[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Sugar Labs Website Revamp Links-Feedback Request
Swaran and Anisha, Wish if you could coordinate and send the pics, case study, videos and other materials to Chris - 1. DAV Pilot project 2. DPS Workshop Copying Hemant on the memo. Regards, Manu -- Forwarded message -- From: Christian Marc Schmidt christianm...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:52:27 -0800 Subject: Fwd: Sugar Labs Website Revamp Links-Feedback Request To: m...@laptop.org Hi Manusheel--I'm forwarding you John's original email that also includes links to the content and design documents we looked at just now. Christian -- Forwarded message -- From: John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:40 PM Subject: Sugar Labs Website Revamp Links-Feedback Request To: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com, Sean Daly sdaly...@gmail.com, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org, Stefan Unterhauser d...@sugarlabs.org, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com, Sebastian Silva sebast...@somosazucar.org, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com, Fred Grose fgr...@gmail.com, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com, Christoph Derdoff e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at, eri...@sugarlabs.org, gonz...@laptop.org, Pablo Flores pflor...@gmail.com, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu, Kevin Brooks kevin.bro...@ndsu.edu, Chris Lindgren chris.lindg...@ndsu.edu, Thomas Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com, Marco Presentti Gritti marc...@sugarlabs.org, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net, fors...@ozonline.com.au, csc...@cscott.net, Michael Stone michael.r.st...@gmail.com, qu...@laptop.org, alsr...@activitycentral.org, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com, b...@freudenbergs.de, nices...@gmail.com, tabi...@tabitha.net.nz, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org Cc: John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com, Christian Scmidt anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com Hello All, Following up on yesterday's email to the community on the Sugar Labs Website Revamp I wanted to get the document links to key individuals in the community and make a personal plea for assistance on behalf of Christian Marc Schmidt, myself, and the Bright Future of Sugar Labs. I am acting as a facilitator on this effort with the Design effort being led by Christian Marc Schmidt, who many of you have worked with. Christian has been involved with Sugar Labs and its Design initiatives(beginning in the Original OLPC days if I am correct) will be constructing the site when we have amassed enough content to get the new site off the ground. Christian would appreciate your feedback on his Design work along with taking a look at the Sugar Labs Website Refresh: Content Document* *he has put together that lays out the vision. We would very much appreciate if you might have the chance to email Christian and me(we are CC'd above) and let us know your overall comments/suggestions/enhancements before our IRC Meeting Sunday Jan. 8th 11amEST-16:00 UTC.(After works too). Also if there are any areas you believe you could be particularly helpful with let us know or if you can forward this to someone in your circles that could-Please do so. The three links follow: *Christian's Design Template-Proposed New Visually Centered/Modular Design * *http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/index.html*http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/index.html *Sugar Labs Website Refresh: Content Document-Christian March Schmidt* Please Add Comments-Suggestions-Links-Images-Videos Or Suggested Contacts we should reach out to* * who may have content for specific areas within document* **SugarlabsRefreshContent_2027_v3_cms.docxhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1eLKBgFb2nAok6kQ_iyOTPlXISc5NVemtGstZThw78X0/edit *Content Collected and Organized by RIT Co-op students JT Mengel Mike Devine last year.* Sugar Labs Websitehttps://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1XwLZjkdNmEMTNhOWE0YTEtOWJhOS00Mjg4LTkxZjktZjQ4MTQ4NTNlMWEz Thanks in Advance! John Tierney and Christian Marc Schmidt -- anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com 917/ 575 0013 http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com http://www.facebook.com/christianmarcschmidt http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmarcschmidt http://twitter.com/cms_ Skype: christianmarcschmidt ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] USB permissions for educational robots
fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Andres Aguirre wrote: Here in uruguay xo`s are distributed with no permission to install rpm or modify udev rules, so is very important to have this rules added to work with butiá 2.0 and nxt in a near future. fyi The Arduino IDE seems to need to run as root to see Arduino boards http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2012/01/arduino-and-xo-laptop.html (though it would be hard to install the IDE without being root) might be relevant Tony so, that's yet another another request for more open permissions on USB devices plugged in to the laptop. last time this came up, i wrote: we can add it, but clearly it would be best if deployments or even local classrooms could add new device capabilities on their own. because as soon as we say great, we're done, someone will create a new USB device that kids and teachers everywhere will want to use. i would greatly appreciate someone coming up with a scheme to allow the end-user, or a deployment, to add devices on their own. perhaps the user should be given r/w permission for any USB device. (yes, i understand there are big risks with that. feel free to propose exceptions that would make this safe.) i would like to propose giving user-level read/write access to any USB device which isn't an auto-mounted filesystem. perhaps an easier rule would be, any non-storage USB device. can anyone think of reasons that this would be unacceptable? (i assume, but don't know, that this would not be hard to implement. paul =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs Website Revamp Links-Feedback Request
Sincere apologies for copying the wrong list serv - development (sugar-devel) list serv. Will be careful next time. Regards, Manu On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Swaran and Anisha, Wish if you could coordinate and send the pics, case study, videos and other materials to Chris - 1. DAV Pilot project 2. DPS Workshop Copying Hemant on the memo. Regards, Manu -- Forwarded message -- From: Christian Marc Schmidt christianm...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:52:27 -0800 Subject: Fwd: Sugar Labs Website Revamp Links-Feedback Request To: m...@laptop.org Hi Manusheel--I'm forwarding you John's original email that also includes links to the content and design documents we looked at just now. Christian -- Forwarded message -- From: John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:40 PM Subject: Sugar Labs Website Revamp Links-Feedback Request To: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com, Sean Daly sdaly...@gmail.com , Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org, Stefan Unterhauser d...@sugarlabs.org, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com, Sebastian Silva sebast...@somosazucar.org, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com, Fred Grose fgr...@gmail.com, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com, Christoph Derdoff e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at, eri...@sugarlabs.org, gonz...@laptop.org, Pablo Flores pflor...@gmail.com, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu, Kevin Brooks kevin.bro...@ndsu.edu, Chris Lindgren chris.lindg...@ndsu.edu, Thomas Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com, Marco Presentti Gritti marc...@sugarlabs.org, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net, fors...@ozonline.com.au, csc...@cscott.net, Michael Stone michael.r.st...@gmail.com, qu...@laptop.org, alsr...@activitycentral.org, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com, b...@freudenbergs.de, nices...@gmail.com, tabi...@tabitha.net.nz, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org Cc: John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com, Christian Scmidt anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com Hello All, Following up on yesterday's email to the community on the Sugar Labs Website Revamp I wanted to get the document links to key individuals in the community and make a personal plea for assistance on behalf of Christian Marc Schmidt, myself, and the Bright Future of Sugar Labs. I am acting as a facilitator on this effort with the Design effort being led by Christian Marc Schmidt, who many of you have worked with. Christian has been involved with Sugar Labs and its Design initiatives(beginning in the Original OLPC days if I am correct) will be constructing the site when we have amassed enough content to get the new site off the ground. Christian would appreciate your feedback on his Design work along with taking a look at the Sugar Labs Website Refresh: Content Document* *he has put together that lays out the vision. We would very much appreciate if you might have the chance to email Christian and me(we are CC'd above) and let us know your overall comments/suggestions/enhancements before our IRC Meeting Sunday Jan. 8th 11amEST-16:00 UTC.(After works too). Also if there are any areas you believe you could be particularly helpful with let us know or if you can forward this to someone in your circles that could-Please do so. The three links follow: *Christian's Design Template-Proposed New Visually Centered/Modular Design * *http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/index.html* http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/projects/sugarlabs/index.html *Sugar Labs Website Refresh: Content Document-Christian March Schmidt* Please Add Comments-Suggestions-Links-Images-Videos Or Suggested Contacts we should reach out to* * who may have content for specific areas within document* **SugarlabsRefreshContent_2027_v3_cms.docx https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eLKBgFb2nAok6kQ_iyOTPlXISc5NVemtGstZThw78X0/edit *Content Collected and Organized by RIT Co-op students JT Mengel Mike Devine last year.* Sugar Labs Website https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B1XwLZjkdNmEMTNhOWE0YTEtOWJhOS00Mjg4LTkxZjktZjQ4MTQ4NTNlMWEz Thanks in Advance! John Tierney and Christian Marc Schmidt -- anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com 917/ 575 0013 http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com http://www.facebook.com/christianmarcschmidt http://www.linkedin.com/in/christianmarcschmidt http://twitter.com/cms_ Skype: christianmarcschmidt ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURES][DESIGN] Network proxy configuration
On 19 January 2012 21:16, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: If OLPC-AU has been telling their users to set the proxy via GNOME before that is useful information. Other deployments might have set a proxy in the build itself? To confirm, we do tell users to configure their proxy using the GNOME tool (gnome-network-properties). Switching to GNOME just to do this is tiresome, so we have a Sugar activity launcher for it. This is a workaround, and we would prefer a native Sugar CP applet. Sridhar ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Ruler-17
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4192 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.96 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27818/ruler-17.xo Release notes: 17 * Initial support for XO 3.0 Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release MouseCam-4
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4487 Sugar Platform: 0.88 - 0.96 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/27827/mousecam-4.xo Release notes: + resolution supported in sugar 0.94 + sugarized icon + cam is release correctly at closing the activity Sugar Labs Activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURES][DESIGN] Network proxy configuration
Hi Sridhar, On 23 Jan 2012, at 01:08, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 19 January 2012 21:16, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: If OLPC-AU has been telling their users to set the proxy via GNOME before that is useful information. Other deployments might have set a proxy in the build itself? To confirm, we do tell users to configure their proxy using the GNOME tool (gnome-network-properties). Switching to GNOME just to do this is tiresome, so we have a Sugar activity launcher for it. This is a workaround, and we would prefer a native Sugar CP applet. Do you think this functionality could be folded into the Network CP UI or are there a heap of inputs? We could make better use of Network CP horizontal space regarding text blocks, and gain some vertical space to reduce potential scrolling overflows for adding an extra field with text description. --Gary Sridhar ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [FEATURES][DESIGN] Network proxy configuration
On 23 January 2012 13:02, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Sridhar, On 23 Jan 2012, at 01:08, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 19 January 2012 21:16, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: If OLPC-AU has been telling their users to set the proxy via GNOME before that is useful information. Other deployments might have set a proxy in the build itself? To confirm, we do tell users to configure their proxy using the GNOME tool (gnome-network-properties). Switching to GNOME just to do this is tiresome, so we have a Sugar activity launcher for it. This is a workaround, and we would prefer a native Sugar CP applet. Do you think this functionality could be folded into the Network CP UI or are there a heap of inputs? We could make better use of Network CP horizontal space regarding text blocks, and gain some vertical space to reduce potential scrolling overflows for adding an extra field with text description. I think it could be folded, provided that no features are lost. We need the entire feature set of gnome-network-properties to be available, with the possible exception of the Location picker (although that would be nice too). Sridhar ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Announcing: ASLOxo-6-3 DVD -Updated: Added new activities from the sugar-devel list up to: 01/21/2012
This is what I have been using to test activities with in a DVD format: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Activity_Matrix#Most_Recent-Activity_Test_Results Cordially; Tom Gilliard satellit_ on #sugar * http://download.sugarlabs.org/images/ASLOxo6-3.iso 3.2 GB (DVD) *Updated: Added new activities from the sugar-devel list up to:* 01/21/2012 To View tests and compatibility of some of the included Activities (works off-line) on the included *Activity_Matrix* web page; Open the *Activity_Matrix.html* file in the *Activity_List Folder* on the DVD with Firefox, or in Sugar Browse 129 or Surf 115. Or. Copy contents of DVD to a USB-stick and open the USB-stick *Activity_Matrix.html* file in Sugar Browse 129 or Surf 115. - (Browse 130 does not open it in f17) * Suggestion: *copy only the ones* you want from the DVD to a (fat 16/32) USB-stick; Insert it and use it to drag-drop install a custom suite of activities to Sugar. Activities.xo files can be installed by drag-dropping them into the Sugar Journal from a mounted DVD or a USB to which they have been copied. * *Use as an off-line sneaker net- Download one time and have an off-line library of Sugar-activities on hand.* ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
