Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] The Road to SoaS-2: A new Snapshot!

2009-03-05 Thread Costello, Rob R
Is this version with 'honey' or without? Actually there a way to tell from the wiki what is on the image? Eg e-toys? Scratch? I downloaded the iso and booted from usb a couple of weeks ago - (the version with the cursor problem - feb 20?) and couldn't work out how to do anything with pippy

Re: [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org -> activities.sugarlabs.org

2009-03-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 04:23, David Farning wrote: > Moved addons.sl.o to activities.sl.o Seems to work fine, thanks a lot! Tomeu > 1 moved tree > 2 moved db > 3 moved filestore > 4 fixed permission > 5 updated config.php > 6 setup redirect > 7 updated apache > > next steps > 1 update scripts >

Re: [IAEP] soas - boot.iso

2009-03-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 02:30, wrote: > Hi all, > this is my first post to this list :-) > I tried to download from "sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick#Downloads" > the "boot.iso", but got the following error-message: >>Not Found >>The requested URL /~marco/boot.iso was not found on this server > T

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] The Road to SoaS-2: A new Snapshot!

2009-03-05 Thread Ton van Overbeek
Generated the usb stick on Windows using liveusb-creator 3.2 with the '-x' option to get the boot/olpc.fth file. Edited the olpc.fth file to get rid of the extraneous backslashes (Luke already fixed this in git, but no updated windows version of liveusb-creator has been created yet). First tried t

Re: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final Release

2009-03-05 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 03/04/09 10:45, Simon Schampijer wrote: > this is the Final Release in our 0.84 development cycle [1]! Thanks to > our testers the developers were able to bring in bug fixes to stabilize > the platform. And the translators were busy to get all the strings > translated. All the details what ha

Re: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final Release

2009-03-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:41, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On 03/04/09 10:45, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> this is the Final Release in our 0.84 development cycle [1]! Thanks to >> our testers the developers were able to bring in bug fixes to stabilize >> the platform. And the translators were busy to

Re: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final Release

2009-03-05 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On 03/05/09 10:56, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > So, how are we going to celebrate it? As 0.84.1 is going to be on, we > could do a bug fix sprint during a weekend. Should we get the marketing team to prepare a press release? Did we announce it on Freshmeat? Slashdot? LWN? OLPCNews? -- // Bernie

Re: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final Release

2009-03-05 Thread Simon Schampijer
Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On 03/05/09 10:56, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> So, how are we going to celebrate it? As 0.84.1 is going to be on, we >> could do a bug fix sprint during a weekend. > > Should we get the marketing team to prepare a press release? > > Did we announce it on Freshmeat? Slashdot?

Re: [IAEP] soas - boot.iso

2009-03-05 Thread none
Hi Tomeu, Am Donnerstag, 5. März 2009 10:20 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso: (...) > > This link seems to be dead. (...) > > Can you give a try to this one and report here if it worked? > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i386/os/images/boot.iso This link + download works

[IAEP] New Soas-1 Image containing Sucrose 0.84.0

2009-03-05 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, we have another Soas-1 image (based on F10). It contains the latest Glucose and Fructose packages from the 0.84.0 release [1]. You can download the image at [2]. Give it a try and report bugs at [3]. Please use the Soas component for issues related to the image - like booting, not correct

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] The Road to SoaS-2: A new Snapshot!

2009-03-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Ton van Overbeek wrote: > Generated the usb stick on Windows using liveusb-creator 3.2 with the '-x' > option to get the boot/olpc.fth file. Edited the olpc.fth file to get > rid of the extraneous > backslashes (Luke already fixed this in git, but no updated windows version of > liveusb-creator has

[IAEP] [iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org: Auto-discard notification]

2009-03-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Below email was "auto-discarded". I suspect we might loose valuable contribution due to this behaviour of our mailinglist setup. Currently I am allowed only to approve/drop quarantined mail, and receive info on stuff like this. If the project find

Re: [IAEP] [iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org: Auto-discard notification]

2009-03-05 Thread Walter Bender
The message did get through on at least one of the other lists... curious. -walter On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Below email was "auto-discarded". > > I suspect we might loose valuable contribution due to this behavi

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final Release

2009-03-05 Thread Sean DALY
The media launch and multi-language press release has been scheduled for March 16th, when release notes, the PR phone number, and the final press mailing lists including the education publications will be ready. I will have Tuesday's marketing meeting topics & deliverables mail ready sometime toda

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] The Road to SoaS-2: A new Snapshot!

2009-03-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 04.03.2009, at 20:58, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi folks, > > a new soas-2 snapshot is ready for you! Go and grab it NOW from here: > > http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas-200903041854.iso > > It's important for us to get as much feedback as possible now, since > with the rece

Re: [IAEP] [iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org: Auto-discard notification]

2009-03-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:15:04AM -0500, Walter Bender wrote: >The message did get through on at least one of the other lists... curious. Yes, at iaep it got discarded while at -devel it only got quarantined. I see no reason to speculate, however: w

[IAEP] sugar age group?

2009-03-05 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hi all. I was talking with a friend about Sugar and Sugar Labs and he asked what age range Sugar is targeted at. I couldn't find this information from a brief scan of the static pages, or the wiki front page. Regards, Wade ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] sugar age group?

2009-03-05 Thread Walter Bender
5-12 is our most recent take on this. It is mentioned in the first paragraph of the About Sugar page in the static site: http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/betasite_alt/index.php?template=page&page=about_overview -walter On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Wade Brainerd wrote:

Re: [IAEP] sugar age group?

2009-03-05 Thread Wade Brainerd
Gotcha. I think the site layout confused me, even after you pointed me at the About page I couldn't find it :) Then I realized it was the 'next' link hidden below the "More information for..." links. Maybe having 'next' and 'More information for...' are redundant, and the 'next' should be folded

Re: [IAEP] sugar age group?

2009-03-05 Thread Walter Bender
Strange. When I follow that link, I land on the About Page... I don't have to do any else. -walter On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Gotcha.  I think the site layout confused me, even after you pointed me at > the About page I couldn't find it :)  Then I realized it was the

Re: [IAEP] sugar age group?

2009-03-05 Thread Wade Brainerd
Right, the direct link worked. But then I went back to the home page to try and find it again, but couldn't. Perhaps it would be better to say: More information About Sugar / for Learners / for Parents / for Teachers / for Learners On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > Strang

[IAEP] inaugural Education Team meeting

2009-03-05 Thread Walter Bender
We'll be having an Education Team meeting on Friday, 6 March, at 15 UTC (10 EST) on irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting Agenda: 1. Introduce ourselves (If you cannot attend the meeting but would like to be introduced to the group, please send me an email) 2. Discuss the mission of the Education Team

Re: [IAEP] [iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org: Auto-discard notification]

2009-03-05 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Mar 5, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Yes, at iaep it got discarded while at -devel it only got quarantined. Ed's e-mail address had been added by a list admin or moderator to the "non-members whose messages should be automatically discarded" list. I've now reset that list.

Re: [IAEP] inaugural Education Team meeting

2009-03-05 Thread Frederick Grose
The 'short window' in item 3 refers to the development release schedule for the major distributions. The survey will seek to recruit ideas of Sugar software developments needed to better support their mission, along with deployment representatives to help communicate those needs to the systems de

Re: [IAEP] inaugural Education Team meeting

2009-03-05 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Frederick Grose wrote: > The 'short window' in item 3 refers to the development release schedule for > the major distributions. Actually, I ws referring to somewhat different window. There is a gathering of teachers who are experienced with using Sugar in their cla

[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84 - Bugfix Release Schedule

2009-03-05 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, to get bug fixes in after our 0.84.0 release we have scheduled two more coordinated releases for the next 4 weeks [1]. Mar 20 Sucrose 0.84.1 Apr 3 Sucrose 0.84.2 Furthermore we will do weekly Glucose releases to keep the tarballs up to date. The dates were picked in coordination with the

Re: [IAEP] [iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org: Auto-discard notification]

2009-03-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:40:21PM -0500, Ivan Krstić wrote: >On Mar 5, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Yes, at iaep it got discarded while at -devel it only got >> quarantined. > > >Ed's e-mail address had been added by a list admin or

Re: [IAEP] [iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org: Auto-discard notification]

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Jordan
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:40:21PM -0500, Ivan Krstić wrote: >>On Mar 5, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> Yes, at iaep it got discarded while at -devel it only got >>> quaran

Re: [IAEP] [iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org: Auto-discard notification]

2009-03-05 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Mar 5, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > That would be my first place to look too, for this particular kind of > issue. If I was allowed, that is. :-P You're already an admin for iaep, which should allow you to look at -- and modify -- all of the list's settings. Is there other acc

[IAEP] download pages

2009-03-05 Thread Walter Bender
I have hobbled together some temporary download pages in the wiki in an attempt to eliminate some of the extraneous wandering about one needs to do currently from the Supported_systems page when trying to download Sugar. I suspect we will want to have a series of static pages here, but if there is

Re: [IAEP] [iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org: Auto-discard notification]

2009-03-05 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:26:36PM -0500, Ivan Krstić wrote: >On Mar 5, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> That would be my first place to look too, for this particular kind of >> issue. If I was allowed, that is. :-P > > >You're already an

[IAEP] Topics & deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-05 Thread Sean DALY
http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Meetings/03-03-2009 (note: I messed up with "#start-meeting" instead of "#startmeeting" so the meetbot did not log, many thanks to Tomeu and Mel for getting that transcript online at above link) Hi everyone - Monday, March 16th, 9:00AM EST is the date & time

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final Release

2009-03-05 Thread Sean DALY
re spreading the word: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-March/000419.html Monday, March 16th, 9:00 AM EST thanks Sean On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > The media launch and multi-language press release has been scheduled > for March 16th, when release notes,

Re: [IAEP] download pages

2009-03-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Mar 2009, at 21:32, Walter Bender wrote: > I have hobbled together some temporary download pages in the wiki in > an attempt to eliminate some of the extraneous wandering about one > needs to do currently from the Supported_systems page when trying to > download Sugar. > > I suspect we will w

Re: [IAEP] Topics & deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 6 Mar 2009, at 00:53, Sean DALY wrote: > http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Meetings/03-03-2009 > (note: I messed up with "#start-meeting" instead of "#startmeeting" so > the meetbot did not log, many thanks to Tomeu and Mel for getting that > transcript online at above link) > > > Hi everyo

Re: [IAEP] Topics & deliverables from Marketing IRC meeting 03-03-2009: Sugar 8.4 launch date set!

2009-03-05 Thread Sean DALY
No, not nitpicking! Let's be clear what the version number is. I have seen both "0.84" and "8.4" and "8.4.0" and "8.4.1", and for the nontechnical user the "build" number can be confusing. Which is it? Thanks Sean On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 6 Mar 2009, at 00: