Re: [IAEP] Teams!

2008-11-07 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Greg Dekoenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://sugarlabs.org/go/WikiTeam Who's the owner... cjl? The TODO list looks good... names attached? No, not the owener, just a contributor. By volume of work, I'd say dfarning

Re: [IAEP] [Localization] Fwd: sugar on a stick localized in farsi or pashto or both

2009-06-21 Thread Chris Leonard
Sameer, My strong suggestion is to point Jim Stockford and Carol Ruth Silver at the OLPC Afghanistan team and have them reach out directly. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Afghanistan OLCP Afghanistan has done great work on the translation of the Sugar interface into Dari and Pashto as you can

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-26 Thread Chris Leonard
Caryl. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team A great deal of useful information about developing activities for the Sugar environment can be found on the Sugar Labs wiki. I would recommend starting with this page and following links from there. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] 2 Major Sugar Issues

2010-01-22 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... Two rather huge issues: 1) Sugar Labs does not have Spanish translations available on either the SoaS Strawberry or Blueberry web pages. I wanted to print these out to take to the school in Argentina that

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] wiki design

2010-03-10 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.orgwrote: We have a lot of choice of different styles: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/ http://people.sugarlabs.org/ http://download.sugarlabs.org/ http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ http://activities.sugarlabs.org/

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] wiki design

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.orgwrote: On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 11:40 -0500, Chris Leonard wrote: Variously, Firefox 3.6, IE 8.0 or Safari. My point was that *translate* doesn't show in the linkbar at the top of the wiki at present, not that I don't see

[IAEP] Opportunity to educate / advocate

2010-03-26 Thread Chris Leonard
All, I came across this blog posting on the Eldis Community pointing out an on-line conference: http://community.eldis.org/.59d3b775 USAID (notably one of the sponsors of the OLPC Afghanistan deployment) is hosting an online conference covering a range of potentially relevant topics. No

[IAEP] Books and educational achievement

2010-05-25 Thread Chris Leonard
This study seems to make a powerful argument in favor of ramping up the quantity of e-book content on school servers. Books in the home as important as parents’ education level http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/templates/details.aspx?articleid=5450zoneid=8 cjl

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Reminder: STEP UP OLPC Fundraiser in DC on Feb 24th

2011-02-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Beth Santos b...@waveplace.org wrote: Lately, however, we have been having problems with chargers and need to get some new ones that won't break so easily during power surges. That's one of the reasons why we're having a fundraiser to get better quality

[IAEP] Khan academy content

2011-04-04 Thread Chris Leonard
I haven't really looked into this, but I thought it might be of interest to some on the list. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/04/the-khan-academy-and-educ_n_844390.html http://www.khanacademy.org/ One might imagine these videos being stored on the School Server for local access.

[IAEP] [somos-azucar] Fwd: Re: [Marketing] OLPC PR on BusinessWire: The Government of Peru Expands the One Laptop Per Child Program with Local Manufacturing

2011-04-08 Thread Chris Leonard
*Laura Vargas* wrote: Dear Friends, The sugar translation marathon was called Miski Pachamama [sweet earth] 2010. We are currently looking forward for a second and third versions, where we would love to translate sugar to other native languages, starting with Shippibo, Ashaninka and Arawak.

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Really Dumb Question

2011-04-16 Thread Chris Leonard
Some people recommend A Byte of Python for beginners. http://www.swaroopch.com/notes/Python There are many free e-books on Python, I'm sure the list will soon erupt with a flurry of other recommendations. cjl On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All,

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Suggestion to close some mailing lists

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: What do people think about these suggestions and the topic in general? I agree that the laptop.org mailman instance could use some trimming. This page should also be updated to reflect any changes.

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Suggestion to close some mailing lists

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: What do people think about these suggestions and the topic in general? I agree that the laptop.org mailman instance could use some trimming. This page should also be updated to reflect any

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Suggestion to close some mailing lists

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Hi all, Pablo's question during eduJAM!'s tools for community panel about whether we have too many or too few tools and spaces got me thinking about improving the mailing lists setup we have at the

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Suggestion to close some mailing lists

2011-05-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Christoph Derndorfer Briefly looking through your analysis and the lists I agree on most counts. The one area where I'd probably be more lenient than you is allowing local-/country-lists which are half-decently active to exist separately and not be merged

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] volunteer translators needed

2011-05-12 Thread Chris Leonard
A selection of these materials are available for localization via our Pootle server now, with more to come. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/Waveplace/ cjl On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Timothy Falconer tee...@waveplace.orgwrote: Hi partners and friends, We're looking for a

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] volunteer translators needed

2011-05-13 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Hi Tim and Beth, We are training a group of volunteers from the Haitian Coalition in Etoys tomorrow. We have some practice at teaching Etoys at this point. How/what would you like me to teach them about

[IAEP] Commenst for an Oceania project

2011-05-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, May 15, 2011 , Martin Sevior msev...@gmail.com wrote: On behalf of the abiword community I invite speakers of Marovo and other Pacific Island languages to contact us on the abiword-dev mailing lists (see http://www.abisource.com/developers/) so that we can explain how to make a Marovo

[IAEP] SABER: System Assessment and Benchmarking for Education Results

2011-05-31 Thread Chris Leonard
Although the message below is focused on school health issues, the links within to the SABER program may be of great interest as an assessment framework. SABER: System Assessment and Benchmarking for Education Results

Re: [IAEP] Membership fees (was: Re: Next slobs meeting?)

2011-06-05 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-reply-to-201...@silbe.org wrote: Instead just *encourage* people to donate a recurring amount of their choosing. Do a direct debit from their bank account, with a minimum amount to cover banking costs (they still have the option not to

Re: [IAEP] Etoys Videos for Khan Academy

2011-06-05 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hola Paolo and all, The Khan Academy videos have already been converted to ogg and play very nicely on the XO-1.  I put instructions for doing it on a blog we have for a Contributors Program project I work with in

Re: [IAEP] Etoys Videos for Khan Academy

2011-06-05 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Again, Someone posted a link to where they are being translated into Spanish. Maybe they will read this and post it again.  I didn't get a chance to check it out because it came when I was traveling.  I don't know if

Re: [IAEP] FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar why would YOU want to?

2011-06-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Kenneth Wyrick k...@caltek.net wrote: i see an apple guy trying to down FLOSS in it's truest form. the olpc is a key human access to experiencing ingenuity at it's finest...it starts with self Don't shoot the messenger. Carlos is a prolific contributor to our

Re: [IAEP] FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar why would YOU want to?

2011-06-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Kenneth Wyrick k...@caltek.net wrote: Oh! Ok I get that, now. Also, view my comments as a gut level response as a newbie to this project who is looking for specific constructive dialog instead of generalities that are easily thrown around. Maybe it's just me

Re: [IAEP] FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar why would YOU want to?

2011-06-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Kenneth Wyrick k...@caltek.net wrote: Chris, Since this seems to be something you have sincere passion about, would you be willing to simply list/summarize specific points that you see that Carlos made so we can talk about them point by point to hopefully

[IAEP] Fwd: [support-gang] TEDxIIT - Dr. Laura Hosman - Technology for Development: No Shortcuts

2011-06-28 Thread Chris Leonard
All, Christoph brought this to the attention of the OLPC support gang and I would second his recommendation that this talk is well worth watching. I would also like to suggest that Dr. Hosman's blog: http://ict4dviewsfromthefield.wordpress.com/ might make a fine addition to the

Re: [IAEP] Producing Radio Plays on the XO

2011-07-01 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 5:12 AM, tom.staub...@fhtw-berlin.de wrote: Finally,  I managed to finish the Teacher's Manual on producing Radio Plays on the XO. You can find it here: http://www.flatlandfarm.de/blog/?p=326 I still consider it work in progress, and I'd appreciate all kinds of

Re: [IAEP] Please review E-Book Enlightenment

2011-07-01 Thread Chris Leonard
James, I just wanted to thank you for the work you've been doing in the documentation and content development field. IMHO,. most impressive is not what you've produced (although it is impressive), but that you have carefully blazed (marked) the trail so that others might follow. You get my Lewis

Re: [IAEP] Samsung Windfall: All of South Korea's Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015

2011-07-03 Thread Chris Leonard
You would think so from their footprint on the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:XO_Korea but the vast majority of these pages were created long ago, and almost never touched. cjl On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: By 2014, all of

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Samsung Windfall: All of South Korea's Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015

2011-07-04 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org wrote: XOs and Fedora include SCIM, which provides input methods for many languages including Korean.  As long as the correct input methods fonts are installed, all that should be left to make them work in Sugar is some

Re: [IAEP] Music education and textbooks

2011-07-07 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com wrote: The new charter school I'm working with doesn't have $15,000 for the K-8 music textbooks the music teacher requested. Here is a great opportunity for ebooks if they are available. I would appreciate any suggestions,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-07 Thread Chris Leonard
The article probably also fails to mention that peer-reviewed scientific tests of this concept prove it to be useless. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/290 cjl On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:34 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: The speakers don't work very well at the frequency range

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-08 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:05 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 01:53:22AM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: The article probably also fails to mention that peer-reviewed scientific tests of this concept prove it to be useless. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Re: [IAEP] Sugar doc on flossmanuals - question about chapter Going beyond activities

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect that this is in reference to an old Browse start-screen option that included links to locally stored content. FYI, the OLPC Content library stuff is still there in OLPC builds. I wouldn't delete it, but

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS]: Request for certifications of developing an activity

2011-07-13 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:37 AM, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: I like the idea of giving certificates, but I think we should take the opportunity to enforce some simple best practices, like requiring a toolbar, requiring Share and Keep buttons to be hidden if they aren't used,

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS]: Request for certifications of developing an activity

2011-07-13 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:37 AM, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: I like the idea of giving certificates, but I think we should take the opportunity to enforce some simple best practices, like requiring

Re: [IAEP] Article on Why files need to die

2011-07-15 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com wrote: I think search is the answer. There's no reason why a hierarchal categorization can't be one of the wants to access information, but it certainly isn't the only way. I used recent documents feature very often, I usually

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Turn your frequency generator into a super powerful mosquito repeller

2011-07-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: So my verdict, so far, is there seems to be a possibility of reducing the number of mosquitos in an area with the right frequency but it will not eliminate them entirely. You will probably still be bitten.  Go

Re: [IAEP] Gmail other Google TOS

2011-07-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a link to the TOS argeement you mention? Maybe worth discussing with them. http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS ??? cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not

Re: [IAEP] Gmail other Google TOS

2011-07-20 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a link to the TOS argeement you mention? Maybe worth discussing with them. http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS  ??? cjl

Re: [IAEP] Wiki tutorial translation (was Re: Material for XO math+literacy project in Kenya)

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:25 PM, ana.cichero ana.cich...@gmail.com wrote: I find the link empty... a) Yes.  I can help translating your tutorials for Turtle  (please send me the exact link) . When I don t understand I ask. b) No.  Unfortunately I cannot make class planifications on the

Re: [IAEP] Gmail other Google TOS

2011-07-21 Thread Chris Leonard
Agreed that COPPA seems to be where the magic number 13 is defined. (1) CHILD.—The term child means an individual under the age of 13. cjl On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:56:03PM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: On Wed

Re: [IAEP] Proposed New K-12 Science Framework

2011-07-25 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Since it has a total of 270 pages, and I just finished downloading it (chapter by chapter), I can't comment on the contents. But, this should be fuel for some interesting discussions in the next few weeks if the rest of

Re: [IAEP] Funding team?

2011-08-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:30 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: I would like to propose that we create a funding team to pursue grant opportunities and partnerships for Sugar Labs, including Activity development, translation, documentation, teacher training materials, and digital content

Re: [IAEP] Funding team?

2011-08-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Obviously any effort representing Sugar Labs to funding sources (and committing Sugar Labs to the contractual conditions of such funding such as financial and other progress reporting and tracking requirements

[IAEP] Translation Team Report

2011-09-10 Thread Chris Leonard
infrastructure (i.e Pootle version upgrade) and it's interactions with version control systems (i.e. Gitorious). Medium Term Goals (6 months–one year): 1. Increase administrative efficiency and task automation (e.g. Pootle-git interactions). 2. Chris Leonard has started cross-training

[IAEP] Sugar Camp France

2011-09-11 Thread Chris Leonard
To Whom it May Concern, If you happen to be at Sugar Camp in France, please tell someone (anyone) that speaks French that we need more L10n work done and committed. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/fr/ Merci cjl Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Camp France

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:44 AM, samy boutayeb s.bouta...@free.fr wrote: Hi Chris, We are actually working on the finalization of the French localization. Actually, when we commit the languages packs, some of them didn't get committed properly. For instance, in the Glucose group, the

Re: [IAEP] Universe Awareness, astronomy education outreach for young children

2011-09-22 Thread Chris Leonard
Fred, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Science#Astronomy might be a good place to hang this information on the wiki. cjl On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.unawe.org/ Since 2005, UNAWE has grown to involve more than 500 volunteers, organizations,

Re: [IAEP] Cursos Creados Por Mentores y Por Voluntarios

2011-09-24 Thread Chris Leonard
2011/9/23 Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com: Me pareció muy interesante la entrada T-7) del 10 de Junio último, de Tim Falconer,  en el blog de Waveplace: http://waveplace.org/news/blog/category/courseware/ Muchos de nosotros dimos nuestros primeros pasos en Etoys usando los videos de Tim

Re: [IAEP] [somos-azucar] Cursos Creados Por Mentores y Por Voluntarios

2011-09-26 Thread Chris Leonard
2011/9/24 Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com: Si te gusta la obra Waveplace, por favor, contribuir a su traducción. La obra de Waveplace me gusta,  puse un poco de esfuerzo y aprendí algo. Con lo que aprendí pude ayudar a otros que recién empezaban. Como lecciones,  pasan muy bien la prueba,  

Re: [IAEP] [release]: SocialCalc-6

2011-09-27 Thread Chris Leonard
Manu, Where is localization of Social Calc hosted? cjl On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Dear Community Members, We are releasing the 6th version of SocialCalc on Sugar (http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4084 ) today. Nick Doiron has

Re: [IAEP] [somos-azucar] Cursos Creados Por Mentores y Por Voluntarios

2011-09-27 Thread Chris Leonard
2011/9/27 Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com: Chris, TRADUCCIÓN al Español sigue al texto en Inglés Thank you very much for taking the time to prepare this detailed answer to my message.  I will try to respond in the same way. While I look at all the details and prepare my answer,  let me advance

Re: [IAEP] [somos-azucar] Cursos Creados Por Mentores y PorVoluntarios

2011-09-28 Thread Chris Leonard
2011/9/28 nanon...@mediagala.com: Chris: I apologize for my message, but sometimes i have a little man inside me that wants to shout. Paolo Benini Montevideo [Mensaje en español más abajo] Paolo, I accept your apology because I know that voice. I think is a voice of passion crying out

Re: [IAEP] La Magallanes MG2 tiene acelerómetros.. ¿como los podemos usar?

2011-10-10 Thread Chris Leonard
Paolo, ¿Se puede probar el proyecto eToys (en los enlaces de abajo) en una de esas máquinas? http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2011/08/squeak-etoys-on-arm-based-xo-175.html http://squeakland.org/showcase/project.jsp?id=11173 cjl 2011/10/10 nanon...@mediagala.com Me Acabo de enterar de que

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Labyrinth - Maze

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Rafael Ortiz raf...@activitycentral.comwrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, Yesterday, trying out some new activities I found a little matter of translation: The activity Maze, is correct

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Labyrinth - Maze

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: I think we should request Gary if is possible change the name to MentalMaps When he wakeup :) I'd be happy to collaborate on addressing any Pootle-git issues associated with an activity name change (including migration

Re: [IAEP] NOW: OLPC Contributors Program Mtg (on #olpc-meeting, Fri Sep 28, 11:15AM EDT)

2011-10-30 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Yohan Sumathipala yohan...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Thanks so much for considering my project Catalyst for Hope to bring laptops to Sri Lankan youth in the elephant conflict village school. I have noted your points and will be contacting Mr. Battley at this

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Multi-lingual relaying on Sugar IRC channles is stopped

2011-11-01 Thread Chris Leonard
Another possible option is to look into what kind of API might be available to Microsoft Translator http://www.microsofttranslator.com/ I know there must be something as this is called and used as a source of suggestions by Virtaal ( a PO editor produced by the makers of Pootle). fwolff over on

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Multi-lingual relaying on Sugar IRC channles is stopped

2011-11-01 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.orgwrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 08:57:26AM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: Another possible option is to look into what kind of API might be available to Microsoft Translator http://www.microsofttranslator.com/ I know

Re: [IAEP] Cédula de Identidad Uruguaya - Dígito de Control / Uruguayan ID Card - Control Digit

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Leonard
2011/11/8 Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com *English Text:* * * We believe this could be an interesting subject for a project using some of the applications in the Plan Ceibal computers. The first project we would like to suggest is to just repeat the calculation we show, using one or

Re: [IAEP] [somos-azucar] Cédula de Identidad Uruguaya - Dígito de Control / Uruguayan ID Card - Control Digit

2011-11-08 Thread Chris Leonard
2011/11/8 Carlos Rabassa car...@mac.com *Texto en Español sigue al texto en Inglés* Chris, thanks for your comments. Unfortunately I guess my message was confusing and you misinterpreted it completely. The purpose of my message was not to brag about my limited knowledge as you seem to

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Sharing of Memorize games

2011-11-09 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: +1 Great idea! Then folks don't have to keep re-inventing the wheel. Caryl Unless, of course, you want to teach people to invent wheels. cjl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] [somos-azucar] Participacion de larga distancia en el maraton de traducción - sugar camp lima 2011 - maraton de traducción

2011-11-09 Thread Chris Leonard
Tenemos un punto de depósito central de nuestro trabajo, el servidor Pootle. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ La verdadera cuestión es evitar la superposición de esfuerzos. Una idea es identificar los archivos específicos del PO para ser trabajado por el grupo de Bolivia. [English] We do

Re: [IAEP] Video player for wiki.sugarlabs.org

2011-11-09 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 03:12 +, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote: And... Why not use Adobe Flash? Problems with the license? Yes, it's not even redistributable. Besides, there's no ARM version for the XO-1.75.

Re: [IAEP] [somos-azucar] Participacion de larga distancia en el maraton de traducción - sugar camp lima 2011 - maraton de traducción

2011-11-11 Thread Chris Leonard
-Revision-Date: 2011-11-11 09:32-0400\n Last-Translator: Chris Leonard c...@laptop.org\n Language-Team: Sugar Labs\n Language: es\n MIME-Version: 1.0\n Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1);\n X-Generator: Virtaal 0.7.0\n

Re: [IAEP] [somos-azucar] Participacion de larga distancia en el maraton de traducción - sugar camp lima 2011 - maraton de traducción

2011-11-11 Thread Chris Leonard
2011/11/11 Amos Batto amosba...@yahoo.com Chris, Estoy seguro que Irma puede mejorar esto, pero he traducido algunos términos con mi quechua limitado. Ver el adjunto. (Por si acaso, he hablado con Irma por telefono hoy. Ella ha pedido disculpas que no ha contestado los emails porque no tuvo

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 44, Issue 25

2011-11-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Tony Anderson tony_ander...@usa.netwrote: Hi, I have decided to return to Rwanda (I already had the return side of my ticket paid). A group in Stuttgart has provided 100 XO-1.5s to the St. Jacob's school in Kigali. As a private school, they are not as

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-11-19

2011-11-21 Thread Chris Leonard
More strings will be coming soon. Our Quechua team also included some remote contributors from Boliviia. As I explained to our teams, localization sprints are great start, but now we start running the ultra-marathon. :-) SugarCamp Lima was incredibly productive (in more ways than just

Re: [IAEP] Portugese translator

2011-11-25 Thread Chris Leonard
Hilaire, If you are looking for translations, you should post to the Localization list. I assume this is the file you want in Portuguese? http://translate.sugarlabs.org/pt/etoys_new/DrGeoII-Core.po?view_mode=translate cjl Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:21

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] scheduling future meetings

2011-12-02 Thread Chris Leonard
I live on the US East Coast and do not currently have a preference. I'll go along with what works best for those with more restricted schedules. cjl On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: We have a new oversight board which means we have new constraints on

Re: [IAEP] sugar project formalization

2011-12-03 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 18:55 -0500, Laura Vargas wrote: [1] Existe un formato o procedimiento requerido para obtener status como proyecto oficial de la comunidad Sugar Labs? Leo la wiki, pero no me queda

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] scheduling future meetings

2011-12-08 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I've not heard back from everyone yet, but it seems that Tuesdays at 4PM EST (21 UTC) may work. Let's schedule our next meeting for the 20th? That time works for me. See you there. Do we keep a working agenda draft

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Multi-lingual relaying on Sugar IRC channles is stopped

2011-12-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Stefan Unterhauser ste...@unterhauser.name wrote: good job :) can we test this new translation feature in #treehouse ... so Claudia can see Excellent! Well done. I know you have been busy, but that's a nice piece of work. Maybe we can get Australian

Re: [IAEP] kinyarwanda help

2011-12-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Brooks, Kevin kevin.bro...@ndsu.edu wrote: Is anyone on the list associated with OLPC Rwanda?  A young family of Kinyarwanda speakers has just moved to Fargo, and I plan to give them my XO, but I'd love to put some Kinyarwandan materials on it first.  Any

Re: [IAEP] Write: The file 'abc.odt' is corrupt and therefore cannot be opened. LibreOffice can try to repair the file...

2011-12-11 Thread Chris Leonard
Yama, Martin is one of the core AbiWord developers, he is telling you this is a known bug with the AbiWord that was packaged in Ubuntu that has since been corrected. Please believe him. You are correct, bugs are not standards compatible, but I think he is saying the flaw is not necessarily in

Re: [IAEP] Web page

2011-12-12 Thread Chris Leonard
dogi has brought ASLO back to life. cjl On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, The page (http://activities.sugarlabs.org/) is down.. For maintenance? Regards Alan ___ IAEP -- It's An

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Questions RE Images for FLOSS Manual

2012-01-02 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Folks…. I am preparing several images for the TamTam Mini Floss Manual and the TamTam section in the updated users manual. I will be taking screenshots from the XO, editing, cropping, adding text and arrows and

Re: [IAEP] Questions RE Images for FLOSS Manual

2012-01-02 Thread Chris Leonard
2012/1/2 Rubén Rodríguez ru...@gnu.org: When I upload these to the Booki site, who do I put for the Rights holder and what do I choose for the License? Software screenshots, being derivative works of a program, should have the same license as the program itself. More info:

Re: [IAEP] Regarding the formalization request from Somos Azucar

2012-01-05 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Sebastian Silva sebast...@somosazucar.org wrote: This recognition is requested by the Municipality of Puno to certify we are valid articulators with the Sugar Labs community, because this is part of the role we're proposing for ourselves. Please you could

Re: [IAEP] [Localization] [Sugar-devel] Who want a new wikipedia activity?

2012-01-07 Thread Chris Leonard
/tools. Thanks Chris Leonard for improving the HowTo page, and Martin Langhoff for reviewing and light up the old process's intricacies Gonzalo ___ Localization mailing list localizat...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org

Re: [IAEP] Carlos Rabassa te envió una noticia desde LaRed21

2012-01-11 Thread Chris Leonard
2012/1/11 Rubén Rodríguez ru...@gnu.org: No veo la relación con Sugar, el construccionismo, o ni siquiera la educación. Espero que lo enviaras por error, si no es así, recuerda que esta lista es de las más activas de SugarLabs y no necesita ruido extra. Además, entiendo que el idioma de la

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] SoaS Breakthrough!

2012-01-12 Thread Chris Leonard
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: 2012/1/13 Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com: So, if an enthusiastic volunteer had demonstrated Sugar on a Stick to a school's IT person who has no previous sugar or linux experience - what would need

[IAEP] New Honey Strings

2012-01-23 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear Localizers, A number of new PO files have been added to Honey: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/honey/ Please translate. Language admins, please review and commit as they are completed. Dear members of the broader Sugar Labs community, please consider making localization

Re: [IAEP] Sugar UI font

2012-01-24 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: I'm trying to find a font to use for the Sugar UI that has characters formed in the way they are taught in Australian schools (and probably in other countries too). The default Sans Serif font (and most fonts

Re: [IAEP] Sugar UI font

2012-01-24 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: I'm trying to find a font to use for the Sugar UI that has characters formed in the way they are taught in Australian schools

Re: [IAEP] Sugar UI font

2012-01-25 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Our first thought was to use one of the Australian schools handwriting fonts [1]. We're currently experimenting with the Queensland Compact Bold font [2], as it is more legible than the others. However, any

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Google Summer of Code

2012-02-08 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Rafael Ortiz raf...@activitycentral.comwrote: On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: It is that time of year again. We need to start soliciting participants in Google Summer of Code [1, 2]. We also need to organize our

Re: [IAEP] Waveplace Video Blog

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Leonard
Please contribute to the localization of the Waveplace courseware materials at: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/Waveplace/ cjl Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Timothy Falconer tee...@waveplace.org wrote: Hi everyone, Quite a lot has happened

Re: [IAEP] All continents covered.

2012-02-16 Thread Chris Leonard
OLPC = One Laptop Penguin Chair? cjl On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Really? It appears so. Thanks to Tony Forster's blog posting. http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2012/02/xo-laptop-in-antarctica.html We now have a XO 1.5 in Antarctica! You can click on the

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting announcement

2012-02-25 Thread Chris Leonard
+1 cjl On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Robert Fadel has got a great handle on the SL finances and is ready bring SLOBs and the community up to speed. Would Tuesday at 5:30PM EST (22:30 UTC) work? Usual place: irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Butia 2.0 first tests

2012-03-11 Thread Chris Leonard
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, We have some progress with the butia 2.0 platform [1], including some related to the new board I / O USB4bot [2] Is working the motors of the robot, an example video: 

[IAEP] The Translation Team needs your help.

2012-03-14 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear Sugar Community. From the Translation Team's point of view, every one of you is a potential localizer, localization tester or recruiter of localizers. Our localization work is going well, we have added up a number of less commonly localized languages, especially indigenous languages of

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-04-12

2012-04-14 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: During the conversation with the learning team, the topic of nutrition came up. FZT is working with USAID on a nutrition curriculum. We discussed ways to integrate the curriculum into Sugar, by or example, using the

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-04-12

2012-04-14 Thread Chris Leonard
2012/4/14 Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com: On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: During the conversation with the learning team, the topic of nutrition came up. FZT

Re: [IAEP] Teaching kids to program - how to train your robot

2012-04-16 Thread Chris Leonard
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: Nice hack for holding kids' attention while teaching them programming: use the parents as the computer. http://drtechniko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/ I wonder if there is any direct tie-in

[IAEP] Marketing team suggestion

2012-05-12 Thread Chris Leonard
It would be nice if Sugar and our many Activities and were mentioned on this review site ( (same goes for eToys) . http://www.educational-freeware.com/ Is there anyone (Sean?) that would like to spread the word of our Sugar-y goodness to help raise our discoverablility by contact the reviewer?

[IAEP] UNESCO report from 2011

2012-05-13 Thread Chris Leonard
Haven't read all 244 pages myself, but I thought I would share the link with everyone, in case you hadn't seen it. Transforming education: the power of ICT policies unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002118/211842e.pdf wide diversity of selected countries - Jordan, Namibia, Rwanda, Singapore and

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sur] New Co / Nueva Empresa

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Leonard
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@sugarlabs.org wrote: My point was about joining existing crowdfunding effort in edu field, i.e., the goals are the same and, most likely, we will just duplicate existing implementation. In the US, one prominent .edu crowdfunding org is

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