Sad news... Tony so often had great ideas and unending energy to contribute
Sean
On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 6:27 PM Walter Bender
wrote:
> Sad news.
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Nancie Severs
> Date: Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 3:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Tony Anderson passed away
> To
Unfortunately, the voting system failed in my case, apparently due to a bug
in the CIVS automatic browser language detection system. I have asked Vipul
and CIVS to find a solution so I may vote.
Sean
On Wednesday, January 15, 2020, Vipul Gupta
wrote:
> Hello folks,
> The Oversight Board electio
One possible approach could be to model a hex-name lookup table such as on
this page [1], rounding to the nearest named color. Some ideas are here [2].
Sean
1. https://imagemagick.org/script/color.php
2.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38923744/how-to-map-a-range-of-hex-values-to-a-color
O
So your idea is: no trademarks at all? Do you think Sugar Labs should give
up its trademark?
Is your goal to undermine Sugar Labs and/or OLPC?
Sean
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Sebastian Silva wrote:
> On 15/09/17 10:59, Sean DALY wrote:
> > The copyrights are licensed unde
on and, if it passes,
>>>> the results be reported to Tony by Adam, our SFC liaison. Of course, if the
>>>> motion does not pass, we will need to continue the discussion.
>>>>
>>>> I second the motion.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
be found here:
https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html#x1-660005.4.2
Sean.
Le jeu. 14 sept. 2017 à 09:02, Sebastian Silva
a écrit :
> On 14/09/17 08:00, Sean DALY wrote:
> > Sebastian — these principles apply to copyright, not trademarks,
> > patents, or trade secrets.
Sebastian — these principles apply to copyright, not trademarks, patents,
or trade secrets.
Sean
Le jeu. 14 sept. 2017 à 08:50, Sebastian Silva
a écrit :
>
>
> On 14/09/17 07:37, Sean DALY wrote:
>
> Laura, I am not a lawyer, but the inclusion of a trademarked logo does not
Laura, I am not a lawyer, but the inclusion of a trademarked logo does not
make software nonfree. Software is copyrighted after all; it's the license
that brings freedom to it. In the absence of a formal trademark agreement,
lawyers look at the way a trademark is used, and what the trademark owner
wish to design marketing
materials to resemble the Sugar interface.
Sean
[1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Booth_Banners
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Laura Vargas wrote:
>
> 2017-09-13 16:02 GMT-05:00 Sean DALY :
>
>> In the past, OLPC was amenable to the use of the xo
In the past, OLPC was amenable to the use of the xo logo in Sugar, but
asked we not use it in marketing materials without a formal co-branding
licensing agreement. [1,2]
The proposed feet logo is likely a violation of the GNOME Foundation
trademark, more info on their site [3].
Sean.
1. http://l
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions
This page is very useful.
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Claudia Urrea wrote:
> Dave and all,
>
> I think we need someone to admin the motions. We have too many (pass,
> pending votes and pending endorsement for vote, etc.), they become
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Laura Vargas wrote:
> Thanks for reading/commenting
Thanks Laura, I have made some additions.
Dave - I don't agree that whomever submits a grant application becomes the
treasurer for those funds. What should happen is a sales cycle: if there is
interest, the S
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 8:05 PM, samson goddy
wrote:
> And Sean, i really want to make this madatory to all members in SL. Since
> you are in-charge of marketing how can i get started?
Samson - I'm afraid there's no mandatory anything :-) nearly all of us are
unpaid volunteers... I'm nobody's
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Ifeanyi Peter
wrote:
> Maybe anytime we have suggestions that concerns Marketing, we would just
> forward it to the Marketing Dept. for review. How to I join the marketing
> team as well, I have some suggestions.
Thanks Ifeanyi
To join the Marketing team, just
I'm sorry, I don't see how SL can support a new paid position. My
suggestion would be to evaluate how the paid Translation Manager position
works out.
I'm glad Samson you are eager to work on social media (as I've said),
however I don't understand your marketing objectives. Put another way, just
w
Hi Caryl
I think you're saying that all SLOBs should be active fundraisers as part
of the role?
We could also say we "need a team of dedicated volunteers" to work on
adapting Sugar Activities to curricula, on developing teacher tools, on
providing support, on adding platforms, on localization, ev
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 6:27 PM, samson goddy
wrote:
> should we use the adventage of the monetizing
My point of view is that we "monetize" through CTAs and fundraising, rather
than wait 27 years to get the resources we need through random ads.
Sean.
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Yes Samson, the SFC fulfills these criteria. I am sure we would qualify.
But as Adam says, let's sort out what we want to do first before going to
the SFC. First step is a donor link which lands on their page with SL as
prefilled choice.
I suggest we try to go for Google Ad Grants, but this requir
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Walter Bender
wrote:
> How about "turtle in a box" videos? That would be aligned with our
> mission/vision :)
Indeed! if there is any way to generate zillions of views it's with turtles
;-)
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Samson - what about Google's program for nonprofits?
https://www.google.com/grants/
Sean
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:34 PM, samson goddy
wrote:
>
> okay i am going to create an open doc in google then explain further about
> the video ads. The youtube ads is not as you think, that's why me and
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> I am eager to see real data on this
YouTube advertiser RPM (revenue per thousand views), called eCPM by YouTube
("effective cost per thousand"), commonly varies from 50 US cents to $5
(before Google's Adsense 45% cut). I say commonly, bec
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> I'm not saying if $X or $Y is greater; I am saying that we don't know
> which is greater, and Samson will learn a lot by trying to maximize
> the revenue of both.
>
In that case, I'm saying random ads will generate peanuts, while
well-thou
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Your assertion that SL would see more revenue from CTA compared to ads.
How can I make up data for a fundraising drive which hasn't happened yet?
Sean
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On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> What data do you have to back up this assertion? :)
Um, which assertion?
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I myself don't see an upside with allowing random ads to be associated with
Sugar Labs, for the tiny amount of income we might receive. If indeed our
US nonprofit status through SFC would allow gains from advertising. Far
better to do Calls to Action ("CTA" in their jargon) and Annotations,
request
Hi Ütkarsh,
you could look at the Libertine Open Fonts Project (GPL/OPL)
http://www.linuxlibertine.org
Sean
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Ütkarsh Tiwari
wrote:
> Hi,
> Could anyone here please suggest any open source fonts which I can
> use in my acitivities or provide me link to any s
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Walter Bender
wrote:
> Done.
Wow! bravo Walter that was quick!!
Sean
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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Fortunately, SLOBs votes are done via email, at any time, and the monthly
> SLOBs meetings are there to unjam any backlogs.
ah I was under the impression that motions were debated and voted in the
meetings, with recourse to e-mail when m
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> FWIW I think this is reasonable, since the board have shared and equal
> financial responsibility for the Conservancy account.
In my view it's theoretically reasonable, however there is a real risk of
red tape logjam. It's quite common fo
Ideally
not just the Donate button, but the other methods too?
Sean
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Sean DALY wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Tony Anderson
> wrote:
>
>> More importantly, I think the first step is to provide a simple way for
>> membe
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Tony Anderson
wrote:
> More importantly, I think the first step is to provide a simple way for
> members or non-members to donate to support Sugar Labs. Is this paypal,
> credit card or Is this something that SFC must provide or can
> SugarLabs do this on i
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:28 AM, Sam Parkinson
wrote:
> Us volunteers write code, make releases, do user testing, etc.
Sam - I'm not aware that anyone here is other than "us volunteers".
Dues are how many if not most normally functioning nonprofits operate. I am
co-founder and treasurer of a s
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> What is the US trademark registration number?
>
> What is the trademarked goods and services class number?
>
US Serial Number: 7763427
US Registration Number: 365724
International Class: 9
US Classes: 021, 023, 026, 036, 038
All info is a
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Tony Anderson wrote:
> I suppose on Windows, Notepad+ is still the best choice. I haven't worked
> on a Mac for twenty years and so - no help.
FWIW, I like PSPad on Windows and TextWrangler on Mac OS, both have tools
for coders.
Sean
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Hi Samson,
I looked and couldn't find any way to verify through the fb account I have
Sean
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:25 PM, samson goddy
wrote:
> Hello,
> I and Dave are doing the proposal to get the facebook page verified here
> is the pull request from github. Sean i guess you have to appr
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Walter Bender
wrote:
> The site is hosted in github now [1], so we can accept pull requests (or
> comments/issues) for changes. Could you please let us know what typos you
> found?
>
> [1] https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs
>
Ah hi Walter what's the best
... who can fix those?
I am relieved to see that the press page survived at its permalink.
Sean
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 21 April 2016 at 09:08, Sean DALY wrote:
>
>> I didn't realize the existing site had been scrapped already.
>
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Juan Carlos Murillo wrote:
> Also, if there is a range of different colors for the logo, then a good
> idea might be to use the same logo color for the websites that have more
> related content between them (i.e. homepage and activities).
I didn't realize the ex
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:48 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> > but I can not find any evidence that XP was - [...] - ever shipped
> > by OLPC, [...]
>
> None. Windows XP required a PC architecture, which the early models
> were capable of, and the systems were engineered, but there were no
> customer
Hi Tony,
my impression is that All Things Open is more business-oriented... "in the
enterprise"
We don't have a vision or roadmap yet, which makes that a tight deadline.
Sean
P.S. "If" the conference will be maintained in NC... the new discriminatory
legislation enacted there has created a back
Developer discussion about SL brand identity.
Hopefully the MIT Sloan conclusions will be taken into account
Sean
-- Forwarded message --
From: Dave Crossland
Date: Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign
To: Juan Carlos Murillo
Cc:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Tony Anderson
wrote:
> This new capability is intended to eliminate the need for cygwin
No doubt MS likes any initiative against Red Hat. I think they want to
simplify server administration in a mixed-OS environment from a Windows
console (ssh, rsync and the li
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> I think users will still need to install and run an X server to run unix
> GUI programs; but there are several good X servers for windows, so this
> should be easy
it's true that I can run some FLOSS GUI software using an X server on my
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Tony Anderson
wrote:
> One development that seems to be ignored on these lists is Microsoft's
> announcement that it will support Bash on Windows 10. As I understand it,
> the goal is to be able to run Ubuntu programs on Windows 10 using a
> standard 'short-cut'.
pose the minimum build order is $2M. While those 1 laptops
> are in inventory, they tie up the funds. When all of the laptops have been
> paid for and deployed, a new order can be placed. Better would be to order
> 20,000 units at $4M. Then when 10,000 have been deployed and paid
Hi Dave,
the $2390 sum is for the following marketing/promotion/PR expense:
eReleases CauseWire 10-pack Invoice #011413122
This was authorized by a SLOBs vote in late 2012.
Prior to the pack, I was funding press releases on pay-as-you-go out of my
pocket, and I wasn't able to continue that any m
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Finding ten ritzy private primary schools in the US where the parents can
> drop $400 in a hat shouldn't be too hard for a savvy sales person
I'd like to think that's so, but it may well be more likely that parents
would be more impressed
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Sugar on Facebook
> app(Sugarizer)(sugar activities))
>
> Interesting thread and timely. I'm headed to SF (from DC) to attend the
> Facebook Developer's Conference. There is a pre-conference workshop on
> Monday for NGOs. I'll keep
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Lionel Laské
wrote:
> In my point of view Facebook is not a platform. But it's probably possible
> to run Sugarizer (or a part of it) into the Facebook context.
>
> BTW I'm agree with Sean, it has sense only if we've got a marketing plan
> to be there.
>
> The fir
On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 5:26 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Does any one have an idea of the cost of 1000 32GB SD cards?
>>
>
> I expect about $2,000, would need some more fishing about in
> http://www.alibaba.com/Memory-Card_pid4406 but that is my impression.
>
>
>> Perhaps, that could be added to t
omputer-based learning tool?
> * a cool guy interested in fun games?
>
>
> Well it depends on how I feel
> About facebook:
> Sometimes "a cool guy interested in fun games".
>
> But "I used to" submit patches for sugar core.
> I was a gci winner twice with
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:10 PM, samson goddy
wrote:
> I think that doing ads on facebook or twitter will be great.
Samson... at the risk of repeating myself... who are the ads geared to?
What do the ads say? Is the objective to boost random traffic on facebook,
or traffic more likely to adopt
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 5:13 PM, samson goddy
wrote:
> a proposal of targeting more users via the social media (Facebook and
> twitter). And i will submit it this week or next so we will know that to do.
Great! So... what is our target or targets? What is our objective or
objectives? What is ou
Hi Ignacio
are you ...?
* a donor interested in supporting a project to support financially?
* a developer interested in a project to volunteer with?
* a teacher interested in a classroom computer-based learning tool?
* a parent interested in a home setting computer-based learning tool?
* a cool
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> One of the ideas of Sugar is to raise awareness about the software freedom
> movement, and as such, providing the full experience within the facebook
> police-state playpark is an own-goal. We should reach people where they are
> in the play
On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> How many kids is Sugar targetting?
>
> Low millions? Or billions?
>
A few years ago, I estimated at around 10 million the number of teachers in
classrooms with younger children, and I suggested we target them. Any
teacher-friendly, ultrasi
Concerning marketing, In the past I funded nearly everything out of pocket
including big-ticket items like the 100 USB sticks and of course travel but
was unable to continue doing so when I reached $5000 of expenses. I did
request and receive funding from the SLOBs for newswire press releases, but
Hi Ifeanyi Matthew,
There hasn't been much marketing activity lately in the absence of a
roadmap, funds, and developer resources.
In the past the Design team assisted the Marketing team, for example:
https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Booth_Banners
in SL marketing, the most important v
Hi Samson, I never used the twitter account and never knew the password
myself
Sean
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 8:58 PM, samson goddy
wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have been trying to reset the twitter page of the sugarlabs for the past
> 1 month now. I discussed with Ignacio about resetting the p
Forwarding to SoaS list
On Tuesday, July 21, 2015, David Leeming
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I have familiarity with Sugar since working with OLPC from 2008, but I
> haven’t been active in these communities for some time. I’m just refreshing
> myself on current status of Sugar with a view to introd
in a couple of days ok
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Gonzalo Odiard
wrote:
> Sean,
> Could you reply?
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
>
>> Hi Samson, this is a copy/pasted form letter, the tipoff is they mention
>> "company" whi
Hi Samson, this is a copy/pasted form letter, the tipoff is they mention
"company" which means they did not bother spending three clicks to find out
about Sugar Labs.
If their event is legit, we can always ask them if they will assist a
nonprofit like us in attending, with travel, room & board :-)
Thanks Peter, I was watching that too.
If I understand correctly switching/changing the sections or adding an
Activity is beyond tweaks? while text changes are tweaks.
I'm quite happy with it, even though there are lots of changes we suggested
which aren't in.
I feel the only tweak still to make
Peter - here is Iain's document:
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/attachments/20150519/bdaf00ca/attachment.html
Sean
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
> Gonzalo - Iain had already consolidated all changes but Peter doesn't want
> to deal with a t
Gonzalo - Iain had already consolidated all changes but Peter doesn't want
to deal with a text file.
Sean
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Gonzalo Odiard
wrote:
> Iain, Sean, Sam,
>
> _Please_consolidate_the_changes_before_send_to_Peter_.
>
> Peter,
> when need this be finished?
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
ltimedia as it stands should be deleted.
>
> Regards,
>
> Iain
>
>
> On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 09:29 +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
> > thanks Iain looks good
> >
> > some typos:
> > Wwork -> Work
> >
> > FotoToon -> OK is singular not plural
&g
f. "office
desktop") which probably came in from copy/pasted text should either be
replacd with simple double parentheses (" ") or the HTML entities
“ and ”
thanks
Sean
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Iain Brown Douglas <
i...@browndouglas.plus.com> wrote:
> On
me up
> with the final edits so I can submit them early next week as a single
> final edit.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Sean DALY wrote:
> > Peter - are the intro edits I sent going in?
> > thanks
> > Sean
> >
> >
> &
Peter - are the intro edits I sent going in?
thanks
Sean
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Peter Robinson
wrote:
> It's already in process
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Sam P. wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > I think Walter send out a good copy [1] with headers - maybe we could use
> > those
en the
specific advantages of the Soas spin.
many thanks
Sean
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Peter Robinson
wrote:
> See the post I just sent to the list less than a hour ago :-)
>
> Thanks Sean,
>
> Peter
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
> >
Hi Tom, Gonzalo had mentioned this, I have a rewrite of the introduction in
the works and Sam's Activity texts are good. The main issue is explaining
that SOAS Desktop is not a desktop (!)
Peter is coordinating on the Fedora side.
Sean
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Thomas Gilliard
wrote:
>
The onboard composite video out is an interesting approach... can plug into
old secondhand TVs with poor resolution, just like my first computer in
1983. Of course, when you add everything that's missing, you hit 10x the
price, as you've seen before. And fragile cables/adapters all over the
place.
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Samuel Greenfeld
wrote:
> You might laugh but when the OLPC Association was actively answering bids
> for laptops, this dance happened all the time.
Also known as "sales calls", never a strong point with FLOSS projects, and
one of the reasons so many Intel Class
Hi Tony
not sure if this is helpful, but the Python script youtube-dl (
http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/) is very useful for downloading vids from
YouTube (curent/playlist/batch), and offers options such as --age-limit,
--max-filesize, --rate-limit, --max-quality, and in particular --format
worstv
+1 to Samson who seeks a more active presence for SL on social media.
Sean.
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Gonzalo Odiard
wrote:
> +1 To Samson.
>
> I remember we explicitly proposed add one more member to the committee,
> and Walter proposed try include a young hacker.
>
> Gonzalo
>
> On We
Dan - two years ago we arrived at 3 million by estimating 2.6 million XO
laptops delivered, Sugar on Intel Classmates in Argentina (between 50K and
100K of the approximately 1.5 million locally assembled from 2011 - the
others had been running Windows and may have been reconditioned to
GNU/Linux),
t; corporate sponsorship, perhaps) but in particular about what support
> they would offer Sugarlabs towards our targets?
>
> Would there be a view against this idea?
>
> Regards,
>
> Iain
>
> On Sat, 2015-03-21 at 11:37 +0100, Sean DALY wrote:
> > Yes, of course, w
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Gonzalo Odiard
wrote:
> We can ask language and keyboard in the first boot as we do with age and
> gender.
> I think create and maintain a complete matrix of VMs will be more
> difficult.
>
> Gonzalo
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:39 PM, S
e aghast at the idea.
>
> Is still needed have a vm by host language/keyboard?
> Or we can ask to the user using the same code from the Sugar control panel?
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 06
No the license was fine last time i checked - look at the section
concerning nonprofit/educational use. Our plan had been to bundle Sugar
prebuilt images with the Virtualbox installer.
The real issue is the extensions which are separate from the installer for
licensing reasons and must be loaded s
Hi Tony,
I for one certainly don't feel Sugar is only for children in developed
countries. I believe Sugar offers benefits for all children. I do think
that widespread use of Sugar in developed countries would encourage its use
in the developing world, for several reasons. One of these is the
oppo
cc'ing the Marketing list - the one everyone forgets as soon as they
discuss marketing.
The MarketLab study we worked on back then confirmed what we already knew -
that Sugar's websites did not accompany teachers interested in Sugar, and
that Sugar absolutely needed a simple installer. They also a
I had been booted from both sugar-devel and IAEP, and although the
sugar-devel reactivate link worked, that link didn't work for IAEP.
Manually forcing it on the IAEP sub page fixed it.
Sean
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Gonzalo Odiard
wrote:
> Reporting here if is useful for others:
>
> I
Hi Tymon,
I think it's great you have stepped up to rework the sl.o website.
Christian who designed the original pages had worked on a new framework a
while back, but we got bogged down trying to find usable (both attractive
and legal) visuals of kids using Sugar.
I have a typographical suggesti
know the community better and may be
>> become interested and volunteer in :)
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Sean DALY wrote:
>>
>>> Puneet - what kind of messages do you have in mind?
>>>
>>> we've wanted someone to be on th
; Mike
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Apr 24, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
>>
>> a worthy question
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: Puneet Kaur
>> Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 6:41 PM
>&
As a parent of three, and concerned about Internet dreck, I have found that
parental control solutions at machine level fail because when kids are
motivated enough, they will crack whatever technical solution is in place
and moreover, will compare notes with all their fellow rebels. What has
worked
WIPO's Romarin database contradicts you regarding the LEGO mark.
LEGO vigorously defend infringement of their marks (
http://aboutus.lego.com/en-gb/legal-notice/fair-play).
Sean
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Christian Stroetmann <
stroetm...@ontolab.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 27.02.2014 01:13,
, it's
> fine for techies.
> * Start measuring conversion rate. I suspect we don't have a way to count
> the number of users that managed to reach the Sugar home. But measuring
> completed downloads would be a start.
> * Gradually get rid of as many barriers as possible and
nd bad, what is stopping us marketing Sugar this way really?
>
>
> On Friday, 8 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote:
>
>> Not only doable, has been done for some time now [1,2] and is
>> multi-platform (& what I use to demo Sugar on a Mac)
>>
>> The Oracle PUEL license
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:56 AM, David Farning
wrote:
> The highest rate of progress happens when the parties focus on getting
> ahead of the other guys rather then when they focus on holding others
> back. Progress tends to stop when one party gets so far ahead that it
> is not worth it for others
I believe Oracle GPL'd the code itself, as I remember it was the extension
pack & installer that had licensing issues... in any case, topics for the
SFC to help with
Sean
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Sean DALY wrote:
David - what I meant was, no strategic partnership between the distros.
Ubuntu wouldn't pose so many difficulties if M. Shuttleworth/Canonical got
behind Sugar for example.
Sean
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:46 AM, David Farning wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Sean DALY wrote:
ov 8, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> At least the virtualbox looks doable and a good way to show Sugar.
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 7 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote:
>>>
>>> The larg
). Here we are bumping when
>> starting to work towards the goal instead. I don't see that as an issue,
>> just need to be clear about it.
>>
>> So the proposal for next release is version 3.102. Thoughts? Is the
>> rationale clear? Anyone unhappy with it?
>>
> and of course, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Sameer
>>>
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Daniel Narvaez
>>> wrote:
>>> >> What about calling it 1.102 (tech v
trabooks feels less anachronistic? :P). The hybrids that are hitting the
>> market lately might not be mature, cheap or extremely popular, but it's an
>> interesting direction to explore ... Keyboards are not completely dead
>> yet IMO!
>>
>> On Thursday, 7 Novemb
et lately might not be mature, cheap or extremely popular, but it's an
> interesting direction to explore ... Keyboards are not completely dead
> yet IMO!
>
> On Thursday, 7 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote:
>
>> If we are talking about a version number that might make it
me with any
> > message attached... It would address the fact that we never released a
> 1.0
> > without having PR consequences. Then when we figure out what 2.0 really
> > means marketing wise, we can start releasing 2.x as you suggest...
> >
> >
> > On Thursday
t releasing 2.x as you suggest...
>
>
> On Thursday, 7 November 2013, Sean DALY wrote:
>
>> If we are talking about a version number that might make it into a press
>> release at some point, this is a marketing discussion so I have cc'd the
>> list.
>>
>>
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