Re: [Sugar-devel] different perspectives

2013-11-08 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 1:56 AM, David Farning > 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: [Sugar-devel] different perspectives

2013-11-07 Thread David Farning
gt; http://olpcsf.org/ > http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- 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.

2013-11-02 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:59 PM, James Cameron 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: >> Tha

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

2013-11-01 Thread David Farning
e creating web 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 wrote: > On 29 October 2013 20:29, David Farning > wrote:

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

2013-10-29 Thread David Farning
uot;Because I mean well, does not implied I am doing good." It is very easy for me, 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.

2013-10-29 Thread David Farning
ies and why we chose them. > Gonzalo > > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:29 PM, David Farning > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Walter Bender >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:01 PM, David Farning >> > wrote

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

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

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

2013-10-28 Thread David Farning
October 2013 01:14, David Farning > 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 strat

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

2013-10-28 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:01 PM, David Farning > wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Martin Langhoff >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Walter Bender >>> wrote: >>>>

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

2013-10-28 Thread David Farning
, that you used? > > 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 __

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

2013-10-28 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Walter Bender > wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:04 PM, David Farning >> wrote: >>> I just wanted to bump this line of questions as, it is the critical >>

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

2013-10-23 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:04 PM, David Farning > wrote: >> I just wanted to bump this line of questions as, it is the critical >> set of questions which will determine the future viability of Sugar. >> >> If a

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

2013-10-23 Thread David Farning
seeding and supporting projects we feel are beneficial to deployments such as School Server Community Edition and Sugar on Ubuntu. On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 6:11 AM, David Farning wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: >> I agree with your analysis about slow d

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

2013-10-20 Thread David Farning
in a neutral base around which people 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

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

2013-10-19 Thread David Farning
ar 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

Private vs Public conversations.

2013-10-17 Thread David Farning
ve 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 Ce

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

2013-10-08 Thread David Farning
ustralian builds. There might be >> more, but I'm not aware of them. I also don't know the difference >> between each. >> >> -- >> James Cameron >> http://quozl.linux.org.au/ >> ___ >> Devel mailing list

Activity Central's Sugar related priorities.

2013-10-07 Thread David Farning
g 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: [IAEP] Sugar on Android via HTML5

2013-09-16 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:51 AM, David Farning wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, John Watlington wrote: >> >> On Sep 10, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >>> >>> One of t

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Android via HTML5

2013-09-13 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: > 2013/9/13 David Farning : >> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, John Watlington wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 10, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Caryl Big

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Android via HTML5

2013-09-13 Thread David Farning
; The danger of this approach is the loss of an integrated UX. This could be > addressed > by customizing the home UI, in the same manner that the XO tablet has a > custom home UI > implementing the Dreams interface, but that would require "rooting" the > tablet in some manner

rawhide changes pushed to olpc-os-builder

2013-08-24 Thread David Farning
; ___ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org 'Devel@lists.laptop.org');> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com -- David Farning Activity Central:

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

2013-08-11 Thread David Farning
ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > ~ http://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Martin_Langhoff > ___ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > ht

Re: Auckland Testing Summary 6 July 2013

2013-07-06 Thread David Farning
a mystery what XO System 1a >> is, who is working on it and where we should report bugs. >> >> We'll use the sugar tracker when it's not obviously a olpc bug in future. > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org >

Re: [Server-devel] Server Hardware.

2013-06-20 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Karanbir Singh 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 pr

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

2013-06-09 Thread David Farning
; > > > > >Monster thanks to everyone who spent months of springtime work -- > traveling > >days from quite different parts of North America to make this community > >product real. > > > >George Hunt > > > >___ > >support-gang mailing list > >

XSCE 0.3 RC2 Release Announcement

2013-05-28 Thread David Farning
!) Monster thanks 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://ww

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 wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan >> wrote: >> > Just wondering whether the XO-1.75 and XO-3 will be capable of hosting >> > a wireless network. >> > >> > I'm as

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: [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 > &

RE: [Dextrose] Support for Firefox 3.5 is ending

2011-06-04 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 f

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; OLP

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

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 se

Re: Sugar on arm

2011-02-07 Thread David Farning
I am forwarding this to Steven Parish, he is working on Sugar on Arm. I think that he is targeting F15 because Fedora is planning on releasing an official ARM spin. I am not sure if he is on this list. david On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:41 AM, ismael schinca wrote: > Hello everyone. I'm trying to

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 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 > collection of tools and c

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 pro

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 pro

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 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 in the

Re: RHEL6

2010-11-13 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On 13 November 2010 13:05, Yioryos Asprobounitis 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 LTS OLPC/Sugar base. >> I was

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 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 the same. > > Arch

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 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 addressed

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 wrote: > Announcing XO-1.5 Ubuntu desktop and minimal builds, based on 10.04 > "lucid" and the

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 in

Re: Licensing of Firefox.activity

2010-08-27 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Luke Faraone 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, while (II

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 wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 18:33, David Farning wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Martin Langhoff >> wrote: >>> [ Put aside the tinfoil hats (there's no Ubuntu conspiracy) and the >>> distro

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 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 broken. Activity Central ha

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: [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 wrote: > On 26 May 2010 06:16, Peter Robinson wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti >> wrote: >> > Hello everyone, >> > >> > we've just started a new development cycle aimed at providing Sugar 0.88 >> > for the XO-1. Our foc

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 add

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 sin

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

2009-08-27 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> 2009/8/27 Sameer Verma : >>> I posed this question on OLPC Support Gang earlier and got responses >>> that its not possible to do so under bitfrost and rainbow. >>> >>> ==

Re: What level Sugar Activities on F11 ?

2009-08-18 Thread David Farning
2009/8/17 Mikus Grinbergs : >>> 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 understandi

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 fun

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 Bender 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. https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extension_Versioning,_Update_and_Compa

Re: ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-17 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Chris Ball 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 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Act

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 wi

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 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 services and

Re: [Sugar-devel] FoodForce II Beta Release

2009-05-09 Thread David Farning
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Manusheel Gupta 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 look at th

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 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 +0100, Gui

Re: [Sugar-devel] I hear you

2009-03-31 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Bernie Innocenti 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 context if n

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

2009-03-15 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:37 PM, 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. >  > > >  > > gre

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, wrote: > hi -- > > i had an itch that needed scratching, and the result is a > reimplementat

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities migration status

2009-02-12 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Samuel Klein 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 of a server h

Re: [Sugar-devel] Build intrastructure

2009-02-11 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > [cc += sugar-de...@] > > Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: >>> As Peter suggested, I should look at getting nightly builds set up soon. >>> Would you like to share infrastructure so that the build run spits out >>> SoaS images at the same as F1

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 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 on the message > using T

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 wrote: > [adding sugar-devel to cc] > > 2009/1/23 James Simmons : >> Jigish, >> >> OK, I uninstalled both sugar and sugar-activities, then installed just >> sugar. It did not complain of

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

2009-01-06 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Jameson Quinn 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 some such > bullsh

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

Re: wiki.laptop.org upgrade

2008-12-04 Thread David Farning
relay information from our largest customer to our largest 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,

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. T

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 hav

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 lo

Re: Tentative talk schedule: Nov 19

2008-11-12 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:11 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:07 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does this schedule seem reasonable to others? (Esp. those I've >> pencilled in for talks?) If you are going to be in town, made a 9.1 >> p

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)co

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 th

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: 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

Re: [sugar] Postponement of XOCamp Event to January

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:06 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Ed McNierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The OLPC XOCamp event being planned for November 17 – 21 is be

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

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
 FWIW.  I have had a number of high school teacher and university instructors ask about using the xo as a language learning appliance.  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 needs of an

Re: [sugar] Give a Laptop, Change the World : G1G1 2008

2008-10-08 Thread David Farning
This is also a Sugar Labs branding issue. Sugar Learning Platform does a better job of conveying we are not a stand alone solution. We are a common point of collaboration on which educators and developers build solutions for their own unique classrooms and situations. thanks david On Wed, Oct 8

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, Carl

Re: Another sugar rant (was: x2o physics problem solving game)

2008-08-06 Thread David Farning
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 18:08 +1200, Neil Graham wrote: > > With regards to using activities on the XO I've tried to be accepting of the > sugar interface style, but this activity crystallizes things for me. I'm now > prepared to move to the sugar-sucks camp. I've used many and written a few >

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 respon

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 m

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. &g

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 (spa

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

2008-05-28 Thread David Farning
Marco If you go with individuals keeping a personal TODO list on their user pages, it is very easy to create a master User:TODO list that aggregates all of the individual todo list. This is how I am setting http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/TODO . thanks David Farning ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel