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Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Attention Activity Developers: SoaS Activity Inclusion Criteria
--- Mar 8/6/10, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu ha scritto: Da: Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu Oggetto: Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] Attention Activity Developers: SoaS Activity Inclusion Criteria A: Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com Cc: Devel de...@lists.laptop.org, iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar devel sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar on a Stick List s...@lists.sugarlabs.org Data: Martedì 8 giugno 2010, 07:29 On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi all, at today's SoaS meeting [1], we agreed on applying the SoaS Activity Inclusion Criteria [2] as outlined in the wiki to the activity selection for the upcoming release of SoaS v.4. We'd like to encourage you to work towards meeting these goals and to submit your proposals for activities and further features following the feature process [3] according to the release schedule [4]. The final deadline to have features *approved* (please submit your proposals well in advance) is July 27. We're especially lead to this step to ensure to continued stability of future Sugar on a Stick releases and look forward to working with you! Please email the SoaS list or our release team with any concerns. --Sebastian Dziallas [1] http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.minutes.20100607_1510.html [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Activity_Criteria [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_release_process#Feature_process [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick#Release_schedule ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep The criteria page lists attributes that are either yes or no (binary). I had suggested a weighted scoring approach way back for G1G1 activities. Here's that thread. http://www.mail-archive.com/olpc-o...@lists.laptop.org/msg00641.html The idea is to score each attribute on a more granular scale than 0/1 and then weight each attribute based on importance for a particular implementation. cheers, Sameer +1 ciao carlo -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/ ___ 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] OneSocialWeb:
http://onesocialweb.org/ http://onesocialweb.org/xmpp_and_the_social_web.pdf Hi, maybe I'horribly late, anyway I just found this opensource social web platform based on XMPP (in very early dev stage), that does sound somehow familiar... ciao carlo ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] R: [SoaS] Please help suggest illustrated eBooks for Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry launch
For italian: http://www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/c/collodi/pinocchio/epub/collodi_pinocchio.epub ciao carlo --- Gio 26/11/09, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com ha scritto: Da: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Oggetto: [SoaS] Please help suggest illustrated eBooks for Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry launch A: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar-Labs Mailing lists s...@lists.sugarlabs.org Data: Giovedì 26 novembre 2009, 00:02 Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry will be launched at the Netbook World Summit in Paris on December 8th and Walter will open the summit with the keynote presentation! Sebastian and other members of the SoaS team are working hard on finalizing the master this weekend. In this holiday season with $250 Kindles and $299 Nooks and $$$ eBooks, we want to talk about Sugar's great eBook tools as well as open access eBooks - that eBooks shouldn't be only pricey DRM'd downloads for pricey gadgets. To do this, we want to populate Blueberry's Journal with a small number of eBooks. Small, so the Journal is not overstuffed; eBooks there will help new Sugar users to understand the Journal. We do feel though that it is important that of the handful of eBooks, not all should be in English. We won't have room for every language (that needs to wait for a later version of Sugar or SoaS which could have filter logic by language). But an eBook in half a dozen languages, with instructions for parents and teachers where to find others, will effectively demonstrate Sugar's potential as an eBook reader solution. Books written in the native language will be preferable to translations of books originally written in English - we'd like to show that Sugar content can be localized and not merely translated. Please suggest eBooks! ideally, an illustrated eBook in EPUB format (although we may be able to convert from other formats by hand since there will only be a few). Send links! If it's possible before Sunday, it would be fabulous if we could include an eBook created by children in the classroom! Even a collection of scans could be fairly easily bound into an eBook file. Thanks for your help! Sean Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator ___ 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)
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 sebast...@when.com ha scritto: Da: Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) A: SoaS s...@lists.sugarlabs.org, iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org 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)
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 sebast...@when.com ha scritto: Da: Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) A: Carlo Falciola cfalci...@yahoo.it Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org 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 Dziallassebast...@when.com ha scritto: Da: Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) A: SoaSs...@lists.sugarlabs.org, iaepiaep@lists.sugarlabs.org 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)
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 sdaly...@gmail.com ha scritto: Da: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Oggetto: Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) A: Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com, Carlo Falciola cfalci...@yahoo.it, iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar-Labs Mailing lists s...@lists.sugarlabs.org 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 yamap...@gmail.com 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 cfalci...@yahoo.it 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 sebast...@when.com ha scritto: Da: Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) A: Carlo Falciola cfalci...@yahoo.it Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org 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 Dziallassebast...@when.com ha scritto: Da: Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) A: SoaSs...@lists.sugarlabs.org, iaepiaep@lists.sugarlabs.org 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 SugarPootle_11_17_2009.ods Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project
[IAEP] boot-your-usb-drive-in-virtualbox
Does this could help? http://agnipulse.com/2009/07/boot-your-usb-drive-in-virtualbox/ It's a procedure to boot USB sticks into an (empty) VM of VirtualBox, I did not test it yet because I'm at work, but seems doable. Note: 1.this is for Windows based VirtualBox only 2. not (yet) an idea on if/how this could be automated.. ciao a tutti carlo ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Camp Refection
Hi!, Absolutely astonishing approach, let me try to add my bit as non-native english speaker: Switch from paper to something electronic (we had a projector, just needed to leave a dedicated pc to the task), maybe a wiki page would do. The pros will be: Better readability of topics, auto documentation of process, (and hopefully) chance to get remote people to partecipate to process. The cons I see: Writing down topics may take bit longer, Dot checks implementation to be figured out... ciao e a presto ! carlo Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 16:37:07 +0200 From: Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugar Camp Refection To: David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: 4a12c413@codewiz.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 05/18/09 21:38, David Farning wrote: Increase the length of SugarCamp. It would be valuable to have one or two prepared talks to start day one. They would provide a chance to learn something entirely new. It would be valuable to iterate through the process a few more times. Either by drilling deeper into a topic or starting fresh with new broad topics. Drilling deeper would be especially useful for new participant as they walk through the entire contribution process. Teachers might create sample lesson plans. Marketers might write the upcoming press release. Developers might hack a bit and submit a patch. The additional day might be used to start hacking on the top-priority actionable item identified by each group. Experienced contributors can use this opportunity to guide newcomers through the procedures to get things done. Very constructionist, uh? This works very well for development, but it could probably be applied to marketing and other activities as well. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] edu on XBOX
Me too, :) anyway they got some good media exposure in order to get an article in one of the most read italian web news: http://punto-informatico.it/2433943/PI/News/una-xbox-ogni-scolaro.aspx by the way, in the today same home page there's also an article regarding a demo distribution of 55 (!) JumPC to a school in Torino http://punto-informatico.it/2433958/PI/Interviste/torino-un-netbook-ogni-studente.aspx ... ciao carlo - Messaggio originale - Da: Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Carlo Falciola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Inviato: Venerdì 10 ottobre 2008, 15:01:13 Oggetto: Re: [IAEP] edu on XBOX Personally, I prefer WII. Of course, the idea that games can be engaging learning environment is far from novel and setting up a research center around the concept is a pretty tired idea as well. That said, let's hope they bring some new ideas forward. -walter On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Carlo Falciola wrote: Microsoft Research, NYU, and Consortium of University Partners Create First Scientific-Based Game Research Alliance to Transform Learning http://www.nyu.edu/public.affairs/releases/detail/2287 What about running Sugar on XBox ? ciao carlo Scopri il blog di Yahoo! Mail: Trucchi, novità e scrivi la tua opinione. http://www.ymailblogit.com/blog ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org Scopri il blog di Yahoo! Mail: Trucchi, novità e scrivi la tua opinione. http://www.ymailblogit.com/blog ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] edu on XBOX
Microsoft Research, NYU, and Consortium of University Partners Create First Scientific-Based Game Research Alliance to Transform Learning http://www.nyu.edu/public.affairs/releases/detail/2287 What about running Sugar on XBox ? ciao carlo Scopri il blog di Yahoo! Mail: Trucchi, novità e scrivi la tua opinione. http://www.ymailblogit.com/blog ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
