[IAEP] CC'ed kids books

This may be of interest to some. It would make a great project to generate PO files for these and a means of composing them for use in a Sugar environment http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/07/cc-licensed-kids-boo.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/prathambooks/ cjl __

[IAEP] Google Calendar for Boston Pilots

I have made a google calendar for the SoaS Boston pilots for the month of July and August. You can find the calendar here: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=t635rhmoabiafhpklue2eoj2lk%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York If there are any days in particular when you can help out

Re: [IAEP] Sugar in New Delhi, India?

Caroline, Sameer Verma (in CC) probably also knows whether there's anything going on in India. Cheers, Christoph Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero schrieb: > Hi Caroline > > > Best shot would be ask at olpc-india mail list. > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india > > Rafael Ortiz > > > >

Re: [IAEP] GPA Notes from visit on Wed July 8

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 08:25, Anurag Goel wrote: > Here are some of the specs for the GPA computers that I noted down earlier > this summer: > > -HP Evo 500 > -1.7 GHZ > -512 MB RAM > > I feel that most hardware issues are due to lack of memory. Why that feeling? 512MB should be more than needed f

Re: [IAEP] Google Calendar for Boston Pilots

Also if you are not local to Boston and there are activities you would like us to try because you need feedback for your work, please let us know and we'll try to fit them into the curriculum. Thanks, Caroline On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Anurag Goel wrote: > I have made a google calendar fo

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 06:26:00PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:11:02PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: >> > > We used paint at the GPA today and some of the k

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:28:09AM -0500, David Farning wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 06:26:00PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: > >> Nod, I've done that for Memorize and maybe we will for Paint too.  It will > >> take some thought to get it ri

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:07:11PM -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:28:09AM -0500, David Farning wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > >> > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 06:26:00PM -0400, Carolin

[IAEP] Password expiration

Hello, I fixed the cron job that checks for password expiration, and it sent a dozen notices to our very first users. Our web services passwords expire every 6 months for security reasons. Trac Gitorious and MediaWiki have their own password databases. The wiki can optionally use OpenID. --

[IAEP] Education opportunity in Kazakhstan (was Fwd: The Global Development Briefing - No Excuses)

FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: brief...@devex.com Date: Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:04 AM Subject: The Global Development Briefing - No Excuses To: echer...@gmail.com [Barack Obama on excuses snipped] Tengizchevroil 2010 Community Investment Program: Call for Expressions of Interes

Re: [IAEP] Google Calendar for Boston Pilots

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Also if you are not local to Boston and there are activities you would like > us to try because you need feedback for your work, please let us know and > we'll try to fit them into the curriculum. Will do. If you let me know what math topics

[IAEP] GPA notes Thursday 7-9-09

Here are some notes I took from today's session at GPA: We got there around 10 a.m to set up all the computers, the projector, and debug collaboration (still isn't working properly). The kids came in around 11:30 and as usual sat on the rug in the middle of the room. Walter told the kids the toda

Re: [IAEP] GPA notes Thursday 7-9-09

One addendum: By default, Turtle Art stores numbers as real (floating point) and so the labels on the number line were printing with a decimal point and one trailing zero. This really confused the students, who don't know about decimal notation. I've made a change to the print and show functions t

[IAEP] [Invitation] Sugar oversight board me eting @ Fri Jul 10 9am – 10am (i...@lists .sugarlabs.org)

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Re: [IAEP] GPA notes Thursday 7-9-09

We will be reburning the sticks on Monday to get a new version of Turtle Art on. Some of the core activities can't be updated via Activities.sugarlabs.org. This is a bug we should fix. Please let us know if there are any other things you think we should do or add to the stick. I know there is t

[IAEP] FW: Long article on Sugar on a Stick

Hi All, The president of the Bozeman LUG sent me this email today. The link is to an article that will be available to the general public next week but he has early access as a subscriber. He said it would be OK to forward it on to you folks. Some interesting observations from an outsider.