Re: [sugar] Software Status Meeting Tomorrow @ 1400 EDT, 1800 UTC in #olpc-meeting on freenode

2008-05-28 Thread David Farning
://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/TODO . thanks David Farning ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [sugar] Making updating easier and Planning for Support

2008-06-22 Thread David Farning
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 15:02 -0400, Kim Quirk wrote: Deepak (and others interested in support), This is a good question and we've talked about it from time to time. The OLPC Support planning is really just now underway. We've made some good progress on the Hardware side of support (spare

Re: [Techteam] [sugar] Making updating easier and Planning for Support

2008-06-23 Thread David Farning
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 10:36 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:29 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two releases per year make sense. Particularly when add in the fact that we have two hemispheres with opposing springs and falls. Only if you assume we can

Re: [sugar] Relationships w/ upstream.

2008-07-07 Thread David Farning
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 16:37 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: Since a conversation on IRC got unexpectedly heated, let me restate my personal philosophy for OLPC's relationships with upstream: (a) I believe that we should put OLPC's goals *first*, and endeavor to ensure that we are always

Re: Remarks on the Work of Sugar

2008-07-23 Thread David Farning
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 19:49 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: After mild provocation, Marco and Tomeu asked me to publish some of my reactions to sugar's architecture, design, and implementation. Here are a few initial comments. Michael, many of your observation are correct...as are many of

Re: [sugar] OT: Anybody worked with robot and OLPC

2008-09-02 Thread David Farning
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 19:01 -0500, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: Hi maybe this can be of interest, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peripherals/Robots this is planned with open hardware. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Hardware. On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Carlos mauro

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: Language learning on the XO.

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
nbsp;FWIW.nbsp; I have had a number of high school teacher and university instructors ask about using the xo as a language learning appliance.nbsp; The two reoccurring themes have been:XO as a portable language lab.Ability to develop a language learning activity which could tailor itself to the

Re: setup for XO development

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:55:00PM +0100, Paolo wrote: Hello, I would like to try out the XO software and get started with doing some development. As I am a security guy, I am mostly interested in core development,

Re: OLPC France CodeCamp in Paris

2008-11-01 Thread David Farning
This sounds very interesting and useful. A nice breadth of projects to keep things interesting and cross pollinate ideas between groups that might not interact frequently. thanks david 2008/11/1 LASKE, Lionel (C2S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, OLPC France is proud to announce its OLPC

Re: What's cooking inthe XS pot -- 2008-11-05

2008-11-05 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I've been a bit silent lately, as I've just arrived to Boston and I'm trying to get organised. My plans right now are roughly - last round of testing of xs-0.5 - and release! (I know it's delayed -- blame the

Re: What's cooking inthe XS pot -- 2008-11-05

2008-11-05 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:31 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think xs will be stable enough to do a server related book sprint at Fedora/OLPC/Sugar (FOS)con? Is that mid January 09? I think so

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] OLPC France CodeCamp in Paris

2008-11-15 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tomeu, Great! I can handle the translation between the spanish teachers and the french developers if the need arises. Podré apoyar las comunicaciones entre los profesores de Uruguay, Panama y Peru por una parte, y los

Re: [sugar] dinner around cambridge on sunday

2008-11-15 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Marco and me compared our schedules for the next week trip and thought that, as we arrive a bit late on Sunday, may be a good idea to meet somewhere in Cambridge for dinner. So, what about meeting for having some

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Ed McNierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bernie - We should *never* take our public-facing Web services offline deliberately without scheduling that event in advance and sending warnings and reminders of when that scheduled maintenance will occur. Never. There

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread David Farning
financially supporter and backer of the event. We are still waiting for that planning information. david On 12/4/08 10:48 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Ed McNierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bernie - We should *never* take our public-facing Web

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:49 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:47 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was speaking of larger communication issues. Whoa, David -- is it necessary to assume malice? I don't think your tone is helpful in this case

Re: [IAEP] XOCamp diplomas? + beg for housing

2009-01-06 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Diplomas I know it sounds ridiculous, but here in Guatemala every conference or training anybody goes to hands out nicely-printed diplomas, many of which say you are now a Certified Educational Quality Monitor or

Re: [Sugar-devel] Problem running Sugar on openSUSE 11.0

2009-01-24 Thread David Farning
James, Can you try running ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck ? david On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: [adding sugar-devel to cc] 2009/1/23 James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com: Jigish, OK, I uninstalled both sugar and sugar-activities, then installed

Re: [Systems] My git problem resolved

2009-02-09 Thread David Farning
Thanks david On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:58 AM, James Simmons jim.simm...@walgreens.com wrote: I was having a problem pushing committed changes to gitorious and I assumed that the problem was either with the way I created my RSA key or a problem with the git server. After doing some research

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities migration status

2009-02-12 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Is there no way to move/create an activity so that the same code push will update both sl's gitorious and olpc's git? Until there is a policy of sorts in place, and better yet an endowment supporting long-term maintenance

Re: [Sugar-devel] announce: alternate power management

2009-03-13 Thread David Farning
Very cool! How well will this integrate with the power management systems other distros are using? Can it become a 'Value Added' for other netbook manufacturers? david On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:33 PM, p...@laptop.org wrote: hi -- i had an itch that needed scratching, and the result is a

Re: [Sugar-devel] announce: alternate power management

2009-03-15 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:37 PM, p...@laptop.org wrote: scott wrote:       3. with the OLPC kernel and this olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd (which by     the way are really realy nice, thanks a million pgf!) the XO suspends     when via lid switch and the power button.     great!  did

Re: [Sugar-devel] I hear you

2009-03-31 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On 03/29/09 23:42, qu...@laptop.org wrote: I've tested twinkle and it worked quite well for point to point calls. Both it and ihu could probably be modified to accept appropriate parameters to operate within the Sugar

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] Gadget on XS

2009-04-01 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 03:22:12PM +0100, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: Le mercredi 01 avril 2009 à 14:14 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:50:52AM

Re: [Sugar-devel] FoodForce II Beta Release

2009-05-09 Thread David Farning
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Andrés, Thank you. We appreciate your kind remarks. May I ask what license is it under? We are working on this aspect with World Food Programme's legal department, and the recommendation has been CPAL. Please have a

Re: [IAEP] OLPC Volunteer Infrastructure Group Meeting: [Today]

2009-06-04 Thread David Farning
Dogi, Can you post a link to the logs? david On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Stefan Unterhauser d...@laptop.org wrote: The Volunteer Infrastructure Group (/gang) Meeting is today (June 2th) at 4pm (EST) The Volunteer Infrastructure Group is a team of Volunteer Sysadmins who help maintain

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities (was Re: ASLO Suggestion)

2009-06-17 Thread David Farning
The Sugar Labs Activities Portal seems to be holding up pretty well under load. My suggestion would be to start phasing out the activities pages on w.lt.o Possible work flow. (Some of these may have been all ready) 1. Activity Developers - Start marking which Sugar version activities versions

Re: ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-17 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Chris Ballc...@laptop.org wrote: Hi David,   The Sugar Labs Activities Portal seems to be holding up pretty   well under load.  My suggestion would be to start phasing out the   activities pages on w.lt.o Are you just talking about

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-17 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK, there is not a mechanism in ASLO to replace the updater yet. Something to think about. Here is some back ground information on the server side update mechanism.

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-17 Thread David Farning
Mikus, Many of us would like an answer to that question sooner rather than later But, in OLPCs defence it is a very difficult issues. The two issues are: 1. Increasing the number of deployed versions greatly increases the cost of support. 2. While recent versions of Sugar have additional

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-18 Thread David Farning
2009/8/17 Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com: Is XO-1.5 software expected to run Activities marked for 0.86 ? If we are shipping Sugar 0.84, the answer is no (due to API incompatibility). The current build tools pulls in the latest stable activities from ASLO somewhat blindly (as per my

Re: [Sugar-devel] erasing the journal and config

2009-08-27 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Sameer Vermasve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/8/27 Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu: I posed this question on OLPC Support Gang earlier and got responses that its not possible to do so under bitfrost

Re: [Sugar-devel] Smile activity version 1

2009-09-19 Thread David Farning
By way of introduction for the newer contributors-- Wade started and was the first co-ordinator of the Activities Team. He took a break last spring for the birth of a child:) I wonder if he has looked at activities.sugarlabs.org lately. It has had over 680,000 activity downloads, most of them

Re: [IAEP] Weekly Infrastructure Meeting Reminder

2010-02-09 Thread David Farning
Can we bump the wikimedia machine and aslo discussion to the top of the meeting, so our friend from RIT don't need to wait for us to cover the other issues. The topic should be pretty short this week. We are in a holding pattern until the spring term at RIT starts. In the meantime we will be

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-30 Thread David Farning
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: On 26 May 2010 06:16, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello everyone, we've just started a new development cycle aimed

Re: Sound troubles

2010-06-03 Thread David Farning
I would strongly recommend working with the Karma framework at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Karma . I Have spent a fair amount of time working with Adobe to improve functionality on the XO and Sugar. At this point, it is financially not worth their effort to improve their products' functionality

Re: Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: [ Put aside the tinfoil hats (there's no Ubuntu conspiracy) and the distro flames (no, I don't want to know which one is better). ] Curious minds want to know... At this point Sugar on Ubuntu is unusable

Re: Anyone playing with Ubuntu on XO-1.5?

2010-06-14 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 18:33, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: [ Put aside the tinfoil hats (there's no Ubuntu conspiracy

Re: Licensing of Firefox.activity

2010-08-27 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, I'm looking into packaging Firefox-6 for Debian and Ubuntu, and wasn't clear on the package's license situation. The application was written by C. Scott in 2008,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] XOpup; Puppy linux for the XO-1 - more

2010-08-29 Thread David Farning
This is exciting! There in now a nearly functional version of Sugar on Ubuntu at http://download.sugarlabs.org/usr/ . The final release cycle will match the 10.10 release of Ubuntu Maverick. The packages can also be installed on a standard Maverick Ubuntu system with the command sudo apt-get

Re: Ubuntu on XO-1.5

2010-09-02 Thread David Farning
Pretty interesting! Have you seen the recent work happening in puppy linux for the XO? Puppy is largely derived from Ubuntu. (last time I checked) david On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:24 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Announcing XO-1.5 Ubuntu desktop and minimal builds, based on 10.04

Re: Initial F14 developers-only release for XO and XO-1.5

2010-09-04 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: For now, please don't file bugs unless you include patches. I can understand not wanting bug reports against items which OLPC/Sugar are still in the process of changing.  But why defer reporting problems which might not be

Re: Required help to read os images of XO in GNU/linux and how to build sugar os image for Arm processor

2010-10-07 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:39 AM, ganesh gajre ganeshga...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Folks, I want to read and see the content of XO OS images in the Ubuntu by running it in emulator like qemu, I search on wiki.laptop.org and also google it for more info. But i didn't get the proper resource for

Re: RHEL6

2010-11-13 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 13 November 2010 13:05, Yioryos Asprobounitis mavrot...@yahoo.com wrote: Back in April, there was a long discussion ( http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-April/thread.html#28118 ) about RHEL6 as a base for an

Re: Will 10.1.3 become 11.1.1?

2011-01-04 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: On 01/03/2011 05:19 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 00:31 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote: Given that 10.1.3 is still beta and we are now in 2011, will it become 11.1.1? No, because 10.1.3 is a point release

Hiring Onsite Developers

2011-01-09 Thread David Farning
Activity Central is hiring two (2) onsite Sugar/OLPC developers. The primary responsibility of these developers will be to work onsite at an existing OLPC deployment to improve the local Feedback, Fix, Finished product cycle for the deployment. The Feedback, Fix, Finished product cycle is the

hiring one site developers.

2011-01-09 Thread David Farning
Activity Central is hiring two (2) onsite Sugar/OLPC developers. The primary responsibility of these developers will be to work onsite at an existing OLPC deployment to improve the local Feedback, Fix, Finished product cycle for the deployment. The Feedback, Fix, Finished product cycle is the

Re: The old xs-livecd is the new olpc-xs-builder

2011-01-21 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: The XS build tools have not used the livecd toolchain for a long time -- so the name is not appropriate. Time for a rename (and repo reorg). While not as modular and elegant as olpc-os-builder, we do have a

Harvesting Sugar Trees.

2011-02-08 Thread David Farning
One of the areas Activity Central is trying to help Sugar Labs and OLPC is by pushing deployment working upstream. The core premis behind open source development is, If the software is useful and the source code is freely available, users will adopt and improve it to meet their needs. We are

Re: [Server-devel] Modularizing the school server

2011-03-04 Thread David Farning
-Original Message- From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langh...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 8:28 AM To: David Farning Cc: XS Devel; David Van Assche Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Modularizing the school server On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 12:45 AM, David Farning dfarn

RE: [Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings

2011-03-07 Thread David Farning
-Original Message- From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel- boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Sascha Silbe Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 4:49 AM To: Jerry Vonau Cc: Ardito; sugar-devel; dr.ger...@xo15-sascha.sascha.silbe.org; James Cameron; OLPC

RE: [Dextrose] Support for Firefox 3.5 is ending

2011-06-05 Thread David Farning
-Original Message- From: dextrose-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:dextrose- boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Bernie Innocenti Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 2:34 AM To: Sridhar Dhanapalan Cc: OLPC Devel; OLPC Australia list; Dextrose Subject: Re: [Dextrose] Support for

RE: [Dextrose] Support for Firefox 3.5 is ending

2011-06-05 Thread David Farning
-Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:srid...@laptop.org.au] Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 3:42 AM To: Bernie Innocenti Cc: David Farning; OLPC Devel; OLPC Australia list; Dextrose Subject: Re: [Dextrose] Support for Firefox 3.5 is ending On 5 June 2011 17:02, Bernie

What is coming down the pike?

2011-06-12 Thread David Farning
Scott, I was wondering if you have an update for us on what is coming down the pike next year from the minds at OLPC-F :) We have pretty good idea of the next six months based on dsd's olpc os updates and MartinL's 1.75 updates. I am most interested in your porting Sugar to... research. david

Re: [OLPC-AU] Host AP on XO-1.75 and XO-3

2011-10-09 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Just wondering whether the XO-1.75 and XO-3 will be capable of

XSCE 0.3 RC2 Release Announcement

2013-05-28 Thread David Farning
to the folks whose months of springtime work went into this imminent accomplishment-- traveling days from quite different parts of North America to make this community product real. -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Devel

Re: [support-gang] ANNOUNCEMENT XSCE 0.3 Final Release

2013-06-09 Thread David Farning
-gang -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Server-devel] Server Hardware.

2013-06-20 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Hi, On 06/20/2013 04:21 PM, David Farning wrote: After working with several deployments, talking to several of you personally, and reviewing the information on the lists I have a set a couple of priorities

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013

2013-07-06 Thread David Farning
bug in future. -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [XSCE] Re: Client side Moodle transparent auth broken in 13.2.0 stable

2013-08-11 Thread David Farning
- working code first ~ http://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Martin_Langhoff ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com

rawhide changes pushed to olpc-os-builder

2013-08-24 Thread David Farning
___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'Devel@lists.laptop.org'); http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Android via HTML5

2013-09-13 Thread David Farning
Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Android via HTML5

2013-09-13 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org wrote: 2013/9/13 David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Sep 10, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Caryl

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Android via HTML5

2013-09-16 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:51 AM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Sep 10, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: One

Activity Central's Sugar related priorities.

2013-10-07 Thread David Farning
and piloting by deployments. -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity Central's Sugar related priorities.

2013-10-08 Thread David Farning
/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- David Farning Activity Central: http

Private vs Public conversations.

2013-10-17 Thread David Farning
at creating a third voice in the ecosystem, (The association has shifted more effort towards supporting deployments and Sugar Labs via OLPC-AU is up streaming many of our deployment specific patches) my approach was heavy handed and indulgent... and I apologize for that. -- David Farning Activity Central

Re: [Sugar-devel] Private vs Public conversations.

2013-10-19 Thread David Farning
0.98. Have a lot of sense try to work in the same code if possible, and will be good for your plans of work on web activities. May be we can look at the details, but I agree with you, we should try avoid fragmentation. Gonzalo On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:56 PM, David Farning dfarn

Re: [Sugar-devel] Private vs Public conversations.

2013-10-20 Thread David Farning
and organizations can collaborate? From my limited experience, I don't believe there is an single holy grail type answer to any of these questions. Instead, the answers tend to evolve as situations change and participants come and go. On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:46 AM, David Farning dfarn

Re: [Sugar-devel] Private vs Public conversations.

2013-10-23 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:04 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: I just wanted to bump this line of questions as, it is the critical set of questions which will determine the future viability

Re: [Sugar-devel] Private vs Public conversations.

2013-10-28 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:04 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: I just wanted to bump this line of questions

Re: [Server-devel] How to create a screencast

2013-10-28 Thread David Farning
? Thanks ___ Server-devel mailing list server-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Server-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Private vs Public conversations.

2013-10-28 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:01 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Walter Bender

Re: [Sugar-devel] Private vs Public conversations.

2013-10-28 Thread David Farning
October 2013 01:14, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: As two Data points: In a private conversation with an Association employee they told me that they conciser Activity Central a competitor because Activity Central increased deployments expectations. Their strategy with regard

Re: [Sugar-devel] Private vs Public conversations.

2013-10-29 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:01 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: I would like to thank everyone who has provided valuable feedback by participating on this thread. The three things I am going

Re: [Sugar-devel] Private vs Public conversations.

2013-10-29 Thread David Farning
we chose them. Gonzalo On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:29 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:01 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: I would like

Re: [Sugar-devel] Principles for ethical technology use

2013-10-29 Thread David Farning
, and everyone else, to justify our actions because we mean well. -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Private vs Public conversations.

2013-11-01 Thread David Farning
activities to build familiarity the the technologies and API's. The return value to Sugar Labs will be testing and feedback about the current web activities framework. On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 October 2013 20:29, David Farning dfarn

Re: [Sugar-devel] Private vs Public conversations.

2013-11-02 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:59 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: p.s. it is good that you are being transparent with your decisions, because that gives you a chance to have them publically reviewed. ;-) On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 12:04:11PM -0500, David Farning wrote: Thanks for the update

Re: [Sugar-devel] different perspectives

2013-11-08 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:56 AM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: The highest rate of progress happens when the parties focus on getting ahead of the other guys rather then when they focus on holding others

Re: [Server-devel] Offline moodle notes in moodle.org

2008-10-17 Thread David Farning
John, Would you mind forwarding me your notes regard your discussions with google. I am starting a similar discussion with google on behalf of Sugar Labs. I think that we can leverage the availability of sugar in developed nations to offset the cost of creating the services that OLPC is looking

Re: [Server-devel] help with small/first world XS deployment issues requested

2008-10-24 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Bill Bogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a number of XO deployments possible in the Boston metro area sometime next spring. My understanding is that OLPC does NOT want to run these deployments, but is interested in having them happen so there are

Re: [Server-devel] What's cooking inthe XS pot -- 2008-11-05

2008-11-05 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:31 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you think xs will be stable enough to do a server related book sprint at Fedora/OLPC/Sugar (FOS)con? Is that mid January 09? I think so

Re: [Server-devel] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread David Farning
David, Can you try to use the Solutions Groovy jabber server? Caroline and Dave are putting some very helpful resources behind cleaning up the server. david(The other one) On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, Will you be using the server

Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

2011-01-19 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Anaconda will not automatically find the old install if its older than release-2, you will need to pass upgradeany at the boot prompt if you go

[Server-devel] Adding puppet to the school server.

2011-01-26 Thread David Farning
Hey all, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that Activity Central [1] is going to start working on a Dextrose Server project. For a little background, Dextrose [2] is Activity Central's primary product. Dextrose is based on upstream OLPC OS and Sugar. Most of what we do is a is a patch

Re: [Server-devel] [Dextrose] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Server project initiation announce

2011-06-10 Thread David Farning
-Original Message- From: dextrose-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:dextrose- boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Martin Langhoff Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 1:09 PM To: Aleksey Lim Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org; sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org; olpc-

Re: [Server-devel] [Dextrose] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Server project initiation announce

2011-06-11 Thread David Farning
-Original Message- From: Martin Langhoff [mailto:martin.langh...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 11:46 PM To: David Farning Cc: Aleksey Lim; server-devel@lists.laptop.org; sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org; olpc...@lists.laptop.org; dextr...@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC-AU] Host AP on XO-1.75 and XO-3

2011-11-17 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Just wondering whether the XO-1.75 and XO-3 will be capable of

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XS Community Edition 0.3 sprint in Toronto May 8-13

2013-04-07 Thread David Farning
to this project, we invite you to contribute on the above mailing lists in any way you can, and then to join our weekly Thursday evening voice calls, thanks! -- Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: ds-backup

2013-04-17 Thread David Farning
apache version with some incompatibilities. I would port it to wsgi. Daniel -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] XS Community Edition 0.3 (Release Candidate 1)

2013-05-20 Thread David Farning
://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] XS Community Edition 0.3 (Release Candidate 1)

2013-05-20 Thread David Farning
? Restore will probably land in 0.4. However the degree of moodle and backup/restore integration is still an open question. Thanks for testing and the valuable feedback. -Original Message- From: David Farning [mailto:dfarn...@activitycentral.com] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 02:49 PM To: tkk

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE 0.3

2013-05-29 Thread David Farning
thoughts at the moment. Thanks for the feedback. Would you mind installing 0.3 on a trimeslice or x86 piece of hardware and providing more feedback on issues you face? You time spent on the coalface makes you feedback particularly valuable to us. thanks -- David Farning Activity Central: http

[Server-devel] 12 Volt power system for School Servers.

2013-05-29 Thread David Farning
before arriving at the deployment. Thanks -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] 12 Volt power system for School Servers.

2013-05-29 Thread David Farning
PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:03 PM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: Tony could you share more information about your work on 12 Volt power supplies for School Servers? Whenever I see a School Server setup containing a 12V Battery

Re: [Server-devel] 12 Volt power system for School Servers.

2013-05-29 Thread David Farning
supply, but no matter.) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

[Server-devel] A Path to Pathagar.

2013-06-04 Thread David Farning
coordinated release. 4. Test, test, test. Technically this seems pretty straight forward. The more open ended issues is curating content. A book server with no books is as useful as school server which doesn't serve. -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: A Path to Pathagar.

2013-06-04 Thread David Farning
01:46 PM, David Farning wrote: One of the additions to XSCE 0.3 is the ability to add services to XSCE without having an intimate knowledge of the entire server. Our first real test of this is the inclusion of Pathagar as a bookserver. For the last three releases the XSCE project has focused

Re: [Server-devel] Pathagar

2013-06-05 Thread David Farning
Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

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