Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Fwd: w7sins FUD

2009-09-02 Thread Bill Kerr
Yes the new paragraph is more reasonable: Microsoft is now targeting governments who are purchasing XOs, in an attempt to get them to replace the free software with Windows. It remains to be seen to what degree Microsoft will succeed. But with all of this pressure, Microsoft has harmed a project

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Fwd: w7sins FUD

2009-09-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Thanks to all who made the FSF change this. - Bert - On 02.09.2009, at 08:14, Bill Kerr wrote: Yes the new paragraph is more reasonable: Microsoft is now targeting governments who are purchasing XOs, in an attempt to get them to replace the free software with Windows. It remains to be

Re: [IAEP] Pilot in Berlin, Germany

2009-09-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Simon, (full quote for the benefit of olpc...@l.d.o) On Dienstag, 1. September 2009, Simon Schampijer wrote: some of you may know, I am doing a Sugar Pilot here in Germany. I try to keep my blog (listed on the sugarlabs planet as well) about my findings up to date [1]. Oh, great!! Is

[IAEP] Reminder Deployment Team meeting TODAY Wednesday September 2nd - 14:00 UTC (in 1 hour)

2009-09-02 Thread Pilar Saenz
Hi, Deployment Team Meeting Agenda Topic: How deployments can provide better feedback and how we can process it? * From whom do we expect feedback? o deployment gatekeepers o Teachers o Students o Volunteers by testing * Mechanisms for on-line

[IAEP] Class Acts shirt at last :)

2009-09-02 Thread Holt
Thanks to the 10 ppl who pulled out all the stops designing+redesigning these last 36hrs: there were so many colorful designs (more clearly communicating our 5 Principles, Caryl's antipoverty-creativity inspiration, Open/MultiLingual poetry, dancing XO's inciting, etc etc) that I feel quite

Re: [IAEP] PR for projects

2009-09-02 Thread Sean DALY
An excellent article indeed. When a journalist contacts us, it's important to respond immediately if not sooner; most have a deadline within several hours at most. Our press phone number has not rung often, but several of the most widely picked up articles were written by journalists who reached

[IAEP] Remove the naming alert in 0.86

2009-09-02 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 09/02/2009 01:32 PM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.dewrote: Hi, some of you may know, I am doing a Sugar Pilot here in Germany. I try to keep my blog (listed on the sugarlabs planet as well) about my findings up to date [1].

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-DE] Pilot in Berlin, Germany

2009-09-02 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 09/02/2009 12:29 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi Simon, (full quote for the benefit of olpc...@l.d.o) On Dienstag, 1. September 2009, Simon Schampijer wrote: some of you may know, I am doing a Sugar Pilot here in Germany. I try to keep my blog (listed on the sugarlabs planet as well) about

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] Class Acts shirt at last :)

2009-09-02 Thread Samuel Klein
Only 30 shirts, eh? You might want to add 12 Smalls :) There just *might* be some women or teens present. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Holth...@laptop.org wrote: Thanks to the 10 ppl who pulled out all the stops designing+redesigning these last 36hrs: there were so many colorful designs

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Fwd: w7sins FUD

2009-09-02 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Bert Freudenbergb...@freudenbergs.de wrote: Thanks to all who made the FSF change this. - Bert - +1 Sameer On 02.09.2009, at 08:14, Bill Kerr wrote: Yes the new paragraph is more reasonable: Microsoft is now targeting governments who are purchasing XOs,

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] [Grassroots-l] Class Acts shirt at last :)

2009-09-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Yea SJ! I'm glad someone is thinking about us! Thank you! Caryl Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:48:12 -0400 From: meta...@gmail.com To: h...@laptop.org CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org Subject: Re: [support-gang] [Grassroots-l] Class Acts shirt at last :) Only 30 shirts,

[IAEP] Next Test Day: Sugar on a Stick [Tomorrow]

2009-09-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Greetings, sorry for the late notice and the cross-post. This test day will focus on Sugar Labs' Sugar on a Stick, a downstream project based on Fedora. Sugar on a Stick has launched it's first version codenamed Strawberry successfully in June and has recently announced the beta release of its

[IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-02 Thread David Farning
The project guidelines are now on the wiki at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines . Please edit as necessary. When it looks like the editing has stopped, I ask the board the ratify the guidelines. david ___ IAEP -- It's An

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Following My Own Advice

2009-09-02 Thread Luke Faraone
Caryl, You sent your email to iaep-request, which isn't the actual IAEP mailing list, so I'm quoting your mail entirely in my reply: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 18:12, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... Well, I followed my own advice and ordered a fresh copy of Strunk and White's The

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Remove the naming alert in 0.86

2009-09-02 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Simon, On 2 Sep 2009, at 16:35, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 09/02/2009 01:32 PM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.dewrote: Hi, some of you may know, I am doing a Sugar Pilot here in Germany. I try to keep my blog (listed