What Constructionism is - excellent article by Bill Kerr

2008-06-01 Thread Bryan Berry
here is an excellent article by Bill Kerr http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/tidying_up_the_const.html I highly recommend reading it. Shameless plug for my own writing: How to make open-source work for education http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/how_to_make_opensour.html --

Re: Browse v86 rainbow issue on update 1-706?

2008-06-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 May 2008, at 03:58, Martin Dengler wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:42:55AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 28 May 2008, at 18:55, Martin Dengler wrote: Is this rainbow racing with X, or is that in joyride only? Sorry, not sure. I'm back on joyride now and Browse seems quite happy

New joyride build 2000

2008-06-01 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2000 Changes in build 2000 from build: 1998 Size delta: 0.00M -olpcupdate 2.5-0 +olpcupdate 2.6-0 -tzdata 2008b-3.fc7 +tzdata 2008c-1.fc7 -xkeyboard-config 1.1-19.20071130cvs.olpc2 +xkeyboard-config 1.1-20.20071130cvs.olpc2 --- Changes

New faster build 2000

2008-06-01 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build2000 Changes in build 2000 from build: 1998 Size delta: 0.00M -olpcupdate 2.5-0 +olpcupdate 2.6-0 -tzdata 2008b-3.fc7 +tzdata 2008c-1.fc7 -xkeyboard-config 1.1-19.20071130cvs.olpc2 +xkeyboard-config 1.1-20.20071130cvs.olpc2 --- Changes

Re: [X-Posted] Help with Amharic keyboard

2008-06-01 Thread TG
Hi Sayamindu That is a curious looking character:-). I looked in to the basic, the supplement and the extended ethiopic character charts and there is nothing that looks like that. I don't think that is part of the ethiopic character set. I previously raised the issue of character ጨ (u+1328). All