Re: [IAEP] "Getting Involved", first draft

2008/12/4 Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Perhaps a [[Social Action]] section? >> > > Right now Earth Treasury topics go in the Sugar Labs Wiki in User > space, at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai/*. Any time we > determine how to turn one of them into a Sugar Activity, that goes in

Re: [IAEP] "Getting Involved", first draft

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Sebastian Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edward Cherlin wrote: >> >> (...) >> Our partners have many other projects that you can join. Earth >> Treasury is organizing research projects to be carried out by students >> under professional supervision, to map langu

Re: [IAEP] "Getting Involved", first draft

Edward Cherlin wrote: > (...) > Our partners have many other projects that you can join. Earth > Treasury is organizing research projects to be carried out by students > under professional supervision, to map languages and dialects in your > country; health; agriculture; the environment; weather; a

Re: [IAEP] who is homung

Jameson Quinn wrote: > yep, it's me. I was actually hoping to keep the association between my > handle and my real name as far off google as possible, Sorry about that! Icarito ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.su

Re: [IAEP] who is homung

Oh and by the way, I'm in Guatemala, not Nicaragua. Soon to be split between Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Jameson Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > yep, it's me. I was actually hoping to keep the association between my > handle and my real name as far off google

Re: [IAEP] who is homung

yep, it's me. I was actually hoping to keep the association between my handle and my real name as far off google as possible, obviously given that launchpad profile I have failed. Anyway, it's no secret to any humans, just something I wanted to be moderately hard to google. David, did you have any

Re: [IAEP] wiki wacking

I agree with Nate. Redirects should not be a goal, and of course you should delete them if they break, but until then just leave them - they do more good than harm (unless people start to see creating redirects as an important task). Jameson On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:08 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL P

Re: [IAEP] wiki wacking

Wiki maintenance is a nightmare:( There a million theories on maintaining wiki. One theory is make it flat and let the user search. The theory that I am using is to create a simple framework of NAME/[home|Getting involved||Todo|]. We try to keep theses basic pages in good shape. The rest ge

Re: [IAEP] who is homung

Here is your answer: https://launchpad.net/~jameson-quinn Thanks, Nate On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Homunq is a long time contributor of OLPC, > > and he is in nicaragua iirc...i'll ping him if

Re: [IAEP] wiki wacking

Why get rid of redirects that are working fine? I see some deletions of these in the logs. Earlier I noticed that [[Sugar]] had been deleted, which redirects to [[What is Sugar?]]. Thanks, Nate On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:53 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Just a heads up that I am do

Re: [IAEP] who is homung

Homunq is a long time contributor of OLPC, and he is in nicaragua iirc...i'll ping him if you want. Rafael Ortiz On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Luke Faraone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 21:38, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Does anyone know who user:Homung

Re: [IAEP] who is homung

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Homunq/lang-es The last letter is a q On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:38 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Does anyone know who user:Homung is? He or she has done some good > stuff on the wiki. but, they haven't let any contact info:( > > david > ___

Re: [IAEP] who is homung

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Luke Faraone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 21:38, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Does anyone know who user:Homung is? He or she has done some good >> stuff on the wiki. but, they haven't let any contact info:( > > There is no u

Re: [IAEP] who is homung

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 21:38, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know who user:Homung is? He or she has done some good > stuff on the wiki. but, they haven't let any contact info:( > There is no user by that name on the SL wiki

[IAEP] who is homung

Does anyone know who user:Homung is? He or she has done some good stuff on the wiki. but, they haven't let any contact info:( david ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listin

[IAEP] wiki wacking

Just a heads up that I am doing a bit of wikiwacking Sugarcamp* -> MarketingTeam/Events/Sugarcamp Boston 2008* Regional Sugar Labs -> Local Labs General pruning of dead redirects and blank pages. david ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a lapto

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Development team mission

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > You were quite articulate about this at Sugar Camp: An important part > of the mission is to make sure that the contributions come from > broadest base possible; that suggests that documentation is as > important as coding.

Re: [IAEP] "Getting Involved", first draft

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The new getting involved page is nice but it doesn't really address the > naive visitor's question of "I want to help, what should I do?" It seems > Sugar Labs Centric not volunteer Centric. > > Maybe supplement it with a

Re: [IAEP] "Getting Involved", first draft

The new getting involved page is nice but it doesn't really address the naive visitor's question of "I want to help, what should I do?" It seems Sugar Labs Centric not volunteer Centric. Maybe supplement it with a "How can I help?" page - Here are some quick thoughts. - Teachers - Join the

Re: [IAEP] Rolling out Local Sugar Labs

Some advances related to SugarLabs Colombia, We have now the mail setup for each member, [EMAIL PROTECTED] members are people that have work for more than two months constantly on olpc/sugar related things. We have also the first mailist. [EMAIL PROTECTED] We still lack a wiki solution but wo

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs and the Community

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:54 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When we were setting up Sugar Labs a few months ago, it seemed that > the distinction between the Sugar Labs Foundation and the Sugar Labs > community was important. But, now it just seems confusing:( > > Kind of like when

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs and the Community

On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 14:54 +, David Farning wrote: > When we were setting up Sugar Labs a few months ago, it seemed that > the distinction between the Sugar Labs Foundation and the Sugar Labs > community was important. But, now it just seems confusing:( Here's the problem. You only care whe

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs and the Community

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:54 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When we were setting up Sugar Labs a few months ago, it seemed that > the distinction between the Sugar Labs Foundation and the Sugar Labs > community was important. But, now it just seems confusing:( > > Kind of like when

[IAEP] Sugar Labs and the Community

When we were setting up Sugar Labs a few months ago, it seemed that the distinction between the Sugar Labs Foundation and the Sugar Labs community was important. But, now it just seems confusing:( Kind of like when you build house. You think a lot about the frame. Once the house is built, the on

[IAEP] Starch, Fructose and Library Collections.

I added Starch/Sucrose/Ribose/Fructose/Glucose to http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Application_Stack_(ASCII_Text). Starch (Fructose) http://sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy "The SUGAR stack: block diagram view" shows Starch having Sucrose/Ribose/Fructose/Glucose. But the text in "Starch(es): A complete di

Re: [IAEP] Common Sugar distribution package contents.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 07:14:21PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> Or do you perhaps want to only protect your own official binary >> releases like Squeak? > > >s/Squeak/Scratch/ Yes. Sorry (it is confusing enough as is :-P ) - -- * Jonas Smedega

Re: [IAEP] Common Sugar distribution package contents.

On 03.12.2008, at 18:15, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:36:42AM -0800, C.W. Holeman II wrote: >> http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Application_Stack: >> >> * Library Collections (e.g., for the Browse Activity) >> * Sugar A

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] Not new, but needs to be addressed

Good summary. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Jameson Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is my list of complaints from that evaluation, which was obviously > using a 600-series OS version. > > not traditional desktop metaphor Fact. > no tabbed browsing I have a proposal for this which I've

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] Not new, but needs to be addressed

Good summary. On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Jameson Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is my list of complaints from that evaluation, which was obviously > using a 600-series OS version. > > not traditional desktop metaphor Fact. > no tabbed browsing I have a proposal for this which I've

[IAEP] GettingInvolved missing Library Collection contributors

http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Teams I do not see anything concerning Library Collection contributors. -- C.W.Holeman II | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://JulianLocals.com/cwhii To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privileg

Re: [IAEP] Common Sugar distribution package contents.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 08:36:42AM -0800, C.W. Holeman II wrote: >http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Application_Stack: > >* Library Collections (e.g., for the Browse Activity) >* Sugar Activities (Browse, Read, Write, Record Turtle Art) >* Sug

[IAEP] Elevator pitch, take one

Elevator pitch fans, have a look at the following document: http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/ElevatorPitch Please, PLEASE add your own. Be sure to follow the rules on the page. We want lots of good pitches to choose from. I've added one so far, and I will add others as I think of them.

[IAEP] Common Sugar distribution package contents.

http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Application_Stack: * Library Collections (e.g., for the Browse Activity) * Sugar Activities (Browse, Read, Write, Record Turtle Art) * Sugar * Operating System (Linux, MacOSX, MSWindows) * Hardware Platform ( XO-1, EEE PC, Classmate, XO-2) Lib

Re: [IAEP] "Getting Involved", first draft

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved > > Here's what I did: > > 1. Linked to each team. > > 2. Made sure that the Mission statements were all cleaned up and > consistent, and then included them in this

Re: [IAEP] "Getting Involved", first draft

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved > > Here's what I did: > > 1. Linked to each team. > > 2. Made sure that the Mission statements were all cleaned up and > consistent, and then included them in this p

[IAEP] "Getting Involved", first draft

http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved Here's what I did: 1. Linked to each team. 2. Made sure that the Mission statements were all cleaned up and consistent, and then included them in this page. 3. Added a sentence for each team explaining what the most pressing need is right no

Re: [IAEP] a (distro) release with sugar 0.81?

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since an additional repository would have to be used to get this on > lenny, it's probably best to not ship Sugar 0.81 at all unless you can > get an exception to get 0.82.x included. There would be frustration > for those

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Developer gathering in Trondheim, Norway - January 2009

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 01:38:48PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: >On Wednesday 03 December 2008 12:33, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> I could attend if there was interest in having a Sugar hacker there. >> Do you have any plans that include Sugar somehow? > >We

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Developer gathering in Trondheim, Norway - January 2009

Hi Tomeu, On Wednesday 03 December 2008 12:33, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > I could attend if there was interest in having a Sugar hacker there. > Do you have any plans that include Sugar somehow? We have a sugar-desktop profile which in theory allows to install a sugar desktop. (In practice its broken

Re: [IAEP] FOSDEM 2009: Brussels 7-8 Feb

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 02 December 2008 02:03, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: >> Daniel mentioned FOSDEM during our weekend meeting in Brussels and we >> thought it might be a good opportunity to have a European OLPC / Sugar >> gr

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] Not new, but needs to be addressed

Here is my list of complaints from that evaluation, which was obviously using a 600-series OS version. - not traditional desktop metaphor - no tabbed browsing - flaky wireless - some bad machines: difficulty turning on and peeling mousepad. - flaky mouse - has a mouse instead of

[IAEP] donations for hardware (was Re: Honeypot)

Hi all, On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ☞ Donations: the same day we raised $1600 among the people > present. We still need to raise some $400-500, but I'm > confident enough to anticipate the expense personally. > We are waiting for the SFC

Re: [IAEP] Sugar packages for non-mainstream distros

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pygame is an interesting case in point of where a little bit of Sugar > glue could go a long ways towards device interoperability. As was > posted to this list earlier today, many pygame developers are > hardcoding the scree

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Development team mission

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 16:08, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You were quite articulate about this at Sugar Camp: An important part >> of the mission is to make sure that the contributions come from >> broadest

Re: [IAEP] A teacher's reactions to Sugar

Hi, I have in my todo list to blog about the part in that post that Sugar can help with. Will take me a couple of days, probably. Regards, Tomeu On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:02 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A teacher's reactions to Sugar in the Tuvalu OLPC trial: > > http://learnonline.wordpres

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Developer gathering in Trondheim, Norway - January 2009

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday 29 November 2008 21:12, Walter Bender wrote: >> Alas, I will be in Tasmania... couldn't get much farther from >> Trondheim if I tried. > > Heh. Enjoy LCA! > > Debian Edu has many regular developer meeti

[IAEP] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] Not new, but needs to be addressed

FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Valerie Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:13 AM Subject: [OLPC-SF] Not new, but needs to be addressed To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This just in from a well-meaning colleague who was using XOs. There are lots of issues identified h