Re: [IAEP] A Couple of Comments/Questions

[Tim McNamara]

2009/11/18 Caryl Bigenho 

>  Hi All,
>
> Just reading through all your interesting posts from the past couple of
> days. I have a couple of ideas to share...
>
> Re:
> From Walter...
> "5. The Spanish-language version of Sdenka Z. Salas Pilco's guide to
> using Sugar in the classroom is available on the wiki (Please see
> [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:La_Laptop_XO_en_el_Aula.pdf])
> ."
>
> This is a wonderful resource.   Is it available for localizing into other
> languages? Are there any special permissions we would need to get?
>
> From Sean...
> "At launch time we can have a wiki page explaining how to find and load an
> eBook."
>
> Could we also add it to the Help Activity included with Sugar and the
> online FLOSS Manual?
>
>
I'm a FLOSS manuals contributor. If someone with the know-how adds it to the
wiki, I'll port it to the FLOSS Manuals site :)

@timClicks
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] A Couple of Comments/Questions

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi All,

Just reading through all your interesting posts from the past couple of days. I 
have a couple of ideas to share...

Re: 
>From Walter...
"5. The Spanish-language version of Sdenka Z. Salas Pilco's guide to
using Sugar in the classroom is available on the wiki (Please see
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:La_Laptop_XO_en_el_Aula.pdf])."
 
This is a wonderful resource.   Is it available for localizing into other 
languages? Are there any special permissions we would need to get?

>From Sean...
"At launch time we can have a wiki page explaining how to find and load an 
eBook."

Could we also add it to the Help Activity included with Sugar and the online 
FLOSS Manual?

Caryl
  ___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Further sources of public domain books for children

[Tim McNamara]

Here is a quick list of epub libraries targeted at children / youth.

http://www.snee.com/epubkidsbooks/
http://www.feedbooks.com/type/Young%20Readers/books/top

@timClicks
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[forster]

Hi
Another consideration is the reading age of the books. This tip I found useful: 
You can use the grammar checker of MS Word to find the Flesch-Kincaid reading 
age of a text by just pasting a few paragraphs of the text into Word.
Tony

> I made a (very) little survey:
> - the Alice in wonderland (with Illustrations) is 1.7 MB in size
> - other epub books  I found, probably text only, lies in between 100 to 300 K
> - Sdenka_Salas_-_The_XO_Laptop_in_the_Classroom.pdf  is 5.6 MB
> 
> - I added a spreadsheet made out of pootle latest statistics of today
> 
> Question 1: what could be a reasonable size to add  to journal <= 50 MB?
> Question 2: one book for a selection of languages (<10) and few more in 
> english? Does make sense?

___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Carlo Falciola]

I made a (very) little survey:
- the Alice in wonderland (with Illustrations) is 1.7 MB in size
- other epub books  I found, probably text only, lies in between 100 to 300 K
- Sdenka_Salas_-_The_XO_Laptop_in_the_Classroom.pdf  is 5.6 MB

- I added a spreadsheet made out of pootle latest statistics of today

Question 1: what could be a reasonable size to add  to journal <= 50 MB?
Question 2: one book for a selection of languages (<10) and few more in 
english? Does make sense?
 
ciao carlo 

--- Mar 17/11/09, Sean DALY  ha scritto:

> Da: Sean DALY 
> Oggetto: Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
> A: "Yama Ploskonka" , "Carlo Falciola" 
> , iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, "Sugar-Labs Mailing lists" 
> 
> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 17:48
> It's an excellent point; after all,
> Mingoville
> http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I believe
> claims over 1
> million users, 100+ activities for children to practice
> English.
> 
> But there's another facet: dominant languages such as
> English,
> Spanish, French, put pressure on minority languages. Sugar
> has a role
> to play supporting many languages, not just in the
> interface, but in
> content. There have been suggestions in the past that we
> position
> Sugar as a great way to learn English, and indeed it can
> be
> (especially in a connected environment), but I feel English
> should not
> be privileged over local languages.
> 
> My concern is the timing... Sebastian is under pressure for
> a December
> 8th launch and will need help collating books.
> 
> The Blueberry launch is also threatened by
> sugaronastick.com, which as
> long as it is up will create confusion.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Yama Ploskonka 
> wrote:
> > sorry to keep the off-topic on topic, :-), but in my
> experience the
> > possibility to access stuff in English is one of the
> biggest calls for Sugar
> > use, especially maybe in non-English places.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Carlo Falciola 
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sebastian,
> >> really  have absolutely no issue
> regarding  the provider.
> >> Once I realized that in that site there weren't
> non EN titles  you I just
> >> made a  quick Google-search for multilingual
> ebooks sites.
> >>
> >> My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate
> the opportunity to put a
> >> little sample in more that one language.
> >>
> >> ciao carlo
> >>
> >> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas 
> ha scritto:
> >>
> >> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas 
> >> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a
> Stick (Blueberry)
> >> > A: "Carlo Falciola" 
> >> > Cc: "iaep" 
> >> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22
> >> > Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too
> >> > quick with this. :)
> >> >
> >> > This e-mail was supposed to be about
> discussing good sample
> >> > titles, not
> >> > about announcing anything with regard to the
> book provider
> >> > we were
> >> > using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look
> into it...
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > --Sebastian
> >> >
> >> > Carlo Falciola wrote:
> >> > > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about
> quality of
> >> > ePub version, but (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have
> >> > books from  several different
> languages...
> >> > >   Maybe one out of a
> selection of
> >> > languages would make sense...
> >> > >
> >> > > ciao carlo
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian
> Dziallas
> >> > ha scritto:
> >> > >
> >> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas
> >> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on
> a Stick
> >> > (Blueberry)
> >> > >> A: "SoaS",
> >> > "iaep"
> >> > >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009,
> 15:36
> >> > >> Hi all,
> >> > >>
> >> > >> as you may know, we're going to ship
> some selected
> >> > e-books
> >> > >> in the
> >> > >> Journal of the Blueberry release.
> For providing
> >> > >> high-quality e-books
> >> > >> instead of simple texts (as well as
> fo technical
> >> > >> simplicity), we're
> >> > >> going to use e-books from epubBooks
> >> > (www.epubbooks.com)!
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Right now, I've just included Alice
> in Wonderland
> >> > (which
> >> > >> comes with nice
> >> > >> images in this edition), but I
> encourage everybody
> >> > to go
> >> > >> through the
> >> > >> catalog on that website and to point
> out
> >> > favorites.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to
> that site! :)
> >> > >>
> >> > >> --Sebastian
> >> > >>
> ___
> >> > >> SoaS mailing list
> >> > >> s...@lists.sugarlabs.org
> >> > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ___
> >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop
> project!)
> >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
> >
> >
> > ___
> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop
> project!)
> > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
> >
>

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Sean DALY  wrote:
> It's an excellent point; after all, Mingoville
> http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I believe claims over 1
> million users, 100+ activities for children to practice English.
>
> But there's another facet: dominant languages such as English,
> Spanish, French, put pressure on minority languages. Sugar has a role
> to play supporting many languages, not just in the interface, but in
> content. There have been suggestions in the past that we position
> Sugar as a great way to learn English, and indeed it can be
> (especially in a connected environment), but I feel English should not
> be privileged over local languages.
>

FWIW, I have a Bengali ebook with nonsense rhymes in Bengali as a EPUB
(I had hacked it together to demonstrate that Read can handle fonts
embedded in EPUB files - but the fonts need to be installed in the
system to render the Table of Content properly). If you want, I can
polish it up and put it up somewhere by the end of this week for
inclusion in Blueberry.

I used Sigil[1], a Free/Open Source tool to create the EPUB file.

Thanks,
Sayamindu

[1] http://code.google.com/p/sigil/

-- 
Sayamindu Dasgupta
[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Sean DALY]

It's an excellent point; after all, Mingoville
http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I believe claims over 1
million users, 100+ activities for children to practice English.

But there's another facet: dominant languages such as English,
Spanish, French, put pressure on minority languages. Sugar has a role
to play supporting many languages, not just in the interface, but in
content. There have been suggestions in the past that we position
Sugar as a great way to learn English, and indeed it can be
(especially in a connected environment), but I feel English should not
be privileged over local languages.

My concern is the timing... Sebastian is under pressure for a December
8th launch and will need help collating books.

The Blueberry launch is also threatened by sugaronastick.com, which as
long as it is up will create confusion.

Sean


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Yama Ploskonka  wrote:
> sorry to keep the off-topic on topic, :-), but in my experience the
> possibility to access stuff in English is one of the biggest calls for Sugar
> use, especially maybe in non-English places.
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Carlo Falciola  wrote:
>>
>> Sebastian,
>> really  have absolutely no issue regarding  the provider.
>> Once I realized that in that site there weren't non EN titles  you I just
>> made a  quick Google-search for multilingual ebooks sites.
>>
>> My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate the opportunity to put a
>> little sample in more that one language.
>>
>> ciao carlo
>>
>> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas  ha scritto:
>>
>> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas 
>> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
>> > A: "Carlo Falciola" 
>> > Cc: "iaep" 
>> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22
>> > Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too
>> > quick with this. :)
>> >
>> > This e-mail was supposed to be about discussing good sample
>> > titles, not
>> > about announcing anything with regard to the book provider
>> > we were
>> > using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look into it...
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > --Sebastian
>> >
>> > Carlo Falciola wrote:
>> > > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of
>> > ePub version, but (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have
>> > books from  several different languages...
>> > >   Maybe one out of a selection of
>> > languages would make sense...
>> > >
>> > > ciao carlo
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas
>> > ha scritto:
>> > >
>> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas
>> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick
>> > (Blueberry)
>> > >> A: "SoaS",
>> > "iaep"
>> > >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36
>> > >> Hi all,
>> > >>
>> > >> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected
>> > e-books
>> > >> in the
>> > >> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing
>> > >> high-quality e-books
>> > >> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical
>> > >> simplicity), we're
>> > >> going to use e-books from epubBooks
>> > (www.epubbooks.com)!
>> > >>
>> > >> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland
>> > (which
>> > >> comes with nice
>> > >> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody
>> > to go
>> > >> through the
>> > >> catalog on that website and to point out
>> > favorites.
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :)
>> > >>
>> > >> --Sebastian
>> > >> ___
>> > >> SoaS mailing list
>> > >> s...@lists.sugarlabs.org
>> > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ___
>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>
>
> ___
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Caroline Meeks]

I also think we should have a wide definition of "Book".  Include things
like the CAST books that are designed for students with varying abilities
and learning styles and the idea of making your own book in eToys as
described in Using the XO in the Classroom by Salas Pico.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sdenka_Salas_-_The_XO_Laptop_in_the_Classroom#.C2.A9_THE_XO_LAPTOP_IN_THE_CLASSROOM

Can we include a sample with the folk tale he uses?

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Yama Ploskonka  wrote:

> sorry to keep the off-topic on topic, :-), but in my experience the
> possibility to access stuff in English is one of the biggest calls for Sugar
> use, especially maybe in non-English places.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Carlo Falciola wrote:
>
>> Sebastian,
>> really  have absolutely no issue regarding  the provider.
>> Once I realized that in that site there weren't non EN titles  you I just
>> made a  quick Google-search for multilingual ebooks sites.
>>
>> My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate the opportunity to put a
>> little sample in more that one language.
>>
>> ciao carlo
>>
>> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas  ha scritto:
>>
>> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas 
>> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
>> > A: "Carlo Falciola" 
>> > Cc: "iaep" 
>> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22
>> > Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too
>> > quick with this. :)
>> >
>> > This e-mail was supposed to be about discussing good sample
>> > titles, not
>> > about announcing anything with regard to the book provider
>> > we were
>> > using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look into it...
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > --Sebastian
>> >
>> > Carlo Falciola wrote:
>> > > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of
>> > ePub version, but (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have
>> > books from  several different languages...
>> > >   Maybe one out of a selection of
>> > languages would make sense...
>> > >
>> > > ciao carlo
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas
>> > ha scritto:
>> > >
>> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas
>> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick
>> > (Blueberry)
>> > >> A: "SoaS",
>> > "iaep"
>> > >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36
>> > >> Hi all,
>> > >>
>> > >> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected
>> > e-books
>> > >> in the
>> > >> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing
>> > >> high-quality e-books
>> > >> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical
>> > >> simplicity), we're
>> > >> going to use e-books from epubBooks
>> > (www.epubbooks.com)!
>> > >>
>> > >> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland
>> > (which
>> > >> comes with nice
>> > >> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody
>> > to go
>> > >> through the
>> > >> catalog on that website and to point out
>> > favorites.
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :)
>> > >>
>> > >> --Sebastian
>> > >> ___
>> > >> SoaS mailing list
>> > >> s...@lists.sugarlabs.org
>> > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ___
>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>>
>
>
> ___
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>



-- 
Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
carol...@solutiongrove.com

617-500-3488 - Office
505-213-3268 - Fax
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Yama Ploskonka]

sorry to keep the off-topic on topic, :-), but in my experience the
possibility to access stuff in English is one of the biggest calls for Sugar
use, especially maybe in non-English places.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Carlo Falciola  wrote:

> Sebastian,
> really  have absolutely no issue regarding  the provider.
> Once I realized that in that site there weren't non EN titles  you I just
> made a  quick Google-search for multilingual ebooks sites.
>
> My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate the opportunity to put a
> little sample in more that one language.
>
> ciao carlo
>
> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas  ha scritto:
>
> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas 
> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
> > A: "Carlo Falciola" 
> > Cc: "iaep" 
> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22
> > Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too
> > quick with this. :)
> >
> > This e-mail was supposed to be about discussing good sample
> > titles, not
> > about announcing anything with regard to the book provider
> > we were
> > using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look into it...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --Sebastian
> >
> > Carlo Falciola wrote:
> > > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of
> > ePub version, but (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have
> > books from  several different languages...
> > >   Maybe one out of a selection of
> > languages would make sense...
> > >
> > > ciao carlo
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas
> > ha scritto:
> > >
> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas
> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick
> > (Blueberry)
> > >> A: "SoaS",
> > "iaep"
> > >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected
> > e-books
> > >> in the
> > >> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing
> > >> high-quality e-books
> > >> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical
> > >> simplicity), we're
> > >> going to use e-books from epubBooks
> > (www.epubbooks.com)!
> > >>
> > >> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland
> > (which
> > >> comes with nice
> > >> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody
> > to go
> > >> through the
> > >> catalog on that website and to point out
> > favorites.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :)
> > >>
> > >> --Sebastian
> > >> ___
> > >> SoaS mailing list
> > >> s...@lists.sugarlabs.org
> > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
>
>
>
>
> ___
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Carlo Falciola]

Sebastian, 
really  have absolutely no issue regarding  the provider.
Once I realized that in that site there weren't non EN titles  you I just made 
a  quick Google-search for multilingual ebooks sites.

My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate the opportunity to put a little 
sample in more that one language.
 
ciao carlo 

--- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas  ha scritto:

> Da: Sebastian Dziallas 
> Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
> A: "Carlo Falciola" 
> Cc: "iaep" 
> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22
> Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too
> quick with this. :)
> 
> This e-mail was supposed to be about discussing good sample
> titles, not 
> about announcing anything with regard to the book provider
> we were 
> using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look into it...
> 
> Cheers,
> --Sebastian
> 
> Carlo Falciola wrote:
> > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of
> ePub version, but (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have
> books from  several different languages...
> >   Maybe one out of a selection of
> languages would make sense...
> >
> > ciao carlo
> >
> >
> > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas 
> ha scritto:
> >
> >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas
> >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick
> (Blueberry)
> >> A: "SoaS",
> "iaep"
> >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected
> e-books
> >> in the
> >> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing
> >> high-quality e-books
> >> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical
> >> simplicity), we're
> >> going to use e-books from epubBooks
> (www.epubbooks.com)!
> >>
> >> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland
> (which
> >> comes with nice
> >> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody
> to go
> >> through the
> >> catalog on that website and to point out
> favorites.
> >>
> >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :)
> >>
> >> --Sebastian
> >> ___
> >> SoaS mailing list
> >> s...@lists.sugarlabs.org
> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas



  
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Sean DALY]

Yes, very important to show Sugar supporting local languages & cultures.

I think the best way forward is for all of us to find 1-2 EPUB eBooks
in languages other than English; manageable number of books to preload
Journal with.

At launch time we can have a wiki page explaining how to find and load an eBook.

Sebastian, will this pose difficulties? If so how can we help?

thanks
Sean


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Carlo Falciola  wrote:
> I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of ePub version, but 
> (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have books from  several different 
> languages...
>  Maybe one out of a selection of languages would make sense...
>
> ciao carlo
>
>
> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas  ha scritto:
>
>> Da: Sebastian Dziallas 
>> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
>> A: "SoaS" , "iaep" 
>> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36
>> Hi all,
>>
>> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected e-books
>> in the
>> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing
>> high-quality e-books
>> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical
>> simplicity), we're
>> going to use e-books from epubBooks (www.epubbooks.com)!
>>
>> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland (which
>> comes with nice
>> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody to go
>> through the
>> catalog on that website and to point out favorites.
>>
>> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :)
>>
>> --Sebastian
>> ___
>> SoaS mailing list
>> s...@lists.sugarlabs.org
>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
>>
>
>
>
> ___
> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
>
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too quick with this. :)

This e-mail was supposed to be about discussing good sample titles, not 
about announcing anything with regard to the book provider we were 
using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look into it...

Cheers,
--Sebastian

Carlo Falciola wrote:
> I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of ePub version, but 
> (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have books from  several different 
> languages...
>   Maybe one out of a selection of languages would make sense...
>
> ciao carlo
>
>
> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas  ha scritto:
>
>> Da: Sebastian Dziallas
>> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
>> A: "SoaS", "iaep"
>> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36
>> Hi all,
>>
>> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected e-books
>> in the
>> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing
>> high-quality e-books
>> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical
>> simplicity), we're
>> going to use e-books from epubBooks (www.epubbooks.com)!
>>
>> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland (which
>> comes with nice
>> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody to go
>> through the
>> catalog on that website and to point out favorites.
>>
>> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :)
>>
>> --Sebastian
>> ___
>> SoaS mailing list
>> s...@lists.sugarlabs.org
>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas

___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Carlo Falciola]

I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of ePub version, but 
(http://manybooks.net/) seems to have books from  several different languages...
 Maybe one out of a selection of languages would make sense...

ciao carlo 
 

--- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas  ha scritto:

> Da: Sebastian Dziallas 
> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
> A: "SoaS" , "iaep" 
> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36
> Hi all,
> 
> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected e-books
> in the 
> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing
> high-quality e-books 
> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical
> simplicity), we're 
> going to use e-books from epubBooks (www.epubbooks.com)!
> 
> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland (which
> comes with nice 
> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody to go
> through the 
> catalog on that website and to point out favorites.
> 
> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :)
> 
> --Sebastian
> ___
> SoaS mailing list
> s...@lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
> 


  
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Hi all,

as you may know, we're going to ship some selected e-books in the 
Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing high-quality e-books 
instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical simplicity), we're 
going to use e-books from epubBooks (www.epubbooks.com)!

Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland (which comes with nice 
images in this edition), but I encourage everybody to go through the 
catalog on that website and to point out favorites.

Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :)

--Sebastian
___
IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep