Re: [IAEP] 3700 download

2009-06-24 Thread Marten Vijn
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:43 -0500, David Farning wrote: > A quick grep of the logfiles show over 3700 downloads of > soas-strawberry.iso from the primary download site. About 3 pm > eastern time we added European mirrors so we don't have a complete > count. > http://ftp.nluug.nl/.statistics/20090

[IAEP] Book creator

2009-06-24 Thread Caroline Meeks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRcKP1MJQs I am asking teachers what they want to say to open source developers please send messages back Sent from my iPhone Caroline Meeks 617-395-7966 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) I

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick / Kids on Computers

2009-06-24 Thread Dave Bauer
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:38 PM, David Farning wrote: > Can some one with Mac knowledge point Ragavan in the correct direction. > > thanks > david > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Ragavan S > wrote: > > Sean, David, > > > > I am trying to set up SoaS on a mac. The download link to the iso on >

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick / Kids on Computers

2009-06-24 Thread David Farning
Can some one with Mac knowledge point Ragavan in the correct direction. thanks david On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Ragavan S wrote: > Sean, David, > > I am trying to set up SoaS on a mac. The download link to the iso on > this page -> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mac is > brok

Re: [IAEP] Mac Woes

2009-06-24 Thread Walter Bender
Thanks. (I see the page has changed quite a bit since last night :) -walter On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Dave Bauer wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Walter Bender > wrote: >> >> Can you please update the Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry page Mac section >> with a link to your image/i

Re: [IAEP] Mac Woes

2009-06-24 Thread Dave Bauer
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > Can you please update the Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry page Mac section with > a link to your image/instructions? Thanks. > There is already a section on virtual machines on the Strawberry page. I added a link to that in the Mac OS X section.

Re: [IAEP] Mac Woes

2009-06-24 Thread Walter Bender
Can you please update the Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry page Mac section with a link to your image/instructions? Thanks. -walter On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Dave Bauer wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > >> On 25 Jun 2009, at 00:36, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >> >>

Re: [IAEP] Mac Woes

2009-06-24 Thread Dave Bauer
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 25 Jun 2009, at 00:36, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > > > Hi... > > > > OK, here's the "dumb question" for today. I am sitting here in the > > wilds of MT with only a Mac and would like to create the latest > > Strawberry Soas for my Mac. > > Hi

Re: [IAEP] Mac Woes

2009-06-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 25 Jun 2009, at 00:36, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi... > > OK, here's the "dumb question" for today. I am sitting here in the > wilds of MT with only a Mac and would like to create the latest > Strawberry Soas for my Mac. Hi. I haven't had a chance to try booting the Strawberry SoaS on my

[IAEP] 3700 download

2009-06-24 Thread David Farning
A quick grep of the logfiles show over 3700 downloads of soas-strawberry.iso from the primary download site. About 3 pm eastern time we added European mirrors so we don't have a complete count. I think most of our download server problems were related to memory. We will do a full debrief in a fe

[IAEP] Mac Woes

2009-06-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... OK, here's the "dumb question" for today. I am sitting here in the wilds of MT with only a Mac and would like to create the latest Strawberry Soas for my Mac. Tomorrow evening I will be presenting a talk/hands-on for the Bozeman MT LUG about SoaS and the contributors program. The

Re: [IAEP] Computesr for Learning. gov

2009-06-24 Thread Kevin Cole
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 16:33, Caroline Meeks wrote: > http://computersforlearning.gov/ > > Is anyone familiar with this? Just heard about it in a talk at FOSSED I hadn't heard of the site before, but I went and had a look (and forwarded the URL to several other folks). They do need a bit of re

[IAEP] Computesr for Learning. gov

2009-06-24 Thread Caroline Meeks
http://computersforlearning.gov/ Is anyone familiar with this? Just heard about it in a talk at FOSSED -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a la

Re: [IAEP] Translation to Spanish ... Sugar Labs Announces Immediate Availability of Sugar on a Stick

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
Wow, this is great Pilar, just check with me first next time because in fact caryl translated that yesterday already, I sent Spanish - German - French -Italian to Christian last night and i'm just waiting for him to get them on line Perhaps I could call on you again next time? We may even have ano

[IAEP] Translation to Spanish ... Sugar Labs Announces Immediate Availability of Sugar on a Stick

2009-06-24 Thread Pilar Saenz
HI Sean You did a Fantastic Work. Congrats Federico Moreira and I have translated the press note to spanish... Maybe it's usefull BTW, feedback link is an broken llink Sugar Labs anuncia la disponibilidad inmediata de Sugar on a Stick (Sugar/Azúcar en una memoria USB); la plataforma d

[IAEP] picked up by Pro-Linux (Germany)

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2009/14356.html ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] picked up by La Nacion (Argentina)

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1142921 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] El Pais !

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/expresidente/Portatil/Nino/lanza/alternativa/dolares/elpeputec/20090624elpeputec_1/Tes ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iae

[IAEP] picked up by Liliputing

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.liliputing.com/2009/06/sugar-on-a-stick-hits-1-0-turns-any-netbook-into-an-olpc.html ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] SJVN on SoaS and LTSP: The little Linux school house

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://blogs.computerworld.com/the_little_linux_school_house ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Article?

2009-06-24 Thread Edward Cherlin
I have just written to the editors of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, ne...@kbs.uni-hannover.de, pet...@mail.sis.pitt.edu, ohl...@purdue.edu asking whether they would like articles on Alan Kay's gravity lesson for ten-year-olds, in my Turtle Art version; California's Free Digital Text

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] BBC News!

2009-06-24 Thread Edward Cherlin
My daily Google alert shows this story on Gizmodo, MIT Technology Review, ferarriboy.com, and gadget.us. A Google News search turns up several more. o tuxjournal.net (Spanish) o neteco.com (French) o techradar.com UK o slashdot o h-online.com We are getting good coverage in the geek outlets, but

[IAEP] picked up by Alcance Libre (Mexico)

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.alcancelibre.org/article.php/publicado-sugar-on-a-stick-10 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] picked up by CrunchGear, with YouTube video

2009-06-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Jun 2009, at 17:09, Sean DALY wrote: > http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/24/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-your-old-computer-into-an-olpc/ Cool, great little youtube video as well – it's nice to see a video of someone's (admittedly an adult techy) first hands on encounter with the Sugar UI. Som

[IAEP] picked up by Xconomy

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/06/24/sugarlabs-releases-sugar-on-stick/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] picked up by CrunchGear, with YouTube video

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/24/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-your-old-computer-into-an-olpc/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] release is out on eReleases and PR Newswire

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hey, it talks about a School Server too :-D (does that mean that Hamilton's patches for registration & backup made it into SoaS? m On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > Reuters and Yahoo, and a number of print and TV station websites in > the US have published from PR Newswire: >

[IAEP] picked up by Neteco (France)

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.neteco.com/284280-sugar-systeme-olpc-cle-usb.html ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] BBC News!

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
:D I wouldn't say every media... lots of outlets received the release and didn't cover it, although they may reconsider when they see the BBC coverage. The BBC journalist understood the significance of Sugar running on old PCs, netbooks, and Intel Classmates - an installed base of 400,000 machines

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] BBC News!

2009-06-24 Thread Bastien
Sean DALY writes: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm Funny how every media rushes on spreading the press release *before* actually testing SoaS... I guess there will be a second wave with test. -- Bastien ___ IAEP -- It's An Educa

[IAEP] BBC News!

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] release is out on eReleases and PR Newswire

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
Reuters and Yahoo, and a number of print and TV station websites in the US have published from PR Newswire: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS103017+24-Jun-2009+PRN20090624 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Sugar-Labs-Announces-prnews-318069825.html?x=0&.v=1 On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at

Re: [IAEP] we've been slashdotted

2009-06-24 Thread David Farning
Sunjammer is holding up so far. The FSF has some very fat pipes at their co-lo facility. david On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1243255/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10 > ___ > IAEP -- It's A

[IAEP] Picked up by OpenNet Russia

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=22300 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] we've been slashdotted

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1243255/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] Fwd: DC FIRST Robotics at NECC

2009-06-24 Thread David Farning
A couple other data points: The scratch team is working on releasing 1.4 as a Sugar activity via the activities library. We don't think we have an ETA yet. Bernie ported Sugar to an embedded board called the Beagle Board a couple of months ago. It would be very cool for using sugar as a interface

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: "Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC"

2009-06-24 Thread David Farning
e I read this sub thread I commented that he should use something >> like http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page=media_04 >> , but in fact that wasn't terribly easy for me to find.  I looked >> through >> >> http://wiki.sugarlab

[IAEP] release is out on eReleases and PR Newswire

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.ereleases.com/pr/sugar-labs-announces-availability-sugar-stick-learning-platform-runs-pc-netbook-classroom-22146 http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-24-2009/0005049403&EDATE= ___ IAEP -- It's An E

[IAEP] Fwd: DC FIRST Robotics at NECC

2009-06-24 Thread Kevin Cole
Heads up DC locals! I just received e-mail from the regional director of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics, and she tells me that Denise Lewis, the DC Assistant Regional Director and DC Senior Mentor, will be at NECC. Given the stuff we're talking about do

[IAEP] mirror's

2009-06-24 Thread Marten Vijn
FYI, I am still working on mirrors. Currently 2 dutch mirror are working. Cacheboy accepted to mirror worldwide, however these are not active yet. http://wiki.cacheboy.net/wiki/WhatIsBeingMirrored http://cacheboy.net/sponsors.html I 'll keep you posted, cheers Marten -- Marten Vi

Re: [IAEP] bad links on SoaS wiki page help please

2009-06-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Yeah, thanks for putting that there! It's good to have another reference there. I finally went ahead and edited the SoaS main page a bit, too. As the main wiki page is also directing to the Strawberry page, I hope that most people will get the information from there. Thanks for the great work o

[IAEP] XO-Man featured in Bulgaria writeup

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://greentech-bg.net/?p=3955 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Picked up by Heise UK

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.h-online.com/open/Sugar-on-a-Stick-1-0-released--/news/113604 they did a good job, used the image and linked directly to the Strawberry page ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.su

Re: [IAEP] bad links on SoaS wiki page help please

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
OK I added a direct link to the Strawberry page at the top of the page, hopefully visitors will go straight there. A pancake button would be better, but I don't know if the wiki can do that. The SoaS page is well-referenced so visitors should be guided from that page. thanks Sean On Wed, Jun 2

Re: [IAEP] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: "Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC"

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
nted that he should use something > like http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&page=media_04 > , but in fact that wasn't terribly easy for me to find.  I looked > through > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Logo > http://www.sugarlabs.org/in

Re: [IAEP] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: "Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC"

2009-06-24 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:36:02AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: Hi Sascha, in fact I have no idea where that one came from. We provided the SoaS beauty shot in the press release (http://www.sugarlabs.org/press/Sugar-on-a-Stick-Strawberry.png) and I provided the gallery link to Technology Review last

Re: [IAEP] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: "Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC"

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Dengler
7;t terribly easy for me to find. I looked through http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Logo http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=press&article=20090624&language=english#20090624 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Welcome_to_the_Sugar_Labs_wiki http://www.sugarlabs.org/ http://w

[IAEP] bad links on SoaS wiki page help please

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
The Sugar on a Stick wiki page (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick) still talks about and links to beta in several locations. I've cleaned it up a little bit but I'm concerned about not swapping the correct links, can anyone help with that quickly? thanks Sean _

Re: [IAEP] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: "Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC"

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Sascha, in fact I have no idea where that one came from. We provided the SoaS beauty shot in the press release (http://www.sugarlabs.org/press/Sugar-on-a-Stick-Strawberry.png) and I provided the gallery link to Technology Review last night (http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=gallery&pag

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: "Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC"

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
thanks Martin We haven't even hit PR Newswire yet in the US, that will be around 2PM in our timezone :-) Sean On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Sean DALY wrote: >> http://gizmodo.com/5301939/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-any-netbook-into-your-

Re: [IAEP] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: "Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC"

2009-06-24 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:19:01AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: http://gizmodo.com/5301939/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-any-netbook-into-your-very-own-olpc Where do they get all those old screenshots from? ^^ Do we have a gallery for the journalists to use that's linked from press releases? CU Sascha

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: "Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC"

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > http://gizmodo.com/5301939/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-any-netbook-into-your-very-own-olpc > > 100 views in the first few minutes... The marketing team @ SL is the stuff of legends. Congrats. (I am sure there are significant challenges in absorbing

[IAEP] picked up by Gizmodo off of TechRadar: "Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC"

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://gizmodo.com/5301939/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-any-netbook-into-your-very-own-olpc 100 views in the first few minutes... ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Who is at LinuxTag this week?

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Greg, I will try to be there Saturday/Sunday (ie: after LT, but in time for Fudcon). When is your presentation on education and foss? Will you mention the wild success of Moodle? (Hint! hint!) Educators rave about it, but the geek world doesn't see it as sexy. It doesn't have to be sexy -- it

Re: [IAEP] Who is at LinuxTag this week?

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Greg http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2009 I arrive tomorrow evening Sean On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > > I see that we have booth space -- who from Sugar is tending to it?  I'm > happy to come hang out for a while, but when I was th

[IAEP] Who is at LinuxTag this week?

2009-06-24 Thread Greg DeKoenigsberg
I see that we have booth space -- who from Sugar is tending to it? I'm happy to come hang out for a while, but when I was there earlier today, the booth was empty. --g -- Computer Science professors should be teaching open source. Help make it happen. Visit http://teachingopensource.org. __

[IAEP] Glyn Moody on SoaS!

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/sugar-on-stick-v1-strawberry-is-out.html ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] picked up by TechWhack (India)

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://press-releases.techwhack.com/37974-sugar-labs Note extensive tagging by the editor ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] picked up by TechRadar (UK)

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/-sugar-on-a-stick-os-arrives-610416 SoaS is "splendidly monikered" ! Sean ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo

[IAEP] Sugar on a Stick: una piattaforma educativa su penna USB

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.tuxjournal.net/?p=8484 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Fwd: Google Alert - "sugar labs"

2009-06-24 Thread Sean DALY
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sean DALY Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:20 AM Subject: Fwd: Google Alert - "sugar labs" To: Sugar Labs Marketing http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22919/ -- Forwarded message -- From: Google Alerts Date: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 a