Re: [Sugar-devel] SugarLabs.org new website - looking for opinions/ideas!

2015-02-26 Thread Aaron Borden
Very cool! The initial loading screen did seem a tad long but probably not
noticeable to most people with a modern laptop like mine. I wonder if
it's okay on an XO-1?

Is the code available somewhere? I checked sugarlab's github but didn't
see it :)


On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 05:02 -0800, Tymon Radzik dwg...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,
 
 last week I was working with Walter Bender on new SugarLabs website, as
 current one is too old and doesn't have attractive UI. Results of our work
 is here:
 
 http://sugarlabs.org/~tymon/
 
 New website is based on Bootstrap, with some plugins and self-written
 jQuery code. It uses Jekyll, so it doesn't need PHP anymore.
 
 We would like to ask you for opinions about this new website, for ideas
 what we can change/improve/add/fix.
 
 All suggestions are very welcome!
 
 Best,
 Tymon
 
 
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Process of updating translations for sugar and sugar-toolkit-gtk3

2015-02-26 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
Hi, can I have translating rights for pt-PT? I had them in the old pootle,
but my account didn't migrate to new one one, so I created a fresh
HoboPrimate account.

Thanks,
Eduardo

2015-02-26 15:02 GMT+00:00 Tymon Radzik dwg...@gmail.com:

 Hi,

 I am translating Sugar to Polish and I am really glad, my submissions will
 be used in Sugar :-)

 Regards,

 czw., 26 lut 2015 o 15:48 użytkownik Chris Leonard c...@sugarlabs.org
 napisał:

 Please note that other than the word 'Bundle all of the added words
 to sugar-toolkit-gtk3 are foreign language names.  Very often there
 are suggestions offered by the new Poolte UI (from other lists of
 language names) , which should allow a native speaker to go through
 these very quickly indeed.

 http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/

 On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Martin Abente Lahaye t...@sugarlabs.org
 wrote:
  Hello Everyone,
 
  Following with our roadmap [1], next week on March 6, I will release
 sugar
  0.104.1 with improved translations from sugar [2] and sugar-toolkit-gtk3
  [3]. So far, I have pushed translations for Dutch and Polish which are
 100%
  complete. There are other languages ie., Hindi, which are very close to
  completion.
 
  Would be great if we could complete as many languages as possible before
  March 6 to do QA on these translations before the release.
 
  Many thanks to those who contributed with these translations so far!
 
  Regards,
  Martin.
 
  Refs:
  1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap
  2. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/
  3. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/
 
 
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Process of updating translations for sugar and sugar-toolkit-gtk3

2015-02-26 Thread samson goddy
Nice, i just completed the Igbo language for Terminal and sugar-toolkit-gtk, 
and hopefully, i will get the other guys to finish the translation for both 
igbo and yoruba, Thanks again Martin for you generous support.

Regards 
Samson

Refs:1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap2. 
http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/3. 
http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/


Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:24:26 -0300
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To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; c...@sugarlabs.org; 
localizat...@lists.laptop.org
Subject: [Sugar-devel] Process of updating translations for sugar and   
sugar-toolkit-gtk3

Hello Everyone,
Following with our roadmap [1], next week on March 6, I will release sugar 
0.104.1 with improved translations from sugar [2] and sugar-toolkit-gtk3 [3]. 
So far, I have pushed translations for Dutch and Polish which are 100% 
complete. There are other languages ie., Hindi, which are very close to 
completion.
Would be great if we could complete as many languages as possible before March 
6 to do QA on these translations before the release.
Many thanks to those who contributed with these translations so far!
Regards,Martin.
Refs:1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap2. 
http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/3. 
http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/
 

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Re: [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-26 Thread Martin Abente
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:54 AM, Sam P. sam.parkins...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 +1

 I think there are some ways to improve hardware independence.  Integrating
 sugar with a display manager would make it work in many (traditional?) IT
 situations where you have computers with networked student accounts.

 Over the ensuing years, we have also made efforts to reach out in
 other ways, some more successful than others: Sugar has been ported to
 virtually every major flavor of GNU/Linux. As a community, it has been
 difficult to support all of those efforts, but some, such as Trisquel,
 rival Fedora, where we still do our development, in terms of
 stability. (We have lagged behind in our Ubuntu support; given its
 popularity this has been a tactical mistake.) We also initiated the
 Sugar on a Stick and Sugar in a virtual machine efforts, which opened
 the door to getting a taste of Sugar on iOS and MS Windows platforms.
 These products have matured and are well maintained. In anticipation
 of the tablet bubble, we added touch support to Sugar; (it works, but
 the good news is that most people serious about using tablets for
 learning are also including keyboards these days.) Sugar also runs
 nicely on Chromebooks, which are making some inroads into the
 classroom.

  Yeah, ubuntu is a big issue!

 And, as Lionel mentioned, already three years ago we began in earnest
 an effort to support Javascript as a first order language in Sugar so
 as to both invite a broader community of developers in and being to
 offer Sugar activities to users of web browsers and Android
 (eventually iPhone) devices. Lionel has expanded upon that effort to
 try to offer the whole Sugar experience, not just individual
 activities. This work is on-going and is the focus of our proposal to
 Google Summer of Code 2015.


  Yeah this is a really awesome movement.  Just throwing around another
 opportunity idea, sugar activities are written in GTK, meaning it would be
 possible to make sugar activities work inside GNOME (or other DEs) as
 windows. Turtle does this, but it would be cool to expand this to a general
 library (#GSOC?).

 TB becoming a spin out is a great way to widen sugar's reach.  Tb is an
 awesome first step towards coding, and export to python and stuff are
 great features that help in a further intro to coding.

 And it is worth noting that 50% of the patches in the latest Sugar
 release came from kids.

  Yeah, but did 50% of the ideas come from users?

 All of that said, our future is far from clear. OLPC and OLPC
 deployments have been the largest source of funding, albeit erratic,
 for Sugar development and maintenance. (We continue to get some
 funding from Google, Trip Advisor, et al., but these $s are not
 general funds for supporting developers and code maintenance.) It
 seems that the OLPC well is running dry (We have a few proposals
 circulating but none in hand at the moment.) We've gotten little
 support from other hardware vendors, I believe in part because many of
 them still see Sugar Labs as an extension of OLPC, with whom they were
 competing.


  Well why not do a needles ui/design change :). It would probably change
 people's perception if we changed the xo icon or something (a la android 5)
 and made ourselves less look connected to olpc.  Not something to rush out
 and do without thinking, not something that we should waste development
 time on either, but an idea.

 So either Sugar Labs finds support for the core development team to
 remain focused full-time on Sugar or we scale back our release cycle
 to one that can be managed entirely by part-time volunteers.

 There are opportunities out there: for example, partnering with some
 of the classroom management solutions; finding funding for specific
 programs, such as Turtle Blocks, and finding more hardware partners.
 Meanwhile, we also need to keep Sugar relevant. I take the long view
 there, in that I think the core pedagogical ideas in Sugar are sound
 and that over time we'll be better situated to get these ideas into
 the hands of learners. (For example, Android is becoming more
 Sugar-friendly as it evolves.)

 Some of the reflection ideas that OLPC AU was pushing seemed really
 great.  Hopefully they can get implemented.

 But I think whatever path we follow, consultation is the most important.
 One issue OLPCs and sugarlabs seems to have is the lack of consultation
 with students and teachers.  It is great that we have some educational idea
 or have read some paper about education that an 'expert' has written,
 however we are making an OS for students and teachers.  If the OS isn't
 helping students or if it confuses teachers, then what good is it really
 doing?  We can load sugar with data collection tools and what not, but
 nothing replaces talking to teachers, watching how they use sugar, and
 asking what they want changed.

 In fact this is not unique to Sugar and OLPC.  I am yet to use edutech at
 my school that feels like it was built 

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick, USB-HowTo as an Activity, in Home view.

2015-02-26 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 08:02 -0800, Thomas Gilliard wrote:
 On 02/26/2015 07:08 AM, Iain Brown Douglas wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  I have been making a presentation with the instructions and screen shots to 
  make Sugar on a Stick.
 
  I have written up my progress so far on [1] and placed three screen shots 
  here [2] [3] [4].
 
  A previous working title has been Sugar Stick Builder.
 
  I cannot find a one or two word title that fits the job.
 
  I think that my biggest blocker to opening my first github repository and 
  getting this uploaded, is fixing a name.
 
  Can anyone help me to decide the title for this Activity, please?
 
  With thanks in advance.
 
  Iain
 
  [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/SoaS_Writer
  [2] http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/soaswriterlaunching1.php
  [3] http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/soaswriterlaunching2.php
  [4] http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/soaswriterat-work.php
 
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 It is also possible to just run the command: liveusb-creator in root 
 terminal
 after # dnf install liveusb-creator is run.
 
 The new USB-creator will not show the PC harddrive just the USB's as 
 they are inserted and removed.
 It also allows a (dd) overtwrite option [5] or the traditional ability 
 to set a persistence file.
 
Thanks for pointing out that liveusb-creator has been upgraded. I will
test it.

Iain

 It would be nice to have a sugar-zed icon for this as a activity. (An 
 .xo wrapper to make it an activity.)
 
 Tom Gilliard
 satellit
 
 [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_22#liveusb-creator


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Re: [Sugar-devel] Process of updating translations for sugar and sugar-toolkit-gtk3

2015-02-26 Thread Chris Leonard
Please note that other than the word 'Bundle all of the added words
to sugar-toolkit-gtk3 are foreign language names.  Very often there
are suggestions offered by the new Poolte UI (from other lists of
language names) , which should allow a native speaker to go through
these very quickly indeed.

http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Martin Abente Lahaye t...@sugarlabs.org 
wrote:
 Hello Everyone,

 Following with our roadmap [1], next week on March 6, I will release sugar
 0.104.1 with improved translations from sugar [2] and sugar-toolkit-gtk3
 [3]. So far, I have pushed translations for Dutch and Polish which are 100%
 complete. There are other languages ie., Hindi, which are very close to
 completion.

 Would be great if we could complete as many languages as possible before
 March 6 to do QA on these translations before the release.

 Many thanks to those who contributed with these translations so far!

 Regards,
 Martin.

 Refs:
 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap
 2. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/
 3. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/


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Re: [Sugar-devel] Process of updating translations for sugar and sugar-toolkit-gtk3

2015-02-26 Thread Tymon Radzik
Hi,

I am translating Sugar to Polish and I am really glad, my submissions will
be used in Sugar :-)

Regards,

czw., 26 lut 2015 o 15:48 użytkownik Chris Leonard c...@sugarlabs.org
napisał:

 Please note that other than the word 'Bundle all of the added words
 to sugar-toolkit-gtk3 are foreign language names.  Very often there
 are suggestions offered by the new Poolte UI (from other lists of
 language names) , which should allow a native speaker to go through
 these very quickly indeed.

 http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/

 On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Martin Abente Lahaye t...@sugarlabs.org
 wrote:
  Hello Everyone,
 
  Following with our roadmap [1], next week on March 6, I will release
 sugar
  0.104.1 with improved translations from sugar [2] and sugar-toolkit-gtk3
  [3]. So far, I have pushed translations for Dutch and Polish which are
 100%
  complete. There are other languages ie., Hindi, which are very close to
  completion.
 
  Would be great if we could complete as many languages as possible before
  March 6 to do QA on these translations before the release.
 
  Many thanks to those who contributed with these translations so far!
 
  Regards,
  Martin.
 
  Refs:
  1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap
  2. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/
  3. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/
 
 
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick, USB-HowTo as an Activity, in Home view.

2015-02-26 Thread Thomas Gilliard

On 02/26/2015 07:08 AM, Iain Brown Douglas wrote:

Hi all,

I have been making a presentation with the instructions and screen shots to 
make Sugar on a Stick.

I have written up my progress so far on [1] and placed three screen shots here 
[2] [3] [4].

A previous working title has been Sugar Stick Builder.

I cannot find a one or two word title that fits the job.

I think that my biggest blocker to opening my first github repository and 
getting this uploaded, is fixing a name.

Can anyone help me to decide the title for this Activity, please?

With thanks in advance.

Iain

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/SoaS_Writer
[2] http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/soaswriterlaunching1.php
[3] http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/soaswriterlaunching2.php
[4] http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/soaswriterat-work.php

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It is also possible to just run the command: liveusb-creator in root 
terminal

after # dnf install liveusb-creator is run.

The new USB-creator will not show the PC harddrive just the USB's as 
they are inserted and removed.
It also allows a (dd) overtwrite option [5] or the traditional ability 
to set a persistence file.


It would be nice to have a sugar-zed icon for this as a activity. (An 
.xo wrapper to make it an activity.)


Tom Gilliard
satellit

[5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_22#liveusb-creator
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Process of updating translations for sugar and sugar-toolkit-gtk3

2015-02-26 Thread Martin Abente Lahaye
Wonderful! Let me know how it goes with sugar, would be great to have it in
the release :)

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:32 AM, samson goddy samsongo...@hotmail.com
wrote:

 Nice, i just completed the Igbo language for Terminal and
 sugar-toolkit-gtk, and hopefully, i will get the other guys to finish the
 translation for both igbo and yoruba, Thanks again Martin for you generous
 support.

 Regards
 Samson

 Refs:
 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap
 2. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/
 3. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/



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 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:24:26 -0300
 From: t...@sugarlabs.org
 To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; c...@sugarlabs.org;
 localizat...@lists.laptop.org
 Subject: [Sugar-devel] Process of updating translations for sugar and
 sugar-toolkit-gtk3


 Hello Everyone,

 Following with our roadmap [1], next week on March 6, I will release sugar
 0.104.1 with improved translations from sugar [2] and sugar-toolkit-gtk3
 [3]. So far, I have pushed translations for Dutch and Polish which are 100%
 complete. There are other languages ie., Hindi, which are very close to
 completion.

 Would be great if we could complete as many languages as possible before
 March 6 to do QA on these translations before the release.

 Many thanks to those who contributed with these translations so far!

 Regards,
 Martin.

 Refs:
 1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap
 2. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/
 3. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/



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Re: [Sugar-devel] [Sur] bye !

2015-02-26 Thread Walter Bender
If only we could have figured out a way to bottle you and distribute
you like Coca Cola. Your alumnae tell the whole story. Thank you.

-walter

2015-02-26 1:03 GMT-05:00 Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org:
 Es importante saber y poder emponderar a los chicos, creo que los chicos se
 sintieron alumnos pasivos y a la hora de emprender se vieron intimidados con
 el reto. Creo que es normal, sobretodo si el trabajo sabe a escuela. Otro
 quizas seria el objetivo o la meta, creo que un premio o una vision es lo
 que hara que los chicos se avienten a tener algo al final del camino.

 Lo digo por que cuando era chico, me meti a estudiar programacion por que
 hicieron un demo de robotica y como en los 80's los robots, y animatronicos
 eran la moda. Claro que querias tener el dominio de todo eso, y eso me
 motivo a estar por algunos anios e inclusive pasarme horas trucando un
 videojuego (tenia 11 anios). Recuerdo que al salir de clases, en la noche
 veia una serie llamada automan que era una recarga de baterias
 motivacionales a seguirle dando a la commodore 64. (lo se, ya mostre mi edad
 a tambor y fanfarria). Pero bueno a los que les haya tocado aqui dejo el
 video:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ec7qIaUo68

 2015-02-26 0:52 GMT-05:00 nanon...@mediagala.com:

 On 25/02/2015 22:56, Flavio Danesse wrote:
 Si verdaderamente se quiere cambiar el mundo, no se necesitan más
  computadoras ni más programadores, lo que se necesitan son personas
  distintas.

 -


 Te mando un gran saludo, Flavio, y te felicito por todo lo que hiciste
 estos años con tantos chicos que ahora seguramente ahora son personas
 distintas como  comentabas.

 Creo que el sólo hecho de de que haya chicos que ahora tienen la cabeza
 más abierta a resolver nuevos problemas que les pone la vida es un logro más
 que meritorio,  creo que tus esfuerzos y tu trabajo han dado buenísimos
 resultados.

 Vos decías en tu mensaje que no lograste todos tus objetivos al 100%, pero
 creo que ese es el sentido de la vida, tener siempre algo que nos quedó por
 hacer , alguna otra nueva meta o logro que queremos hacer en un futuro.

 Cualquier meta que te hubieses puesto no podrías haberla logrado nunca al
 100%, ya que creo que el sueño de todo Maestro es que sus alumnos lo superen
 en un futuro, y creo que abriéndoles la cabeza al enseñarles programación lo
 has logrado.
 Lo que quiero decir es que si tus alumnos hubiesen hecho a rajatabla todo
 lo que habías planificado, en realidad ese no sería el objetivo último que
 vos te proponías, que era que fuesen mejores personas. Tu objetivo no era
 que te hicieran caso y que hicieran lo que les enseñabas y nada más, tu
 objetivo era que hicieran otras cosas nuevas y mejores de las que les
 enseñaste, y en ese sentido sí que has cumplido esa meta, o sea rumbearlos
 hacia la vida.


 Paolo Benini
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-26 Thread Walter Bender
+1

PS: 50% of the ideas came from you and Ignacio :)

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Sam P. sam.parkins...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 +1

 I think there are some ways to improve hardware independence.  Integrating
 sugar with a display manager would make it work in many (traditional?) IT
 situations where you have computers with networked student accounts.

 Over the ensuing years, we have also made efforts to reach out in
 other ways, some more successful than others: Sugar has been ported to
 virtually every major flavor of GNU/Linux. As a community, it has been
 difficult to support all of those efforts, but some, such as Trisquel,
 rival Fedora, where we still do our development, in terms of
 stability. (We have lagged behind in our Ubuntu support; given its
 popularity this has been a tactical mistake.) We also initiated the
 Sugar on a Stick and Sugar in a virtual machine efforts, which opened
 the door to getting a taste of Sugar on iOS and MS Windows platforms.
 These products have matured and are well maintained. In anticipation
 of the tablet bubble, we added touch support to Sugar; (it works, but
 the good news is that most people serious about using tablets for
 learning are also including keyboards these days.) Sugar also runs
 nicely on Chromebooks, which are making some inroads into the
 classroom.

 Yeah, ubuntu is a big issue!

 And, as Lionel mentioned, already three years ago we began in earnest
 an effort to support Javascript as a first order language in Sugar so
 as to both invite a broader community of developers in and being to
 offer Sugar activities to users of web browsers and Android
 (eventually iPhone) devices. Lionel has expanded upon that effort to
 try to offer the whole Sugar experience, not just individual
 activities. This work is on-going and is the focus of our proposal to
 Google Summer of Code 2015.


 Yeah this is a really awesome movement.  Just throwing around another
 opportunity idea, sugar activities are written in GTK, meaning it would be
 possible to make sugar activities work inside GNOME (or other DEs) as
 windows. Turtle does this, but it would be cool to expand this to a general
 library (#GSOC?).

 TB becoming a spin out is a great way to widen sugar's reach.  Tb is an
 awesome first step towards coding, and export to python and stuff are
 great features that help in a further intro to coding.

 And it is worth noting that 50% of the patches in the latest Sugar
 release came from kids.

 Yeah, but did 50% of the ideas come from users?

 All of that said, our future is far from clear. OLPC and OLPC
 deployments have been the largest source of funding, albeit erratic,
 for Sugar development and maintenance. (We continue to get some
 funding from Google, Trip Advisor, et al., but these $s are not
 general funds for supporting developers and code maintenance.) It
 seems that the OLPC well is running dry (We have a few proposals
 circulating but none in hand at the moment.) We've gotten little
 support from other hardware vendors, I believe in part because many of
 them still see Sugar Labs as an extension of OLPC, with whom they were
 competing.


 Well why not do a needles ui/design change :). It would probably change
 people's perception if we changed the xo icon or something (a la android 5)
 and made ourselves less look connected to olpc.  Not something to rush out
 and do without thinking, not something that we should waste development time
 on either, but an idea.

 So either Sugar Labs finds support for the core development team to
 remain focused full-time on Sugar or we scale back our release cycle
 to one that can be managed entirely by part-time volunteers.

 There are opportunities out there: for example, partnering with some
 of the classroom management solutions; finding funding for specific
 programs, such as Turtle Blocks, and finding more hardware partners.
 Meanwhile, we also need to keep Sugar relevant. I take the long view
 there, in that I think the core pedagogical ideas in Sugar are sound
 and that over time we'll be better situated to get these ideas into
 the hands of learners. (For example, Android is becoming more
 Sugar-friendly as it evolves.)

 Some of the reflection ideas that OLPC AU was pushing seemed really great.
 Hopefully they can get implemented.

 But I think whatever path we follow, consultation is the most important.
 One issue OLPCs and sugarlabs seems to have is the lack of consultation with
 students and teachers.  It is great that we have some educational idea or
 have read some paper about education that an 'expert' has written, however
 we are making an OS for students and teachers.  If the OS isn't helping
 students or if it confuses teachers, then what good is it really doing?  We
 can load sugar with data collection tools and what not, but nothing replaces
 talking to teachers, watching how they use sugar, and asking what they want
 changed.

 In fact this is not unique to Sugar and OLPC.  I am yet to use 

[Sugar-devel] Process of updating translations for sugar and sugar-toolkit-gtk3

2015-02-26 Thread Martin Abente Lahaye
Hello Everyone,

Following with our roadmap [1], next week on March 6, I will release sugar
0.104.1 with improved translations from sugar [2] and sugar-toolkit-gtk3
[3]. So far, I have pushed translations for Dutch and Polish which are 100%
complete. There are other languages ie., Hindi, which are very close to
completion.

Would be great if we could complete as many languages as possible before
March 6 to do QA on these translations before the release.

Many thanks to those who contributed with these translations so far!

Regards,
Martin.

Refs:
1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap
2. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/
3. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/
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[Sugar-devel] SugarLabs.org new website - looking for opinions/ideas!

2015-02-26 Thread Tymon Radzik
Hello,

last week I was working with Walter Bender on new SugarLabs website, as
current one is too old and doesn't have attractive UI. Results of our work
is here:

http://sugarlabs.org/~tymon/

New website is based on Bootstrap, with some plugins and self-written
jQuery code. It uses Jekyll, so it doesn't need PHP anymore.

We would like to ask you for opinions about this new website, for ideas
what we can change/improve/add/fix.

All suggestions are very welcome!

Best,
Tymon
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[Sugar-devel] Fedora 22 Alpha Test Compose (SoaS 22)

2015-02-26 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All,

The first compose towards SoaS 22 is out [2][3][4]. I've done some
very basic testing and there's problems even failing to start with the
following Activities:
* Terminal
* Speak
* Pippy
* Ruler

So if someone could look and see why that would be fab!

Also there's a plan to move to Libinput for F-22+. We have an option,
at least at the moment to stick with the old input devices but it
would be good for someone to review. Basically it doesn't impact
standard use but the configuration of input devices so I'm not sure if
the Keyboard control panel would need to be updated.

Also a reminder we've dropped anything depending on
sugar-presence-service (eToys) by default so if people really want it
the time is now to get it fixed!

Peter

[1] fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/LibinputForXorg
[2] ARM 
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/8406/9078406/Fedora-SoaS-armhfp-22_Alpha-TC6-sda.raw.xz
[3] x86_64 
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/8357/9078357/Fedora-Live-SoaS-x86_64-22_Alpha-TC6.iso
[4] i686 
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/8353/9078353/Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-22_Alpha-TC6.iso
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Sugar on a Stick, USB-HowTo as an Activity, in Home view.

2015-02-26 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 16:53 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote:
 On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 08:02 -0800, Thomas Gilliard wrote:
  ...
  It is also possible to just run the command: liveusb-creator in root 
  terminal
  after # dnf install liveusb-creator is run.
  
  The new USB-creator will not show the PC harddrive just the USB's as 
  they are inserted and removed.
  It also allows a (dd) overtwrite option [5] or the traditional ability 
  to set a persistence file.
  
 Thanks for pointing out that liveusb-creator has been upgraded. I will
 test it.
 
I have not previously tested liveusb-creator because of this comment on
[1]:

...Live USB Creator 
(This installation method is NOT recommended for LONG-TERM usage
of Sugar on a Stick!! Catastrophic data corruption may occur
when the USB stick gets full! See why.)


Is this critique regarded as valid?

Is it the case that liveusb-creator makes *one only* persistent storage
area, with zero Home filesystem as opposed to livecd-iso-to-disk
creating two?

With thanks,
Iain

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Windows


 Iain
 
  It would be nice to have a sugar-zed icon for this as a activity. (An 
  .xo wrapper to make it an activity.)
  
  Tom Gilliard
  satellit
  
  [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_22#liveusb-creator
 
 
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Re: [Sugar-devel] SugarLabs.org new website - looking for opinions/ideas!

2015-02-26 Thread James Cameron
I did that the first time, and I repeated it now.  There was no
real difference.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:10:54PM +, Tymon Radzik wrote:
 Hello,
 please try to visit [1]http://sugarlabs.org/~tymon instead of [2]http://
 people.sugarlabs.org/~tymon , then there won't be any 304 redirects. Thank you
 for other suggestions I will take a look on them tomorrow.
 Tymon
 
 czw., 26 lut 2015 o 22:57 użytkownik James Cameron [3]qu...@laptop.org
 napisał:
 
 It took a long time to load.  See Firefox developer console
 screenshots of query load times:
 
 [4]http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2015-02-27/tymon-load-times.png
 [5]http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2015-02-27/original-load-times.png
 
 I suggest you check yourself the load times without cache, and reduce
 the number of servers that have to be resolved.  Also identify the
 network speeds of the target market, and how they will perceive load
 times.
 
 The black text on saturated colours was very hard to read, because
 there was not enough contrast between the text and the background.
 
 The animation of the titles seems unnecessary and distracting.
 
 Some of the introduction is repeated word for word in the About
 section.
 
 The style of the embedded activities element is inconsistent with the
 surrounding page style.
 
 Given recent discussions, there's probably an overemphasis on history
 of Sugar, or the history of computing.
 
 Otherwise, good progress.
 
 --
 James Cameron
 [6]http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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 References:
 
 [1] http://sugarlabs.org/~tymon
 [2] http://people.sugarlabs.org/~tymon
 [3] mailto:qu...@laptop.org
 [4] http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2015-02-27/tymon-load-times.png
 [5] http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2015-02-27/original-load-times.png
 [6] http://quozl.linux.org.au/
 [7] mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org
 [8] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

-- 
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http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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Re: [Sugar-devel] SugarLabs.org new website - looking for opinions/ideas!

2015-02-26 Thread James Cameron
It took a long time to load.  See Firefox developer console
screenshots of query load times:

http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2015-02-27/tymon-load-times.png
http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2015-02-27/original-load-times.png

I suggest you check yourself the load times without cache, and reduce
the number of servers that have to be resolved.  Also identify the
network speeds of the target market, and how they will perceive load
times.

The black text on saturated colours was very hard to read, because
there was not enough contrast between the text and the background.

The animation of the titles seems unnecessary and distracting.

Some of the introduction is repeated word for word in the About
section.

The style of the embedded activities element is inconsistent with the
surrounding page style.

Given recent discussions, there's probably an overemphasis on history
of Sugar, or the history of computing.

Otherwise, good progress.

--
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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Re: [Sugar-devel] SugarLabs.org new website - looking for opinions/ideas!

2015-02-26 Thread Tymon Radzik
Hello,
please try to visit http://sugarlabs.org/~tymon instead of
http://people.sugarlabs.org/~tymon , then there won't be any 304 redirects.
Thank you for other suggestions I will take a look on them tomorrow.
Tymon

czw., 26 lut 2015 o 22:57 użytkownik James Cameron qu...@laptop.org
napisał:

 It took a long time to load.  See Firefox developer console
 screenshots of query load times:

 http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2015-02-27/tymon-load-times.png
 http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2015-02-27/original-load-times.png

 I suggest you check yourself the load times without cache, and reduce
 the number of servers that have to be resolved.  Also identify the
 network speeds of the target market, and how they will perceive load
 times.

 The black text on saturated colours was very hard to read, because
 there was not enough contrast between the text and the background.

 The animation of the titles seems unnecessary and distracting.

 Some of the introduction is repeated word for word in the About
 section.

 The style of the embedded activities element is inconsistent with the
 surrounding page style.

 Given recent discussions, there's probably an overemphasis on history
 of Sugar, or the history of computing.

 Otherwise, good progress.

 --
 James Cameron
 http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Sugar on a Stick, USB-HowTo as an Activity, in Home view.

2015-02-26 Thread Thomas Gilliard

On 02/26/2015 02:28 PM, Iain Brown Douglas wrote:

On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 16:53 +, Iain Brown Douglas wrote:

On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 08:02 -0800, Thomas Gilliard wrote:

...
It is also possible to just run the command: liveusb-creator in root
terminal
after # dnf install liveusb-creator is run.

The new USB-creator will not show the PC harddrive just the USB's as
they are inserted and removed.
It also allows a (dd) overtwrite option [5] or the traditional ability
to set a persistence file.


Thanks for pointing out that liveusb-creator has been upgraded. I will
test it.


I have not previously tested liveusb-creator because of this comment on
[1]:

...Live USB Creator
 (This installation method is NOT recommended for LONG-TERM usage
 of Sugar on a Stick!! Catastrophic data corruption may occur
 when the USB stick gets full! See why.)


Is this critique regarded as valid?

Is it the case that liveusb-creator makes *one only* persistent storage
area, with zero Home filesystem as opposed to livecd-iso-to-disk
creating two?
Live USB Creator  has a new feature is allowing a destructive (dd) 
install to USB [1]

This is a safer way to move the xxx.iso to a USB and make it bootable.
look at the referenced .png and the wiki page link a gave earlier [2]
The fedora 21 installer (root terminal in sugar:#liveinst is shown with 
screenshots and narration here [3]


If you choose persistence and move slider it is only persistent for a 
short time and does corrupt and

stop eventually.

For a slow but really persistent USB install to a 8 GB usb ext4 with no 
swap with liveinst


I use external USB HD all the time to install to and they are cheap and 
quite large these days.


Tom Gilliard
satellit




[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Cinnamon_liveusb-creator_f21.png
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Liveusb_Creator
[3] 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_21#Fedora-21_anaconda_21.48.1-1_installer


With thanks,
Iain

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Windows



Iain


It would be nice to have a sugar-zed icon for this as a activity. (An
.xo wrapper to make it an activity.)

Tom Gilliard
satellit

[5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_22#liveusb-creator


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Re: [Sugar-devel] Process of updating translations for sugar and sugar-toolkit-gtk3

2015-02-26 Thread Martin Abente
Hello Eduardo,

You should be able to submmit translations to all Portuguese projects now
[1].

Regards,
Martin.

Refs:
1. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/pt/

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Hi, can I have translating rights for pt-PT? I had them in the old pootle,
 but my account didn't migrate to new one one, so I created a fresh
 HoboPrimate account.

 Thanks,
 Eduardo

 2015-02-26 15:02 GMT+00:00 Tymon Radzik dwg...@gmail.com:

 Hi,

 I am translating Sugar to Polish and I am really glad, my submissions
 will be used in Sugar :-)

 Regards,

 czw., 26 lut 2015 o 15:48 użytkownik Chris Leonard c...@sugarlabs.org
 napisał:

 Please note that other than the word 'Bundle all of the added words
 to sugar-toolkit-gtk3 are foreign language names.  Very often there
 are suggestions offered by the new Poolte UI (from other lists of
 language names) , which should allow a native speaker to go through
 these very quickly indeed.

 http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/

 On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Martin Abente Lahaye t...@sugarlabs.org
 wrote:
  Hello Everyone,
 
  Following with our roadmap [1], next week on March 6, I will release
 sugar
  0.104.1 with improved translations from sugar [2] and
 sugar-toolkit-gtk3
  [3]. So far, I have pushed translations for Dutch and Polish which are
 100%
  complete. There are other languages ie., Hindi, which are very close to
  completion.
 
  Would be great if we could complete as many languages as possible
 before
  March 6 to do QA on these translations before the release.
 
  Many thanks to those who contributed with these translations so far!
 
  Regards,
  Martin.
 
  Refs:
  1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap
  2. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/
  3. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/
 
 
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Re: [Sugar-devel] Process of updating translations for sugar and sugar-toolkit-gtk3

2015-02-26 Thread Martin Abente Lahaye
Thanks Tymon! Your contributions are appreciated!

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Tymon Radzik dwg...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 I am translating Sugar to Polish and I am really glad, my submissions will
 be used in Sugar :-)

 Regards,

 czw., 26 lut 2015 o 15:48 użytkownik Chris Leonard c...@sugarlabs.org
 napisał:

 Please note that other than the word 'Bundle all of the added words
 to sugar-toolkit-gtk3 are foreign language names.  Very often there
 are suggestions offered by the new Poolte UI (from other lists of
 language names) , which should allow a native speaker to go through
 these very quickly indeed.

 http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/

 On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Martin Abente Lahaye t...@sugarlabs.org
 wrote:
  Hello Everyone,
 
  Following with our roadmap [1], next week on March 6, I will release
 sugar
  0.104.1 with improved translations from sugar [2] and sugar-toolkit-gtk3
  [3]. So far, I have pushed translations for Dutch and Polish which are
 100%
  complete. There are other languages ie., Hindi, which are very close to
  completion.
 
  Would be great if we could complete as many languages as possible before
  March 6 to do QA on these translations before the release.
 
  Many thanks to those who contributed with these translations so far!
 
  Regards,
  Martin.
 
  Refs:
  1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.104/Roadmap
  2. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/
  3. http://translate.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/
 
 
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