[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Google Alert - sugar labs

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:20 AM Subject: Fwd: Google Alert - sugar labs To: Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22919/ -- Forwarded message --

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick: una piattaforma educativa su penna USB

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.tuxjournal.net/?p=8484 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] picked up by TechRadar (UK)

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/-sugar-on-a-stick-os-arrives-610416 SoaS is splendidly monikered ! Sean ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] picked up by TechWhack (India)

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://press-releases.techwhack.com/37974-sugar-labs Note extensive tagging by the editor ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
FWIW, Apple announced in May an iMac EFI firmware upgrade with improved support for ATI Radeon HD 4850 video: http://support.apple.com/downloads/_iMac_EFI_Firmware_Update_1_4 Sean On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: This is a great discussion.  Thanks,

[Sugar-devel] Glyn Moody on SoaS!

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/sugar-on-stick-v1-strawberry-is-out.html ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://gizmodo.com/5301939/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-any-netbook-into-your-very-own-olpc 100 views in the first few minutes... ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://gizmodo.com/5301939/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-any-netbook-into-your-very-own-olpc 100 views in the first few minutes... The marketing team @ SL is the stuff of legends. Congrats. (I am sure there are significant

Re: [Sugar-devel] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
thanks Martin We haven't even hit PR Newswire yet in the US, that will be around 2PM in our timezone :-) Sean On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote:

[Sugar-devel] Picked up by Heise UK

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.h-online.com/open/Sugar-on-a-Stick-1-0-released--/news/113604 they did a good job, used the image and linked directly to the Strawberry page ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] bad links on SoaS wiki page help please

2009-06-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Yeah, thanks for putting that there! It's good to have another reference there. I finally went ahead and edited the SoaS main page a bit, too. As the main wiki page is also directing to the Strawberry page, I hope that most people will get the information from there. Thanks for the great work

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-24 Thread Greg DeKoenigsberg
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Is there any interest in figuring out how assessments might work in a Sugar activity API? Teachers frequently talk about the need to assess the progress of their pupils.  In the context of an activity, how do teachers do that?  I don't think there's

[Sugar-devel] release is out on eReleases and PR Newswire

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.ereleases.com/pr/sugar-labs-announces-availability-sugar-stick-learning-platform-runs-pc-netbook-classroom-22146 http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104STORY=/www/story/06-24-2009/0005049403EDATE= ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Greg DeKoenigsbergg...@redhat.com wrote: Is there any interest in figuring out how assessments might work in a Sugar activity API? Couple of bits of experience from Moodle-land - It is probably worth matching SCORM's API when looking at reporting back. There

Re: [Sugar-devel] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ down again

2009-06-24 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Bernie Innocentiber...@codewiz.org wrote: On 06/23/09 22:09, David Farning wrote: The list is at http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/systems . I am not sure why it is not showing up as a public list. Bernie, Is there a reason this list is not public? The

[Sugar-devel] Test Release of Listen Spell

2009-06-24 Thread chirag jain
Hi everyone, There is a test release of Listen Spell activity. I want the community members to please test the activity and give some feedbacks. Please note that the activity uses the gst-plugin-espeak for the speech synthesis. download the xo file from

Re: [Sugar-devel] Some initial thoughts on i18n for Karma

2009-06-24 Thread Felipe López Toledo
what if there were several audio files for the same html element?example: en_answer.ogg //suppose answer is div id=answer ... possible answers = yes, no a better solution: en_answer_yes.ogg en_answer_no.ogg also, what about? LANG_CODE/answer_yes.ogg LANG_CODE/answer_no.ogg felipe. 2009/6/23

[Sugar-devel] we've been slashdotted

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1243255/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Test Release of Listen Spell

2009-06-24 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 06:26:15PM +0530, chirag jain wrote: Hi everyone, There is a test release of Listen Spell activity. I want the community members to please test the activity and give some feedbacks. Please note that the activity uses the gst-plugin-espeak for the speech synthesis.

[Sugar-devel] Picked up by OpenNet Russia

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=22300 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] we've been slashdotted

2009-06-24 Thread David Farning
Sunjammer is holding up so far. The FSF has some very fat pipes at their co-lo facility. david On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1243255/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10 ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] release is out on eReleases and PR Newswire

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
Reuters and Yahoo, and a number of print and TV station websites in the US have published from PR Newswire: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS103017+24-Jun-2009+PRN20090624 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Sugar-Labs-Announces-prnews-318069825.html?x=0.v=1 On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at

[Sugar-devel] Server load

2009-06-24 Thread David Farning
Hey all, Could you please hold off from running CPU intensive operations on Sunjammer for a couple hours? The publicity around the SoaS release is causing a nice load spike. thanks david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

[Sugar-devel] BBC News!

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] BBC News!

2009-06-24 Thread Bastien
Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com writes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm Funny how every media rushes on spreading the press release *before* actually testing SoaS... I guess there will be a second wave with test. -- Bastien ___

[Sugar-devel] picked up by Neteco (France)

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.neteco.com/284280-sugar-systeme-olpc-cle-usb.html ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] picked up by CrunchGear, with YouTube video

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/24/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-your-old-computer-into-an-olpc/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] picked up by Xconomy

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/06/24/sugarlabs-releases-sugar-on-stick/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] picked up by CrunchGear, with YouTube video

2009-06-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Jun 2009, at 17:09, Sean DALY wrote: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/24/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-your-old-computer-into-an-olpc/ Cool, great little youtube video as well – it's nice to see a video of someone's (admittedly an adult techy) first hands on encounter with the Sugar UI.

[Sugar-devel] PRINTING – The Interface and Engi neering Models

2009-06-24 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
Tomeu suggested approach: Which is an approach implementing the Printing Libraries provided by the activity parents like Evince, Abiword and Mozilla. *Evince has a list of functions in C which I have been looking up, but sadly enough they don't come as libraries, so its hack and extract

[Sugar-devel] picked up by Liliputing

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.liliputing.com/2009/06/sugar-on-a-stick-hits-1-0-turns-any-netbook-into-an-olpc.html ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] picked up by La Nacion (Argentina)

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1142921 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] picked up by Pro-Linux (Germany)

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2009/14356.html ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Notes on a computer that doesn't boot because of screen problems

2009-06-24 Thread Caroline Meeks
I'll try to get a ticket in when I get back home. I also have a video at youtube - meekshome - screen run a command as administrator (user root), use sudo command. See man sudo_root for details. ubu...@ubuntu:~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev

[Sugar-devel] Better workaround for Xephyr keyboard problem seen running sugar-emulator (jhbuild run)

2009-06-24 Thread Dan Krejsa
Hi, I've found what I think is a better workaround for the Xephyr problem seen running sugar-emulator, in which keyboard mappings are not inherited from the main X server. One workaround known so far is to go into the Terminal activity and run setxkbmap us (or whatever keyboard map options

[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] I need help for Webified - SSB activity favicons

2009-06-24 Thread Lucian Branescu
In case you don't know what Webified is http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified http://honeyweb.wordpress.com In short, I have added to Browse the ability to create SSB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser) activities. Since I'm generating activities, they need to have icons. After

[Sugar-devel] is olpcgames obsolete?

2009-06-24 Thread Asaf Paris Mandoki
Wondering around sugarlabs wiki I found the way to save the current state of an activity to the journal here http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/sugar.activity.activity The physics and x2o activities are based on olpcgames.activity which handles reading/writing files to the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] I need help for Webified - SSB activity favicons

2009-06-24 Thread Lucian Branescu
I've tried more methods from here https://developer.mozilla.org/en/nsIFaviconService getFaviconImageForPage() and getFaviconLinkForIcon() work and they return URIs to the favicon. However, getFaviconData( getFaviconLinkForIcon() ) still gives an exception. I have looked at the URIs returned by