Re: [sugar] Distribute activity

2008-02-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 22:37 -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: In light of the many requests for a way to distribute arbitrary Journal entries, I am writing an activity tentatively named Distribute. This activity is little more than the HTTP server code from the Read activity, made more

[sugar] Spreadsheet for sugar

2008-02-19 Thread msevior
Walter Bender wrote: snip Dan Bricklin, Luke Closs, Manusheel Guptam, and Eben Eliason have continued to make progress on the SocialCalc project (See http://www.peapodcast.com/sgi/olpc/). Recently added features include: copy/cut/paste; basic support for CSV and tab-delimited data; merge/unmerge

Re: [sugar] An Update about Speech Synthesis for Sugar

2008-02-19 Thread Samuel Klein
I'd like to see an eSpeak literacy project written up -- Once we have a play button, with text highlighting, we have most of the pieces to make a great read + speak platform that can load in texts and highlight words/sentences as they are being read. Ping had a nice mental model for this a while

Re: [sugar] Distribute activity

2008-02-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:23 -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Tomeu Vizoso wrote: | On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 22:37 -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: | In light of the many requests for a way to distribute arbitrary Journal entries, | I am writing an activity tentatively named Distribute. This

Re: [sugar] Distribute activity

2008-02-19 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomeu Vizoso wrote: | On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 22:37 -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: | In light of the many requests for a way to distribute arbitrary Journal entries, | I am writing an activity tentatively named Distribute. This activity is | little

[sugar] Disconnected backups.

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, During the Sugar meeting today we talked about how to handle backup and restore in the case where there is no school server or network. Here are some of our thoughts: * We should backup journal objects only, possibly with compression. The USB disks being used for backup won't be huge,

Re: [sugar] Disconnected backups.

2008-02-19 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 13:08 -0500, Chris Ball wrote: * Encryption/privacy probably isn't desirable here -- we're dealing with objects that the user has chosen to have backed up. The Bitfrost spec refers to this as a primary backup. It is inevitable, since in the case of hardware failure, any

[sugar] Sugar mtg minutes, 19th February 2008

2008-02-19 Thread Simon Schampijer
Logs: http://dev.laptop.org/~tomeu/sugar_meeting_Feb_19.log Attending: tomeu, erikos, cjb, CristophD, daja77, Ridderman Topics: * roadmap: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Roadmap o Tomeu tried to describe the latest mockups for the New Home view and Frame design. o UI for

Re: [sugar] Disconnected backups.

2008-02-19 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
* We could use the favorite flag, or a new backup flag, to signify which jobjects the user would like to back up, and we can try to accomodate them. We probably still need a per-user quota. ... * Encryption/privacy probably isn't desirable here -- we're dealing with objects that the

Re: [sugar] Disconnected backups.

2008-02-19 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 19, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote: That's a separate issue - at the simplest, you just store the encryption key on the first backup and only manually thereafter; a more complicated scheme, for implementing later, would break it into 5 parts of which any 3 would

Re: [sugar] An Update about Speech Synthesis

2008-02-19 Thread Samuel Klein
Hemant and James, Can you write something about this at a [[spoken texts]] page on the wiki ('hear and read'? some other more creative name... )? The Google Literacy Project is highlighting a number of literacy efforts for the upcoming World Book Day, and your work would be fine suggestions for

[sugar] Community/OLPC Server Support Discussion

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Stone
Friends, Chris Ball and I would like to spend a few minutes, perhaps at 8:20 PM EST, Monday, Feb. 25 in #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org trying to hammer out a declaration of the mutual expectations that exist between OLPC volunteers and employees about how server-based software

Re: [sugar] Community/OLPC Server Support Discussion

2008-02-19 Thread ffm
On Feb 19, 2008 8:15 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends, Chris Ball and I would like to spend a few minutes, perhaps at 8:20 PM EST, Monday, Feb. 25 in #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org Would it be possible to have the meeting at 3:30 PM EST, Thursday, Feb. 21st? -FFM