Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] Uruguay: Using the XO with Developmentally Challenged Kids

2009-01-30 Thread Sameer Verma
. Thanks for the link, Caryl! cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Olpc-open] justin.tv on the XO

2009-02-04 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Brian Jordan br...@laptop.org wrote: Curious before I try it out...not sure if Browse will be allowed to take over the camera and the mic. Whether this is even possible is another good

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design ideas for a.sl.o and sugarlabs

2009-03-01 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:51 PM, ,Josh williams joshcwilli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wade, I agree with you that there needs to be a unity between the websites and things are definitely confusing. That design I made is basically a wire frame to give us an idea for the layout. I wanted it to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Olpc-open] justin.tv on the XO

2009-03-13 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Brian Jordan br...@laptop.org wrote: Curious before I try it out...not sure if Browse will be allowed to take over

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Olpc-open] justin.tv on the XO

2009-03-13 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Brian Jordan br...@laptop.org wrote: Curious before I

[Sugar-devel] Marketing to parents...

2009-03-19 Thread Sameer Verma
, but they are wary of something that doesn't somehow show their Windows desktop while running Sugar. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Collaboration for museum project

2009-03-25 Thread Sameer Verma
in my tests at local meetups in the DC area, with sometimes over 30 XOs on one view in the same room. At the previous OLPC-SF meeting, we had 20+ XOs, and we didn't lose a beat! It worked for the entire meeting on one Active Antenna. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor

Re: [Sugar-devel] Local static page, final call for edits (Re: [RELEASE] Browse-106)

2009-04-02 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: My understanding is that we are going to be interested in providing

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on LTSP

2009-04-25 Thread Sameer Verma
/ltsp-linux-terminal-server-project-netbooted-fat-client-for-ubuntu-hardy-and-intrepid) on Intrepid+GNOME. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on Nokia N810

2009-05-02 Thread Sameer Verma
One of my all time favorite devices gets one of my all time favorite environments! Read on. http://guysoft.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/nokia-n810-running-olpc-sugar/ cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA

[Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-12 Thread Sameer Verma
Is there a script that will dump all objects from the sugar datastore to another filesystem (FAT or ext2)? Dragging and dropping objects one at a time from the journal onto the USB icon is painfully slow. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San

Re: [Sugar-devel] dumping datastore to another filesystem

2009-05-13 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:52 PM, torello tore...@torosoft.com wrote: Sameer Verma ha scritto: Is there a script that will dump all objects from the sugar datastore to another filesystem (FAT or ext2)? Dragging and dropping objects one at a time from the journal onto the USB icon is painfully

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sharing to Groups

2009-05-19 Thread Sameer Verma
to Sugar/OLPC) but I'd rather use something more relevant. If we can set up courses on a central site, that would be great. That way, I can backup on the site and restore on the XS and go from there. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State

[Sugar-devel] learning implode...

2009-06-17 Thread Sameer Verma
!!! She even taught her mother how to play the game later this evening. For all the arm chair naysayers out there, get with the program! Children are amazing!!! cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: sugar on a stick localized in farsi or pashto or both

2009-06-20 Thread Sameer Verma
days. Please cc them on replies. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ -- Forwarded message -- From: jim j...@well.com Date

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [TwinCLinG] first Indian python conference

2009-06-29 Thread Sameer Verma
FYI PyCon India 2009 26th and 27th September 2009 Venue: IISC, Bengaluru Sameer -- Forwarded message -- From: Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:38 AM Subject: [TwinCLinG] first Indian python conference To: chenna...@googlegroups.com, Indian

[Sugar-devel] soas strawberry sha1sum?

2009-07-03 Thread Sameer Verma
I'm getting 41b08c93a65cc1e38286b9f8980f51528a36761d is this correct? I tried a usb stick, but keep getting bad or damaged partition at boot time. sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http

Re: [Sugar-devel] soas strawberry sha1sum?

2009-07-04 Thread Sameer Verma
. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com wrote: Sameer Verma wrote: I'm getting

Re: [Sugar-devel] soas strawberry sha1sum?

2009-07-06 Thread Sameer Verma
for the demo, just in case. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Improving Reading Experience

2009-07-26 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.comwrote: Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com writes: What software do you use to create a video like this? I use gtk-recordmydesktop, a frontend to recordmydesktop, under Debian testing (Squeeze). Simple but effective!

Re: [Sugar-devel] Improving Reading Experience

2009-07-27 Thread Sameer Verma
of students in Jamaica did. Notice the background music. Its simple, but catchy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFmT-B-nibI cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Google's wave protocol

2009-07-28 Thread Sameer Verma
. Compatibility could be useful. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel cscott seems to think so... http://cananian.livejournal.com/56585.html Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate

[Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-07-28 Thread Sameer Verma
not have an answer for her, but I wondered if it would be possible to have an option in Speak to do so. I'd imagine that the sound of the letter would vary depending on language, right? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State

Re: [Sugar-devel] Additional data for corrupted SoaS

2009-07-31 Thread Sameer Verma
like this for USB stick in that environment. David Van Assche might know... Here's something more http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LtspFSAutomount cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA

Re: [Sugar-devel] How big might a full install of Fedora Sugar be?

2009-07-31 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.comwrote: Caroline, are you all set to make a Fedora installation with only Sugar in an usb stick? The clearest instructions so far are from Tom

Re: [Sugar-devel] Need Help: usb drive not visible in the journal

2009-08-04 Thread Sameer Verma
it as mounted, but it wouldn't show in the journal until I deleted .olpc_store cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu

[Sugar-devel] ogg video specs...

2009-08-05 Thread Sameer Verma
What specs should I encode Ogg video to for playback on an XO? We will have a booth with a few XOs at AMCIS (http://amcis2009.org) and I'd like to play Big Buck Bunny in a loop. The Ogg on their site freezes on the XO. http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Deployment feedback braindump

2009-08-10 Thread Sameer Verma
in this case). The Ubuntu side of things doesn't get to see much of say, what conspires between Canonical and Dell. This is a much needed discussion. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Designing for Children - Conference, Educational Meet, Exhibition at IDC IIT Bombay

2009-08-17 Thread Sameer Verma
FYI. -- Sameer -- Forwarded message -- From: sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM Subject: Designing for Children - Conference, Educational Meet, Exhibition at IDC IIT Bombay To: olpc-in...@googlegroups.com http://www.designingforchildren.net/

[Sugar-devel] erasing the journal and config

2009-08-26 Thread Sameer Verma
, our library also likes to blank machines before re-lending them out. This makes me *very* curious. Shouldn't there be a way to erase the configuration and journal without having to reflash the whole image? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director

Re: [Sugar-devel] windows7sins

2009-08-28 Thread Sameer Verma
Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel FSF hasn't done its homework properly. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FSF attitude to xo and sugar

2009-08-29 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: After a discussion with the FSF, they agreed the picture was not really appropriate and that the text should clearly distinguish OLPC from Sugar.

[Sugar-devel] splitting large xol

2009-09-04 Thread Sameer Verma
will be ok (I hope so!). How do we split the xol across two bundles? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] splitting large xol

2009-09-04 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/9/4 Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu: We have a offline dictionary that we'd like to ship as xol. Its tar.bz2 is at 63MB. Reading the instructions, it looks like the bundle will have to be split across two files. Why? 63mb

[Sugar-devel] video-chat9

2009-09-04 Thread Sameer Verma
I'm trying to use videochat9 with XS 0.6 (latest yum'd) and it keeps saying telepathy error. Any clues? Does it work for anyone else? AFAICR it worked with xs0.4 Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State

Re: [Sugar-devel] video-chat9

2009-09-04 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrerodir...@gmail.com wrote: Would be nice to have a log. Rafael Ortiz Which log and where do I look? Sameer ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

[Sugar-devel] Read formats...

2009-10-12 Thread Sameer Verma
Do we have a list of supported formats on the latest Read version? I couldn't find any on the activities.sl.o page and the olpc page is old... Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http

Re: [Sugar-devel] RFC: Kill the delayed menus for good

2009-10-14 Thread Sameer Verma
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Michael Stone mich...@laptop.org wrote: Simon wrote: On 10/13/2009 04:36 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:  I'm loving how the menus suddenly are now snappy and responsive.  From: Michael Stone ...  Subject: Make various palette animations happen more quickly.  

Re: [Sugar-devel] (Please read) Re: Proposed Trac - Launchpad migration

2009-11-01 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Dear Sugar folks, This mail didn't get any replies, but it's important to know whether people agree with it before going ahead.  So, please understand that: * bugs.sugarlabs.org is moving from Trac to Launchpad. * Existing

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: Sugar Digest 2009-11-02

2009-11-03 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:41 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I think there are more recommended activities than fit at any one time. They are chosen randomly from the list. As to how the list is

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Please Read] SoaS v2 RC Issues

2009-12-03 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: My call is we leave them out and concentrate on the wiki page. (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/ebooks). We can't keep slipping the master as I'm sure you'll agree Sebastian :-) Ideally, the default Browse

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] sounds in Speak

2009-12-18 Thread Sameer Verma
was more along the lines of It will confuse our students because we teach them phonetically as opposed to anything else. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Call for Proposals Now Open

2009-12-22 Thread Sameer Verma
Is anyone proposing sessions at OSCON 2010? Sameer -- Forwarded message -- From: O'Reilly Open Source Convention conferen...@post.oreilly.com Date: Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:06 AM Subject: Call for Proposals Now Open To: sve...@sfsu.edu OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention

[Sugar-devel] Physics retains objects

2010-04-22 Thread Sameer Verma
On XO 1.5 (build 119) and SoaS Blueberry Physics retains objects on the screen after closing the activity and reopening it. This does not happen on the XO1 802 build. Bug? Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco

[Sugar-devel] stopwatch activity

2010-04-27 Thread Sameer Verma
, irrespective of the display. I'm not sure what the behavior should be, though. Should the activity prevent suspend? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [Sugar-devel] stopwatch activity

2010-04-27 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Sameer Verma wrote: I noticed something interesting with he stopwatch activity on the XO 1.5 C2 with build 120. When the XO goes into suspend, the clock stops display, but upon resume

Re: [Sugar-devel] New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 125 - control panel

2010-05-22 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: Simple and quite effective :-) Changing MAX_COLUMNS to 4 in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jarabe/controlpanel/gui.py did the trick. And still has space for (just) one more control. I also found the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Attention Activity Developers: SoaS Activity Inclusion Criteria

2010-06-07 Thread Sameer Verma
...@lists.laptop.org/msg00641.html The idea is to score each attribute on a more granular scale than 0/1 and then weight each attribute based on importance for a particular implementation. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San

[Sugar-devel] music USB keyboard for Tamtam

2010-06-08 Thread Sameer Verma
I'm looking for a musical keyboard device (black and white keys like on a piano) that plugs into USB on a XO and allows one to play music via TamTam. Does such a device exist? If so, pointers? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hypothetical sugar-0.90 material, draft 1.

2010-06-09 Thread Sameer Verma
-devel sverma: A healthy dose of input from educators. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu

[Sugar-devel] Quickly for Sugar

2010-06-22 Thread Sameer Verma
in Glade, Python, gedit etc. Quickly: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Schoolserver icon

2010-07-02 Thread Sameer Verma
peeking from behind the box. I used Comic Sans to do a rounded X. Could also be rounded like the XO icon's X. Could also have a line highlight like the XO icon, I suppose. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco

Re: [Sugar-devel] Pathagar issue: I figured it out

2010-07-11 Thread Sameer Verma
outside of a course, like a local public library. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Home view activities layout

2010-07-30 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Walter,   Here is a tighter spiral of 74 icons for the home view (running   in the Sugar emulator at 800x600). I'll upload a version running   on the XO soon as I get a chance.    

[Sugar-devel] TaalPulse

2010-08-03 Thread Sameer Verma
/taalpulse/ Has anyone tried this on the XO-1 (or 1.5)? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Recording time spent on an activity ?

2010-08-26 Thread Sameer Verma
(application) was used, when the activity was saved, and who collaborated, but does not indicate start time. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http

[Sugar-devel] exporting metadata from the journal

2010-09-29 Thread Sameer Verma
Is there a documented way (or a script) to process all available metadata from the Journal? I am looking for timestamps, type of data stored, collaborated with, etc. and not the actual content of the activity. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems

Re: [Sugar-devel] exporting metadata from the journal

2010-09-29 Thread Sameer Verma
@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel Thanks, Sascha. I'll start looking into backup.py cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

[Sugar-devel] GTK3 rendered in a browser

2010-11-24 Thread Sameer Verma
Saw this and instantly thought of Sugar being rendered in a browser. http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2010/11/23/gtk3-vs-html5/ cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle art crystal radio

2010-12-04 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:41 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Hi all Its been suggested that the XO could be turned into a crystal radio. Any suggestions of an easy way to get data from the microphone socket to the speaker? Tony ___

[Sugar-devel] Build 852 vs Dextrose

2010-12-05 Thread Sameer Verma
locations (one with 40 and one with 70) will use a XS 0.6 each. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Copyright notices

2011-01-03 Thread Sameer Verma
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 3 Jan 2011, at 13:09, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 3 Jan 2011, at 02:43, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Mon,

[Sugar-devel] Wikipedia bundle in other languages

2011-01-04 Thread Sameer Verma
I'd like to bundle the Hindi version of Wikipedia into an offline activity. http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0 Do we have a set process/scripts to do so? cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information

Re: [Sugar-devel] Html browse widget for runtime help

2011-01-23 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-reply-to-201...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Daniel Drake's message of Sun Jan 23 18:17:23 +0100 2011: For activities that need to give some kind of basic instruction I'd strongly recommend looking at Implode's help implementation for

[Sugar-devel] Load testing the XS school server

2011-03-10 Thread Sameer Verma
thesis effort. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu

Re: [Sugar-devel] [OLPC-AU] Recording screencasts

2011-03-16 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:00 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I use the Fedora recordmydesktop package with suitable options to reduce the processing demand.  The video encoding does not occur until after the session is created.  Using an external USB HDD has a remarkable effect on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Dropbox on the XO

2011-04-01 Thread Sameer Verma
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Christopher, Hi Gary, On 1 Apr 2011, at 13:01, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri,

[Sugar-devel] Lego WeDo with Scratch

2011-05-17 Thread Sameer Verma
Wondering if anyone has had success with running Lego WeDo sensors with Scratch on a XO 1.5 Once plugged, I see that the XO recognizes it, but I am unable to get Scratch to show any input from the sensors. cheers, Sameer ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] Lego WeDo with Scratch

2011-05-17 Thread Sameer Verma
WeDoPlugin-disabled WeDoPlugin Let me know if this works! Claudia Thanks, Claudia! It works. The Tilt sensor, light sensor and motor all work now. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University

[Sugar-devel] Booting Linux over JavaScript.

2011-05-19 Thread Sameer Verma
Try http://bellard.org/jslinux/ in Google Chrome/Chromium or Firefox 4. Original post at http://lwn.net/Articles/443200/ cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Get serial number or XO name from command line or python

2011-05-27 Thread Sameer Verma
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-February/031279.html Sameer On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:31 PM, LASKE, Lionel (C2S) lla...@c2s.fr wrote: Hi all, Is there a simple way to get the XO serial number and/or the XO name from the command line and/or from a python script ?    

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] Sugar Server project initiation announce

2011-06-11 Thread Sameer Verma
) setting up offline servers to serve Khan videos in an offline format. I hope to speak with him next week to see if we can collaborate/merge any of the efforts. Choice is good. Fragmentation, not so much. cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director

[Sugar-devel] FUSE for Journal?

2011-06-17 Thread Sameer Verma
I've been messing with FUSE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace) in another context (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe_Least-Authority_Filesystem) and was wondering if the Sugar Journal would talk to FUSE in any way. That might allow us to bridge Nautilus field manager and the

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUSE for Journal?

2011-06-17 Thread Sameer Verma
, good! So someone else *is* thinking about this as well :-) I was thinking of FUSE in the context of the ongoing discussion on IAEP and elsewhere of the Journal being difficult to interoperate with the expectation of a file manager. cheers, Sameer On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Sameer Verma sve

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUSE for Journal?

2011-06-18 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 18 June 2011 04:58, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: Not 100% sure, but the conditions changed a little bit since then: * The journal integrates a better with external storage devices. *

[Sugar-devel] pathagar trouble

2011-07-11 Thread Sameer Verma
So, I've been messing with running Pathagar. It runs fine as a stanalone 127.0.0.1 django app. Next, I moved to mod_wsgi. This is where I keep running into : TemplateSyntaxError: Caught ImportError while rendering: No module named pathagar.books After looking at a bunch of docs, it seems like

Re: [Sugar-devel] #2963 UNSP: Sugar telepathy code does not take into account presence status of buddies

2011-07-18 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 01:34:21PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: On 16 July 2011 12:44, Aleksey Lim alsr...@activitycentral.org wrote: Since jabber.sl.o is targeiting for dev use cases and the fact that everyday

[Sugar-devel] Pulse Sensor: an Open Source Heart-rate Sensor that Rocks by Yury Gitman — Kickstarter

2011-07-19 Thread Sameer Verma
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1342192419/pulse-sensor-an-open-source-heart-rate-sensor-that Minus the Arduino, can this plug into the audio/mic port? Sameer ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Health] Pulse Sensor: an Open Source Heart-rate Sensor that Rocks by Yury Gitman — Kickstarter

2011-07-19 Thread Sameer Verma
that plugs into the audio mic port and USB port (power) then this would be very cool. Tom Boonsiri was working on something similar, but I never got to see it or plans on how to make it... http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/health/2008-April/75.html cheers, Sameer On Jul 19, 2011 8:08 PM, Sameer

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Software Freedom Day 17 September 2011

2011-08-03 Thread Sameer Verma
. (http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-cd/) Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Software Freedom Day 17 September 2011

2011-08-03 Thread Sameer Verma
. http://www.ttcsweb.org/osswin-cd/) cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN TEAM] proposals for the Journal

2011-10-27 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Alas, I will be somewhere over the Atlantic on Monday, but I wanted to plant some seeds for the discussion at the Design Team meeting. All of my proposed interventions are for the Journal. I've not written up formal

Re: [Sugar-devel] Stepping down

2011-11-17 Thread Sameer Verma
___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel Thank you!!! cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http

Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Usage statistics gathering

2011-11-29 Thread Sameer Verma
on the XO/in Sugar, but by taking a school server and registering all XOs with it, it is possible to gather Journals much later in the process. cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Proxy Control Panel (Was: New Dextrose-3...)

2011-11-29 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 20:14 +, Aleksey Lim wrote: My points to not doing that from beginning, were: * it is sepparate dialog in Gnome-2 (dunno about Gnome-3) and Firefox Agreed. * we don't have tabs in CP

Re: [Sugar-devel] Happy Holidays fruitful break

2011-12-24 Thread Sameer Verma
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

2011-12-24 Thread Sameer Verma
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

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

2011-12-29 Thread Sameer Verma
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.    

[Sugar-devel] openhatch

2012-02-01 Thread Sameer Verma
, 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] Fwd: [Gnash-dev] Gnash 0.8.10 Released

2012-02-04 Thread Sameer Verma
..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] GetBooks activity

2012-06-25 Thread Sameer Verma
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] GetBooks activity

2012-06-26 Thread Sameer Verma
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

2012-06-26 Thread Sameer Verma
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

2012-06-26 Thread Sameer Verma
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

2012-06-26 Thread Sameer Verma
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] schools.sl.o broken?

2012-06-27 Thread Sameer Verma
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

[Sugar-devel] compiled to .XO

2012-06-29 Thread Sameer Verma
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

2012-06-29 Thread Sameer Verma
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] getting books and media from the Internet Archive...

2012-06-30 Thread Sameer Verma
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

2012-06-30 Thread Sameer Verma
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

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