[IAEP] Fedora Summer Coding

[David Farning]

It might me worth submitting a few of the SoaS relate GSOC projects to
Fedora Summer Coding. [1]

If any projects are accepted by FSC, it would leave more GCOS slots
open for non-SoaS projects.  FSC looks close enough to GSoC that the
additional overhead of working with both programs would be minimal.

david

1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010
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Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] [SoaS] SoaS Good News/Bad News

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi All,

Definitely!  This needs to be as easy as possible if we expect teachers to get 
involved. I think we are getting close, but the need to use the Terminal on 
Macs may be a "deal breaker."  

I am hoping it will be simple enough by the 24th of this month when I will have 
an opportunity to hand out some copies of a Sugar Creation Kit at the LAUSD 
InfoTech (maybe a slimmed down version) along with a "Grannies' Guide To 
Creating and Using SoaS."  If the instructions are very clear, easy to follow, 
and goof-proof, teachers can print them out and follow as they make their Sugar 
sticks and boot helper disks.  That is why I am asking all these very basic 
questions about the processes.

As far as evaluating it while running it on their machines, I like to quote my 
original computer educator mentor, my brother, "My other computer is a pencil." 

Maybe a testing check sheet would be useful? We made something like about that 
a year ago when Mel was involved in some of the testing.

Caryl


Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:44:29 -0500
From: yamap...@bolinux.org
To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [support-gang] [SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS Good News/Bad News






  


"Me too" postings are discouraged in good lists, but I myself feel so
in agreement by what Gregg is pointing out to that I cannot but say,
hear hear!  



What we have is too complicated, thus error prone and unfriendly, thus
not really *usable*



For Sugar or anything to revolutionize education it has to be really,
really easy to get going







On 04/08/2010 06:16 PM, Gregg Ambrosi wrote:
This is just my opinion, but if the process cannot be
performed reasonably simply by a large number of folks, including
teachers (we want their input into the product no?), then it is too
complicated. We need to offer simpler ways for user to run Sugar. Yes,
everyone will point to Sugar on a Stick, however:

  

1. the documented CD creation process for Macs is not simple (use the
Terminal?  Come now...)

2. if someone only has one computer, this means they have ONLY sugar or
ONLY their main OS. How do you evaluate/work with Sugar and make notes,
or document something (egads - don't say write it on paper).

  

Simple, easy to use VMs seem to me the way to go. However, those that
are referenced in the various places are certainly not just - copy and
play. I am running both VM player and Parallels and I have not found a
download yet that 'just works'. We have to remember that not everyone
that wants to help out (or would be great to have help out) are highly
technical. That is supposedly the point of Sugar no - you don't need
any technical ability?

  

Food for thought.

  

g

  

  

  

  On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:09 PM, James
Cameron  wrote:

  
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:55:34AM -0700, Caryl
Bigenho wrote:

> Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked.  Now that leads to another


> question.  If I wanted to skip the redundant download and open the

> image-writer-mac file in Terminal from the
larger download Tom G.

> posted (Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso) how would I do that?  I have

> copies of that download both on my desktop and burned on a DVD.




Skipping it might not be worth the effort, since it is only a few

kilobytes, and by downloading it again you'll get it placed in the

folder that the instructions expect ... the folder called Downloads.



However, to answer your question ... you would copy it to your Downloads

directory, either by dragging it across between two Finder windows (one

opened on the DVD, one opened on Downloads), or by figuring out the

filesystem paths for each and typing a Terminal command similar to this:



   cp /Volumes/SugarDVD/image-writer-mac.py ~/Downloads/



(Since I don't have a copy of this DVD, and the method used to create it

is manual and not automatically scripted, I can't determine what the

filesystem path after the "cp" would be.)  This command does the same as

dragging the file between two Finder windows, but is more exact and

reproducible.  The end result should be that file image-writer-mac.py is

in the Downloads folder.



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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[Caroline Meeks]

Nice find. I decided to use a tag cloud. That gets around the nonstandard
place names and it gives a relative idea without listing numbers that we
know are out of date.

http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/word-cloud-of-olpc-xo-deployments

Thanks

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Xander Pirdy  wrote:

> Caroline-
> I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they already
> have a dataset on olpc deployments:
> http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1,
> though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by country
> basis (it has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for instance because it
> should really be labeled as part of the United States Deployment), though it
> wouldn't take much editing to get this to work. If anyone has any idea on
> reliable sources to verify these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of
> extra time into correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think
> that it is something important.
>  -Xander
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks  > wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.
>>
>> If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out
>> Manyeyes to make the map.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:
>>
>>>  Bolivia
>>>
>>>- 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less
>>>are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, 
>>> they
>>>don't seem willing to accept help)
>>> - an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure,
>>>CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in 
>>> raffles
>>>during games his team plays.
>>> - 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,
>>>mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people
>>>connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through
>>>customs on several trips.  Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots
>>>work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the
>>>ones with the biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill
>>>despite.  As they were repaired, several of these also made it to the
>>>Manuela Gandarillas Center for the blind.
>>>- Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different
>>>independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on.
>>>- 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city
>>>orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in my 
>>> closet
>>>here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish 
>>> enough to
>>>brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck)
>>> - an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including
>>>the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back 
>>> to B1
>>>models
>>>- Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.
>>>
>>> Dominican Republic
>>>
>>>- apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel
>>>at some public function.  No further anything is known of this, except 
>>> that
>>>apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos 
>>> Slim
>>>of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over 
>>> Central
>>>America and the Caribbean.  Note that Lionel was very connected with NN
>>>early on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes
>>>were given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being 
>>> one of
>>>the first places to really take off)
>>>
>>> OT, enjoy this comic
>>> http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png
>>>
>>> - Juanelo!  I am so angry with you!
>>> - Why is that, Mr. Minister?
>>>
>>> - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
>>> You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
>>> - yeah...
>>>
>>> - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out
>>> they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous!
>>>
>>> - 
>>>
>>> - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?
>>>
>>>
>>> (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees
>>> computers as being presented as a "gift" by the Minister and other
>>> authorities to the children :-( )
>>>
>>> On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Caroline,
>>>
>>> this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
>>> that ever have been done on Sugar!
>>>
>>> While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
>>> one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
>>> list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
>>> please let me know if this needs to be updated!):
>>>
>>> Afghanistan
>>> Austria
>>> Bhutan

Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[John Watlington]

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Countries is old.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments, while not exactly up
to date in certain areas, is better.

Cheers,
wad

On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:26 PM, Xander Pirdy wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Xander Pirdy  wrote:
> Caroline- 
> I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they already 
> have a dataset on olpc deployments: 
> http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1,
>  though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by country 
> basis (it has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for instance because it 
> should really be labeled as part of the United States Deployment), though it 
> wouldn't take much editing to get this to work. If anyone has any idea on 
> reliable sources to verify these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of 
> extra time into correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think that 
> it is something important.
> -Xander
> 
> Sorry for the double post - I just came across this as well: 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Countries, does any one know if this data is more 
> current/correct (no sources for this are cited)? It might also be worthwhile 
> to include countries that have pilots or that have shown significant 
> interest? Also perhaps a state by state one might be interesting as well 
> (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_United_States).
> -Xander 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks  
> wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.
> 
> If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out Manyeyes 
> to make the map.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka  wrote:
> Bolivia
>   • 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less are 
> still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, they don't 
> seem willing to accept help)
>   • an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure, CEO 
> of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in raffles 
> during games his team plays.
>   • 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers, 
> mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people 
> connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through customs 
> on several trips.  Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots work by the 
> valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the ones with the 
> biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill despite.  As they 
> were repaired, several of these also made it to the Manuela Gandarillas 
> Center for the blind. 
>   • Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different 
> independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on.
>   • 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city 
> orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in my closet 
> here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish enough to 
> brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck)
>   • an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including the 
> President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back to B1 
> models
>   • Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.
> Dominican Republic
>   • apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel at 
> some public function.  No further anything is known of this, except that 
> apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos Slim 
> of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over Central 
> America and the Caribbean.  Note that Lionel was very connected with NN early 
> on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes were 
> given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being one of the 
> first places to really take off)
> OT, enjoy this comic
> http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png 
> 
> - Juanelo!  I am so angry with you! 
> - Why is that, Mr. Minister? 
> 
> - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation! 
> You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on? 
> - yeah... 
> 
> - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out 
> they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous! 
> 
> -  
> 
> - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price? 
> 
> 
> (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees 
> computers as being presented as a "gift" by the Minister and other 
> authorities to the children :-( ) 
> 
> On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>> Hi Caroline,
>> 
>> this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
>> that ever have been done on Sugar!
>> 
>> While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
>> one is available at the time) here's to the best of 

Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[Xander Pirdy]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Xander Pirdy  wrote:

> Caroline-
> I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they already
> have a dataset on olpc deployments:
> http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1,
> though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by country
> basis (it has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for instance because it
> should really be labeled as part of the United States Deployment), though it
> wouldn't take much editing to get this to work. If anyone has any idea on
> reliable sources to verify these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of
> extra time into correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think
> that it is something important.
>  -Xander


Sorry for the double post - I just came across this as well:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Countries, does any one know if this data is more
current/correct (no sources for this are cited)? It might also be worthwhile
to include countries that have pilots or that have shown significant
interest? Also perhaps a state by state one might be interesting as well (
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_United_States).
-Xander

>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks  > wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.
>>
>> If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out
>> Manyeyes to make the map.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:
>>
>>>  Bolivia
>>>
>>>- 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less
>>>are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, 
>>> they
>>>don't seem willing to accept help)
>>> - an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure,
>>>CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in 
>>> raffles
>>>during games his team plays.
>>> - 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,
>>>mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people
>>>connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through
>>>customs on several trips.  Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots
>>>work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the
>>>ones with the biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill
>>>despite.  As they were repaired, several of these also made it to the
>>>Manuela Gandarillas Center for the blind.
>>>- Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different
>>>independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on.
>>>- 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city
>>>orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in my 
>>> closet
>>>here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish 
>>> enough to
>>>brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck)
>>> - an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including
>>>the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back 
>>> to B1
>>>models
>>>- Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.
>>>
>>> Dominican Republic
>>>
>>>- apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel
>>>at some public function.  No further anything is known of this, except 
>>> that
>>>apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos 
>>> Slim
>>>of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over 
>>> Central
>>>America and the Caribbean.  Note that Lionel was very connected with NN
>>>early on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes
>>>were given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being 
>>> one of
>>>the first places to really take off)
>>>
>>> OT, enjoy this comic
>>> http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png
>>>
>>> - Juanelo!  I am so angry with you!
>>> - Why is that, Mr. Minister?
>>>
>>> - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
>>> You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
>>> - yeah...
>>>
>>> - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out
>>> they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous!
>>>
>>> - 
>>>
>>> - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?
>>>
>>>
>>> (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees
>>> computers as being presented as a "gift" by the Minister and other
>>> authorities to the children :-( )
>>>
>>> On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Caroline,
>>>
>>> this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
>>> that ever have been done on Sugar!
>>>
>>> While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
>>> one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
>>> list of countries with O

Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[Xander Pirdy]

Caroline-
I took a look at manyeyes (great site btw), and it looks like they already
have a dataset on olpc deployments:
http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datasets/olpc-deployments-in-the-world/versions/1,
though the data would have to be modified to do on a country by country
basis (it has trouble understanding Birmingham AL for instance because it
should really be labeled as part of the United States Deployment), though it
wouldn't take much editing to get this to work. If anyone has any idea on
reliable sources to verify these numbers I wouldn't mind putting a bit of
extra time into correcting it and finishing the visualization as I think
that it is something important.
-Xander

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Caroline Meeks
wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.
>
> If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out Manyeyes
> to make the map.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:
>
>>  Bolivia
>>
>>- 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less
>>are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, 
>> they
>>don't seem willing to accept help)
>> - an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure,
>>CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in 
>> raffles
>>during games his team plays.
>> - 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,
>>mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people
>>connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through
>>customs on several trips.  Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots
>>work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the
>>ones with the biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill
>>despite.  As they were repaired, several of these also made it to the
>>Manuela Gandarillas Center for the blind.
>>- Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different
>>independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on.
>>- 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city
>>orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in my closet
>>here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish enough 
>> to
>>brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck)
>> - an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including
>>the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back to 
>> B1
>>models
>>- Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.
>>
>> Dominican Republic
>>
>>- apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel
>>at some public function.  No further anything is known of this, except 
>> that
>>apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos 
>> Slim
>>of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over Central
>>America and the Caribbean.  Note that Lionel was very connected with NN
>>early on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes
>>were given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being one 
>> of
>>the first places to really take off)
>>
>> OT, enjoy this comic
>> http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png
>>
>> - Juanelo!  I am so angry with you!
>> - Why is that, Mr. Minister?
>>
>> - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
>> You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
>> - yeah...
>>
>> - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out
>> they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous!
>>
>> - 
>>
>> - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?
>>
>>
>> (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees
>> computers as being presented as a "gift" by the Minister and other
>> authorities to the children :-( )
>>
>> On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>>
>> Hi Caroline,
>>
>> this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
>> that ever have been done on Sugar!
>>
>> While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
>> one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
>> list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
>> please let me know if this needs to be updated!):
>>
>> Afghanistan
>> Austria
>> Bhutan
>> Brazil
>> Cambodia
>> China
>> Colombia
>> Ethiopia
>> Ghana
>> Haiti
>> India
>> Iraq
>> Kazakhstan
>> Lebanon
>> Mali
>> Mexico
>> Mongolia
>> Mozambique
>> Nepal
>> Nicaragua
>> Nigeria
>> Niue
>> Pakistan
>> Palestine
>> Papua New Guinea
>> Paraguay
>> Peru
>> Russia
>> Rwanda
>> Senegal
>> Solomon Islands
>> South Africa
>> Sri Lanka
>> Thailand
>> United States
>> Uruguay
>> Vietnam
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
>>
>> Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caro

Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[Caroline Meeks]

Thanks everyone for the feedback and typos.

If anyone does get good data on deployments I suggest checking out Manyeyes
to make the map.

Thanks!

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:

>  Bolivia
>
>- 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less are
>still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best efforts, they
>don't seem willing to accept help)
> - an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure,
>CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and in raffles
>during games his team plays.
> - 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,
>mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization people
>connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to get through
>customs on several trips.  Most of those used for lobbying and grassroots
>work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers come from this lot, and maybe the
>ones with the biggest impact so far in gaining some government goodwill
>despite.  As they were repaired, several of these also made it to the
>Manuela Gandarillas Center for the blind.
>- Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different
>independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed info on.
>- 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city
>orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in my closet
>here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I am foolish enough 
> to
>brave customs again (last time it was messy, wish me luck)
> - an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including
>the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating back to 
> B1
>models
>- Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.
>
> Dominican Republic
>
>- apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel at
>some public function.  No further anything is known of this, except that
>apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as gifts from Carlos 
> Slim
>of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing out 3.000 lots all over Central
>America and the Caribbean.  Note that Lionel was very connected with NN
>early on (maybe even an MIT alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes
>were given to Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being one 
> of
>the first places to really take off)
>
> OT, enjoy this comic
> http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png
>
> - Juanelo!  I am so angry with you!
> - Why is that, Mr. Minister?
>
> - You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
> You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
> - yeah...
>
> - when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found out
> they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous!
>
> - 
>
> - so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?
>
>
> (what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees
> computers as being presented as a "gift" by the Minister and other
> authorities to the children :-( )
>
> On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>
> Hi Caroline,
>
> this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
> that ever have been done on Sugar!
>
> While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
> one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
> list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
> please let me know if this needs to be updated!):
>
> Afghanistan
> Austria
> Bhutan
> Brazil
> Cambodia
> China
> Colombia
> Ethiopia
> Ghana
> Haiti
> India
> Iraq
> Kazakhstan
> Lebanon
> Mali
> Mexico
> Mongolia
> Mozambique
> Nepal
> Nicaragua
> Nigeria
> Niue
> Pakistan
> Palestine
> Papua New Guinea
> Paraguay
> Peru
> Russia
> Rwanda
> Senegal
> Solomon Islands
> South Africa
> Sri Lanka
> Thailand
> United States
> Uruguay
> Vietnam
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
> Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks:
>
>
>  I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants
> me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?
>
> The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/
>
> I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone
> has done one.
>
> Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?
>
> Thanks!
> Caroline
>
> --
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution grovecarol...@solutiongrove.com
>
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>
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[IAEP] olpc on southpark

[Peter Robinson]

Apparently one of the SouthPark creators likes the XO :-)

http://mohammed.morsi.org/blog/node/312
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/04/08/south-park-face-episode-tron/

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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[Yamandu Ploskonka]

Bolivia

   * 100 machines purchased by the SOBOCE foundation, maybe 20 or less
 are still operational in a school in Viacha (despite our best
 efforts, they don't seem willing to accept help)
   * an indeterminate number brought and given away by Marcelo Claure,
 CEO of Brightstar, mostly to kids in the soccer team he owns and
 in raffles during games his team plays.
   * 25 XOs in assorted state of repair, through OLPC Repair Centers,
 mostly in the hands of local development / research / localization
 people connected with SCELinux and OLE Bolivia that I managed to
 get through customs on several trips.  Most of those used for
 lobbying and grassroots work by the valiant Bolivian volunteers
 come from this lot, and maybe the ones with the biggest impact so
 far in gaining some government goodwill despite.  As they were
 repaired, several of these also made it to the Manuela Gandarillas
 Center for the blind.
   * Apparently maybe 5 to 20 more have arrived through different
 independent Contributor Program requests I have no more detailed
 info on.
   * 12 machines from individual donors, currently in a La Paz city
 orphanage, through OLE Bolivia.  10 more from the same origin in
 my closet here in Austin, waiting for the next trip and whether I
 am foolish enough to brave customs again (last time it was messy,
 wish me luck)
   * an indeterminate number given away to assorted poo bahs including
 the President by Claure, Arboleda and others, some of them dating
 back to B1 models
   * Hope in a 2-year delayed 200-XO deploy with help from a Danish NGO.

Dominican Republic

   * apparently 2.000 units were given away to kids by President Lionel
 at some public function.  No further anything is known of this,
 except that apparently they were part of maybe 3.000 that came as
 gifts from Carlos Slim of Mexico when Slim was apparently handing
 out 3.000 lots all over Central America and the Caribbean.  Note
 that Lionel was very connected with NN early on (maybe even an MIT
 alumn?), and some very, very early prototypes were given to
 Dominican researchers (we had BIG hopes in the DR being one of the
 first places to really take off)

OT, enjoy this comic
http://www.juanelo.cl/tiras/Juanelo1187.png

- Juanelo!  I am so angry with you!
- Why is that, Mr. Minister?

- You made me go through such an embarrassing situation!
You remember those notebooks I asked you get bids on?
- yeah...

- when we presented them as gifts to those schoolchildren, they found 
out they were made out of sticks!  I was like Mister Ridiculous!


- 

- so, what? Next time you'd rather I prioritize quality over price?


(what really gets me :-( is that Juanelo, from Chile, obviously sees 
computers as being presented as a "gift" by the Minister and other 
authorities to the children :-( )


On 04/08/2010 11:45 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:

Hi Caroline,

this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
that ever have been done on Sugar!

While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
please let me know if this needs to be updated!):

Afghanistan
Austria
Bhutan
Brazil
Cambodia
China
Colombia
Ethiopia
Ghana
Haiti
India
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Lebanon
Mali
Mexico
Mongolia
Mozambique
Nepal
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Niue
Pakistan
Palestine
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Russia
Rwanda
Senegal
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Thailand
United States
Uruguay
Vietnam

Cheers,
Christoph

Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks:
   

I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants
me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?

The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/

I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone
has done one.

Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?

Thanks!
Caroline

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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[Frederick Grose]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> ...
> In general http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments is the place to go for
> this type of information.
>

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=107887635573341686661.00045a8f74844ef1681f8&z=2

from
that page has an overview.

Unfortunately the page was outdated for a long time but I've repeatedly
> pushed some folks at OLPC to get back to updating it regularly. Now
> looking at the page's history you can see that SJ updated it on March
> 31st and while the page itself still talks about info being from August
> or December 2009 (depending on where you look) I would assume that it
> more or less reflects the current state of things.
>
> @SJ: Please let me know if my assumptions here are wrong! :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
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Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Caryl Bigenho wrote:

Hi Lucian and All,

Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked.  Now that leads to another question.  If I wanted to skip the redundant download and open the image-writer-mac file in Terminal from the larger download Tom G. posted (Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso) how would I do that?  I have copies of that download both on my desktop and burned on a DVD. 
  
change your directory in terminal to the location of .iso  (ie:  cd 
/xxx/xxx)

(ls command will tell you where you are)
then issue the commands


Caryl

P.S. Is there a handy dandy guide to commands for the Mac Terminal anywhere? Sort of an 
"Idiot's Guide to the Mac Terminal" or "The Mac Terminal for Dummies?"

  

Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:20:05 +0100
From: lucian.brane...@gmail.com
To: cbige...@hotmail.com
CC: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; 
support-g...@laptop.org; support-g...@lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [SoaS] [IAEP]  [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

Those are two commands, separated by a semicolon. They could also be
done on separate lines (as two commands). cd ~/Downloads navigates to
your Downloads folder. You could also use ls to see what's inside.
Then the second command does the actual image writing.

On 8 April 2010 07:33, Caryl Bigenho  wrote:


Hi James,

  

You must not open it that way. You should open Terminal, and type

cd ~/Downloads; python image-writer-mac.py soas-2-blueberry.iso

Doing it this way should not cause PythonLauncher to be run. Can you
please confirm you were trying to open the file in a Finder window?



Right... I was trying to open it in a Finder window.  I don't have a lot of
experience with the terminal. Do I type in exactly what you have above
including the ; or is is that a punctuation?

I'll try it tomorrow. It's about midnight here.

Caryl

  

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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Am 08.04.2010 19:25, schrieb Xander Pirdy:
> Great presentation... I really like the format.
> One possible typo that I spotted:
> 
> Under features it says:
> Sugar can run on almost any PC. A liveUSB stick not touch the existing
> hard drive installation.
> 
> Should read:
> Sugar can run on almost any PC. A liveUSB stick does not touch the
> existing hard drive installation.
> 
> Christoph: Out of curiosity is there somewhere that I could find numbers
> for those projects aggregated?

In general http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments is the place to go for
this type of information.

Unfortunately the page was outdated for a long time but I've repeatedly
pushed some folks at OLPC to get back to updating it regularly. Now
looking at the page's history you can see that SJ updated it on March
31st and while the page itself still talks about info being from August
or December 2009 (depending on where you look) I would assume that it
more or less reflects the current state of things.

@SJ: Please let me know if my assumptions here are wrong! :-)

Cheers,
Christoph

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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[Xander Pirdy]

Great presentation... I really like the format.
One possible typo that I spotted:

Under features it says:
Sugar can run on almost any PC. A liveUSB stick not touch the existing hard
drive installation.

Should read:
Sugar can run on almost any PC. A liveUSB stick does not touch the existing
hard drive installation.

Christoph: Out of curiosity is there somewhere that I could find numbers for
those projects aggregated?

-Xander

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> Hi Caroline,
>
> this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
> that ever have been done on Sugar!
>
> While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
> one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
> list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
> please let me know if this needs to be updated!):
>
> Afghanistan
> Austria
> Bhutan
> Brazil
> Cambodia
> China
> Colombia
> Ethiopia
> Ghana
> Haiti
> India
> Iraq
> Kazakhstan
> Lebanon
> Mali
> Mexico
> Mongolia
> Mozambique
> Nepal
> Nicaragua
> Nigeria
> Niue
> Pakistan
> Palestine
> Papua New Guinea
> Paraguay
> Peru
> Russia
> Rwanda
> Senegal
> Solomon Islands
> South Africa
> Sri Lanka
> Thailand
> United States
> Uruguay
> Vietnam
>
> Cheers,
> Christoph
>
> Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks:
> > I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants
> > me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?
> >
> > The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/
> >
> > I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone
> > has done one.
> >
> > Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Caroline
> >
> > --
> > Caroline Meeks
> > Solution Grove
> > carol...@solutiongrove.com
> >
> > 617-500-3488 - Office
> > 505-213-3268 - Fax
> >
> >
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Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

[Lucian Branescu]

The mac terminal is nothing more than a regular bash terminal. Look
for bash tutorials.

On 8 April 2010 17:55, Caryl Bigenho  wrote:
> Hi Lucian and All,
>
> Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked.  Now that leads to another question.
> If I wanted to skip the redundant download and open the image-writer-mac
> file in Terminal from the larger download Tom G. posted
> (Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso) how would I do that?  I have copies of that
> download both on my desktop and burned on a DVD.
>
> Caryl
>
> P.S. Is there a handy dandy guide to commands for the Mac Terminal anywhere?
> Sort of an "Idiot's Guide to the Mac Terminal" or "The Mac Terminal for
> Dummies?"
>
>> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:20:05 +0100
>> From: lucian.brane...@gmail.com
>> To: cbige...@hotmail.com
>> CC: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org;
>> support-g...@laptop.org; support-g...@lists.laptop.org
>> Subject: Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News
>>
>> Those are two commands, separated by a semicolon. They could also be
>> done on separate lines (as two commands). cd ~/Downloads navigates to
>> your Downloads folder. You could also use ls to see what's inside.
>> Then the second command does the actual image writing.
>>
>> On 8 April 2010 07:33, Caryl Bigenho  wrote:
>> > Hi James,
>> >
>> >> You must not open it that way. You should open Terminal, and type
>> >>
>> >> cd ~/Downloads; python image-writer-mac.py soas-2-blueberry.iso
>> >>
>> >> Doing it this way should not cause PythonLauncher to be run. Can you
>> >> please confirm you were trying to open the file in a Finder window?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Right... I was trying to open it in a Finder window.  I don't have a lot
>> > of
>> > experience with the terminal. Do I type in exactly what you have above
>> > including the ; or is is that a punctuation?
>> >
>> > I'll try it tomorrow. It's about midnight here.
>> >
>> > Caryl
>> >
>> >> --
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>> >> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi Lucian and All,

Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked.  Now that leads to another question.  If 
I wanted to skip the redundant download and open the image-writer-mac file in 
Terminal from the larger download Tom G. posted (Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso) 
how would I do that?  I have copies of that download both on my desktop and 
burned on a DVD.

Caryl

P.S. Is there a handy dandy guide to commands for the Mac Terminal anywhere? 
Sort of an "Idiot's Guide to the Mac Terminal" or "The Mac Terminal for 
Dummies?"

> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:20:05 +0100
> From: lucian.brane...@gmail.com
> To: cbige...@hotmail.com
> CC: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; 
> support-g...@laptop.org; support-g...@lists.laptop.org
> Subject: Re: [SoaS] [IAEP]  [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News
> 
> Those are two commands, separated by a semicolon. They could also be
> done on separate lines (as two commands). cd ~/Downloads navigates to
> your Downloads folder. You could also use ls to see what's inside.
> Then the second command does the actual image writing.
> 
> On 8 April 2010 07:33, Caryl Bigenho  wrote:
> > Hi James,
> >
> >> You must not open it that way. You should open Terminal, and type
> >>
> >> cd ~/Downloads; python image-writer-mac.py soas-2-blueberry.iso
> >>
> >> Doing it this way should not cause PythonLauncher to be run. Can you
> >> please confirm you were trying to open the file in a Finder window?
> >>
> >
> > Right... I was trying to open it in a Finder window.  I don't have a lot of
> > experience with the terminal. Do I type in exactly what you have above
> > including the ; or is is that a punctuation?
> >
> > I'll try it tomorrow. It's about midnight here.
> >
> > Caryl
> >
> >> --
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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Hi Caroline,

this is a gorgeous presentation, definitely one of the very best ones
that ever have been done on Sugar!

While I can't help with the map of OLPC deployments (AFAIK no current
one is available at the time) here's to the best of my knowledge the
list of countries with OLPC projects in one form or another (@everyone,
please let me know if this needs to be updated!):

Afghanistan
Austria
Bhutan
Brazil
Cambodia
China
Colombia
Ethiopia
Ghana
Haiti
India
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Lebanon
Mali
Mexico
Mongolia
Mozambique
Nepal
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Niue
Pakistan
Palestine
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Russia
Rwanda
Senegal
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Thailand
United States
Uruguay
Vietnam

Cheers,
Christoph

Am 08.04.2010 04:53, schrieb Caroline Meeks:
> I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants
> me to mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?
> 
> The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/
> 
> I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone
> has done one.
> 
> Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?
> 
> Thanks!
> Caroline
> 
> -- 
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> carol...@solutiongrove.com
> 
> 617-500-3488 - Office
> 505-213-3268 - Fax
> 
> 
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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[Walter Bender]

One other typo:

http://www.sugarlabs.com -> http://www.sugarlabs.org

-walter

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Sean DALY  wrote:
> Really nice prez, the zooming is very original
>
> * I believe Project Ceibal is 396,000 XOs
>
> * You might want to mention collaboration and the XS school server
>
> * site address is www.sugarlabs.org, not .com
>
> * you mention two ways to run Sugar: XO or Sugar on a Stick; may be
> worthwhile mentioning Ubuntu Sugar project too (Ubuntu officially
> supported on Dell Latitude 2100 and Intel Classmate PC, so installed
> Sugar a real possibility for a deployment where XOs not feasible)
>
> * http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Presentations for other
> presentations, under "2010" is the one I did March 3rd (PDF in French,
> but some visuals you could use)
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Caroline Meeks
>  wrote:
>> I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants me to
>> mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?
>> The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/
>> I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone has
>> done one.
>> Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?
>> Thanks!
>> Caroline
>> --
>> Caroline Meeks
>> Solution Grove
>> carol...@solutiongrove.com
>>
>> 617-500-3488 - Office
>> 505-213-3268 - Fax
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[IAEP] Conectar igualdad: Argentina $1B USD CMPC project launched

[Sean DALY]

http://tecnologia.iprofesional.com/notas/96743-Cristina-lanzo-plan-de-netbooks-para-estudiantes-por-mas-de-us1000M.html

http://conectarigualdad.com.ar/
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Re: [IAEP] FOSS VT presentation

[Sean DALY]

Really nice prez, the zooming is very original

* I believe Project Ceibal is 396,000 XOs

* You might want to mention collaboration and the XS school server

* site address is www.sugarlabs.org, not .com

* you mention two ways to run Sugar: XO or Sugar on a Stick; may be
worthwhile mentioning Ubuntu Sugar project too (Ubuntu officially
supported on Dell Latitude 2100 and Intel Classmate PC, so installed
Sugar a real possibility for a deployment where XOs not feasible)

* http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Presentations for other
presentations, under "2010" is the one I did March 3rd (PDF in French,
but some visuals you could use)

Sean


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Caroline Meeks
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> I am giving a presentation at FOSS VT on Friday, anything anyone wants me to
> mention or request to an audience of teachers and school IT people?
> The draft of my presentation is here: http://prezi.com/ffn2vdg0ylcr/
> I'd love a map that helps me talk about the OLPC deployments if anyone has
> done one.
> Has anyone done any updates or additional activities slides?
> Thanks!
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[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2010-04-07

[Walter Bender]

==Sugar Digest==

1. I was at my mother's house last week when I stumbled across a book
that my grandmother had given me as a child: ''How to use the Chinese
Abacus'' by F. S. Tom, published in Hong Kong in 1956 by Chong Jan
Limited. It is a simple, illustrated guide to addition, subtraction,
multiplication, and division on a Chinese abacus.

Reinspired, I spent an afternoon writing an Abacus Activity (You can
download from http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4293/).

The Abacus Activity lets the learner explore different representations
of numbers using different mechanical counting systems (originally
developed by the ancient Romans and Chinese). I made several different
variants available for exploration: a suanpan, the traditional Chinese
abacus with two beads on top and five beads below; a soroban, the
traditional Japanese abacus with one bead on top and four beads below;
the schety, the traditional Russian abacus, with ten beads per column,
with the exception of one column with just four beads used for
counting in fourths, and the nepohualtzintzin, the traditional Mayan
abacus, with three beads on top and four beads below. (The
nepohualtzintzin uses base 20.)

I've begun to write instructions on how to use the abacus in the wiki
(See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Abacus). Please
contribute your favorite abacus experiences.

2. I saw Paul Commons in Miami this week at a meeting at One Laptop
per Child. We were trading Sugar stories and he relayed one from the
OLPC Corps: they use the Memorize Activity to learn the names of the
children they are working with. First they take pictures of the
children with Record and then make a deck of cards for Memorize,
pairing names with pictures. Very clever.

===In the community===

3. Laurence Buchmann has posted her wonderful video of last year's
SugarCamp Paris (See
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xct0lp_un-jour-a-paris-ensembles-pour-olpc_tech
Un jour a Paris ensembles pour OLPC tech).

4. We will be holding a Sugar oversight-board meeting in Cambridge on
Tuesday morning, 13 April. Please contact me if you are interested in
attending in person.

===Help wanted===

5. There has been interest expressed in a Sugar program for children
to teach their parents to read. Does anyone have any experience with
such a program?

===Sugar Labs===

6. Gary Martin has generated a self-organizing map (SOM) from the past
week of discussion on the IAEP mailing list (See
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2010-Mar-27-Apr-2-som.jpg).

7. Visit our planet for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments
(See http://planet.sugarlabs.org).

-walter

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Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [support-gang] SoaS Good News/Bad News

[Lucian Branescu]

Those are two commands, separated by a semicolon. They could also be
done on separate lines (as two commands). cd ~/Downloads navigates to
your Downloads folder. You could also use ls to see what's inside.
Then the second command does the actual image writing.

On 8 April 2010 07:33, Caryl Bigenho  wrote:
> Hi James,
>
>> You must not open it that way. You should open Terminal, and type
>>
>> cd ~/Downloads; python image-writer-mac.py soas-2-blueberry.iso
>>
>> Doing it this way should not cause PythonLauncher to be run. Can you
>> please confirm you were trying to open the file in a Finder window?
>>
>
> Right... I was trying to open it in a Finder window.  I don't have a lot of
> experience with the terminal. Do I type in exactly what you have above
> including the ; or is is that a punctuation?
>
> I'll try it tomorrow. It's about midnight here.
>
> Caryl
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