[IAEP] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-14 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, (be careful, pathos content:) I'm going to post about my sugar vision(not only about technical cases) which I'm going to implement during 0.88 release cycle(though non of these points are tight to sucrose releases). The major point of some of my proposals to 0.88 sucrose has social

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-14 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Aleksey Lim wrote: So, I have strong intension to switching development focus from core team, which develops sucrose - glucose(core) and fructose(some core activities) to wide range of developers/doers thus some kind of decentralization of development process. I agree. I think this has been

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-12-14 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:48:39PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: Hello everybody, This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori teacher, about Speak. She asked me why Speak says a when a is pressed and not the *sound* of the letter a. Montessori teachers teach the shape

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-12-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Dec 2009, at 15:30, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:48:39PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: Hello everybody, This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori teacher, about Speak. She asked me why Speak says a when a is pressed and not the *sound* of the

Re: [IAEP] Do nice guys finish first?

2009-12-14 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 14:06 +0100, Sean DALY wrote: David, I'm not sure what you mean. Do you feel some contributors aren't working together? I'm afraid I may have something to do with it. Perhaps I shall try to explain what happened, with full background. David and I happen to have different

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:25, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Aleksey Lim wrote: So, I have strong intension to switching development focus from core team, which develops sucrose - glucose(core) and fructose(some core activities) to wide range of developers/doers thus

Re: [IAEP] Video Editor for the XO?

2009-12-14 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:02, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi SG and Sugar Labs folks... Some time ago I asked about the possibility of a video editor for Sugar. I think someone might have been working on one then, but haven't heard anything about it for a long time. Now there

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 21, Issue 26

2009-12-14 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:02:13AM -0800, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Everyone A couple of things: Re: Future of Zero Sugar [snip] I think I've found proper way - instead of decentralising technical aspects in core development, decentralise method of sharing changes between

[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-12-14 Thread forster
Speak has editable dictionaries which control the sound, for each language there is a rules and list file It should be possible to edit them to make the sounds of individual letters, its certainly possible to do the opposite, sound the name of the letters in abbreviations eg. OLPC

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-14 Thread Sebastian Silva
I for one would love to learn a new way to hack on my sugar and easily share patches. If we can do better than jhbuild does (user experience wise), I would love it! Icarito 2009/12/14 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 17:01, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On

Re: [IAEP] Donation page broken

2009-12-14 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 11:08 +0800, Walter Bender wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Donate Who knows how to fix it? What exactly is wrong? I tested Google Checkout, and got this error: Oops!

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-12-14 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Monday 14 December 2009 09:00:23 pm Aleksey Lim wrote: Hello everybody, This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori teacher, about Speak. She asked me why Speak says a when a is pressed and not the sound of the letter a. Montessori teachers teach the shape

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-14 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:16:02AM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: I strongly agree w/ tomeu on this. Making Sugar easier to contribute to isn't anywhere near the top of the list of requested features by our kids and teachers in Nepal. The far and away most requested feature by teachers in Nepal