[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Letters-28

2019-11-25 Thread James Cameron
Letters-28 is released. * Port to Python 3 (James Cameron), * Update Sugargame (Ibiam Chihurumnaya), * Fix recursion on display resize (Swarup N), Requires Sugar 0.116 or later. Downloads; https://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Letters/Letters-28.tar.bz2

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Pippy-74

2019-11-25 Thread James Cameron
Pippy-74 is released. * Fix keep error in a shared instance, * Fix harmless mime_type log error, * Fix data loss of notebook tab label during collaboration, * Use logging consistently, * Port CollabWrapper to Python 3, * Share renaming of notebook tabs, * Share closing of notebook tabs, * Add

Re: [Sugar-devel] FYI, Tincho blog

2019-11-25 Thread James Cameron
Good progress, thanks. Our critical problem _now_ is lack of people doing activity maintenance. My opinion is that both Flatpak and Snaps seem fragile, bulky, and difficult to maintain. It would add more build metadata to activity sources, which would then bitrot. We've already faced that with

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] From OLPC XO To Positivo: Rwanda Sets The Bar Higher

2019-11-25 Thread Samson Goddy
Hi Alex, I think the best thing is to physically go to Rwanda, which I think can be of great value to Sugar Labs. I have been talking to some folks that support Rwanda and of recent Mariana Ludmila. We have no idea how they use Sugar, improving Sugar based on feedbacks from deployment like Rwanda

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCI update

2019-11-25 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 04:24:41PM -0500, Walter Bender wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:05 PM James Cameron <[1]qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > > Thanks Lionel. > > Walter, who made the suggestion, and why haven't we heard from them on > this mailing list? > > Gourav made the

Re: [Sugar-devel] FYI, Tincho blog

2019-11-25 Thread Samson Goddy
I saw some updates from Twitter. Great push. On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 10:28 PM Walter Bender wrote: > > https://blogs.gnome.org/tchx84/2019/11/22/linux-app-summit-2019-and-sugar-learning-tools/ > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > >

[Sugar-devel] FYI, Tincho blog

2019-11-25 Thread Walter Bender
https://blogs.gnome.org/tchx84/2019/11/22/linux-app-summit-2019-and-sugar-learning-tools/ -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCI update (Lionel Laské)

2019-11-25 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:05 PM James Cameron wrote: > Thanks Lionel. > > Walter, who made the suggestion, and why haven't we heard from them on > this mailing list? > Gourav made the suggestion and I don't know why we haven't heard from him on this list. > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 12:25:30PM

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCI update (Lionel Laské)

2019-11-25 Thread James Cameron
Thanks Lionel. Walter, who made the suggestion, and why haven't we heard from them on this mailing list? On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 12:25:30PM +0100, Lionel Laské wrote: > > Le lun. 25 nov. 2019 à 10:38, <[1]sugar-devel-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org> a > écrit : > > The product mentioned is not

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] From OLPC XO To Positivo: Rwanda Sets The Bar Higher

2019-11-25 Thread Alex Perez
It would be good and helpful to attempt to make contact with anyone within Rwanda that is using Sugar on Positivos, official or otherwise, but also anyone who is involved with the official distribution of Positivos within Rwanda. Can you help us on this front, Samson? Walter Bender

Re: [Sugar-devel] why cannot most of sugar apps be packaged as flatpacks?

2019-11-25 Thread Thomas Gilliard
On 11/25/19 5:40 AM, Martin Abente wrote: Hello Thomas, I am actually working on packaging sugar apps with flatpak, and publushing them in Flathub. See https://blogs.gnome.org/tchx84/2019/11/22/linux-app-summit-2019-and-sugar-learning-tools/ The work goes beyond just packaging, but also

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] From OLPC XO To Positivo: Rwanda Sets The Bar Higher

2019-11-25 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:38 AM Tony Anderson wrote: > The current school year in Rwanda is just ending and the new year starts > January 6. The Positivos have been distributed to GS (Groupe Scolaire) > schools which are public with grades from entry to S3 (9th grade). > > The ICT Curriculum is

Re: [Sugar-devel] why cannot most of sugar apps be packaged as flatpacks?

2019-11-25 Thread Martin Abente
Hello Thomas, I am actually working on packaging sugar apps with flatpak, and publushing them in Flathub. See https://blogs.gnome.org/tchx84/2019/11/22/linux-app-summit-2019-and-sugar-learning-tools/ The work goes beyond just packaging, but also doing some porting so the experience is properly

[Sugar-devel] why cannot most of sugar apps be packaged as flatpacks?

2019-11-25 Thread Thomas Gilliard
this is silverblue f32 1119 has Turtleblocks 220 etoys and labyrinth 0.6 as flatpacks why cannot most of sugar apps be packaged as flatpacks? Google tasks? walterbender? https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_32#Silverblue using system 76 laptop with it installed #flatpack #silverblue

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCI update (Lionel Laské)

2019-11-25 Thread Lionel Laské
Le lun. 25 nov. 2019 à 10:38, a écrit : > > The product mentioned is not open source, and has an operating model > that may change the terms and conditions for use after we begin using > it. > > I don't know who suggested it. Can you tell me? If it was Lionel, > then tune the description for

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] From OLPC XO To Positivo: Rwanda Sets The Bar Higher

2019-11-25 Thread Tony Anderson
The current school year in Rwanda is just ending and the new year starts January 6. The Positivos have been distributed to GS (Groupe Scolaire) schools which are public with grades from entry to S3 (9th grade). The ICT Curriculum is based on Windows - with some planned expansion to include