Re: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86.0 Final Release

2009-10-01 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 10/01/2009 06:13 AM, Kevin Cole wrote: > First: congrats to all. > > Second: User-friendliness bug: > > The release notes say "Please see the instructions (SoaS, Fedora, > Ubuntu, Debian, etc.) of choice to upgrade to this release." > No link to instructions provided in either e-mail or wiki ver

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugarcamp_Bolzano_2009

2009-10-01 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 09/30/2009 02:31 AM, David Farning wrote: > I would like to re-extend the invitation for Sugarcamp_Bolzano_2009[1]. > > As it stands, we have four people currently registered: > 1. Simon Schampijer > 2. Tomeu Vizoso > 3. Walter Bender > 4. David Farning > > If anyone else is inte

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86.0 Final Release

2009-10-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 08:42, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 10/01/2009 06:13 AM, Kevin Cole wrote: >> First: congrats to all. >> >> Second: User-friendliness bug: >> >> The release notes say "Please see the instructions (SoaS, Fedora, >> Ubuntu, Debian, etc.) of choice to upgrade to this release."

Re: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86.0 Final Release

2009-10-01 Thread Kevin Cole
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 03:42, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 10/01/2009 06:13 AM, Kevin Cole wrote: >> >> First: congrats to all. >> >> Second: User-friendliness bug: >> >> The release notes say "Please see the instructions (SoaS, Fedora, >> Ubuntu, Debian, etc.) of choice to upgrade to this release

[IAEP] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [SoaS] [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-01 Thread Rubén Rodríguez Pérez
> > I have no illusions about the difficulty of jumpstarting an > > ecosystem, but since that is necessary to the success of Sugar, we > > need to make it happen. I have ideas for plans for that too > > [...other ideas for plans] > > That's all great but it boils down to what I said: we can't do

Re: [IAEP] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [SoaS] [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-01 Thread Sean DALY
Rubén, this is great news and very exciting. I look forward to checking out your work! thanks Sean 2009/10/1 Rubén Rodríguez Pérez : >> > I have no illusions about the difficulty of jumpstarting an >> > ecosystem, but since that is necessary to the success of Sugar, we >> > need to make it hap

Re: [IAEP] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [SoaS] [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-01 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:47:57PM +0200, Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote: > You can find more info here: http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-sugar Thanks for the info. Two questions: 1) May I ask why you are creating a Sugar spin? 2) How can we send patches? IIUC the latest Trisquel Sugar .ISO won't

Re: [IAEP] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [SoaS] [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-01 Thread Rubén Rodríguez Pérez
El jue, 01-10-2009 a las 22:04 +0100, Martin Dengler escribió: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:47:57PM +0200, Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote: > > You can find more info here: http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-sugar > > Thanks for the info. > > Two questions: > > 1) May I ask why you are creating a Suga

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [SoaS] [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-01 Thread Walter Bender
2009/10/1 Rubén Rodríguez Pérez : [snip] > We did almost no changes to our build scripts for this project, it works > just with the tiny trisquel-sugar metapackage, some artwork, and the > impressive repository Aleksey built for us. Now that is impressive!! -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs h

[IAEP] 2009-2010 Sugar Labs Oversight Board Election Starting Soon

2009-10-01 Thread David Farning
The elections committee has sorted out all of the know voter issues which were raised after the trial election earlier this week. Eligible members should receive a voter token within the next few minutes. If you have any problems please contact me via this mailing list, memb...@sugarlabs.org, or

[IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?

2009-10-01 Thread Caroline Meeks
http://screencast.com/t/K0lH5L7tsBU I am trying to make a new character for cartoon builder. The video explains my goals. Basically I want to take a picture and cut out just the caterpillar and have it be cropped/transparent background. thanks, Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@

Re: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?

2009-10-01 Thread Alan Kay
Paint it in Etoys, save as a .PNG picture Cheers, Alan From: Caroline Meeks To: iaep Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 6:28:22 PM Subject: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar? http://screencast.com/t/K0lH5L7tsBU I am

Re: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?

2009-10-01 Thread Caroline Meeks
Thanks Alan, Where should I look to figure out Etoys paint. I'm stuck and there is no kid here to teach me! http://screencast.com/t/4lvde8qWV2pD On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Alan Kay wrote: > Paint it in Etoys, save as a .PNG picture > > Cheers, > > Alan > > -- >

Re: [IAEP] 2009-2010 Sugar Labs Oversight Board Election Starting Soon

2009-10-01 Thread Holt
Age of Majority?! Don't forget the League of Women Voters favors citizen (re)education/flection (and severe punishment if you fail to vote ;) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2009-2010-candidates David Farning wrote: > The elections committee has sorted out all of the know voter issue

Re: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?

2009-10-01 Thread Alan Kay
Hi Caroline I think what you want to do is to take that picture of the caterpillar and erase all but the caterpillar? To do that you want to "repaint" the picture (it is already an image). First get the "halos" (which every object in Etoys will show) by right clicking on the picture.

Re: [IAEP] 2009-2010 Sugar Labs Oversight Board Election Starting Soon

2009-10-01 Thread David Farning
We have just received a notice that when voting one person only got a partial list of candidates. They solved the issue by discarding the ballot and trying again. David Farning SLOBs election 2009-2010 referee On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:32 PM, David Farning wrote: > The elections committee has so

Re: [IAEP] Which Language?

2009-10-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Bert Freudenberg > wrote: >> On 28.09.2009, at 17:36, gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada (705) >> 250-0112) wrote: >> >>> J, like APL, sadly does not get the publicity that it deserves. > The current Fr