Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)
On 4 Apr 2009, at 04:26, Caroline Meeks wrote: Results Boots up fine. Love the sugar branding! There are a lot fewer activities in the ring then SoaS1 Memorize, Speak, Moon, Turtle, Jigsaw puzzel, joke book, typing turtle, cartoon builder, Finance, Freecell - Work great. Sound works too Browse - School gives me an error. I see why a school would want this link on their system but it doesn't make sense to me to put out a page with a broken link. Yes, I wasn't too happy with a broken link for some users either, but there was a reasonable sugar-devel thread which seemed to settle (vaguely) on keeping it based on Martin Langhoff's (owner of the XS school server project) original request for it's inclusion on the static page (as it always was with the OLPC default web page). The question boils down to how many will use the new Sugar in the presence of a schoolserver, and how many won't. Nobody could give me a straight answer*** either way :-) *** and really anyone deploying more than ~25-50 in one location (my guess) should really be considering a server to help smooth collaboration and provide other services like journal backup, moodle. Three solutions: 1) Edit your master stick image /etc/hosts file and resolve to the server you want. For example the below one line addition will direct folks over to the schools.sugarlabs.org moodle server: 206.192.23.203 schoolserver 2) Edit your master stick image on line 55 of .../Browse.activity/data/ index.html and change http://schoolserver/ to point to the server you want; down side of this is if they upgrade Browse, your change goes away: http://schools.sugarlabs.org/ 3) Wait for me to try and implement some some magic javascript trick that tries to load a potential local schoolserver first, but if it then fails, tries to load schools.sugarlabs.org. I think I've seen one similar example kicking around but, I don't have time to play at least over the next few days (I'm trying to focus free time on Labyrinth now). Regards, --Gary - The arrow flashes annoyingly when web pages are loading on my X40 eToys - The screen flashes black a few times while it is loading its a bit disconcerting Maze - The icon seems a bit bit in the circle Calculator - The font size and the curser seem a bit weird together. I took a picture. Pippy -The Run, Stop and Clear buttons are a bit cut off. I took a picture Read - Why have the read activity with nothing to read? Story Builder, I haven't seen it before. Very cool! The characters seem a bit pixilated, are they supposed to look like that? flipsticks Either I am using it wrong or saving a firgure by clicking the bottom circle does not work. Bounce, Colors did not start IRC, Seemed to connect, and I got a message that my laptop SoaS2 had entered the room but I couldn't actually see what people said in the room or see what my laptop said while I was in the room. Yay! This is good! Its good enough for FOSSVT except for not having a working collaboration server, but that's a different thread :) Here is my wish list. Add to favorites Ring: Slider Puzzle, Jigsaw Puzzle, Story Builder, Typing Turtle, Cartoon Builder, Take out of the favorites Ring Log, Terminal. Read Add a book or two for Read then add Read back to the favorites ring Add Scratch and let me test it. It doesn't seem to be on the Activities Portal yet. Fix: Colors, Flipsticks and IRC and add the to the favorites Ring I'm open to dissenting opinions here, this is just my current impressions of what would make a good demo stick. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi folks, the SoaS team has another snapshot ready for testing - it's absolutely important that it get's tested as much as possible for our release! You can grab it from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200904031934.iso If you're going to put it on a USB key or a SD card under Linux, please make sure to use exactly this version of livecd-iso-to-disk, as you might encounter issues with other versions, which are around: http://shell.sugarlabs.org/sdz/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh There's also a new appliance snapshot available, but testing should really focus on the .iso file for now: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas2-20090403.tar.gz What has changed? * We're now supporting locales! You can change it in the control panel. * You'll notice our funky boot screen - no hotdog anymore... ;) * Browse has been updated - including skin and default page changes! Again, please give it a try. And if you think that we should include this or that specific activity, make sure to come up with it! So long, thanks and happy testing, --Your SoaS Team -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 -
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)
One choice -- Newberry medal winning children's books by women authors: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_collections/newbery/newbery.html I have converted these to epub format including the illustrations found at the website, very compact and accessible via fbreader. How should they be packaged to make them available? On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.comwrote: Caroline Meeks wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com mailto:sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi Caroline, thanks for giving this a try! I added some comments below... By the way, would it be okay for you to get a final image by April 7th or do you need one earlier? The ability to burn more then one USB at a time is still not working. If it works April 7th is fine. If it doesn't life is not going to be fun for me. Heh. Okay, I guess we'll see this tomorrow... ;) What of my wish list do you think I will get? Thanks, Caroline *Here is my wish list.* Add to favorites Ring: Slider Puzzle, Jigsaw Puzzle, Story Builder, Typing Turtle, Cartoon Builder, I hope that everything works well, as I tried to add them manually. That will turn out in the next snapshot, which should be ready tomorrow. Take out of the favorites Ring Log, Terminal. Read Add a book or two for Read then add Read back to the favorites ring Hm, we'd need some books to grab (preferable from a.sl.o)... Add Scratch and let me test it. It doesn't seem to be on the Activities Portal yet. Well, this is kind of strange. I can see it's wiki page on laptop.org (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Scratch), but it seems like if it doesn't even have a GIT repo anymore (!) - that seems to be unavailable. As far as I know, it has also not been migrated to SugarLabs, either, so I'm a bit lost. Is there still any development on this? Fix: Colors, Flipsticks and IRC and add the to the favorites Ring IRC is working here. Colors is reporting that it cannot find 'proper binary blobs' (fails with 'from colorsc import *'), and so is Bounce (fails with 'from pongc import *'). Maybe we're still missing some dependencies, I'm not yet sure... probably the activity maintainers know. I'm open to dissenting opinions here, this is just my current impressions of what would make a good demo stick. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)
On 04.04.2009, at 00:17, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200904031934.iso This does not boot in VMWare Fusion. It stops after writing out initrd. 0..ready. - Bert - ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)
The ISO boots up fine in VirtualBox. Again, the vmdk appliance doesn't. http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/677 2009/4/4 Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com: Hi folks, the SoaS team has another snapshot ready for testing - it's absolutely important that it get's tested as much as possible for our release! You can grab it from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200904031934.iso If you're going to put it on a USB key or a SD card under Linux, please make sure to use exactly this version of livecd-iso-to-disk, as you might encounter issues with other versions, which are around: http://shell.sugarlabs.org/sdz/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh There's also a new appliance snapshot available, but testing should really focus on the .iso file for now: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas2-20090403.tar.gz What has changed? * We're now supporting locales! You can change it in the control panel. * You'll notice our funky boot screen - no hotdog anymore... ;) * Browse has been updated - including skin and default page changes! Again, please give it a try. And if you think that we should include this or that specific activity, make sure to come up with it! So long, thanks and happy testing, --Your SoaS Team ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)
Hi Caroline, thanks for giving this a try! I added some comments below... By the way, would it be okay for you to get a final image by April 7th or do you need one earlier? Caroline Meeks wrote: Results Boots up fine. Love the sugar branding! Heh. :) There are a lot fewer activities in the ring then SoaS1 Well, that seems to be a matter of configuration by the package maintainers. We're now pulling the activities directly from a.sl.o, which means that those activities apparently don't get automatically fav'ed. Anyway, I guess we need to ping the maintainers on this? Memorize, Speak, Moon, Turtle, Jigsaw puzzel, joke book, typing turtle, cartoon builder, Finance, Freecell - Work great. Sound works too Hey, cool! Good to hear. Browse - School gives me an error. I see why a school would want this link on their system but it doesn't make sense to me to put out a page with a broken link. - The arrow flashes annoyingly when web pages are loading on my X40 eToys - The screen flashes black a few times while it is loading its a bit disconcerting Maze - The icon seems a bit bit in the circle Calculator - The font size and the curser seem a bit weird together. I took a picture. Pippy -The Run, Stop and Clear buttons are a bit cut off. I took a picture Read - Why have the read activity with nothing to read? Yeah, we should probably include something here... Story Builder, I haven't seen it before. Very cool! The characters seem a bit pixilated, are they supposed to look like that? flipsticks Either I am using it wrong or saving a firgure by clicking the bottom circle does not work. Bounce, Colors did not start If we can't get those ready in time, they will be taken out for the release! IRC, Seemed to connect, and I got a message that my laptop SoaS2 had entered the room but I couldn't actually see what people said in the room or see what my laptop said while I was in the room. Oh, okay... I had it working; strange. Yay! This is good! Its good enough for FOSSVT except for not having a working collaboration server, but that's a different thread :) *Here is my wish list.* Add to favorites Ring: Slider Puzzle, Jigsaw Puzzle, Story Builder, Typing Turtle, Cartoon Builder, Take out of the favorites Ring Log, Terminal. Read Add a book or two for Read then add Read back to the favorites ring Add Scratch and let me test it. It doesn't seem to be on the Activities Portal yet. Fix: Colors, Flipsticks and IRC and add the to the favorites Ring I'm open to dissenting opinions here, this is just my current impressions of what would make a good demo stick. On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com mailto:sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi folks, the SoaS team has another snapshot ready for testing - it's absolutely important that it get's tested as much as possible for our release! You can grab it from here: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200904031934.iso If you're going to put it on a USB key or a SD card under Linux, please make sure to use exactly this version of livecd-iso-to-disk, as you might encounter issues with other versions, which are around: http://shell.sugarlabs.org/sdz/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh There's also a new appliance snapshot available, but testing should really focus on the .iso file for now: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas2-20090403.tar.gz What has changed? * We're now supporting locales! You can change it in the control panel. * You'll notice our funky boot screen - no hotdog anymore... ;) * Browse has been updated - including skin and default page changes! Again, please give it a try. And if you think that we should include this or that specific activity, make sure to come up with it! So long, thanks and happy testing, --Your SoaS Team ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.comwrote: Hi Caroline, thanks for giving this a try! I added some comments below... By the way, would it be okay for you to get a final image by April 7th or do you need one earlier? The ability to burn more then one USB at a time is still not working. If it works April 7th is fine. If it doesn't life is not going to be fun for me. What of my wish list do you think I will get? Thanks, Caroline *Here is my wish list.* Add to favorites Ring: Slider Puzzle, Jigsaw Puzzle, Story Builder, Typing Turtle, Cartoon Builder, Take out of the favorites Ring Log, Terminal. Read Add a book or two for Read then add Read back to the favorites ring Add Scratch and let me test it. It doesn't seem to be on the Activities Portal yet. Fix: Colors, Flipsticks and IRC and add the to the favorites Ring I'm open to dissenting opinions here, this is just my current impressions of what would make a good demo stick. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
