9.1 Proposal: Textbooks (was Fwd: Call for Proposals for OLPC miniconference November 17-21, 2008)

2008-10-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
As requested. On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:52 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would suggest that people cc' devel@ and sugar@ as well, so that we > can see what has been proposed (and encourage people to make proposals > who have not already). -- Forwarded message --

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Lisa Caroline Lewis
Are there any other sites we could use which would be less biased in how they define what religions? I imagine some might be seriously offended by considering Buddhism a cult, and in general OLPC shouldn't find itself in the position of endorsing one religion over another. Choosing the immediate

unclean /home/olpc in gg-767-4.img

2008-10-18 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Flashed a G1G1 system (without developer key) with the signed 767-4 custom image. Unfortunately, was running as root and did not immediately look at the olpc user home directory. By the time I got around to looking at /home/olpc, it had lots of things in it from an older? version of Opera. I

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
You're right, I was actually just pointing to. Eduardo 2008/10/18 Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Eduardo H. Silva > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would vote for the The Nag Hammadi Library (early christian lost >> gospels) to be included as well in this

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Eduardo H. Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would vote for the The Nag Hammadi Library (early christian lost > gospels) to be included as well in this all-encompassing > religions/theologies activity: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html > . Are you putting

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
I would vote for the The Nag Hammadi Library (early christian lost gospels) to be included as well in this all-encompassing religions/theologies activity: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html . Eduardoa 2008/10/18 Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Lisa Carol

Re: simple hacks to improve the performance of the Sugar UI

2008-10-18 Thread Erik Garrison
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 5:08 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Andrés Ambrois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Just a couple of notes. > > >> >> [PATCH] sugar-homewindow-no-transition.patch >> >> This removes the usage of TransitionBox from HomeW

Re: simple hacks to improve the performance of the Sugar UI

2008-10-18 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Andrés Ambrois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Just a couple of notes. > > > >> [PATCH] sugar-homewindow-no-transition.patch >> >> This removes the usage of TransitionBox from HomeWind

[sugar] 9.1 Proposal: "Submitting homework"

2008-10-18 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Mention has been made from people in the field that it takes effort for a teacher to gather the results of an assignment. Seems to me that collaboration facilities ought to be extended so that "push" (for pre-established circumstances) is as easy to use as "pull". mikus __

RE: 9.1 Proposal: Fedora integration

2008-10-18 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Scott, > This is another talk I'd really rather someone else give, but I can > give a brief talk on our current status & problems & desires if it is > helpful. > > OLPC has forks of a number of Fedora packages, for a number of > reasons. We've been trying to keep better track of the what & why

Re: [Grassroots-l] World scriptures

2008-10-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Lisa Caroline Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any other sites we could use which would be less biased in how > they define what religions? We don't have to use their site at all if we don't like their attitude. AFAIK the Sword software is under a Free

Re: simple hacks to improve the performance of the Sugar UI

2008-10-18 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Andrés Ambrois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: Just a couple of notes. > [PATCH] sugar-homewindow-no-transition.patch > > This removes the usage of TransitionBox from HomeWindow.py. TransitionBox > is > used to animate the Xo Guy while moving between zoom levels. > Th