Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Community Response Team

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 9:54 PM, James Cameron wrote: > Our Ombudsman was the response team. > > There is no need for more than one person. > ​Well, we tried that. Why not try something different?​ I support updating the Code of Conduct (CoC), and appointing someone, or more,

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Arbitration request: Caryl Bigenho a first warning for moderation [WAS: Re: Improving our Code of Conduct (was: Re: Code of Conduct Motion to add Anti-harassment policy - Sugar Labs

for their goals, no matter the cost. Laura has not accepted my decision. I am unable to do fulfill my role as Ombudsperson if the community does not want to heal the wounds and start over. That is why I am resigning. I am very sorry. I wish you all the best, Bert Freudenberg On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 5:45 PM

Re: [IAEP] Arbitration request: Caryl Bigenho a first warning for moderation [WAS: Re: Improving our Code of Conduct (was: Re: Code of Conduct Motion to add Anti-harassment policy - Sugar Labs)

Dear Laura, and all, I am Bert Freudenberg, the current Sugar Labs Ombudsperson. I'm an independent developer living in Germany who worked mainly on the Etoys activity since the early OLPC days. I was never part of the Sugar core team, but I keep being interested in the health of the project

Re: [IAEP] pixel

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: > This is what I hoped Sugarlabs would do: > > https://opensource.com/article/17/1/try-raspberry-pis-pixel-os-your-pc > > Tony > Isn't that exactly what SoaS does?

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Re: [Sugar-devel] [Announcement] Sugarizer v0.8 is available for your device

; > Bert, > > Works on Chromebook. > > Is there anyway to open a Etoys project I already created? Perhaps as a > parameter in the URL pointing to somewhere I uploaded the file? > > Thanks, > Stephen > > On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Re: [Sugar-devel] [Announcement] Sugarizer v0.8 is available for your device

Hi Steve, have you tried plain Etoys on a Chromebook? https://squeak.js.org/etoys/#fullscreen Also, we have an experimental Chrome app here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/etoys/ pfddkmhbbphpelipkocbhmgbofdoagpi - Bert - On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Lionel Laské

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SL member list/joining criterion

On 16.05.2016, at 02:06, Dave Crossland wrote: > I suggest develop a 'super list' with as many possible members as possible, > and then make persistent attempts to contact them until they pay a membership > donation, ask for a membership bursary so they don't have to pay the fee

Re: [IAEP] 3 questions about Sugar Desktop Copyleft

On 20.04.2016, at 18:24, Dave Crossland wrote: > >> I understand that in 2016, Scratch has faded away, and Pharo has taken over >> active development. I saw they rewrote all the Apache parts. > > Pharo has forked, yes, but Squeak is very much alive. Pharo is just better at >

Re: [IAEP] 3 questions about Sugar Desktop Copyleft

> On 20.04.2016, at 18:06, Dave Crossland wrote: > > Hmm. I thought Scratch became libre when Apple released its parts under > Apache, which predated Sugar? You’re confusing Scratch with Squeak. Scratch came with its own license that was not GPL compatible. They’ve since

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] Meeting reminder

d meetings be called using only UTC please? ;-) > > If so use: > http://google.com/search?q=utc+time <http://google.com/search?q=utc+time> > > I like Bert Freudenberg prefer to pick 1 real city where many of us Actually > Live, whichever one does not matter -- but including that 1 sin

Re: [IAEP] Future Direction

to a Mac machine and the files will all be readable and usable! Also, it leaves nothing behind on the host machine. It is all on the usb drive! We can thank Bert Freudenberg for that! I'm adding him to this conversation so he might be able to give us an update on the latest news from Etoys

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

On 25.02.2015, at 13:22, Nick Doiron ndoi...@mapmeld.com wrote: I've worked with the project for some time, as a developer, teacher, and teacher-trainer. There have been triumphs and setbacks in the past, but I can't escape this observation: when people have a choice, they choose not to

[IAEP] Fwd: [ANN] Four new OLPC Games by the Software Architecture Group

Begin forwarded message: From: Michael Perscheid michaelpersch...@googlemail.com Subject:ANN] Four new OLPC Games by the Software Architecture Group Date: 16. April 2013 08:22:27 GMT-07:00 To: Squeak in Germany / Squeak in Deutschland squeak...@lists.squeakfoundation.org Reply-To: Squeak

Re: [IAEP] Sugar future

On 12.04.2013, at 15:39, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: O.K. So... now it is time to divide and conquer! Is it? That is... divide the work up into doable little projects and conquer the huge task of getting Sugar Activities onto Android and possibly other platforms. IMHO the

[IAEP] The Dynabook and modern computing

Time interviews Alan Kay: http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay/ - Bert - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] How can I get Camera to work on XO? Also how to access USB

On 2013-03-13, at 19:08, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote: Bert, On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 2013-03-13, at 16:50, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote: Tried with Etoys 5.0 build 2406. But camera does not work. Saw

Re: [IAEP] How can I get Camera to work on XO? Also how to access USB

On 2013-03-14, at 17:56, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote: Bert, Video Camera does not work either :( Odd. I tried loading just the CameraPlugin using the mcz. That is the source code for the plugin, not the compiled plugin. See Karl's message. Maybe we need to go back to the

Re: [IAEP] How can I get Camera to work on XO? Also how to access USB

On 2013-03-13, at 16:50, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote: Tried with Etoys 5.0 build 2406. But camera does not work. Saw this in trakcer, but no wifi access, although I can put files on a USB. Possibly the Camera plugin is missing? See /usr/lib/squeak/... How can I address the

Re: [IAEP] Sugata Mitra at TED 2013

On 09.03.2013, at 06:45, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, Sugata Mitra has done it again! Watch his great new TED 2013 talk, from a month ago, where he introduces a new approach to collaborative learning… not one laptop per child, but 4 children per laptop (or

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] XO-4 Questions After Viewing CES video

On 11.01.2013, at 15:16, Caryl Bigenho ca...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Folks, Bert is probably correct and has been to SCaLE so he knows what he is talking about. The folks there are really rabid open source advocates, so much so that you can't even do a presentation in Powerpoint or Keynote.

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] XO-4 Questions After Viewing CES video

On 11.01.2013, at 05:22, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: bert wrote: On 10.01.2013, at 21:19, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: More recent versions of the XO-4 touchscreen firmware should allow a many-finger keyboard. I hope someone with an XO-4 is working on a demo! Oh, I

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] XO-4 Questions After Viewing CES video

On 11.01.2013, at 16:32, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: bert wrote: On 11.01.2013, at 05:22, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: bert wrote: On 10.01.2013, at 21:19, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: More recent versions of the XO-4 touchscreen firmware should allow a many-finger

Re: [IAEP] Sugarized binaries? was Re: users doing python in XOs

On 2012-12-04, at 20:24, David Corking li...@dcorking.com wrote: Thanks Ruben! To all: If you find yourself supporting a sugarized activity, or improving the integration, you might need the C source of libsugarize.so I was pleased to find that Albert Cahalan already brought a copy from

Re: [IAEP] Sugarized binaries? was Re: users doing python in XOs

On 2012-12-03, at 18:08, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: The main point The main point is that you can write Sugar activities in any language that suits you, as long as it can connect to D-Bus and provide an X11 interface. Sugarizing means implementing the interfaces Sugar expects -

Re: [IAEP] Sugarized binaries? was Re: users doing python in XOs

On 2012-12-03, at 18:50, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: You are right, Bert, sorry, got carried away. The main point was not compiled vs. interpreted, that was just a point of theology. The main point for me :-) is 1) stuff that currently lives as RPMs be usable by Uruguayan XO

[IAEP] MSP430 Launchpad support (was: Sugarized binaries?)

Assuming this is self-contained then you at least don't need rpms: http://energia.nu/download/ - Bert - On 2012-12-03, at 22:02, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, thanks Texas Instrument's MSP430 Launchpad. at $4.30 including shipping, it's probably the most

[IAEP] OLPC meeting in Stuttgart, Germany this Saturday

Forwarding this announcement just in case some German-speaking folks are not subscribed to our mailing list. Everybody is welcome, but you'll hear a lot of German :) - Bert - Begin forwarded message: From: Sebastian Umlauft sebastian.umla...@gmx.de Subject: 01.12.2012 OLPC Community und

[IAEP] Learnable Programming

Great new essay by Bret Victor on Designing a programming system for understanding programs: http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ - Bert - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] evolution or revolution? .....android+sugar+doors = oui?

On 2012-09-13, at 06:01, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: I would like to see Sugar Activities able to run in Gnome and vice versa. As far as I know, TurtleArt is the only one that does both. Etoys and Scratch, too (which preceded Sugar, but not everyone might know this). - Bert -

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Mac Folks... Need your help downloading: The Forbidden Education - New Argentinian movie about Education

Hi Caryl, in Safari, when I go to this page: http://www.educacionprohibida.com/descargar.php?fuente=16tipo=completacalidad=480pformato=mp4 and then ctrl-click the green button and choose Download linked file that appears to work fine. (actually Chrome and Download link as... works

Re: [IAEP] Learn activity

On 2012-06-18, at 17:00, Tony Anderson wrote: Hello, Today, Version 51 of the Learn activity has been posted to Activities.Sugarlabs.org. This version is intended for use by deployments to evaluate its usefulness in their context. It has a separate (45mb) file of content which can be

Re: [IAEP] Learn activity

desktop, Firefox is installed, but Learn works better with versions from 4 up and so needs to be reinstalled. The web page provides scripts to handle all of this, hopefully, for non-developers. Please let me know if you encounter other issues. Thanks, Tony On 06/19/2012 03:34 PM, Bert

Re: [IAEP] Learn activity

On 2012-06-19, at 20:53, Tony Anderson wrote: 5. Make sure the Kls_demo_1.tar.bz2 file is unpacked on a usb drive. The Learn activity checks all the mounted drives for a folder: kls. That was the missing puzzle piece. I's still weird to require the USB drive even after I copied everything to

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

On 2012-06-14, at 12:54, Peter Robinson wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: So the question is: is there a Linux/Gnome VM for the iPad? iPhone? iWhatever? No because Apply explicitly doesn't allow other languages so we can't run python

Re: [IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

On 2012-06-13, at 07:50, Steven Thompson wrote: Even just in English in Japan could help kids. The common denomenator for jhs and hs kids is an iPhone or android and the iPad at home...much more so than buying an Intel Classmate or having a hope of getting an XO. Sugar can be installed on

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

On 2012-06-13, at 18:42, Walter Bender wrote: Etoys runs in a virtual machine. Once that VM is ported to a new environment, Etoys will run. Sugar on the other hand is a desktop and collection of applications that require Linux and the Gnome toolkit (among other dependencies). Once a Linux VM

Re: [IAEP] how-to-train-your-robot

(moving to IAEP list) On 14.04.2012, at 14:00, Walter Bender wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM, karl ramberg karlramb...@gmail.com wrote: A nice write up of how one can get young kids into programming http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/ Nice

Re: [IAEP] how-to-train-your-robot

On 14.04.2012, at 19:43, Walter Bender wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: (moving to IAEP list) On 14.04.2012, at 14:00, Walter Bender wrote: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM, karl ramberg karlramb...@gmail.com wrote: A nice write up

Re: [IAEP] Scratch released under GPL 2.0

On 29.03.2012, at 00:25, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Wonderful news from our friends at the Media Lab: Forwarded Message From: Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com To: Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org Subject: Scratch released under GPL 2.0 Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012

Re: [IAEP] Uruguay first to get XO 1.75

On 16.03.2012, at 19:45, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote: Hi, This notice begin turn the world: http://blog.laptop.org/2012/03/16/uruguay-is-first-country-to-get-xo-1-75/ Developers: begin to compile for ARM... Actually, developers have been doing this for many months already. I got my

Re: [IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?

Excellent discussion! I'll just comment on one thing though: On 06.03.2012, at 12:04, Steve Thomas wrote: Importing Pictures (non XO comparison as I do not think you can drag Pictures onto Scratch or Etoys on the XO): • Scratch: You can drag a picture onto Scratch and the picture is

Re: [IAEP] turtle help

On 06.12.2011, at 14:56, roberto wrote: Hello, I don't understand what the blocks next to forward means in the picture: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/1/1f/TASpirolateral1.png I mean the blocks with the red minus and the green plus. It does nothing - it's only used as a connector.

Re: [IAEP] Teachers ask programmers / Maestros preguntan a Programadores

On 29.11.2011, at 08:55, Carlos Rabassa wrote: Teachers with ideas for good educational applications could write them themselves or find a programmer willing to do it. The teacher could select the programmer without restricting the choice to those willing to work as unpaid volunteers

Re: [IAEP] Questions to SLOB candidates

On 07.11.2011, at 14:04, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Hi all, Sascha, you make an excellent point here, I was thinking along the same lines when I re-read the various candidate statements this morning. Personally I'd also be interested in taking this one step further and creating a

[IAEP] The Games Programmers Play

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/37734/Opinion_The_Games_Programmers_Play.php (some more goodies in the comments, like Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey) - Bert - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-08-22

On 22.08.2011, at 17:50, Walter Bender wrote: == Sugar Digest == 1. The OLPC XO 1.75 machines (beta units) are starting to be distributed to developers. This machine is ARM based, which means that it will have superior battery life once all of the fine-tuning is complete. It also means

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] SD Card Expert Needed

On 25.08.2011, at 04:27, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: When you use an activity from an USB or SD card..The activity is copied to the system. Not in my experience. I've been using Activities from an SD card for four years now, and Sugar has NEVER copied those to the system (ie, to the flash

Re: [IAEP] Dr. Geo user manual

On 28.07.2011, at 11:50, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: Hello Paolo, I can't reproduce the problems your reported. I tested on a XO 1 shipped with Sugar 0.84.16. I am cc back to the Sugar list to read for more feedback on similar problems. Check in the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

On 08.07.2011, at 08:08, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Let's put this to a test! With all the flooding we are having in Montana this summer the clouds of mosquitos are really fierce! Our family is visiting with their PCs and I have a Mac. We can try this in the next couple of days and

Re: [IAEP] Concrete feedback

On 16.06.2011, at 12:52, Walter Bender wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:56 PM, nanon...@mediagala.com wrote: {...} Concrete Feedback: The journal is always full of garbage, hundreds of empty entries: is

Re: [IAEP] FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar why would YOU want to?

On 15.06.2011, at 14:03, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jun 15 2011, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Maybe it's just me but I replied how I felt as I read what was written. So, I still want to know what his purpose is for spending time with the olpc? Based on what I read, he sees the apple as our

[IAEP] C5 2012 Call for Papers

Sugar would be right on topic. Very nice conference, I've attended a couple of times. Hope to see you there :) Please spread widely. - Bert - The 10th International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing (C5 2012)

[IAEP] Showcase launcher translated

Hi all, as a result of the Sugar code sprint in Montevideo, Uruguay, the project launcher page in the Etoys showcase can now be translated: http://squeakland.org/showcase/everyone/ The code is at https://github.com/bertfreudenberg/etoys-plugin-launcher We have a translation

Re: [IAEP] Awesome day 0 for eduJAM.

On 01.05.2011, at 07:22, David Farning wrote: Yesterday was have picture perfect start to eduJAM! The day was planned by the Ceibal-volunteer associations as part of their annual (sometime biannual) meeting. For lack of a better word, my Spanish is still rather fuzzy, I will use the term

Re: [IAEP] What's on SoaS?

On 24.04.2011, at 10:44, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Caryl, On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All Is there a link that tells what is included (Sugar Activities, Gnome(?)) etc. on each build of SoaS? I poked around a bit on the Sugar Labs wiki,

Re: [IAEP] Question about Arabic language Etoys

On 15.04.2011, at 11:45, David Corking wrote: From a Facebook user http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=484466203052id=1601682399 The questions was how to use Etoys in Arabic. Answer is that so far it only works on Linux, e.g. the OLPC XO in Afghanistan. - Bert -

Re: [IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville

If there was a single way to launch an application that worked flawlessly on all platforms, we certainly would have used it for Etoys-To-Go. Unfortunately, there isn't - and Java is not a solution either, as you discovered, contrary to all marketing. IMHO it's best to just tell the kids which

Re: [IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville

is running (autorun is no longer supported on USB devices). If anyone has any ideas on how to accomplish this without the use of Java, that would be great. Derek On Apr 5, 2011, at 9:01, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: If there was a single way to launch an application

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Found usb Microscope under $50 for XO!

That screenshot is from the Spanish-language Small-Land version of Squeak/Etoys. It was created in Argentina and used for example in the 80,000 Linux PC deployment in Extremaduras, Spain. The video4linux plugin used for the microscope looks like it might be the same as used by Etoys on the

Re: [IAEP] Etoys Help Requested / Pedido de Ayuda Etoys

in the holder. For the animation script I set the clock at 1 tick per second to be able to see the difference between each frame. Carlos Rabassa Voluntario Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal Montevideo, Uruguay On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Try Holder include

Re: [IAEP] Etoys Help Requested / Pedido de Ayuda Etoys

Try Holder include: Camera's lastframe copy - Bert - On 05.02.2011, at 19:01, Carlos Rabassa wrote: Texto en Español luego del Inglés An Etoys user has contacted us for help. This is what he wants to do: - Take pictures with and XO at regular intervals, let´s say every 10

Re: [IAEP] Dumb Questions... Input Wanted... Please Discuss!

On 28.10.2010, at 00:04, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... Thanks for all the good stuff... please, keep it coming! I just wanted to let you all know that I made the Etoys-to-go stick this morning and have tested it on my MacBook, eeePC, and PowerBook (a older Power PC!) and it seems to be

[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Squeak Etoys 4.1

Hi everyone, I am proud to announce the new Etoys 4.1, which you can now download from the Squeakland website: http://squeakland.org/download We provide installers for Windows and Macintosh machines. There is also a to-go version that you can put on a USB thumb drive to take with you.

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] [Olpc-uruguay] Sugar Labs Oversight Board?

On 28.09.2010, at 11:05, Tim McNamara wrote: On 25 September 2010 02:22, Pablo Flores pflor...@gmail.com wrote: My support to Rosamel too! The translation is not a minor issue and it would be good to challenge ourselves to find solutions so we can integrate in discussions people that

[IAEP] [RELEASE] Etoys 4.1.2384

This is the first beta release of Etoys 4.1. The biggest change is that stopping the Etoys activity will no longer save to the Journal. To save, you will have to press the keep button. The octagonal stop button is replaced by a circular exit button to indicate the new behavior. It puts up a

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANN] DrGeo 10.08

On 06.08.2010, at 08:54, Hilaire Fernandes wrote: Dear all, I am please to announce the release 10.08 of the DrGeo activity. http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire/index.php?post/drgeo-xo-10.08-release Congratulations! For people unfamiliar with Squeak, you might want to add a note about how to

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Catching Up

On 27.07.2010, at 21:41, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Is there any chance of getting Sugar Activities to run on this gadget? They might be put on an SD card. Maybe just certain favorites like eToys and TurtleArt. http://www.mobilewhack.com/augen-presents-gentouch78-tablet/ The software on this

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] What Sugar ships (was Re: Proposal release management)

On 24.06.2010, at 17:52, David Farning wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 24.06.2010, at 15:29, David Farning wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: To that extent I proposed

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Proposal release management

On 24.06.2010, at 09:32, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, in May I tried to find someone to replace me as release manager [1] for 0.90, but as nobody has stepped up to do the job as we defined it I decided that it will be best to keep this role for some more time. I think it will be

[IAEP] What Sugar ships (was Re: [Sugar-devel] Proposal release management)

On 24.06.2010, at 15:29, David Farning wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: To that extent I proposed to the Etoys developers to follow the Sugar development cycle more closely. And that's what we're going to do. Thanks Bert

Re: [IAEP] Apple Eases Restrictions On iPhone Developers

On 12.06.2010, at 20:10, Kevin Cole wrote: Regarding the recent discussion of Sugar on an iPhone and Apple's position on interpreted languages: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qWtSOhKr4To/Apple-Eases-Restrictions-On-iPhone-Developers WrongSizeGlass writes MacRumors has a

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] OLPC rules out Windows for XO-3

IAEP is not a catch all. It's hard to delineate exactly what's appropriate and what's not, but the exchange below clearly belongs on the developer list. Everyone who is interested in that kind of detail and able to follow the discussion is certainly subscribed to that other list. So as soon

Re: [IAEP] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename Colour Suggestions

Gooseberry. Green. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooseberry Tasty, funny name, what more do we want? ;) - Bert - On 03.06.2010, at 20:31, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: We'd like to kick off the process for the upcoming Sugar on a Stick v.4 already, while gearing up for the SoaS PR at LinuxTag,

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename Colour Suggestions

AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: Gooseberry. Green. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooseberry Tasty, funny name, what more do we want? ;) - Bert - On 03.06.2010, at 20:31, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: We'd like to kick off the process for the upcoming Sugar on a Stick v

Re: [IAEP] maintenance

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

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Helping kids develop mobile applications?

On 31.03.2010, at 04:26, Cherry Withers wrote: Someone already put Squeak on an iPhone (iPod Touch more accurately): http://news.squeak.org/2008/06/11/squeak-on-the-iphone/ And the same someone made a player for Scratch projects: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scratch/id358266270 However,

Re: [IAEP] Gravity for Beginners...

On 28.03.2010, at 06:48, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 23:11, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote: How much lighter is a person in La Paz, Bolivia, than at sea level? This actually was asked by a kid when I was there last time. For practical purposes let's assume La

Re: [IAEP] urgent E toy!!!!!!!!!!!

Also see http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-529 - Bert - On 22.03.2010, at 14:08, Steve Thomas wrote: To get a flap hit CTRLW (on Macintosh CMDW). This will bring up the World menu. Then click on flaps... which will display the flaps menu. Then click on make a new flap You can now

[IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] Computer Science For Kids Book Announcement

Looks nice :) - Bert - Begin forwarded message: From: Andre Lessa an...@lessaworld.com Date: 19. März 2010 05:28:54 MEZ To: edu-...@python.org Subject: [Edu-sig] Computer Science For Kids Book Announcement Hey Python Community, I just self published this brand new book and I'm making

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Edu-sig] Computer Science For Kids Book Announcement

On 19.03.2010, at 13:19, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: Looks nice :) Pretty good. A few places it could be improved. For example, in his compression example, Page 28, he gets confused about bits

Re: [IAEP] Coming to Paraguay?

Indeed I'm working on adding Journal support to Scratch, almost done in fact. But I can't say when John is going to make a release with that. I'm not working on sound or other issues, but Derek did something in that direction IIRC. Btw you can read about ongoing development at

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Children want Sugar 0.84, for the wrong reason

On 13.03.2010, at 11:56, Bernie Innocenti wrote: I've spent three days in Caacupè, observing how the new F11-XO1 build is doing among our young user base. It's a great success, but for the wrong reason:

Re: [IAEP] Test developed activity for XO Laptop.

On 09.03.2010, at 00:09, Parichay Parivesh wrote: Hello, I am developing an activity for XO laptop. Probably It is going to developed around 15 or 16 March 2010. I wanted to test that activity on XO laptop. Can any one tell me how can I do that. Another thing I have developed that

Re: [IAEP] Test developed activity for XO Laptop.

and valuable suggestion. On 8 March 2010 23:37, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: In Etoys you normally save what you did as a project file, the filename will look like mygame.pr. Is that what you mean? If yes, then this can be loaded into Etoys on the XO, too. You can copy it onto a USB

Re: [IAEP] [POLL] Non Sugar Platform activities in Activity Library

On 01.03.2010, at 10:07, Aleksey Lim wrote: Should sugar be closed education environment with activities created(in python) only for sugar or sugar provides programming languages agnostic services (Journal, Collab oriented features) that could be used by *existed* education applications

Re: [IAEP] [etoys-dev] TED - Alan Kay - Example(8:44)

On 22.02.2010, at 08:50, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Here is an SVG of the simplest proof of the Pythagorean theorem I know, by dissection of a large square into five pieces that fit together into two smaller squares side by side. Thanks Edward I did not notice that no rotations were

Re: [IAEP] [Olpc-Haiti] Need in Haiti: inexpensive portable projectors forOLPC/XO classrooms

On 03.02.2010, at 11:51, C. Scott Ananian wrote: I also wonder if http://www.amazon.com/Porta-Trace-Mini-Sketch-5x-Opaque-Projector/dp/B000A3E2T2 might work, if just placed on an XO screen. There might still be heat issues, but it's cheap enough that an experiment might be warranted.

Re: [IAEP] EToys Saving Problem

On 15.01.2010, at 15:46, Gerald Ardito wrote: Bert, Thanks for this. I was able to find some lost EToys projects using your suggestion. I could use some help using copy-to-journal. I am getting an error about mimetype. What should I use? Thanks. Gerald For Etoys projects use

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

On 15.12.2009, at 15:09, Daniel Drake wrote: I believe there are still various well-known 0.86 regressions (over 0.84). For example, Record not working. These regressions are going to be a huge headache to anyone who tries to upgrade, perhaps you could squash a few of those. Speaking of

Re: [IAEP] Sharing work between XOs/SOAS devices

. That is Ben's activity, not mine: 2009/10/28 Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu: Bert Freudenberg wrote: The Distribute activity would be your best bet I guess. Where is it? http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/Distribute-1.xo Distribute is the barest prototype of a sharing activity, designed

Re: [IAEP] Sharing EToys projects

On 07.12.2009, at 21:54, Dave Bauer wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: Tomeu, There is no mime type that I can see. The Journal entry simply says File filename.pr from url for file. This is no different, by the way, when I upload and then

Re: [IAEP] Sharing EToys projects

On 07.12.2009, at 22:08, Dave Bauer wrote: On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 07.12.2009, at 21:54, Dave Bauer wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: Tomeu, There is no mime type that I can see

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Please help suggest illustrated eBooks for Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry launch

On 27.11.2009, at 02:15, Tim McNamara wrote: Max Moritz is in the public domain. It would be a wonderful addition to the collection, if possible. Does anyone know whether it is available? Excellent suggestion! It's here: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17161 - Bert -

Re: [IAEP] A Couple of Comments/Questions

On 18.11.2009, at 10:46, adam hyde wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 10:42 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: @timClicks Can't do. FLOSS Manuals inexplicably uses GPL for everything, which is more restrictive than Creative Commons. creative commons is not very useable. ever looked

Re: [IAEP] scratch gone missing

On 07.11.2009, at 23:28, Bill Kerr wrote: On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 07.11.2009, at 04:48, Bill Kerr wrote: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:10, Bill Kerr billk

Re: [IAEP] scratch gone missing

On 07.11.2009, at 04:48, Bill Kerr wrote: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:10, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/browse/type:1/cat:107 How come scratch is no longer available

Re: [IAEP] Montessori madness...

On 12.10.2009, at 10:55, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I've been reading Montessori Madness for a few hours now, and I find Another good one is Montessori Today

Re: [IAEP] Sugarcamp Bolzano 2009 [1]Register [2]Planning Meeting

On 08.10.2009, at 19:34, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hey, [1] Register: As many of you know the next Sugarcamp will be from 7th to 13th November 2009 in Bolzano, Italy - http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/Sugarcamp_Bolzano_2009 . If you want to attend - please add your

Re: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?

About how to get the drawing out of Etoys: Drag-and-drop it into the Sugar Frame's clipboard, or just press Ctrl- C when its halo is showing. Then either insert into the activity you want directly by drag-and- drop or Ctrl-V (if the activity supports that), or store the clipping in the

Re: [IAEP] Sdenka Salas's book about the xo and sugar

On 30.09.2009, at 17:10, Bill Kerr wrote: from walter's digest: 2. Sdenka Salas, a teacher who is working with Andean children from Aymara and Quechua communities, wrote a book in April about using Sugar in the classroom. She recently completed the English-language version. She has kindly

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