http://www.olpc.org.au/news/27May09.shtml
See quote about school attendance.
Here's an example where Sugar can bridge the gap between the
disadvantaged indigenous communities of Australia and the more
well-off children there; XOs with Sugar for the former (goal of
400,000), SoaS for the latter.
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On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 06:15:03PM -0700, Kathy Pusztavari wrote:
Bigs and Littles?
-Kathy
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From: iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org
[mailto:iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Caroline Meeks
Another thought is Kid and
Here's a report that does mention Sugar:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/304648/olpc_boosts_outback_education_laptop_deployment?fp=4fpid=1968336438
This one doesn't, but again, check the quote about school attendance:
[forgot to add IAEP and sugar-devel]
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From: Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org
Date: Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:11
Subject: journal criticism (was Re: Re: Re: [IAEP] [RELEASE] TurtleArt-51)
To: fors...@ozonline.com.au
Cc: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
[age-related replacements for users]
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Why limit ourselves?
[Learner as a replacement for users]
+0
I can't see any developer using this term easily[1]. Call the people
who use a Sugar activity to learn/do/communicate either:
People[a] who use[b] a Sugar activity to
Congratulations everyone!
I'm very proud be a part of this. It's wonderful to see disadvantaged
children in my own Country benefit from our work.
Martin Sevior
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's a report that does mention Sugar:
Sorry,
This thread fell off the public mailing list. My fingers are a little
too big for the keyboard on my new lenovo s10. I keep hitting enter
instead of shift:(
david
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From: David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org
Date: Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Sorry,
This thread fell off the public mailing list. My fingers are a little
too big for the keyboard on my new lenovo s10. I keep hitting enter
instead of shift:(
david
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From: David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org
Date: Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Hi,
I think one possible place where we are having a miss communication is about
what is Sugar on a Stick or SoaS.
I think to Sean and I it is a solution that can be used in schools. It
includes the code for the stick, a core set of activities that are known to
work, stick backup, restore and
Hi,
We'd like to update the Help Activity and have the ability to have different
versions for OLPC-XOs and Sugar on a Stick, etc.
Why is this important?
- Shipping SoaS with the Sugar Manual included will help the user
experience
- Having a ? icon in the ring will help people want
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 16:09, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
[snip]
File turtle_art-51.xo from
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/file/26052/turtle_art-51.xo.;
As soon as I
Scenario 1:
Let's say I'm a teacher reading about Sugar in a magazine. I consider
myself comfortable with computers, visit the web every day, but have
never used the command line. I've succeeded in downloading SoaS,
loading it onto a stick with the Fedora LiveUSB Creator and booting my
PC with
Sadly I've done number 1 when I first got my XO. It didn't take long for
someone to tell me that you had to browse and download using the machine
RUNNING sugar and that you had to go to Journal and run the install program.
Once I figured that out it was relatively easy. Also seemed to work for
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
Scenario 1:
Let's say I'm a teacher reading about Sugar in a magazine. I consider
myself comfortable with computers, visit the web every day, but have
never used the command line. I've succeeded in downloading SoaS,
Indeed that worked with SoaS on a netbook, the Activity arrived at the
top of the favorites ring.
I'll try with VirtualBox tomorrow (travelling).
Who can update activities.sugarlabs.org with concise installation instructions?
I can provide copy if that's helpful.
thanks
Sean
On Wed, May
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.olpc.org.au/news/27May09.shtml
See quote about school attendance.
Here's an example where Sugar can bridge the gap between the
disadvantaged indigenous communities of Australia and the more
well-off children
On 27 May 2009, at 15:35, Sean DALY wrote:
Scenario 1:
Let's say I'm a teacher reading about Sugar in a magazine. I consider
myself comfortable with computers, visit the web every day, but have
never used the command line. I've succeeded in downloading SoaS,
loading it onto a stick with the
Tomeu,
I've said this before, but maybe I can repeat it once more:
1). I like the idea of the Journal. I would not want to change the
Journal proper to support putting items in hierarchies.
2). Having said that, I don't always like the Journal Activity. The
biggest problem I have with it
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 19:34, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote:
Tomeu,
I've said this before, but maybe I can repeat it once more:
1). I like the idea of the Journal. I would not want to change the Journal
proper to support putting items in hierarchies.
2). Having said
===Sugar Digest ===
1. Between yesterday's announcement of a major new deployment in
Australia (Sugar running on the OLPC XO-1) to a flurry of
smaller-scale, grassroots Sugar on a Stick deployments to the pick-up
of Sugar by most of the upstream Linux distributions to the growing
volume of
I'm new to Sugar, so I may be horribly wrong.
But to me, the Journal seems more of an annoyance than anything else.
A lot of the work I see done is towards bringing back some of the
properties that regular filesystems have
What advantage does it have as opposed to a regular filesystem with
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 20:20, Lucian Branescu
lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm new to Sugar, so I may be horribly wrong.
But to me, the Journal seems more of an annoyance than anything else.
A lot of the work I see done is towards bringing back some of the
properties that regular
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 20:39, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 20:20, Lucian Branescu
lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm new to Sugar, so I may be horribly wrong.
But to me, the Journal seems more of an annoyance than anything else.
A lot of the work I see
Right, that does make it a bit more clear.
I feel however that there should be a way to mount the Journal as a
regular filesystem without losing too much information (put stuff in
folders according to labels, put activities in their own folder, etc.)
2009/5/27 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
4). For the Journal proper, I agree that a temporal view has value.
However, in addition to that I'd like to sort by the Title meta tag. This
would be a natural for etexts, because you could look for a book more easily
if they were all in alphabetical order. If you had a
Lucian,
Other than the criticisms I mentioned in my email, I like the Journal.
Even after years of working with PCs I still find myself occasionally
saving something to the hard drive, then wondering where I saved it. My
parents probably won't ever really master working with hierarchical
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:35:10PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
Scenario 1: [soas]
Scenario 2: [soas in virtualbox]
[...]
The Marketing Team can help write installation tips copy if necessary.
I think it's obvious to most here but perhaps not to our audience:
these scenarios are cases of the
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