Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 30, Issue 21 Message: 2, Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:00:54 +1200, From: Tabitha Roder virtual box install

2010-09-15 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
IAEP Digest, Vol 30, Issue 21 iaep-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org wrote: Send IAEP mailing list submissions to iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep or, via email, send a message with subject or b

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [MARKETING] Get Sugar landing page

2010-09-15 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I have been advocating for SoaS to run on both Intel and PowerPC platforms all along. I think Sugar Labs has done pretty well with getting it up and running on the Intel machines and should continue working in that direction. At the same time, there are still a lot of the old PowerPC Ma

[IAEP] Text to Speech in other Activities (was Re: FW: [Olpc-uruguay] MiguelEstudia (Version 1))

2010-09-15 Thread Tim McNamara
[adding Sugar devel] On 16 September 2010 07:14, James Simmons wrote: > Caryl, > > I haven't tried this out yet but I think it's a great idea. Text to > speech is underutilized in Activities, in my opinion. It isn't that > difficult to add TTS to an Activity, and every kid I've ever shown my >

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [MARKETING] Get Sugar landing page

2010-09-15 Thread Tim McNamara
On 16 September 2010 09:00, Tabitha Roder wrote: > If we support VIrtualBox we >> should probably also support VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM and Xen. Who's going >> to do all that testing when we have barely the resources to do a >> single image. >> >> Peter >> >> > I am a teacher of sorts and have been i

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [MARKETING] Get Sugar landing page

2010-09-15 Thread Tabitha Roder
> > If we support VIrtualBox we > should probably also support VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM and Xen. Who's going > to do all that testing when we have barely the resources to do a > single image. > > Peter > > I am a teacher of sorts and have been into loads of education institutes from pre school through

Re: [IAEP] FW: [Olpc-uruguay] MiguelEstudia (Versi?n 1)

2010-09-15 Thread James Simmons
Caryl, I haven't tried this out yet but I think it's a great idea. Text to speech is underutilized in Activities, in my opinion. It isn't that difficult to add TTS to an Activity, and every kid I've ever shown my XO to has been delighted to hear it speak! James Simmons > Date: Wed, 15 Sep 201

Re: [IAEP] [MARKETING] Get Sugar landing page

2010-09-15 Thread Walter Bender
Thanks to everyone who has given me feedback on the landing page for Get Sugar. I've tried to incorporate your various suggestions. * I'm still working on cleaning up the Install a GNU/Linux package section (See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter/Get_Sugar#Do_you_use_a_GNU.2FLinux_distro.3

Re: [IAEP] [MARKETING] Get Sugar landing page

2010-09-15 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi Walter, first of all - thanks for your efforts! On 09/15/2010 03:25 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Walter Bender's message of Tue Sep 14 18:30:54 +0200 2010: > >> I've been doing some work on the Get Sugar landing page in the wiki, >> which has been the source of some confusion amongs

Re: [IAEP] [MARKETING] Get Sugar landing page

2010-09-15 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Walter Bender's message of Tue Sep 14 18:30:54 +0200 2010: > >> I've been doing some work on the Get Sugar landing page in the wiki, >> which has been the source of some confusion amongst our potential user >> community. My propo

Re: [IAEP] [MARKETING] Get Sugar landing page

2010-09-15 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Walter Bender's message of Tue Sep 14 18:30:54 +0200 2010: > I've been doing some work on the Get Sugar landing page in the wiki, > which has been the source of some confusion amongst our potential user > community. My proposed modifications (See > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:W