Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tony's comments on localization

2016-07-10 Thread Nick Doiron
characters On Jul 10, 2016 12:30 PM, "Dave Crossland" <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > On 10 July 2016 at 12:16, Nick Doiron <ndoi...@mapmeld.com> wrote: > >> Your primary issue would be getting a Cherokee font (including recent >> Unicode addition o

Re: [IAEP] Tony's comments on localization

2016-07-10 Thread Nick Doiron
re Cherokee language: I had the opportunity to work with Cherokee Nation on a technology localization project five years ago when I was at Esri The Cherokee Nation has a specially organized team involved in translating tech. Your primary issue would be getting a Cherokee font (including recent

Re: [IAEP] New Scratch Blocks announced at Google IO

2016-05-19 Thread Nick Doiron
They don't have a lot of technical details in the post, but reading between the lines, it sounds like Google and Scratch are settling on Google Blockly library? This is the same one used by Code.org in their examples On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:12 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > Hi

Re: [IAEP] Trip Advisor grant statement of work

2016-02-13 Thread Nick Doiron
her Creole translator be selected? Thanks. Regards, Nick Doiron On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was asked to repost the statement of work from the Trip Advisor grant. > Here it is: > > There are two specific goals for the Tripad

Re: [IAEP] Trip Advisor grant statement of work

2016-02-13 Thread Nick Doiron
n was not mentioned specifically in the Trip Advisor grant, but we > did allocate funds (still unspent AFAIK) for Haitian Creole. Love to invest > in that effort if you can identify someone to do the work. > > regards. > > -walter > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Nick Doiron

Re: [IAEP] 2016-2018 Oversight Board

2015-12-29 Thread Nick Doiron
Can we avoid using these lists to tell people how to vote, except via candidate statements. It'll be much more constructive. The list of voting members is public. You can find your friends there. PS don't reply to me/everyone about this as I'm not voting and muting the rest of this thread. Nick

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Amzn Fire Sale No More: pricing rises 86% !

2015-11-30 Thread Nick Doiron
Percentage wise sure, but I don't think it's that much of a dollar difference when it's compared to other devices and everything else a school deployment needs. I'm reminded of a blogger's calculation a few years back, that the NY Times could just send every subscriber a free iPad and save

Re: [IAEP] [XSCE] RE: [UKids] Re: [support-gang] Taking OpenStreetMap Offline - DESIGN Call - Thur June 11, 10AM EDT / 2PM UTC

2015-06-15 Thread Nick Doiron
shrinking/endangered but still green-in-parts planet? Regardless, how to build the OLPC Movement's offline/civic learning successes, consciously learning from its community infrastructural mistakes? Nick Doiron ( http://mapmeld.com) and Anish Mangal ( https://in.linkedin.com/in/anishmangal) who've

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF February meeting

2015-02-23 Thread Nick Doiron
I believe the official language code is HT On Feb 23, 2015 9:09 AM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: I can create the templates to do the translation and sent to you. Or I can upload and you can translate them online. The process is a little different than with the pottle server

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Khan Academy videos offline

2015-01-30 Thread Nick Doiron
Hi Lionel, I'm working on the same thing right now, for an Unleash Kids project in Haiti Have you converted to OGG format and embedded them for use with OLPC XOs? I've got a transcoding script running at home but it will take a few days.

Re: [IAEP] World Bank Apps for Development

2010-12-16 Thread Nick Doiron
for each country. Regards, Nick Doiron ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep