Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-19 Thread Martin Sevior
Hi Gary, Nice screen shot! The toolbars look very easy to understand and easy use to me. Unfortunately I can't really give much of a critique because it's hard for me to think like a primary-school child now :-) Plus I've seen some kids absolutely fly through learning how to use a computer so

Re: [IAEP] (engineering) capacity building

2009-07-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 23:23, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:57, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote: I wasn't thinking either of posting articles about recruitment on those places,

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content to the Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:51, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, not sure why Caroline's email didn't reached IAEP, wrong email address? On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 02:17, Caryl Bigenhocbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Caroline, I agree that content is something we desperately need for

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content to the Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-19 Thread Caroline Meeks
I think Walter is taking the weekend off. He is doing the actual negotiations with IFL. I'm sure we'll hear from him on Monday with a definitive answer. But my definitely understanding is that IFL is going to DONATE the content. The $50 to $100 is for the hardware. People with XOs and Sugar

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content to the Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: Or, is this something you think our volunteer programmers should try to reverse-engineer and create for Sugar and the XO? Yes, or more likely for the XS.  My first thought on how to approach it is to rewrite the

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] reviving XO-1 OS builds, as the XO-1.5 release approaches...

2009-07-19 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, Last month there was a thread about SoaS for the XO-1 on the IAEP list. I haven't tried it yet, but it may turn out to be an answer to the problem of getting the XO-1 updated with the latest stuff from SugarLabs. If you missed the discussion, you can read the thread in the IAEP

Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-19 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Martin, On 18 Jul 2009, at 22:58, Martin Sevior wrote: We do not expose the underlying code to extract the numeric value of the word count from a document at present. It would trivial to add that to the API if

[IAEP] Upstream/downstream relationships

2009-07-19 Thread Mel Chua
Background: I happened to catch the end of a #sugar-meeting discussion between Caroline, Sebastian, Tomeu, and Simon (hopefully I haven't missed anyone) about the frustration of figuring out ways to work with upstream and downstream, and which projects played what roles (is Sugar upstream of SoaS?

Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-19 Thread Gary C Martin
Thanks Martin, On 19 Jul 2009, at 10:30, Martin Sevior wrote: Nice screen shot! The toolbars look very easy to understand and easy use to me. Unfortunately I can't really give much of a critique because it's hard for me to think like a primary-school child now :-) A fair and most valid

Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-19 Thread Martin Sevior
HI Gary, I'll put together a screen cast of the AbiWord linux build showing all the features Real Soon Now. If you have access to a windows machine you can just download our abiword-2.7.7 binary from: http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.7.7/Windows/abiword-setup-2.7.7.exe