Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tom Gilliard

2020-07-26 Thread Dave Crossland
Very sad news. Thanks for sharing ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Sugar Labs changing directions

2019-05-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks Karen! Glad to hear that Conservancy will help make the transition smooth :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] welcoming the new Sugar Labs oversight board members

2018-12-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks for summarizing the recent organizational activity and best wishes to all :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] IAEP and sugar-devel mailing list subscriber statistics, by the numbers

2018-12-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks for sharing! On Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 7:06 PM Alex Perez In case anyone was curious... > > Of the 238 subscribers on iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org: > > * 32 people have chosen to place their subscription in the "nomail" > state, so they are able to send e-mail to the list, but don't receive >

Re: [IAEP] SCaLE 17X March7 -10, 2019

2018-12-21 Thread Dave Crossland
physical event, from "I'll bring X, Y, Z" to "meet us here on > Friday" that simply _should not_ be happening on the iaep mailing list. > > Dave Crossland wrote: > > I agree with Caryl, in that unlike me and the 229 others not doing > > anything for

Re: [IAEP] SCaLE 17X March7 -10, 2019

2018-12-21 Thread Dave Crossland
I agree with Caryl, in that unlike me and the 229 others not doing anything for scale, she is doing something and that should only be commended. I also think splintering the discussion in many mailing lists is a pity, since email reader app features exist to deal with muting uninteresting

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] Meeting Reminder

2018-12-09 Thread Dave Crossland
I've set that up. Thanks for the instructions :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] Meeting Reminder

2018-12-09 Thread Dave Crossland
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 at 09:09, Walter Bender wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:04 PM Dave Crossland wrote: > >> Thanks for sharing the logs! >> > > FWIW, the logs from every meeting are available in the wiki: > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] Meeting Reminder

2018-12-07 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks for sharing the logs! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] How to navigate sugar-desktop (actually the Journal activity?) in my vanilla F29

2018-11-25 Thread Dave Crossland
What sugar activity packages did you install vis yum? My guess is you don't have any pulled in as dependencies from sugar-desktop. On Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 11:05 PM Kevin Hi all, and thanks for making and sharing sugar. It looks like wonderful > software. > > I'd like to introduce my 8yo kid to

[IAEP] The Verge article on OLPC/Sugar

2018-04-16 Thread Dave Crossland
www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] Farewell GStreamer on Python 2, a push for Python 3 porting

2018-01-25 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi This seems important for the Sugar Labs strategy discussions that Sameer is reinvigorating. -- Forwarded message -- From: "James Cameron" Date: Jan 24, 2018 3:56 AM Subject: [Sugar-devel] Farewell GStreamer on Python 2, a push for Python 3 porting To:

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs - Goals for 2018 and beyond

2018-01-24 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I agree with the general idea - this is going to only become more painful the longer it is left undone, and if not done, will mean the end of the python codebase. That might be acceptable, given the maturation of Sugarizer. Perhaps its worth having the Sugar core and toolkit part (vs the

Re: [IAEP] Sugarlabs - Goals

2018-01-24 Thread Dave Crossland
This is great! Thank you Sameer! I recently began updating the ideas I drafted a few years ago with Samson. Please let us know where to submit the ideas when you are ready :D On 11 January 2018 at 17:21, Sameer Verma wrote: > Greetings! > > Here is a proposal to solicit

Re: [IAEP] A pending donation to Sugar Labs

2017-09-25 Thread Dave Crossland
Awesome!! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] The Father Of Mobile Computing Is Not Impressed

2017-09-17 Thread Dave Crossland
https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-about-the-iphone-and-technology-now ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Interesting quote from Alan Kay '72 paper

2017-09-17 Thread Dave Crossland
Love it! Thanks for sharing On Sep 17, 2017 8:20 AM, "Sebastian Silva" wrote: > Hi, > > *"A combination of this "carry anywhere" device and a global information > utility such as the ARPA network or two-way cable TV, will bring the > libraries and schools (not to

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] (Goals and Mission) with Microsoft in it?

2017-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
in GSoC which must > ease activities management, for both image builders and developers. I will > be helping on that. > > On May 12, 2017 1:25 PM, "Dave Crossland" <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > >> Do those xo run the latest release? >> >> On May 12, 201

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] (Goals and Mission) with Microsoft in it?

2017-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
nager if Sam P can't make it anymore. > > Certainly there are many things to improve, but we shall overcome. I don't > think solution is to discard all XOs schools have around here. > > Regards, > > Sam C. > > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] (Goals and Mission) with Microsoft in it?

2017-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
It seems to me that the classic Sugar python codebase could be returned to Quozl / OLPC, and Sugar Labs could focus on the JS Sugarizer codebase. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] GSoC 2017 results for SugarLabs

2017-05-04 Thread Dave Crossland
Congrats!! :) Looking forward to Monday IRC meeting :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Technical Service Request - Project: Sugar Network

2017-04-24 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Laura I sympathize with your concern for active users. But my recommendation is to use this as motivation to shut down Sugar Network. In my opinion: Everything associated with the old Python codebase has entered terminal decline, is no longer sustainable, and should be archived and turned

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
Which of Papert's is definitive? On Apr 23, 2017 10:54 PM, "Walter Bender" <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Apr 23, 2017 10:37 PM, "Walter Bende

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On Apr 23, 2017 10:37 PM, "Walter Bender" <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > Hi > > I watched some of Papert's lectures from the mid 90s on YouTube last > year... Is Mindstorms the definit

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Mission & The 6 lesson Schoolteacher

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
M, "Walter Bender" <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > Hi > > What motivates me to contribute to sugar labs is an intuition that it is a > reasonable response to the topics raised in the fol

Re: [IAEP] 2017 Goals for Sugar Labs

2017-04-09 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Thanks Walter. I'd like to better understand some additional context before diving in :) Does this mean Sameer you have stopped the project planning process you started, and we should not expect you to restart it again? Walter, are these the goals for this year, or are they your proposal for

Re: [IAEP] Sugarizer dev platform is now open

2017-03-20 Thread Dave Crossland
Love it! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF March meeting: Ethiopia

2017-03-11 Thread Dave Crossland
Will anyone run a Facebook live video of the presentation? :) On Mar 7, 2017 11:46 AM, "Aaron Borden" wrote: > Hello folks, > > OLPC San Francisco will be hosting our monthly meeting Saturday, > March 11th, from 10AM - 1PM at the downtown SFSU campus, 835 Market > Street, 6th

Re: [IAEP] Resubmission of Proposed Project for Sugarizer1°

2017-03-09 Thread Dave Crossland
Great questions! Thank you Caryl :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Resubmission of Proposed Project for Sugarizer1°

2017-03-02 Thread Dave Crossland
I encourage you to add this to the wiki so it can be revised collaboratively ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2017-03-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Sorry to say I'm on vacation tomorrow but I will check the logs :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs 2017 Budget

2017-03-01 Thread Dave Crossland
he Sugarizer activities are mostly > also available as Sugar web activities. We are using the Python Turtle > blocks. > > Tony > > > On 02/28/2017 02:29 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > > On Feb 27, 2017 11:34 PM, "Tony Anderson" <tony_ander...@usa.net> wro

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs 2017 Budget

2017-02-28 Thread Dave Crossland
On Feb 27, 2017 11:34 PM, "Tony Anderson" wrote: For what it's worth, Sugar 0.110 (OLPC OS 13.2.8) has been installed on hundreds of XO laptops, all models in Rwanda. The codebase is reaching these classrooms. That is great to know!!! :) What xo models are those? Does

Re: [IAEP] Need photos!

2017-02-27 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Caryl! Were you able to obtain more photos? :) On 21 February 2017 at 22:56, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi Folks... > > > We will be having a booth at SCaLE next month featuring OLPC spin-offs > like Sugarizer, IIAB, and UnleashKids. If you are involved in any kind of >

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Network maintenance

2017-02-27 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Was this resolved? On 21 February 2017 at 10:34, Laura Vargas wrote: > Hi all! > > Again we are having a spam attack that modifies the texts of one of the > contexts of the main visualization of the Sugar Network :( > > This problem was reported last year and resolved

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] GSoC

2017-02-27 Thread Dave Crossland
Congrats! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Mountain View school's "Teach to One" math learner software

2017-02-27 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi The Mountain View school district apparently budgeted $521,000 to implement and operate this new-fangled math program in two local schools (Graham and Crittenden Middle Schools). Had they adequately beta tested the program beforehand, the school district might have discovered that Teach to One

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs 2017 Budget

2017-02-27 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 26 February 2017 at 09:32, Samson Goddy wrote: > > At the last meeting, walter gave (Ignacio, Laura and me) tasks on how we can > attract funding to the Community, i came up with the idea of creating > awareness to the general public through SMM role. Which

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs 2017 Budget

2017-02-26 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 26 February 2017 at 11:44, Sebastian Silva wrote: > Hello all, > > On 25/02/17 20:33, Tymon Radzik wrote: > >> Sugar Labs is by its statement volunteer-driven project. We are volunteers. >> We work for the idea of the free and open software and not for own

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs 2017 Budget

2017-02-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26 February 2017 at 04:15, Chris Leonard wrote: > > To clarify, I had negotiated a contract with Sugar Labs / SFC for a > monthly stipend to support the Translation Manager position. I did > NOT submit a single invoice for that work (which I have been doing) > and

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Sugar Labs 2017 Budget

2017-02-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On Feb 25, 2017 6:27 PM, "Walter Bender" <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Sam Parkinson <sam@sam.today> wrote: > On Sat, 2017-02-25 at 08:36 +0530, Dave Crossland wrote: > > Actually I am not convinced of this; I do not belie

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs 2017 Budget

2017-02-24 Thread Dave Crossland
tipends and their holders I'm > proposing for the first year of the model: > > # 8 Sugarizer Project Leader - Lionel Laske > # 9 Sugar Labs Honor Badge - Walter Bender > # 10 Secretary - Dave Crossland > # 11 Treasure Keeper - Adam Holt > > Please share your toughs

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs 2017 Budget

2017-02-24 Thread Dave Crossland
On 24 February 2017 at 12:44, Samson Goddy wrote: > Also, if you have a strong opposition to the model or to any of the listed > badges or badge holders, please share the reasons openly. Where is the $42k coming from? ___

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs 2017 Budget

2017-02-23 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Where can I read more about the sugar open badges? :) On Feb 23, 2017 9:57 PM, "Laura Vargas" wrote: Hello all! Hola a todos! 2016 Fiscal year is soon coming to its end (March 1st 2016 until February 28th 2017). Subject to final reports from Adam, we must consider

Re: [IAEP] Motion for Social Media Manager

2017-02-19 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On Feb 19, 2017 11:19 AM, "Samson Goddy" <samsongo...@gmail.com> wrote: On 18 Feb 2017 10:51 p.m., "Dave Crossland" <d...@lab6.com> wrote: Hi There is no need to pay for ads because these as companies offer free credit to charities and libre project

Re: [IAEP] Motion for Social Media Manager

2017-02-18 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi There is no need to pay for ads because these as companies offer free credit to charities and libre projects like ours. As Caryl and Tony are discussing, the most basic things about the homepage can be improved. I don't think a push on SMM is needed; indeed I don't think a push on any

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] The first Sugarizer deployment is now live!

2017-02-03 Thread Dave Crossland
This is HUGE! Congratts to Lionel and the OLPC France and Sugarizer communities! :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Google Code In wrap up

2017-01-17 Thread Dave Crossland
Regarding a possible move from IRC to Slack, or Gitter, or something else as suggested by Ignacio, I wonder that we could just upgrade http://chat.sugarlabs.org from qwebchat to http://demo.shout-irc.com :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a

[IAEP] Sugar Labs Vision/Mission/etc clarity

2017-01-15 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Sameer Back in June you posted a wonderful video about how to gain clarity on Vision/Mission/etc - https://www.mail-archive.com/ iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg17035.html - and said that you'd follow up with more soon - https://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/ msg17054.html :)

Re: [IAEP] Motion #1-2017 Future of Sugar Labs - Elections 2016

2016-12-31 Thread Dave Crossland
ble for the 2016-2018 period and to appoint Dave Crossland as an impartial election oversight party." Regards and may the holidays find you all in a good cycle of joy and renovation! [1] http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_dd38dc6aa11d1a98 -- Laura V. * I SomosAZUCAR.Org*

[IAEP] Meet the Pinebook, a $89 ARM Laptop

2016-12-20 Thread Dave Crossland
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/pinebook-arm-laptop-runs-ubuntu This looks more promising than other options ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Google VR "Expeditions" in UK schools

2016-12-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi https://www.blog.google/products/google-vr/google-expeditions-comes-to-uk-taking/ Interesting :) -- Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-12-05 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 3 December 2016 at 19:54, Laura Vargas <la...@somosazucar.org> wrote: > I pray to the Gods for your forgiveness!!! :D > lol > 2016-12-02 23:21 GMT-05:00 Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com>: > >> >> Hi >> >> I checked the http://meeting.sugarla

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-12-05 Thread Dave Crossland
On 5 December 2016 at 07:15, José Miguel García <logo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hola! > > 2016-12-04 2:34 GMT-03:00 Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu>: > >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: >> > >> > Hi >

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I checked the http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2016-12-02 log - sorry I couldn't make it, was in transit at that time. Sameer, sorry to hear about your colleague. No pressure, just looking forward to your next installment - when you can :) On 2 December 2016 at 12:36, Caryl Bigenho

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 December 2016 at 11:28, Laura Vargas <la...@somosazucar.org> wrote: > > > 2016-12-02 11:27 GMT-05:00 Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com>: > >> >> On 2 December 2016 at 11:24, Laura Vargas <la...@somosazucar.org> wrote: >> >>> Looks like w

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 December 2016 at 11:24, Laura Vargas wrote: > Looks like we have 3 seats for 3 candidates :D > 6 candidates, assuming the 3 people in those 3 seats want to stand for reeleection? ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 December 2016 at 09:19, Walter Bender wrote: > I have heard nothing from the Election/Membership committee about any > update. I hope my email last night could serve as such an update :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Dave Crossland
There is a IAEP thread "Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election" in early August that has more details about all this. First, I want to note that while an 'election committee' has been mentioned, Walter said in that earlier thread: I am of the opinion that SLOB does not have to approve individual

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Future of Sugar Labs

2016-12-01 Thread Dave Crossland
The discussion stopped because we are waiting for Sameer to publish the second episode of his video about the process of formally defining a vision, mission, goals, tasks and doing a swot analysis and so on. Sameer proposed and I think we all agreed that each of us throwing our own unilateral

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-10-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Walter! On 6 October 2016 at 19:37, Walter Bender wrote: > We have a meeting on Friday, 7 October at 3PM EST [1] on irc.freenode.net > #sugar-meeting. > > Among other topics, we will be discussing the upcoming electron, Turtle > Art Day(s), and the next software

Re: [IAEP] 100 Application

2016-10-04 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi The google adwords grant account owned by Conservancy is in place, but I didn't take time to set anything up. I'd like to work more on the website, but I've been focused on my day job (and will be for a few more weeks, at least) On 4 October 2016 at 09:53, Laura Vargas

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Another school with XO laptops.

2016-09-29 Thread Dave Crossland
On 29 September 2016 at 17:49, samsongo...@hotmail.com < samsongo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I believe they run an older version of sugar.. I will make contact with > the school again concerning this. > > I would not be surprised if their version is 8-10 years old :)

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Another school with XO laptops.

2016-09-29 Thread Dave Crossland
I'm keen to understand which release they run, and how they would like to proceed to upgrade them :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Yoruba localization contract completed

2016-09-24 Thread Dave Crossland
Well done Samson & Team + Chris and Adam! :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] OLPC-SF Community Summit save the date

2016-09-13 Thread Dave Crossland
The week after the GSOC Mentor Summit :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] "Screens In Schools Are a $60 Billion Hoax" article in TIME

2016-09-04 Thread Dave Crossland
http://time.com/4474496/screens-schools-hoax/ Interesting quotes :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-17 Thread Dave Crossland
On 17 August 2016 at 21:32, Walter Bender wrote: > I'm fine with that, but is seems to be a change in policy. > > We'll have to trust that they are Sugar users. Why would they want to join > if they had no interest in the project? (I suppose we could get invaded by >

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-17 Thread Dave Crossland
On 17 August 2016 at 21:11, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > >> >> On 17 August 2016 at 20:54, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-17 Thread Dave Crossland
On 17 August 2016 at 20:54, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > >> >> On 17 August 2016 at 20:41, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>&g

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-17 Thread Dave Crossland
On 17 August 2016 at 20:41, Walter Bender wrote: > I am of the opinion that SLOB does not have to approve individual > membership in committees. SLOB responsibility vis-a-vis committees is to > appoint a representative. So I don't think we need a motion.

Re: [IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-17 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 7 August 2016 at 13:48, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > On 7 August 2016 at 10:44, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> > wrote: > >> Instead of raising the barrier to entry, I would prefer to enforce our >> currency policy ("a

Re: [IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-17 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 August 2016 at 10:09, Samson Goddy wrote: > Yeah nice one dave! i will think of more! > Did you think of any? :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] [UKids] Facebook Software Puts Students in Charge of Curating Their Own Lesson Plans

2016-08-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks for sharing this :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-08-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 8 August 2016 at 17:06, Samuel Cantero wrote: > It is in zatoichi. The VM is hosted on justice. Do you need access? I can > create an account for you. > Yes, please :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop

Re: [IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-08-08 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Sam, do you have access to the original site files? If so, could you confirm where the files are - on sunjammer, perhaps? On 2 August 2016 at 14:55, Laura Vargas wrote: > Looking good! > > As a suggestion, after the text: > "Sugar Labs® is supported by donations and

Re: [IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 7 August 2016 at 10:44, Sebastian Silva wrote: > Instead of raising the barrier to entry, I would prefer to enforce our > currency policy ("are you still interested in being a member?" - every > year) so that hopefully only active members get to vote. > I don't

Re: [IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 7 August 2016 at 10:44, Sebastian Silva wrote: > > Of course the committee has to agree on this. I think we can reach consensus on this within August :) However, more broadly, if a committee has to reach consensus, then there needs to be some method of resolving

Re: [IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 7 August 2016 at 10:44, Sebastian Silva wrote: > > In order to be appointed to Membership and Election committee a SLOBS vote > was necessary Ah yes, Seb invited me to join in the non-quorum meeting, and I see that this isn't sufficient. For Seb and Caryl

Re: [IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-06 Thread Dave Crossland
On Aug 6, 2016 11:29 PM, "Caryl Bigenho" wrote: > > > > > From: d...@lab6.com > Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 17:29:13 -0400 > > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election > To: ca...@laptop.org > CC: cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com;

Re: [IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-06 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 August 2016 at 16:01, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > I disagree about XSCE Is XSCE a Sugar Labs project? ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 6 August 2016 at 11:14, Chris Leonard wrote: > Contributions to L10n on http://translate.sugarlabs.org > Sounds good! Please can you extract and email me a list of all names/emails of all translation contributions? :) On 6 August 2016 at 11:13, Tony Anderson

Re: [IAEP] Preparing for the 2017 SLOB Election

2016-08-05 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Glad to hear you were able to get some rest :D On 5 August 2016 at 18:57, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > ... > qualify by actually making some tangible "contribution" (not money) to Sugar Labs > [by] development of software or hardware, having a small deployment, hosting Sugar >

[IAEP] Translations Community Manager Blog & Summer Report

2016-08-05 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Chris! We missed you at the SLOB meeting today :) Laura mentioned she received some PO files for a translation to Miksito, and asked about funds availability. Also for an update on the status of the Yoruba project, Samson said he got the 1st payment! But it was short US$10, haha :) Will it

[IAEP] Summer Finance Report & How to Appoint a FM?

2016-08-05 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Adam I'm curious if you have any news about the state of the finances? In the SLOB meeting, Walter mentioned he thought you may be taking the lead on deciding how to appoint a Financial Manager; if you don't expect to be able to dive into the ledger-cli stuff in the summer months, perhaps you

[IAEP] What Babies Know About Physics and Foreign Languages - NYTimes.com

2016-07-31 Thread Dave Crossland
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/opinion/sunday/what-babies-know-about-physics-and-foreign-languages.html Nice piece that dog whistles for unschooling ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

[IAEP] Scratch Community Manager Job (Boston area)

2016-07-29 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi http://www.media.mit.edu/about/opportunities/scratch-community-manager-lifelong-kindergarten -- Cheers Dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-07-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27 July 2016 at 00:46, Samuel Cantero wrote: > We can apply the same procedure for turtleartday.org. > >> Yes, that will be perfect. I proposed some variant names for things in https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Service/turtleartday.org - please update this page if your

Re: [IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-07-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26 July 2016 at 13:56, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > We already > have an obsolete page here: > > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Service/www > I updated it. > We should have a similar page for turtleart.org. > I made this as a start:

Re: [IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-07-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26 July 2016 at 22:38, Samuel Cantero wrote: > Zone added. > Awesome! Thanks guys! > Now we need to configure the site in freedom. Dave, in what is written the > new site? > Its a jekyll site, I assume Sam P has used https://developer.github.com/webhooks/ to set up

Re: [IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-07-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26 July 2016 at 13:56, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> wrote: > On 26/07/16 13:24, Dave Crossland wrote: > > OK :) Would you like to create a container on freedom for a nginx > > server, that is set up similarly to how Sam P has set up > > www.sugarlabs.or

Re: [IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-07-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26 July 2016 at 13:16, Samuel Cantero <scante...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi >> >> On 26 July 2016 at 13:03, Samuel Cantero <scante...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>&

Re: [IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-07-26 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 18 July 2016 at 14:48, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > On 2 July 2016 at 17:29, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > >> >> 1. Claudia can follow >> https://wiki.gandi.net/en/domains/transfer/fromgodaddy >> > > I worked with Cla

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening, August 6/7?

2016-07-22 Thread Dave Crossland
Sadly Walter isn't available that weekend. The next weekend I could travel to Boston is October 13/14/15, the weekend before the OLPCSF Community Summit ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-07-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 21 July 2016 at 17:46, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Are you sure there's nothing else to do on the GoDaddy side? The > transfer is still waiting for authorization on the Gandi side. I couldn't see anything else when I logged in; Claudia, I'm sorry if you get more emails

Re: [IAEP] Revision 50 of the Sugar Labs Fundraising Committe notes

2016-07-18 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19 July 2016 at 00:24, Sebastian Silva wrote: > Donations will be recognized separately. Except the appear not to be, per https://www.debian.org/donations#donors ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop

Re: [IAEP] Revision 50 of the Sugar Labs Fundraising Committe notes

2016-07-18 Thread Dave Crossland
On 18 July 2016 at 23:15, Sebastian Silva wrote: > El 18/07/16 a las 19:55, Laura Vargas escribió: > > How does Google resonate with SL values more than Microsoft? > They should mean the same really. I see nothing wrong with accepting > their funds. > > That doesn't

Re: [IAEP] Revision 50 of the Sugar Labs Fundraising Committe notes

2016-07-18 Thread Dave Crossland
On 18 July 2016 at 20:55, Laura Vargas wrote: > "Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it > universally accessible and useful." > > This can be done with 100% free/libre software: no conflict with SL active > members values. > Microsoft's

Re: [IAEP] TurtleArtDay.org domain transfer + new site

2016-07-18 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 2 July 2016 at 17:29, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > > 1. Claudia can follow > https://wiki.gandi.net/en/domains/transfer/fromgodaddy > I worked with Claudia on this and she has just sent the auth code to Bernie. Thank you Claudia! I noticed the

Re: [IAEP] Over a thousand xo laptop still exist in Nigeria(re-sugarlabs)

2016-07-18 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Samson! On 18 July 2016 at 12:07, Samson Goddy wrote: > > As you know Sugar Labs is planing Turtle Art day in Abuja, Nigeria which > the agenda to re sugar OS in Nigeria. I was posting about the workshop > today via Facebook, After that i got a call from an old

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