Re: Build Debate: Followup on Build Naming

2008-04-08 Thread Walter Bender
I think we are all in complete agreement re predictable release schedules. It is the naming scheme we are struggling with. -walter On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Kent Loobey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my two cents on this subject. start-of-rant I worked for over ten years on a

Re: Chilling Effects paper at USENIX

2008-04-09 Thread Walter Bender
Charles, An attempt to answer some of your questions: Could someone let me know if *all* the BitFrost implementation is opensource? yes Long lived photograph/name/laptop pairing is made. In current implementations, there is no photograph, so any discussion of the implementation details is

Re: Usability testing

2008-04-11 Thread Walter Bender
And in point of fact, the new designs are in large part informed by observations made in the field over the past two years. There are many details, such as the color selector, that we have all agreed are far from the mark--many of these are documented in Trac, but perhaps a collector bug would be

Re: networking scenarios

2008-04-11 Thread Walter Bender
It depends upon what you mean. We have situations where even two laptops connected by simple mesh fail to properly transfer data. Then again, the failures also occur in the other 3 scenarios as well. -walter On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

OLPC News (2008-04-12)

2008-04-12 Thread Walter Bender
1. Marvin Minksy has been writing a series of essays on learning. The first three essays are available on the wiki (See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Marvin_Minsky_essays). The themes to date include What makes Mathematics hard to learn?, Drawbacks of Age-Based Segregation, What's wrong with the

Re: More planning thoughts

2008-04-17 Thread Walter Bender
Your scale is 1-10? 1 being low and 10 being high? What is mesh? The transport layer? It is curious that you think that collaboration is currently the most tolerable feature. From what perspective? In the field, I find no other feature that causes as much frustration to end users as the

where is Walter?

2008-04-21 Thread Walter Bender
After more than two years without a break at One Laptop per Child, I have decided to take some time to reflect on how I can best contribute going forward to the goal of giving children around the world opportunities for a quality learning experience. The OLPC Association is making headway getting

Re: Turkish keyboard layout

2008-04-21 Thread Walter Bender
Actually, I don't recall ever approving a Turkish keyboard... The rest of the table seems up to date as far as I know. I had been in close contact with several groups in Turkey about 12 months ago and at the time, they were advocating the F layout. It would certainly be easy enough to do a Q

Re: Walter leaving and shift to XP.

2008-04-22 Thread Walter Bender
First of all, just to clear, Flash does run on the laptop: there is a choice of both the Adobe Flash player and the FOSS Flash player, Gnash. We opted to install the Gnash player by default. Many of the problems people have with Flash are actually related to codecs rather than the player itself.

Re: Walter leaving and shift to XP.

2008-04-22 Thread Walter Bender
I am not sure what you are driving at Mitch: web browsers are available to fundamentalists of both camps. Are you suggesting that a proprietary browser will reach more children more quickly? -walter On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Mitch Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know quite a few

Re: Walter leaving and shift to XP.

2008-04-23 Thread Walter Bender
I certainly don't know enough about Windows to be able to answer your question from the technical perspective. I do know that to launch an effort to port to Windows will require resources above and beyond what are currently available. Is that the best use of resources? There is an argue to suggest

Re: (unknown)

2008-04-25 Thread Walter Bender
If you have a G1G1 machine, just use sugar-control-panel -s language Spanish/Peru to get the laptop to use the Spanish strings but keep the keyboard settings. -walter On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:43 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL

Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-04-28 Thread Walter Bender
Any interest in the themes/topics Tomeu outlined in his email about Sugar performance? Lots of interesting things to explore that would be of real value to the project. -walter On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Patrick Jahenr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, We are a group of 15 collegians,

Re: Activation problems

2008-04-28 Thread Walter Bender
If you insert the key after the machine boots, then it shouldn't have been a problem having a /boot directory. A possible explanation of the inconsistent behavior could be when in the boot process you insert the key. -walter On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:07 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 15 computer science collegians looking for a project

2008-04-29 Thread Walter Bender
for it (and the XO badly needs this work). BTW if you referring to this http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-March/012033.html or this http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2006-September/000439.html then these are not easy and fast things either. Walter Bender wrote: Any

Re: very simple datastore reimplementation

2008-05-08 Thread Walter Bender
The OLPC never encouraged her to use names for her documents, anyway; How so? Every activity has a field for naming the activity instance and individual documents can be named (and tagged) as in the case of the Record activity. Further, even in the current implementation of the Journal you can

Re: [sugar] OLPC priorities for Sugar in the August release

2008-05-14 Thread Walter Bender
was that joyride or the faster build? -walter On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * More responsive UI - faster launch of activities Is the solution currently in joyride satisfactory for the August release? I use a recent Joyride on my G1G1. My

Re: [support-gang] [sugar] Microsoft

2008-05-15 Thread Walter Bender
There has been some mention of a new community initiative to carry on the development of Sugar. A number of community members have set up SugarLabs.org in order to further extend Sugar. Sugar Labs will focus on providing a software ecosystem that enhances learning on the XO laptop as well as other

Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view

2008-05-16 Thread Walter Bender
There is an underlying assertion in your post (and much of the press coverage of the Windows XP announcement) that the XO has not been selling well to date. I would assert that 600K units in the first 6 months is pretty good by most measures. It is a far cry from the 100M units that Nicholas

Re: View Source question

2008-05-16 Thread Walter Bender
Don't think of it just as source code, but do think of it as a way expose the inner workings of whatever the activity is doing. For example, view source in the browser might take you into an HTML editor, a Javascript editor, or the Python code for the browser itself as a progression of steps.

Re: View Source question

2008-05-17 Thread Walter Bender
Indeed, that is one of the virtues of Squeak. Python was somewhat of a compromise in this respect, but it has the virtual that opens up ready access to most of the rest of the GNU/Linux world. Both are pretty friendly development environments. It is probably easier to design an onion-like view

Re: View Source question

2008-05-19 Thread Walter Bender
I don't recollect reading about any effort to pick a standard - de facto or otherwise. Any other interpretation is revisionist history. I Building a system that was open and discoverable was a goal from the very beginning--we wanted to go beyond black boxes. But you are correct is saying that

Re: Microsoft

2008-05-19 Thread Walter Bender
The price often quoted has been $7 for the SD card. Not sure where that number comes from. I recall that a $19 high-speed card was used in the original testing; at the time it was asserted that a standard-speed card was necessary. I don't know that this is still the case. -walter On Mon, May

Re: [Its.an.education.project] Constructionism (was Re: XP on OLPC - a contrarian view)

2008-05-19 Thread Walter Bender
I did come to Peru (and plan on returning as well). I did participate in seminars to introduce the Peruvian teachers to constructionism within the context of Sugar and the national curriculum. I did not find these seminars to be instructionist: they were very much hands-on (the very first thing

Re: Converting xol files???

2008-05-22 Thread Walter Bender
It is a bit more complicated than that if you want the .xol to install in the library used by Browse on the home page. You need to add a few bits of glue: index.html should be a redirect as per: html meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;url=file:///home/olpc/Library/YOURBUNDLENAME/YOURBUNDLECONENT

Re: [IAEP] OLPC's bizarre behaviors

2008-05-22 Thread Walter Bender
Indeed, one of the goals of Sugar Labs is to help build community collaboration, so working together on organizing is a positive step forward. I plan to start sending a weekly Sugar Digest out--but it will not be comprehensive of all the OLPC comings and goings and it will include Sugar in other

Re: XO-2

2008-05-22 Thread Walter Bender
Not having seen the display, it is not obvious that intricate glyphs will be very easy to fit legibly on a virtual keycap. -walter On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:53 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/22/08, Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2008 13:33:10 -0700

Re: [sugar] Software Status Meeting Tomorrow @ 1400 EDT, 1800 UTC in #olpc-meeting on freenode

2008-05-28 Thread Walter Bender
great idea. -walter On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:39 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 19:40 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: Finally, there is the issue of work queues. I still have no clue how to represent, using either either Trac or the wiki, the fact that

Re: What would be interesting in Terminal for Teachers?

2008-05-30 Thread Walter Bender
at present, it is from the terminal that you add and run any non-Sugarized applications, so walking them through the use of yum would perhaps be of interest. -walter 2008/5/30 Rodolfo Pilas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello devs! Next week I will talk about Terminal activity for a group of school

Re: [OLPC Security] G1G1: Security, to enable or disable...

2008-06-05 Thread Walter Bender
I would like to see the link for requesting a developer key made much more prominent in the library. I'd like to see the pathname to downloading the key itself much more prominent (and displayed in a larger point size) on the webpage returned after the request is granted. For those of us with

Re: Trac: release management

2008-06-05 Thread Walter Bender
It'd be nice to summarize these suggestions for improving the Trac system in a ticket!! -walter On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Garrett Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it pleases you, count the number and severity of

Re: journal object transfer for 8.2

2008-06-09 Thread Walter Bender
I would argue otherwise. Since Sugar has no control over the robustness of the network, having some way of sharing at a basic level from the Journal is seemingly a high priority. Half of the high-priority bugs in the link you provide are in fact not really Sugar bugs, but subsystem bugs. The

Re: Switching to Kreyol ?

2008-06-17 Thread Walter Bender
PS: I don't want to mess with standards, but ht_HT sounds weird for haitian kreyol. I would expect something like kr_HT. As you know, there are many kreyols, and kreyol from Haïti, even if it comes first among kreyols in terms of people speaking it all over the world, is just one of

Re: [sugar] Relationships w/ upstream.

2008-07-07 Thread Walter Bender
To the extent that sugarlabs is going to operate as a true upstream, they need to be cognizant of the fact that OLPC will at times put its goals/process ahead of upstream's goals/process. I'll be presumptuous and speak on behalf of upstream. Sugar developers are cognizant of the needs of OLPC

Re: [sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

2008-07-08 Thread Walter Bender
Sugarizing involves more than just the look and feel of the UI; in addition to Bitfrost considerations--raised by Bert and Mikus--and the collaboration model, there is also Journal/Datastore intergration to consider: the trivial from of Sugarizing does not result in useful Journal entries. So some

Re: Fedora Coordination

2008-07-08 Thread Walter Bender
And they are, in fact, succeeding, even though the open source community has largely turned its collective back on that success. Which is, I think, a shame. Bravo for Greg, but this is overstated: not the succeeding part, the turning its back part. -walter On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:25 PM,

Re: Colour blindness

2008-07-08 Thread Walter Bender
The most typical color-blindless is a red-green confusion. Black-green should not be an issue as this is contrast in value, not chroma. However, the point is well taken. Some of the on-screen color combinations may well be problematic. The general rule of thumb is to provide at least two Munsell

Re: Colour blindness

2008-07-08 Thread Walter Bender
The good news is that the green we use is pretty close to the peak luminance sensitivity, maximizing the available contrast. In general, green is a very good choice in regard to contrast to black. -walter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Re: Colour blindness

2008-07-14 Thread Walter Bender
Tthe classic example of misconstruing value contrast and chromatic contrast was when the Human Factors journal decided to switch from black-on-white to yellow-on-white for their cover. The switch only lasted one issue, as I recall. We (humans) process spectral information through two distinct

Re: Code name for 9.1.0

2008-07-15 Thread Walter Bender
I've always been an alliteration fan, but how about a noun and a verb--after all, learning is action. appropriate apricots or a gerund form appropriating apricots -walter On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 15.07.2008 um 05:19 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso:

Re: gnash improvements on F9

2008-07-15 Thread Walter Bender
But was that because the codecs weren't loaded? -walter On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Daniel You might try www.caillou.com or www.moncailletdeurope.education.fr The animations of these sites were not playable at all on the last joyride builds with the

Re: New joyride build 2165

2008-07-16 Thread Walter Bender
:( No network after loading this build. -walter On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2165 Changes in build 2165 from build: 2163 Size delta: 0.00M -kernel

Re: [sugar] Write needs your help (was Re: Programming environments on the XO)

2008-07-17 Thread Walter Bender
It might be a good longer-term focus to see if we could get some of the Bitfrost ideas pushed upstream rather than diluting them. It has applicability well beyond OLPC and Sugar. -walter On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are suggestions with a

Re: [sugar] Programming environments on the XO

2008-07-17 Thread Walter Bender
I'd vote that we not expend too much effort in supporting multiple development environments in Pippy at the moment--there are so many other high-priority things to be working on. Is there really a lot of demand for this from the field? -walter On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Benjamin M.

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar (kid contributions)

2008-07-24 Thread Walter Bender
I don't think anyone would argue that we need better tools for software development on the XO. There has been a latent Develop activity in the works that occasionally gets a boost from the community (want to jump in?). I would argue that a bigger stumbling block than problems with Sugar and

Re: [sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar (kid contributions)

2008-07-24 Thread Walter Bender
instead of just turtle programs and gooey smalltalk... Cannot let this one slip by uncommented on. Etoys is one place where kids are doing real programming, as a means of achieving fluency about many powerful ideas, not just syntax. But I unaware that children have made contributions to Squeak

Re: Calling all small keyboards

2008-07-25 Thread Walter Bender
I left my Sinclair in the 1CC conference room. It probably qualifies as well. -walter On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:29 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are looking for examples of keyboards for small children present before 1993. Specifically, we are looking for keyboards whose

Re: Terminals

2008-07-31 Thread Walter Bender
Curious as to what occasions need root access within X Windows? Maybe the console is enough? -walter On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of our present security difficulties is that the Terminal activity is not isolated. It is de-isolated so that it can

Re: Terminals

2008-08-01 Thread Walter Bender
, this is really what I was asking: what dependencies do we have for Sugar/X in normal admin tasks that require root? thanks. -walter On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 Aug 2008, at 03:25, Walter Bender wrote: Curious as to what occasions need root access within

Re: activity bar

2008-08-01 Thread Walter Bender
not sure what the difference is between an installed activity and a custom activity. -walter On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure which logs. I can see all the installed activities but none of my custom ones. Victor At 14:51 01/08/2008, Marco

Re: Terminals

2008-08-01 Thread Walter Bender
Why does it matter that you cannot adjust the screen brightness from the console using the special keys? You can adjust it from Sugar without root access. The idea was to understand what limits we'd face using the console for root access instead of a special terminal activity. What are the Sugar/X

Re: Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2263!

2008-08-08 Thread Walter Bender
The bottleneck is in the XO hardware that all of the tests run on (and the number of tests we choose to do), rather than in hardware that we can upgrade. I wonder if there is some way to parallelize this across multiple XOs? Not ever XO running every test? Presumably multiple XOs are not the

Re: Sugared Wine project begins

2008-08-08 Thread Walter Bender
I'm including the Education list in a hope we can get some feedback as to what class of MS-Windows programs are a high-priority. I cannot imagine Word would be high on the list, but there are undoubtedly many applications people are looking for... -walter On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:52 PM, John

Re: [sugar] new 8.2.0 beta joyride - upgrading via control panel ?

2008-08-11 Thread Walter Bender
Not surprisingly, my experience on different machines with different versions of joyride and different collections of activities installed is that it is very inconsistent. Sometimes it just works, but often times, it gets hung on one or two activities, e.g., for a while, it would get stuck on

Re: joyride version announcements

2008-08-20 Thread Walter Bender
That's right, would people be interested in hearing about each failed build? No. -walter ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: New joyride build 2323

2008-08-22 Thread Walter Bender
+ Windows XP suspend/resume support Huh? -walter On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2323 Changes in build 2323 from build: 2322 Size delta: -0.65M -totem-mozplugin 2.23.4-1.olpc3.4

Re: [sugar] Combined Sugar/XO manual outline

2008-09-08 Thread Walter Bender
What about the Activity manuals? -walter On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What follows is the flow of chapters (devised by Seth, Adam, Cynthia and myself) for the Sugar / XO manual to (hopefully) be included on the XO for G1G1. Make all

Re: Expected date for 8.2.0

2008-09-10 Thread Walter Bender
Are we still so wedded to the purity of circles? Simply changing the shape of the icon once a connection is made would go a long way. Maybe morph into a star? or a sun? Or add the ubiquitous parens around the icon a la the indicator light? None of these would adversely impact the color-ID scheme.

Re: Flash tests

2008-09-16 Thread Walter Bender
For consideration in your testing: there are some ways to tune the performance of Flash, such as the video playback hack described here: http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=845.0 I don't know if there are similar hacks for improving general performance of Flash (or Gnash) on lesser-powered

Re: Peru and Microsoft announcement

2008-09-16 Thread Walter Bender
Jim took over my weekly community news digest for OLPC. It tends to have a lot of information, not necessarily actionable, about deployments. Alas, it tends to be more cheer leading than anything else, where as the technical content has some depth (or at least pointers to some depth). -walter On

Re: mechanisms tied to mesh: under a tree collab

2008-09-16 Thread Walter Bender
(Actually, Sugar will also find any nearby Macs running Avahi, but doesn't quite know what to do with them.) Chat between Bonjour clients works today. So the XOs know some things to do with a MAC. -walter ___ Devel mailing list

Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-20 Thread Walter Bender
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Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-20 Thread Walter Bender
^is^are^ :) On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, there is a great deal of data from the field in the form of the activity packs that Peru, Uruguay, et al. developed. These collections have been vetted and tested extensively and have a built

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-20 Thread Walter Bender
I am curious: do we have a taxonomy of the various applications we are expecting to see. Has there been a characterization of the problem we are trying to solve? The Gimp, which is a mess in any wm, seems to be the only example of a lots of floating little windows application anyone ever mentions.

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-21 Thread Walter Bender
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Walter Bender wrote: | (I run SKYPE in Bert's X Activity | without a problem.) The principle goal of this discussion is to make the X Activity unnecessary by moving that functionality into Sugar's window management

Re: [sugar] [Grassroots-l] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-21 Thread Walter Bender
: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 21, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Seth Woodworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-23 Thread Walter Bender
technically-oriented parties involved. I have heard echos of this from less technical users (e.g. teachers who are confused by the behavior of the journal). Erik -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: [sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

2008-09-24 Thread Walter Bender
low priority relative to these other inconsistencies. -walter On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:16:17PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: We all agree that the datastore needs serious attention, although it doesn't directly impact

Re: [sugar] Another pass through some basic Activity test results

2008-09-28 Thread Walter Bender
Gary, this is a very helpful analysis. Thanks. Arjun, I wonder if Measure isn't exceptional in regard to when it is not in the foreground. I can imagine wanted to log data while doing other things: It isn't clear it should go idle when not visible. My naive guess would be to assume that a timer

Re: New release8.2 build 764

2008-09-29 Thread Walter Bender
repeatedly been subject to jailbreaks, allowing the execution of arbitrary code ... So we could call it a jailbreaking key... John ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter

Re: Flash tests

2008-09-30 Thread Walter Bender
. wad ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http

Re: Walter Bender: Re: devkeys, prettyboot, and G1G1

2008-10-02 Thread Walter Bender
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new project hosting request: infoslicer

2008-10-06 Thread Walter Bender
. There is no need to list non-committer developers. Username Full name SSH2 key URLE-mail - -- #1 walter Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] #2 #3 ... If any

Re: notes on Journal feedback (was Re: Bundle activity)

2008-10-07 Thread Walter Bender
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Re: getting mp3 sound working w/ Gnash easily

2008-10-11 Thread Walter Bender
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Re: OLPC as Project of the Day at FOSS.in

2008-10-14 Thread Walter Bender
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Re: Fedora 10 for 9.1.0?

2008-10-14 Thread Walter Bender
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Fwd: Tagged Journal Proposal

2008-10-15 Thread Walter Bender
forgot to reply-all -w -- Forwarded message -- From: Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:07 PM Subject: Re: Tagged Journal Proposal To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Haven't had a chance to review the talk note yet, but one observation based on Paul's comment

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-16 Thread Walter Bender
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Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Walter Bender
development. Opinions? Thanks, Tomeu ___ Sugar mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Top five performance problems

2008-10-25 Thread Walter Bender
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Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread Walter Bender
of the morning for UI/design. Scott, it'd be great if you could join us. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Localization] [Proposal] .xot bundles, for translations

2008-11-15 Thread Walter Bender
://wiki.laptop.org/go/Localization/LanguagePacks -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___ Localization mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http

Re: Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations

2008-12-12 Thread Walter Bender
list info-...@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org

Re: Greg Smith Over and Out

2009-01-08 Thread Walter Bender
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release

2009-01-21 Thread Walter Bender
chooser so it shows only images * {{OlpcBug|8972}} Save to OpenDocument if we cannot export in the original format ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http

Re: Uruguay: Using the XO with Developmentally Challenged Kids

2009-01-30 Thread Walter Bender
? ;-) At least he won. -- James Cameronmailto:qu...@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org

Re: Uruguay: Using the XO with Developmentally Challenged Kids

2009-01-30 Thread Walter Bender
that said, it is an interesting exercise to try drawing letters with the Turtle. -walter On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Turtle Art portfolio, which will become the new Turtle Art, has a label block. -walter On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:38 PM

Re: Testing summary - 31 January 2009

2009-01-30 Thread Walter Bender
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Re: OLPC where to go development advice.

2009-01-30 Thread Walter Bender
++ on this machine? Yes. Thanks for any help on what is really an off topic post Paul ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter

Re: Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-05 Thread Walter Bender
. John http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Walter Bender
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Re: Unshare an Activity

2009-02-16 Thread Walter Bender
player return to the corridors of the club and they are free to enter in another room to start another mini game. Answer you question? Thanks -- Jorge Saldivar -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: Favorite Projects for XO Development?

2009-02-17 Thread Walter Bender
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Re: Favorite Projects for XO Development?

2009-02-17 Thread Walter Bender
automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at support-gang-ow...@lists.laptop.org. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-02-24 Thread Walter Bender
. - Let me know where more help is needed and I'll be happy to try to get you unstuck. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left? (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-02 Thread Walter Bender
will reconsider wasting my time. Cannot comment on where OLPC is going re XO hardware. Sugar Labs will not cease. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] instructions for flashing SoaS on a XO

2009-03-06 Thread Walter Bender
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Re: [Sugar-devel] instructions for flashing SoaS on a XO

2009-03-07 Thread Walter Bender
We do support a similar mechanism to what was in place on w.l.o. I'll get it set up. -walter On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com writes: I tried it (from Ubuntu instead of F10) and it seems to work flawlessly

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final

2009-03-08 Thread Walter Bender
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