Re: Announcing GuruFest: Come hear from OLPC experts, kicking off this Friday with Mel Chua

2009-03-08 Thread david
when sending out announcemnts like this, please remember that this is an international mailing list, and most people won't know where the places are. this announcement was better than most because it included a link to the school, but if you could include a few details (country, state, city for

Announcing GuruFest: Come hear from OLPC experts, kicking off this Friday with Mel Chua

2009-03-08 Thread Colin Zwiebel
gurufest_logo_and_text_draftv2_09.png Starting this Friday, the Olin College OLPC Chapter is kicking off GuruFest. We are fortunate enough to have several several OLPC experts lined up to give lectures/lessons to our OLPC chapter. We would like to open this event to the OLPC

Re: Google summer of Code?

2009-03-08 Thread Jameson Quinn
Marco gave the link, but I'd just like to repeat that Sugarlabs will be applying to GSoC this year, independently of OLPC. The two organizations have talked about doing some coordinating behind the scenes, passing off student applications that are better done by the other organization. No definite

Removing perl from the build

2009-03-08 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Chris, I've gone through what's been pulling in the perl dependency and narrowed down the packages that are dependant on it to the following list. There's a number of easy fix ones and two that I need to dig further on. The first four should be a matter of just blocking them out of the kickstar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final

2009-03-08 Thread Walter Bender
Sucrose-0.84 is the Sugar release; Sugar on a Stick is Sugar plus, in this case, a Fedora LiveUSB image. -walter 2009/3/8 Jacob Haddon : > > > I am confused, forgive me. Why are you running smoke tests if it is a final > release? > -j > > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:02:58 +0100 > From: Tomeu Vizoso

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final

2009-03-08 Thread Jacob Haddon
I am confused, forgive me. Why are you running smoke tests if it is a final release? -j Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 11:02:58 +0100 From: Tomeu Vizoso Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84.0 Final Release To: Martin Langhoff Cc: Sugar-dev ,iaep , OLPC Development

Re: Google summer of Code?

2009-03-08 Thread Ben Lau
hi all, As the registration will start soon , I am interested about the preparation of OLPC for GSoc and being a mentor. According to the wiki, no any mentors show up yet. It is quite strange. Is that the list is held in someplace else? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code#Mentors On Tue, Fe