[Sugar-devel] Idea for SOC

2009-03-23 Thread vishak baby
Hello,my name is Vishak and I am a second year engineering student from India. I want to make an activity for Sugar which would help improve the creativity of students.Let me tell you what I have in mind.Please feel free to comment on this... I intend to create a platform where students can build

Re: [Sugar-devel] next meeting.

2009-03-23 Thread Bryan Berry
here are our next steps: Me: Create basic project plan for the Karma project You: Get titanium running on your linux machine. Bonus if you get it running w/in Sugar. also, please e-mail me at br...@olenepal.org , I use that e-mail address for communicating w/ the Sugar list On Mon, 2009-03-23 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-23 Thread satya komaragiri
Hello, On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: Which languages to start with? English, with plans to follow up with Hindi. Are you looking for published data, or researching this yourself? I see publications on a wide range of languages. From the previous

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-23 Thread satya komaragiri
Hello Sean, On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Satya, In the early 1990s I did some tests for a speech recognition system and I found a shortcut for reliably acquiring and classing words and even phonemes: asking the subject to click the mouse or

[Sugar-devel] project plan for Karma GSoC project

2009-03-23 Thread Bryan Berry
hey Felipe, I have put some ideas of a project plan together for karma GSoC project. Check it out when you get a chance. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Karma -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC idea: Chart/graph-making activity

2009-03-23 Thread Garrison Benson
Would someone be interested in mentoring me in this project? Also, a thought about collaboration: I think it would be quite useful to allow a group of students to share data and edit it collaboratively in real time. Students working on an experiment in class could each be assigned to collect a

Re: [Sugar-devel] SWF Sugar

2009-03-23 Thread Jameson Quinn
I know very little about AJAX, and less about Flash. But I was under the impression that Actionscript was somewhat compatible with Javascript, especially if you're talking about non-UI aspects such as file and disk access. Would this not mean that much of the effort to create datastore and

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC idea: Chart/graph-making activity

2009-03-23 Thread Jameson Quinn
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Garrison Benson benson.garri...@gmail.comwrote: Jameson Quinn wrote: Implementing a whole spreadsheet is a big enough chore. We do really care about collaboration, but I would advise you to limit your ambitions to something achievable, so worrying too

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC idea: Chart/graph-making activity

2009-03-23 Thread Eben Eliason
2009/3/23 Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Garrison Benson benson.garri...@gmail.com wrote: Jameson Quinn wrote: Implementing a whole spreadsheet is a big enough chore. We do really care about collaboration, but I would advise you to limit your

Re: [Sugar-devel] SWF Sugar

2009-03-23 Thread Bryan Berry
They are not compatible at all they are just similar as actionscript is a variant of javascript. On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 08:14 -0600, Jameson Quinn wrote: I know very little about AJAX, and less about Flash. But I was under the impression that Actionscript was somewhat compatible with

Re: [Sugar-devel] Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-23 Thread Assim Deodia
Hi Satya, Your idea is indeed very good. Its would be great to have speech as system wide another input mechanism. On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:05 AM, satya komaragiri satya.komarag...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am a final year student from India. I wish to apply to GSoC this year by building

[Sugar-devel] Phonology (was Re: Fwd: Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.)

2009-03-23 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Satya, I seem to remember reading that most of the world's languages draw from a pool of only 50-60 phonemes. This turns out not to be the case. Individual languages commonly have that many. English by itself has

Re: [Sugar-devel] Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-23 Thread satya komaragiri
Hi Assim, On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Assim Deodia assim.deo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Satya, Your idea is indeed very good. Its would be great to have speech as system wide another input mechanism I see that you have already compiled Julius on XO. Were you able to test it since it

[Sugar-devel] [BRANCHING] Terminal and Imageviewer

2009-03-23 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, Terminal and Imageviewer activities have been branched. The stable branch is sucrose-0.84, while development of new features will continue in master. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] ___

[Sugar-devel] GSoC wiki hierarchy?

2009-03-23 Thread Wade Brainerd
It seems like GSoC applications are an instance where Wiki hierarchy would serve us well. Right now we have entries like http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File_Sharing_Utility. Can we move all the applications to Google Summer of Code 2009/Application name? I want to avoid situations where pages

[Sugar-devel] Here is my wiki page for Print Support

2009-03-23 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:2009_GSoC_applications/Print_Support As you can see I suck at presentation, I would be glad if someone can help me fix it up to look a bit more clean. :P ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

[Sugar-devel] Curent SoaS results

2009-03-23 Thread Caroline Meeks
Soas1 - http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/Soas1-200903191225.iso Does not boot - /dev/root error. I am trying again with a new USB. I've sometimes found this not reproducable. I thought it happened if I didn't eject the USB properly but I know I was very careful this time. SoaS2-

[Sugar-devel] I made a bootable stick unbootable. What happened?

2009-03-23 Thread Caroline Meeks
Here is what happened. I had SoaS2 on running a desktop. I told it to restart When I thought it was done I pulled out the SoaS2 (maybe a bit early) Next on my laptop I had tried to boot from a SoaS1 stick and gottent the /dev/boot error. I took out the SoaS1 I put in SoaS2 I turned off and on

Re: [Sugar-devel] I made a bootable stick unbootable. What happened?

2009-03-23 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Unless there is a way to make SOAS2 reliable in the face of hasty insertion and deletion, I don't think it will work very well in a classroom setting. It shouldn't be the case that the stick becomes unbootable. Can a root partition on the stick be made read only? 2009/3/23 Caroline Meeks

Re: [Sugar-devel] Curent SoaS results

2009-03-23 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote: Soas1 - http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/Soas1-200903191225.iso Does not boot - /dev/root error. I am trying again with a new USB. I've sometimes found this not reproducable. I thought it happened

Re: [Sugar-devel] I made a bootable stick unbootable. What happened?

2009-03-23 Thread Sean DALY
By the way, for the first batch of 100 branded Sugar Labs USb sticks I was careful to order a model with LED activity indicator... our usage procedure will say e.g. wait until the blue light stops flickering 2009/3/24 Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com: Unless there is a way to make SOAS2

Re: [Sugar-devel] Curent SoaS results

2009-03-23 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 08:27:28PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Soas1 - http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/Soas1-200903191225.iso Does not boot - /dev/root error. Without the exact error message I cannot be sure, but increasing rootdelay (or adding it if it isn't already there,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Curent SoaS results

2009-03-23 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 08:27:28PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Soas1 - http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/Soas1-200903191225.iso Does not boot - /dev/root error. Without the exact error

[Sugar-devel] Collaboration for museum project

2009-03-23 Thread Edward Cherlin
The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose would like to create an exhibit of XOs and invite school classes in with their teachers. This depends on how well we can get collaboration working. I have had many failures with mesh networking, and have not tried a school server. How is that going? We

Re: [Sugar-devel] Out of date wiki.sugarlabs.org pages

2009-03-23 Thread Frederick Grose
These Page-Flagging Templates are available on wiki.sugarlabs.org, http://wiki. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:PageFlaggingTemplate sugarlabs http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:PageFlaggingTemplate .org/go/Category:http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:PageFlaggingTemplate

[Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal

2009-03-23 Thread Deepank Gupta
Hi, I have made a rough draft of the GSoC Proposal for the educational Toolkit and will need comments from the community to make it better. Please find the proposal at : http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Educational_Toolkit in the 2009 GSoC Application category. Looking forward to hearing about the

[Sugar-devel] Gsoc 2009: File Sharing Utility

2009-03-23 Thread kartik rustagi
Hi, I have proposed to develop a File Sharing Utility for the Sugar Platform as a part of this years Gsoc. I will like to comments from the developers over here on how to make this application more stronger and . To get an Idea of the functionality kindly check my application at:

[Sugar-devel] How is SoaS built?

2009-03-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi everyone, are there any pointers to how the SoaS build works? Is it using the Fedora livecd tools? Something else? more details below on what I am aiming for... cheers, martin -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at

[Sugar-devel] GSoC Sugarize KDEEdu activity

2009-03-23 Thread Huda Sammour
hi all, I wnat to apply for Sugarize KDEEdu activity project. I am planning to write a proposal for it, but I need some confirmations. does Sugarize an activity mean to develop an application fro OLPC with sugar standards? If so, what activity is the prefered one or that is on developer opinion.