On 04/29/2010 11:27 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
As our press release today was parallel to OLPC's and many journalists
consulted both, I am including links to articles which cite OLPC but
not Sugar by name. Also, yesterday's announcement by OLPC concerning
the Memorandum of Understanding with the
Thanks Simon
Unfortunately Christian is travelling and was unable to post the PR.
He told me he could do so this weekend. Carlo did an Italian version
and I will work up a French version, but it's less urgent now that the
news wave has crested - useful for future visitors.
The PR is here:
I'm forwarding this email from a month ago to relate it to the current
discussion about the code review process and what I think is the
underlying reason: lack of people willing to do maintenance work.
I see the recent frustration on the slow review queue as one more
instance of people being
Hi,
follows a plan about how to improve the situation regarding
maintenance of our software modules. If you care about it, please
reply even if only to say so, or even better, comment on it and
suggest improvements. I will assume that lack of replies mean people
don't care about it and will stop
Congratulations to everybody who worked on getting this press release
out, seems like it's being a big success!
Regards,
Tomeu
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:41, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Simon
Unfortunately Christian is travelling and was unable to post the PR.
He told me he
Tomeu,
Thank you for writing down this summary and for making a proposal as
to how we can address this problem. I would add that the problem
reaches farther than the core Sugar modules themselves: Sugar without
Sugar Activities is not very useful to the learner. We need to
maintain a core set of
Hi,
Just to make a comment about maintenance of software modules.
I think people do care about it, but it's mainly a problem of
organization. And that's OK.
Proprietary software is based on equations relating to the ratio of
$in to $out. It's really easy for people to relate to that.
Open source
http://en.mercopress.com/2010/04/30/overwhelming-majority-of-uruguayan-children-access-internet-regularly
The pollsters impute these big jumps in penetration and usage to Plan Ceibal.
I really like the photo of the lad twirling his pen while looking at his XO.
Hi all,
I'm currently on the road and will be in the following cities over the
next two weeks:
Zurich (April 30 - May 4)
Bern (lunch on May 4)
Geneva (May 4 - May 7)
Valencia (May 8 - May 12)
If you live in these areas and/or know people there who might be
interested in learning more about OLPC
We called off today's SLOBs meeting because of attendance count -
technically we could have made quorum, but we wanted to have more people
present for the final trademark discussion, so we will have that next
week. SLOBs take heed and please attend!
We're 99% of the way there - Sean just needs
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote:
Hi,
follows a plan about how to improve the situation regarding
maintenance of our software modules. If you care about it, please
reply even if only to say so, or even better, comment on it and
suggest improvements.
Tomeu,
Hi,
follows a plan about how to improve the situation regarding
maintenance of our software modules. If you care about it, please
reply even if only to say so...
I care.
, or even better, comment on it and
suggest improvements. I will assume that lack of replies mean people
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 18:26, Michael Stone mich...@laptop.org wrote:
Tomeu,
Hi,
follows a plan about how to improve the situation regarding
maintenance of our software modules. If you care about it, please
reply even if only to say so...
I care.
, or even better, comment on it and
I care also. Since I have little to contribute that is of use, I will
just mention that I find the interfacing sort of hard to navigate for
old n00bs like I.
What is the right Activity version that will work with my OS version
(how do I find or should care what version I have? - I know this
Tomeu,
thanks a lot for your message which indeed served as a strong reminder
about the challenges in this area.
Unfortunately I can't really provide any quick and actionable proposals
that go beyond your proposal or Walter's comments.
The only thing I would urge is for anyone who interacts
Sean, is
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_Labs/Governance/Trademark the
right page? I can't find a more recent one, but this one looks like it
needs a lot of cleanup before the voting.
On 04/30/2010 12:26 PM, Adam Holt wrote:
Thanks! Can you post a summary public link of what we're
On 30.04.2010, at 12:38, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
Hi,
follows a plan about how to improve the situation regarding
maintenance of our software modules. If you care about it, please
reply even if only to say so, or even better, comment on it and
suggest improvements. I will assume that lack of
Sorry I couldn't break away to attend the meeting today :(
Mel, look at the Talk page and you'll find the more recent text.
-walter
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote:
Sean, is
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_Labs/Governance/Trademark the
right page? I
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:38:14PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
follows a plan about how to improve the situation regarding
maintenance of our software modules. If you care about it, please
reply even if only to say so, or even better, comment on it and
suggest improvements. I will assume that
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
Tomeu,
Thank you for writing down this summary and for making a proposal as
to how we can address this problem. I would add that the problem
reaches farther than the core Sugar modules themselves: Sugar without
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