Ben Wiley Sittler
I think maintaining two parallel versions of the code in two languages would be a huge waste of effort for me, but if someone else wants to they are of course welcome to. I have neither time nor inclination to port it merely to work around the historical accident of Java not having been Open Sourc

Re: Candidate "paper cut" bugs for a new 8.2.x release?

2009-08-31 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/8/30 NoiseEHC : > I do not know what was the conclusion about this _completely hypothetical_ > case but does fixing the Geode VGA driver match the "paper cut" criteria? Rough criteria: - Does it affect our primary users? (kids in deployment schools) - Do we have a field-tested patch? - Is

Re: Extracting and analysing journal data

2009-08-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 21:59, David Leeming wrote: > Hello, > > > > In the Solomon Islands a formal evaluation is taking place this month of the > 3 trials http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Solomon_Islands > > > > The independent evaluator wants to extract and analyse journal data. The > schools do n