Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Boot SoaS on Windows machines? Help!

2010-11-10 Thread James Cameron
also known as BIOS, and is the semi-permanent program which is responsible for checking the hardware and loading an operating system. It doesn't really belong in the OLPC or Sugar Wiki unless it is clearly marked as relating to the type of machine you have ... manufacturer, model, and firm

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [soas] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-24 Thread James Cameron
ble Linux builds. Therefore the instructions for doing so are no longer Mac specific, but rather generic. A virtual host emulates a common environment. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [soas] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-24 Thread James Cameron
any host operating system supported by VirtualBox or VMware environment, including Linux. It means that you don't have to do anything on a Linux system to make it work, except install VirtualBox or VMware. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ __

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Assorted Observations and Comments

2011-02-01 Thread James Cameron
right-click on wireless icon), and then join it from the other laptops." Fixed for 10.1.3. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Assorted Observations and Comments

2011-02-01 Thread James Cameron
end trying it, especially for showing to members of the general public. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Google Art Project

2011-02-03 Thread James Cameron
ed this on 11.2.0 and it works in Firefox and in Browse. It didn't work in Firefox until Gnash was removed. In Browse, the white flash box appears asking you to click it to get it started. I'm not sure why Browse does that. Caryl, make sure you click. -- James

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?

2011-02-22 Thread James Cameron
I agree with Walter. About two million. I don't have access to the internal figures. See also 1,834,500 in a probably partial list of laptop orders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child#Summary_of_laptop_orders -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.o

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-AU] Chess activities

2011-04-28 Thread James Cameron
ily fit in the CPU budget. (... especially if one avoided Python for the AI and stuck to the usual implementation languages for such things. There are several in the Debian software collection which might be repurposed. A Sugar wrapper for xboard doesn't feel like it would be too silly.) --

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] EduJAM day 2 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-03 Thread James Cameron
de feedback early. [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3#XO-1_Automatic_power_management_issues [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchpad_driver_changes -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] EduJAM day 2 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-03 Thread James Cameron
hink you should enable it again then. Either on a per-laptop basis using the procedure already mentioned, or make a new build. But be prepared for complaints from people who got used to it being disabled. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ I

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-07 Thread James Cameron
y and crystal harmonizers. This really doesn't impress me. Is there any evidence base for repelling mosquitos using low frequency sound? Is there any evidence that enough of the population of mosquitos is repelled? All it takes is for one strain to not be repelled and it will breed up.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-07 Thread James Cameron
z, not 45-67 Hz. I've found no peer-reviewed tests of low frequency sound, but then I don't know where to look. Got any ideas? (I do see another study on NIH showing high frequency sound induced increased biting rates ... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20618651 ) -- James Cameron

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Quick Question

2011-08-05 Thread James Cameron
In Terminal, type idle and press enter. You get Python's own editor, with a Python shell that you can type into as well. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sug

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Quick Question

2011-08-05 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 05:49:47PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > I must be doing something wrong: Yes, type idle before you type python. That is, start terminal, then type idle. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It&#

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-08-31 Thread James Cameron
ed to shutdown carefully. The change will persist through boots and software updates, including complete wipes. It won't persist through several months of non-use. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Projec

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-08-31 Thread James Cameron
t it won't be because of the existing journal, it gets wiped by a full reflash. Why did some of the laptops work the way you expected them to? Sad news; it means they were never touched between when you flashed them and when you got them back! -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-08-31 Thread James Cameron
ered here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Control_Panel#Time .. but I recall that some builds don't even have ntpdate, and the instructions don't account for that. Older instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Config_Notes

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: unique activities TamTamMini-60 . . .

2011-09-01 Thread James Cameron
406.xx is far too old, I don't think any of the activities available on Sugar Labs would be particularly compatible. Upgrade to a later build. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a lapt

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: unique activities TamTamMini-60 . . .

2011-09-02 Thread James Cameron
on't think any of the activities available on > > Sugar Labs would be particularly compatible. Upgrade to a later build. > > > > -- > > James Cameron > > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > > ___ > >

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Need Wiki Help!

2011-09-08 Thread James Cameron
l me how to do it? Go edit a page that does it, and see how it works? It is caused by putting a space in front of the line. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@li

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Need Wiki Help!

2011-09-09 Thread James Cameron
Feel free to visit me in outback Australia. Budget at least two days rental car driving. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FW: [Olpc-uruguay] Carita triste

2011-09-09 Thread James Cameron
: > Is there a way to fix it without sending it in for repairs? No. (Unless Alan is capable of repairs.) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FW: [Olpc-uruguay] Carita triste

2011-09-09 Thread James Cameron
Changing the clock battery alone will not fix this. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] [support-gang] 12-Year-Old XOs (even 18-yesr-olds)

2011-09-12 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 02:03:45AM -0400, John Watlington wrote: > On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:55 AM, James Cameron wrote: > > I searched for ntp-set-clock using Google: > > > > site:wiki.laptop.org "ntp-set-clock" > > I learn some new function of OFW ever

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Problems!

2011-09-14 Thread James Cameron
on? Any quick fixes? Should I just download > 874 again, make a new usb, and reflash again? Of course not, that won't make any difference to a failed keyboard. ;-} -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Educati

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Problems!

2011-09-14 Thread James Cameron
ily. I'm able to get the ok prompt with the 2 key held down. Perhaps there's more than one key held down. I've had that happen on an XO-1, and I swapped the keyboard out. It was the shift, ctrl, and tab keys on the left side. --

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Sugar Labs Down?

2011-11-11 Thread James Cameron
I see the same. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Testing] I would like feedback on the "How_to_use_the_IRC_Application" wiki page

2011-12-13 Thread James Cameron
d idea. I won't edit it though, because I don't know you'd agree with the changes I make. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar is available for download in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS; 10.10 & 11.04 with sweets_distribution. Wiki Page updated

2012-03-04 Thread James Cameron
oning it implies that Sugar is supported in the same way. Sugar is in the universe repository, and isn't a core part of Ubuntu. Lastly, I've hunted out every mention of "sugar-emulator -f", which seems to be something that you'd like fixed which still isn't fixed, and

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar is available for download in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS; 10.10 & 11.04 with sweets_distribution. Wiki Page updated

2012-03-05 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:29:30AM -0800, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: > On 03/04/2012 09:21 PM, James Cameron wrote: > >Thanks. I've simplified > >http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu some more, > >concentrating on how an Ubuntu user should try out

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sweets-sugar-emulator cannot be found in my Xubuntu 11.10 64 bits

2012-03-08 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for the test of xubuntu-11.10-desktop-amd64.iso We should work with laurent to find what is different in the system that causes the error. I still recommend laurent test sweets-sugar-emulator from a terminal to gather more details. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-06-10

2012-06-12 Thread James Cameron
em if enough letters are typed. e.g. bash$ ls /dev/se by-i is enough to select the only one there. Hope that helps. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Thanks! Update Working... Notes on What We Did To Make It Happen

2012-09-17 Thread James Cameron
. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-20 Thread James Cameron
you tell which kind you need? > > > http://www.parallax.com/Store/Sensors/ColorLight/tabid/175/List/0/CategoryID/50 > /Level/a/SortField/0/Default.aspx > > ___________ > support-gang mailing list > support-g...@lists.laptop.org > h

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread James Cameron
e USB socket on the OLPC XO has the most utility for this. Other things to take into account are: - the software for the microcontroller (Turtle Art plugins exist for at least Arduino and ExpEyes), - the cost of the microcontroller, - the increased complexity of setup; write the script, conn

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Questions About Solar Panels

2012-11-02 Thread James Cameron
und it may change pitch as the invisible clouds scud by. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang]

2012-12-02 Thread James Cameron
backup program would be aware of multiple users). > > I would appreciate any suggestions for better ways to do this and > for anyone who sees something I have missed. > > Tony > _______ > support-

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang]

2012-12-02 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 03:53:32PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: > For a truly shared computer, I suggest switching to a login screen > before Sugar, such as that provided by the default Fedora (before OLPC > OS removed it). I tried this just now on an XO-4 with 13.1.0 build 15, and wa

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang]

2012-12-02 Thread James Cameron
by one user in the name of > another is probably not worth the 'screensaver' strategy. In the > end, the users will have to learn the habit of identifying > themselves. Yes, the balance is for you to decide. I'm just making sure you have what you need to evaluate the op

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] More new stuff in "Make Your Own Sugar Activities1"

2013-01-07 Thread James Cameron
Thanks Ignacio! (and James!) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] XO-4 Questions After Viewing CES video

2013-01-10 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:19:05AM -0500, John Watlington wrote: > I don't know how to delete an entry from the Journal, do you ? Open Journal, right-click on an entry, select Erase. (Okay, I had to go and check that, I rarely do it.) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linu

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Persistance For Downloaded Activities: How To???

2013-04-24 Thread James Cameron
point, so one of the mesh icons automatically started. If you use 883 on an XO-1.5, then the mesh icons won't appear. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Persistence For Downloaded Activities: How To???

2013-04-25 Thread James Cameron
put the USB drive in an XO and turn it on while holding down the four game keys. There's also the supported method: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.1.0/Installation/XO-1 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It&#x

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2013-08-22

2013-08-22 Thread James Cameron
me of Aesop's > Fables that is nice too. But, for the apps in the main children's > "Dream" interface section, there is very little that offers an > opportunity for creative, collaborative learning like Sugar does. Yes, Sugar still has the advantage as far as collabora

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2013-09-16

2013-09-19 Thread James Cameron
talgia-16658 "Nostalgia is a healthy emotion that promotes well-being and helps people cope with vulnerabilities and insecurities. Nostalgia is not about living in the past, it is utilising the past to help with struggles in the present." -- James Cameron http://qu

Re: [IAEP] Helping test Sugar 0.100

2013-09-26 Thread James Cameron
ave more fun, in development for Australia. > [...] Some of these feature pages have very old current status or do not mention 0.100. Is http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Configuring_Hidden_Wifi_Access_Points still correct in saying that the network can be defined in the My Settings -> Network pa

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Helping test Sugar 0.100

2013-09-26 Thread James Cameron
ted on > > xo-1, but should work). > > Excellent! Yes, should work in any XO architecture No, these RPMs include some that are i386 only. That means XO-1 and XO-1.5 only. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's

Re: [IAEP] Helping test Sugar 0.100

2013-09-26 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 03:58:39PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Multiple Home > Views: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multiple_home_views I could not see how to make this work. What is the test case? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.

Re: [IAEP] Helping test Sugar 0.100

2013-09-26 Thread James Cameron
string [emblem-favorite','emblem-favorite'] Thanks. Minor missing quote. Works fine after restart. Fixed Wiki. It looks like a deployment might enable this in olpc-os-builder:modules/sugar/kspost.50.gconf.inc -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ __

Re: [IAEP] Helping test Sugar 0.100

2013-09-27 Thread James Cameron
the key as part of the type. After replacing the no-break space, the command gave no error. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Helping test Sugar 0.100

2013-09-30 Thread James Cameron
ttached .xo, can anybody give me a hand? thanks! This .xo is a web activity. Gonzalo said in first mail of thread on 26th September: > What is out? > > We can't test web activities in F18 yet. There are work ongoing, but > is not ready. Can test now, Gonzalo? -- James Cameron

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Arch Linux XO image and Sugar packages

2013-10-08 Thread James Cameron
Good. I was going to locate the ext4 support, as it was recently > Now how do I setup a wifi link? Tried iwconfig but it's not found. iw replaced iwconfig didn't it? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Arch Linux XO image and Sugar packages

2013-10-08 Thread James Cameron
to filesystems that were not in a partition table. None of the OLPC install processes needed that though, so it wasn't fixed until recently. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (no

Re: [IAEP] Arch Linux XO image and Sugar packages

2013-10-09 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 02:56:55PM +0200, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > On Wednesday, 9 October 2013, James Cameron wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 09:32:34PM -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote: > > > dir u:\ > > > > > > clears the screen and shows some garbled text. >

Re: [IAEP] some very cool features for a capacitive touchscreen

2013-10-24 Thread James Cameron
Sounds interesting. For the XO-4, use objects that are at least 3mm thick (front to back), at least 6mm wide, and opaque to infrared. There's a piano keys mode used by an activity, in case further code tricks are interesting. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.o

Re: [IAEP] some very cool features for a capacitive touchscreen

2013-10-25 Thread James Cameron
of 8 mm or larger (measured within a mm of the end.)" -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [Sur] Sugar oversight board meeting

2013-11-04 Thread James Cameron
m well, so I can't guess where effort would have to be spent to fix it. (especially in comparison to an XO-1) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] OMG! I Bricked It!

2013-12-12 Thread James Cameron
> Any ideas about what I should try next??? > > Caryl > > P.S. Please forward to anyone you think may know how to fix this. > _______ > support-gang mailing list > support-g...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang --

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] OMG! I Bricked It!

2013-12-12 Thread James Cameron
I'd have to check the serial number. I know how to fix it; replace the motherboard, or reflow the solder under the CPU. But don't try it unless you know how to do it. Good to find out now rather than when a child has it. References: 1. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10314 -- James Ca

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] triage meeting

2014-04-10 Thread James Cameron
to not process already triaged "would be nice" tickets, so you shouldn't be wasting triage time on them over and over. If you are, fix your triage process. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education P

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] triage meeting

2014-04-18 Thread James Cameron
ces, but not customised instances. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Announcing the development of OLPC OS 14.1.0

2014-09-26 Thread James Cameron
they should coalesce. Test reports are welcome on de...@lists.laptop.org thanks. We encourage community developers to use our olpc-os-builder repository to publish XO-1 and XO-1.5 builds of Fedora 20 with Sugar 0.102, and we can offer advice on that via the mailing lists. -- James Cameron

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Systems] MediaWiki upgrade on wiki.sugarlabs.org

2014-11-04 Thread James Cameron
; creating new user accounts from OpenID, which is currently the only way > >> to log into the wiki due to persistent spammers. > > > > Done. Please check if you can still login and edit pages. > > > > Test edits go here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SandBox >

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] RE: How To Reinstall XO Tablet Software?

2014-11-23 Thread James Cameron
OLPC OS releases page. It would be as likely as air conditioning on a motorcycle! Instead, they would look at the left-hand side of the Wiki pages, where it says "about the tablet" and "support for". See attached fragment of screen. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ __

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] OLPC and SugarLabs at SCaLE 13X Feb 20-22

2015-01-09 Thread James Cameron
like to pay for support, there are people who can provide it for a fee. > Lastly, which XOs do they work on? XO 1.0's, 1.5's 1.75's 4's or all > of them? All of them. (p.s. no such thing as XO 1.0, it is an XO-1) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ __

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-25 Thread James Cameron
ember 2013. The results are all because of memory contention, and the fixes are to either: 1. run the operating system from SD card, (which releases a lot of memory), or 2. add swap partition on SD card, (which moves little used memory to the card). -- James C

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-25 Thread James Cameron
itable for developers to begin the process of tuning for the XO-1. On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 03:48:30PM -0500, Sora Edwards-Thro wrote: > Thanks for the fact-checking, James. Sorry I didn't correctly attribute credit > to you, Gonzalo.  > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:33 PM, James Cameron

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-25 Thread James Cameron
It explains a lot. First build after Fedora 11 was 11.2.0 (os874) using Fedora 14. So if we rebuild everything there may be an improvement? That's probably something that can be set running as a test. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-25 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:20:02PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > On February 25, 2015 at 3:09 PM James Cameron wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 01:20:19PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > > I know this is not a sugar issue directly, more of an OLPC issue > > > but si

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 03:31:50PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:20:02PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > > On February 25, 2015 at 3:09 PM James Cameron wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 01:20:19PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: > > > >

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread James Cameron
colour impaired children. I don't think it needs to be kept for Sugar, and would welcome a change where colour was more heavily used. (Developers: as a reproducible colouring of the background of the icons, for example, along with nicknames always shown on the neighbourhood view.) -- James C

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] This list in need YOUR help

2015-03-29 Thread James Cameron
pattern. I'm happy with my moderation responsibilities on lists.laptop.org; they keep me busy ... but if you have no other volunteers for moderation, let me know. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project

[IAEP] Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.4 for XO-1

2015-05-10 Thread James Cameron
those who have provided feedback of any kind. 32016o0 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://list

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Re: Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.4 for XO-1

2015-05-11 Thread James Cameron
reating this directory: sudo mkdir /usr/local/share/sugar/activities You would not have this problem if you had used olpc-os-builder, which is the method recommended and tested by OLPC. @Sam, any ideas? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-13 Thread James Cameron
, and they are asking for feedback and > >> content. > >> > >> > >> http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2015/05/07/time-to-kick-the-tires-on-the-new-fedora-websites-in-staging/ > >> > >> Who can provide the information requested? > >> > >> -- > >> Gonzalo Odiard > >> > >>

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar all-hands meeting

2015-05-27 Thread James Cameron
ge with other groups to figure out what they would > need to use Sugar. This does not necessarily mean that we need > to fly them everywhere; but it would give us a good idea of what > might be required to obtain gain certain types of deployments. Hmm, shrug. Names for things

[IAEP] Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.5 with Sugar 0.106

2015-07-09 Thread James Cameron
ugar 0.106 should be directed to sugar-devel@ list. Build file names: 32017o0 32017o1 32017o2 32017o4 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2015-08-10 Thread James Cameron
Thanks, I enjoyed observing this meeting. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Worldwide OECD Education study published: Students, Computers and Learning

2015-09-15 Thread James Cameron
because it is a skill similar to handwriting, and on the other because activities for teaching math are difficult to isolate. Figure 6.3 shows a clear trend downwards in mathematics performance as more computers are added. Peru is not a member country of OECD yet; here's hoping. --

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] Meeting reminder

2015-10-05 Thread James Cameron
r > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Educati

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] Meeting reminder

2015-10-06 Thread James Cameron
eople had left the meeting room. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] rescheduled meeting

2015-10-12 Thread James Cameron
The channel is unchanged, #sugar-meeting on irc.freenode.net. On 13/10/2015, at 9:22 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Rosamel would like to attend the meeting today. I can't find the right link > for her. She is waiting for me on Facebook to send it to her. Please, if > someone has a direct link to t

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] November meeting reminder

2015-11-02 Thread James Cameron
rlabs.org > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > >> > >> _ > >> This mail has been virus scanned by Australia On Line > >> see http://www.australiaonline.net.a

[IAEP] Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.6 with Sugar 0.107

2015-11-16 Thread James Cameron
evel@ list. Note: this release is temporarily hosted on our build server while we work to bring our usual download server back to full health. Build file names: 32018o0 32018o1 32018o2 32018o4 -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It'

Re: [IAEP] Membership deadline.

2015-11-30 Thread James Cameron
ews; as elections are expensive. > Or, one might seek to understand why interest in Sugar and Sugarlabs > continues to decline. No, the governance of an organisation should not be distracted by such matters. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Membership deadline.

2015-12-01 Thread James Cameron
.org/listinfo/iaep > > -- > Laura V. > I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org > > Identi.ca/Skype acaire > IRC kaametza > > Happy Learning! > > References: > > [1] mailto:sebast...@fuentelibre.org > [2] mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > [3] http://lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] "Google accused of tracking school kids after it promised not to"

2015-12-02 Thread James Cameron
gt; [8] > http://googleforeducation.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-facts-about-student-data-privacy-in.html > [9] > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/googles-student-tracking-isnt-limited-chrome-sync > [10] > http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/01/20/google-changes-course-s

Re: [IAEP] 2016-2018 Oversight Board

2015-12-29 Thread James Cameron
from the Sugar software. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Introduction of myself

2016-01-06 Thread James Cameron
e SoaS mailing list? http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas Sugar has a localisation process, and since Sugar forms a major part of SoaS you might be more interested in that? http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.netr

Re: [IAEP] 2016-2018 Oversight Board

2016-01-22 Thread James Cameron
impossible to achieve without changing the nature of membership. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Ombudsman

2016-02-12 Thread James Cameron
ersight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2016-02-12 > ___________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] financial summaries posted for Sugar Labs' 4 fiscal years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

2016-02-12 Thread James Cameron
sfconservancy.org/ > [2] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.

[IAEP] Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.7 with Sugar 0.108

2016-02-24 Thread James Cameron
o0 32019o1 32019o2 32019o4 -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Announcing OLPC OS 13.2.7 with Sugar 0.108

2016-02-24 Thread James Cameron
ease_notes/13.2.7#Video_Playback .  But the truth will announce itself soon > enough, as to how far volunteers get resampling key vids in suitable codecs :} > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:26 PM, James Cameron <[2]qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > > G'day, > >

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] quarterly or semiannual financials/vibrancy/transparency around Sugar Labs' 1st hire

2016-04-04 Thread James Cameron
ood > idea :) If it is 6-month, $6k contract with $80k in the bank, that seems > pretty > harmless to me even if it was a total failure, had no oversight, and delivered > nothing. Agreed. Sugar Labs is more at risk of failure to use available funds than it is at risk of losing fund

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Samson's proposal to SLOBs

2016-04-05 Thread James Cameron
> > [1] > https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=A02A6B155E984772!452&authkey=!AE8LFLFOt_Zhi04&ithint=file%2cods > [2] mailto:samsongo...@hotmail.com > [3] mailto:la...@somosazucar.org > [4] mailto:samsongo...@hotmail.com > [5] mailto:cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com >

Re: [IAEP] Motions to create position of Translation-Community Manager

2016-04-05 Thread James Cameron
bs.org > [6] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Motions to create position of Translation-Community Manager

2016-04-06 Thread James Cameron
ed, but I thought the wording made that > very clear. > > Tony > > On 04/06/2016 02:20 PM, James Cameron wrote: > >I take it to mean that you intend that the translation team be > >eclipsed by the translation community manager? That's unfortunate. > > > >O

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Motions to create position of Translation-Community Manager

2016-04-06 Thread James Cameron
] mailto:walter.ben...@gmail.com > [2] mailto:d...@lab6.com > [3] mailto:walter.ben...@gmail.com > [4] http://www.sugarlabs.org/ > [5] http://www.sugarlabs.org/ > [6] mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > [7] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > ___

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

2016-04-12 Thread James Cameron
ent, and is infrequently updated. I'm able to find time to update Wiki pages on development topics, but the toolchain requirements for sugar-docs is a barrier I've yet to climb. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's A

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