[IAEP] Building a business of Sugar/Jabber

2009-07-21 Thread Russell Brown
Hi, Please accept my apologies if this is the wrong list for this, and please be kind enough to direct me to the correct one if you have the time. I've been aware of OLPC for some time. It is only with the recent Sugar On A Stick release that I have actually tried the Sugar platform for myself.

Re: [IAEP] Using View Slides to share images

2009-07-21 Thread Jim Simmons
Caroline, Regrettably no. Currently you can copy images into a slide show, but not out. The zip file that contains the slides can be opened by etoys, but I'm not sure what you could do with it there either. I'll have to consider adding the ability to extract individual slides to this Activity

Re: [IAEP] Using View Slides to share images

2009-07-21 Thread Jim Simmons
Caroline, I agree; I just hadn't thought of using View Slides that way. I'm working on Read Etexts at the moment but I'll add this feature to View Slides when I can. I can see where it could be useful. James Simmons On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com

Re: [IAEP] Building a business of Sugar/Jabber

2009-07-21 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Russell Brownmisterr...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Please accept my apologies if this is the wrong list for this, and please be kind enough to direct me to the correct one if you have the time. I've been aware of OLPC for some time. It is only with the recent

Re: [IAEP] Building a business of Sugar/Jabber

2009-07-21 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Russell Brown wrote: My question is: am I allowed to make money from this? Yes! The only restriction is the software licenses, which are all GPL or less, and should have absolutely no impact on a distribution/support/training business.* We actively encourage people to start business

[IAEP] OLPC Learning Team news

2009-07-21 Thread Frederick Grose
Some updates on the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educators page: *The Learning Team is now located in Kigali, Rwanda to start the Center for Laptops Learning, in partnership with Kigali Institute of Science Technology (KIST)* *You can follow the work of the learning team on the OLPC

Re: [IAEP] Building a business of Sugar/Jabber

2009-07-21 Thread Sean DALY
Greetings Russell, The Sugar Labs Marketing Team has developed some marketing materials you can use and adapt (posters, visuals). We are very interested in starting an ecosystem for Sugar deployers, at the front line supplying support to schools. We are not sure yet ourselves what model(s) would

Re: [IAEP] (engineering) capacity building

2009-07-21 Thread Caroline Meeks
As an aside, I don't believe too much in the scratch your own itch explanation for free software volunteer coding. If you go for example planet.gnome.org and skim through the posts there while asking to yourself why these people take the time to write free software instead of watching TV, I

Re: [IAEP] Building a business of Sugar/Jabber

2009-07-21 Thread Caroline Meeks
We are also about to start selling sticks and offering services. I am getting lots of experience teaching kids with Sugar too, although I'm not planning on doing that for pay in the immediate future, I'm volunteering on the pilots. Where are you located? We should see if there is a good way to

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] GPA Goals Status

2009-07-21 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Greg, On 21 Jul 2009, at 14:51, Greg Smith wrote: I may also add a feature to share a file from one computer to another. I want to see a lesson plan needing that first. Then I'll try out the suggestions

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] (engineering) capacity building---with BITESIZE *challenges* for volunteers :)

2009-07-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Adam, Tomeu, Caroline, SGers and IAEP folks, Good stuff... you know the old saying, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. For those of you who aren't teacher types (yet), here are some things you might be interested in... Ah yes, Caroline mentioned ZPD. Here is a link to more about ZPD, done

[IAEP] Notes from GPA 7-21

2009-07-21 Thread Caroline Meeks
2nd Grade working with turtle art and a community map. The goal of the class was to add a photo from a field trip to their existing turtle art maps Demoed -entering the neighborhood -clicking on shared browse activity -opening bookmark -choose an image - right clicking to download photo -going

[IAEP] Fwd: Continued Success

2009-07-21 Thread Caroline Meeks
This is a post from a teacher in a rural school in Maine. -- Forwarded message -- From: Laura Johns laurajo...@myfairpoint.net Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:57 AM Subject: Re: Continued Success To: Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com Yes, I wrote this up to keep track of