Re: [IAEP] Phasing out Google Apps

2010-11-27 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 08:51 -0500, Cristian Paul Peñaranda Rojas wrote:
> Does it apply to mail accounts asociated with subdomains from
> sugarlabs.org?
> 
> like co.suagrlabs.org and etc...

No, it doesn't.

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Re: [IAEP] [math4] Introduction of MIT graduate team working with Sugar Labs

2010-11-27 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 20:43, Julie Lein  wrote:
> Dear Sugar Community,
>
> We are MBA candidates at MIT working with Sugar Labs to help generate
> awareness for the organization as an independent, open-source educational
> innovator for children. To do this, we would love your input!

Delighted to hear from you. After you get through with this survey, I
would love to talk with you about other projects.

There are major business opportunities surrounding the OLPC+Sugar
project, as described on the Earth Treasury Web site. And a good
thing, too, since the intention is to create enough jobs for our
millions of graduates. We have a global economy to create, in the tens
of trillions of dollars annually. And major problems to solve, so that
I am particularly glad that we will be teaching up to a billion
children how to collaborate.

> We will be sending out a brief survey to assess how Sugar and Sugar Labs are
> perceived by those who know them best.

I have written widely against the errors of those who know them least,
but feel entitled to inflict their uninformed opinions on the world.
Your results should be useful in this endeavor.

> We would be very grateful if you
> would take a few moments of your time to share your perspectives with us.
> We will use your input to generate strategic recommendations for how Sugar
> Labs can increase its reach throughout the global community.
>
> From a personal level, we all came to Sugar Labs due to our passion for
> education and international development.  Alex previously served in the
> Peace Corps,

I was in the Peace Corps in South Korea in the 1960s.

> Laura worked at a non-profit, Julie served on the Board of an
> educational non-profit for low-income students, and Parul has worked in
> software development with an educational focus.

I am a serial NGO founder, currently working on how to replace printed
textbooks with e-learning materials under Free licenses (GPL and
Creative Commons, mainly). For example,

http://www.booki.cc/discovering-discovery/

> We are passionate about
> Sugar Labs’ mission and are very excited to be working with you!
>
> We will be following this e-mail with our survey. Please feel free to
> contact us with any questions.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Alexandra Fallon (afal...@mit.edu)
> Laura Guaglianone (lguag...@mit.edu)
> Julie Lein (j2u...@mit.edu)
> Parul Singh (pa...@mit.edu)
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[IAEP] workaround for soas-v4 f14 CP: Update until it is fixed.

2010-11-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard

root sugar-terminal
"yum update sugar*"

Seems to update activities well:
sugar 0.90.3
sugar-browse 120-1.fc14
sugar-physics 7.1.fc14
sugar-pippy  38.1.fc14
sugar-write  72-1.fc14

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Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho

Hi All
This is great news! I will work on learning to do this when I get back to SoCal 
in Dec. Then I can share it with others at presentations, visits and the like.  
I really like the way Etoys-to-go can move from system to system. If this works 
even half as well, it will be big news.
Caryl (aka GrannieB, Carolina)

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:27:24 -0800
From: satel...@bendbroadband.com
To: raffael.reich...@googlemail.com
CC: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance 
can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox






  






Raffael Reichelt wrote:

  2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard 

  
  
 Raffael;

I just built a f14-Desktop 2nd USB using the same method and it boots fine
on the MacBook Air. I then did "yum groupinstall sugar-desktop" and then
"yum install sugar-emulator". (took 2 hrs because of the slowness of USB)
Now I have a USB that will boot sugar or gnome via the gdm login.


thanks for testing;

Tom Gilliard

Raffael Reichelt wrote:

2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard  


   Raffael Reichelt wrote:

2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard  
  



   Running Soas files on a 2nd USB in Virtualbox 3.2 installed on the MacBook
Air
: In VirtualBox Make a "new" Virtualbox appliance where you specify the
existing vmdk file on the 2nd USB as the Hard Disk.

NOTE the same 4 GB USB; 2nd USB containing the students appliance files
runs interchagably in BOTH VMPlayer and Virtualbox on Mac and PC.s

This a very simple solution with 
[http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.2.10/VirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-OSX.dmgVirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-OSX.dmg]
 installed on your Mac.

See: 
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mac_OS_X-Boot_USB_with_Virtualbox#Soas-v3_Mirabelle_virtualbox_files_to_put_on_2nd_USBSoas-v3_Mirabelle_virtualbox_files_to_put_on_2nd_USB]

I just discovered the great feature that the 4 GB USB containing
Soas-v3-Mirabelle can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with either
VMPlayer or Virtualbox.
This may be why Virtualbox 3.2 now allows multiple expanding HD of 2 Gb
slices.
:: TESTED ON:
:: Acer Aspire One Netbook Ubuntu 9.10 Virtualbox
:: MacBook Air OSX Virtualbox
:: Dell 520n Dektop PC Ubuntu 9.04 VMPlayer


This means that the student has his individual copy of Soas on the USB
stick and can open it on multiple computers and operating systems. This is
not a live image but a full install to a virtual Harddisk. It should be much
more robust. Plus the stick's contents can be copied any time as a backup.
The application goes thru firstboot with the student's name and password
required to access it.

I think that this may be the solution we have been looking for.

A compressed version of the Soas-v3 Appliance (before firstboot) is
downloadable from

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mac_OS_X-Boot_USB_with_Virtualbox#Prebuilt_Soas-v3-Mirabelle_4GB_Appliance

Thomas Gilliard
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Raffael;

Here are the specs I used:
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas-v3-Mirabelle_no_firstboot.tar.bz2

->*Root Password=sugarroot*<_

Expanded and copied 8 files to USB*
Built on this site:http://www.easyvmx.com/

CDhttp://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-3-mirabelle.iso

Used Soas-v3-Mirabelle CD in VMplayer to install:
   Used liveinst in sugar-root terminal

USB*
Soas-v3-Mirabelle.vmx (on 4GB Firefly USB)
Formatted fat 16
Label=MIRABELLE
Specs:
Other Linux  2.6.x kernel
Workstation 6.0 virtual machine
512 MB
1 Processor
4.7 GB HD
CD/DVD (IDE) Auto Detect
Network Adapter NAT

Oracle Virtualbox 3.2.10 r66523 for OSX
settings:
OS: Linux/fedora
512 Base Memory
12 MB Video Memory
Storage:Soas-v3-Mirabelle.vmdk
Slot SATA Port 0
 Attached to Soas-v3-on 2nd USB
Network Adapter 1 enabled NAT

Works fine here.

thanks for testing!

Tom Gilliard
satellit


 I tried it on my MacBookAir, OSX 10.6.5, VirtualBox 3.2.10 and it needed
about 3 times booting undtil it worked (crashes during firstboot and logon).
One Problem is there is a root password set and my user is not in sudoers.



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 Hello Tom!


 Thanks for the root password - I will test a little bit further. Let you
know then ...

Raffael



 Hello Thomas!

  
  Is there no way to boot a virtual machine physically from usb (virtualbox
under OSX)? 

So far I have not found any way to boot a USB directly in OSX

Look at:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mac_OS_X-Boot_USB_with_Virtualbox#Mac_OSX-F14-desktop_with_Virtualbox_Boot_USB



http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Mac_F14_Vbox.img.tar.bz2

(This is an experimental method I am working on,,,)

Uses this Boot helper Cd to boot
Mac_OSX-F14-desktop_with_Virtualbox_Boot_USB

 http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-4-boo

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] the 4 GB USB containing Soas-v3-Mirabelle appliance can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with VMPlayer or Virtualbox

2010-11-27 Thread Thomas C Gilliard



Raffael Reichelt wrote:

2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard 

  

 Raffael;

I just built a f14-Desktop 2nd USB using the same method and it boots fine
on the MacBook Air. I then did "yum groupinstall sugar-desktop" and then
"yum install sugar-emulator". (took 2 hrs because of the slowness of USB)
Now I have a USB that will boot sugar or gnome via the gdm login.


thanks for testing;

Tom Gilliard

Raffael Reichelt wrote:

2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard  


   Raffael Reichelt wrote:

2010/11/25 Thomas C Gilliard   
 


   Running Soas files on a 2nd USB in Virtualbox 3.2 installed on the MacBook
Air
: In VirtualBox Make a "new" Virtualbox appliance where you specify the
existing vmdk file on the 2nd USB as the Hard Disk.

NOTE the same 4 GB USB; 2nd USB containing the students appliance files
runs interchagably in BOTH VMPlayer and Virtualbox on Mac and PC.s

This a very simple solution with 
[http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.2.10/VirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-OSX.dmgVirtualBox-3.2.10-66523-OSX.dmg]
 installed on your Mac.

See: 
[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mac_OS_X-Boot_USB_with_Virtualbox#Soas-v3_Mirabelle_virtualbox_files_to_put_on_2nd_USBSoas-v3_Mirabelle_virtualbox_files_to_put_on_2nd_USB]

I just discovered the great feature that the 4 GB USB containing
Soas-v3-Mirabelle can be run interchangeably on a PC or a mac with either
VMPlayer or Virtualbox.
This may be why Virtualbox 3.2 now allows multiple expanding HD of 2 Gb
slices.
:: TESTED ON:
:: Acer Aspire One Netbook Ubuntu 9.10 Virtualbox
:: MacBook Air OSX Virtualbox
:: Dell 520n Dektop PC Ubuntu 9.04 VMPlayer


This means that the student has his individual copy of Soas on the USB
stick and can open it on multiple computers and operating systems. This is
not a live image but a full install to a virtual Harddisk. It should be much
more robust. Plus the stick's contents can be copied any time as a backup.
The application goes thru firstboot with the student's name and password
required to access it.

I think that this may be the solution we have been looking for.

A compressed version of the Soas-v3 Appliance (before firstboot) is
downloadable from

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mac_OS_X-Boot_USB_with_Virtualbox#Prebuilt_Soas-v3-Mirabelle_4GB_Appliance

Thomas Gilliard
satellit


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Raffael;

Here are the specs I used:
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Soas-v3-Mirabelle_no_firstboot.tar.bz2

->*Root Password=sugarroot*<_

Expanded and copied 8 files to USB*
Built on this site:http://www.easyvmx.com/

CDhttp://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-3-mirabelle.iso

Used Soas-v3-Mirabelle CD in VMplayer to install:
   Used liveinst in sugar-root terminal

USB*
Soas-v3-Mirabelle.vmx (on 4GB Firefly USB)
Formatted fat 16
Label=MIRABELLE
Specs:
Other Linux  2.6.x kernel
Workstation 6.0 virtual machine
512 MB
1 Processor
4.7 GB HD
CD/DVD (IDE) Auto Detect
Network Adapter NAT

Oracle Virtualbox 3.2.10 r66523 for OSX
settings:
OS: Linux/fedora
512 Base Memory
12 MB Video Memory
Storage:Soas-v3-Mirabelle.vmdk
Slot SATA Port 0
 Attached to Soas-v3-on 2nd USB
Network Adapter 1 enabled NAT

Works fine here.

thanks for testing!

Tom Gilliard
satellit


 I tried it on my MacBookAir, OSX 10.6.5, VirtualBox 3.2.10 and it needed
about 3 times booting undtil it worked (crashes during firstboot and logon).
One Problem is there is a root password set and my user is not in sudoers.



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 Hello Tom!


 Thanks for the root password - I will test a little bit further. Let you
know then ...

Raffael



 Hello Thomas!



Is there no way to boot a virtual machine physically from usb (virtualbox
under OSX)? 

So far I have not found any way to boot a USB directly in OSX
Look at:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Mac_OS_X-Boot_USB_with_Virtualbox#Mac_OSX-F14-desktop_with_Virtualbox_Boot_USB

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Mac_F14_Vbox.img.tar.bz2
(This is an experimental method I am working on,,,)
Uses this Boot helper Cd to boot 
Mac_OSX-F14-desktop_with_Virtualbox_Boot_USB

http://www.wronkiewicz.net/soas-4-boot-test.iso

HOW TO BUILD:
1-) 4 GB USB created in Virtualbox 3.2 for OSX install of f14-desktop on 
a MacBook Air with liveusb-creator

 (I have had problems using liveusb's created outside of OSX)
2-) resulting live USB is then booted with Boot helper CD
   yum install liveusb-creator
   install  Virtualbox3.2 for fedora
3-) shutdown
4-)insert USB into desktop PC running linux
5-) Create .img file
dd if=(liveusb) of=Mac_F14_Vbox.img
6-) Compress .img file
this is resulting file uplinked to Tgillard
http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Mac_F14_Vbox.img.tar.bz2

Thus when you open Virtualbox 3.2 on the booted live USB and you can run 
Virtualbox pointing to a 

Re: [IAEP] Phasing out Google Apps

2010-11-27 Thread Cristian Paul Peñaranda Rojas
Does it apply to mail accounts asociated with subdomains from
sugarlabs.org?

like co.suagrlabs.org and etc...

regards

cristian paul


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