Re: [Sugar-devel] [sfconservancy.org #1322] For Approval: Jaskirat Singh funding and advance for travel to GSoC mentor summit

+1 Sameer On Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 3:38 PM Samson Goddy wrote: > Seconded > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 1:32 AM Walter Bender > wrote: > >> A bit of context: >> >> We are assigned 3 slots for GSoC mentors to attend the mentor summit. I >> am hoping that Devin and Jaskirat will be able to attend,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] Action required: Devin Ulibarri travel/stipend

on Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Gathering ideas for Sugarlabs

If you haven't already, can you post your ideas/suggestions here? https://goo.gl/forms/PV3SV8opzBnb1eqw2 Original discussion at http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2018-January/020379.html Cheers, Sameer ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Labs 2018 Goals idea

If you haven't already, can you also post it here? https://goo.gl/forms/PV3SV8opzBnb1eqw2 Sameer On Feb 3, 2018 7:23 AM, "Jaskirat Singh" wrote: > Hello , > > I am Jaskirat Singh, SL community member. > Seeking towards Sugar labs Goals 2018 Well, it will be good to have

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] workshop travel motion

+1 Sameer On Jan 7, 2018 6:26 PM, "Samson Goddy" wrote: > Outreach programs like this is healthy to the community. I am very happy > for movement in Asia. > > Thanks Devin. > > > I second the Motion. > > > > -Samson > > On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 2:50 AM, Walter Bender

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] GSoC 2018

+1 Sameer On Jan 5, 2018 6:46 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > I made a motion at today's meeting regarding Sugar Labs participation in > Google Summer of Code 2018. As I mentioned, Google has pushed up the > application process: we need to get our application in by

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] email motion 2017-19

I second. +1 Sameer On Dec 1, 2017 11:35 AM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > Motion: To appoint Claudia Urrea to the oversight-board seat that opened > due to the resignation of Laura Vargas. This temporary appointment would > last until the next oversight board election in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] [SLOB] Motion regarding xo-computer icon

Hi Caryl, Free and open source software projects allow for forking by design as a way out of major disagreements. However if this disagreement is due to an intellectual property issue (as it appears to be in the current discussion), it is best handled by our legal counsel. Most of us are not

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] Motion regarding xo-computer icon

+1 Sameer On Sep 15, 2017 7:15 AM, "Samson Goddy" wrote: > > > On Sep 15, 2017 3:12 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > > The discussion regarding the status of the xo-computer icon seems to be > going around in circles. In my opinion, this makes it

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] Motion: To apply to GCI 2017.

+1 Sameer On Sep 14, 2017 8:36 AM, "Adam Holt" wrote: > +1 > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 2:50 AM, Lionel Laské > wrote: > >> +1 >> >> Lionel >> >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 8:13 AM +0200, "Samson Goddy" < >> samsongo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder

Couldn't make it. Meeting conflict at work. Sameer On Aug 31, 2017 5:22 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > We have a meeting on Friday, 1 September at 19UTC. Please join us in > irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting. Note that one option to connect is via > chat.sugarlabs.org in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] URGENT action needed

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Laura Vargas wrote: > > > 2017-08-11 9:23 GMT-05:00 Samson Goddy : >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 3:08 PM, Laura Vargas >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> 2017-08-11 8:54 GMT-05:00 Avni Khatri

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] URGENT action needed

+1 Sameer On Aug 10, 2017 4:44 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > I presume we need a motion and a vote on this. Time is of the essence, so > please respond ASAP. > > Motion: Samson Goddy has been selected as a Sugar Labs representative to > the Google Summer of Code mentor

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

accounts. > I completely agree with this. To say that it's all Free Software and nothing else is a mis-characterization. To take this extreme fundamentalist viewpoint would imply not being able to use web servers like Apache (Open Source, but not Free software). Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Prof

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

vel@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>> >> >> While I think it is unconscionable for Sugar Labs not to shoulder the >> responsibility of the visa on behalf of one of our members, I will >> nonetheless second the motion, bad precedent and all, as it seems to be the >> only way to get unstuck. >> >> -walter >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> > -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] ping

+1 Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone have anything to say regarding my Outreachy motion? > > regar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder

Sorry, I couldn't make it. Too many meetings, plus OLPC SF Community Summit begins this evening. Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:09 AM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com>

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder

. Traveling back to San Francisco today. Sameer On Sep 1, 2016 11:08 PM, "Sameer Verma" <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: I plan to attend, but I'm traveling (flying tonight) into Miami, and there may be flight delays due to the hurricane situation. Sameer On Sep 1, 2016 10:32 AM, "Walte

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder

I plan to attend, but I'm traveling (flying tonight) into Miami, and there may be flight delays due to the hurricane situation. Sameer On Sep 1, 2016 10:32 AM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > We have a Sugar Labs oversight board meeting tomorrow at 19UTC [1]. Please > join us

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder

On Jun 30, 2016 3:08 AM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > > We have a Sugar Labs oversight meeting on Friday, 1 July at 19:00 UTC (See [1]). Please join us on 1rc.freenode.net #sugar-meetring > Typo. #sugar-meeting Sameer > See [2] for the current list of agenda items. > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] Motion (1 of 2) GSoC Stipends

Aye. Sameer On Jun 4, 2016 6:36 AM, "Tony Anderson" wrote: > I second the motion and approve it. > > Tony > > On 06/04/2016 03:02 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > > We did not have time to take action on two motions at yesterday's meeting. > Please review the motion below. If

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

Approve. Sameer On May 6, 2016 4:49 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > At today's Sugar Labs oversight board meeting [1], we discussed the motion > submitted by Sebastian Silva to allow the mentors participating in Google > Summer of Code to disperse the mentor stipend among

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Newbie on Sugar

Thanks! Sameer On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Sam P. <sam@sam.today> wrote: > For web activities, there is: > https://developer.sugarlabs.org/activity.md.html > > On 2 May 2016 5:03:57 AM AEST, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: >> >> I'm looking for inst

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Action needed on two issues

workshops that fall under the guise > promotion of Turtle Blocks but otherwise has discretion in organizing and > funding these events, within the budget constraints of grant and the travel > guidelines of the SFC. > Aye. Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Syst

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] meeting reminder

Apologies for missing the meeting. I came down with the flu. Lost my voice as well. Still loopy on meds, but will try to catch up soon. Sameer On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > We have a Sugar Labs oversight board meeting tomorrow (Friday), 4 March,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] scheduling our next meeting

>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> First, thanks to all of you that give me their vote. Really appreciate >>> your confidence. >>> >>> I guess that UTC 15h00-17h00 should be okay on most timezone. >>> I can manage it if we plan meetin

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] scheduling our next meeting

I'm OK with times between 9AM and 10PM, except for 12pm to 4pm and 7pm to 10pm on Mondays and Wednesdays (teaching schedule). Weekends are OK too, but not as structured. All times are Pacific. Cheers, Sameer On Feb 2, 2016 12:17 PM, "Walter Bender" wrote: > It being 3AM

[Sugar-devel] Candidacy for Sugar Labs Oversight Board

with you all for the years to come. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar DIgest 2015-05-26

Just saw the news as well. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2015-May/msg00027.html I exchanged a few notes with him about his illness some time ago (my mother had the same. She passed away a few months ago). Marco seemed to be doing better. His work will live on. Sameer On May

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

status around the world (good, bad, it's all publicity). This may be a lot to digest, but unless we address of these issues, this project will go nowhere fast. best, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing images with SUgar 0.102

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: I have uploaded new 41002SL* images, with fixes to the activities updater (thanks tch), web activities support, and new versions of Speak and Story activities. So, do we now have any OLPC-signed Sugar 102 images or

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing images with SUgar 0.102

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:37 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:08:36PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:36 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Are

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing images with SUgar 0.102

, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:37 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:08:36PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:36 PM

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on the Android image

packaging a newer version such as 102 would help. Passing this along before I forget :-) cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm

[Sugar-devel] XOVis posts

Two blog posts are up for XOVis. These should do a good job as an intro to XOVis. http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/902 http://www.olpcsf.org/node/208 cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Video demonstration of Sugarizer server features

Excellent progress! I'm impressed at how you typed in the user ID on Android :-) Perhaps that part should be an easier to remember id, or we need to re-think the workflow. cheers, Sameer On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Lionel Laské lio...@olpc-france.org wrote: Hi all, Since the last

Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

On a related note, I was curious about deployment experiences with the new membrane design with plastic grid in between keys. Although this does help with premature peeling of keys, I've always had trouble with these keyboards - the outer edges of my fingers get in the way of a full key depress.

Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:19 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Jun 16, 2014, at 9:05 PM, Walter Bender wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 9:03 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: Walter, You remember correctly. The hard/clicky/crunchy keyboards are not rated for as

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.102 testing images (34002)

it? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] A note on diffusion and adoption

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: I've written about the diffusion and adoption of an innovation before (the XO/Sugar being the innovation). Here's an interesting summary I found in context of another project, but I thought I'd pass it along. http

[Sugar-devel] A note on diffusion and adoption

the mechanism itself (which was the topic of my Ph.D. dissertation http://verma.sfsu.edu/profile/phd.proposal.pdf) two points are relevant here: 1) Persuasion is not the way to go. 2) Each group has its own personality, and thus its motivators. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Martin Dluhos mar...@gnu.org wrote: On 7.1.2014 01:49, Sameer Verma wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Martin

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

as yet? cheers, Sameer On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Martin Dluhos mar...@gnu.org wrote: On 7.1.2014 01:49, Sameer Verma wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Martin Dluhos mar...@gnu.org wrote: For visualization, I

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

at 11:16 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sameer, I totally agree we should join efforts for a visualization solution, but, personally, my main concern is still a basic one: what

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Martin Dluhos mar...@gnu.org wrote: On 7.1.2014 01:49, Sameer Verma wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Martin Dluhos mar...@gnu.org wrote: For visualization, I have explored using LibreOffice and SOFA, but neither of those were flexible to allow

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

3, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sameer, I totally agree we should join efforts for a visualization solution, but, personally, my main concern is still a basic one: what

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Martin Dluhos mar...@gnu.org wrote: On 4.1.2014 10:44, Sameer Verma wrote: True. Activities do not report end times, or whether the frequency count is for the number of times a new

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Martin Dluhos mar...@gnu.org wrote: On 3.1.2014 04:09, Sameer Verma wrote: Happy new year! May 2014 bring good deeds and cheer :-) Here's a blog post on the different approaches (that I know of) to data gathering across different projects. Do let me know if I

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Martin Dluhos mar...@gnu.org wrote: On 3.1.2014 04:09, Sameer Verma wrote: Happy new year! May 2014 bring good deeds and cheer :-) Here's a blog post on the different approaches (that I know

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Sameer, I totally agree we should join efforts for a visualization solution, but, personally, my main concern is still a basic one: what are the important questions we should be asking? And how can we

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:23 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Metrics can direct action. Unfortunately, in the absence of meaningful metrics, the meaningless metrics will also direct action. True. In fact, the reliability of the whole thing is dependent on the reliability of the

[Sugar-devel] The quest for data

Happy new year! May 2014 bring good deeds and cheer :-) Here's a blog post on the different approaches (that I know of) to data gathering across different projects. Do let me know if I missed anything. cheers, Sameer http://www.olpcsf.org/node/204 ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] Sugarizer, a taste of Sugar on any device

was announced yesterday as well). It's all very slow (video drivers I suppose) but it works. The Gears Activity works. It also shows up in the Journal. Very cool! Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] Sugarizer, a taste of Sugar on any device

On Dec 20, 2013 9:13 PM, Lionel Laské lio...@olpc-france.org wrote: Hi James, Regarding the search text box, you're right it's... not yet implemented. Regarding testing on XO-4 with Android 4.3.1, seems that Sameer had more luck than you:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] Sugarizer, a taste of Sugar on any device

On Dec 20, 2013 10:52 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:16:26PM +0100, Lionel Laské wrote: It's already packaged as an Android App :-) Click on the Android App on Google play to download the .apk file. Sorry, I didn't see anything with those words that

[Sugar-devel] Unrelated, but funny remixes!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151878858388752type=1l=47b3242b14 Thx to Christoph, Bernie, Mike Lee, Martin Abente, and Adam Holt. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu

[Sugar-devel] keyboarding as a requirement

out to onscreen vs tactile, but the importance of tactile keyboards for children is an important consideration. Maybe keyboarding will go away altogether once we can speak to our computers like Captain Picard does for his Tea, Earl Grey, hot, but we are not there yet. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer

[Sugar-devel] editing a clone

I installed Gonzalo's build for Sugar 0.100 on a XO-4 Touch. It runs quite well. I was checking out the source on the Clock activity, and sure enough view source shows the HTML and JavaScript source. I managed to create a copy of the activity to work with, but I'm unclear as to how I would

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar tryout (was Re: sugarlabs.org redesign) [Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 55]

cc'ing Marketing as well. On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: The larger problem is the absence of a marketing strategy, we need to know where we are going to communicate effectively. In particular, we need to choose and implement how to offer

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar tryout (was Re: sugarlabs.org redesign) [Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 61, Issue 55]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: cc'ing Marketing as well. On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 2:50 AM, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: The larger problem is the absence of a marketing strategy, we need to know where we are going to communicate

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] RFC: Make Sugar 0.102 = Sugar 1.0

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: The other possibility is to multiply by 100, dropping the decimal point, .e.g., we just released Sugar 100 and are working on Sugar 102. -walter I did this a couple of times on Twitter, but I like it! I had a chat

Re: [Sugar-devel] different perspectives

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Dear Community, As I was listening to the interviews of some of the OLPC SF Summit attendees, I was amazed at the richness of diversity in perspectives. In spite of being a part of this community since July 2007, and trying

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar oversight board meeting

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Flavio Danesse fdane...@gmail.com wrote: My humble opinion (please stick to one): To put into perspective the opinion, I should remember that besides developing for sugar since 2009, I am also a teacher in high school, so I've been inside ceibal classrooms

[Sugar-devel] different perspectives

. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] some very cool features for a capacitive touchscreen

://volumique.com/ cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] A robotics session at OLPC SF?

We have the Uruguay Butia robot, a couple of LEGO WeDo kits and a Mindstorms NXT box that we can provide. Any takers on running a session on robotics at the OLPC SF Community Summit 2013? http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/proposal cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor

[Sugar-devel] Community Summit

cause). If you need a letter for travel purposes, let us know. olp...@gmail.com If you are not planning on being here, send in a poster! http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/posters Hope to see you all soon! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Ruben Rodríguez ru...@activitycentral.comwrote: 2013/9/29 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com: Will some of you be at the SF Summit? Yes, I'll be there. I'll be submitting my workshop proposal today. Great! Do submit your proposal soon. We are sorting

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] Sugar on a $100 tablet!

Submit a proposal! http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/proposal cheers, Sameer On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Can we have a session to play with this at the SFSummit? BYOA? (Bring your own Android). Caryl P.S. Maybe also a session on Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gears and random thoughts

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Thank you and an update on the New Zealand XO-4 deployment

laptops in the classroom. Thank you! Tabitha and Tom ___ Devel mailing list de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel Awesome update! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State

Re: [Sugar-devel] Another sugar lab

, they are at http://sugarlabs.org; cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Sugar 0.100 or 1.0

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Perfection is the enemy of the good. On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, we need to decide if we want the next release to be 1.0 or 0.100. Here is the features we are

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] Sugar 0.100 or 1.0

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 May 2013 12:19, Bastien b...@laptop.org wrote: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com writes: I feel that 0.100 is even more unmarketable than 0.98. Agreed. Mathematically, it reads like a regression. Instead of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:29 AM, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Lionel, I think this is definitely a great idea for GSoC. I like the work you've done in this area, but there was a fair amount of discussion on this list recently about different ways you could go about making an HTML

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURES][DESIGN] Network proxy configuration

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: While I understand your point about the radio checkbox, this show a few bugs or fails in design in Sugar too. Trying right now I see: * The text is confusing: Turn off the wireless radio to save battery life [] Radio

Re: [Sugar-devel] offline a.sl.o

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: @sameer: What features (exactly) do you need from ASLO? IE, in Paraguay we just needed to provide a static repo of activities to feed the sugar updater. And we used this

[Sugar-devel] offline a.sl.o

Has anyone looked into running an offline copy of activities.sugarlabs.orgon a server that isn't on the Internet (a la XS)? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http

Re: [Sugar-devel] NPR story on OLPC in Peru

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On 10/13/12, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Alexandro, I think you are grossly underestimating the connectivity problem in Peru. Yes maybe, but I understand most educational systems dont have enough

[Sugar-devel] table for activity ids

Looking for a table or list of activity ids and corresponding activities. Does this exist? Sameer ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Thanks Buddy !!!

(my little India project http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com/) and help out with the project. I hope to see Anish (and others) at OLPC SF Community Summit and SugarCamp later this year in October! http://olpcsf.org/summit cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San

[Sugar-devel] Engadget post on XO Touch

www.engadget.com/2012/07/26/olpc-xo-touch-1-75-to-use-neonode-tech/ The post says as yet unreleased XO 1.75. What's the official status on the 1.75? Still as yet unreleased? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Engadget post on XO Touch

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:15 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Jul 26, 2012, at 11:09 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: www.engadget.com/2012/07/26/olpc-xo-touch-1-75-to-use-neonode-tech/ The post says as yet unreleased XO 1.75. What's the official status on the 1.75? Still as yet

[Sugar-devel] getting books and media from the Internet Archive...

Some background here. http://olpcsf.org/node/61 fetch_IA_item script here: https://github.com/rajbot/fetch_ia_item Try it out and see if it breaks. Then fix it or let the author (rku...@archive.org) know :-) cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco

Re: [Sugar-devel] compiled to .XO

look at the Tuxmath activity as a example. OK. Will take a look. Sameer Gonzalo On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: Maybe I don't understand all.. When activity launs

Re: [Sugar-devel] compiled to .XO

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: We are also able to run the binary, but I am unclear about how we would package this into a .xo activity. Any pointers? Am attaching an copy of an email I sent earlier to someone with a question similar to yours.  IMHO

[Sugar-devel] compiled to .XO

We are looking at an app that goes through the classic ./configure, make, make install to compile from source. The compile process runs ok (this is on a XO-1). We are also able to run the binary, but I am unclear about how we would package this into a .xo activity. Any pointers? cheers, Sameer

Re: [Sugar-devel] compiled to .XO

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com wrote: Maybe I don't understand all.. When activity launs, calls a sh with the commands that you need to make the binary. After, only calls the binary and start. Alan I was thinking about how we would package the

[Sugar-devel] schools.sl.o broken?

Looks like http://schools.sugarlabs.org/ is broken... Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] GetBooks activity

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Well, if we have a URL, is not autodiscover ;) Gonzalo I was looking at the get-books.cfg file. I got some success by including IP address/latest.atom in the catalog, but that only lists 5 books (in my settings, I have

Re: [Sugar-devel] GetBooks activity

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org wrote: 2012/6/25 Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu: Does GetBooks autodiscover a OPDS feed off the LAN or does it have to be entered manually in the config? Not currently, can be a good idea.  What URL can be a good candidate

Re: [Sugar-devel] GetBooks activity

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Does GetBooks autodiscover a OPDS feed off the LAN or does it have to be entered manually in the config? This has me thinking about the Pathagar

[Sugar-devel] A virtual machine for Pathagar

A virtual machine with Pathagar Book Server preloaded and ready to use. If you've wondered what this thing is like, try it out! http://olpcsf.org/node/60 cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

[Sugar-devel] GetBooks activity

Does GetBooks autodiscover a OPDS feed off the LAN or does it have to be entered manually in the config? cheers, Sameer ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Gnash-dev] Gnash 0.8.10 Released

..And yes, Gnash plays Youtube. OK. Will try again. Sameer On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: FYI. cjl -- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Savoye r...@welcomehome.org Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 12:44 PM Subject: [Gnash-dev] Gnash

[Sugar-devel] openhatch

, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo

Re: [Sugar-devel] New genealogic activity for Sugar

2011/12/29 Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com: 2011/12/29 Lionel Laské lio...@olpc-france.org: Hi all, I’m proud to announce the release of the beta version of my first Sugar activity : “Roots”. Roots it’s a the genealogical activity for Sugar.    

Re: [Sugar-devel] Happy Holidays fruitful break

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: Hope everyone in the Sugar and OLPC world is enjoying a happy holiday, in peace, safety and good company. If you are hiding away from the family with your laptop, I wish you a very fruitful time too. A number of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Happy Holidays fruitful break

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote:  Recharge that battery. Hug someone close to you; put the laptop aside and let yourself be hugged. 1) We clearly need a wet-ware powerd

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