Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Dutch mirror

2009-05-22 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 00:12, Marten Vijn i...@martenvijn.nl wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 17:50 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: This is great work. Thanks. On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Marten Vijn i...@martenvijn.nl wrote: Hi All, I expect more mirror sites soon. So may we should have

Re: [IAEP] VIA C3 based laptop

2009-05-22 Thread Ashar Iqbal
I tried Soas 2 beta (dated 14 A0ril 2009) burned onto a CD. X windows does not start on the C3 based laptop. I get a login prompt and then when I try ´śtartx´ there are some messages ending in fatal server error no screens found The CD works fine on other machines. So it is no go for this

[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Bug tracker housekeeping

2009-05-22 Thread Simon Schampijer
Dear Sugar Community, After the dust of the 0.84 release has been settled we like to clean up the database. With each new Sucrose release comes some bug tracker housekeeping. This e-mail is designed to let you know about the things we ask you to do until May 27, 2009: Submitters: Please go

[IAEP] Usage scenarios for Sugar?

2009-05-22 Thread Sean DALY
Hi everyone, we have been contacted by a monthly tech publication in Europe willing to devote several pages to Sugar in their summer issue! More specifically, advising parents how to download run SoaS and do educational stuff with their kids during the summer holidays. Off the top of my head I

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Usage scenarios for Sugar?

2009-05-22 Thread Marten Vijn
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 20:03 +0200, Sean DALY wrote: Hi everyone, we have been contacted by a monthly tech publication in Europe willing to devote several pages to Sugar in their summer issue! More specifically, advising parents how to download run SoaS and do educational stuff with their

Re: [IAEP] Usage scenarios for Sugar?

2009-05-22 Thread Rita Freudenberg
Sean DALY schrieb: Hi everyone, we have been contacted by a monthly tech publication in Europe willing to devote several pages to Sugar in their summer issue! More specifically, advising parents how to download run SoaS and do educational stuff with their kids during the summer holidays.

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Usage scenarios for Sugar?

2009-05-22 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 05/22/2009 08:03 PM, Sean DALY wrote: Hi everyone, we have been contacted by a monthly tech publication in Europe willing to devote several pages to Sugar in their summer issue! More specifically, advising parents how to download run SoaS and do educational stuff with their kids during

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] can OLPC be applied to receiving information from the user population?

2009-05-22 Thread Luke Faraone
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 17:17, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: Was reading 'Don't! (The secret of self-control)' (by Jonah Lehrer) in the May 18 issue of 'The New Yorker'. In that article, a psychology experiment (developed I believe by a team headed by John Jonides at the University of

[IAEP] can OLPC be applied to receiving information from the user population?

2009-05-22 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Was reading 'Don't! (The secret of self-control)' (by Jonah Lehrer) in the May 18 issue of 'The New Yorker'. In that article, a psychology experiment (developed I believe by a team headed by John Jonides at the University of Michigan) is described: Subjects are shown a list of four random

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 14, Issue 58

2009-05-22 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
James, I think it is wonderful to make it easy for people with good network access to fetch books from the net. But I don't think that precludes the need for packages with selected materials. Kids in poor areas don't necessarily have net access all the time. 2009/5/18 James Simmons

[IAEP] NECC Unplugged...Sign Up Now!

2009-05-22 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, Well, my son, Chris, reminded me (by signing up) that I hadn't signed up to do a virtual session on the OLPC Contributors program for NECC Unplugged in late June. So...I just did! I signed up to do a 30 minute session about the Contributors program in Virtual Room A on Tuesday June