Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOBs] prep for Friday's meeting

2010-01-21 Thread Mel Chua
On 01/21/2010 04:30 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > Per the last SLOBs meeting, and this mail > (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2010-January/002621.html) > cc'd to the SLOBs, I had reflected for some time on this and come to > the conclusion that it can't be done the way we want to do it witho

[IAEP] Very Old SoaS Works on Mac

2010-01-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Well... I tried my very old (in software terms... 9+ months) version of Strawberry that is still installed on my Mac via virtual box (also an old version). It still works. Limited activities but if I don't get the newer versions figured out, at least I will have something to show the folks in

Re: [IAEP] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote: > I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on > adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various > additions and corrections to the rest of it. If you want to check out > what I have a PDF created wi

Re: [IAEP] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Jim Simmons
Aleksey, I did consider mentioning the word tracking feature you put in your example. However, when I tried your example with actual book text rather than letting it speak the source code of the program it seemed to actually skip speaking some of the words. The markup version was more robust. T

Re: [IAEP] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Jim Simmons
Aleksey, Thanks for your feedback. I'll check out your new code when I get home. Offhand I can't tell what you changed, but I'll make sure to test everything before I update the chapter. I was hoping that speech.py could be a file that new developers could drop into their Activities without ful

Re: [IAEP] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:53:30PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:41:59PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote: > > > I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on > > > adding Text to Speech to your Act

Re: [IAEP] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:41:59PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote: > > I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on > > adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various > > additions and corrections to the

[IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting reminder

2010-01-21 Thread Walter Bender
We will be holding a Sugar Labs oversight board meeting on Friday, 22 January at 16UTC (11EST) in #sugar-meeting on irc.freenode.net There are an agenda and extensive notes in the wiki (thanks Mel): http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2010-01-22 Please join us. -walter

Re: [IAEP] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Jim Simmons wrote: > I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on > adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various > additions and corrections to the rest of it. If you want to check out > what I have a PDF created wi

[IAEP] Free Culture X (FC X): We've got an invite.

2010-01-21 Thread Kevin Cole
(I gotta remember the wisdom of "Be careful what you ask for...") For anyone who might be in DC Feb 14 or there-abouts: -- Forwarded message -- From: Kevin Donovan Date: Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 16:46 Subj: Re: [Board] FC X: OLPC Learning Club DC, SugarLabs DC, Ubuntu DC LoCo To: S

[IAEP] New and revised chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-21 Thread Jim Simmons
I just finished writing another chapter of the book, this one on adding Text to Speech to your Activities. I've also made various additions and corrections to the rest of it. If you want to check out what I have a PDF created with OBJAVI! is available here: http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/A

[IAEP] Small SoaS Disaster

2010-01-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I was playing in "PC Land" yesterday, trying to get a working SoaS Blueberry. Downloaded the live usb maker from the net. Made the stick. Put it in daughter-in-law's medium-sized hp netbook and tried it. After we finally got it booted (she insisted it wouldn't work, only Windows would

Re: [IAEP] Looking for Montreal XO/Sugar users

2010-01-21 Thread Gerald Ardito
Tabitha, I would like to be contacted by other XO using schools interested in pen pal arrangements. And yes, 5th graders are about 10 years old. Thanks for your help with this. Gerald On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Tabitha Roder wrote: > > One of the teachers has an affinity for the city, and

Re: [IAEP] Looking for Montreal XO/Sugar users

2010-01-21 Thread Tabitha Roder
> One of the teachers has an affinity for the city, and Canada is part of the > 5th grade social studies curriculum. > Did you have somewhere else in mind? > > No where else in mind, just having the reasons helps people decide if they should put their hand up with alternatives - would you like to b

Re: [IAEP] Looking for Montreal XO/Sugar users

2010-01-21 Thread Gerald Ardito
Tabitha, One of the teachers has an affinity for the city, and Canada is part of the 5th grade social studies curriculum. Did you have somewhere else in mind? Thanks. Gerald On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Tabitha Roder wrote: > 2010/1/21 Gerald Ardito > >> I have a classroom of 5th grade XO

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOBs] prep for Friday's meeting

2010-01-21 Thread Sean DALY
Per the last SLOBs meeting, and this mail (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2010-January/002621.html) cc'd to the SLOBs, I had reflected for some time on this and come to the conclusion that it can't be done the way we want to do it without approval - abuse will be too simple. Aside fr

Re: [IAEP] Looking for Montreal XO/Sugar users

2010-01-21 Thread Tabitha Roder
2010/1/21 Gerald Ardito > I have a classroom of 5th grade XO users and their teacher who are looking > to become electronic pen pals with students in Montreal. > Hi Gerald Any reason Montreal? Tabitha ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop