Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] PATCH: Remove Decision Panels from our Governance document

2011-05-15 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Nobody commented on this motion... who is +1? who is -1? On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 17:56 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: As part of my attempt to simplify bureaucracy within Sugar Labs, I felt that Decision Panels were a redundant mechanism to find consensus within the community. The existing

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] PATCH: Remove Decision Panels from our Governance document

2011-05-15 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Nobody commented on this motion... who is +1? who is -1? On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 17:56 -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: As part of my attempt to simplify bureaucracy within Sugar Labs, I felt that Decision Panels were a

[IAEP] Experience using Elgg?

2011-05-15 Thread Valerie Taylor
Does anyone have experience using Elgg - the open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments? http://elgg.org/about.php How was it used? How well did Elgg meet requirements? ___

Re: [IAEP] PATCH: Remove Decision Panels from our Governance document

2011-05-15 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
On 05/08/2011 05:56 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: As part of my attempt to simplify bureaucracy within Sugar Labs, I felt that Decision Panels were a redundant mechanism to find consensus within the community. The existing paragraph on Referenda offers a better way to make democratic decisions.

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] PATCH: Remove Decision Panels from our Governance document

2011-05-15 Thread Holt
Excellent analysis Ben: Community Expertise is one of our strongest assets (eg. Gary Martin on visual design, eg. Caryl Bigenho on real-world teaching dynamics, etc). A Decision Panel every few years that honors such Community Thought Leaders's work contributions without forcing them into

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-15 Thread mokurai
On Sat, May 14, 2011 12:08 pm, Valerie Taylor wrote: I'm becoming more convinced that the solution is a robust index / retrieval system. Provide the big picture - what OERs are currently available, how they map to the Replacing Textbooks vision of curriculum for all, what is missing, where

Re: [IAEP] Experience using Elgg?

2011-05-15 Thread Caroline Meeks
Yes, I have lots of experience with Elgg. On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have experience using Elgg - the open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments?

Re: [IAEP] XO power management hindering collaboration

2011-05-15 Thread mokurai
On Sat, May 14, 2011 10:04 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: It's looking to us that the aggressive power management enabled on the XO can sometimes create confusion when children are collaborating on activities. Take for example a turn-based game like Memorise. If a child is waiting for their

Re: [IAEP] OERs and collaboration

2011-05-15 Thread mokurai
On Fri, May 13, 2011 3:31 am, Teemu Leinonen wrote: On 12.5.2011, at 18.09, Valerie Taylor wrote: A wiki-based solution could work. We are hosting an experimental wiki-like solution for primary and secondary school teachers for finding, authoring and sharing OERs. The are close to 20 000

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] XO power management hindering collaboration

2011-05-15 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
In what build(s) is this occurring? And are you using a schoolserver or not? OLPC release 10.1.3 fixed some issues with XO 1.5's waking up in response to multicast traffic on the network. This is necessary for Salut/under the tree usage to work with power management. XO-1's with 10.1.3 are

Re: [IAEP] Commenst for an Oceania project

2011-05-15 Thread Martin Sevior
Dear Ian, Thank you for very interesting two posts. On behalf of the abiword community I invite speakers of Marovo and other Pacific Island languages to contact us on the abiword-dev mailing lists (see http://www.abisource.com/developers/) so that we can explain how to make a Marovo translation

[IAEP] Commenst for an Oceania project

2011-05-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, May 15, 2011 , Martin Sevior msev...@gmail.com wrote: On behalf of the abiword community I invite speakers of Marovo and other Pacific Island languages to contact us on the abiword-dev mailing lists (see http://www.abisource.com/developers/) so that we can explain how to make a Marovo

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FW: Lots of Links!

2011-05-15 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
wow, this is a fun coincidence. I did something very similar years ago, when I was a new immigrant to the US. Ran computer activities for the YMCA of Austin, including kids building/repairing computers and then those went to local families who could drop by for further training. Lots of

[IAEP] Contacts for the Getting Involved wiki page

2011-05-15 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Dogi noticed that the contacts for joining Sugar Labs appear to be obsolete: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved We have: * Educator - carol...@sugarlabs.org * Content Writer - no contact * People's Person - dfarn...@sugarlabs.org * Designer - sd...@sugarlabs.org *

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Contacts for the Getting Involved wiki page

2011-05-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 23:02, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Dogi noticed that the contacts for joining Sugar Labs appear to be obsolete:  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Getting_Involved We have:  * Educator - carol...@sugarlabs.org  * Content Writer - no contact