Re: [IAEP] Marketing tag line

2009-01-12 Thread Gary C Martin
David, oh please, get it right... On 12 Jan 2009, at 23:53, David Farning wrote: > Sugar - emacs for a new generation Sugar - vi for a new generation :-b --G > > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.

Re: [IAEP] Marketing tag line

2009-01-12 Thread Luke Faraone
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:53 PM, David Farning wrote: > Sugar - emacs for a new generation What, another OS lacking a good text editor? -lf ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.o

[IAEP] Marketing tag line

2009-01-12 Thread David Farning
Sugar - emacs for a new generation ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] XO-LiveCD Version 090110

2009-01-12 Thread Donna Benjamin
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 19:37 +0100, wolfg...@rohrmoser-engineering.de wrote: > Version 090110 of the XO-LiveCD is available for download from: > > > ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_090110.iso I am downloading this now Would it be helpful if I were to create a Torrent? - D

[IAEP] Responsibility requires authority

2009-01-12 Thread David Farning
FUDCon wrapped up yesterday. Like a good constructionist, I am Reflecting on what we learned. Responsibility requires authority - A key point that appeared over and over at FUDCon was the notion that responsibility requires authority. The most visible example of this is the release manager. The

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread doxsoup
  I like the flow of the discussion and thinking.  Here are my comments.   I wonder if we can include two user-centric concepts as follows:  1) user ownership and control that result in learning that is personalized and customized, and 2) for the user, a useful, usable and desired benefit.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 13:16, Erik Blankinship wrote: > Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very suggestive of > Candyland. > http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candyland-1949.JPG > > http://www.mipo37.com/CandyLand.jpg The molas

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread Erik Blankinship
Perhaps I am stating the obvious, but the suggestions are very suggestive of Candyland. http://bp1.blogger.com/_GBSubG7_qbw/Rj_u39QVD7I/AGQ/YAZ3WRMdYbU/s1600-h/Candyland-1949.JPG http://www.mipo37.com/CandyLand.jpg On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > I guess Bryan

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] idea for Sugar slogan and name

2009-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on "Mathland" (in Papert's sense, not the curriculum of the same name). The name of squeakland.org was inspired by the same idea: "What would happen if children who can’t do math grew up in Mathland, a place that is to math what France is to French?" --S.

[IAEP] new mobilis

2009-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, you can find an interesting slideshow of the new Mobilis from Encore here: http://www.slideshare.net/marinhos/novo-mobilis And a few technical specs: http://www.comsattecnologia.com.br/index.php?pag=26 AFAIK, this is the hardware that won the recent bid in Brazil about educational laptops.