[IAEP] Sugar benefits

2008-10-30 Thread Bill Kerr
from walter, in the recent digest 2008-10-27: 2. What would creating a Sugar Activity require from me and what > benefits would it bring? > I was asked this two-part question from a software developer. The > Sugar Almanac is a good starting point for answering the first part > (http://wiki.laptop

[IAEP] catching up

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
I just wanted to warn everyone that my PTSD has been getting the best of me for the last few day. Hopefully, I can spend the rest of today and Friday catching up with Sugar Labs related stuff. thanks david ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a la

Re: [IAEP] catching up

2008-10-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:23 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to warn everyone that my PTSD has been getting the best of me > for the last few day. Hopefully, I can spend the rest of today and Friday > catching up with Sugar Labs related stuff. Hope you get better soon

Re: [IAEP] catching up

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:23 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I just wanted to warn everyone that my PTSD has been getting the best of > me > > for the last few day. Hopefully, I can spend the rest of tod

Re: [IAEP] Jabber Server

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:19 PM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 2, 2008, at 12:52 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > > > >> On 2 Oct 2008, at 05:06, David Farning wrote: > >> > >>> I had several convers

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Caroline Meeks >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi Edward, >> > >> > Ah thank you for asking, I think a

[IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-10-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin, which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD. So, what is this in specific? With this spin, you'll be able to run Sugar, which is developed by Sugarlabs and the desktop environment used on

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Caroline Meeks >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi Edward, >> > >> > Ah thank you for asking, I think a trans

Re: [IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-10-30 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
Thanks, Sebastian. Brilliant work here. --g On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin, which > incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD. > > So, what is this in specific? With thi

Re: [IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-10-30 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Hi everybody, I'm proud to be announce the availability of our > Fedora Sugar Spin, which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment > on a Fedora Live CD. Cool! >http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/sugar-spin.iso I just gave this a try using kvm on Rawhide, and it worked fin

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-30 Thread David Van Assche
On the ubuntu side, there is the ubuntu educational list and the edubuntu list, as well as the edubuntu developers list. There is also the developers and users LTSP list, which is used almost exclusively in school environments. Kind Regards, David Van Assche www.nubae.com On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-30 Thread Caroline Meeks
The Moodle site should be up tomorrow. What logo would you like? Do you have a theme you like? What url do you want to use? Does xs.sugarlabs.org make sense? Caroline On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:08 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Caroline Meeks

Re: [IAEP] Sugar benefits

2008-10-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Bill Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > from walter, in the recent digest 2008-10-27: > >> 2. What would creating a Sugar Activity require from me and what >> benefits would it bring? >> I was asked this two-part question from a software developer. The >> Sugar Alm

Re: [IAEP] Testing Emle collection on Ubuntu

2008-10-30 Thread C.W. Holeman II
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:18 PM, C.W. Holeman II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am attempting to test my packaging of Emle to work as a collection > on Sugar. See http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Cwhii > > I am using an ASUS EEE PC 900 1MB RAM 16GB SSD 1024x600 with > Ubuntu: > Linux road 2.6.24-21-ee

Re: [IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 17:53 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: > A minor complaint: Sugar came up in 800x600, which doesn't look very > good. I wonder if we can try for 1280x1024 by default instead. (It > might just be the graphics card qemu is emulating, but even if that's > the case we should consider f

Re: [IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-10-30 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Jeremy, > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 17:53 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: >> A minor complaint: Sugar came up in 800x600, which doesn't look >> very good. I wonder if we can try for 1280x1024 by default >> instead. (It might just be the graphics card qemu is emulating, >> but even if that

Re: [IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 18:31 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 17:53 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: >>> A minor complaint: Sugar came up in 800x600, which doesn't look >>> very good. I wonder if we can try for 1280x1024 by default >>> instead. (It might just be the graphi

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > The Moodle site should be up tomorrow. What logo would you like? > Very nice! Our official logos are at http://www.sugarlabs.org/go/Logo > > Do you have a theme you like? > I don't believe anyone here knows enough abou

Re: [IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
Very nice! thanks david On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin, > which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD. > > So, what is this in specific? W

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-30 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:16 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Caroline Meeks < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The Moodle site should be up tomorrow. What logo would you like? >> > > Very nice! Our official logos are at http://www.sugarlabs.org/g

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-30 Thread David Van Assche
Not that I know all the moodle themes, but the custom corners theme is pretty pro looking and has worked well for me in terms of customisation. David On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:16 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-30 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was thinking teachers.sugarlabs.org to indicate that this site will be >> for and by teachers learning about Sugar. > > We need places for high school students, who we hope will be helping us test > Sugar, to collaborat

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-30 Thread Caroline Meeks
moodle.sugarlabs.org? On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Caroline Meeks > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was thinking teachers.sugarlabs.org to indicate that this site will > be > >> for and by teachers learning ab

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Caroline Meeks > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was thinking teachers.sugarlabs.org to indicate that this site will > be > >> for and by teachers learning about Sugar. > > > > We n

[IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu LiveUSB is ready

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
It looks like our friends at Ubuntu have been hard at work building a Subuntu live usb. Simon Peter, also know as probono, has posted information on downloading and building the usb at http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/ Thanks to the Ubuntu SugarTeam for packaging Sugar on Ubuntu and to Prob