It is sad that these developers do not have access to Sugar installed on
an XO. The process of upgrading from GTK2 to GTK3 is simple and
practical. The original version of the activity can be run directly. The
new version can be installed in parallel. As changes are made they can
be directly
laptop you can test the antennas using firmware;
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Antenna_testing
Should you need a laptop unlocked, send me the serial number.
(removed CC support-gang, as I'm not subscribed.)
On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 09:40:41AM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote:
The dicussion below appears to refer
The dicussion below appears to refer to the use of an XO to administer
a schoolserver. I urgently need help at the other end: using an XO
toserve content in a classroom using 'SimpleHTTPServer'. This is an
installed Python module that enables an XO to serve content via an
ad-hoc network. The
n, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:38 AM Tony Anderson <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> 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 e
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
At a minimum I hope activities releassed to ASLO have been tested on the
XO (intel and arm). If not, at least the description could note that the
activity is not supported on the XO.
Tony
On 7/22/19 4:29 PM, Swarup N wrote:
Hello,
I wish to release activities on ASLO. This is in part of
While at the iRods Userr Group Meeting at the University of Utrecht, I
found this on the wall of the Minnaert building:
"Aren't most children's games basically an excellent series of science
experiments?"
Marcel Minnaert (1893-1970)
Tony
to the latest
release of Sugar.
Does anyone have any estimates for how many machines are in active use
and how many are really upgraded?
On Mon, May 20, 2019, 3:18 AM Tony Anderson <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote:
Sugar Labs are the only people on the planet who beli
Sugar Labs are the only people on the planet who believe 0.114 > 0.98.
The primary requirement is that it works on all models of the XO (still
by far the dominant platform for Sugar). It should be documented by an
update to Documentation 0.106.
Tony
On 5/20/19 6:36 AM, Alex Perez wrote:
+1
On 5/14/19 8:41 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
Any chance of a 0.113.1 maintenance release [1] to make this patch
available? Seems unreasonable to expect mere mortals to find and apply
patches just to get started.
regards.
-walter
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance_release
On Tue,
Incredible! We are having trouble identifying tasks that need doing.
Try:
Over 100 Sugar Activities in ASLO which fail to start.
Many activities which do not have a repository in github.com/sugarlabs
Many activities still dependent on gtk3 and other deprecated moduless
Tony
On
Hi,
Touche.
Tony
On 5/1/19 6:43 AM, D. Joe wrote:
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 09:00:24AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
Agreed. I think Sugarizer has a better immediate opportunity to attract new
users than Sugar/Python.
Be that as it may, it's an odd thing to mention in a thread about promoting
The current SOAS installation page
(https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation) includes
the caution:
*Important change since Fedora 24 SoaS*
The/livecd-iso-to-disk/installation script is no longer packaged in the
SoaS .iso file. Starting with Fedora 24, if you want a Live
I think you missed my point. Software is developed and maintained to
serve the needs of its users, in our case primary school children.
Tony
On 4/22/19 9:40 PM, D. Joe wrote:
On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 03:42:52PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
What Sugar Labs needs to survive is users. If our
I hope you are successful in this initiative. It is exactly what we need
to document as part of the education project.
Tony
On 4/23/19 11:43 AM, Hilary Naylor wrote:
Hi James,
Thank you, that's very helpful. However, isn't there a way to have a
choice between sugar and the raspbian desktop?
conferences for Sugar Labs. I think some good would surely
come out this if we all work together.
Cordially,
Vipul Gupta
Mixster <https://mixstersite.wordpress.com/> | Github
<https://github.com/vipulgupta2048>
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 7:12 AM Tony Anderson <mailto:t...@olene
I don't think we have completed plans for GSOD yet. However, the current
user documentation for Sugar is at help.sugarlabs.org. How to work with
the documentation is described in the section 'Contribute to this
manual'. The main web site: www.sugarlabs.org describes how to set up
Sugar - in
, 9:55 AM Tony Anderson <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote:
What Sugar Labs needs to survive is users. If our count of active
users
reaches zero, there will be no need for developers (or Sugar Labs).
A Conference like PyCon is an opportunity to show that Sugar is a
:52 +0800
From: Tony Anderson mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>>
To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org
<mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Outreach Plans 2019 - PyCon Cleveland
Message-ID: mailto:a42719ae-037d-9224-c420-fb98df7a6...@
What Sugar Labs needs to survive is users. If our count of active users
reaches zero, there will be no need for developers (or Sugar Labs).
A Conference like PyCon is an opportunity to show that Sugar is a viable
educational platform. So marketing does not need to be concerned about
$, it
Clearly, you want to contribute to our documentation. GSOC makes clear
that Sugar Labs has at least three separate elements: Sugar, Sugarizer
and Music Blocks. I would like to see you help us with the Sugar
documentation. This is found at help.sugarlabs.org. This documentation
is made with
The idea that a competent programmer will spend the summer working on
Sugar activities is exciting. However, the activities selected are the
best maintained in our repertoire. The following is a list of 25
activities that don't work (fail to start). These are activities from
the ASLO archive.
, I'll be inspired
to update the bundle.
regards.
-walter
On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 4:52 PM Tony Anderson <mailto:t...@olenepal.org>> wrote:
Scratch is heavily used in Rwanda. The users do not find the 1.4
version
as a limitation.
As far as I can see, Mus
If you can do one of these two well enough to become part of the Sugar
Activities Library in the GSOC period, it will be a notable achievement.
Most of our GSOC projects fail to be finished and so the effort is lost
as the participants return to school. As a professional programmer, I
used to
Scratch is heavily used in Rwanda. The users do not find the 1.4 version
as a limitation.
As far as I can see, Music Blocks was not developed as a Sugar Activity.
A worthwhile first step would be to see if it works in Gnome on an XO.
This is presumably something a candidate with access to an
It appears that you are making one activity out of two. It might be
easier to construct two separate Sugar activities.
The second activity seems to depend on internet access. Perhaps
two-thirds of our users have limited or no access to the internet.
Perhaps it is possible to construct the
.
Thanks,
Muhammad Usman
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 5:09 AM
<mailto:sugar-devel-requ...@lists.sugarlabs.org>> wrote:
Message: 3
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:38:47 +0800
From: Tony Anderson mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>>
To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org
<
There is already a python sugar activity 'WordSearch' which for some
reason does not appear in the Sugar Activities Library. Version 3 has
the ability for the teaher (user) to prepare a list of words. The
activity then creates the 'puzzle box' and allows the user to find the
hidden words. The
The Jupyter Notebook project is of particular interest to me.
Over the past several GSOC periods, developers have had a problem
completing their projects within the allotted time. You are proposing to
take on several projects, any one of which is a big load for one summer.
If you undertake
is Ezequiel's commit.
I suggest long term remove the binaries, remove all libraries except
libsugarize, bring the shell script closer to what it was, and install
the gtranslator package for the operating system.
On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 01:18:38PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
The activity GTranslator Version
The activity GTranslator Version 1 in ASLO (dated June 30, 2010) is not
the same as the version in github.com/sugarlabs.
The github version 1 - dated Jan. 27, 2016 attempts to execute correct
binaries for i686, Arm, and amd-64. However, it fails to start in either
of the first two cases:
), open html/index.html in browser.
This works independent of Sugar.
Tony
On 3/7/19 3:02 PM, Tony Anderson wrote:
Thanks. I'll keep trying to see if I can find a path.
Tony
On 3/7/19 2:47 PM, James Cameron wrote:
Yes, as I said, both Sphinx and "make html" are needed before making
Thanks. I'll keep trying to see if I can find a path.
Tony
On 3/7/19 2:47 PM, James Cameron wrote:
Yes, as I said, both Sphinx and "make html" are needed before making
the bundle.
On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 02:43:33PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
I am trying to install help-20 (from
s.
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 10:41:11AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
The version of the Help activity in github.com/sugarlabs has only an es
folder in the html folder. It fails to start when trying to display
html/inde.html (not found).
Tony
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The version of the Help activity in github.com/sugarlabs has only an es
folder in the html folder. It fails to start when trying to display
html/inde.html (not found).
Tony
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Alejandro García
Generally, I believe you first need to know how to do something several
times before deciding to automate. In that case, the question is whether
the automation will be used enough to justify the implementation time
and effort and whether the automation will make the process
has
$95k we could spend. You've seen from the list what my time can
accomplish each year, and that's not 100% of my time.
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 08:03:16AM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote:
> My original point was that as a community we should view the activities
on
, Tony Anderson wrote:
My original point was that as a community we should view the activities on
ASLO as a corpus to be treasured and protected. No activity can be either
abandoned or orphaned. It is the responsibility of the community. When a
change 'upstream' breaks an activity or set of activities
stributed by the Project will
be distributed solely as Free Software. But I've not heard from the
Conservancy on this.
I don't think there are any other things that would be accomplished,
so it's not something I'm inclined to ask about.
But I acknowledge Devin's concern; I too would rath
plications of our choices, which have had little if any
input from the learning side of the house. Would be great to get more
input to help us in regard to what is most valuable to our users
(whether they know it or not). @Tony Anderson
<mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net> would be great if you c
, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:12:01AM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote:
While it is marvelous to see some actual attention to the Sugar activities,
this approach is the direct opposite of the logic behind the move of the
activities to gitHub. This is a return to the G1G1 model in which individuals
develop
While it is marvelous to see some actual attention to the Sugar
activities, this approach is the direct opposite of the logic behind the
move of the activities to gitHub. This is a return to the G1G1 model in
which individuals develop, contribute and own activities. There can be
no abandoned
This project was not completed given the limited time available to GSOC
projects. It fell victim to the common problem of expanding the goals
beyond the available resources. Currently I believe Jupyter Notebook is
a better solution if it can be added to Sugar.
Tony
On 1/18/19 7:40 AM, James
On Ubuntu, activities are stored in a system folder:
/usr/share/sugar/activities. However any activity can be made local in
/home/username/Activities.
The activities are written in Python and so changes can be made directly
in the source code. The changes can be tested by running the activity.
This 'ideas list' is hard to follow:
The criteria are excellent. Howver there appears to be only one idea,
not a list.
The idea is to port Sugar to Python 3 - this seems to be a necessity
-not an idea. However, the description seems to limit this idea to
porting only the telepathy interface
I could not determine if this site is open. To benefit from the content
on this site it would be necessary to provide offline copies.
Tony
On 12/22/18 7:00 PM, Rishabh Thaney wrote:
Sounds like a good idea, you mean for the activities mentioned in the
previous mail?
I will be exploring more
I didn't read everything but it appears this has to do with
www.sugarlabs.org and not Sugar.
Our fundamental problem is the perception that Sugar is limited to the
XO platform. Not only do we need to focus on Sugar for
other platforms but on the basic question: What does Sugar offer that
/ubuntu.md
Tony Anderson <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>
December 10, 2018 at 9:35 AM
Hi, Alex
I used https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/ubuntu.md.
Tony
On 12/10/18 5:12 PM, Alex Perez wrote:
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Sugar
account? If so, please feel free to add it to the
appropriate page yourself, but it would also be helpful for you to
actually cite the content you are referencing here.
Regards,
Alex Perez
Tony Anderson <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>
December 10, 2018 at 8:48 AM
Hi, James
Alex Perez iden
rror. Not really our
responsibility here at Sugar Labs, so we rely on interested people to
do it.
On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 10:10:54AM +, Tony Anderson wrote:
Sadly, this is not the problem. The Universe repository was enabled.
wiki.debian.org/sugar/#Running the Sugar interface says U
to
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/sucrose
With Ubuntu 18.04, you should just be able to run "sudo
add-apt-repository universe" and enable it.
Tony Anderson <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>
Friday, November 30, 2018 9:34 PM
I am trying to install sugar on a Windows laptop.
I was able to
Hi Amaan
You are, of course, aware that a chatbot capability is offered by the
Speak Activity based on Alice. Alice can be 'taught' so that its dialogs
can be improved. With a simple modification, it can be made to respond
by default: 'I don't know'. to a question such as 'What is the third
the 'universe' apt repository enabled,
since this is where the sucrose package lives, according to
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/sucrose
With Ubuntu 18.04, you should just be able to run "sudo
add-apt-repository universe" and enable it.
Tony Anderson <mailto:tony_ander...@us
I am trying to install sugar on a Windows laptop.
I was able to get 50gb unallocated space and installed ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
The command 'sudo apt install sucrose' returned package not found.
Tony
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In my experience the active developers understand git much better than
Sugar. I'd prefer active users in an educational deployment.
Tony
On Saturday, 20 October, 2018 01:34 AM, James Cameron wrote:
Why? They usually don’t know enough to explain Sugar, let alone be an
ambassador. I’d prefer
This is to announce an interim alternative for ASLO. It provides access
to activities from ASLO and from github/Sugarlabs where a repository
has been created.
In Sugar, enter https://tony37.github.io/Sugaractivities as the url.
This will display the main page providing access to the complete
Great! Again, my apology for the mistake.
Tony
On Thursday, 12 July, 2018 09:52 AM, James Cameron wrote:
GitHub support has restored the repositories.
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Hi, James
I went wrong! I was deleting obsolete repositories in my account. I did
not realize that the list included Sugarlabs repositories, assuming that
I was working only in my own. My sincerest apology and I hope that
developers have a clone of these repositories. I believe that I should
Are you really saying that the 100+ activities ported to GTK+3 are
simply changes and do not represent a new version?
When do you expect it will be possible to release any of these ports.
So far the only one I know is the release of turtleblocks v 218 by
Walter Bender. I believe the
This activity displays static web sites. I would seem better to port
this as a sugar web activity than to Python3.
Tony
On Thursday, 05 July, 2018 03:42 AM, James Cameron wrote:
You need to remove those unintended changes; not remove the files
altogether. Your aggregate change
+0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
[personal calumny and squabbling elided]
The only way Sugar users can access activities not already installed
is by ASLO (unless we have some really carefully hidden source).
Open the Terminal activity
if not yet installed, install git from upstream repos, eg
dnf
This capability is provided currently by the Quiz activity (originally
developed in Austria as the ImageQuiz activity). While the current
version has not been updated on ASLO, it is in use in Rwanda.
Essentially, the teacher prepares a text file similar to the method used
by Moodle, e.g.
If you want to do this, ensure it is enabled by a gsetting.
First this use case does not apply to Sugar on Ubuntu since each user
has a separate account. Also, activities installed by the user goes into
the user's Activities directory. Finally, Sugar cannot and should not
touch the user's
.
Tony
On Saturday, 26 May, 2018 12:50 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
On 25 May 2018 at 00:47, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net
<mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote:
ASLO provides access to Sugar activities (*.xo bundles). Ways in
which users get Sugar is not relevant.
ASLO provides acess to Sugar activities (*.xo bundles). Ways in which
users get Sugar is not relevant. In my experience, XO users install
Sugar from the images on laptop.org. For Ubuntu, I assume sudo apt-get
install sucrose. SOAS is not live and the usb stick is built from the
SOAS image
.
What we may lack, metric-wise, is what the version of Sugar on the
client machine is. Is this encoded into the user agent of the custom
browser, by chance? I assume not, but it's worth asking the question.
Tony Anderson <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>
May 23, 2018 at 11:27 PM
James Cam
This link shows nothing of what was done. How is this version a better
documentation of the conversion process than the original?
Ideally, the Wiki speaks to our users and potential users. The gitHub
speaks to developers. Perhaps this move is appropriate because the
existing pages describe how
Hi Walter,
I have been working on an alternative 'aslolite' to ASLO which will work
on a schoolserver. This requires all of the activity bundles be local.
Access is by a simple web interface The entire aslolite is < 5GB. If
this space were available somewhere online, I could share aslolite
When 'deprecated', meaning a better alternative is available. This could
be ASLOv3 when it is completed, fully tested and made available In other
words, not 'real soon now'.
Tony
On Thursday, 24 May, 2018 11:26 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2018, 8:54 PM James Cameron
James Cameron's devotion to alternate facts is what is amusing (actually
sad). The only way Sugar users can access activities not already
installed is by ASLO (unless we have some really carefully hidden source).
Tony
On Thursday, 24 May, 2018 08:54 AM, James Cameron wrote:
Tony's insistence
The bulk of the Sugar Activities were contributed through the ASLO
process. This process assumes that the contributor is the
copyright-holder. The contributor was asked to specify a license.
Unfortunately that selection is not displayed on ASLO. Therefore, it is
likely that the license clause
Hi, Bastien
Attached is a spreadsheet which shows the current status (subject to
clerical error).
Tony
On Tuesday, 22 May, 2018 01:08 PM, Bastien wrote:
Hi James and all,
let me deliberately sidetrack the issue at stake with a larger issue
which I'm curious about: what is the current
.
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:51:16AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
Naturally it is easy to comment on what you haven't read.
When you propose a change to practice - it certainly isn't going to match.
Current practice finds us with almost 80 activities which have
been ported to GTK3 and which
to these points from Tony, please let me know
what you think.
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:08:36AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
You repeated that I destroyed something. Ignoring commits does not mean there
was destruction. I apologize again for my ignorance of the fact that people
were developing
vity available for Ubuntu Sugar, because
it is in terrible shape. If someone were to maintain it, then I'd be
a bit more interested.
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 07:10:36AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
I really wish you would be a bit more careful with the facts. There was no
repository for this activity, so i
I really wish you would be a bit more careful with the facts. There was
no repository for this activity, so it is impossible that i destroyed
anything.
Why would you merge translations from one activity to another when
neither has been ported to GTK3?
Porting to GTK3 (no evidence that it
is
its own repo. All that is needed is to unzip the bundle, git init the
folder, and add to github.
This works because we don't have the concerns necessary when adding and
changing the Sugar OS code.
Tony
On Saturday, 19 May, 2018 04:01 PM, Bastien wrote:
Hi Tony,
Tony Anderson &l
Sugar has two separate components: Sugar OS and Sugar activities. I
don't believe anyone believes that the source code for Sugar OS should
be anywhare a developer wants. Developers are free and should develop on
their own repository often on their own development machine. The goal of
the
At the cited meeting, I was prepared to update the status of activities
on ASLO and github. However, there was
no interest.
A quick summary: There are 514 activities divided into three groups:
83 which have the current version from github installed on aslo
So let's discourage his help. I would be happy to work with him on
coming up with a reasonable protocol.
Tony
On Saturday, 12 May, 2018 11:52 AM, James Cameron wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 07:23:21AM +0530, Jaskirat Singh wrote:
Hello !
One of the GSOC aspirant is working on the "Beginner
the moment, and have nearly finished porting to GTK+ 3 and
GStreamer 1.14. I've been at it on and off since 2016, and it has
consumed most of my week.
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 08:30:58AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
I believe our immediate need is maintenance on ASLO
(Acitivities.SugarLabs.org). It is goi
I believe our immediate need is maintenance on ASLO
(Acitivities.SugarLabs.org). It is going to take another day or two to
complete reviewing the bundles from http://github.com/SugarLabs;
however, it is evident that a large number have the name version number
as the version on ASLO but are not
Except access to Ubuntu, Python, and Sugar.
Tony
On Wednesday, 09 May, 2018 01:47 PM, James Cameron wrote:
Sugarizer is available now in the Chrome Web Store, there's no need to
add Linux native app support.
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preference is to remove
from github.com/sugarlabs activities that can't be made to work in a
reasonable time ... i.e. the past year.
On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 01:50:29PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
Attahed is a spreadsheet inventory of the Sugar activities on ASLO. Except for
clerical errors
it return 'did not start'.
Tony
On Monday, 07 May, 2018 11:02 AM, Thomas Gilliard wrote:
On 05/06/2018 07:17 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 10:00 PM Tony Anderson <t...@olenepal.org
<mailto:t...@olenepal.org>> wrote:
Hi, Walter
Is there a link to a
should be done. Any volunteers to do
it? Thought not. https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/issues/81
On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 09:20:08AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
I read the log and didn't see any discussion of either an activity server or a
WikiPort. Most of the discu
Hi, Walter
Is there a link to a description of the proposed new server? I assume
that what you mean is that a new physical server will become host to
ASLO. Naturally, I am much more interested in the capabilities of the
service than the server.
It is really hard for me to see any connection
I read the log and didn't see any discussion of either an activity
server or a WikiPort. Most of the discussion seems to focus on
'activity.info'.
I interpret https://github.com/sugar-activities as an attempt to provide
a separate place for Sugar activity repositories based on
SugarLabs is our site to communicate with our users and prospective
users. GitHub is our site to support SugarLabs development. In this
meeting it is pointed out that maintaining two versions of the wikipages
will be difficult (obvious, since we are unable to maintain even one).
The evil word
can eliminate the
storage cost of providing two versions of Sugar.
Tony
On Tuesday, 01 May, 2018 07:52 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 7:44 AM Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net
<mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote:
On April 27, 2018 I downloaded the
working on GTK2 porting. As far as the Ubuntu
bug, it is on our radar.
regards.
-walter
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 7:44 AM Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net
<mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote:
On April 27, 2018 I downloaded the ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso. I
generate
On April 27, 2018 I downloaded the ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso. I
generated a boot usb drive with dd. The usb stick was used to install
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS alongside Windows 10. Sugar was installed using sudo
apt-get install sucrose.
From http://activities.sugarlabs.org/activities, I scraped
Is this a 'beginner' in the community of developers or a beginning user
of Sugar?
Tony
On Monday, 26 March, 2018 09:09 AM, Pratul Kumar wrote:
Hello,
Thanks for the guidance, reviews and feedbacks.
Kindly help me with the answer to one of the questions of "You and
Community".
Question:
As always, the question is the impact on our users. The traditional
source of information for users is http://www.sugarlabs.org and
http://www.laptop.org and, especially the wiki pages. The traditional
source for activities is http://activities.sugarlabs.org (ASLO). So far
the effect of gitHub
Thank God, a post about educational use of Sugar! I was very depressed
reading the list of proposed GSOC activities. Many of the projects
relate to Musicblocks, a true educational development but which after
several years of work is still not available to users on ASLO.
Meanwhile, no GSOC
Hi Rishabh Nambiar,
The critical feature of your proposal is to provide a dedicated RPI
method to make Sugarizer available to a classroom set of XOs via the ad
hoc networks.
Technical skills at a deployment are minimal so simplicity is vital.
What is needed is an image which can be copied to
This is exactly how the xsce server works so you may get valuable help
from that community (xsce or iiab).
A continuing issue is performance of the server in a classroom or
school. One metric is the number of simultaneous connections the device
can support (a classroom of 40-60 is not
The original goal of the Sugar HIG was to move away from the desktop
model and to make most functions available by clicking on icons. The Journal
now requires nearly every action to be made by selection from a menu
which is longer than most 'file' menus. First, a click on the icon
should resume
This thread illustrates the crazy situation we have put ourselves in.
Now we don't use github because we have too many repositories.
The simple solution is to separate repositories into a Sugar collection
and an Activity collection. The use of fructose (and honey,...) should
be deprecated.
lude Sugar 0.112.
I'll change my opinion if I see good evidence of testing.
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 08:57:36AM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote:
What I mean by version control in this context is that git can extract the
source code matching the 0.110 release. This would enable bugs reported aga
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