Re: [IAEP] play dvds

2012-03-05 Thread Yamaplos .
best solution, don't! You cite many very good reasons why many people will not benefit from a full computer, but can benefit from DVDs. 7B people are on the earth and 2B cannot read [400M in India. 2M in the USA] but they can be educated using video/audio DVDs. Blind and deaf people can be

Re: [IAEP] play dvds

2012-03-05 Thread Yamaplos .
+1 or SD cards. Easy to build, replicate, scale a full library of resources that way. Per-piece cost higher than DVDs, but more than worth it as you can save your own work, interact with the system, update 2012/3/5, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz: On Mar 6, 2012 6:29 AM, Ken

Re: [IAEP] Why Is programming an unnatural activity?

2012-02-29 Thread Yamaplos .
Steve, for some reason the link to your blog didn't work for me. JIC others needed it, here: http://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-is-programming-unnatural-activity.html Brilliant! I really appreciate you pointing out these great ideas to the rest of us. For many years I have

[IAEP] Mechatronics with XO + MSP430 microcontroller Lab manual Spanish

2012-02-28 Thread Yamaplos .
A while back I put together some instructions on how to get a vanilla XO/Sugar to talk to a Texas Instruments MSP430 Launchad board (including 2 microcontrollers, shipping included, only $4.30) http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OLPC_XO-1 I'm pushing the concept further with some Lab

[IAEP] TI MSP430 running on XO 1 - Robotics!

2012-02-09 Thread Yamaplos .
The TI MSP430 chips are a very attractive alternative to add robotic options for XO / Sugar users. Microcontrolers are the brain behind many engineering hobby and educational pursuits, but many alternatives are expensive or very hard to run in the XO. The TI Launchpad board, with a G2553

Re: [IAEP] Mes de WikiSur

2012-02-01 Thread Yamaplos .
language activity, and thus mostly aiming at ES wikis and such, yet all are welcome to participate) See and improve link below El 01/02/12, Yamaplos . yamap...@gmail.com escribió: ¿Cómo se sienten para lanzar un evento continental? el objetivo es llegar, en un mes, a 1,000,000 nuevos artículos y

Re: [IAEP] Write: The file 'abc.odt' is corrupt and therefore cannot be opened. LibreOffice can try to repair the file...

2011-12-12 Thread Yamaplos .
Chris, I do certainly believe Martin. What I missed somewhere (thanks!) is the AbiWord connection, about which I of course did know in an earlier life :-) but I had forgotten. I actually had no idea Abiword was supposed to deal with ODT - I was following this in the RTF days. Nevertheless,

[IAEP] is Sur messed up?

2011-12-11 Thread Yamaplos .
it has been noticed the list configs for Sur were changed recently, and a thread started there on the subject by Paolo (asking for going back to our old setups, which is something I support). When I tried to reply to it, my message bounced indicating my address is not a member ¿¿???

[IAEP] Write: The file 'abc.odt' is corrupt and therefore cannot be opened. LibreOffice can try to repair the file...

2011-12-11 Thread Yamaplos .
I came upon this error trasferring a file from a kid's XO here in Bolivia to my Ubuntu. I am not sure what system he had, since before I got to open the file in my machine I updated his to os874. I will try again tomorrow, hoping this old, old issue is no longer... My understanding is that the

Re: [IAEP] is Sur messed up?

2011-12-11 Thread Yamaplos .
to admin the olpc lists... That is the real thing i think. Regarding the kids, we can try to tell them again that a public community archive is not good place for new experiences. On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Yamaplos . yamap...@gmail.com wrote: it has been noticed the list configs

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] is Sur messed up?

2011-12-11 Thread Yamaplos .
know if any grown up is volunteering to admin the olpc lists... That is the real thing i think. Regarding the kids, we can try to tell them again that a public community archive is not good place for new experiences. On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Yamaplos . yamap...@gmail.com wrote

[IAEP] Riots in La Paz: Bolivians don't want Classmates, no no no!

2011-09-28 Thread Yamaplos .
Because they do not like the Intel Classmate computers the City Government of La Paz gave them, on Tuesday Sept 27 the La Paz union of parents of schoolchildren blockaded the main highway between La Paz and El Alto, with one woman injured due to the tires being burned. they are made in China and

Re: [IAEP] Licitación Ceibal

2011-07-05 Thread Yamaplos .
Martin, Segun vos todo lo que hay en el wiki principal (???) es oficial, legal, y sujeto a compromisos legales? parece una declaracion de OLPC Opas los abogados esos que se creerian algo as'i, aunque me imagino que hay de todos tipos. No era que el wiki es wiki? y laptop.org tiene su

Re: [IAEP] Licitación Ceibal

2011-07-05 Thread Yamaplos .
Tiene arreglo. Estamos buscando algun angel que se ponga con la mosca, y no es dificil aliarse con una empresa afin. Yo mismo tengo en EEUU una empresa con trayectoria mayor de 3 a-os, aunque no en nel rubro exacto El 05/07/11, Gabriel Eirea gei...@gmail.com escribió: Yamandú: (English

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Suggestion to close some mailing lists

2011-05-11 Thread Yamaplos .
Let me share MHO about one example: the OLPC-Bolivia list I'd say with no objective evidence :-) that 80-90% is cross postings with Sur. However, that smaller percent left is very much us talk, which I've unsuccessfully :-) tried to corral into the OLE-Bolivia list. Moreover, the few people who

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] GPL non compliance? was Re: GPL non-compliance, was Re: GPLv3

2011-04-26 Thread Yamaplos .
Guys, with all due respect, this is reaching a level of silly befuddlement. Maybe all source IS available somewhere somehow, thus GPL's honor is safe, and at least technically there is compliance, and saying it ain't so is untrue. Which is not worth a vintén, since such so called availability is