Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar (kid contributions)

2008-08-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you can't just share a file, you have to share an activity, ... Right. Idea for a new activity: Candy Bag. You open a bag (i.e. you launch the CandyBag activity), then you put journal

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar (kid contributions)

2008-07-31 Thread Samuel Klein
Great idea... Robson had a similar one. SJ On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you can't just share a file, you have to share an activity, ... Right. Idea for a new activity: Candy Bag. You open a bag (i.e. you

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar (kid contributions)

2008-07-31 Thread Bastien
John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you can't just share a file, you have to share an activity, ... Right. Idea for a new activity: Candy Bag. You open a bag (i.e. you launch the CandyBag activity), then you put journal entries in it, then sharing this activity means that your friends

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar (kid contributions)

2008-07-24 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 06:27:59PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: 2) Sugar would run more smoothly on-XO if jhbuild were retired. I think this is a good point in the abstract. Do any frequent contributors *not* have an XO? I approve of retiring jhbuild, and handing out XO's to Sugar

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar (kid contributions)

2008-07-24 Thread Walter Bender
I don't think anyone would argue that we need better tools for software development on the XO. There has been a latent Develop activity in the works that occasionally gets a boost from the community (want to jump in?). I would argue that a bigger stumbling block than problems with Sugar and

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar (kid contributions)

2008-07-24 Thread Walter Bender
instead of just turtle programs and gooey smalltalk... Cannot let this one slip by uncommented on. Etoys is one place where kids are doing real programming, as a means of achieving fluency about many powerful ideas, not just syntax. But I unaware that children have made contributions to Squeak

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar (kid contributions)

2008-07-24 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 06:27:59PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: [some interesting points] Sorry my meta-comments snuck in - they aren't relevant, and I didn't follow my own advice...I retract them (I'm sure you can tell what parts they were). = Do any frequent contributors have ONLY an XO? =