Hi James,
On 20 Mar 2010, at 17:59, James Simmons wrote:
> If I could suggest adding either (but not both) of "Get Internet
> Archive Books" or "Get Books". GIAB is pretty robust, has just been
> given a new-style toolbar, and no longer leaves behind a useless
> Journal entry after it runs. Thi
Hi Martin,
On 20 Mar 2010, at 15:54, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mel Chua wrote:
>> The short version is that instead of "include all Activites by default,"
>> we're thinking of shipping very few (6) Activities by default - the ones
>> that help users get further A
On 11 Mar 2010, at 02:38, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> An open source memorization tool. Looks simple and cool and already runs on
> Linux, might be a good addition to Sugar.
>
> http://ichi2.net/anki/index.html
Interesting, but looks way too complicated for kids (just my opinion)... it has
more f
Hi James,
On 24 Feb 2010, at 17:48, Gary C Martin wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> On 24 Feb 2010, at 16:52, James Simmons wrote:
>
>> Gary,
>>
>> It's kind of interesting but I see a lot of words in there like
>> "should, good, putting" etc.
>
&
Hi James,
On 24 Feb 2010, at 16:52, James Simmons wrote:
> Gary,
>
> It's kind of interesting but I see a lot of words in there like
> "should, good, putting" etc.
Well it is based on your word usage ;-b
Actually, perhaps 600 terms was a little too deep for this size of text. Just
looked at t
Hi Jim,
On 3 Feb 2010, at 16:35, Jim Simmons wrote:
> In this latest draft I have added a not quite complete chapter on
> Making Shared Activities. The part that is missing is on using DBus
> Tubes to remotely call methods, and it's missing because I've never
> done it. I do plan to learn how t
Hi Christoph,
On 19 Feb 2010, at 10:27, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> thanks to an article on eschoolnews.com
> (http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/02/16/11-programs-only-as-good-as-their-teachers/)
> I stumbled across a special edition of the Journal of Technology, Learning
> and As
On 15 Jan 2010, at 15:34, Walter Bender wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Bert Freudenberg
> wrote:
>> 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
On 4 Jan 2010, at 23:11, Gary C Martin wrote:
> Hi Caryl,
>
> On 4 Jan 2010, at 19:33, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
>
>> Hi Gary, (a fellow Mac person... yea!)
>>
>> I really want to do the Live CD rather than the USB version of SoaS... due
>> to the difference
Hi Caryl,
On 4 Jan 2010, at 19:33, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi Gary, (a fellow Mac person... yea!)
>
> I really want to do the Live CD rather than the USB version of SoaS... due to
> the difference in cost. I can take them 20 CDs for what one usb stick would
> cost!
>
> Can I just do it with a
Hi Caryl,
On 4 Jan 2010, at 18:27, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi James and all,
>
> Here is the ideal scenario:
>
> A person walks into a room full of intel based PCs, pops a live CD in one,
> boots it up, inserts a usb drive, uses sugar activities, stores their work on
> the usb drive, ejects th
Hi Tomeu,
On 19 Dec 2009, at 12:33, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just came across http://www.kickstarter.com/ and wonder if a team of
> activity developers could fund a project that way?
Interesting site, thanks for the link. US only at the moment, though I guess SL
could be the entity?
Rega
On 15 Dec 2009, at 13:36, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:52:56AM -0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:07, Aleksey Lim wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:16:02AM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
I strongly agree w/ tomeu on this.
Making Sugar easier
On 14 Dec 2009, at 15:30, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:48:39PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori teacher,
>> about Speak. She asked me why Speak says "a" when "a" is pressed and not the
>> *s
Hi Mike,
On 5 Dec 2009, at 20:43, Mike Dawson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The GCompris stuff is very very nice indeed and I would highly
> recommend having some of them. Even just because it has such great
> demo power and then further activities can be installed from the
> school server.
My concern
Hi Adam,
On 29 Nov 2009, at 22:36, Holt wrote:
> Brian/Seth
> Sandy raised a critical issue on our Support call today-- how much work would
> it be to upgrade your great Help Activity from Sugar 0.82.1 to Sugar 0.84.x
> for the XO-1.5?
>
> And how can experienced Support people help Help (and
On 11 Nov 2009, at 18:44, Luke Faraone wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 13:35, Edward Cherlin
> wrote:
> So, no text-to-speech on Kindle? Very silly. The blind will have to
> wait for the mp3 versions of books, then.
>
> The Kindle has text to speech, but they allow it to be disabled on a
> b
On 1 Nov 2009, at 22:06, Chris Ball wrote:
> Dear Sugar folks,
>
> This mail didn't get any replies, but it's important to know whether
> people agree with it before going ahead. So, please understand that:
>
> * bugs.sugarlabs.org is moving from Trac to Launchpad.
Ouch, oh my that's a bolt from
Hi Rubén,
Feedback after testing trisquel-sugar_3.0RC_i686 on a recent MacBook
Pro:
1). Live CD boots and runs fine on a MacBook Pro (though has no
wireless network, or camera support, and screen redraw was a little
slow in some activities so I guess no or little use of gfx hardware
accel
Hi Caroline,
On 9 Oct 2009, at 02:42, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> Today we worked with two groups on multiplication. They made squares
> with each side being a different multiplication problem that had the
> same answer.
>
> http://screencast.com/t/sUbiof2H
>
> We also had them reflect in their J
ng a kid or teacher should be doing, in the
past there were (experimental) SoaS images made that had this already
built/installed. If VirtualBox is a serious target platform, then you
may want to raise the need to start building in the Fedora guest
additions for VB, as standard.
Regards,
--Gary
>
Hi Caroline,
On 4 Oct 2009, at 23:42, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> Does anyone know how to bring files from the host's hard drive (I am
> on a Mac) into a Sugar running in Virtual Box?
Sure. FWIW it's all in the VirtualBox help pdf (just go to the Help
menu, and the Contents...) The quick route i
Hi Gerald,
Many thanks for the feedback.
On 27 Sep 2009, at 02:52, Gerald Ardito wrote:
> Gary,
>
> This image came from Caroline Meeks at Solution Grove. It came as
> part of a version of SOAS that she put together for me.
>
> Gerald
OK, looks like a SoaS build mistake.
Caroline, just a qui
Hi Gerald,
On 27 Sep 2009, at 01:35, Gerald Ardito wrote:
> Walter,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> When I examine the log file, here's what I see:
> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/util.py:25:
> DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib
> module instead
> im
Hi Caryl,
On 26 Sep 2009, at 05:00, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> On Thursday, Ben wrote in the IAEP list:
>
> "My feeling is that the most important thing we can do in this area
> is to
> make it easy to write Activities that are intrinsically cross-
> platform.
> To borrow a phrase, one way to do t
evices unfortunately.
Regards,
--Gary
> Dave
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> On 24 Sep 2009, at 00:17, Bill Bogstad wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gary C Martin
> > wrote:
> >
> >
Hi Bill,
On 24 Sep 2009, at 00:17, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
>
>> Sure, you could just link the ~/default/datastore directory on the VM
>> to the matching location on the stick. I'm not sure how the pretty
>
On 23 Sep 2009, at 20:22, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> El Wed, 23-09-2009 a las 14:33 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz escribió:
>> Or, we bless a small number of completely self-contained virtual
>> machines
>> (e.g. etoys squeak, mozilla javascript, Sun Java, perhaps a
>> restricted
>> python), and
Hi Caroline,
On 23 Sep 2009, at 20:10, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> The current status of the GPA is:
>
> The 4th grade classroom has a bank of 6 machines that can boot Sugar
> on a Stick.
> The 4th grade specialist has one used laptop that can boot Sugar on
> a Stick.
>
> Access to the PCs in the
Hi Bernie,
On 23 Sep 2009, at 17:19, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> El Tue, 22-09-2009 a las 16:51 +0100, Gary C Martin escribió:
>> This is not a "what if" it works right now and since 0.84. Any .xo
>> bundle in your Journal can be 'sent to' over the either to a
I'm trying to stay out of this massive time sink hole, but I couldn't
let this one float by.
On 22 Sep 2009, at 07:14, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Last, but certainly not least,
>
> * Activity sharing is not even implemented, yet! We'll think
> about these esoteric scenarios when they come...
On 16 Sep 2009, at 13:16, Walter Bender wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
>> Hi Dennis,
>>
>> On 16 Sep 2009, at 04:40, Dennis Daniels wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> I have roughly diagrammed the bug reporting proce
Hi Dennis,
On 16 Sep 2009, at 04:40, Dennis Daniels wrote:
> Greetings,
> I have roughly diagrammed the bug reporting process for Sugar here:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Reporting_a_bug.png
-- snip --
> The tool I'm using for the diagrams is Umbrello. I'd be happy to post
> the XMI to t
Hi Caryl,
On 14 Sep 2009, at 18:07, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm just checking over the things left on the journals on the XO M-
> stock machines I lent to the Bozeman and Billings (MT) LUGS.
> Someone in Billings left this. What is it? The journal says it is
> "Audio by Cracke
On 12 Sep 2009, at 21:40, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> Martin Dengler wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:30:30PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
>>> re marketing course: in fact I have accepted Mel's invitation to
>>> do a
>>> classroom for Fedora.
>>
>> Congratulations.
>>
>>> re logos: Strawberry=6,
On 7 Sep 2009, at 15:03, Bill Kerr wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
>
> On 7 Sep 2009, at 12:09, Bill Kerr wrote:
>
> I can't see any way to load 2 instances on the SoaS version
>
> If I have a project loaded,
Hi Bill,
On 7 Sep 2009, at 12:09, Bill Kerr wrote:
> I can't see any way to load 2 instances on the SoaS version
>
> If I have a project loaded, saved and named
> Then go into the journal and try to load an older saved version then
> it doesn't load but puts me back to the current open version
ng
>>> [2] http://planet.sugarlabs.org/
>>
>>
>> +1 on removing the “naming alert”, this has been bugging me since
>> the day
>> it's been introduced.
>>
>> Adding “rewards” to the Journal is something that David Van Assche
>> and Gary
>&g
On 30 Aug 2009, at 17:32, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> would like to propose a meeting to talk about how deployments can
> provide better feedback and how we can process it so developers and
> the rest of Sugar Labs can prioritize their work accordingly.
>
> How does it sound?
+1!
Regards,
--Gary
_
Hi Bill,
On 30 Aug 2009, at 01:30, Bill Kerr wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> On 29 Aug 2009, at 14:44, Bill Kerr wrote:
>>
>> the default single click shape does not work for the box but does
>>
Hi David,
On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:47, David Farning wrote:
> Currently, there are tidbits of information on git spread around the
> wiki.
>
> One of the hurdle for new contributors (of code) is figuring out how
> to create an ssh key, set up an account on git.sl.o, and use git.
>
> I would like t
Hi Bill,
On 29 Aug 2009, at 14:44, Bill Kerr wrote:
> the default single click shape does not work for the box but does
> work for circle and triangle
Just to confirm, this is tested and working. But, I think what
happened here is that you may have dragged a very small (too small)
box firs
On 29 Aug 2009, at 10:07, Lucian Branescu wrote:
> Your best bet is using a browser runtime, like hulahop. Gecko has good
> support for SVG, but without SMIL. You'll have to use JavaScript for
> animations.
>
> Right now, the only runtime I know of that can run SMIL is Opera, and
> that one is use
Just thought I'd forward this over to IAEP.
(If you are running an older build of SoaS, you'll need to erase the
existing Physics Activity before trying to upgrade. The older SoaS
shipped with Activities installed in a non-standard place, with
administrator permissions, preventing the normal
On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:49, Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:03, Michael Stone wrote:
>
>>> El Mon, 24-08-2009 a las 20:58 +0200, Martin Langhoff escribi=F3:
>>>> And also... and completely from the outside... I'll apologise in
>>>>
On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:03, Michael Stone wrote:
>> El Mon, 24-08-2009 a las 20:58 +0200, Martin Langhoff escribi=F3:
>>> And also... and completely from the outside... I'll apologise in
>>> advance for saying something I know might be controversial. I worry
>>> that SL seems to have -- for a extern
Hi Bill,
On 22 Aug 2009, at 22:44, Bill Kerr wrote:
> hi alan,
> still thinking about the broader issue you raise about the
> importance of
> real science and its connection to computer based work and how to
> attempt to
> implement this in school settings (complex issue)
>
> however, I do no
On 18 Aug 2009, at 17:49, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> How do we help people find this sort of idea and the video I made?
> I think we need to link them from the activities.sugarlabs.org page
> somehow. Is there already a solution for this?
Currently we're building up:
http://wiki.sugarl
On 15 Aug 2009, at 20:58, Asaf Paris Mandoki wrote:
>> build a complex or elegant building that doesn't fall down
>
> This can be done on top of an earthquake simulator (see attached
> image). The earthquake simulator can be modified to produce
> longitudinal and transverse waves.
Now that is a r
Hi Bill,
Not sure if you wanted answers :-)
On 15 Aug 2009, at 02:51, Bill Kerr wrote:
I might try these next week and see how they go:
does altering the size of an object affect its drop time?
No
does joining objects together (large and small) affect drop time?
No
Remember, you can ru
On 12 Aug 2009, at 08:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:25, Caroline
> Meeks wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso
>> wrote:
>>
>>> This is turning out to be a very important concept to explain to
>>> people. Does anyone know of any educational mate
Hi Kevin,
On 6 Aug 2009, at 23:32, Kevin Cole wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 17:52, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
>
>> Hmmm, wow folks actually still print? :-) I had a colleague who would
>> incessantly print out every email she received and file it away by
>> dat
On 6 Aug 2009, at 21:07, Kevin Cole wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 14:57, Frederick Grose
> wrote:
> I've set up Google Translations in the wiki sidebar for a community
> evaluation, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Welcome_to_the_Sugar_Labs_wiki
> .
>
> In addition to making all pages longer,
Hi Benjamin,
On 6 Aug 2009, at 19:28, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
> To engineers:
> Is sharing an activity a sufficient indication of intent from the
> user to
> execute a potentially dangerous action, such as sharing Terminal on a
> public collaboration server? To activate a remote VNC client
Hi James,
On 5 Aug 2009, at 20:44, Jim Simmons wrote:
> Dennis,
>
> There is no audio on either video.
>
> It looks like most of the Sugar videos are on dailymotion. I would
> post mine there if I was convinced that nobody could improve on what I
> did. I was hoping that Dave C or someone else
On 29 Jul 2009, at 18:25, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Bill Kerr wrote:
>> 1) once I have created a stick can I upgrade just one program, such
>> as the
>> version of Physics which saves (if so how?), or do I have to wait
>> until that
>> version is officially relea
On 28 Jul 2009, at 03:18, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
>> Hi Edward,
>>
>> On 28 Jul 2009, at 02:52, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Gary C Martin
>>> wrote:
>>
Hi Edward,
On 28 Jul 2009, at 02:52, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
>> Hi Edward,
>>
>> On 28 Jul 2009, at 02:02, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>
>>> It saves on mine, in Strawberry. Which version of SoaS are
Hi Edward,
On 28 Jul 2009, at 02:02, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> It saves on mine, in Strawberry. Which version of SoaS are you using?
Just to confirm: Physics-2 has no save support, v2 is the currently
released/distributed version.
We have been working on the next Physics release cycle in its g
On 28 Jul 2009, at 01:18, Bill Kerr wrote:
> My second semester year 10 control tech class is trialling SoaS.
>
> My blog is http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/ describes some of the
> lesson plans and issues arising. Student blogs (first impressions)
> are linked on the sidebar
>
> One big issue
On 27 Jul 2009, at 23:23, Costello, Rob R wrote:
> i've got flash CS4 and the latest ASV decompiler ...might have
> missed an email but i asked offlist if the swf had been moved...can
> debug on windows (if that word survives the technical or ideological
> filters!) if needed
http://git.sug
On 27 Jul 2009, at 18:13, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 16:08, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
>> On 22 Jul 2009, at 10:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 14:46, Costello, Rob
>>> R wrote:
>>>>
>>>> if yo
On 22 Jul 2009, at 15:41, Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 22 Jul 2009, at 15:15, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 16:08, Gary C Martin
>> wrote:
>>> On 22 Jul 2009, at 10:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 14:46, Cos
On 22 Jul 2009, at 15:15, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 16:08, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
>> On 22 Jul 2009, at 10:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 14:46, Costello, Rob
>>> R wrote:
>>>>
>>>> if yo
On 22 Jul 2009, at 10:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 14:46, Costello, Rob
> R wrote:
>> if you need some one to look at a fla or decompile a swf and have a
>> look at
>> what the actionscript is doing i can probably help
>>
>> don't know anything much about gnash but have done
Thanks Martin,
On 19 Jul 2009, at 10:30, Martin Sevior wrote:
> Nice screen shot! The toolbars look very easy to understand and easy
> use to me. Unfortunately I can't really give much of a critique
> because it's hard for me to think like a primary-school child now :-)
A fair and most valid ans
On 18 Jul 2009, at 19:12, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> while using Write today to draft up some articles for olpcnews I
> realized that I was missing a "word count" feature.
>
> Given that a lot of schools have very specific word count goals for
> homeworks, essays and assignments I'm
Hi Tomeu,
On 18 Jul 2009, at 10:56, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Paola asks in olpc-sur about adding to the Clock activity the
> capability of changing the time. Don't know who is the maintainer of
> the Clock activity, thus sending this email to IAEP.
It's another Sugar Labs adoptee Activity I'm maint
On 14 Jul 2009, at 23:54, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> Can the clock activity be used to teach telling time? It seems to
> only show the current time with no way to change it.
>
> The second graders just did a unit on telling time and it might be
> cool to do something with time on Sugar.
Clock Ac
Hi James,
On 13 Jul 2009, at 15:46, Jim Simmons wrote:
> Tomeu,
>
> Read Etexts is in pootle right now. Unfortunately, since I tend to
> develop my project incrementally there are probably strings in my
> Activity that never made it into pootle. If there is anything anyone
> needs from me to ge
Hi Greg,
First, thanks for the great write up!
On 8 Jul 2009, at 20:40, Greg Smith wrote:
> Seemed like a lot to me but most kids did it with a little help at
> some steps. The other hard work flow was creating two images, one
> right after the other. Here are the steps for that:
>
> - Open pai
Hi Jim,
On 4 Jul 2009, at 17:09, Jim Simmons wrote:
> Edward,
>
> I think you have an interesting idea here. It reminded me of the
> scene in _2001 A Space Odyssey_ where Hal 9000 is having the higher
> functions of his brain disconnected and he tries to sing "Daisy" while
> he still has enough
On 2 Jul 2009, at 10:44, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> I explained that
>> with the move to metacity this would be a possibility in the not too
>> distant future (I hope I did not speak out of tone.)
>
> Well, with the metacity move, activities that behave badly in terms of
> window sizing will be expose
On 30 Jun 2009, at 17:21, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I sent this yesterday, but it got filtered out by some machine since
> I didn't send it as a "reply". So I am sending it again today.
>
> This is the "old science teacher" in me talking...I think the
> Physics Activity has great pot
Hi Dave,
On 28 Jun 2009, at 23:48, Dave Bauer wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
>
>
> Were the VirtualBox VM networks set up correctly? I think NAT is the
> default setting for VirtualBox, and I'm pretty sure that will fail for
>
Hi Jim,
On 27 Jun 2009, at 03:02, Jim Simmons wrote:
> The problem with books on a shelf is that Aleksey is already using
> that image for his Library Activity and I think it is more fitting for
> that because he is creating a sort of electronic bookshelf, whereas
> I'm creating a card catalog.
alBox, and I'm pretty sure that will fail for
Salut. Think of that NAT behaving like new virtual local network, as
if your VM was running behind another separate AP.
Regards,
--Gary
> Thanks,
> Caroline
>
> On 6/26/09, Gary C Martin wrote: Hi Laura,
>
> On 26 Jun 2009, at
On 25 Jun 2009, at 00:36, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi...
>
> OK, here's the "dumb question" for today. I am sitting here in the
> wilds of MT with only a Mac and would like to create the latest
> Strawberry Soas for my Mac.
Hi. I haven't had a chance to try booting the Strawberry SoaS on my
On 24 Jun 2009, at 17:09, Sean DALY wrote:
> http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/24/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-your-old-computer-into-an-olpc/
Cool, great little youtube video as well – it's nice to see a video of
someone's (admittedly an adult techy) first hands on encounter with
the Sugar UI. Som
Hi All,
David Farning has suggested agenda items for the ActivityTeam to
cover; I'm not sure we can realistically solve many, but it would at
least be good to see what page each of us is on, where we might be
able to pull in the same direction, and bounce about some ideas in
realtime :-)
ike I wanted, both by Category and at
> the top they have "1,455,889,902 add-ons downloaded, 162,086,241 add-
> ons in use". Our numbers will be less impressive, of course.
>
> James Simmons
>
> Gary C Martin wrote:
>>
>> Not too much input from existing t
On 11 Jun 2009, at 14:10, Sean DALY wrote:
> Bert - many thanks, I understand much better now.
>
> We're expecting a traffic peaks at the end of the month with our media
> push, that's why this work on clarity/simplicity is important.
>
> I'm afraid "Fructose" as a left-hand category on ASLO is ob
On 11 Jun 2009, at 10:08, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm forwarding this to some people who I heard yesterday in IRC
> discussing this issue.
Yea, FWIW I had a quick go as a test case trying to see if it was
possible to install Soas booted from a USB stick onto the XO nand. I
was doubtful
On 11 Jun 2009, at 08:37, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Let me finalize this "What tags we should use for GCompris/Fructose/
> etc"
> discussion :)
>
> New AMO version and incoming ASLO v3 version have collections feature
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections
>
> I think we ca
On 10 Jun 2009, at 18:24, James Simmons wrote:
> Martin,
>
> I phrased that poorly. A kid might care that James Simmons wrote
> Read Etexts. He probably won't care if James Simmons is a part of
> Sugar Labs, or part of the community, or if it was part of GCompris,
> or if we consider Read
Hi James,
On 10 Jun 2009, at 17:48, James Simmons wrote:
> Martin,
>
> First and foremost ASLO has to make sense to grade school kids and
> their teachers. That's why I didn't care for GCompris as a
> category. Now since we can give an Activity up to three Categories
> it might make sense
y supplier didn't mind at all doing the 2
> different color versions. Kudos to Gary C Martin for his work on this.
>
> The plan is for one to live in Germany and the other in France, taken
> to events, conferences, SugarCamps as necessary.
>
> Note to Mike Lee, Seth: if you wi
stro
>> co-branding.
>>
>> Perhaps we could solve those problems by putting them in the "About
>> my
>> computer" page as well? Awful as far as co-branding goes (partners
>> would not be happy), but will keep boot minimalist and functional.
>>
>
On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:24, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 06:09, David Van Assche
> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week
>> Wednesday
>> 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm
>> MST, and
>> 12 pm PST,
On 4 Jun 2009, at 16:35, Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote:
>
>> Yes that would be very helpful I think
>
> I was just going to start tinkering again, I'll make an animated
> version of Eben's XO and progress-bar for evaluation.
Ju
On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote:
> Yes that would be very helpful I think
I was just going to start tinkering again, I'll make an animated
version of Eben's XO and progress-bar for evaluation.
> If we can reach consensus by tomorrow and finish the actual PNG frames
> over the weekend
On 4 Jun 2009, at 12:24, Sean DALY wrote:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo
>
> Christian - I myself prefer the "rays" to dots which I feel too
> closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is
> possible (networks being connected to at startup?)
Coloured do
On 2 Jun 2009, at 09:05, Martin Dengler wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:36:46PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
>> [delete that page you talked about, create a page with just orphaned
>> activities]
>> Help welcome!
>
> You're being too polite :).
Me? Polite?
On 1 Jun 2009, at 20:44, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
> On 1 Jun 2009, at 15:44, James Simmons wrote:
>
> Caroline,
>
> The books can be downloaded as a Zip file. In the Zip file is a small
> website for of
On 1 Jun 2009, at 15:44, James Simmons wrote:
> Caroline,
>
> The books can be downloaded as a Zip file. In the Zip file is a small
> website for offline reading.
>
> I'm copying your question to the IAEP list because there has been some
> discussion about making the Browse Activity able to work
On 1 Jun 2009, at 14:11, Martin Dengler wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:51:08AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
>> ===Sugar Digest ===
>> ===Help Wanted===
>>
>> 6. My plea for help this week is in regard to orphaned activities.
>> There is a list of activities with no active maintainer
>> [[Activ
On 30 May 2009, at 19:40, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> Gary C Martin wrote:
>> On 30 May 2009, at 18:50, Walter Bender wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Frederick Grose
>>> wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>> For Sugar, the new "
sh) and predictability in how Sugar
> "usually" loads is I think desirable
>
> thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
>> On 30 May 2009, at 16:36, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with y
On 30 May 2009, at 18:50, Walter Bender wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Frederick Grose
> wrote:
> [snip]
>> For Sugar, the new "Hello World" tutorial could be its boot
>> Activities for
>> Learners: Each development tool (Pippy, Turtle Art, Etoys, others,
>> even
>> Forth) shoul
On 30 May 2009, at 16:36, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:
> I agree with your points--comments below:
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Gary C Martin
> wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> On 30 May 2009, at 10:17, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
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