Re: Active activities as Widgets

2007-11-29 Thread Morgan Collett
Gerard J. Cerchio wrote: I would like the ability to exploit other active activities in my own activity. Rainbow is designed to specifically disallow this. If a video conference is already active, and the participants wish to PlayGo I would like to have a panel in the PlayGo application

Re: Active activities as Widgets

2007-11-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:15 , Morgan Collett wrote: Sugar will gain a feature called overlay chat, once we've got higher priority collaboration stuff completed, which will automagically add chat functionality to any (sugarised, python) activity. I thought this was intended to be a feature

Re: Active activities as Widgets

2007-11-29 Thread Morgan Collett
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:15 , Morgan Collett wrote: Sugar will gain a feature called overlay chat, once we've got higher priority collaboration stuff completed, which will automagically add chat functionality to any (sugarised, python) activity. I thought this was

Re: [sugar] Royal National Institute for the Blind low-vision fonts now under GPL v3 - use in OLPC?

2007-11-29 Thread Ed Trager
Albert Cahalan mentioned SIL Andika. I would like to elaborate a bit for those unfamiliar with this font. SIL's Andika font is specifically designed for literacy. Here's what SIL says: Andika is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font designed especially for literacy use, taking into account the

Re: WSJ

2007-11-29 Thread Ed Trager
I have a few comments for this thread: -- (1) Porting Sugar+Activities to Competitors' Offerings : No. -- On Nov 29, 2007 12:12

Re: WSJ

2007-11-29 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
Classmate and OLPC was on CNN (Europe) today in Nigeria. No mention of this - but compared Classmate and OLPC and showed schools in use. Slightly more coverage on Classmate - and compared not so much hardware and software but strategies of use, etc.

Re: Active activities as Widgets

2007-11-29 Thread Gerard J. Cerchio
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 9:30 AM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:15 , Morgan Collett wrote: Sugar will gain a feature called overlay chat, once we've got higher priority collaboration stuff completed, which will automagically add

Re: OLPC's ready for delivery

2007-11-29 Thread Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
How long does it take to hear back? I submitted a request last week IIRC. - Original Message - From: Gerard J. Cerchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:59 PM Subject: Re: OLPC's ready for delivery Michael

New joyride build 357

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Re: [sugar] Royal National Institute for the Blind low-vision fonts now under GPL v3 - use in OLPC?

2007-11-29 Thread elw
Albert Cahalan mentioned SIL Andika. I would like to elaborate a bit for those unfamiliar with this font. SIL's Andika font is specifically designed for literacy. Here's what SIL says: Speaking of designed for literacy... has anyone investigated moving Paolo Freire-inspired literacy

Re: [spam] Re: Active activities as Widgets

2007-11-29 Thread Gerard J. Cerchio
Eben Eliason wrote: Can you elaborate on the inadequacies you see in this design? It would be useful as we move forward with considerations for the ubiquitous chat interface. Unless specifically necessary to the activity in some fashion, we'd prefer to depend on this interface, preventing

Re: OLPC's ready for delivery

2007-11-29 Thread Jim Gettys
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 17:50 +0100, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu wrote: How long does it take to hear back? I submitted a request last week IIRC. A random amount of time, typically growing longer as we've gone from merely incredibly to insanely busy, anywhere from hours to a month...

New ship.2 build 646

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