Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Google Summer of Code 2009 is a go!

2009-01-12 Thread Mel Chua
> What scope of software projects is SL interested in mentoring this year? See http://sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code, which (afaik) reflects the current state of plans. > I am concerned that this program may make the typical first-year > mistake of treating SoC like an opportunity to get free c

[Sugar-devel] Extra power cord at fudcon

2009-01-12 Thread Yifan
Hey guys, Yesterday, I accidentally walked out with two power cords. I took it from E145, so I assume it's a sugar developer's cord. It's a three-pronged Dell cord. If anybody lost one such cord and wants it back, please let me know so I can return it. Thanks, Yifan __

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Google Summer of Code 2009 is a go!

2009-01-12 Thread Samuel Klein
What scope of software projects is SL interested in mentoring this year? I am concerned that this program may make the typical first-year mistake of treating SoC like an opportunity to get free coding for known projects, rather than an opportunity to mentor rewarding internships for motivated and

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam proposal

2009-01-12 Thread Wade Brainerd
Yeah, I'm expecting the AT coordinators to be Gitorious admins with the ability to add/remove users. I'd rather not encourage wild forking of activities with crazy patch flows if possible :) I still have a lot to learn about Gitorious. However, the *easiest* way to contribute to an activity is:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Helping with activity development

2009-01-12 Thread Wade Brainerd
Great! To get started, set up a Sugar environment if you haven't already and try out the activity: git clone git://dev.laptop.org/users/wadeb/math cd math ./setup.py dev I'll reply offline with Peter's email. -Wade On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Yifan wrote: > Hi all, > > Wow, this is a pr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Helping with activity development

2009-01-12 Thread Yifan
Hi all, Wow, this is a pretty exciting list! I'd be interested in helping out with the Math activities, if possible. What's the best way to contact Peter Moxhay for some ideas? Thanks, Yifan On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Samuel Klein

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 12.01.2009, at 19:30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >>> And I just checked and it does work with Etoys projects. When downloading >>> one it indeed gets an etoys icon (although at a smaller size - why is >>> that?) >> >> No idea, though I thin

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam proposal

2009-01-12 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hello again, If you would like to join the ActivityTeam, the Contact page at http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Contacts is available for you to add your name. When adding your name to the list, please take a minute and decide how you will contribute to the effort. Then, go over to the To Do L

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.01.2009, at 19:30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: And I just checked and it does work with Etoys projects. When downloading one it indeed gets an etoys icon (although at a smaller size - why is that?) No idea, though I think that the mime database is updated in the etoys rpm and not in the bund

Re: [Sugar-devel] Helping with activity development

2009-01-12 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Let me add: > > 1. Making collaborative Maze even more awesome. > > This is currently the most addictive multiplayer game on the XO, and > it needs a further dusting of crack, including better statistics, > handicaps, &c. > > 2. Making Speak c

Re: [Sugar-devel] Helping with activity development

2009-01-12 Thread pgf
wade wrote: > Hi Marco, Yifan! > > Absolutely, there are a ton of activities which could use help right > now. I'll throw out some options and you can pick the one you think > would be best suited to your skills: ... > > Math - Another request by the Peru deployment is simple math games.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Helping with activity development

2009-01-12 Thread Samuel Klein
Let me add: 1. Making collaborative Maze even more awesome. This is currently the most addictive multiplayer game on the XO, and it needs a further dusting of crack, including better statistics, handicaps, &c. 2. Making Speak collaboration effective. This has the potential to be an awesome comm

Re: [Sugar-devel] Helping with activity development

2009-01-12 Thread Wade Brainerd
Hi Marco, Yifan! Absolutely, there are a ton of activities which could use help right now. I'll throw out some options and you can pick the one you think would be best suited to your skills: Labyrinth - Mind mapping activity. Gary is currently leading the port of this PyGTK program to Sugar, it

Re: [Sugar-devel] wiki bugs

2009-01-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Jan 2009, at 17:47, Wade Brainerd wrote: > http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved > > Missing images at the top. Can I put first dibs on making these images if no one else has started yet? I'm thinking a set of simple Sugar activity iconic style. --G > http://sugarlabs.org/g

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:50, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 12.01.2009, at 18:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> >>> So what would the Scratch activity have to do so files put into the >>> Journal >>> (maybe by downloading) are displayed using a Scratch icon rather than the >>> generic document icon? >>

[Sugar-devel] XOCamp 2, Day 1 update

2009-01-12 Thread Samuel Klein
Dear all, We're in the middle of day 1 of XOCamp. You can take part in a few ways; we are * streaming over the web at justin.tv (search for xocamp and olpc), * on an call-in conference line (see the wiki page for details) * on IRC in the #olpc channel on freenode.net. For those without irc

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.01.2009, at 18:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >> So what would the Scratch activity have to do so files put into the >> Journal >> (maybe by downloading) are displayed using a Scratch icon rather >> than the >> generic document icon? > > Shipping a mimetypes.xml file inside the bundle as expl

[Sugar-devel] wiki bugs

2009-01-12 Thread Wade Brainerd
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved Missing images at the top. http://sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_systems This page needs to be cleaned up. It's linked from the main page as 'Get sugar' but the organization of the page is very confusing. I think it should be a simple table of Plat

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:16, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:07, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >>> >>> On 12.01.2009, at 17:55, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:38, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Eben Eliason
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:07, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> >> On 12.01.2009, at 17:55, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:38, Bert Freudenberg >>> wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 17:03, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 18:07, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > On 12.01.2009, at 17:55, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:38, Bert Freudenberg >> wrote: >>> >>> On 12.01.2009, at 17:03, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 16:52, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.01.2009, at 17:55, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:38, Bert Freudenberg > wrote: >> >> On 12.01.2009, at 17:03, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 16:52, Bert Freudenberg >> > >>> wrote: On 12.01.2009, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Ok

Re: [Sugar-devel] .rpms vs .xos for Activity packaging

2009-01-12 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:44:52AM -0500, l...@faraone.cc wrote: > On 1/12/09, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:43:01PM -0500, l...@faraone.cc wrote: > >> On 1/11/09, Aleksey Lim wrote: > >> > Hi all, > >> > > >> > Some thought after reading > >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

Re: [Sugar-devel] .rpms vs .xos for Activity packaging

2009-01-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:44:52AM -0500, l...@faraone.cc wrote: >On 1/12/09, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:43:01PM -0500, l...@faraone.cc wrote: >>> On 1/11/09, Aleksey Lim wrote: >>> > Hi all, >>> > >>> > Some thought after readi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 17:38, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > On 12.01.2009, at 17:03, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 16:52, Bert Freudenberg >> wrote: >>> >>> On 12.01.2009, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> Ok, what you just did will tell Sugar that Scratch is able to open >

Re: [Sugar-devel] .rpms vs .xos for Activity packaging

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.01.2009, at 17:44, l...@faraone.cc wrote: > On 1/12/09, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:43:01PM -0500, l...@faraone.cc wrote: >>> On 1/11/09, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all, Some thought after reading https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_on_Fedora:_RPMs_or_

Re: [Sugar-devel] .rpms vs .xos for Activity packaging

2009-01-12 Thread luke
On 1/12/09, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:43:01PM -0500, l...@faraone.cc wrote: >> On 1/11/09, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Some thought after reading >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_on_Fedora:_RPMs_or_.xos%3F >> > >> > Maybe instead of choosing one format

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.01.2009, at 17:03, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 16:52, Bert Freudenberg > wrote: >> On 12.01.2009, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >>> Ok, what you just did will tell Sugar that Scratch is able to open >>> files with the mime type 'application/x-scratch-project'. But th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Eben Eliason
This is something I've briefly discussed with Marco in the past. It seems a natural extension of the idea of "objects" as first class citizens of Sugar to allow those objects to have custom icons and identities. Right now, we have no such support. The most natural way (at least for me, as a Mac

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 16:52, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 12.01.2009, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> Ok, what you just did will tell Sugar that Scratch is able to open >> files with the mime type 'application/x-scratch-project'. But this >> will not affect the icon of those files. > > Is the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.01.2009, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Ok, what you just did will tell Sugar that Scratch is able to open > files with the mime type 'application/x-scratch-project'. But this > will not affect the icon of those files. Is there a way to assign icons for files other than by saving it in an

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Jan 2009, at 12:20, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:16, Erik Blankinship > wrote: >> Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very >> suggestive of >> Candyland. >> http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candylan

[Sugar-devel] Classmate 2 available

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
... at least in the US (international shipping seems ridiculously expensive): http://2gopc.com/2goPC_ConvPC.html This should be a nice machine for testing (single-) touch input, and maybe the tilt sensor could be useful to some activities, too. Who does the first Sugar screenshot? :) - Bert

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:16, Erik Blankinship wrote: > Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very suggestive of > Candyland. > http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candyland-1949.JPG > > http://www.mipo37.com/CandyLand.jpg The molas

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread Erik Blankinship
Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very suggestive of Candyland. http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candyland-1949.JPG http://www.mipo37.com/CandyLand.jpg On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > I guess Bryan

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on "Mathland" (in Papert's sense, not the curriculum of the same name). The name of squeakland.org was inspired by the same idea: "What would happen if children who can’t do math grew up in Mathland, a place that is to math what France is to French?" --S.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal integration for Scratch

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[adding sugar-devel to the cc list] On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 09:42, Philipp Kocher wrote: > > > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 04:50, Philipp Kocher >> wrote: >>> >>> Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 18.12.2008, at 08:08, Philipp Kocher wrote: > > One more thing, the

Re: [Sugar-devel] .rpms vs .xos for Activity packaging

2009-01-12 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:43:01PM -0500, l...@faraone.cc wrote: > On 1/11/09, Aleksey Lim wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Some thought after reading > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Sugar_on_Fedora:_RPMs_or_.xos%3F > > > > Maybe instead of choosing one format for activities just add to > > activity.

Re: [Sugar-devel] does this run in Browse? We really need it to

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Worked fine here. Regards, Tomeu On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 05:35, Chris Rowe wrote: > Ck12 is django based as far as I know. Not sure about the front end. I > don't think it is open source software though. Just content. > > On 1/11/09, Bryan Berry wrote: >> Ck12.org has put together an awesome "