Re: [IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-08-03 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote: supply a phone number to call if it is not working? We want them to wait till classes start in Sept. We expect, based on our experiences this summer, that a number of the sticks will become corrupt. Nothing we can do about it

Re: [IAEP] Video ready for editing

2009-08-03 Thread Jim Simmons
Over the weekend I installed kino on one of my computers and I'm trying to learn how to use it to edit my videos. There are fancier programs for video editing on Linux but this one does what I think I need. It can convert my .ogv files from recordmydesktop to .dv, does simple non-destructive

Re: [IAEP] Video ready for editing

2009-08-03 Thread David Farning
Thanks for pushing this forward! One steady person pushing things forward makes it much easier for other to jump on board. This is pretty anecdotal I have been surprised at the number of times I have seen comments saying that people chose a particular software product because it had a good

Re: [IAEP] Video ready for editing

2009-08-03 Thread Jim Simmons
David, I may make a wiki page on what I learn from this experience. It's not difficult to do a video like this, but there are a lot of little details you have to work past. James Simmons On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Thanks for pushing this

[IAEP] First step towards an efficient feedback process

2009-08-03 Thread David Farning
One of the challenges over the next couple of months will be figuring out how to turn 'feedback' from deployments into useful 'information' which the bug squad and deployment team can use. As a first step, I would like to suggest that we keep deployment related threads on i...@sl.o. After all,

[IAEP] Reviving the Deployment Team

2009-08-03 Thread David Farning
It looks like we have enough sustainable contributors to revive the Deployment team! The existing deployment team information is at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team . I would like to begin by slightly narrowing the deployment teams mission to: The mission of the Deployment Team is

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] First step towards an efficient feedback process

2009-08-03 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Christoph Derndorferchristoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: Quite frankly speaking I don't understand why the deployment related conversations and feedback should be kept on IAEP when most of it (especially at early stages of deployments and school projects, which

[IAEP] Ed Tech Symposium Live Blog Today, Tues. and Wed.

2009-08-03 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, Chris Bigenho is live blogging the sessions at the Integrated Technology Symposium at the Center for Innovative Teaching at the Urban School of San Francisco (a private secondary school that is 1 to 1 i.e. a laptop school). The afternoon session will start at 2:15 pm PDT. It is

[IAEP] Squeakfest schedule online

2009-08-03 Thread Rita Freudenberg
Hi everyone, the schedule for Squeakfest USA is now online! Have a look at it here: http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/schedule/ Registration is still open here: http://squeakland.org/squeakfest/usa/register/ Rita Freudenberg r...@squeakland.org

[IAEP] Full installs of F11 Sugar Desktop to USB 4GB or greater work!

2009-08-03 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Linux#Full_Fedora_11_Install_of_Sugar_and_XFCE_Desktops_to_USB I have discovered that it is possible to create bootable USB sticks of Sugar-desktop with XFCE or Gnome-desktop with sugar using the new F11 net install CD. These are not a compressed

[IAEP] Nonprofit Day 2009

2009-08-03 Thread Edward Cherlin
If I had a job or funding, I would definitely attend this. Among other things, I want to let people know that I am talking to politicians in California about taking some of the savings from the Gubernator's plan to use free electronic textbooks and buying XOs to run them on, and then extending the

Re: [IAEP] Full installs of F11 Sugar Desktop to USB 4GB or greater work!

2009-08-03 Thread David Farning
As an additional data point, I just created a working Sugar on USBkey following Tom's directions. I modified the process slightly by using a live usbImage on a 2G stick as the source and an 8G stick as the destination. It looks like modifying Fedora's Install to CD' to fit our purposes might be

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Collaboration for Poets

2009-08-03 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, As we get pilots of Sugar on a Stick and Sugar on Netbooks going this Sept there are going to be a lot of questions about collaboration. When it works its wonderful! It makes a huge difference. It works well in the GPA computer lab. Sometimes it does work, we need to get some documentation