n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
=== Sugar Digest ===
4. The recent FSF campaign condemning the use of Windows 7 in
education (See http://windows7sins.org/) imputes OLPC in complicity
with Microsoft. It is disappointing that the FSF is not making any
On 28.08.2009, at 11:33, Bill Kerr wrote:
n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Walter Bender
walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
=== Sugar Digest ===
4. The recent FSF campaign condemning the use of Windows 7 in
education (See http://windows7sins.org/) imputes OLPC in complicity
with Microsoft. It
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:13:24AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
If fat binaries are not desired, which alternatives do we have?
1) Include more aggressively/liberally arch-dependent stuff in Sucrose,
and include/write wrappers for popular arch-independent languages
(e.g. Python)
2)
[readding sugar-devel]
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:04, Peter Robinsonpbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
Bobby Powers wrote:
I think having something like:
example.activity
|-arch/
|-arch/x86/
|-arch/x86/bin/
|-arch/x86/lib/
|-arch/armel/
...
could work. Sugar could set an environmental
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:23, Peter Robinsonpbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:04, Peter Robinsonpbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
Bobby Powers wrote:
I think having something like:
example.activity
|-arch/
|-arch/x86/
|-arch/x86/bin/
|-arch/x86/lib/
|-arch/armel/
...
Hello,
I would like to kindly request for an exception to the feature freeze
currently in place to allow the inclusion of a patch that will enable sugar
on non-xo hardware to register with a schoolserver.
The relevant ticket with details is at
http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/916
The patch is
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 14:08, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de
wrote:
On 28.08.2009, at 11:33, Bill Kerr wrote:
n Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM,
Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Yeah, I guess Jonas' suggestion of promoting platform independent
bundles as first class addresses this concern.
+1
I personally don't think we are going to be able to outdo rpms nor
debs so
Is the author local to Boston? Maybe we should take him over to the GPA and
show him a room full of Windows machines all running open software. Perhaps
seeing it for himself will
help, the authors certainly seem to care about what kids are using for
their education.
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:02
Peter Robinson wrote:
I think from the sugar perspective there needs to be some
standard defined and recommendation made +to make supporting it easier
rather than just sitting on the fence.
I agree. I am trying to devise such a recommendation. My goal is that
the recommendation also be a
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote:
Is the author local to Boston? Maybe we should take him over to the GPA and
show him a room full of Windows machines all running open software. Perhaps
seeing it for himself will
help, the authors certainly seem to
I agree completely on Jonas proposal to give a strong identity to Activity
developed within a sugar-portability shield,
and let me expand a bit the concept to come to a proposal for a little
classification of activity based on supported features, testing and
development.
I think this approach
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:07 PM, jpriti...@pobox.com wrote:
Martin Langhoff wrote:
Of course, Sugar Shell then asks the _distro_ tools to satisfy the
requirements (PackageKit may be a good abstraction, otherwise a bit of
glue to drive yum and apt might be needed).
This makes sense to me. All
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Benjamin M.
Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Benjamin M.
Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
I think I am understanding. My claim is that different distros are
sufficiently dissimilar that we
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:15:29PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Dave,
Do you have Physics-2 installed on the SoaS? Depending on the SoaS
version you have, the early ones had Activities installed in non-
standard places, with non user permissions, and sometimes symbolic
links :-( You would
On 28 Aug 2009, at 11:57, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:51, Peter Robinsonpbrobin...@gmail.com
wrote:
As a developer, dropping .xo support would take a lot of work
from my
shoulders, but I suspect our users would kill us...
I suspect users will kill you as well when
Hi all,
Feel free to ignore my comments here - after all I am not doing any of
the heavy lifting in this field, I just continue to package for Debian
from source, independent on what you come up with here...
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:47:53AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
As a long time Mac
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:02:44PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:37, Jonas Smedegaardd...@jones.dk wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:13:24AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
If fat binaries are not desired, which alternatives do we have?
1) Include more
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 18:55, Jonas Smedegaardd...@jones.dk wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:02:44PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:37, Jonas Smedegaardd...@jones.dk wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:13:24AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
If fat binaries are not
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:47:53AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Benjamin,
On 28 Aug 2009, at 03:58, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
Bobby Powers wrote:
I think having something like:
example.activity
|-arch/
|-arch/x86/
|-arch/x86/bin/
|-arch/x86/lib/
|-arch/armel/
...
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 07:11:54AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:51, Peter Robinsonpbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
As a developer, dropping .xo support would take a lot of work
from my shoulders, but I
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:16:36PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
Also, Sugar has been reported to run on the Gdium which uses a MIPS
Loongson CPU. If someone on this list has access to one of those, we
could check that activities with binaries are made to run there as
well.
Yeah, I applied for
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 09:55:37PM +0200, Elena of Valhalla wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Jonas Smedegaardd...@jones.dk wrote:
What would universal be in the Sugar context?
i386 + amd64?
i686 + amd64?
i386 + i686 + amd64?
i386 would work on all of them, even if not optimally, but
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:04:32PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote:
Purposes for 0install(or so) in comparing with native packages:
* one way to install deps in all environments
* non-root install
* requires reliable internet access at install time
- Jonas
--
* Jonas Smedegaard - idealist
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 07:02:30PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 18:55, Jonas Smedegaardd...@jones.dk wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:02:44PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:37, Jonas Smedegaardd...@jones.dk wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at
On 28 Aug 2009, at 21:42, Walter Bender wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jonas Smedegaardd...@jones.dk wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:15:29PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Dave,
Do you have Physics-2 installed on the SoaS? Depending on the SoaS
version you have, the early ones
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:15:09PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
On 28 Aug 2009, at 21:42, Walter Bender wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jonas Smedegaardd...@jones.dk wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:15:29PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Dave,
Do you have Physics-2 installed on
I've heard good things about
OpenCV
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/
though i haven't use it yet.
Rafael Ortiz
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Edward Cherlinecher...@gmail.com wrote:
I was at a presentation last week of Abbyy OCR software, which works
on pictures taken by mobile
On 28 Aug 2009, at 21:51, Eben Eliason wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com
wrote:
On 27 Aug 2009, at 22:24, Simon Schampijer wrote:
On 08/27/2009 10:42 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
Quick ping,
Do we need something like an emblem-buddy.svg for ad-hoc
Edward Cherlin wrote:
Is there a Free Software OCR engine of adequate quality?
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
The question is: adequate for what? (A question likely to be answered
only by testing.)
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After a discussion with the FSF, they agreed the picture was not really
appropriate and that the text should clearly distinguish OLPC from Sugar.
They will make an update - stay tuned.
Thanks!
--
Bastien
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Thanks!
We'd still love for them to come by GPA just for the sheer joy of seeing an
entire room of old windows machines shinning with Open Source software.
Caroline
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.comwrote:
After a discussion with the FSF, they agreed the
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Joshua N Pritikinjpriti...@pobox.com wrote:
I am surprised to read: As a result, it is expected that the main
effect of the OLPC project -- if it succeeds -- will be to turn millions
of children into Microsoft dependents.
Some of your other criticisms of OLPC
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.comwrote:
After a discussion with the FSF, they agreed the picture was not really
appropriate and that the text should clearly distinguish OLPC from Sugar.
They will make an update - stay tuned.
the picture is gone but the
As I have mentioned in this list before, I am trying to make View
Slides able to get pictures that may or may not be in the Journal and
add them to a slide presentation. Under .82 objects in thumb drives
can be listed using the Data Store API, which was fine. In .84 you
cannot do that any more,
You can isolate Rainbow by disabling it and seeing if the problem goes away.
sudo rm /etc/olpc-security
will disable Rainbow
sudo touch /etc/olpc-security
will reenable it.
-walter
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Jim Simmonsnices...@gmail.com wrote:
As I have mentioned in this list
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote:
On 28 Aug 2009, at 21:51, Eben Eliason wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com
wrote:
On 27 Aug 2009, at 22:24, Simon Schampijer wrote:
On 08/27/2009 10:42 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Eben,
On 29 Aug 2009, at 04:26, Eben Eliason wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com
wrote:
On 28 Aug 2009, at 21:51, Eben Eliason wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com
wrote:
On 27 Aug 2009, at 22:24, Simon
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:53:51PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:15:29PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Dave,
Do you have Physics-2 installed on the SoaS? Depending on the SoaS
version you have, the early ones had Activities installed in non-
standard places,
Rafael Ortiz
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From: Ben Wiley Sittler bsitt...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:29 AM
Subject: SarynPaint: a Java program packaged for the OLPC
To: OLPC Developer's List de...@laptop.org
A friend of mine wrote a hand/eye coordination game called
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