[IAEP] Moving On.

2010-12-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
The Short Version: As many of you might have noticed, my activities within Sugar Labs have been fading lately. I'd like to take the only responsible step and hand my responsibilities off. The Long Version: I didn't expect to see myself writing this email. I'm currently a student at Olin working re

[IAEP] LinuxCon Education Summit: Schedule Announced

2010-07-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ld be interested in sponsoring that, please email me as soon as possible. Thanks for your attention and looking forward to meeting you in August! --Sebastian Dziallas ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlab

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [PROJECT PROPOSAL REQUEST] Sugar Creation Kit

2010-07-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > Satellit (Tom Gilliard) has submitted a request to have the Sugar > Creation Kit become an official Sugar Labs project and consequently be > listed on the sidebar of the wiki (See email below). Could we discuss > this proposal by email (since

[IAEP] Education Summit at LinuxCon in Boston

2010-07-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ed, please drop me a line. Please forward this to interested people or projects and don't hesitate to email Jeff or me in case you've got any questions. Looking forward to meeting you in August! --Sebastian Dziallas [1] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon [2] http

[IAEP] Attention Activity Developers: SoaS Activity Inclusion Criteria

2010-06-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ugar on a Stick releases and look forward to working with you! Please email the SoaS list or our release team with any concerns. --Sebastian Dziallas [1] http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.minutes.20100607_1510.html [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Activity_Criteria [3] http://wiki.s

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

2010-06-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
w.agriculturalproductsindia.com/fruits/fruits-jamun.html > > Regards > > Harriet > > > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Sebastian Dziallas > wrote: >> >> Hi Sean, >> >> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Sean DALY wrote: >> > Sebastian, I

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

2010-06-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ick meeting. --Sebastian > Sean > > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:31 PM, 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, too. And so >> we're

[IAEP] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename & Colour Suggestions

2010-06-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
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, too. And so we're looking forward to your ideas and suggestions on the codename and colour selections for the next release iteration. These will be discussed at the next me

[IAEP] Announcing Sugar on a Stick v.3 (Mirabelle)

2010-05-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ally to the Sugar on a Stick team and all the people involved for their awesome work on this release! Sebastian Dziallas Sugar on a Stick Project Lead ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] maintenance

2010-04-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > Tomeu, > > Thank you for writing down this summary and for making a proposal as > to how we can address this problem. I would add that the problem > reaches farther than the core Sugar modules themselves: Sugar without > Sugar Activities is n

[IAEP] SoaS Documentation Changes

2010-03-28 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, I'd like to announce some changes to our documentation strategy for the upcoming Sugar on a Stick release. In an attempt to enhance our documentation, I've been working on creating content using Publican [1], which is a Fedora tool relying on Docbook files. Here are some examples, name

[IAEP] What's going on with Sugar on a Stick?

2010-03-26 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, as you may have noticed, there are a couple of changes coming to Sugar on a Stick to keep the whole project sustainable. In the upcoming month, from March 28 (I'll be off starting Sunday night) to May 7, my ability to devote time to the project will cease. I have to prepare for my major

Re: [IAEP] Finally trying Sugar

2010-02-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
mari...@ourdyslexicchildren.org wrote: > Hi there! > > Thanks to you all for your hard work. I am a high school tech teacher in > Texas. I wasn't able to figure out how to put Sugar on a USB drive, but > was able to burn it to a CD. Now I have made copies for all of my > students (115) plus a class

Re: [IAEP] Blueberry & Strawberry Activities Lists?

2010-02-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on my presentation for SCaLE 8X this weekend and do not at > the moment have access to Blueberry and Strawberry SoaS. Can someone > give me links to lists of Activities included in each of these? > > Thanks, > Caryl > = Sorry for seeing this a little late

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Sugar on a Stick Documentation Joins the Stage

2010-02-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Sebastian Dziallas >> wrote: >>> I've taken some hours last weekend to spend some time to finally get >> >> Very cool. What's the build line? I perused the XM

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick Documentation Joins the Stage

2010-02-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Sebastian Dziallas > wrote: >> I've taken some hours last weekend to spend some time to finally get > > Very cool. What's the build line? I perused the XML looking for "how > to reproduce soas builds&qu

[IAEP] Sugar on a Stick Documentation Joins the Stage

2010-02-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, I've taken some hours last weekend to spend some time to finally get some better documentation off the ground. I started with what is going to be called a Creation Kit. Note that this is far from being complete for now, but should do the trick as a proof of concept. It lives here: http

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] 2 Major Sugar Issues

2010-01-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi... > > Two rather huge issues: > > 1) Sugar Labs does not have Spanish translations available on either the > SoaS Strawberry or Blueberry web pages. I wanted to print these out to > take to the school in Argentina that wants to do a Sugar deployment in > the PC lab in one

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Very Old SoaS Works on Mac

2010-01-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi Caryl, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Well... thanks a lot for your patience! :) > I tried my very old (in software terms... 9+ months) version of > Strawberry that is still installed on my Mac via virtual box (also an > old version). It still works. Limited activities but if I don't get the > newer

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Small SoaS Disaster

2010-01-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi Caryl, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi All, > > I was playing in "PC Land" yesterday, trying to get a working SoaS > Blueberry. Downloaded the live usb maker from the net. Made the stick. > Put it in daughter-in-law's medium-sized hp netbook and tried it. After > we finally got it booted (she insiste

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Very Urgent! Still need SoaS Help!

2010-01-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > > > Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:08:27 -0500 > > Subject: Re: [SoaS] Very Urgent! Still need SoaS Help! > > From: walter.ben...@gmail.com > > To: cbige...@hotmail.com > > CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; > support-g...@laptop.org > > > > On Mon, J

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

2009-11-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
wrote: > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of ePub version, but > (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have books from several different > languages... > Maybe one out of a selection of languages would make sense... > > ciao carlo > > > --- Mar 17/11/09

[IAEP] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

2009-11-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, as you may know, we're going to ship some selected e-books in the Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing high-quality e-books instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical simplicity), we're going to use e-books from epubBooks (www.epubbooks.com)! Right now, I've just inclu

Re: [IAEP] What do I want "Big Time" To Be?

2009-11-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi All, Hi, I've put some comments inline... > When I asked if SoaS was ready for "Big Time", Martin replied, "What do > you mean? I'd recommend it but I don't know enough about what you want." > > So here is what I mean and want... > > I would like to be able to go into a

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] CeBIT Open Source 2010 - Call for Projects

2009-10-23 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sean DALY wrote: > http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Events/Cebit-2010-CFP > > deadline: Nov. 20. > > Perhaps we can prepare a submission at SugarCamp Bolzano? > > The "relevant to the business world" criteria is iffy, but I think > it's worth a shot. On a side note: CeBIT takes place in Hannover, w

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on RedHat or Zentos?

2009-10-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Rita Freudenberg wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know if there will be a Sugar on RedHat or Zentos? A > colleague of mine would like to run Sugar on Sun Thin Clients. If noone > is working on that right now, can you tell me how difficult it would be > build the Sugar port? We can try to find a intere

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Xoos Special Interest Group

2009-10-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
David Farning wrote: > As promised, we have started work on the XO operating system SIG at > Sugar Labs. The SIG pages are at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Xoos . > > Based on feedback from the current developers working in this space, > the most valuable starting point will be to start making dail

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Mel Chua wrote: > There's a lot going on in this thread, so here is my attempt to > summarize discussions so far. If I've missed or misstated anything, my > apologies - and it's a wiki, so go fix it. ;-) > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick > > By my count, there are 4 things we n

Re: [IAEP] SoaS: Searching for Decision Panel volunteers.

2009-09-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Chris Ball wrote: > Please volunteer by replying to this mail if you're interested, and > please do so by Thursday September 24th so that we can run the vote > at the Friday September 25th SLOBs meeting. > > Thanks! > > - Chris. Thanks for getting this process off the ground! :) Well, I'd obvious

Re: [IAEP] I would be able to help test if we did snapshots of current status of f12 sugar on a daily basis.

2009-09-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Thomas C Gilliard wrote: >> Why did sugar labs discontinue daily snapshots? > > Sugar Labs did not discontinue to issue daily snapshots because it never > build them. I'll reply in a more detailed way later today. Hey, sorry for the brief reply

Re: [IAEP] I would be able to help test if we did snapshots of current status of f12 sugar on a daily basis.

2009-09-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Thomas C Gilliard wrote: >> Why did sugar labs discontinue daily snapshots? > > Sugar Labs did not discontinue to issue daily snapshots because it never > build them. I'll reply in a more detailed way later today. Hey, sorry for the brief reply

Re: [IAEP] I would be able to help test if we did snapshots of current status of f12 sugar on a daily basis.

2009-09-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Thomas C Gilliard wrote: > Why did sugar labs discontinue daily snapshots? Sugar Labs did not discontinue to issue daily snapshots because it never build them. I'll reply in a more detailed way later today. > Tom Gilliard > satelit --Sebastian ___ IAE

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-16 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ght now. There are probably more. I would just like to know where I'm investing my work in, since I am just a volunteer. I don't get money for this. --Sebastian > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Daniel Drake <mailto:d...@laptop.org>> wrote: > > 2009/9/16

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-16 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:24, Daniel Drake wrote: >> 2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas: >>> Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an >>> "official" answer on this. Soon. >>> >>> Is the curre

[IAEP] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-15 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an "official" answer on this. Soon. Is the current SoaS going to be the primary way Sugar Labs distributes a Sugar-centric GNU/Linux distribution? --Sebastian ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Martin Dengler wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:12:46PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: >> Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >>> So my vision is that this SoaS is actually *the* way of >>> distributing Sugar, as a SL product. If Sugar Labs doesn't think >>> s

Re: [IAEP] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> So my vision is that this SoaS is actually *the* way of distributing >> Sugar, as a SL product. If Sugar Labs doesn't think so, I'd have >> preferred to be informed much earlier. > > I don't th

Re: [IAEP] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Martin Dengler wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 06:33:47PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> Martin Dengler wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:32:55PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >>>> == What is SoaS? == >>>> >>>> [...] SoaS ai

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sean DALY wrote: > Sebastian, what's your take? Can we "retire" SoaS-{1,2,3} or fold them > into the public v1, v2 numbers? Okay, let me shed some light in here, though I think this has already been discussed in length. In the early days when I started working on SoaS, we still had internal bui

[IAEP] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
tion Items: * We create a SoaS mailing list. * We establish the SoaS development team. Thanks, Sebastian Dziallas ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Martin Dengler wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:32:55PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> == What is SoaS? == >> >> [...] SoaS aims to make it easy for local deployers to provide each >> student with a thumbdrive (stick) [...] > > Notably, this does no

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-12 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
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, Blueberry=4, and 5 we'll use some other time > > Very clear - thanks

[IAEP] Getting a SoaS Docs Effort off the Ground

2009-09-09 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
From looking at the currently available documentation for Sugar on a Stick, I think it makes sense to collaborate on writing well written official instructions for it. So I've entered a Blueprint in Launchpad on it: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/soas/+spec/better-docs-for-soas I'd like to g

Re: [IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
David Farning wrote: > The project guidelines are now on the wiki at > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines . > > Please edit as necessary. When it looks like the editing has > stopped, I ask the board the ratify the guidelines. > > david I just looked into this, sorry fo

[IAEP] Next Test Day: Sugar on a Stick [Tomorrow]

2009-09-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Greetings, sorry for the late notice and the cross-post. This test day will focus on Sugar Labs' Sugar on a Stick, a downstream project based on Fedora. Sugar on a Stick has launched it's first version codenamed "Strawberry" successfully in June and has recently announced the beta release of it

Re: [IAEP] [math4] Git tutorial

2009-08-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Gary C Martin wrote: > 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, a

[IAEP] Sugar on a Stick switches to a new Bug Tracker

2009-08-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, with the imminent release of the SoaS v2 Beta in just ten days, I would like to announce the switch to Launchpad as our bug tracker. We have been evaluating an instance Luke Faraone set us up with lately and are confident that it will fit our needs. The upcoming beta release is t

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Competitive landscape: Intel Classmate executive blog post re updated software

2009-08-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > David and me briefly discussed the use of iTALC on Sugar last week as I > was interested in giving it a quick shot to see how it works. > Unfortunately the Web site doesn't offer direct downloads for Fedora > (though it does for Debian, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Suse and Gento

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Fwd: Follow-Up on: " looking for two groups of volunteers"]

2009-08-09 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Mel Chua wrote: >> For the trademark committee, one workflow that I'd personally be happy >> with is: >> >> * the trademark committee will set the trademark policy, and their >> policy will be backed up by SLOBS as the official policy. >> >> * separately, we'd need to decide whether we actually w

[IAEP] Who's interested in testing a new installer for SoaS?

2009-08-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm looking for some volunteers to test the hard disk installation with the latest SoaS snapshot and newly designed installer. Since this upstream project is really in the early stages of development but also concerns a pretty critical part of SoaS, I'd prefer getting some testing

[IAEP] Artwork Request for SoaS: Firstboot Theme

2009-08-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, as I've recently mentioned on-list SoaS now ships firstboot, which is a tool to configure some system-related stuff at... well, first boot! ;) So as this is usually quite Fedora-branded and since we aren't able to ship that trademarked logo, it would be great if we could get some

[IAEP] [Fwd: Follow-Up on: " looking for two groups of volunteers"]

2009-08-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
(fwd'ing to SLOBs, keeping IAEP in CC) Original-Nachricht Betreff: [IAEP] Follow-Up on: " looking for two groups of volunteers" Datum: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:35:20 +0200 Von: Sebastian Dziallas Antwort an: Sebastian Dziallas An: IAEP (referring to [2] here) Walt

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] SoaS with SD cards irregularities

2009-08-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:11:31PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote: > >> The sticks I have with SD cards have started to fail on the older >> computers >> at school (after working ok for 2 weeks of lessons). But they still work >> fine on my newer Dell mini inspiron. > The older ones a

[IAEP] Follow-Up on: " looking for two groups of volunteers"

2009-08-06 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
(referring to [2] here) Walter Bender wrote: > We decided on two actions in today's Sugar Oversight Board meeting > (See the transcript at > http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090710_0905.html): > > (1) form a committee to oversee the board election in August; > (2) form a committee

Re: [IAEP] Lets Get Satisfaction (was: Community Influence)

2009-07-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
"what's this all about?",...). --Sebastian > thanks. > > -walter > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Sebastian Dziallas > wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> it's really good to see this discussion getting off the ground. While >> being at LinuxTag,

Re: [IAEP] Lets Get Satisfaction (was: Community Influence)

2009-07-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Luke Faraone wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:35, Sebastian Dziallas <mailto:sebast...@when.com>> wrote: > > So while looking around and at various issue tracking systems, I > discovered GetSatisfaction. I had seen that before already, but wasn't > sur

[IAEP] Lets Get Satisfaction (was: Community Influence)

2009-07-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, it's really good to see this discussion getting off the ground. While being at LinuxTag, we discussed with some folks how to improve the way of getting feedback from our users, without putting too much barriers in their way. So while looking around and at various issue tracking s

Re: [IAEP] Math4

2009-07-27 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi, > > how is going the project? Anything we can give for testing to > olpc-sur, boston pilots, etc? > > Regards, > > Tomeu CC'ing the Math4 ML & Karlie here... If we can help anyhow, also from a SoaS side of things, please let us know (how about getting these activities u

[IAEP] Test the POSSE Education Fedora Remix today!

2009-07-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
illa, please make sure to make them depend on our tracker: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=EducationTracker Thanks, Sebastian Dziallas for the Education SIG ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.

Re: [IAEP] bad links on SoaS wiki page help please

2009-06-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Yeah, thanks for putting that there! It's good to have another reference there. I finally went ahead and edited the SoaS main page a bit, too. As the main wiki page is also directing to the Strawberry page, I hope that most people will get the information from there. Thanks for the great work o

Re: [IAEP] Show Must Go On - SoaS for the XO-1

2009-06-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Oh oh! :) That sounds really cool, Sean. And Kevin, glad that you got it working! --Sebastian Sean DALY wrote: > A couple of weeks back I bit the bullet and over a couple of evenings > filled out a table for my half a dozen XOs with these fields: > > Case head color > Case body color > XO name >

[IAEP] Show Must Go On - SoaS for the XO-1

2009-06-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm very pleased to announce the first early preview of a new generation of SoaS XO-1 images. Those consist not only of the latest and greatest Sugar bits, but also a F11 base system and a special OLPC kernel based on 2.6.30. This means now that even power management actually wor

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
wrote: >> Hi Sebastian, >> >> On 7 Jun 2009, at 14:37, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> looking at the wiki page, I'm really impressed - great work! :) >>> >>> I also really like the idea of switching the logo c

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, looking at the wiki page, I'm really impressed - great work! :) I also really like the idea of switching the logo color for each release - this shouldn't be hard and is an interesting approach. Has there already been some kind of agreement on which version we're going to use for the Li

[IAEP] [SoaS] New Snapshot: Activity Updates

2009-06-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm really happy to announce this new snapshot, which brings you quite some changes, compared to the last version. So what's waiting for you? * Fixed DPI size issue on the XO - should look better now * Included Library and Tux Paint; updated Record activity * updated Turtle Art t

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SugarCamp Berlin

2009-05-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
I guess I'll make it, too, as I'll arrive Friday morning and leave Sunday evening... :) looking forward to meet all of you (after I missed the SugarCamp in Paris)! --Sebastian David Van Assche wrote: > If we could do a meet prior to Sunday, that'd be great as my plane > leaves on Sunday 14.00 >

[IAEP] [SoaS] Status Report & Remaining Items

2009-05-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, I thought it might be a good idea to summarize where we're now regarding the upcoming SoaS for LinuxTag in June. So what are the remaining issues for this release? * All activities need to be updated and working (#607). Those which don't work by June 10 will be taken out from release

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
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 "Hello World" tutorial could be its boot >>> Activities for >>> Learners: Each development tool (Pippy, Turtle Art, Etoys, others,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
a lot no problem to create a script which could >>>> inject arbitrary text into a ppm file >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Gary C Martin >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hi Sean, >>>>

[IAEP] [SoaS] Important Schedule Changes - Please Read!

2009-05-26 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
. Please contact me with any concerns you may have - also off-list, if needed! Best Regards, --Sebastian Dziallas ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] [SoaS] Announcing Snapshot 2009/05/24

2009-05-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, after a short break, there's a new snapshot ready for you. It incorporates the latest packages from the upcoming F11 release, as well the Colors activity. Please report any bugs or issues you encounter and list them appropriately for the soas_linuxtag milestone in trac, if needed. Ou

[IAEP] [SoaS] Please Read: Future Plans and Request for Testing

2009-05-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, I'm going to outline here our plans for the next SoaS release, which is scheduled for late June and will be a RC. So. What do you need to know? First of all, our roadmap, which is located here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap Well, there are quite some deadlines

Re: [IAEP] Experiences with Soas2-200904231400.iso Snapshot

2009-04-28 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
James Simmons wrote: > Another comment on SoaS snapshot: > > When I found myself without a Browse activity in the first stick I had a > notion to copy the Smolt text from Terminal to the clipboard, save the > text to the Journal, then copy that Journal entry to a second thumb > drive which I could

[IAEP] [SoaS] A Hardware Effort: Please Help!

2009-04-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, we are now going to get a new hardware effort off the ground, to get some better QA done. This means that we ask you to submit the system specs of the machines you test SoaS - and that's actually pretty easy: * Just grab the latest snapshot (please don't use the beta!) from here:

[IAEP] Announcing Sugar on a Stick Beta 1

2009-04-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, The SoaS team is happy to announce the availability of our Beta-1 Release today! There has been impressive progress over the last few weeks; many thanks all the people who contributed their time and effort. The images have been composed and are up and ready for download. A direct

[IAEP] [SoaS] Beta Image and Boot Helper - please TEST!

2009-04-09 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, I think we might have some news you could be interested in: The SoaS Beta image has been composed and uploaded, so you can grab it now already, even if it's scheduled for release tomorrow. The link is here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-beta.iso Secondly, we've a boo

Re: [IAEP] meetup in Europe

2009-04-06 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
David Farning wrote: > Any time in May will be fine with me. I will also be there a either a > week earlier or later just to visit and site see. I look forward to > meeting you all. > > david Hi all, sorry for being late in this thread (and thanks to Tomeu for referring me to it). For me, it'

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caroline Meeks wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <mailto:sebast...@when.com>> wrote: > > Hi Caroline, > > thanks for giving this a try! I added some comments below... > > By the way, would it be okay for you to get a final

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 04.04.2009, at 00:17, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > >> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200904031934.iso > > This does not boot in VMWare Fusion. It stops after writing out initrd. > 0..ready. > > - Bert - This

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ing > Add Scratch and let me test it. It doesn't seem to be on the Activities > Portal yet. > > Fix: > Colors, Flipsticks and IRC and add the to the favorites Ring > > > I'm open to dissenting opinions here, this is just my current > impressions of what wou

[IAEP] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, the SoaS team has another snapshot ready for testing - it's absolutely important that it get's tested as much as possible for our release! You can grab it from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200904031934.iso If you're going to put it on a USB key or a SD c

[IAEP] [SoaS] Approaching a Release...

2009-04-01 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, we've a new soas-2 snapshot available for you! This is the recommended version for today's testing session. You can grab it here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200904011025.iso There's also a virtual appliance available here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/

[IAEP] [SoaS-2] A bunch of new Snapshots. Please test!

2009-03-21 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, it has been calm for almost a week, but now there are news regarding Sugar on a Stick! First of all, new snapshots have been made available. You can now grab the .iso image from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200903211320.iso And the virtual appliance from

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-15 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Wade Brainerd wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dave Bauer wrote: >> >>> >>> Actually, you can create a .vmdk from .img using the QEMU tools. It's >>> just that .vmdk is much more widely supported that .img so it would >>> save a conversion step for most VM users. >>> >>> I agree that we

[IAEP] [SoaS-2] Another Snapshot!

2009-03-13 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, there's another new - though, completely untested - snapshot of soas-2 ready and waiting for you here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200903131725.iso A log file from the build process has been posted, too: http://shell.sugarlabs.org/sdz/soas2-20090313.log So w

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS-2] Feature Complete? Another Snapshot.

2009-03-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
r me when booting off a CD. Thanks for bringing this up! A new snapshot is in the works, though, it was blocked by some RPM issues (which have been resolved), while we're waiting for a new kernel now. --Sebastian >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Kushal Das wrote: >>> On S

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS-2] Feature Complete? Another Snapshot.

2009-03-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 06.03.2009, at 20:33, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> there's another snapshot of soas-2 ready for testing! There will be >> another snapshot on this Sunday to have an up2date image for bug >> triaging session

[IAEP] [SoaS-2] Feature Complete? Another Snapshot.

2009-03-06 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, there's another snapshot of soas-2 ready for testing! There will be another snapshot on this Sunday to have an up2date image for bug triaging sessions. It's really important for us to get as much feedback as possible in this state of soas-2, since we'd like to get a release rolled ou

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] The Road to SoaS-2: A new Snapshot!

2009-03-06 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 04.03.2009, at 20:58, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> a new soas-2 snapshot is ready for you! Go and grab it NOW from here: >> >> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas-200903041854.iso >> >>

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] The Road to SoaS-2: A new Snapshot!

2009-03-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Ton van Overbeek wrote: > Generated the usb stick on Windows using liveusb-creator 3.2 with the '-x' > option to get the boot/olpc.fth file. Edited the olpc.fth file to get > rid of the extraneous > backslashes (Luke already fixed this in git, but no updated windows version of > liveusb-creator has

[IAEP] The Road to SoaS-2: A new Snapshot!

2009-03-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, a new soas-2 snapshot is ready for you! Go and grab it NOW from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas-200903041854.iso It's important for us to get as much feedback as possible now, since with the recent release of Sugar 0.84, we're also approaching a release of S

[IAEP] SoaS - moving onward...

2009-02-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, and here's another announcement for Sugar on a Stick! You can grab your updated version now directly from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/latest.iso This file is linking to the latest snapshot - if you're unsure whether you already have the latest version, please e

Re: [IAEP] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-21 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caroline Meeks wrote: > > > On all: the cursor was invisible to start. It appeared after I > navigated > > to the Journal and opened the detail view of an entry. Speak > didn't work. > > Ok! So this is still occuring; I don't know, what might be causing this, > but Marco

Re: [IAEP] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-21 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
olio > 17. It seemed to load fine on all three machines, but the bottom part of > the tabbed palette was clipped on the EeePC and Classmate 2 making some > of the pieces impossible to retrieve. > > Well, that was what I did in an hour. Looking forward to testing more. > &g

[IAEP] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, after some time, we've another snapshot of soas-1 ready for testing! You can now grab it directly from [1]. So what has changed in comparison to the last one? * size improvements everywhere - the whole image has been slimmed quite a bit and is now just around 350 MB! * sugar-wri

Re: [IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-11-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin, > which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD. > > So, what is this in specific? With this spin, you'll be able to run &g

[IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-10-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin, which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD. So, what is this in specific? With this spin, you'll be able to run Sugar, which is developed by Sugarlabs and the desktop environment used on

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > >http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/liveusb-creator-3.0.zip > > I tried this on windows xp. I unzipped the directory

Re: [IAEP] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-13 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi all, > > you may have already noticed, but we've got a Sugar spin based on Fedora > up here: > >http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/sugar-spin.iso > > The image itself is already a few days old, and there will be a new one > soon

[IAEP] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, you may have already noticed, but we've got a Sugar spin based on Fedora up here: http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/sugar-spin.iso The image itself is already a few days old, and there will be a new one soonish -- but I wanted to wait with a new release until we can get the sugar-b

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