Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-04 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 04.04.2009, at 00:17, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200904031934.iso This does not boot in VMWare Fusion. It stops after writing out initrd. 0..ready. - Bert - ___ IAEP -- It's An

Re: [IAEP] [Gnash-dev] cash for gnash

2009-04-04 Thread Steve Castellotti
Thanks for the introduction David, and hello everyone. My company has been around for about five years now, and we've always based ourselves on Open Source technology. Before that I spent three years writing software and performing system administration for an elementary school and two

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 9

2009-04-04 Thread Jeff Elkner
+1 on calling it Sugar Activities Library. As a local Friend of the Library, I just can't imagine being a Friend of the Portal ;-) jeff elkner Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 22:22:11 -0400 From: Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com Subject: [IAEP] ASLO vs. Activities Portal To: Marketing

Re: [IAEP] What to call ASLO in the wiki? (was: IAEP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 9)

2009-04-04 Thread Martin Dengler
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 08:46:57AM -0400, Jeff Elkner wrote: +1 on calling it Sugar Activities Library. As a local Friend of the Library, I just can't imagine being a Friend of the Portal ;-) I don't see how we can get clearer and simpler than Sugar activities web site. I don't see the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-04 Thread Lucian Branescu
The ISO boots up fine in VirtualBox. Again, the vmdk appliance doesn't. http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/677 2009/4/4 Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com: Hi folks, the SoaS team has another snapshot ready for testing - it's absolutely important that it get's tested as much as possible for

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASLO vs. Activities Portal

2009-04-04 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 4 Apr 2009, at 03:25, Eben Eliason wrote: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: To me, Portal is the weak word in Sugar Activities Portal.  Portal doesn't give the warm, learning,

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-04 Thread Nate Ridderman
I tried it out on a Dell D830 after creating a USB stick. No major problems. I'd like to compare it to a recent Soas1 iso I had been running. - SoaS2 auto-mounted a Dell recovery partition (/media/DellUtilty) as a flash drive. This really confused me at first, because SoaS1 didn't do this.

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASLO vs. Activities Portal

2009-04-04 Thread Sean DALY
hmmm I like Activity Library too... Activities Library even better... but let's think twice before we drop Sugar from it. sugar+activities is already well-referenced, but I would like to see result Nr.1 be the aslo section page. Our strategy is star marketing on the Activities (this why we

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASLO vs. Activities Portal

2009-04-04 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: hmmm I like Activity Library too... Activities Library even better... but let's think twice before we drop Sugar from it. sugar+activities is already well-referenced, but I would like to see result Nr.1 be the aslo section

[IAEP] Options for having Flash work in Browse on SoaS and on Demo Sticks?

2009-04-04 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, As I understand the law, if Solution Grove was creating USB sticks for a specific school we could load the adobe flash plugin onto every stick prior to giving them to the students. I think this is the same basic case as a company IT department distributing flash plugins to all the computers

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASLO vs. Activities Portal

2009-04-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Apr 2009, at 19:18, Caroline Meeks wrote: Will books be in the same Sugar Activities Library? If not, where do kids go to get books to use in Read? Well I'm hoping that many books become 1st class Activity citizens (i.e. regular Activities based on a html/pdf/gnash et al Activity

Re: [IAEP] Options for having Flash work in Browse on SoaS and on Demo Sticks?

2009-04-04 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote: Hi, As I understand the law, if Solution Grove was creating USB sticks for a specific school we could load the adobe flash plugin onto every stick prior to giving them to the students. I think this is the same

[IAEP] CamelCaseIsGoneFromWiki

2009-04-04 Thread David Farning
Hey all, The camelcase is nearly gone form the wiki. Last month Fred Grose worked through the wiki moving most of the camelcase pages to normal titles. I spent the last couple of days: 1. Checking to make use that each camlecase page had a correct normal title page. 2. Making sure no internal

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-04 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi Caroline, thanks for giving this a try! I added some comments below... By the way, would it be okay for you to get a final image by April 7th or do you need one earlier? Caroline Meeks wrote: Results Boots up fine. Love the sugar branding! Heh. :) There are a lot fewer activities in

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-04 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.comwrote: Hi Caroline, thanks for giving this a try! I added some comments below... By the way, would it be okay for you to get a final image by April 7th or do you need one earlier? The ability to burn more then one USB at

Re: [IAEP] Testing SoaS at Waltham MA YMCA

2009-04-04 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Welcome to the world of school computers. My suggestions: Take a blank formatted SOAS drive with you. Take a (Fedora/Ubuntu) live cd with you. When testing, if the first soas boot fails, you should: Boot windows. See if the windows boot has network access. See if the cursor/mouse is

Re: [IAEP] Testing SoaS at Waltham MA YMCA

2009-04-04 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: 2 of the computers were boat anchors as far as I could tell and could not boot into windows. I will confirm and then see if someone locally wants to take them appart and try to fix them. I unfortunately did not

Re: [IAEP] Testing SoaS at Waltham MA YMCA

2009-04-04 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Regarding the SoaS2 Assuming Drive Cache write Through -- no boot -- It was pretty common in older commodity Wintel systems for the drives to not write through the cache. This was for performance. I think the assumption was that if the system died in the middle, you were only writing a

Re: [IAEP] Dev.gathering Trondheim 24-26 April. Users conference Narvik 24 April

2009-04-04 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Knut Yrvin kn...@skolelinux.no wrote: Hi, I was asked by David Farning to forward this invitation on the next Skolelinux / Debian Edu developer gathering, in Trondheim, Norway 24-26 April. * We will do a user conference on Friday 24 April in Narvik.  

[IAEP] Dev.gathering Trondheim 24-26 April. Users conference Narvik 24 April

2009-04-04 Thread Knut Yrvin
Hi, I was asked by David Farning to forward this invitation on the next Skolelinux / Debian Edu developer gathering, in Trondheim, Norway 24-26 April. * We will do a user conference on Friday 24 April in Narvik. Neighbouring municipalities are now considering Skolelinux cause of reduce