Re: [IAEP] Suggestions Needed!

2010-10-08 Thread Tabitha Roder
Hi Caryl The abstract does not paint a picture of "it's an education project". This applies to the whole abstract. You can even use these words "it's an education project" if it helps you clarify that Sugar is all about the learning. e.g. "A. Moodle: similar to BlackBoard, but free. You do pay f

Re: [IAEP] Suggestions Needed!

2010-10-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Thanks Tim, That is an excellent suggestion! With the tight budget constraints we have right now, it is easy to get caught up in the "free" part. Focusing on the quality programs available with the $0 cost to "sweeten the deal" sounds like a good approach. I'll sleep on it and do a revision

Re: [IAEP] Suggestions Needed!

2010-10-08 Thread forster
Hi You might get some ideas from http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter#Libre_Planet_talk or http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Tonyforster#Software_Freedom_Day_Melbourne_2010 Tony ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lis

Re: [IAEP] Suggestions Needed!

2010-10-08 Thread Tim McNamara
On 9 October 2010 12:14, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi Folks... > > I'm working on the abstract for my proposed presentation at CUE 2011 in > Palm Springs in March. The filing deadline is Monday, but I was hoping to > put it in tomorrow morning since we will be traveling Sunday. They asked > for a

[IAEP] Suggestions Needed!

2010-10-08 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks... I'm working on the abstract for my proposed presentation at CUE 2011 in Palm Springs in March. The filing deadline is Monday, but I was hoping to put it in tomorrow morning since we will be traveling Sunday. They asked for an outline of the presentation in the abstract, that is wh

Re: [IAEP] Ask! Please! (Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-08 Thread forster
Quoting Edward Cherlin : I have a partial draft of a "textbook" on the subject at http://www.booki.cc/discovering-discovery/ It encourages XO owners to explore on their own and find out what questions they have before we give them answers. I like the idea. It encourages users to jump in and tak

[IAEP] 7 of 10 Contributors Projects Approved!

2010-10-08 Thread Holt
All 10 verdicts are in, 7 receiving full-or-partial approval: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/meetings Thank you to all members of today's FaculTEA a.k.a. all-volunteer enthusiastic jury, for your truly dedicated peer-mentoring!! Most all shipments should arrive before SF'

[IAEP] NOW: OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (#olpc-meeting, 2PM Boston Time, Friday)

2010-10-08 Thread Holt
Even though OLPC's Contributors Program has a bit of a temporary inventory shortage this month, please all join us voting for the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat, even if I apologize certain shipments may be somewhat delayed! Please join us live now, to make the best proj

Re: [IAEP] "Make Your Own Sugar Activites!" is on Lulu.com

2010-10-08 Thread Kevin Cole
FYI, I've heard back from Lulu: Original message From: Sridhar Ramamurthy Date: Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:14 Subject: [ ref:00D56zQ6.5005AMf7s:ref ] Case 00478881 Dear Kevin, Thank you for contacting Lulu Support. I understand that you are unable to download the free project, as you are

[IAEP] "Make Your Own Sugar Activites!" is on the Internet Archive

2010-10-08 Thread James Simmons
A few people (everyone who tried) had trouble downloading the free PDF of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" from Lulu. I have tried to contact the tech support team on Lulu to get this straightened out. In the interim I have also posted a full color PDF using the same style sheet and page size th

[IAEP] Ask! Please! (Re: how to ask a question)

2010-10-08 Thread Edward Cherlin
^_^ Removing the parts we agree on, there remain these Frequently Asked Questions. Of which one of the most frequent is, "Is it OK if I ask a dumb question?" The traditional answer is, "Of course! The only dumb question is the one you didn't ask." I like that, because dumb actually means unable to

Re: [IAEP] "Make Your Own Sugar Activites!" is on Lulu.com

2010-10-08 Thread James Simmons
Kevin, I'm seeing the same thing you are. I get the "Forbidden" page when I try to do the free download. While I wrote the book, someone from FLOSS Manuals actually submitted it to Lulu. She might have some insight as to why this isn't working. One of the things I planned to do from the beginn

[IAEP] Community Team

2010-10-08 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 09:24 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > If we are going to make an effort to revive a team, I would consider > reviving the community team first so we can improve our chances of > covering the dozens of other important positions we have vacant right > now. True, but I've always ha

Re: [IAEP] how to ask a question

2010-10-08 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 14:32 -0500, David Farning wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 20:08, David Farning wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Ishan Bansal wrote: > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> I am working on the ticket http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/