Re: [IAEP] Design ideas for a.sl.o and sugarlabs

2009-02-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:36:46AM -0700, ,Josh williams wrote: I'm pretty sure that I'm subscribed under the email of j...@tucson-labs.com , I accidentally sent an email through this account so I signed up on it as well. I'll have to check again,

[IAEP] Observations and feature requests based on watching a preK class use a computer lab

2009-02-28 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Check out http://voicethread.com. I think that is the next level you were refering to. Tony Caroline wrote: Today I visited a computer lab at a school in Boston where 3-5 year olds (the PreK class) were using the computers in the computer lab. The teacher tried to get them to use

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New Sugar on a Stick image available

2009-02-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 21:25, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Is there a place/page to watch to discover what is blocking SOAS from working as an SD/USB boot on the XO hardware?  I believe someone posted recently that there were a few blockers that were being worked on.  Is this

[IAEP] new site feedback

2009-02-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, I must recognize that I like the new site ;) Though frankly I cannot say much about its performance with the different groups of people it is targeted to. Perhaps we could get some feedback from tests with teachers, random parents, kids, journalists, etc? Check out how well this people can

[IAEP] Which Activities should we promote and create our first trainings on?

2009-02-28 Thread Caroline Meeks
Based on Sean's feedback on the new site, and the work I'm doing with Terri trying to create training materials, I'd like to ask for a discussion as to which activities we want to put forward and why as we introduce Sugar to people. Currently most of our materials discusses the generalities of

[IAEP] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #448 UNSP: Addons.sl.o doc category should be changed

2009-02-28 Thread Gary C Martin
Just forwarding the below to IAEP to catch more educator/teacher type eyeballs: Begin forwarded message: From: Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com Date: 28 February 2009 15:54:17 GMT To: Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org Cc: sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs]

Re: [IAEP] http://www-testing.sugarlabs.org/

2009-02-28 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: I forcefully object to everything about this website. It is ugly, off-putting, unnavigable, unreadable, buggy, empty of any helpful information, and in many other ways among the worst websites I could

Re: [IAEP] Which Activities should we promote and create our first trainings on?

2009-02-28 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Based on Sean's feedback on the new site, and the work I'm doing with Terri trying to create training materials, I'd like to ask for a discussion as to which activities we want to put forward and why as we

Re: [IAEP] First competitor?

2009-02-28 Thread Albert Cahalan
Christian Marc Schmidt writes: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Caroline Meeks solutiongrove at gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt christianmarc at gmail.com wrote: I think we'd need to know the specific points of contention. I can't imagine which

Re: [IAEP] Adults and Sugar

2009-02-28 Thread Albert Cahalan
Caryl Bigenho writes: One man sat in front of the XO for several minutes with a puzzled look on his face. Finally he asked, Where is your file manager? I explained that he needed to forget everything he knew about computers and just pretend he was a child again. He got up in disgust and

Re: [IAEP] Price point plus sales to individuals

2009-02-28 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: Okay, so those of you who are keen on there being a way for individuals to buy XOs at $2xx dollars should place a volume order, set up a web site, and start raking in the dough. Earth Treasury has wanted to do that for more

[IAEP] CurrWiki, documenting deployments (was Re: IAEP Digest, Vol 11, Issue 47)

2009-02-28 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: Some comments, Most of the folks running deployments are so busy running them that they don't have time to document their work or share their experiences. Greebo is a notable exception and I am continually astounded by her

Re: [IAEP] http://www-testing.sugarlabs.org/

2009-02-28 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: I second Michael's suggestion about a web design that echoes the Sugar design.  Think how useful this would be if carried to school servers.  And as a basis for web-served Sugar-like activities. This would be

Re: [IAEP] Adults and Sugar

2009-02-28 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:17:23 -0500 Subject: Re: [IAEP] Adults and Sugar From: acaha...@gmail.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Caryl Bigenho writes: One man sat in front of the XO for several minutes with a puzzled look on his face. Finally he asked, Where

Re: [IAEP] First competitor?

2009-02-28 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Albert Cahalan acaha...@gmail.com wrote: Christian Marc Schmidt writes: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Caroline Meeks solutiongrove at gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt christianmarc at gmail.com wrote: I think we'd

[IAEP] Activities Under Emulation

2009-02-28 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, I am working on a presentation I will be doing about OLPC and Sugar at a huge educator's conference in Palm Springs next week. I realize I need some nitty-gritty type info about the current state of Sugar emulation on PCs and Macs. Can anyone fill me in on the latest, most

Re: [IAEP] Adults and Sugar

2009-02-28 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Albert Cahalan acaha...@gmail.com wrote: Caryl Bigenho writes: One man sat in front of the XO for several minutes with a puzzled look on his face.  Finally he asked, Where is your file manager? I explained that he needed to forget everything he knew about

Re: [IAEP] Adults and Sugar

2009-02-28 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: Monkey see, monkey do? Heh! That's how *I* learn program! Perl by reading cpan modules, php by working on moodle, bash by hacking on git, erlang by working on ejabberd, etc, etc. -- martin.maca...@gmail.com