Re: [IAEP] Finally trying Sugar
Hi Marilyn, Where are you in TX? You might be interested in what the New Tech High is doing with Sugar and an OLPC Contributors Program project in Coppell TX (near DFW). Here is a link to their website: http://newtechcoppell.org/New_Tech/Home.html Be sure to check their blog. A copy of their Contributors Program application is also in the site. Caryl (retired teacher/OLPC-SugarLabs Support Volunteer) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:15:36 +0100 From: Sean DALY Subject: Re: [IAEP] Finally trying Sugar To: mari...@ourdyslexicchildren.org Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: <378b2b051002260915q2e6f80a6kf0418633ca4f9...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Greetings Marilyn - that's very exciting! We are eager to hear about what works (& doesn't); don't hesitate to ask questions - there are teachers and techies here on the list! Sean On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:44 PM, wrote: > Hi there! > > Thanks to you all for your hard work. I am a high school tech teacher in > Texas. I wasn't able to figure out how to put Sugar on a USB drive, but was > able to burn it to a CD. Now I have made copies for all of my students > (115) plus a classroom set. We are going to play with it in class for the > next couple of weeks. The students who have tried it already and my own > children (8 & 10) are very excited about it. > > Creativity and collaboration. Wow. Hopefully we can explore all of the > features. > > > > Marilyn :) > > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Finally trying Sugar
Hi Edward, Sebastian and others, On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:32:49PM -0500, Edward Cherlin wrote: Thanks, Sebastian. Perhaps we can package Sugar on a Stick for USB in various Linux distributions. The normal package installation process can run a configuration script, which presumably could prompt the user to insert a USB stick, warn about potential data loss, and verify the size and format of the stick before installing. Jonas should know if this will work. Sugar on a Stick is a distribution of its own, based on Fedora. My expertise is in the Debian distribution (and derivations thereof). True, Debian can be used to copy an alien system onto CD or a USB stick - but SoaS won't be accepted for shipping as part of Debian due to it being a big binary blob seen from Debian point of view. Debian ships with several tools to burn ISOs to CD, if that's what you suggest. Debian also ships with unetbootin to install alien systems onto USB sticks. Not sure if SoaS is supported there, however. If what you suggest is to make a SoaS-like distribution derived from Debian, then sure that is possible. But we'd need to actually have a full core Sugar packaged for Debian first, in my opinion. If you meant something else, I apologize: please clarify. NB! Please cc me directly on responses to this email: recent changes to sugarlabs.org DNS has has caused me to get unsubscribed from all lists. Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Finally trying Sugar
Thanks, Sebastian. Perhaps we can package Sugar on a Stick for USB in various Linux distributions. The normal package installation process can run a configuration script, which presumably could prompt the user to insert a USB stick, warn about potential data loss, and verify the size and format of the stick before installing. Jonas should know if this will work. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 14:58, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > mari...@ourdyslexicchildren.org wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> Thanks to you all for your hard work. I am a high school tech teacher in >> Texas. I wasn't able to figure out how to put Sugar on a USB drive, but >> was able to burn it to a CD. Now I have made copies for all of my >> students (115) plus a classroom set. We are going to play with it in >> class for the next couple of weeks. The students who have tried it >> already and my own children (8 & 10) are very excited about it. > > Hi Marilyn, > > thanks a lot for your e-mail. Your project sounds awesome! :) > > I'm the engineering lead of Sugar on a Stick and would be very > interested in hearing about your experiences to work on improving them. > What you're saying is already a good indicator that we need to make it > easier to put Sugar on a USB drive - for example, we're currently > working on a Creation Kit for Sugar on a Stick. > > Please keep us all on this list posted! > > --Sebastian > >> Creativity and collaboration. Wow. Hopefully we can explore all of the >> features. >> >> Marilyn :) > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Finally trying Sugar
Greetings Marilyn - that's very exciting! We are eager to hear about what works (& doesn't); don't hesitate to ask questions - there are teachers and techies here on the list! Sean On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:44 PM, wrote: > Hi there! > > Thanks to you all for your hard work. I am a high school tech teacher in > Texas. I wasn't able to figure out how to put Sugar on a USB drive, but was > able to burn it to a CD. Now I have made copies for all of my students > (115) plus a classroom set. We are going to play with it in class for the > next couple of weeks. The students who have tried it already and my own > children (8 & 10) are very excited about it. > > Creativity and collaboration. Wow. Hopefully we can explore all of the > features. > > > > Marilyn :) > > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Finally trying Sugar
mari...@ourdyslexicchildren.org wrote: > Hi there! > > Thanks to you all for your hard work. I am a high school tech teacher in > Texas. I wasn't able to figure out how to put Sugar on a USB drive, but > was able to burn it to a CD. Now I have made copies for all of my > students (115) plus a classroom set. We are going to play with it in > class for the next couple of weeks. The students who have tried it > already and my own children (8 & 10) are very excited about it. Hi Marilyn, thanks a lot for your e-mail. Your project sounds awesome! :) I'm the engineering lead of Sugar on a Stick and would be very interested in hearing about your experiences to work on improving them. What you're saying is already a good indicator that we need to make it easier to put Sugar on a USB drive - for example, we're currently working on a Creation Kit for Sugar on a Stick. Please keep us all on this list posted! --Sebastian > Creativity and collaboration. Wow. Hopefully we can explore all of the > features. > > Marilyn :) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Finally trying Sugar
Hi there! Thanks to you all for your hard work. I am a high school tech teacher in Texas. I wasn't able to figure out how to put Sugar on a USB drive, but was able to burn it to a CD. Now I have made copies for all of my students (115) plus a classroom set. We are going to play with it in class for the next couple of weeks. The students who have tried it already and my own children (8 & 10) are very excited about it. Creativity and collaboration. Wow. Hopefully we can explore all of the features. Marilyn :)___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
