I like Physics, thanks for drawing my attention to it. A simple guide to
hacking Physics using Activities that normally come with a XO (Browse, Pippy &
Terminal) at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Modifying_Activities#Modifying_Physics
> Currently all objects have the same material settings:
>
When I get together with other scientists, at some point I ask them how they
got started. For most, it wasn't because of school, but because of direct
contact with adults, often a relative who was a scientist, and some of the
older generation got into it from reading the classic science fiction
On Tuesday 30 Jun 2009 11:23:24 pm Alan Kay wrote:
> what is more interesting is how well certain ways of thinking work
> in finding strong models of phenomena compared to others.
This is the part that interests me too ...
> So, if we get
> pneumonia, there are lots of paradigms to choose from, but
Here's my two cents. (see attached)
I like the use of the browse icon, but I've found that rendering it as
a fill, rather than a stroke, works far better at small sizes. While I
like the stack of books, I'm afraid it doesn't read clearly at first
glance. I decided to try stamping the internet logo
Jim
I like the icon of the browser on the open book
To me it says: get a book from the internet
Unlike the other suggestions, it can be interpreted without any prior
knowledge, because it builds on the Browse and book reader icons which have
their meaning defined within Sugar by these Activitie
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> On 06/29/2009 10:09 PM, David Farning wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Simon Schampijer
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the SFScon 2009 will be held in Bolzano [1]. As part of that the TIS[2]
>>> would be willing host a Sugarcam
On 06/29/2009 10:09 PM, David Farning wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the SFScon 2009 will be held in Bolzano [1]. As part of that the TIS[2]
>> would be willing host a Sugarcamp. The camp would be part of the free
>> software week [3], where a GNOME
This thread is an attempt to help clean up a couple of issues that
have been cropping up over the past couple of months.
There have been a couple of instances of suboptimal communication
between different parts of the project.
Several times recently, external organizations have been looking for a
Walter and I and some of the LGF staff set up computers from their old
supply closet this morning. We got 7 running sugar! We also got a school
MacBook running!!
Here are success videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEa2OIFzNEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYbPz9NgiW4
We are happy with the r
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Werner Westermann wrote:
> To David Farning, best regards from Santiago, Chile.
>
> I'd like to officially nominate Chile as a Local Lab:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs_Chile
That sounds like a great plan.
> We, Educalibre (http://www.educalibre.cl),
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Jim Simmons wrote:
> David,
>
> I'm not clear on which icon you are praising: mine or Frederick's?
>
> The problem I have with books in a pile or on a shelf is that it's too
> similar to Aleksey's design for Library. I think that design is very
> suitable for what
A stack of books made me immediately think of driving the carpool for
the local summer reading program. Each kid going in and out of the
building is carrying a stack of books. Of note about the kids books
is that they are all different sizes and color... and the stacks are
pretty haphazard:)
dav
David,
I'm not clear on which icon you are praising: mine or Frederick's?
The problem I have with books in a pile or on a shelf is that it's too
similar to Aleksey's design for Library. I think that design is very
suitable for what Aleksey is doing, because he is building a kind of
electronic bo
You might want to add more whitespace around the Browse icon. And
it's not so clear to me that it is a stack of books, or what the
bottom line is. An open book with pages might be more identifiable.
SJ
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
> I really like this one, the stack of books
Sounds great...
-walter
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Werner Westermann wrote:
> To David Farning, best regards from Santiago, Chile.
>
> I'd like to officially nominate Chile as a Local Lab:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs_Chile
>
> We, Educalibre (http://www.educalibre.cl), were
I really like this one, the stack of books and mini-Browse tell the story.
Sean
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:28 PM, David Farning wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Frederick Grose wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Jim Simmons wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I'm still interested in other
To David Farning, best regards from Santiago, Chile.
I'd like to officially nominate Chile as a Local Lab:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs_Chile
We, Educalibre (http://www.educalibre.cl), were hoping to be ready as a
formalized NGO, but the process will not end before 2 or 3 months (it
s
Hi Gary,
Yes, for younger students giving them the options to choose materials they know
would be better than giving them numbers they wouldn't understand (they would
be nice in a more advanced level). I know kids find the Activity fascinating
just as it is, but I am looking forward to seeing
On 30 Jun 2009, at 17:21, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I sent this yesterday, but it got filtered out by some machine since
> I didn't send it as a "reply". So I am sending it again today.
>
> This is the "old science teacher" in me talking...I think the
> Physics Activity has great pot
Hi Subbu,
No, I meant Francis Bacon, who lived in the early 17th century, and was a
contemporary of Shakespeare (and some like to claim that he *was* Shakespeare,
heh heh). Check out "Novum Organum", "The New Atlantis", etc.
The word "scientia" -- meaning knowledge -- is Latin and is old. And t
Hi Caryl,
It's possible that the Physics Activity could get students interested in
Physics, but the deepest and most important parts of real science cannot be
learned from a book or a computer or from just doing mathematics no matter how
wonderful.
The notion that they can has been a major mi
On Tuesday 30 Jun 2009 5:42:29 pm Alan Kay wrote:
> ..There I should have said "modern science" to denote the kind of science
> that Galileo and a few others
> started, which Bacon discussed so well as a debugging process for what is
> wrong with our brains/minds, and which Newton first showed how
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Frederick Grose wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Jim Simmons wrote:
>>
>> I'm still interested in other ideas.
>
> Something like this maybe...
>
>
> ___
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Jim Simmons wrote:
>
>
> ...
>
> I'm still interested in other ideas.
Something like this maybe...
<>___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:12, Sean DALY wrote:
>
> * No OLPC briefing beforehand.
> The authors of the key articles in this launch sought comment from
> OLPC, who provided an odd statement from Professor Negroponte, odd
> enough that it was heavily edited or truncated by the journalists. The
> BBC
Sean DALY writes:
> Bastien, Lionel et les amis d'OLPC France,
>
> Qu'en pensez-vous d'une liste Sugar Labs en français? Est-ce que ça
> ferait double emploi avec la liste OLPC-France ?
Pour l'instant je pense que cette liste n'est pas nécessaire.
Elle le deviendra quand nous aurons plus de re
Hi All,
I sent this yesterday, but it got filtered out by some machine since I didn't
send it as a "reply". So I am sending it again today.
This is the "old science teacher"
in me talking...I think the Physics Activity has great potential for getting
students interested in Physics and in think
Attached is an icon for the Get Internet Archive Books Activity. My
original design, based on a card catalog drawer, can be seen at ASLO.
I kind of like the original, but will replace it with something else
if there is a strong preference to do so.
This icon is inspired by a suggestion by Gary C
2009/6/27 Caroline Meeks :
>
>
> On 6/27/09, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 00:27, David Farning
>> wrote:
>> > 2009/6/23 Sean DALY :
>> >
>> > My main concern has to do with the participation and support funnels.
>> > In general, teachers are not particularly experienced partic
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Jim Simmons wrote:
> Sayamindu,
>
> On the OPDS issue with only linking to PDF the Internet Archive uses
> some pretty rigid file naming conventions, so if you want a DJVU and
> the URL for PDF is given it could be as simple as changing the
> filename suffix from .p
Hi Subbu
I don't know how to do justice to your question in a short reply.
One of Anthropology's "human universals" (found everywhere in
human societies) is indeed the "desire to seek the deeper principles
." etc.
"Science" is used in at least two distinct ways these days. The roots of the
Hi Tony
1. Most interesting learnable fields have numerous aspects, and many of these
require various kinds of skill learning.
The Kokorowski stuff could possibly be of great help in one part of the larger
picture. For example, very composer and artist does problem solving, but the
center of
On Monday 29 Jun 2009 10:01:34 pm Alan Kay wrote:
> (a) "the epistemology of science" is not at all what most people suppose,
> and it is rather distant from the normal ways our minds are set up to work,
Could you please elaborate it? Isn't the desire to seek the deeper principles
behind things an
We have had a successful media launch of the Strawberry release of
SoaS; coverage is ongoing a week after the launch.
I feel very strongly that a successful launch like this can only work
if everyone is on board together, from developers to marketers, from
packagers to designers, so I have preferr
Bastien, Lionel et les amis d'OLPC France,
Qu'en pensez-vous d'une liste Sugar Labs en français? Est-ce que ça
ferait double emploi avec la liste OLPC-France ?
merci de vos retours
Sean
2009/6/30 Edward Cherlin :
> 2009/6/28 Bernie Innocenti :
>> [cc += syst...@]
>>
>> On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 01
2009/6/28 Bernie Innocenti :
> [cc += syst...@]
>
> On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 01:42 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>> Mais où est la liste française, pour toutes les pays de la
>> Francophonie? Comme Rwanda, Ghana, Cambodge, et Haïti?
>
> To avoid ending up with dozens of deserted lists, let's adopt the
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