Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Performance tuning for activities.sugarlabs.org

2009-08-12 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 02:07:58AM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Over the past months, CPU usage on Sunjammer has been increasing gradually to the point that it made the system unusable during prime time (east coast daytime hours):

Re: [IAEP] SoaS with Rosie's Girls

2009-08-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:25, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 17:15, Nicco Eneidinbottice...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday, August 7th, I presented Sugar to fifteen girls ages 10-13

Re: [IAEP] New activity: Arithmetic.

2009-08-12 Thread Albert Cahalan
First of all, it's wonderful to finally see this activity. Plenty of words in the UI are not easy, starting with difficulty. :-) There doesn't seem to be any scratch space to work in, but I'm just looking at the screen shot. Can the user lay out a long division in the standard form? Can the user

[IAEP] Deployment Team meeting on Wednesday August 19th - 14:00 UTC

2009-08-12 Thread Pilar Saenz
Hi, It's time to revive Deployment Team. Next meeting Wednesday August 19th - at 14 UTC (9 EST) on irc.freenode.net (channel: #sugar-meeting). Please add to the agenda below and please join in with your ideas. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Meetings/Minutes/2009-08-19 best

Re: [IAEP] SoaS with Rosie's Girls

2009-08-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Aug 2009, at 08:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:25, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: This is turning out to be a very important concept to explain to people. Does anyone

Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-08-12 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Monday 13 Jul 2009 9:11:10 pm K. K. Subramaniam wrote: On Monday 13 Jul 2009 7:02:33 pm Caroline Meeks wrote: What sort of results do you have so far? The new academic year has just started. In the prev one, around 75% of the kids learnt to handle the computer well enough to create at

Re: [IAEP] Sugar packaging in Squeeze, Karmic

2009-08-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:58:42PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Sorry for not including this list in the Cc list right away. I was unaware of its existence. No problem. Even if not that loud on the radar, the OLPC team at Alioth has been the main point of Debian-base Sugar packaging

Re: [IAEP] Sugar packaging in Squeeze, Karmic

2009-08-12 Thread David Van Assche
For Guadalinex-edu, we are taking jhconvert packages as a base, under Karmic. These are the most up to date and probably most tested packages currently available for Ubuntu (courtesy of Aleksey) It would make sense to bundle these with edubuntu too, at least until the debian packages are

Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-08-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
Great news! please do keep us informed and also let me know when you do publicity so I can link to you. Thanks! Caroline On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:17 AM, K. K. Subramaniam subb...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday 13 Jul 2009 9:11:10 pm K. K. Subramaniam wrote: On Monday 13 Jul 2009 7:02:33 pm

[IAEP] sunjammer: server relocation, Aug 12, 21:30 EDT

2009-08-12 Thread Bernie Innocenti
The FSF sysadmins are going to relocate our virtual machine Sunjammer today in the evening. The new host has faster processors, twice as much memory, a faster RAID1 array and generally better hardware. The downtime is projected to last 15-30 minutes, but it may last longer in case of unexpected

[IAEP] Outage notifications via identi.ca

2009-08-12 Thread Bernie Innocenti
To receive notifications for scheduled maintenance to our servers and other service outages, you can get an account at identi.ca and subscribe to this group: http://identi.ca/group/sugarlabsstatus/ It's supposed to be a very low-traffic channel, to be used only by humans to communicate

[IAEP] List moderation, or lack thereof

2009-08-12 Thread Bernie Innocenti
The lists iaep@ and sugar-devel@ get far too much spam and moderating them effectively would take too much time. Until when I'll find some time to install and properly configure SpamAssassin on our incoming email pipe, posts addressed to these lists that would normally be held for moderation will

Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-08-12 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Thursday 13 Aug 2009 2:12:07 am Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: What have been the issues preventing you from using Sugar? What blockers still exist which would prevent you from using Sugar? LaTeX and Stellarium were two big show stoppers. We just wanted a 'digital kit' that children

Re: [IAEP] Computer as a tool

2009-08-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:21 PM, K. K. Subramaniamsubb...@gmail.com wrote: SCIM (m17n) was not stable enough when we started. Recent versions are much more stable and we are trying them out this year. Good. I can't judge, but here is a Kannada Inscript keyboard layout done in SCIM. ` ೧ ೨ ೩ ೪ ೫