Re: [IAEP] Interesting game described in latest ACM technews

2009-02-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Fraunhofer is an umbrella organization for many more-or-less independent research institutes. I would not condemn one institute for what another did do. - Bert - On 25.02.2009, at 22:27, Walter Bender wrote: memory serves you correctly... -walter On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Sean

Re: [IAEP] Interesting game described in latest ACM technews

2009-02-26 Thread Walter Bender
I certainly didn't mean to condemn Fraunhofer. They are undoubtedly one of the leading research institutions on the planet. I was simply trying to confirm Sean's recollection. -walter On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: Fraunhofer is an umbrella

Re: [IAEP] calendar

2009-02-26 Thread Caroline Meeks
+1 for making meeting announcements calendar friendly! That would be a big help to me. Timezone issue is going to be annoying though. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:18 AM, FGrose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: Including these 3 lines in a meeting announcement is sufficient for Gmail to create a

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-26 Thread victor
I can't get it to work. When I try to upload a file (from 'developer tools'), there is an error - Original Message - From: Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de To: Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; Sugar Devel sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org Sent:

Re: [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs

2009-02-26 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hey Josh, thanks for the offer of help! I definitely like your simple and kid-friendly theme for addons. I wonder off the top of my head though, if it makes sense to make addons.sl.o look *more* like the other sl.o sites?Things are kind of confusing right now with the different styles of wiki,

Re: [IAEP] Mailing list moderators needed

2009-02-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009, Bernie Innocenti wrote: We'd need someone with some free time to volunteer for this job. If you use the commandline tool listadmin the job is really easy to do. regards, Holger (who moderates quite a few lists with it, which costs me probably a

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs

2009-02-26 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
I think a simple design such as Josh's is ideal to use for all kid facing pages. The school server could benefit from a similar theme. Personally, while I think someone talented (as Josh obviously is) could make a related theme for adults and kids, it is much more important to have a less

Re: [IAEP] RFC: Supporting olpc-ish Deployments - Draft 1

2009-02-26 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Tony Anderson tony_ander...@usa.net wrote: Hi, Actually the model for the website/wiki already exists. It is DART at the Bering Straits School District. They have married mediawiki with their own software to provide a killer tool. The standards, lesson plans,

[IAEP] First competitor?

2009-02-26 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Or just a friend? http://www.qimo4kids.com/ They even mention Sugar in the FAQ: http://www.qimo4kids.com/page/FAQ.aspx I'm downloading the ISO image to give it a try. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://www.sugarlabs.org/

Re: [IAEP] First competitor?

2009-02-26 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Let us know what you think of it, it's somewhat hard to get a real idea of what this thing does by looking at the little information given on the Web site itself and in the two articles they link to: From the educational ones I included GCompris and Childsplay, as

[IAEP] Design ideas for a.sl.o and sugarlabs

2009-02-26 Thread ,Josh williams
Carol, Thanks for the kind words. That's a good idea for providing a screen shot, that's what they do at addons.mozilla.org . It might be somewhat difficult however to implement an enlargeable thumbnail because the developers would have to create two images, and I would probably have to jump