Re: [IAEP] Reflections on giving a Sugar Demo

2009-06-27 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 02:19, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: First off it went well. The teacher's loved Sugar, saw a lot of possibilities and are motivated to help us go forward. People talked with me about it the entire conference. That said, I learned a lot of lessons and

Re: [IAEP] Reflections on giving a Sugar Demo

2009-06-27 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:19:11PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: First off it went well. The teacher's loved Sugar, saw a lot of possibilities and are motivated to help us go forward. People talked with me about it the entire conference. That said, I learned a lot of lessons and there are

Re: [IAEP] Reflections on giving a Sugar Demo

2009-06-27 Thread Caroline Meeks
On 6/27/09, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 02:19, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: First off it went well. The teacher's loved Sugar, saw a lot of possibilities and are motivated to help us go forward. People talked with me about it the

[IAEP] Reflections on giving a Sugar Demo

2009-06-27 Thread Laura Johns
I wanted to thank Caroline and Walter for doing the presentation at FOSSed. Caroline was very generous with her time and we had many questions! The level of remote support was very impressive. Despite some of the roadblocks encountered during the presentation, I left the conference with

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Wireless

2009-06-27 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, I'm back home now and checking in. When I was at FOSSED it looked like Macs running under virtual box could not use local collaboration because it doesn't directly see the APs. Is this confirmed? Are there other ideas for getting MacBooks using VirutalBox to collaborate without an XS?

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Wireless

2009-06-27 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 27 Jun 2009, at 16:07, Caroline Meeks wrote: I'm back home now and checking in. When I was at FOSSED it looked like Macs running under virtual box could not use local collaboration because it doesn't directly see the APs. Is this confirmed? Are there other ideas for

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 15, Issue 114

2009-06-27 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Jim Simmons wrote: I found that when I tried to use my icon with the fill_style variable in Sugar it displays with no fill whatsoever, so you just see a jumble of lines instead of an image. One mistake that I made many times was replacing the fill color with fill_color. In fact, it must be

Re: [IAEP] Reflections on giving a Sugar Demo

2009-06-27 Thread Frederick Grose
Perhaps the main medium of SoaS distribution should be a SoaS LiceCD with an activity that would make very simple to flash a USB stick? That would allow us to control better the flashing process, where is very easy to get into trouble. And maybe that LiveCD could double as a Boot helper?

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 15, Issue 114

2009-06-27 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Jim, On 27 Jun 2009, at 03:02, Jim Simmons wrote: The problem with books on a shelf is that Aleksey is already using that image for his Library Activity and I think it is more fitting for that because he is creating a sort of electronic bookshelf, whereas I'm creating a card catalog. The

Re: [IAEP] Reflections on giving a Sugar Demo

2009-06-27 Thread Andrea Mangiatordi
Hi everybody, Caroline Meeks wrote: 1. This is the Home Screen. [snip] 8. To do something go to your Home screen and click on any of these icons. They are the activities. in the last months I was (and I still am, but for short) in Uruguay for my PhD research project, which

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 15, Issue 114

2009-06-27 Thread Jim Simmons
Gary, The ideas are not bad. I've kind of grown attached to what I have so I think I'll stick with that for release 1, which I am debugging as I write this. It's coming along pretty well. Maybe a third idea is to have the original Read icon with a small Browse icon inside it and speed lines

Re: [IAEP] SoaS Strawberry release debrief - iaep

2009-06-27 Thread Bill Kerr
*Some feedback: Persistent storage overlay* http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry#Windows_Users 6. Set the *Persistent Storage* slider to at least 160 MB (use more if you have a drive with more space); This confused me until I did some tests and discovered that if you don't do