Re: [IAEP] Contemplating Your SLOBS Vote

2011-11-18 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
2011/11/18 Carlos Rabassa : > My suggestion was and still is that after some years of trying the free > software / volunteers route,  with unacceptable results,  get paid > professional developers to swiftly work on correcting a good percentage of > the problems,  delivering working computers to th

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] SoaS - moving onward...

2009-02-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: >> I'd like to standardize on a *single* program for creating USB keys, >> preferrably the Fedora LiveUSB Creator.  Can anyone try this out on Linux >> and report back whether it works?  If it indeed does, I&#

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] SoaS - moving onward...

2009-02-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hey, this link appears to have disappeared. > I updated http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick to focus on downloading > and writing this distribution to a USB stick.  Other aspects of SoaS were > moved down to the TODO links. Great, thank

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-22 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Awesome stuff! Let's make sure to update the link on the wiki page when announcing a new image. http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick#Fedora_based_Sugar_on_a_Stick (I'm removing a comment there about checking people blogs to figure out the latest one, because that seem complicated/unreliable e

Re: [IAEP] Soas meeting tomorrow, 17 UTC

2009-02-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Action items: * alsroot to become soas-1 maintainer. He will get in touch with Marco privately to ensure he has the required informations and accesses to take it over. * Marco to start a discussion with Simon and Sebastian on soas-2. Infrastructure needs and TODO. * Marco to call a meeting follow

Re: [IAEP] Soas meeting tomorrow, 17 UTC

2009-02-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > Hello, > > we are going to have a Soas planning meeting tomorrow, at 17 UTC. Here > is a quick agenda, feel free to add to it. Place is the usual one, irc.freenode.net #sugar-me

[IAEP] Soas meeting tomorrow, 17 UTC

2009-02-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, we are going to have a Soas planning meeting tomorrow, at 17 UTC. Here is a quick agenda, feel free to add to it. * Build system setup and infrastructure. * Release announcement and changelogs. * Activities packaging. * Custom repositories. * File system layout and customization. * Testing

Re: [IAEP] calendar

2009-02-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:39 AM, David Farning wrote: > Well, It seems that using google calendar was a flop:( It just added > another level of complexity without adding much value. > > I am planning on removing the meeting calanders and replacing them > with a simple header like the deployment te

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Governance.

2009-02-01 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Donna Benjamin wrote: > This has gone beyond that now, and begins to smell of conspiracy. > Although I doubt there is anything sinister afoot, the time has come to > reveal what this is all about. +1. I don't see any problem with publishing it and I don't want cons

[IAEP] SoaS-ubuntu maintainer?

2009-02-01 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
I have tickets assigned to me in trac. Who should I reassign them to? http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/100 At some point we should also make a separate soas-ubuntu component in trac. Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IA

[IAEP] SoaS branched (soas-1)

2009-01-31 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, I branched the soas module, soas-1 will stay on F10 builds, soas-2 (master) will move to F11. Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release

2009-01-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Some thoughts: > > - Because the commit message summary appears in the shortlog, > it should be kept below 74 characters to avoid ugly wrapping. > > - Given the above, the word "Closes: " steals precious characters, > and is rather

Re: [IAEP] Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing

2009-01-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > I think you are misunderstanding David post. Often on the list we have > conversations which are not productive. Both talk and action are > important, but talk is easier and hence often tends to be predominant > (it'

Re: [IAEP] Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing

2009-01-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Costello, Rob R wrote: > I see there are 6 descriptors on the getting involved page > > Only one of them seems primarily about 'working code' - which I doubt > that many educators have contributed to. Just interested discussion and > practical experience. It seems

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] feature freeze issue #3: resume by default

2009-01-17 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi, > > one more issue we should discuss is a modification that came in last > week by which the favorites view in the home view displays the last > entries for each activity and allows easy resuming. See Eben's designs > in http://wiki.laptop

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] feature freeze issue #2: making easier for people to title their activities

2009-01-17 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
My suggestion would be to keep developing it until we have something we are satisfied about from the user experience point of view. Then we can make a call about risk. If we complete in the next few days I'd expect it's something we will want to land. Marco

Re: [IAEP] Thoughts on Pedagogy and supporting activity creators

2009-01-06 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Yes we need to think about whether these people are using Python, eToys, > JavaScript or Flash to convert these worksheets into a Sugarized activity, > but we also need to think about how the process of Sugarizing can help them > create a mor

Re: [IAEP] FUDcon + XOCamp talks

2009-01-06 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > In general, I have been giving a lots of thoughts to the Sugar Labs > BugSquad (e.g. what additions we need in trac and the general workflow > http://sugarlabs.org/go/BugSquad/StatusFields). At the moment I am > waiting a bit on people retu

Re: [IAEP] Request for help packaging activities for Sugar on a Stick

2009-01-06 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Are these differences documented somewhere? Perhaps even isolated in > patchsets against upstream code? Unfortunately they aren't yet. I will try to document them on the wiki as part of the activities packaging work. Marco _

Re: [IAEP] Request for help packaging activities for Sugar on a Stick

2008-12-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Caroline, > > > But Sugar without activities is boring!! We need you and your > > activities! Please help us get activities quickly ported to Sugar > > on a Stick, we have a lot of people pounding on our doors to try > > it. > > I d

Re: [IAEP] Request for help packaging activities for Sugar on a Stick

2008-12-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Martin Sevior wrote: > Hi Caroline, > I clicked on the various links to see the status of > Write but I couldn't see anything. Is it already on SoaS? Yup, it is! Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Proj

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Request for help packaging activities for Sugar on a Stick

2008-12-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Here is the status of activities packaging: > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Activities_packaging - Marco is > coordinating the technical effort if you have any questions or need help. Also if you want other cool activities packag

[IAEP] FUDcon + XOCamp talks

2008-12-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, so we are going to be officially present at FUDcon and I assume some of us will also stay for XOCamp. Is anyone planning to give talks? Here is what I have in mind. I think Simon also had something. FUDcon: * Discussion about packaging activities. xo vs rpm, how do solve maintenance probl

[IAEP] A cool theme for the planet

2008-12-18 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, planet.sugarlabs.org is getting very lively these days, yay! I think we would benefit from a better theme... Any artist or web designer around which would be willing to give it a try? Thanks! Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a lap

Re: [IAEP] Testing meeting follow up

2008-12-18 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Decisions: * Neither Sugar Labs, OLPC or any other distribution can take responsibility over *all* Activity testing. Only sanity checking (and needed testing) on the subset they've decided to be responsible for. We should work together to encourage Activity maintainers to test their own Activities

Re: [IAEP] OLPC and Sugar Labs -- a Sugar Labs perspective

2008-12-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:43 PM, David Farning wrote: > (d) many Sugar Labs community members remain deeply committed as > individuals to advancing the XO and they continue to develop, > distribute, and support Sugar on the XO. Oh totally, +1! Marco __

Re: [IAEP] TestingTeam -> Bugsquad

2008-12-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> we agreed in the QA-Meeting to rename the TestingTeam to Bugsquad [1]. >> Can someone with wiki powers move TestingTeam/* to BugSquad/*? > > Hmmm, the name change seems to

Re: [IAEP] TestingTeam -> Bugsquad

2008-12-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Does it mean more paperwork for those of us who like adding new bugs? Nah it will be one man team! It means I'm the only one allowed to add new bugs! Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (n

Re: [IAEP] TestingTeam -> Bugsquad

2008-12-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Morgan Collett wrote: > The BugTeam sounds like the people who introduce the bugs, so that > would be the DevelopmentTeam :) I suggest we actually make a separate one to clarify the roles. I lead BugTeam and Simon leads Development :) Marco _

Re: [IAEP] Vacation

2008-12-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:56 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who approved that vacation schedule? Well, it sounds totally unacceptable to me. We might have to close some important deals for Christmas and our businessman needs to be around to handle those... Marco ___

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Fwd: [gnu.org #392095] Sugar Labs server at GNAPS]

2008-12-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:20 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:59 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Option (a) sounds acceptable. >> >> We could spend part or all our initial $1600 budget on paying our half >> of this server, and use it initiall

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] FudCon January 2009

2008-12-05 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > do we have any new Sugar features to add to F11 other than Sugar 0.84? > Some areas I can think of: > > - server pieces like backup, etc > - fast user switching > - better integration with other desktops, for example

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs and the Community

2008-12-03 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:54 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When we were setting up Sugar Labs a few months ago, it seemed that > the distinction between the Sugar Labs Foundation and the Sugar Labs > community was important. But, now it just seems confusing:( > > Kind of like when

Re: [IAEP] "Getting Involved", first draft

2008-12-03 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved > > Here's what I did: > > 1. Linked to each team. > > 2. Made sure that the Mission statements were all cleaned up and > consistent, and then included them in this p

Re: [IAEP] a (distro) release with sugar 0.81?

2008-12-03 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since an additional repository would have to be used to get this on > lenny, it's probably best to not ship Sugar 0.81 at all unless you can > get an exception to get 0.82.x included. There would be frustration > for those

[IAEP] Development team mission

2008-11-29 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, I have not yet wrote down a mission for the development team. Part of that is laziness (sorry!), part is that I'm trying to figure out what exactly our mission should be. So far our focus has been on implementing as many features as possible and on fixing as many bugs as possible. I would

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] OLPC + Sugar

2008-11-26 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Please let's avoid speculations until the joint statement is published. Thanks, Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] prgmr machines

2008-11-26 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:13 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > >> I'm using only sugarlabs2, both as slave and master. Feel free t

Re: [IAEP] prgmr machines

2008-11-26 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:01 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Marco, Bernie > I just wanted to follow up on the status of the prgmr xen machines[1]. > > Marco, > Are you currently using sugarlabs1 as a buildbot slave and sugarlabs2 > as the buildbot master? > Are both working correct

[IAEP] Fwd: [sugar] Closing this list

2008-11-26 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Could someone help with Morgan suggestion? Thanks, Marco -- Forwarded message -- From: Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [sugar] Closing this list To: Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sugar Mailing

Re: [IAEP] Proposal: IRC channel and mailing list for support

2008-11-25 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
+1 by me too. Marco On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Luke Faraone wrote: > > > All, > > > > In order to facilitate non-developer use, I'd like to propose the > > addition of the following: > > * #sugar-users - a channel for

Re: [IAEP] Meeting reminder (Deployment team)

2008-11-18 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Make sense to me. Marco On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone. > > As Walter can't come and we have community meeting at the same hour, also > taking into count that Walter's reports are essential on this discussion , > I prop

Re: [IAEP] [Techteam] dinner around cambridge on sunday

2008-11-15 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Marco and me compared our schedules for the next week trip and thought > that, as we arrive a bit late on Sunday, may be a good idea to meet > somewhere in Cambridge for dinner. > > So, what about meeting for ha

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] OLPC / Sugar Labs coordination meeting

2008-11-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > the time slot in http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp/Schedule (Saturday) > doesn't match what Gregorio said he could attend to. What about Friday > instead? I moved Gregorio on Thu 10 - 12. Please let me know if there

Re: [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, if we can talk about at least some of these things in a > parenthesis -- avoiding all the distractions -- let's do it. > Otherwise, I'm happy to just have a beer with you. Let's make the most > of what we have. Look

Re: [IAEP] Schedule for SugarCamp?

2008-11-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, what are these talks with no title you scheduled Tuesday after > dinner? > > 1900 Marco Gritti / Michael Stone > 2000 C. Scott Ananian / Tomeu Vizoso I think the idea is that the speaker manages their half hou

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] On OLPC and Sugar collaboration (Was: Schedule for SugarCamp?)

2008-11-14 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Part of this criticism is certainly funded: 0.82 was the first release > cycle entirely coordinated Sugar Labs. But many would agree that 0.82 > was a *huge* leap forward done in just 6 months by a very resource > const

Re: [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:27 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:35 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Personally I thin

Re: [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:35 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what the hell? i don't think it's productive to separate olpc and > sugarlabs in this fashion. Personally I think the way you keep to couple them is *extremely* confusing. Red Hat people certainly participates to GNOME

Re: [IAEP] Schedule for SugarCamp?

2008-11-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: > >> >> So here I see a lot of attendees and proposed talks: >> >> http://www.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp >> >> ...but do we have a schedule yet? And if not, who's wor

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] SugarCamp

2008-11-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, talks that IMO are more appropriate for this week, along with > people I'm most interested in hearing, are: > > - How Sugar-on-a-stick can better work for deployments such as the > ones carried on by http://schoolkey.net

Re: [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
A couple of points. * This is a Sugar Labs organized conference, OLPC specific stuff is not appropriate for it. XOcamp is in January. I edited the wiki accordingly, both the talks and the schedule. * Please don't do planning on the agenda during closed, in person meetings. #sugar-meeting is the ri

Re: [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:07 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this schedule seem reasonable to others? (Esp. those I've > pencilled in for talks?) If you are going to be in town, made a 9.1 > proposal (or forgot to), and aren't listed above, let me know. There is a lot of i

Re: [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:07 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4pm: Internationalization (Marco, C. Scott, possibly Saymindu by > phone and/or cjb on language learning) I'm not giving talks about i18n :) Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Educa

Re: [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:11 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should have also included the information that Walter will be giving > his 'Portfolio' talk at 9am on Friday. Just in case anyone was > wondering about his absence from the above schedule. Oh, and we'll do > our best

Re: [IAEP] wiki move ReleaseTeam to DevelopmentTeam/Release

2008-11-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:16 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a heads up. > > I moved ReleaseTeam to DevelopmentTeam/Release and deleted the related cruft. > > Please let me know if anything major broke. Thanks for taking care of it David! Marco

Re: [IAEP] wiki vs infrastructure component

2008-11-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:10 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These become infrastructure because only ivan and bernie can work on > the machine serving the wiki. Thanks for the clarification! Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (n

[IAEP] wiki vs infrastructure component

2008-11-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Tickets 4, 5, 6, 12 should really be assigned to wiki or am I missing something? Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Sugar packages for non-mainstream distros

2008-11-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Aleksey Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just some thoughts and some practices (specific?) of Sugar packaging process > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/jhconvert Sounds very very similar to what Guy (in cc) has been doing for debian! Marco _

[IAEP] Are you coming to Sugarcamp?

2008-11-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Then please add yourself to the wiki!!! http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp#Attendees Several people that I know are coming are not on the list yet... Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lis

[IAEP] Requiring to send out a meeting agenda

2008-11-12 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, I propose that we make sending out an agenda for all of our meeting a required step. We was supposed to have a Deployment meeting today, people came for it, but it didn't happen. That really sucks imo and we should be careful about not repeating it. I'm sure this will happen less often as

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] Sugar Camp Cambridge 17-21 Nov

2008-11-11 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Brendan R. Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to propose a discussion on making the collaboration a bit more > standards compliant. The idea would be to get sugar to function more like a > standard jabber IM client, as well as using existing standard

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Running good meetings

2008-11-11 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been putting together a general page for Teams: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Teams > > Maybe link it from there? Yup, sounds good to me! Marco ___ IAE

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Running good meetings

2008-11-11 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Mel Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that these are (1) really long and (2) incomplete - I'm working on > these, particularly making them shorter. This is just a first braindump > because Marco asked how I ran meetings... if people are interested / can > think

[IAEP] Fwd: Running good meetings

2008-11-11 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
unning good meetings To: Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Note that I don't always do all of these because I forget stuff sometimes, but as I think through my "if I was actually super-disciplined about running meetings correctly, here's what I'd do" list, her

Re: [IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-11-11 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some questions about the ticket tracker. > > Can we get email notifications from this ticket tracker? Yup: http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/12 > Can I mark/watch bugs someone else puts in? Yeah, you can add yours

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Camp Cambridge 17-21 Nov

2008-11-11 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mel, SJ and C.Scott: let's have a meeting tomorrow @ 2PM to partition the > available time between Sugar talks, Sugar Labs marketing, OLPC employee > meetings and the much anticipated Sugar hackathon. Christian Schmidt

Re: [IAEP] WikiTeam Meeting

2008-11-11 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Farning wrote: >> Here is your chance to attend the first ever Sugar Labs WikiTeam[1] meeting! >> >> The meeting will be tomorrow Tuesday the 11th of Nov at 14 UTC (10 >> EST) on irc.freenode.net (channel: #sugar-

Re: [IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-11-10 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Bill Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This was easy and quick to make using the liveusb creator > > Problems: > > not enough activities We are working on it. Going a bit slowly because we are trying to get as many as possible issues fixed upstream rather than by p

[IAEP] Fwd: Sugar installer for Windows

2008-11-10 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
-- Forwarded message -- From: Wade Brainerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:02 PM Subject: Sugar installer for Windows To: OLPC Devel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all, I wrote a simple Sugar installer for Windows: http://dev.laptop.org/~wadeb/OLPC-XO-Software-8.2.0-Set

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2008-11-10

2008-11-10 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > === Community jams, meet-ups, and meetings === > > > 6. SugarCamp: While not all of the details are in place, we will be > holding a Sugar Camp in Cambridge the week of 17 November. We've > reserved a room at the Cambridge

Re: [IAEP] gitorious and OLPC

2008-11-09 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Me too. What we like the most of Gitorious is its fantastically simple UI. This is awesome! I played with Gitorious just yesterday and I *love* it. > We've just setup a new server hosted by the Open Source Lab at the

Re: [IAEP] Meeting bot

2008-11-09 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Stefan Unterhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Done ... the logs will be on http://meeting.unterhauser.name, > maybe a CNAME to that would be nice :) Thanks a lot!!! Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a lap

[IAEP] Meeting bot

2008-11-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, I think it would be useful to setup a meeting bot in #sugar-meeting. We are using this one http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot for #olpc-meeting. Bernie, would it be possible to set it up on meeting.sugarlabs.org? It's an eggdrop bot written in tcl. Marco ___

Re: [IAEP] meeting header to wiki

2008-11-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:05 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added 'meetings' to the header of each team's wikispace. Enjoy. Excellent. So now the wiki *structure* covers meetings and tasks. What about the team leader? Should it be indicated on the contacts page? It seems l

Re: [IAEP] Teams - Time to grab a team

2008-11-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:28 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As long as we are putting our time where our talk is > I'll serve as the WikiTeam coach. > > I have scheduled a meeting on the Sugar Labs community calendar at > http://www.sugarlabs.org/go/Community . I can take Devel

Re: [IAEP] Teams!

2008-11-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a way to see all the pages under the DeploymentTeam namespace? >> > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Deployment > > All the deployment-related pages should have the > [[Category:Deployment]] tag. (Some mistakenly

Re: [IAEP] Teams!

2008-11-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've seen several things written in the wiki under >> DeploymentTeam which didn't quite seem to fit to me. > > Can you please elaborate? Is there a way to see all the pages under the DeploymentTeam namespace? Anyway I thi

Re: [IAEP] Teams!

2008-11-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GENERAL OBSERVATIONS: > > * Having every team work mostly the same way is *really* useful. It allows > volunteers to move comfortably from team to team. Seems like the common > structure indicates that folks kinda get

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available)

2008-11-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Christian Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on the t-shirts, should have something early next week. > > Where are we printing them? Any thoughts? cafepress maybe? Not an expert at all... just what I've seen used most. Marco __

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available)

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes. Plus I need to push the rest of Christian's suggested changes, > including the landing page... Maybe today is the the day? Also, Walter forgot to send out his moo.com cards artwork and Chritian t-shirts!!! Marco _

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available)

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
w available) > To: Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > yes. Plus I need to push the rest of Christian's suggested changes, > including the landing page... Maybe today is the the day? > > -walter > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Marco Pesenti Grit

[IAEP] Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available)

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Should we use the one line version of the logo on dev.sugarlabs.org? Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-06 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Contact people that offered housing to see if the offer is valid for > the Sugar conference. (Marco) Hello, I updated the list. I removed Chris offer since I got no answer, feel free to add ag

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-06 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I might have hit with a generous donor that might pay my way... > > Could you confirm dates so they can get me tickets early while they are > still less expensive? > > I would want to learn and share, and if possible/i

[IAEP] Boot liveusb from cd

2008-11-05 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, I wrote a quick script to generate a boot cd for a liveusb image with overlay. It can be useful on old systems which doesn't support boot from usb. http://www.sugarlabs.org/~marco/livecd-iso-to-boot.sh http://www.sugarlabs.org/~marco/boot.iso (for the latest sugar-spin.iso) Marco

Re: [IAEP] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Mel Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Saturday is taken by SL planning... :/ > > It's also the start of Thanksgiving week, which is a holiday that many US > folks (myself included) may be taking off to celebrate with family and such. > > Also, I think the 17th is b

Re: [IAEP] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Monday 17 - Hackfest. Mel: might be a good time to do a "so, >> coders in Boston, you've wanted to learn how to help out > > This would be hard for Monday. But the following weekend might work. > (Saturday?) Saturday is t

Re: [IAEP] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with David that this is a good logical order. Mon and Tue > aren't good days for some OLPC folks, but they might make good > hackfest days. We could make sure to schedule talks OLPC employee gives or needs to partic

Re: [IAEP] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd really like to be at the Sugar planning meeting, so the 18th is > not my first choice. Why not do the hackfest on Tuesday and split the > technical talks between Monday and Wednesday? Monday is even worst for OLPC emplo

[IAEP] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-04 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, we met to discuss schedule and scope of the meeting today. Tomeu, Marco, Scott, Mel, Michael, Samuel was present. == Schedule == We came up with two possible schedules, we haven't made a call about which one to go for yet. 1) Monday 17 - Hackfest. Mel: might be a good time to do a "so,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-news] Sugar DIgest 2008-11-04

2008-11-04 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 6. 0.84 Release cycle: Simon Schampijer and the release team have > gotten the Sucrose Development 0.83.1 Release out the door (See > http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.83.1). This is > the first of the 0

Re: [IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-11-03 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/olpc/0.82/i686/sugar-spin.iso Should we start versioning the images? I'm not sure if we have disk space to keep the old ones around, but even if we don't... I have a few sugar-spin.

Re: [IAEP] Wiki cleanup

2008-11-02 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:56 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today I am finally getting to the long promised wiki cleanup. Why now? > Three non-core contributors complained about the wiki this week:) How cool > is that! Three new people were browsing the wiki and were engaged enoug

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-30 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I was thinking teachers.sugarlabs.org to indicate that this site will be >> for and by teachers learning about Sugar. > > We need places for high school students, who we hope will be helping us test > Sugar, to collaborat

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-26 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to do a bit of preaching to the choir but I thought it was worth > sharing my thoughts to see if everyone is on the same page and to see if > anyone has anything to add. > > Why Now? > > If we can get som

Re: [IAEP] OLPC at UW Madison - was Re: Study with Scratch?

2008-10-25 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:21 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Right now I'm off to the Kohl Center to do a few other things before the >> hockey game tonight, but I'll keep you guys posted on what success I have. >> ifconfig indicates that it loaded the nic drivers successfully (dell

Re: [IAEP] Testing team page

2008-10-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:15 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will start going through and cleaning thing up the wiki this weekend. > > Should I create a TestingTeam area? I would probably just rename BugSquad to Testing (if Simon agrees). Do we need the Team prefix? it's sort of

[IAEP] Progress on Fedora activities packaging

2008-10-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList#Activities Wow! Now, I really need to get network to work in 0.82 so that we can have a rocking sugar in Fedora 10! Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists

Re: [IAEP] Testing team page

2008-10-24 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Getting Involved page was blank when I got there. We should have > something there! at a bare minimum a link to how to help test, but surely > there are more ways we want people to get involved? Ooops, how did you ge

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