Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-AU] [Sugar-devel] Browse is old

2012-03-14 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On 13 March 2012 07:15, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: >> I don't use it day-to-day, but for more than two years now I've been >> installing (via 'rpm') the "midori" browser in all the XO-1 builds that have >> ever been made available.  My inte

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-AU] [Sugar-devel] Browse is old

2012-03-14 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
I've been installing (via 'rpm') the "midori" browser Do you know where I can get binaries for this that will work on F14-based XO builds? On build au200 I do 'yum install midori'. [The package comes in from the Fedora "updates" repository.] mikus

Re: [IAEP] [fonc] Barbarians at the gate! (Project Nell)

2012-03-14 Thread Alan Kay
Hi Scott This seems like a plan that should be done and tried and carefully evaluated. I think the approach is good. It could be "not quite enough" to work, but it should give rise to a lot of useful information for further passes at this. 1. Psychologist O.K. Moore in the early 60s at Yale an

Re: [IAEP] [fonc] Barbarians at the gate! (Project Nell)

2012-03-14 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Alan Kay wrote: > The many papers from this work greatly influenced the thinking about > personal computing at Xerox PARC in the 70s. Here are a couple: > > -- O. K. Moore, Autotelic Responsive Environments and Exceptional > Children, Experience, Structure and Ad

[IAEP] The Translation Team needs your help.

2012-03-14 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear Sugar Community. >From the Translation Team's point of view, every one of you is a potential localizer, localization tester or recruiter of localizers. Our localization work is going well, we have added up a number of less commonly localized languages, especially indigenous languages of Sout

Re: [IAEP] [fonc] Barbarians at the gate! (Project Nell)

2012-03-14 Thread Alan Kay
Hi Scott -- 1. I will see if I can get one of these scanned for you. Moore tended to publish in journals and there is very little of his stuff available on line. 2.a. "if (a > From: C. Scott Ananian >To: Alan Kay >Cc: IAEP SugarLabs ; Fundamentals of New Comput

Re: [IAEP] Bulletin Boards

2012-03-14 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
I think it never passed the idea phase, i.e., no planning or code (almost certain, but I'm not that involved in the project, just noticed that you had no answer yet). Eduardo No dia 12 de Março de 2012 00:11, Sridhar Dhanapalan escreveu: > We have recently started work on a new activity, which w

Re: [IAEP] [fonc] Barbarians at the gate! (Project Nell)

2012-03-14 Thread Jameson Quinn
If you're going to base it on Javascript, at least make it Coffeescript-like. I also agree that some basic parallelism primitives would be great; it is probably possible to build these into a Coffeescript-like dialect using JS under the hood (though they'd probably optimize even better if you could

Re: [IAEP] [fonc] Barbarians at the gate! (Project Nell)

2012-03-14 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: > If you're going to base it on Javascript, at least make it > Coffeescript-like. I also agree that some basic parallelism primitives > would be great; it is probably possible to build these into a > Coffeescript-like dialect using JS under the

Re: [IAEP] [fonc] Barbarians at the gate! (Project Nell)

2012-03-14 Thread Jameson Quinn
2012/3/14 C. Scott Ananian > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: > >> If you're going to base it on Javascript, at least make it >> Coffeescript-like. I also agree that some basic parallelism primitives >> would be great; it is probably possible to build these into a >> Coffeesc