[Sugar-devel] Moving On.

2010-12-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
The Short Version: As many of you might have noticed, my activities within Sugar Labs have been fading lately. I'd like to take the only responsible step and hand my responsibilities off. The Long Version: I didn't expect to see myself writing this email. I'm currently a student at Olin working re

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Testing request] Browse-webkit

2010-07-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Tue, 20-07-2010 a las 03:07 +0100, Lucian Branescu escribió: >> rgs and myself have ported Browse to pywebkitgtk with all features and >> we could use some testing. >> >> You can get it from here >> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/bro

Re: [Sugar-devel] Read/evince quick follow up

2010-07-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: > I've enabled epub view. It requires both python-lxml and > python-BeautifulSoup installed (for some reason) and none of the > toolbars work in epub view. This is awesome - thanks Lucian for getting this to work again! :) I did build and su

Re: [Sugar-devel] Calculate bug, help!

2010-07-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Gary Martin wrote: > Hi Reinier, > > On 20 Jul 2010, at 00:45, Reinier Heeres wrote: > >> Hi Gary, >> >> I agree that the AstParser class is a bit scary, but I still believe >> it's a good ingredient for Calculate: it allows us to do symbolic >> evaluation of funct

[Sugar-devel] Call for Testers: LiveUSB Creator on other Distributions

2010-07-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, I'd like us to get a coherent way in terms of user interfaces for creating Sugar on a Stick on as many distributions as possible. I do have a first iteration of such a release using Fedora's LiveUSB Creator ready and need some testers with - preferably different - distributions. There are

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick Weekly Meeting Logs (2010/07/19)

2010-07-19 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Here are the minutes (follow the link at the bottom for the logs): http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.minutes.20100719_1506.html Bernie, what's the state of the VM we had been talking about for Mel and me (I'd really like to have a real bot there). Points raised: * Raffael asked about

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] [DESIGN] Restart

2010-07-16 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Fri, 16-07-2010 a las 09:37 -0400, Frederick Grose escribió: > >>         Anything else we would like feedback on? >> >> >> Please also consider http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/503. > > I don't know... if we drop the Restart button in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] [Patch] Sugar Smolt Control Panel Integration

2010-07-01 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sorry that it took me a bit to reply. Catching up on email backlog once again. I dropped a couple of replies inline. :) On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > Excerpts from Sebastian Dziallas's message of Sun Jun 27 21:07:11 +0200 2010: > >> I've been working on an integration of

[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] [Patch] Sugar Smolt Control Panel Integration

2010-06-27 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
I've been working on an integration of Smolt (https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/) into Sugar as part of my GSoC. The purpose of this is to help us gather information about the hardware Sugar is running on, as well as to help users filing bug reports to simplify the process of providing said informatio

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Read in SoaS with Fedora 13

2010-06-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: > > I just made a 4 GB USB with persistence from soas-i386-20100623.03.iso > In testing: > Read 86, it still fails to start > log showed unable to find/open evince [...] Read does not work because the way it interacts with evince has chan

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] GCompris problems on SoaS

2010-06-19 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
I'm moving this from IAEP to sugar-devel. Aleksey, do you have an idea what's going on here? I haven't tried GCompris in SoaS lately, but could this be 0sugar-related? --Sebastian On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Werner Westermann wrote: > Hello, regards from Chile. > > Working with a teacher,

[Sugar-devel] Attention Activity Developers: SoaS Activity Inclusion Criteria

2010-06-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ugar on a Stick releases and look forward to working with you! Please email the SoaS list or our release team with any concerns. --Sebastian Dziallas [1] http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.minutes.20100607_1510.html [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Activity_Criteria [3] http://wiki.s

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename & Colour Suggestions

2010-06-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
w.agriculturalproductsindia.com/fruits/fruits-jamun.html > > Regards > > Harriet > > > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Sebastian Dziallas > wrote: >> >> Hi Sean, >> >> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Sean DALY wrote: >> > Sebastian, I

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename & Colour Suggestions

2010-06-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ick meeting. --Sebastian > Sean > > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> We'd like to kick off the process for the upcoming Sugar on a Stick >> v.4 already, while gearing up for the SoaS PR at LinuxTag, too. And so >> we're

[Sugar-devel] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename & Colour Suggestions

2010-06-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
We'd like to kick off the process for the upcoming Sugar on a Stick v.4 already, while gearing up for the SoaS PR at LinuxTag, too. And so we're looking forward to your ideas and suggestions on the codename and colour selections for the next release iteration. These will be discussed at the next me

Re: [Sugar-devel] Read 86 failed to start in Mirabelle

2010-05-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:22 PM, samy boutayeb wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to use the Read activity (version 86) in Mirabelle (either > running from within Virtualbox & on a USB stick) and got the following > error: "Failed to start". > > However, the same activity (same version) do launch and opens

[Sugar-devel] Announcing Sugar on a Stick v.3 (Mirabelle)

2010-05-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ally to the Sugar on a Stick team and all the people involved for their awesome work on this release! Sebastian Dziallas Sugar on a Stick Project Lead ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-26 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Thomas C Gilliard wrote: > Yes it has jabber.sugarlabs.org in Control Panel / Network It looks very much like this, which seems to be pretty much a blocker, yup: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585413 > Tom Gilliard > satellit > > Peter Robinson wrot

[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Improved Sugar on a Stick Proposal

2010-04-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, I have been busy lately and will continue to be for the next couple of weeks. However, summer possibility exploration happens, too. So. Here's a GSoC proposal. Comments appreciated! :) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2010/Improved_Sugar_on_a_Stick Cheers! --Sebastian

[Sugar-devel] What's going on with Sugar on a Stick?

2010-03-26 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, as you may have noticed, there are a couple of changes coming to Sugar on a Stick to keep the whole project sustainable. In the upcoming month, from March 28 (I'll be off starting Sunday night) to May 7, my ability to devote time to the project will cease. I have to prepare for my major

Re: [Sugar-devel] soas tickets filed as sugar

2010-03-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi, > > I'm seeing several soas tickets being filed in the sugar component > (the default one). > > Could someone move those to the SoaS component? Also, may be good to > have a special form/link for filing SoaS bugs so they don't get mixed > as often? Sascha did this a coupl

[Sugar-devel] SoaS change in engineering direction: activity questions

2010-03-19 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
SoaS engineering just proposed a major change-in-direction for the upcoming (Mirabelle) release. See http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-March/000906.html and http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2010-March/002727.html for more information - the short version is that instead of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing activities on latest daily SoaS builds

2010-02-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Art Hunkins wrote: > I am unable to test my activities (Our Music, Our Music MC) on recent daily > builds because Browse doesn't work, and other USB drives are not recognized. > (The neighborhood view shows nothing except me.) These are my only ready > ways of getting activities into the system. B

Re: [Sugar-devel] Commonly Used SoaS and XO Sugar Distributions

2010-02-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Art Hunkins wrote: > It would be most helpful to me to know whether SoaS v3 will be called > Cloudberry or something else. This was the original plan, as far as I'm aware. However, the final release name will be determined through consideration of the various involved teams, such as the Marketin

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.87.6 Tarballs Due

2010-02-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Art Hunkins wrote: > Can we be certain that csound-python is included, please? > > Art Hunkins This is SoaS related, I'd say (and not for Sugar itself). As stated in a previous e-mail, I've pushed an appropriate commit earlier [1]. If you want to make sure, you can check the current kickstart f

Re: [Sugar-devel] Font display revisited

2010-02-23 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Daniel Drake wrote: > On 22 February 2010 03:13, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> You may want to ask in the soas ml, but in 0.88 we are going to make >> it easier to users to change the default font size, so apps shouldn't >> make any assumptions based on a fixed value for that. > > But, in the few cases w

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Packaging Queue

2010-02-13 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
James Cameron wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:11:02PM +0100, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> In other news, we're being blocked by licensing issues for some >> activities and the boot screen, as I've posted before. > > I've recently submitted patches to b

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Packaging Queue

2010-02-13 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 12.02.2010, at 12:11, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to take the chance to hint once more at our tracking bug [1], > >> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558617 > > This should als

[Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar & SoaS Meeting Time

2010-02-13 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
I've a conflict coming up for the next weeks with our current meeting time and would need to start something like half an hour later. If you're interested in attending, please take a second to put down when you're available here: http://whenisgood.net/fedora-sugar-mtg-1 Make sure to select your

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity & SoaS Licensing Concerns

2010-02-12 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Tim McNamara wrote: > On 13 February 2010 09:15, Sebastian Dziallas <mailto:sebast...@when.com>> wrote: > > If nobody complains by the end of this weekend, I'll just upload the > images, put a GPLv2+ license in the archive and make a tarball, as this >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity & SoaS Licensing Concerns

2010-02-12 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I've lately taken the task of packaging more activities to get us a >> reasonably user experience for the next iteration of SoaS. The normal >> review process requires an application

[Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Packaging Queue

2010-02-12 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, I'd like to take the chance to hint once more at our tracking bug [1], as well as the activity wiki page [2]. Recently, TamTam has been posted for review, too. I'm a little disappointed with the speed we're progressing with. Here's a list of the currently most important things we need

Re: [Sugar-devel] Heads Up: Sugar 0.87.4 coming to Rawhide

2010-02-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
James Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 08:13:40PM +0100, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> Title says it all, it should be in tomorrows build. > > Briefly, how do I swing across to this on an OLPC XO-1.5 that is > installed with an OLPC F11 build? (There are se

[Sugar-devel] Heads Up: Sugar 0.87.4 coming to Rawhide

2010-02-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Title says it all, it should be in tomorrows build. --Sebastian ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity & SoaS Licensing Concerns

2010-02-10 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've lately taken the task of packaging more activities to get us a > reasonably user experience for the next iteration of SoaS. The normal > review process requires an application to be properly and clearly > licensed. I'

[Sugar-devel] Activity & SoaS Licensing Concerns

2010-02-10 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, I've lately taken the task of packaging more activities to get us a reasonably user experience for the next iteration of SoaS. The normal review process requires an application to be properly and clearly licensed. I'd like to encourage activity authors to work on getting these clarif

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] image-writer-mac, incompatible with earlier Mac OS X versions

2010-01-23 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 30.12.2009, at 00:57, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> >> On 30.12.2009, at 00:22, James Cameron wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:11:46AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: The changes look okay, though I'd just remove the read-only check, that should make it w

[Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Weekly Meeting 1500 UTC #fedora-olpc

2010-01-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
See you then [1]. --Sebastian === Agenda === * Deployments * Packaging Activities ** .tar.bz2 vs. .xo as sources for .rpm files * Sugar on a Stick ** Bug Trackers * Open Floor [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=20&year=2010&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 ___

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick Planning Meeting Tomorrow

2010-01-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Please join us in #sugar-meeting tomorrow - directly after the SLOBs meeting (so around 1600 UTC) - for a SoaS meeting. Topic will obviously be the future of SoaS for v3. --Sebastian ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://l

[Sugar-devel] Wrapping the Sugar Packaging Session up

2010-01-06 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, thanks everybody for attending! It was a great with cool questions and discussions. We're currently readying the logs, notes and docs which Mel logged in a GIT repo. So if you're interested in a practical step by step guide, looking at the repository would already be a good start. The

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Meeting Minutes 31/12/2009

2010-01-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
hat I know, the VirtualBox Guest Additions are not in Fedora because they ship a kernel module and Fedora doesn't permit the inclusion of kernel modules. Anyway, what I'm basically saying is just that moving work we're doing anyway (as SoaS, a distributor) upstream is a good thing.

[Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Meeting Minutes 31/12/2009

2009-12-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
This is it. First meeting after some time, quite some folks joined. Thanks to all those who dropped by! Here are the minutes and logs: http://meeting.olpcorps.net/fedora-olpc/fedora-olpc.minutes.20091231_1013.html http://meeting.olpcorps.net/fedora-olpc/fedora-olpc.log.20091231_1013.html Next d

Re: [Sugar-devel] Weekly Fedora Sugar Meetings

2009-12-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Walter Bender wrote: > What channel? #fedora-edu? #sugar-meeting? Oh, right! I'd say let's just go for #fedora-olpc for now... See you there! --Sebastian > -walter > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Sebastian Dziallas > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> yo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] SoaS with Sugar 0.87.2 coming to a system near you

2009-12-28 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi Sebastian, > >> by popular request, there's now a Sugar on a Stick snapshot with the >> latest Sugar development release available. Please note that this >> snapshot is already part of our way to Sugar on a Stick v3. >> >> It's still based on F12 for stability reasons, th

[Sugar-devel] Weekly Fedora Sugar Meetings

2009-12-28 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, you've probably heard the rumor, that SoaS v3 will only ship Fedora packages. Now let me tell you this: It's true. What this means is that we can use a lot of help with packaging all kinds of crazy-awesome activities and other stuff for Fedora - which will get a Sugar environment with

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS with Sugar 0.87.2 coming to a system near you

2009-12-28 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi everybody, > > by popular request, there's now a Sugar on a Stick snapshot with the > latest Sugar development release available. Please note that this > snapshot is already part of our way to Sugar on a Stick v3. > > It's still bas

[Sugar-devel] SoaS with Sugar 0.87.2 coming to a system near you

2009-12-28 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, by popular request, there's now a Sugar on a Stick snapshot with the latest Sugar development release available. Please note that this snapshot is already part of our way to Sugar on a Stick v3. It's still based on F12 for stability reasons, though (this will change in the develo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Please Read] SoaS v2 RC Issues

2009-12-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
tead of "ebooks", but there's a redirect in place, so both will work. > What do you think? That sounds all cool to me! --Sebastian > Sean > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Sebastian Dziallas > wrote: >> Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >>> >>>

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] [Please Read] SoaS v2 RC Issues

2009-12-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> Confirmed that Read v78 has a "jumpy" cursor issue which can be >> avoided by reverting back to v77. >> Can't reproduce crash yet (trying to get hold of a F12 based system). > > I can reproduce it us

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Please Read] SoaS v2 RC Issues

2009-12-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
d would either put effort in getting the wiki page or the book selection done. Thanks for the quick reply! --Sebastian > Thanks, > Sayamindu > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> this is a very quick update on the current state

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Please Read] SoaS v2 RC Issues

2009-12-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
t;> and can't download vm images. >> Also, regarding Project Gutenberg EPUBs, they are quite shoddy, so we >> should really consider whether including them is a nice idea (I can >> figure out some of the legal issues, but in such a situation it may be >> prudent n

[Sugar-devel] [Please Read] SoaS v2 RC Issues

2009-12-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, this is a very quick update on the current state of SoaS v2. We discovered on Tuesday that we wouldn't be able to ship content due to legal concerns that was originally intended to be included and discussed how to proceed in the last two days. Specifically, we won't include anything th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feature_SoaS_customization Draft

2009-11-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Carlo Falciola wrote: > Hi, > I think that customization support is going to be an key point for Sugar/SOAS > deployement efforts and for nanaging relationship with field structures. So > I'm trying to start an effort in order to write down in as much as possible > detail all the potentially exi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Reminder please how to flash XO-1 NAND with soas05xo.iso

2009-11-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ust need to get to it. --Sebastian > thanks > > Sean > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Sebastian Dziallas > wrote: >> Sean DALY wrote: >>> >>> I did manage to generate the .img and .crc files with the >>> live-iso-t-xo.sh script, but afte

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] SoaS v2 approaching RC state

2009-11-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 24.11.2009, at 22:13, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> with the next SoaS release coming up really soon (final image is >> supposed to be composed this weekend, release date is Dec 8), there's a >> new snapshot r

[Sugar-devel] SoaS v2 approaching RC state

2009-11-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, with the next SoaS release coming up really soon (final image is supposed to be composed this weekend, release date is Dec 8), there's a new snapshot ready for you. It includes a lot of fixes and smaller adjustments. It's currently only available as a general .iso build, others will pr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Reminder please how to flash XO-1 NAND with soas05xo.iso

2009-11-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sean DALY wrote: > I did manage to generate the .img and .crc files with the > live-iso-t-xo.sh script, but after successful nand-copy of > soas05xo.img the XO-1 does not boot, freezes at avatar with no dots > :-( Sorry for the late reply. I was a bit busy with writing docs and fixing bugs over t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Non sugar activities on ASLO

2009-11-23 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Jim Simmons wrote: > Aleksey, > > It would be helpful to have a way to distribute things like the > gstreamer espeak plugin you wrote. Fedora doesn't currently include > it. It would be even better if you could distribute versions that > work on the XO running .82, as well as versions for current

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fw: Nano and soas03/04/05

2009-11-19 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sorry for the late reply... I'm quite behind my e-mail. :/ Just add --nogpg to your yum call, and it should work for now. We're looking to get this generally to work in Blueberry. --Sebastian Art Hunkins wrote: > I'd really appreciate a response about this. > > On sticks make with snapshots soa

[Sugar-devel] Adjusting the Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) Roadmap

2009-11-15 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, after considering input from the various teams involved in Sugar Labs and the Sugar on a Stick creation, we're shifting the SoaS as followed. 2009-11-17 Fedora 12 Final Release in the time between: wiki & documentation must be readied! 2009-11-29 Image Gold Master Creation & Up

Re: [Sugar-devel] Strawberry ID?

2009-11-12 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
The file /etc/fedora-release might be where you want to look... --Sebastian Art Hunkins wrote: > I can't seem to find either the lsb_release command, or a file by that name. > > Typing "lsb_release" in the Terminal gives me "file not found". > > "Find" doesn't locate the file either, nor does a l

Re: [Sugar-devel] is csound-python part of the Sugar Platform?

2009-11-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Art Hunkins wrote: > Please do include csound-python. I'd like my new activities to work "right > out of the box." On a side-note, we've already included it in the latest SoaS snapshots, so it'll make it's way into the Blueberry release. --Sebastian > Hopefully, doing so will also encourage oth

[Sugar-devel] New SoaS Snapshot ready!

2009-10-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, here's the next snapshot on our way to SoaS v2 Blueberry. This one fixes some issues and introduces new features, namely: * the updated FoodForce2, Slideruler and SocialCalc activities * the gtk-recordmydesktop tool - execute it from the terminal * new sample content - Alice's Adventures

Re: [Sugar-devel] New SoaS Snapshot Ready!

2009-10-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
rk for me last time). However, it looks like when Kernel Mode Setting is enabled (which is the case by default), the screen might vanish. Not yet sure what's causing it... --Sebastian > Art Hunkins > > ----- Original Message - From: "Sebastian Dziallas" > > To: &q

[Sugar-devel] New SoaS Snapshot Ready!

2009-10-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm happy to announce the availability of a new SoaS snapshot! We're only one month away from our release, so testing is very much appreciated to find the latest blockers now. Get your copy from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/ This release incorporates the l

[Sugar-devel] New SoaS v2 Snapshot Ready

2009-10-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, there is a new, true SoaS snapshot ready for you, awaiting testing. You can grab it here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/ Note that the XO images have apparently an issue (my fault!), which prevents them from booting, but will be addressed in the next build. Anywa

Re: [Sugar-devel] rawhide report: 20091010 changes

2009-10-10 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 14:59, Rawhide Report > wrote: >> Compose started at Sat Oct 10 06:15:04 UTC 2009 >> >> Broken deps for i386 >> -- >> konversation-1.2-1.fc12.i686 requires kdelibs4>= 0:4.3.2

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Structural Changes & New Snapshots

2009-10-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ks to everybody who contributed to these efforts, --Sebastian Dziallas ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Xoos Special Interest Group

2009-10-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
David Farning wrote: > As promised, we have started work on the XO operating system SIG at > Sugar Labs. The SIG pages are at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Xoos . > > Based on feedback from the current developers working in this space, > the most valuable starting point will be to start making dail

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] New Sugar on a Stick Snapshot Available

2009-09-27 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
After some days of silence, the beast returns [1]. Actually, there's a new true SoaS snapshot ready for you, awaiting testing eagerly. It's available for download from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/3/SoaS3-200909271154.iso Note the increased file size, which is the trade-of

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Introducing a new Mailing List

2009-09-27 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, so here it is, finally, a mailing list for the Sugar on a Stick project. If you're interested in its future, technical discussions or just want to talk about ideas you've, this is the place to go! Jump in, say hi and introduce yourself - that's it. Join the fun here: http://lists.sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Mel Chua wrote: > There's a lot going on in this thread, so here is my attempt to > summarize discussions so far. If I've missed or misstated anything, my > apologies - and it's a wiki, so go fix it. ;-) > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick > > By my count, there are 4 things we n

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS: Searching for Decision Panel volunteers.

2009-09-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Chris Ball wrote: > Please volunteer by replying to this mail if you're interested, and > please do so by Thursday September 24th so that we can run the vote > at the Friday September 25th SLOBs meeting. > > Thanks! > > - Chris. Thanks for getting this process off the ground! :) Well, I'd obvious

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-16 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
ght now. There are probably more. I would just like to know where I'm investing my work in, since I am just a volunteer. I don't get money for this. --Sebastian > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Daniel Drake <mailto:d...@laptop.org>> wrote: > > 2009/9/16

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-16 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:24, Daniel Drake wrote: >> 2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas: >>> Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an >>> "official" answer on this. Soon. >>> >>> Is the curre

[Sugar-devel] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-15 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an "official" answer on this. Soon. Is the current SoaS going to be the primary way Sugar Labs distributes a Sugar-centric GNU/Linux distribution? --Sebastian ___ Sugar-devel mailing list S

Re: [Sugar-devel] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 07:47:21PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Sebastian Dziallas >> wrote: >>> Short Term Action Items: >>> * We create a SoaS mailing list. >>> * We establish the SoaS deve

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sean DALY wrote: > Sebastian, what's your take? Can we "retire" SoaS-{1,2,3} or fold them > into the public v1, v2 numbers? Okay, let me shed some light in here, though I think this has already been discussed in length. In the early days when I started working on SoaS, we still had internal bui

[Sugar-devel] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
tion Items: * We create a SoaS mailing list. * We establish the SoaS development team. Thanks, Sebastian Dziallas ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-12 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Martin Dengler wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:30:30PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: >> re marketing course: in fact I have accepted Mel's invitation to do a >> classroom for Fedora. > > Congratulations. > >> re logos: Strawberry=6, Blueberry=4, and 5 we'll use some other time > > Very clear - thanks

[Sugar-devel] Getting a SoaS Docs Effort off the Ground

2009-09-09 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
From looking at the currently available documentation for Sugar on a Stick, I think it makes sense to collaborate on writing well written official instructions for it. So I've entered a Blueprint in Launchpad on it: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/soas/+spec/better-docs-for-soas I'd like to g

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
David Farning wrote: > The project guidelines are now on the wiki at > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines . > > Please edit as necessary. When it looks like the editing has > stopped, I ask the board the ratify the guidelines. > > david I just looked into this, sorry fo

[Sugar-devel] Next Test Day: Sugar on a Stick [Tomorrow]

2009-09-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Greetings, sorry for the late notice and the cross-post. This test day will focus on Sugar Labs' Sugar on a Stick, a downstream project based on Fedora. Sugar on a Stick has launched it's first version codenamed "Strawberry" successfully in June and has recently announced the beta release of it

[Sugar-devel] SoaS Test Day Team: Please sign up!

2009-09-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
As announced before, the SoaS QA test day [1] is coming up quickly and will already take place tomorrow. We're still looking for people willing to join the team, which will support the testers in #fedora-test-day. If you'd like to jump on the train, please enter your availability here [2] so th

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS v2 Beta Release - "The Next Big Thing"

2009-08-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Sun, 30-08-2009 a las 21:46 +0200, Sebastian Dziallas escribió: >> Please download and test your version of this release from here: >> >> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-2-beta.iso >> >> 6db05c91d2bc1a6c4af1044cea2ae0b6

[Sugar-devel] SoaS v2 Beta Release - "The Next Big Thing"

2009-08-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
https://launchpad.net/soas Thanks, --Sebastian Dziallas [1] https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ [2] http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh [3] http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas3-20090830.zip ___ Sugar-devel ma

[Sugar-devel] SoaS Test Day: Join the Support Team

2009-08-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, as noted in our roadmap for Sugar on a Stick [1], we are going to have a joint test day with the folks from Fedora's Quality Assurance [2] to improve the quality of SoaS on its way to version 2 (in November). The test day is scheduled to take place on September 3, which is this T

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Physics-3

2009-08-27 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
w00t! This arrives, by the way, perfectly in time for the beta. :) --Sebastian ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick on XOs for XO Lending Libraries?

2009-08-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caroline Meeks wrote: > Sdz and others... > > We should put having a Stick work on both XOs and nonXOs on a roadmap, > feature wish list somewhere please. I have to admit I'm getting pretty > lost about where to put this sort of thing, especially since it crosses > so many boundaries. With our mo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Broadcom Driver installations was Re: SOAS on Dell mini inspiron 10

2009-08-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caroline Meeks wrote: > Sebastian, Mel, > > How is it going getting broadcom support incorporated upstream? Will > this be in the next release? I included the b43-openfwwf package some time ago in the SoaS snapshots, but I'm not sure on which broadcom hardware it will exactly work. So there is

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] New snapshot on the way...

2009-08-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Dave Bauer wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <mailto:sebast...@when.com>> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > we've a new SoaS snapshot ready for testing. Here are the major changes: > > - We just made the switch to Rawhi

[Sugar-devel] SoaS v2 Beta Readiness Meeting Appointment

2009-08-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
The SoaS v2 Beta Readiness Meeting is going to take place on Sunday, August 23, 1400 UTC (making it 1000 EDT and 1600 CEST) in #sugar-meeting. Looking forward to seeing everybody there! --Sebastian ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarl

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick switches to a new Bug Tracker

2009-08-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, with the imminent release of the SoaS v2 Beta in just ten days, I would like to announce the switch to Launchpad as our bug tracker. We have been evaluating an instance Luke Faraone set us up with lately and are confident that it will fit our needs. The upcoming beta release is t

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] New snapshot on the way...

2009-08-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Walter Bender wrote: > Is there a test plan to go with the test day? Not yet, but that's (partly) why we should meet. ;) --Sebastian > -walter > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Sebastian Dziallas > wrote: >> Hi everybody, >> >> we've a new So

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] New snapshot on the way...

2009-08-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, we've a new SoaS snapshot ready for testing. Here are the major changes: - We just made the switch to Rawhide (which is supposed to become F12). So watch out for any breakages - and shout if you notice any! :) - We now ship the shiny new zyx-liveinstaller! This is a very early al

[Sugar-devel] Fedora Education Spin Nightly Builds now available!

2009-08-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Just a quick heads-up to note that daily builds of our education spin based on Rawhide are available thanks to the great work of the Infra & Spin SIG folks. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ Those builds conclude what is supposed to become the Fedora Education Spin for F12

[Sugar-devel] SoaS Readiness Meeting - Availability?

2009-08-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
So it is finally coming up: the SoaS v2 Beta. And just a few days later, there will be the Fedora QA Test Day. I think we might have quite some stuff to discuss (What needs to be done to get it in a proper shape? How do we prepare for the Test Day?)... So please go ahead and enter your availabi

Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for volunteers to implement Bug Report feature

2009-08-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
send bugreports(especially for >>>> non-tech users), so if someone interested in please pick [1] up. >>> >>> From what I've seen on IRC, Sebastian Dziallas is currently working on a >>> solution, either by porting Apport to Sugar, using GNOME's

Re: [Sugar-devel] Who's interested in testing a new installer for SoaS?

2009-08-09 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 02:46:50PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: >> A few lines up from the last boot message, it says: >> >> mount: unknown filesystem type 'jffs2' >> >> That can't be a good sign. This is indeed not a good sign. We've had this some time ago with the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for Help: SoaS & Display Manager (Auto-Login)

2009-08-09 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Ton van Overbeek wrote: > Regarding getting auto-login to work after restarting X. > > Yesterday I looked at the slim sources and it seems at first sight easy > to add auto login of the default user after the first login. > Any interest in me trying to implement this? > If we use an extra option to

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