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On Saturday, October 17, 2020, 08:25:37 P
Sorry to hear of his illness and passing. I know he put a lot of effort
supporting this project. RIP. Condolences to his family and friends.
mad rights organizer/activist at Nyc Icarus
On Sunday, July 26, 2020, 04:48:58 PM EDT, Walter Bender
wrote:
I am saddened by the news that Tom
Hi OLPC SG and Sugar-Devel Folks,
This[0] is an interesting situation that these Australian schools find
themselves in. Many of the mentioned services found on the Wikipedia page sound
like available technologies from FLOSS that need a bit of integration to
provide a similar unified project. I don'
I wanted to share that we have faced the same criticisms in our school
regarding the XOs. For the last four years, the teachers and students have
complained that the devices do not connect well or reliably to our wireless
network.
Obviously, in our case, we have a wireless network and essent
Hi Tony,
Thanks for the correction about language of instruction vs. language of initial
literacy.
-kev
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Know English, can learn programming more quickly.
If there could be a study of young programming language learners who used,.say,
spanish and those who learned at a similar age but used English, I'd love to
see that done and see if using Spanish first made for similar/greater/lesser
ability wh
--- On Mon, 9/24/12, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
From: Gonzalo Odiard
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18
To: "Flavio Danesse"
Cc: "Kevin Mark" , sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org,
"James Cameron" , "S. Daniel Francis"
Date: Monday, S
Hola Flavio, I think you gave many excellent reasons for using Spanish, which
is what i was saying. So I agree. I was recalling something about the OLPC
project in Haiti. They have 2 'officlal' languages: Kreyol and French. 99% of
the country learns Kreyol but the upper class/government know F
--- On Sun, 9/23/12, S. Daniel Francis wrote:
> From: S. Daniel Francis
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18
> To: "James Cameron"
> Cc: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org
> Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012, 9:24 PM
> 2012/9/23 James Cameron :
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 0
--- On Sun, 9/23/12, S. Daniel Francis wrote:
> From: S. Daniel Francis
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18
> To: "Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez"
> Cc: "iaep" , "Sugar-dev Devel"
> , community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org
> Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012, 3:53 PM
> 2012/9/23
Hello Agustin from the US :)
--- On Sun, 9/23/12, Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez wrote:
From: Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18
To: "Gonzalo Odiard"
Cc: "James Simmons" , "iaep" ,
"Sugar-dev Devel" ,
community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org, "S. Daniel Fra
--- On Wed, 9/19/12, S. Daniel Francis wrote:
> From: S. Daniel Francis
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18
> To: "Kevin Mark"
> Cc: "James Simmons" , "iaep" ,
> "Sugar-dev Devel" ,
> community-n...@lists.sug
--- On Wed, 9/19/12, S. Daniel Francis wrote:
> From: S. Daniel Francis
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18
> To: "James Simmons"
> Cc: "iaep" , "Sugar-dev Devel"
> , community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org,
> "Walter Bender"
> Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 12:42
--- On Mon, 9/17/12, Walter Bender wrote:
> From: Walter Bender
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Messages to Browse when checking free
> space
> To: "Gonzalo Odiard"
> Cc: "Manuel Kaufmann" , "Sugar-dev Devel"
> , "Gary Martin"
> Date: Monday, September 17, 2012, 5:14 PM
> On Mon, Sep
--- On Sun, 9/2/12, lio...@olpc-france.org wrote:
From: lio...@olpc-france.org
Subject: [Sugar-devel] Enyo Epub integration
To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org
Date: Sunday, September 2, 2012, 3:59 PM
Hi all, Following my Enyo Sugar integration template and following James Simon
advice, I’v
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 08:38:00PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Mike Lee wrote:
> > Here's a cool demo of the Neonode multitouch frame:
> >
> > http://www.slashgear.com/neonode-3d-touch-headed-to-tablets-and-phones-hands-on-28215933/
> >
> > Not only multi-touch, b
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:15:50PM -0400, John Watlington wrote:
>
> On Jul 26, 2012, at 11:09 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>
> > www.engadget.com/2012/07/26/olpc-xo-touch-1-75-to-use-neonode-tech/
> >
> > The post says "as yet unreleased XO 1.75". What's the official status
> > on the 1.75? Still as
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:53:56PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>
> Oh, I forgot to mention this: Children in Bhagmalpur are fluent in
> Hindi (reading, writing and speaking), but their English is quite
> poor. Yet, they've stumbled along on t
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 08:28:30AM -0500, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:
> (kudos for Gnome! BTW, I had been pushing for some XO-based
> microcontroller work -
> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OLPC_XO-1 as part of
> eat-my-own-catfood in enabling the XO for real-world use)
> (last weekend I wa
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:34:26AM +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just tried playing back the downloaded version of the recent littleBits TED
> talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/
> ayah_bdeir_building_blocks_that_blink_beep_and_teach.html ) on an XO-1.75 but
> couldn't get it to
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:29:03AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > 3. is the update step above necessary (it requires downloading 33MB)
>
> I have not tried this, it may be. I dont know the complete list of rpms that
> it
> installed other then the 2 you said. those 2 m
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:15:03PM +1100, David Leeming wrote:
>
> I have tried to install media codecs on an XO-1 running 11.3.0 so that we
> can play FLV video files directly (from a flashdrive, school server or
> network location)., in either Sugar or GNOME.
>
> I had trouble getting it work
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 04:30:08AM -0500, Samuel Klein wrote:
> Understood. None of these valid concerns sound like reasons to obfuscate it -
> obfuscation doesn't solve the problem Sean mentions.
>
> For instance, you could have a version of terminal that let you explore but
> didn't let you wr
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 02:19:23PM -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Hope everyone in the Sugar and OLPC world is enjoying a happy holiday, in
> peace, safety and good company.
>
> If you are hiding away from the family with your laptop, I wish you a very
> fruitful time too.
>
> A number of people
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:21:27PM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is being deleted is the locally cached copy of a file which is
> stored on the school server. If the user needs it, it can be
> downloaded again.
>
> Tony
So the color of the star indicates if its on internal storage,
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 09:13:57AM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> Thanks Lucian for all your work, and the best luck in your projects!
>
> Gonzalo
>
+1
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:07:53AM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> Another topic to discuss, presented in the eduJam:
>
> School/Home mode: the user can select if is using the XO in school or home
> mode,
> and can change the mode in a particular entry in the detail view.
> This work as a filter in
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:56:59AM +, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I received the email, I started working!
> This is the background of the game ..
> and the political divide there are... and the names of the states ..
>
> In the other "Conozco" the excuse of the game is
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 06:57:05PM -0200, Alan Aguiar wrote:
> ENGLISH: (Espa ol abajo)
>
> Hi,
>
> I just uploaded version 3 "I know America."
> This version adds to the 29 countries (now there are 30),
> Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, which recently launched an OLPC deployment:
>
> http://e
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 07:38:26PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> == Sugar Digest ==
> 3. Ignacio Rodrigez, a young developer from Uruguay was issued a
> Magellan computer from Plan Ceibal upon entering middle school. He
> pointed out to me that the machine comes with Sugar installed on top
> of U
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 08:24:50PM -0300, Andres Aguirre wrote:
> Hi, I want to share with you what we was doing the last week here in Uruguay:
>
> http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Review
Hi Andres,
this looks like more excellant work about the butiabot. I was showin
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 05:57:06PM -0400, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote:
> On Tue, August 2, 2011 10:13 am, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Thomas C Gilliard <
> > satel...@bendbroadband.com> wrote:
> >
> >> **
> >>
> >>
> >> Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> >>
> >> Right now, w
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 01:25:31PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:07:40PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
> > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1342192419/pulse-sensor-an-open-source-heart-rate-sensor-that
> >
> > Minus the Arduino, can this plug into the audio/mic port?
>
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 09:46:23PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Thanks for recording and posting these. Do any of you remember the Apple ii
> game for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?" Must have been circa mid 1980s.
> All text. Fun problem solving. I got the Babelfish!
>
At s
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 12:12:41PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> Not only printing.
> Still in places were there are connectivity, many times is so bad, than having
> the possibility of enable anything similar to offline navigation is great.
> And many kids do not have connectivity in their houses
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 12:13:33PM -0400, David Farning wrote:
> Brilliant anti-pattern :)
>
> Cookie licker - Picture a child who has had enough cookies, but wants to save
> the last one for later. So they take it off the plate and lick it, to ensure
> no-one else will eat it. The same phenomenon
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 11:07:17AM +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:09 AM, Kevin Mark wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:45:09PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:38:04AM -0400, Martin Abente wrote:
> > &
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:45:09PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:38:04AM -0400, Martin Abente wrote:
> > Anyway, I would like to hear everyone's feedback on the current design!
> > 3. http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/journal2.mpeg
>
> I like it.
>
It looked nice. I was thi
I was looking at an RT ticket from a teacher in rawanda about someone deleting
an activity and how to get it back.. and I wondered if there could be a way to
copy an activity from one xo to another on a network (ad-hoc).
the situation:
one person has an activity and the other one doesnt and the
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 01:31:13AM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Kevin Mark wrote:
>
> >
> > I heard today that about a year ago, the license was changed to something
> > that
> > might make it non-free by some FLOSS defini
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 02:40:52PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> 2011/5/24 Rafael Ortiz :
> > Saludos
> > Walter Bender tiene una idea de hacer un free-scratch, pero
> > debe tener un nombre diferente a Scratch, alguna idea de que nombre se le
> > podria colocar ? ;)
> >
> > Gracias.
>
> Goog
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:45:15AM +1100, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
> Hi
> An exciting new robotics idea from Guzman Trinidad.
>
> Turtle Art is programmed to produce two different frequencies. The headphone
> output of the XO is connected to a pair of LM567 integrated circuit tone
> decode
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:04:52AM -0500, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote:
> Hi Translating Kevin message..in case somebody know the cause of this
> problem.
>
> ..I made other test with radio-4.xo
> but it seems that i cannot reproduce kid's songs that are
> in mp3 format on their usb keys
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 03:27:05PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> What is the status of HTML5 video support in Browse? I'm using version
> 108.4. Testing with the videos linked from
> http://double.co.nz/video_test/, most don't start when I press the
> Play button.
>
> Thanks,
> Sridhar
>
>
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:17:00AM -0300, Esteban Arias wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it is possible reduce the time of flashing xo-1.5?
> Dextrose version, delays 20 mins.
>
> thanks,
>
since the xo-1.5 usually has a larger 'hard drive' (4gb), would you expect it
to be the same as the xo-1 flash time? I exp
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:42:09AM +1000, David Leeming wrote:
> Thanks, it is version 33 that was shipped, if you read the wiki carefully.
> We will try downgrading. This brings up a related matter, when using a slow
> Internet connection (possibly latency is an issue too) the download
> frequentl
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 02:15:43AM +0100, Gary Martin wrote:
> On 10 Jul 2010, at 23:19, Walter Bender wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> In http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2086, Simon raised the question:
> >> Do we want to hide the OLPC mesh i
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 07:52:58PM +0200, Mathieu Bridon wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> The circle of « o »'s represents the activities in the launcher, and
> when the rightmost one is clicked/hovered/..., then the recent items
> (the ones you have put in a pie chart, here represented by the « x »'s)
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 04:36:55PM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote:
>
> > PS: I just found yet another laptop which won't activate because the
> > clock was set to 15 July 2000 (not 2010!). Do you see many of these?
>
> This was probably a human error in the Fix_clock repair process that
> happened on
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 05:03:02PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>
> PS: I just found yet another laptop which won't activate because the
> clock was set to 15 July 2000 (not 2010!). Do you see many of these?
just a query as I dont know the details of activation: if the rtc is off by a
year or mo
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 08:15:38PM -0700, Hal Murray wrote:
> Was: Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Caacup=E9?= war bullettin -- day 1
>
> ber...@codewiz.org said:
> > * Date not being updated
> > One laptop booted with clock set to the Epoch.
>
> Is that one of the old XOs that had troubles with the tiny
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 07:45:13PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> El Tue, 29-06-2010 a las 10:39 -0400, Martin Langhoff escribió:
> > *I actually got questions about masonic influence on our UI design.*
> > Not kidding...
>
> lol :-)
>
> There's definitely a hacker's influence, though. Besides
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:25:24PM +1100, David Leeming wrote:
> I am doing some training for people using G1G1 XO-1 with Write 60 (the latest
> stable version according to the OLPC wiki)
>
>
>
> I want to share a table, have all participants enter something, then save it.
>
>
>
> In practi
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 09:31:19AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Forwarding a request about Labyrinth from a teacher from .uy:
>
> http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Flists.laptop.org%2Fpipermail%2Folpc-sur%2F2010-June%2F006215.html&sl=es
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 03:55:44PM +0100, World Class Project- Dev Team wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
>
>
> Thank you all for the input in this instance. James no problem, sometimes the
> conversation gets a bit lost in message threads, sorry :)
>
>
>
> So I really have two options which I will cons
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:59:28PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> Earlier this year we did some changes in both farsight and Gstreamer which
> caused issues when combining certain versions of the two. Ofcourse if you had
> raised the issue you were seeing with us at the time we could have helped yo
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:25:06PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:07:50PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > Here, we reach the end of my tale. You see, my friend and I agreed
> > > that our desired next st
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