Re: Teachers and researchers (miniconference?)

2008-03-30 Thread Kent Loobey
Relax teachers! No laptop will ever replace the good a good teacher can do for a student. What a laptop / activity / software / internet can do is make available to a student information / resources / experience that any particular teacher does not have / know / have-access. What I have been

MANIFEST and .xo bundles

2008-03-30 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
Since Develop now relies on bundlebuilder to create its journal entries (.xo files), I have become familiar with the fragility of the activity bundle format. The original sin is that, if you have a bundle of files, you shouln't need a separate list of those files in MANIFEST. The various symptoms

Update.1 RC3: candidate-703 Published!

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Stone
Friends, At long last, we have a new Update.1 Release Candidate, signed and waiting for your attention at http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/703/jffs2/ Release notes continue to develop at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Update.1_Software_Release_Notes with more technical

Re: Teachers and researchers (miniconference?)

2008-03-30 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
Of COURSE you need to empower students. What I'm saying is that the program will be more successful if you also empower teachers. A lot of the needs are the same - access to materials for learning - but one of them is different - tools for keeping track of learning. Actually, to be honest, good

Re: Update.1 RC3: candidate-703 Published!

2008-03-30 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Michael Stone wrote: Friends, At long last, we have a new Update.1 Release Candidate, signed and waiting for your attention at http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/703/jffs2/ Release notes continue to develop at

Re: Update.1 RC3: candidate-703 Published!

2008-03-30 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Ed, OK ... I installed it on my G1G1 XO (via the GamePad / USB method). It boots up into Sugar, and I can see the frame, but not icons to start up any activities. Is there something I need to do?? Yes: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Testing_Update.1

Re: Update.1 RC3: candidate-703 Published!

2008-03-30 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Chris Ball wrote: Hi Ed, OK ... I installed it on my G1G1 XO (via the GamePad / USB method). It boots up into Sugar, and I can see the frame, but not icons to start up any activities. Is there something I need to do?? Yes: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Testing_Update.1

New joyride build 1815

2008-03-30 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1815 Changes in build 1815 from build: 1811 Size delta: 0.00M -Terminal 9 +Terminal 10 --- Changes for Terminal 10 from 9 --- + Do auto-scroll to the bottom when there is input #6662 -- This mail was automatically generated See

New faster build 1815

2008-03-30 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1815 Changes in build 1815 from build: 1811 Size delta: 0.00M -Terminal 9 +Terminal 10 --- Changes for Terminal 10 from 9 --- + Do auto-scroll to the bottom when there is input #6662 -- This mail was automatically generated See

Connecting a non python activity to sugar

2008-03-30 Thread Steve Lewis
Any foreign application - say opera or program I write in Java has two entried as an avtivity - one with the SVG and a second anonymous window which is the real application I have been trying to figure out how a smart application capable of talking to the D-BUS and with access to the bindle