Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme unity

2009-02-27 Thread Sean DALY
Greetings Josh! In fact lots of work has been done on this by Christian, see for example: http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Logo http://sugarlabs.org/go/MarketingTeam/Website and, in beta: http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/betasite/index.php May I suggest you join the

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Sean DALY
Eben - FYI I am pricing the first run of 100 Sugar Labs branded USB sticks now, if you have a moment please look at: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-February/000341.html http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-February/000363.html thanks Sean On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Sean DALY
have to use a monochrome logo, which would be unfortunate in my mind. I see that you're in touch with Christian about the logo already, so he may have some insights there as well. - Eben On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Eben - FYI I am pricing the first run

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final Release

2009-03-05 Thread Sean DALY
The media launch and multi-language press release has been scheduled for March 16th, when release notes, the PR phone number, and the final press mailing lists including the education publications will be ready. I will have Tuesday's marketing meeting topics deliverables mail ready sometime

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final Release

2009-03-05 Thread Sean DALY
re spreading the word: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-March/000419.html Monday, March 16th, 9:00 AM EST thanks Sean On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: The media launch and multi-language press release has been scheduled for March 16th

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] DC Photo Jam 2 - New batch of photos of SoaS running on netbooks

2009-03-15 Thread Sean DALY
Mike, these are breathtaking! Walter, David - as they are CC, and already on Flickr, and the permissions posted by Mike are very clear, I do think we could go with these... what do you think? Sean P.S. Little Cianna even has Sugar Labs purple :-) On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Caroline

[Sugar-devel] Voicemail is live and press releases will be online shortly!

2009-03-16 Thread Sean DALY
As soon as the press releases (available in English, Spanish, French, and German) are up on the new Press page (http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=press), we will initiate the mailing to targeted journalists and educators! The Sugar Labs phone number for journalists is active at +1 (857)

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

2009-03-16 Thread Sean DALY
-- Forwarded message -- From: Google Alerts googlealerts-nore...@google.com Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:13 PM Subject: Google Alert - sugar labs To: sdaly...@gmail.com Google News Alert for: sugar labs Sugar Labs Nonprofit Announces New Version of Sugar Learning ... eReleases

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs in GSoC (Fwd: Congratulations!)

2009-03-18 Thread Sean DALY
, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Great news! just a little detail, http://sugarlabs.org; is deprecated Some might disagree. :) -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

2009-03-18 Thread Sean DALY
Questions like these are bread and butter for the SFC. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:44 PM, David Malcolm dmalc...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 16:00 -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 03/18/2009 03:45 PM,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Marketing to parents...

2009-03-19 Thread Sean DALY
One-click-on-a-pancake-button-installer for each system is the Holy Grail. What works with the virtualization solution for nonengineers is the simple procedure: by following the wiki page step by step, I was able to get Sugar running on an Intel Mac Mini in 15 minutes. Whereas changing BIOS boot

Re: [Sugar-devel] Print Support proposal (need input) Beta

2009-03-20 Thread Sean DALY
I can't speak for the classroom, but in the house I have two kids very active with their Mac computers and often wishing to print. I think printing is an area where lots of little things can go wrong which need grownups to sort out. I have a single printer connected to a computer on the main

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] A Roadmap to our first Release

2009-03-21 Thread Sean DALY
Thanks Sebastian! Reminder everyone, for FOSSVT we are planning: * First run of 100 branded Sugar Labs sticks, to be distributed to qualified prospects (i.e. not everyone as they are expensive) * Press release to announce Sugar on a Stick beta. In addition to targeted journalists and educators

Re: [Sugar-devel] font of sugar labs logo

2009-03-21 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Eduardo it's VAG Rounded Light a similar free equivalent is MGOpen Modata For the logo used in production (website/press releases) detailed information can be found here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Logo A good place to put logo ideas up is here:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-22 Thread Sean DALY
Greetings Satya, In the early 1990s I did some tests for a speech recognition system and I found a shortcut for reliably acquiring and classing words and even phonemes: asking the subject to click the mouse or the spacebar to mark the boundary between words. Phonemes were more difficult, but some

Re: [Sugar-devel] I made a bootable stick unbootable. What happened?

2009-03-23 Thread Sean DALY
By the way, for the first batch of 100 branded Sugar Labs USb sticks I was careful to order a model with LED activity indicator... our usage procedure will say e.g. wait until the blue light stops flickering 2009/3/24 Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com: Unless there is a way to make SOAS2

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS won't boot XO-1s?

2009-03-24 Thread Sean DALY
. Or both, explaining the choice. thanks Sean On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:28:08PM +0100, Sean DALY wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC I am late writing an article on this and I'm

Re: [Sugar-devel] How is SoaS built?

2009-03-24 Thread Sean DALY
coming in off the cuff here, but have we looked at headless network appliance type machines as school servers? On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:28 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, are

Re: [Sugar-devel] How is SoaS built?

2009-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
If only I knew where to find it... On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: coming in off the cuff here, but have we looked at headless network appliance type machines as school

Re: [Sugar-devel] How is SoaS built?

2009-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
ok thanks I'm signed up i'll peruse the archives I had looked all over the Sugar Labs wiki for that list and gave up :-( On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: If only I knew

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #625 LOW: login screen on soas-2 should be branded?

2009-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
I strongly support anything we can do to tell users what it is they are using, ideally with a version number. Can we envisage a sugarlabs splash page after the fedora splash page? As we tackle the support problem, helping a non-computer whiz user easily identify the running version is vvery

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS won't boot XO-1s?

2009-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:28:08PM +0100, Sean DALY wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC I am late writing an article on this and I'm not getting anywhere because I can't boot

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS won't boot XO-1s?

2009-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
it manually. -Wade On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry, but I'm a bit confused here, is it possible or not at this time to boot an XO-1 from a SoaS image (as we claim on the wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC)? if so, how

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS won't boot XO-1s?

2009-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
were created with an older version? On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: OK thanks Wade If you can tell me just which image you have, I can try with that one. Same behavior with the SD card in or out, and on the other XO with no SD card at all. Neither

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS won't boot XO-1s?

2009-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
on my other XO thanks Sean On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: hmmm... yes, I downloaded and installed v3.2 on March 4th... four days before the new version came out! the utility itself keeps as a big fat secret what version it is... I'll be happy if that fixes

Re: [Sugar-devel] Summer of Code Proposal: Furthering Speech Recognition in Sugar.

2009-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
Kids often start by spelling their own name, in uppercase, for example to sign a drawing or to recognize a label for belongings. Of course, the Jans of this world have an easier time than the Fernandos, but everybody tries, backwards Ns and all. In our house, Memorize was a hit with the under-5

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS won't boot XO-1s?

2009-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
... On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: OK, no boot from today's SoaS-2 in the slot However, when rebooting, Esc countdown did not appear unless Check key pressed at OK forth prompt I typed: ok boot u:\boot\olpc.fth the script started then failed with this text

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS won't boot XO-1s?

2009-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Success booting an XO-1 with March 23rd SoaS-1! I allotted 130 Mb persistent storage on 2 Gb stick formatted FAT (not FAT32) on WinXP then .iso loaded with fedora LiveUSB Creator v3.6.3 utility. (Note: utility insulted me for trying to overwrite

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-03-24

2009-03-25 Thread Sean DALY
Rafael I hope you have a full recovery I had a similar experience 30 years ago with a beating, 3 guys and a gun to my eye it's tough, not something you forget, although you can come out stronger - I hope you do, I know I did but it did take some time Sean On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:21 PM,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ars technica

2009-03-26 Thread Sean DALY
I'm very pleased as well, one of our goals was to make Sugar Labs easy to find and we are excellently referenced in Google, Google News, and Google Blogs now - I check several times a day every day. Another goal was to turn the tide of negative press and an article like this is of course helpful

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS won't boot XO-1s?

2009-03-26 Thread Sean DALY
:05 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Success booting an XO-1 with March 23rd SoaS-1! I allotted 130 Mb persistent storage on 2 Gb stick formatted FAT (not FAT32) on WinXP then .iso loaded with fedora LiveUSB Creator v3.6.3 utility. (Note: utility insulted me for trying to overwrite

Re: [Sugar-devel] 7 Meilen Stiefel or New Soas-2 image available

2009-03-26 Thread Sean DALY
I confirm, I was able to boot that SoaS-2 image on an XO-1 and an Acer Aspire One and despite having set 130 Mb of the 1 Gb stick for persistent storage, the Journal told me on startup that it was full even though i only had 2 items in it. By the way does anyone know how to specify a French

Re: [Sugar-devel] Non-US non-XO keyboard (Was: 7 Meilen Stiefel or New Soas-2 image available)

2009-03-27 Thread Sean DALY
Dengler mar...@martindengler.com: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:39:13AM +0100, Sean DALY wrote: Thanks Simon, I have read the thread but it seems to apply to XOs only It applies to Soas. My Acer Aspire One has a French azerty keyboard and boots up SoaS-1 and SoaS-2, but I can't find a way

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Browse-106

2009-04-02 Thread Sean DALY
remember the URL should be http://www.sugarlabs.org and not http://sugarlabs.org thanks On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 2 Apr 2009, at 10:50, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Sorry

Re: [Sugar-devel] youtube ...

2009-04-05 Thread Sean DALY
Video is, of course, the most stressful work one can ask of a system, and the most common YouTube codecs these days (On2 VP6 and H.264) are very processor-intensive. Usually,the best workaround is to try to keep the framerate but downsize to postage-stamp. No idea how that could be done though.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] Beta Image and Boot Helper - please TEST!

2009-04-09 Thread Sean DALY
fabulous work! I'd love to create a label but i'm really underwater right now :-( Sean On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi all, I think we might have some news you could be interested in: The SoaS Beta image has been composed and uploaded, so

Re: [Sugar-devel] USB stick advice

2009-04-14 Thread Sean DALY
OSX's FreeBSD has dd but no syslinux :-( On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: [cc'ing fedora-olpc because we are using unmodified fedora tools] On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 23:33, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. This is all helpful. I

[Sugar-devel] May 16th Paris: ContentCamp? MiniCamp? MidiCamp? UltraCamp? SugarCamp?

2009-04-15 Thread Sean DALY
OLPC France renamed their ContentCamp to SugarCamp at their last meeting as an acknowledgement of Sugar's role on the XO and now branching out to other platforms. I am working with Lionel Laské to promote the May 16th event to French publications (draft of press release here in fr/en:

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick Beta-1 press release is out!

2009-04-22 Thread Sean DALY
http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104STORY=/www/story/04-22-2009/0005010701EDATE= Christian has done a super job of simplifying our press page (http://www.sugarlabs.org/press). Journalists can now tell at a glance what the Sugar Labs press release timeline looks like and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Advanced search on ASLO

2009-04-25 Thread Sean DALY
We also have an issue with three search engines local to their sections on the Sugar Labs site. So search for activities is good, it clearly indicates that search is local to the section. thanks Sean On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 25 Apr 2009, at

[Sugar-devel] Heise DE on SoaS beta-1

2009-04-27 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Kinderbetriebssystem-Sugar-auf-USB-Stick--/meldung/136853 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

2009-04-30 Thread Sean DALY
crossposting to sugar-devel -- Forwarded message -- From: Maria Droujkova droujk...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten To: Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu Cc: alejandro.fernan...@lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar, iaep

[Sugar-devel] what version of Sugar is this please?

2009-05-12 Thread Sean DALY
http://olpc.teachingmatters.org/node/99 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] what version of Sugar is this please?

2009-05-12 Thread Sean DALY
Thanks for the responses, I'm curious because one of the XO-1s I bought on eBay is running a pre- v8.2 / 0.82 version of Sugar and the Home View resembles that screenshot Sean On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 12 May 2009, at 08:38, Sean DALY wrote

[Sugar-devel] I have booked a space for Sunday May 16th Sugar Labs meeting

2009-05-12 Thread Sean DALY
La Ruche 84 quai de Jemmapes 75010 Paris Tél.:+33 (0)1 48 03 92 00 http://www.la-ruche.net La Ruche (The Beehive) describes itself as a living laboratory. It's an alternative space which provides office infrastructure and support in a relaxed environment for ethical entrepreneurs (social

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] How Can We Showcase Turtle Art Portfolio

2009-05-13 Thread Sean DALY
I'll be sure to have my camcorder ready... and my understanding is that Saturday's presentations will be streamed live On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:23 AM, John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello All, Would like commentary from the community on how we can try and showcase the abilities

Re: [Sugar-devel] I have booked a space for Sunday May 16th Sugar Labs meeting

2009-05-13 Thread Sean DALY
By the way, hours will be from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM Sean On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: La Ruche 84 quai de Jemmapes 75010 Paris Tél.:+33 (0)1 48 03 92 00 http://www.la-ruche.net La Ruche (The Beehive) describes itself as a living laboratory. It's

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar on a website

2009-05-18 Thread Sean DALY
Marketers, check this out! Sean On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: The great team in paraguay have a new website, based on an interface you might recognise :) http://www.paraguayeduca.org/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing

[Sugar-devel] Dell Latitude 2100 School Netbooks: Dell PR + Dell blog post + Flickr set + YouTuve vid + CNet article

2009-05-19 Thread Sean DALY
http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/press-releases/2009-05-19-Latitude2100.aspx http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2009/05/19/latitude-2100-dell-netbook-for-schools.aspx http://www.flickr.com/photos/dellphotos/sets/72157618110617117/

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Sean DALY
For completeness, here are the documented Apple OSX keyboard shortcuts, stable over the past six versions (10.0-10.5): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343 Potentially useful at boot time: the Option key (looks like a ski slope) to show select bootable volumes Sean On Wed, May 20, 2009 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-20 Thread Sean DALY
This may be helpful too: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1310 On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: For completeness, here are the documented Apple OSX keyboard shortcuts, stable over the past six versions (10.0-10.5): http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #864 UNSP: Browse activity segfault when clicking on a ogg file

2009-05-20 Thread Sean DALY
the file is bad. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:55 PM, SugarLabs Bugs bugtracker-nore...@sugarlabs.org wrote: #864: Browse activity segfault when clicking on a ogg file --+-    Reporter:  thjc                       |          

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

2009-05-24 Thread Sean DALY
OSX has a CLI bless command which may do what is necessary. I'll try to look into this, I have a recent Mac Mini Sean On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 08:19:53AM -0700, Caryl

Re: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar?

2009-05-26 Thread Sean DALY
: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Subject: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar? To: Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org,     iaep       i...@lists.sugarlabs.org,     Sugar Devel       sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID:       378b2b050905221103p1f5dbb29s935bc0b0c8543

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Usage scenarios for Sugar?

2009-05-26 Thread Sean DALY
greeting us from their home town? Kathleen even lists the NETS standards regarding the postcard task. Greetings, Rita Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:03:40 +0200 From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Subject: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar? To: Sugar Labs Marketing market

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Journal criticism

2009-05-28 Thread Sean DALY
I, too, encounter difficulty finding elements in the Journal but haven't found time yet to contribute to a feature discussion. just 2 cents about hierarchical representation: it certainly has uses. The coolest one I ever saw was 8 years ago by a company (trying to remember the name) that provides

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Sean DALY
On a related subject, I am also actively researching Mac USB boot methods. A few weeks ago an Ubuntu developer posted (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=995704page=77) a fat .EFI boot file compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit Intel Macs. Ubuntu has a useful matrix of compatible Macs at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Progress with SoaS boot-helper

2009-05-29 Thread Sean DALY
BIOS worked, though. I just got my laptop back, I should be able to test this as well. 2009/5/29 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com: On a related subject, I am also actively researching Mac USB boot methods. A few weeks ago an Ubuntu developer posted (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-29 Thread Sean DALY
Sebastian, Gary I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for awhile What's the deadline please? thanks Sean On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi folks, sorry for the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Sean DALY
30, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi all, this is just great - thanks a lot for working on it so quickly! :) It looks really promising! Let me know if you want me to grab the .png files from somewhere to build a test package... --Sebastian Sean DALY wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Sean DALY
As a possibility, maybe we could reserve progress-00.png at the beginning of the sequence for a distro / locally-customized splash screen? Blank by default And progress-01.png for Sugar logo, version number, copyright notice and distro logo. I could supply a bash imagemagick script which could

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [IAEP] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Sean DALY
ah, found the mailing list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/plymouth/ On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: I understand the plymouth boot animator is specific to Fedora, but that other distros are interested in adapting it. At base our work is just

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Sean DALY
Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Sean, On 30 May 2009, at 00:58, Sean DALY wrote: Christian, Eben I'm not sure if you are on sugar-devel but this is I think an outstanding opportunity for Sugar branding, celebrating Sugar interface.iconography and greeting children. I know nothing

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-01 Thread Sean DALY
and community, transitions into a core feature of the UI in Home... Either way, looking forward to seeing your mockups! Christian On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: I like Gary's most recent one with the dots filling in color I got halfway through a mockup

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
a gray Sugar Labs opposite the fedora remix? (5. the living, playable, ready-to-open door to Learning--the Sugar Home view.) Thanks everyone!       --Fred On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Fred - I have uploaded a new variant to the wiki: http

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Christian - I myself prefer the rays to dots which I feel too closely resemble networks

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [IAEP] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
4, 2009 at 16:35, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Christian - I myself prefer

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote: Yes that would be very helpful I think I was just going to start tinkering again, I'll make an animated version of Eben's XO and progress-bar for evaluation. Just uploaded an animated version showing Eben's boot with progress bar treatment:  http

Re: [Sugar-devel] livecd-iso-to-xo for XO-1.5

2009-06-04 Thread Sean DALY
FWIW, on the Sugar Labs side we are interested in Plymouth especially its potential for use with other distros, we've been doing mockups based on the OLPC prototype: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Sean On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [IAEP] ASLO - rebranding

2009-06-05 Thread Sean DALY
Yes, much better integration with the rest of the site sections thanks Josh Sean On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hey, That is awesome! david On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Josh Williamsj...@tucson-labs.com wrote: Hi everyone, I've been

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] Activity Awards, Activity Alerts, Frame Alerts

2009-06-06 Thread Sean DALY
I don't know if this is related from a technical standpoint, but I was wondering about the possibility of a mechanism for an Activity to signal to a teacher (or the Neighborhood, or a Friend) when an Activity task is completed. As a way of simplifying identification of students who need more

Re: [Sugar-devel] Getting data about the upgrading older machines and SoaS responsiveness.

2009-06-07 Thread Sean DALY
Hmmm I'm not sure a BIOS will be wiling to boot from a USB port on a card. However, combined with a CD boot helper might do the trick. Reconditioning older PCs (even just adding RAM or a USB card) is a bit of a thankless job :-( I'm wondering if there's a way for SoaS to automatically report

Re: [Sugar-devel] I'm looking for a tree...

2009-06-07 Thread Sean DALY
Have you looked into an awk associative array? I understand it is stored internally as a hash table. I remember reading about a simulated multidimensional array (index,subscript); inserting a record in that case didn't involve any reindexing. Older awks were considered slow though, I have no idea

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-07 Thread Sean DALY
to experiment/test with now. Regards, --Gary Walter: Have you heard anything regarding the use of the XO in our boot screen? Is this okay with OLPC? --Sebastian Sean DALY wrote: Actually the logo color linked to a version idea was in my long mail the other day about communicating the version

[Sugar-devel] Please help us choose a Sugar on a Stick boot animation sequence by tomorrow

2009-06-09 Thread Sean DALY
We are on a tight schedule for the SoaS LinuxTag release and following the mega-thread on the subject we have narrowed the choice down to two variants: Progress Bar http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Animation_of_Eben.27s_Above_Design Ring of Dots

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-09 Thread Sean DALY
Looking better all the time. For the moment, the site suffers from being ghettoized from the rest of the Sugar Labs site; you can get in, but you can't get out - there's no Sugar Labs navigation. Direct links coming in mean the rest of the site is invisible. To fix this (and the other sections

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar

2009-06-09 Thread Sean DALY
Wow I can't wait to see that (can't on this machine) I'm interested in transcoding this to Ogg Theora, do you think we could ask him for a higher-quality source version I could transcode? is it CC, could we put it up on the Dailymotion site? Texas is Dell Foundation country. Hmmm... Sean On

[Sugar-devel] meshing XOs with netbooks (WAS: Re: [Bugs] #79 NORM: SOAS should mesh network when possible)

2009-06-09 Thread Sean DALY
outside bugtracker I'm not aware of the existence of any 802.11s USB adapters which could be plugged into a netbook for mesh. That said may be a silly question but I'm a bit mystified about getting my meshed XO-1s to play with my SoaS netbooks, I have them join the same wifi AP but how to bridge

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-09 Thread Sean DALY
into an XO or a netbook running SoaS. I only recently figured out how to browse files on a USB key from within Sugar :-) Sean On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:28 AM, James Simmonsjim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote: Sean DALY wrote: GCompris is fine where it is; it is very well known in Europe and elsewhere

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-09 Thread Sean DALY
, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:28 AM, James Simmonsjim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote: Sean DALY wrote: GCompris is fine where it is; it is very well known in Europe and elsewhere and has a five year headstart on us in word-of-mouth and credibility with teachers. Although marketing/branding of GCompris has

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-09 Thread Sean DALY
think. Sean On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Martin Denglermar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:58:39AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: Yes, that's the procedure when running Sugar and using Browse... which I wasn't doing. A couple of phrases removing the mystery will help us; it's

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-09 Thread Sean DALY
I recently got help opening a bug ticket account, I'll try my hand at that thanks for your patient assistance Sean On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Martin Denglermar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:53:06AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: Intuitively, I would expect ASLO

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-10 Thread Sean DALY
and also give people a place to download stuff they may have removed by mistake. When I first got my XO I didn't have a wireless router, so I had to copy everything in using a thumb drive.  I agree that some simple instructions would be worthwhile. James Simmons Sean DALY wrote: Yes, that's

[Sugar-devel] Booth Banner page on wiki!

2009-06-10 Thread Sean DALY
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/BoothBanners I have managed to create a Booth Banner page on the wiki. Still have to add the links to the source PDF files though (they are uploaded but I need to write the markup for the links). I have updated the Marketing Team/resources page as well

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] LWN article

2009-06-11 Thread Sean DALY
Yes, a wonderful interview Walter! It's rare that a journalist quotes so much of what an interviewee says; it's a sign that the Sugar Labs education message is unusual and deserves to be heard. A very key point to me is the essential critical thinking issue. In ten years or so there will be

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Sean DALY
ultimately, the question is: are there (or not) Activities common to every, or nearly every instance of Sugar? Browse Read Write etc. Sean On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 10 Jun 2009, at 18:24, James Simmons wrote: Martin, I phrased that

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Sean DALY
:24AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: ultimately, the question is: are there (or not) Activities common to every, or nearly every instance of Sugar? This is Fructose: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy#Fructose:_The_set_of_demonstration_activities If you keep asking what to call them we'll keep

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Sean DALY
...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 11.06.2009, at 09:51, Sean DALY wrote: ultimately, the question is: are there (or not) Activities common to every, or nearly every instance of Sugar? Browse Read Write etc. At least the Fructose activities should always be there: http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Sean DALY
David - do you have a list, or a link to same? thanks Sean On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:57 PM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: I recommend u take a look at the openSUSE offering. I took a careful look at the activities available and packaged those that seemed useful, relatively bug

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Sean DALY
Over 50 responses on this thread :D But we are advancing I think :-) Sean On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Martin Denglermar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 02:47:45PM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 03:10:49PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: I actually

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Sean DALY
of the platform's openness and extensibility. Does this seem like a good path? thanks Sean On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Bert Freudenbergb...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 11.06.2009, at 09:51, Sean DALY wrote: ultimately, the question is: are there (or not) Activities common to every, or nearly

Re: [Sugar-devel] Cannot find root file system! with 2009-06-03 SoaS on XO-1

2009-06-13 Thread Sean DALY
identical message when trying to boot a Mac Mini: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-May/014519.html a friend counselled me recently to create a symlink to the ramdisk, but I'm not sure how to do that. Sean On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:38 AM, S Pageskierp...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [Sugar-devel] French Help Activity

2009-06-13 Thread Sean DALY
Indeed, at my first contact with Sugar as a G1G1 donor I had found the Help Activity extremely useful. I actually think it would be better to provide easy access to Help in every context, as done elsewhere, so not necessarily an Activity. The frame would be the logical place, but there is also a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] Meshnode product...

2009-06-15 Thread Sean DALY
Thanks for that Sameer I'm sure that color scheme isn't accidental :-) They say it's Debian-based Simon - Do you think it would be useful or interesting to borrow one of these for LinuxTag? Could you or someone on the sugar-devel team possibly contact them and see if they are coming, if so (and

Re: [Sugar-devel] FW: [IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar

2009-06-16 Thread Sean DALY
: [IAEP] Texas Tech University work with XO/Sugar Hi Rich, I had forwarded an email with the link to the Science Spectrum video: http://media.English.TTU.edu/faculty/rice/5365/iplay.wmv Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator Sean Daly was interested in trans-coding the video to an Open Source

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Show Must Go On - SoaS for the XO-1

2009-06-17 Thread Sean DALY
You know where to find me :-) On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de wrote: On 06/17/2009 11:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:30, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com  wrote: In my view it's never a mistake to indicate that a procedure will wipe

Re: [Sugar-devel] Show Must Go On - SoaS for the XO-1

2009-06-17 Thread Sean DALY
Martin - I may be able to host that at the house (just need to convince my wife of the normality of having a gang of hungry geeks over), but Monday/Tuesdayish since off to LinuxTag later in the week Sean On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed,

[Sugar-devel] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Sean DALY
We've discussed my idea to do a flurry of press releases over the next couple of weeks, coinciding with our presence/sessions at: * LinuxTag Berlin June 24-27 http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en.html * Free Open Source Software in Education (FOSSED) Bethel, Maine June 24-26 http://www.fossed.com *

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [IAEP] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Sean DALY
I beg everyone's pardon, I was under the impression that SoaS is Fedora-specific... are there plans to do versions based on other distros? Sean On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Bert Freudenbergb...@freudenbergs.de wrote: (excluding IAEP from cc list) On 18.06.2009, at 19:45, David Van Assche

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [IAEP] Fwd: Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Sean DALY
For me, Sugar on a Stick (or on a liveCD, or in virtualization, or as a session) is about a Sugar experience, not a Sugar on an underlying distro/meta-OS/hardware experience. No disrespect to the massive effort that goes into packaging and adapting Sugar to a distro (and I am certainly aware that

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