Re: [Sugar-devel] Announcing: New Fedora Sugar Spin Release

2008-12-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bryan Kearney wrote: Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi everybody, here is a new release of our Fedora Sugar Spin! It has been some time since the last release has taken place, so there are some updates to report. Is the latest kickstart in the kickstarts repo? -- bk Yep

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS on the XO progress

2009-01-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti marc...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: D'oh, I think OLPC asked Warren to push that X driver update, and it sounds like we didn't test it properly. Is

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

2009-01-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
David Van Assche wrote: Can't we split it into 2 parts, the regular startup and desktop bits (as created in teh oses) and then the downloadable bit which hooks in and does the sugar stuff Then people could use their distro to create the usb pen drive, and download the (200mb or 300mb) bit

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

2009-01-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
David Van Assche wrote: What's wrong with offering kde, sugar, or gnome from the login manager (whatever that might be... that could be made as simple or complicated as one wanted.) Kde has an amazingly powerful group of edu apps, as does gnome, as does Sugar... all for different age groups...

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

2009-01-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: Yes yum install would work So Simon, if you want to get rid of GNOME and add the yum bits to the instructions about switching to GNOME on the Soas page, please go ahead :) Marco

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

2009-01-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
and I'm not quite sure, where this will end up, though. --Sebastian On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Simon Schampijer schrieb: David Van Assche wrote: What's wrong with offering kde, sugar, or gnome from the login manager (whatever that might

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

2009-01-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: David Van Assche wrote: Yeah we are doing the same with edubuntu... which should include sugar in Jaunty+1, when it is a little more mature (activity wise.) Kde-edu has made massive advances in their edu tools and the kde team seems very committed to getting

[Sugar-devel] How to move on? Spins, SoaS, and more!

2009-02-01 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
NOTE: This e-mail has been cross-posted to the EDU OLPC SIG as well as the Sugar Devel mailing list. When recently doing work with the goal to slim down a few images, some questions occurred to me and I'm wondering, whether it wouldn't be worth discussing them. So what educational solutions

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to move on? Spins, SoaS, and more!

2009-02-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: But regarding the Education Spin: Couldn't we push Sugar in there? The KDE project is doing a great job with their applications regarding education, and they continue to do so. Recently

[Sugar-devel] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, after some time, we've another snapshot of soas-1 ready for testing! You can now grab it directly from [1]. So what has changed in comparison to the last one? * size improvements everywhere - the whole image has been slimmed quite a bit and is now just around 350 MB! *

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-21 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
on the EeePC and Classmate 2 making some of the pieces impossible to retrieve. Well, that was what I did in an hour. Looking forward to testing more. Mike http://www.olpclearningclub.org --Sebastian On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-21 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caroline Meeks wrote: On all: the cursor was invisible to start. It appeared after I navigated to the Journal and opened the detail view of an entry. Speak didn't work. Ok! So this is still occuring; I don't know, what might be causing this, but Marco stated

[Sugar-devel] SoaS - moving onward...

2009-02-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, and here's another announcement for Sugar on a Stick! You can grab your updated version now directly from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/1/latest.iso This file is linking to the latest snapshot - if you're unsure whether you already have the latest version, please

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if it may be possible to lower further the barrier for the less technical users that want to download sugar on a stick. Maybe we could offer a .zip for download that can be expanded on a bootable usb stick and just work? Regards, Tomeu Hi, I'm

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS-2] Maintainers, please update your packages!

2009-03-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, this concerns Sugar Activity Maintainers, as well as Fedora Package Maintainers, which is also the reason, why it was cross-posted. As you might know, the upcoming release of Sugar 0.84 is scheduled for today. Now, how does this concern Sugar on a Stick? Well, we'd like to be able

[Sugar-devel] The Road to SoaS-2: A new Snapshot!

2009-03-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, a new soas-2 snapshot is ready for you! Go and grab it NOW from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas-200903041854.iso It's important for us to get as much feedback as possible now, since with the recent release of Sugar 0.84, we're also approaching a release of

Re: [Sugar-devel] The Road to SoaS-2: A new Snapshot!

2009-03-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Ton van Overbeek wrote: Generated the usb stick on Windows using liveusb-creator 3.2 with the '-x' option to get the boot/olpc.fth file. Edited the olpc.fth file to get rid of the extraneous backslashes (Luke already fixed this in git, but no updated windows version of liveusb-creator has

Re: [Sugar-devel] The Road to SoaS-2: A new Snapshot!

2009-03-06 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 04.03.2009, at 20:58, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi folks, a new soas-2 snapshot is ready for you! Go and grab it NOW from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas-200903041854.iso It's important for us to get as much feedback as possible now

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS-2] Feature Complete? Another Snapshot.

2009-03-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 06.03.2009, at 20:33, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi folks, there's another snapshot of soas-2 ready for testing! There will be another snapshot on this Sunday to have an up2date image for bug triaging sessions. It's really important for us to get as much

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS-2] Feature Complete? Another Snapshot.

2009-03-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
at 1:03 AM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi folks, there's another snapshot of soas-2 ready for testing! There will be another snapshot on this Sunday to have an up2date image for bug triaging sessions. It's really important for us to get as much feedback as possible

Re: [Sugar-devel] Quick run through of Activities on Soas2-200903061846

2009-03-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Gary C Martin schrieb: Hi folks, I wanted to get an idea for what Activities are actually currently working in a reasonable condition, here's a quick run through using the latest SoaS F11 build – Tomorrow I'll do the same with a recent F11 build from cjb. A few of these have already been

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS-2] Another Snapshot!

2009-03-13 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, there's another new - though, completely untested - snapshot of soas-2 ready and waiting for you here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200903131725.iso A log file from the build process has been posted, too: http://shell.sugarlabs.org/sdz/soas2-20090313.log So

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS-2] Another Snapshot!

2009-03-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
, but then the mouse cursor appears. Hmm... --Sebastian On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi folks, there's another new - though, completely untested - snapshot of soas-2 ready and waiting for you here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-15 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Wade Brainerd wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, you can create a .vmdk from .img using the QEMU tools. It's just that .vmdk is much more widely supported that .img so it would save a conversion step for most VM users. I agree that we

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

2009-03-21 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all. As promised, I've got some news regarding the SoaS roadmap. Here is it: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap#Roadmap Let me talk about the major points for a second. (a) We're targeting 2009-04-10 as the release date, as that's the date when Caroline and Walter will

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

2009-03-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Martin Langhoff wrote: Hi everyone, are there any pointers to how the SoaS build works? Is it using the Fedora livecd tools? Something else? more details below on what I am aiming for... cheers, martin Hi Martin, we're currently using some livecd-creator incarnation with this build

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, the SoaS team has another snapshot ready for testing - it's absolutely important that it get's tested as much as possible for our release! You can grab it from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200904031934.iso If you're going to put it on a USB key or a SD

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caroline Meeks wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com mailto:sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi Caroline, thanks for giving this a try! I added some comments below... By the way, would it be okay for you to get a final image by April 7th

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Deadlines for upcoming FOSSVT Release

2009-04-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, as you'll have noticed, we're currently readying Sugar on a Stick for release, which is scheduled for April 10th. The roadmap is located here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap So here's a quick heads-up for activity packagers and maintainers! I know, it's

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas2 on EEEPC 901?

2009-04-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: [adding back sugar-devel to cc] Sebastian, can we add this driver to Soas2? Regards, Tomeu Heh. That issue goes in the same direction as our multimedia-support discussion. The driver isn't included in the kernel, and that way not in Fedora. Now I guess we could

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Progress on the Virtual Appliance

2009-04-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, I'm happy to report some progress over the weekend on the SoaS appliance. Finally, it turned out that some live media bits were accidentally included in the recent builds, which caused them not to boot. This has been fixed and I can confirm it now to boot into Sugar here. It's

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Progress on the Virtual Appliance

2009-04-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Dave Bauer wrote: On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com mailto:sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi folks, I'm happy to report some progress over the weekend on the SoaS appliance. Finally, it turned out that some live media bits were

[Sugar-devel] Announcing Sugar on a Stick Beta 1

2009-04-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, The SoaS team is happy to announce the availability of our Beta-1 Release today! There has been impressive progress over the last few weeks; many thanks all the people who contributed their time and effort. The images have been composed and are up and ready for download. A

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Let me add some thoughts here, too... Caroline Meeks wrote: Hi Tomeu, I'm curious how setting which activities show up as Favorites works at a technical level. As Tomeu explained, it's not really that hard. It's just a matter of figuring the activies' ID out and adding it then in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feedback on SoaS

2009-04-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 15:04, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote: InfoSlicer has been called out in our two press releases... as a resource for teachers Talking about press releases, we don't have there Labyrinth (mind maps) :( Tomeu In the press release? Since,

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] A Hardware Effort: Please Help!

2009-04-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, we are now going to get a new hardware effort off the ground, to get some better QA done. This means that we ask you to submit the system specs of the machines you test SoaS - and that's actually pretty easy: * Just grab the latest snapshot (please don't use the beta!) from here:

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] New Snapshot Incoming!

2009-05-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, there's another new snapshot ready! Here are the links: * For the Image: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200905031329.iso * For the Appliance: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas2-20090503.zip The appliance has undergone major changes, meaning

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] New Snapshot Incoming!

2009-05-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Ton van Overbeek wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com wrote: Hi folks, there's another new snapshot ready! Here are the links: * For the Image: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200905031329.iso * For the Appliance:

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Please Read: Future Plans and Request for Testing

2009-05-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, I'm going to outline here our plans for the next SoaS release, which is scheduled for late June and will be a RC. So. What do you need to know? First of all, our roadmap, which is located here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap Well, there are quite some

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Announcing Snapshot 2009/05/24

2009-05-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, after a short break, there's a new snapshot ready for you. It incorporates the latest packages from the upcoming F11 release, as well the Colors activity. Please report any bugs or issues you encounter and list them appropriately for the soas_linuxtag milestone in trac, if needed.

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Important Schedule Changes - Please Read!

2009-05-26 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
you may have - also off-list, if needed! Best Regards, --Sebastian Dziallas ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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

2009-05-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS Yum repo to reflect the changes for Fedora 11. As it turned out, the plymouth package has been partly rewritten, and I was wondering (also with regard to

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] New Snapshot: Updated Packages

2009-05-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, just a quick heads-up: I've built another snapshot yesterday, which brings along updated packages from our SoaS yum repo. * You're now able to install (manually) RPM Fusion packages again - it failed before. * It also includes the updated gstreamer-plugins-espeak package (now on

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Status Report Remaining Items

2009-05-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, I thought it might be a good idea to summarize where we're now regarding the upcoming SoaS for LinuxTag in June. So what are the remaining issues for this release? * All activities need to be updated and working (#607). Those which don't work by June 10 will be taken out from

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] New Snapshot: Activity Updates

2009-06-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm really happy to announce this new snapshot, which brings you quite some changes, compared to the last version. So what's waiting for you? * Fixed DPI size issue on the XO - should look better now * Included Library and Tux Paint; updated Record activity * updated Turtle Art

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

2009-06-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, looking at the wiki page, I'm really impressed - great work! :) I also really like the idea of switching the logo color for each release - this shouldn't be hard and is an interesting approach. Has there already been some kind of agreement on which version we're going to use for the

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

2009-06-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
, On 7 Jun 2009, at 14:37, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi all, looking at the wiki page, I'm really impressed - great work! :) I also really like the idea of switching the logo color for each release - this shouldn't be hard and is an interesting approach. Has there already been some kind

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

2009-06-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm very pleased to announce the first early preview of a new generation of SoaS XO-1 images. Those consist not only of the latest and greatest Sugar bits, but also a F11 base system and a special OLPC kernel based on 2.6.30. This means now that even power management actually

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Important: Please test the new Snapshot!

2009-06-19 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm happy to announce eventually the availability of a new SoaS snapshot, which is one of the last snapshots on our way to the v1 Strawberry release. I think it should be really mentioned that this wouldn't have been possible without Simon, who did great work on fixing sample

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Important: Please test the new Snapshot!

2009-06-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
I guess I should make some points here... comments inline ;) Caroline Meeks wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com mailto:sebast...@when.com wrote: Caroline Meeks wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Important: Please test the new Snapshot!

2009-06-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
evening (CEST)! Cheers, --Sebastian Sebastian Dziallas wrote: I guess I should make some points here... comments inline ;) Caroline Meeks wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com mailto:sebast...@when.com wrote: Caroline Meeks wrote

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Strawberry Release just went GOLD

2009-06-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm pleased to announce that our final v1 release called strawberry has just been composed! So finally, strawberries for everyone! :) A more detailed announcement, including a link to the file, as well as release notes and related stuff will follow later! Thanks to the

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] Show Must Go On - SoaS for the XO-1

2009-07-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
S Page wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Martin Denglermar...@martindengler.com wrote: I'd suggest you ask sdz to make the .iso that he used to create the .img file. On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com wrote: I'm very pleased to announce the

Re: [Sugar-devel] soas strawberry sha1sum?

2009-07-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sameer Verma wrote: I'm getting 41b08c93a65cc1e38286b9f8980f51528a36761d is this correct? I tried a usb stick, but keep getting bad or damaged partition at boot time. sameer Yup, it is: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/SHA1SUM Bad or damaged partition errors? Maybe your USB key

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] The next Step: v2 Roadmap

2009-07-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, so here it is, the Sugar on a Stick v2 Roadmap: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap#Roadmap Feedback is appreciated, and as we've just entered brainstorming phase, please go ahead and shoot your ideas! :) More to come... --Sebastian

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [SoaS] The next Step: v2 Roadmap

2009-07-06 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Greg Smith wrote: Hi Tomeu, Looks great! You guys are really cranking. Three questions: 1 - Where do I see all the Features that have been proposed, regardless of target release? Speaking for SoaS? Heh. ;) I tried to list some under Preliminary Features (v2) on the Roadmap page. Then

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Kicking off the Feature Process

2009-07-06 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, as it has been discussed in recent threads on the SoaS roadmap itself, I'd like to invite everybody to suggest features for the new release now! Caroline has already done a great job by prioritizing her needs for the deployment at GPA. I've now placed an example for a feature on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Backup and Restore Feature added to Wiki

2009-07-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Dave Bauer wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 16:05, Greg Smithgregsmit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I created a Feature request for backup and restore here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Back_Up_and_Restore

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bug tracker enhancements

2009-07-10 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bryan Berry wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 07:45 +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, Our current trac instance is missing some basic functionality: - versions per component: a really simple enhancement would be to have a text field (maybe some versions (sugar core) you can select from) but

[Sugar-devel] SoaS Meeting TODAY at 10.30 EDT

2009-07-13 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sorry for the short notice, but please join if you can. That's in half an hour from now! Topics will include the roadmap features for v2. --Sebastian ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS Meeting TODAY at 10.30 EDT

2009-07-13 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Well, that's certainly understandable, given that I rushed the whole thing quite a bit. 30 Minutes is not that much time... ;) Fred was still quicker with posting the logs... thanks! --Sebastian Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Sebastian, Sorry I missed this one. Will the minutes be published

[Sugar-devel] Test the POSSE Education Fedora Remix today!

2009-07-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
to make them depend on our tracker: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=EducationTracker Thanks, Sebastian Dziallas for the Education SIG ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on HP Mini 110

2009-07-27 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Philippe Clérié wrote: Fedora 11 works just fine. As soon as I've resolved my wireless problem (the Mini 110 uses a Broadcom chip and I missed that before placing the order.) I'll install Sugar and give that a try. Hi Philippe, thanks for your continuous tries and reports here - those are

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] press release opportunity...

2009-07-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caroline Meeks wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com mailto:g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 29 Jul 2009, at 21:35, Walter Bender wrote: Begin handwaving. LiveUSB came from the world of LiveCD and with it came an overlay

[Sugar-devel] Call for Help: SoaS Display Manager (Auto-Login)

2009-07-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
to work again, any help is greatly appreciated. We can also provide the current snapshot pre-built as an .iso file, if required. Feel free to contact me directly, too. Thanks, --Sebastian Dziallas for the SoaS Team ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for Help: SoaS Display Manager (Auto-Login)

2009-08-01 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
this working by yourself? Yup, fixed! :) Thanks, --Sebastian Regards, Tomeu Thanks, --Sebastian Dziallas for the SoaS Team ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Major Changes in the latest Snapshot

2009-08-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm very happy to announce the availability of a new SoaS snapshot, today now especially with the latest Sugar release 0.85.3, freshly off the press (thanks to all the devs packagers here)! This release includes a number of new features, awaiting to be tested! * SoaS switches

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS with SD cards irregularities

2009-08-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sascha Silbe wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:11:31PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote: The sticks I have with SD cards have started to fail on the older computers at school (after working ok for 2 weeks of lessons). But they still work fine on my newer Dell mini inspiron. The older ones are not

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Snapshot shipping Sugar 0.85.2

2009-08-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, we've a new snapshot ready for you including the latest Sugar 0.85.2 release (except etoys, which is still being packaged). Also, this release ships now with the firstboot wizard, as discussed during FUDCon. The latter one allows you to change your keyboard settings before

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Snapshot shipping Sugar 0.85.2

2009-08-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi everybody, we've a new snapshot ready for you including the latest Sugar 0.85.2 release (except etoys, which is still being packaged). Also, this release ships now with the firstboot wizard, as discussed during FUDCon. The latter one allows you to change your

[Sugar-devel] Artwork Request for SoaS: Firstboot Theme

2009-08-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, as I've recently mentioned on-list SoaS now ships firstboot, which is a tool to configure some system-related stuff at... well, first boot! ;) So as this is usually quite Fedora-branded and since we aren't able to ship that trademarked logo, it would be great if we could get some

[Sugar-devel] Who's interested in testing a new installer for SoaS?

2009-08-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm looking for some volunteers to test the hard disk installation with the latest SoaS snapshot and newly designed installer. Since this upstream project is really in the early stages of development but also concerns a pretty critical part of SoaS, I'd prefer getting some

Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for Help: SoaS Display Manager (Auto-Login)

2009-08-09 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Ton van Overbeek wrote: Regarding getting auto-login to work after restarting X. Yesterday I looked at the slim sources and it seems at first sight easy to add auto login of the default user after the first login. Any interest in me trying to implement this? If we use an extra option to slim

Re: [Sugar-devel] Who's interested in testing a new installer for SoaS?

2009-08-09 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Joshua N Pritikin wrote: On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 02:46:50PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: A few lines up from the last boot message, it says: mount: unknown filesystem type 'jffs2' That can't be a good sign. This is indeed not a good sign. We've had this some time ago with the Rawhide-XO

Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for volunteers to implement Bug Report feature

2009-08-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
to send bugreports(especially for non-tech users), so if someone interested in please pick [1] up. From what I've seen on IRC, Sebastian Dziallas is currently working on a solution, either by porting Apport to Sugar, using GNOME's bug-buddy, or the Fedora bug reporter. (still

[Sugar-devel] Fedora Education Spin Nightly Builds now available!

2009-08-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Just a quick heads-up to note that daily builds of our education spin based on Rawhide are available thanks to the great work of the Infra Spin SIG folks. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ Those builds conclude what is supposed to become the Fedora Education Spin for F12

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick switches to a new Bug Tracker

2009-08-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, with the imminent release of the SoaS v2 Beta in just ten days, I would like to announce the switch to Launchpad as our bug tracker. We have been evaluating an instance Luke Faraone set us up with lately and are confident that it will fit our needs. The upcoming beta release is

[Sugar-devel] SoaS v2 Beta Readiness Meeting Appointment

2009-08-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
The SoaS v2 Beta Readiness Meeting is going to take place on Sunday, August 23, 1400 UTC (making it 1000 EDT and 1600 CEST) in #sugar-meeting. Looking forward to seeing everybody there! --Sebastian ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] New snapshot on the way...

2009-08-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Dave Bauer wrote: On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com mailto:sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi everybody, we've a new SoaS snapshot ready for testing. Here are the major changes: - We just made the switch to Rawhide (which is supposed to become F12

[Sugar-devel] SoaS Test Day: Join the Support Team

2009-08-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, as noted in our roadmap for Sugar on a Stick [1], we are going to have a joint test day with the folks from Fedora's Quality Assurance [2] to improve the quality of SoaS on its way to version 2 (in November). The test day is scheduled to take place on September 3, which is this

[Sugar-devel] SoaS Test Day Team: Please sign up!

2009-09-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
As announced before, the SoaS QA test day [1] is coming up quickly and will already take place tomorrow. We're still looking for people willing to join the team, which will support the testers in #fedora-test-day. If you'd like to jump on the train, please enter your availability here [2] so

[Sugar-devel] Next Test Day: Sugar on a Stick [Tomorrow]

2009-09-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Greetings, sorry for the late notice and the cross-post. This test day will focus on Sugar Labs' Sugar on a Stick, a downstream project based on Fedora. Sugar on a Stick has launched it's first version codenamed Strawberry successfully in June and has recently announced the beta release of its

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
David Farning wrote: The project guidelines are now on the wiki at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines . Please edit as necessary. When it looks like the editing has stopped, I ask the board the ratify the guidelines. david I just looked into this, sorry for the

[Sugar-devel] Getting a SoaS Docs Effort off the Ground

2009-09-09 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
From looking at the currently available documentation for Sugar on a Stick, I think it makes sense to collaborate on writing well written official instructions for it. So I've entered a Blueprint in Launchpad on it: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/soas/+spec/better-docs-for-soas I'd like to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-12 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Martin Dengler wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:30:30PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: re marketing course: in fact I have accepted Mel's invitation to do a classroom for Fedora. Congratulations. re logos: Strawberry=6, Blueberry=4, and 5 we'll use some other time Very clear - thanks. [Have

[Sugar-devel] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
mailing list. * We establish the SoaS development team. Thanks, Sebastian Dziallas ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sean DALY wrote: Sebastian, what's your take? Can we retire SoaS-{1,2,3} or fold them into the public v1, v2 numbers? Okay, let me shed some light in here, though I think this has already been discussed in length. In the early days when I started working on SoaS, we still had internal builds

Re: [Sugar-devel] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 07:47:21PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Short Term Action Items: * We create a SoaS mailing list. * We establish the SoaS development team. if you split off sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-16 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:24, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com: Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an official answer on this. Soon. Is the current SoaS going to be the primary way Sugar Labs

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-16 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
just a volunteer. I don't get money for this. --Sebastian On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org mailto:d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/9/16 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org mailto:d...@laptop.org: 2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com mailto:sebast

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS: Searching for Decision Panel volunteers.

2009-09-18 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Chris Ball wrote: Please volunteer by replying to this mail if you're interested, and please do so by Thursday September 24th so that we can run the vote at the Friday September 25th SLOBs meeting. Thanks! - Chris. Thanks for getting this process off the ground! :) Well, I'd obviously

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Mel Chua wrote: There's a lot going on in this thread, so here is my attempt to summarize discussions so far. If I've missed or misstated anything, my apologies - and it's a wiki, so go fix it. ;-) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick By my count, there are 4 things we need to

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Introducing a new Mailing List

2009-09-27 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, so here it is, finally, a mailing list for the Sugar on a Stick project. If you're interested in its future, technical discussions or just want to talk about ideas you've, this is the place to go! Jump in, say hi and introduce yourself - that's it. Join the fun here:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Xoos Special Interest Group

2009-10-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
David Farning wrote: As promised, we have started work on the XO operating system SIG at Sugar Labs. The SIG pages are at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Xoos . Based on feedback from the current developers working in this space, the most valuable starting point will be to start making daily

[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Structural Changes New Snapshots

2009-10-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
to these efforts, --Sebastian Dziallas ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] rawhide report: 20091010 changes

2009-10-10 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 14:59, Rawhide Reportrawh...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Compose started at Sat Oct 10 06:15:04 UTC 2009 Broken deps for i386 -- konversation-1.2-1.fc12.i686 requires

[Sugar-devel] New SoaS v2 Snapshot Ready

2009-10-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, there is a new, true SoaS snapshot ready for you, awaiting testing. You can grab it here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/ Note that the XO images have apparently an issue (my fault!), which prevents them from booting, but will be addressed in the next build.

[Sugar-devel] New SoaS Snapshot Ready!

2009-10-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm happy to announce the availability of a new SoaS snapshot! We're only one month away from our release, so testing is very much appreciated to find the latest blockers now. Get your copy from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/ This release incorporates the

Re: [Sugar-devel] New SoaS Snapshot Ready!

2009-10-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
). However, it looks like when Kernel Mode Setting is enabled (which is the case by default), the screen might vanish. Not yet sure what's causing it... --Sebastian Art Hunkins - Original Message - From: Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com To: SoaS s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; Sugar Devel

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