Re: [IAEP] [sugar] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-15 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi Marco, > > I'd like a Wiki page where you and I can track tasks that need to be done > before I can do the next test run at each of the 2 schools and also write > down which version of Sugar we plan to test next at whic

[IAEP] Events calendar

2008-10-15 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
As the nominal leader of the Sugar Labs Events Committee, I've been a bit of a laggard, so I'm getting ready to step it up a bit. We do have an events calendar here: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Community#Events I've got some questions. Anyone who is interested, please feel free to answer or com

Re: [IAEP] Events calendar

2008-10-15 Thread Walter Bender
David Farning, Marco Gritti, and you are also able to add to the Google Calendar. If someone knows how to make it world-writable, please let me know. In the meantime, please send me requests to join the calendar (I can add people by hand) or send events you'd like posted. I am all in favor of a wi

Re: [IAEP] Events calendar

2008-10-15 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Walter Bender wrote: > David Farning, Marco Gritti, and you are also able to add to the > Google Calendar. If someone knows how to make it world-writable, > please let me know. In the meantime, please send me requests to join > the calendar (I can add people by hand) or send

Re: [IAEP] Events calendar

2008-10-15 Thread David Farning
I must take the blame for the events calender. I was looking for simple a method to keep track of what is happening in the next few months. Please do what ever you think is best:) david On 10/15/2008, 11:14, Greg Dekoenigsberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:As the nominal leader of the Sugar La

Re: [IAEP] Events calendar

2008-10-15 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, David Farning wrote: > I must take the blame for the events calender. Heh. No blame involved; the fact that we even *have* an events calendar is a great start. > I was looking for simple a method to keep track of what is happening in > the next few months. Please do wha

[IAEP] is this useful feedback? (wiki?)

2008-10-15 Thread Carlo Falciola
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Re: [IAEP] is this useful feedback? (wiki?)

2008-10-15 Thread David Farning
Carlo, A good place to assemble this type of information would be http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/KnowledgeBase . This is a particularly fascinating area as the same resources which students use to learn programming can be used by the community to learn to develop Sugar:) thanks david

[IAEP] Thought for the day

2008-10-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
Men fear thought more than they fear anything else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent t

Re: [IAEP] Events calendar

2008-10-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
What sorts of events would people like to see? SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo)? Linux World Expo/Open Source Expo? PyCon? Education conferences? Bioneers? Solfest? ICT4D? Microfinance? embedded systems? or should we consider splitting the calendar (yet)? We could have one for events dealing

Re: [IAEP] Events calendar

2008-10-15 Thread Walter Bender
I think we only want to point to things that will have some definite Sugar presence--otherwise the SNR will be too low. -walter On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What sorts of events would people like to see? SCALE (Southern > California Linux Expo)? Linu

Re: [IAEP] Events calendar

2008-10-15 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote: > What sorts of events would people like to see? SCALE (Southern > California Linux Expo)? Linux World Expo/Open Source Expo? PyCon? > Education conferences? Bioneers? Solfest? ICT4D? Microfinance? > embedded systems? or should we consider splitting the

[IAEP] Events calendar: proposal

2008-10-15 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
OK, so this is the simplest possible proposal, but it's a start: http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Gdk/Events This is the proposed Event summary page. Note: events go on this page *if and only if* someone in the broader Sugar community has committed to being the organizer. Whether that's Walter,

Re: [IAEP] Events calendar: proposal

2008-10-15 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, so this is the simplest possible proposal, but it's a start: > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Gdk/Events > > This is the proposed Event summary page. Note: events go on this page > *if and only if* someone in

Re: [IAEP] Events calendar: proposal

2008-10-15 Thread Walter Bender
+1 -- 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] Events calendar: proposal

2008-10-15 Thread Luke Faraone
+1 If nobody minds, I'll make a template {{event}} to go with it. (for use on specific event pages) -- Luke Faraone ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Go Viral! (was Fwd: Geek Gifting -- What geek gadgets are on your holiday gift list?)

2008-10-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
I just voted for G1G1 on this survey. Laptop: OLPC XO (amazon.com/xo) Please join me, and tell your friends. You might have to create your own account in order to vote. Also, please let us know of any other such opportunities. -- Forwarded message -- From: TechRepublic News & Sp

Re: [IAEP] Events calendar: proposal

2008-10-15 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Luke Faraone wrote: > +1 > > If nobody minds, I'll make a template {{event}} to go with it. (for use > on specific event pages) Good idea, thank you. Meanwhile, I added our upcoming talk at the Embedded Systems Conference. Greg, how do I update the Google calendar? Or would you like to do it

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-open] Go Viral! (was Fwd: Geek Gifting -- What geek gadgets are on your holiday gift list?)

2008-10-15 Thread Samuel Klein
Of course you can also gift an entire geek if you know the right fulfillment agencies... SJ On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just voted for G1G1 on this survey. > > Laptop: OLPC XO (amazon.com/xo) > > Please join me, and tell your friends. You might

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] Grassroots building: learning from other campaigns

2008-10-15 Thread Samuel Klein
The best parts of that report are 1. the focus on education as a way of building infrastructure. We talk *about* education, but we may not spend enough time educating one another, or educating new people; at least at some levels. it is wonderful to see how much time and love goes into bringing

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: OLPC Afghanistan starting! volunteers needed

2008-10-15 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Samuel Klein wrote: > One of OLPC's partners in Afghanistan, PAIWASTOON, is looking for > in-country volunteers to help with university outreach and > software/tool development. > > They especially need two software developers to help build their team. > > OLPC in Afghanistan have over 10,000 XOs

Re: [IAEP] Events calendar: proposal

2008-10-15 Thread David Farning
That looks good How does it sould if I continue to use gCal as a public work space for potential events then transfer them to the wiki as they firmup. david On 10/15/2008, 17:50, Luke Faraone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:+1 If nobody minds, I'll make a template {{event}} to go with it. (for u

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on ltsp

2008-10-15 Thread Bernie Innocenti
David Farning wrote: > Based on the good progress of the Fedora/RedHat team, it looks like we can > start testing Sugar on LTSP. > Is anyone interested in championing this effort? Or is anyone aware of Sugar > deployments that are running on LTSP. Maybe David Van Assche (aka Nubae) would be int

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on ltsp

2008-10-15 Thread David Farning
Bernie, Could you make on introduction to David Van Assche for me? thanks david On 10/15/2008, 20:26, Bernie Innocenti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:David Farning wrote: > Based on the good progress of the Fedora/RedHat team, it looks like we can start testing Sugar on LTSP. > Is anyone interested

Re: [IAEP] Events calendar: proposal

2008-10-15 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Luke Faraone wrote: >> +1 >> >> If nobody minds, I'll make a template {{event}} to go with it. (for use >> on specific event pages) > > Good idea, thank you. > > Meanwhile, I added our upcoming talk at the Embedded Systems Conference. > > Greg, how d

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: OLPC Afghanistan starting! volunteers needed

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Leonard
It would be good if information like this made it onto the wiki Possibly on pages like this (which could use some wiki love and reorganization): http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Afghanistan http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Afghanistan_Team http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Afghan_volunteer cjl On Wed, O

[IAEP] Fwd: [bytesforall_readers] CFP - CHI workshop on Human-Centered Computing in International Development

2008-10-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
Another event for our calendar. Who wants to write a proposal? -- Forwarded message -- From: Nithya Sambasivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:34 PM Subject: [bytesforall_readers] CFP - CHI workshop on Human-Centered Computing in International Development To: [EMA

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-open] Go Viral! (was Fwd: Geek Gifting -- What geek gadgets are on your holiday gift list?)

2008-10-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course you can also gift an entire geek if you know the right > fulfillment agencies... SJ I'm gonna wrap myself in paper, I'm gonna daub myself with glue, Stick some stamps on top of my head... I'm gonna mail myself t