Re: [SoaS] SoaS test cases: Quick way to test Activities

2010-05-02 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 01:26:00AM -0400, Mel Chua wrote: > This is a cool idea for using SoaS as a platform for testing > Activities - which is different from testing SoaS itself! I'm not sure > where Activity testing discussion should go - perhaps the OLPC testing > list, http://lists.laptop.org/

Re: [SoaS] SoaS test cases: Quick way to test Activities

2010-05-02 Thread Mel Chua
> I just discovered a great way to TEST activities with Mirabelle. > > Run them from a second stick. > They do not have to be installed or downloaded at all. This is a cool idea for using SoaS as a platform for testing Activities - which is different from testing SoaS itself! I'm not sure where Ac

Re: [SoaS] SoaS test cases: Quick way to test Activities : Preliminary Open Office.ods Spreadsheet of tested Activities in Mirabelle 501 USB

2010-05-02 Thread Mel Chua
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: > Here is the first spreadsheet; > > It is incomplete but lists some 130+ activities I have tried from ASLO and > other sources on Mirabelle These results might actually be great things to report on ASLO - for instance, the "Works With: " s

Re: [SoaS] SoaS test cases

2010-05-02 Thread Mel Chua
> To easy the on ramp, please provide a wiki-based interim drafting area > for the documentation much like the Teaching Open Source Textbook > Project, http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Textbook_Release_0.8. Is there an easy way to convert mediawiki to docbook xml? I'd love to have a more ea

Re: [SoaS] Making Creation Kit Less Technical

2010-05-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
I would love help on this project. I still think that a DVD is needed for remote locations,"sneakernet" installs, and for teachers behind a firewall. Any Ideas would be appreciated. On the new DVD I am including .pdf's of the Floss manuals (with links) That form on a DVD seems to me to be the m

Re: [SoaS] Making Creation Kit Less Technical

2010-05-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
Should we move the SOAS Creation Kit guide into FLOSS Manuals? I will be happy to join in a book sprint there. I have lots of experience reading engineering documents and producing manuals for novices. We have many other editors with similar experience in making sure that the resulting manual is at

Re: [SoaS] Making Creation Kit Less Technical

2010-05-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Caryl; Of course Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Oops! Sorry about the spelling label > Caryl > > From: cbige...@hotmail.com > To: satel...@bendbroadband.com; jtis4...@hotmail.com > Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 17:44:16 -0700 > CC: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org; gerald.ard...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [SoaS] Makin

Re: [SoaS] Making Creation Kit Less Technical

2010-05-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Oops! Sorry about the spelling label Caryl From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: satel...@bendbroadband.com; jtis4...@hotmail.com Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 17:44:16 -0700 CC: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org; gerald.ard...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [SoaS] Making Creation Kit Less Technical Hi Tom and John, I

Re: [SoaS] Making Creation Kit Less Technical

2010-05-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Tom and John, I have a MacBook and will try to help you with testing. So far, I did successfully make SoaS v2 on it in terminal with the help of George Hunt, and have made a SoaS v2 on a friend's PC. I have also bought an eeePC which, of course, has no optical drive. I want to get on

Re: [SoaS] Making Creation Kit Less Technical

2010-05-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
John Tierney wrote: Hi Tom, Thanks for the link and info on Sugar on a Stick Creation Kit. I downloaded and was able to sucessfully burn. There is a lot of great resources included, if we can translate/package into a slightly less Technical Format I think it could be very helpful and wi

[SoaS] Making Creation Kit Less Technical

2010-05-02 Thread John Tierney
Hi Tom, Thanks for the link and info on Sugar on a Stick Creation Kit. I downloaded and was able to sucessfully burn. There is a lot of great resources included, if we can translate/package into a slightly less Technical Format I think it could be very helpful and will allow new users to en

Re: [SoaS] SoaS test cases: Quick way to test Activities

2010-05-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Mel: I just discovered a great way to TEST activities with Mirabelle. Run them from a second stick. They do not have to be installed or downloaded at all. I am using a 2nd USB stick with 111.xo files on it downloaded from ASLO http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/ASLO-xo.tar.gz loaded into a usb

Re: [SoaS] Suggestion:The SugarClone script needs to run from CD to make a "customized"non-persistent soas USB

2010-05-02 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Fred; Another idea on using your script: I just tried soas-i386-20100501.07.iso burned to a CD booted from it and then ran in sugar-terminal su wget http://people.sugarlabs.org/fgrose/SugarClone chmod 077 SugarClone ./SugarClone Got Error: . There appears to b

[SoaS] Suggestion:The SugarClone script needs to generate an.iso file of a SugarClone customized USB

2010-05-02 Thread Frederick Grose
moving onto list... Forwarded conversation Subject: Suggestion:The SugarClone script needs to generate an.iso file of a SugarClone customized USB From: *Thomas C Gilliard* Date: Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:40 AM To: Frederick Grose Cc: Mel Chua Suggestions to consider: If

Re: [SoaS] SoaS test cases

2010-05-02 Thread Frederick Grose
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Mel Chua wrote: > ... > ... we are specifically looking for simple cross-platform instructions for novices, one set of instructions per platform, which we will be able to support. ... > One good place to put these instructions is on the documentation we're >

Re: [SoaS] SoaS test cases

2010-05-02 Thread Mel Chua
> * this telepathy-gabble update, > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/telepathy-gabble-0.9.11-1.fc13, > to be pushed to the Fedora updates repo =96 it has +3 karma but is still > in testing, and must be pushed before Tuesday; without it, collaboration > in SoaS does not work at all. > > In th