Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Fwd: Follow-Up on: " looking for two groups of volunteers"]

2009-08-08 Thread Chris Ball
Hi all, >> Walter has posted this several weeks ago about founding such a >> committee, for which I volunteered. So here's the thing. Has >> SLOBs given this committee the power to make a decision? If it >> has, I'd like to get confirmation that SLOBs is going to back up >> the deci

Re: [IAEP] Who's interested in testing a new installer for SoaS?

2009-08-08 Thread Edward Cherlin
I can test in several distros in VirtualBox. On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm looking for some volunteers to test the hard disk installation with > the latest SoaS snapshot and newly designed installer. Since this > upstream project is really in the

[IAEP] SoaS3-20090807 Install instructions to Hard disk and VMplayer Application available for download

2009-08-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Today I worked with sdziallas to install the latest SoaS Snapshot http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/3/ Downloaded this file and ran VMware from the .iso file It booted right up and has been on Network Neighborhood all day. I first tried to run it on a hp Pavillion 1417d (Vista) noteb

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-08 Thread Luke Faraone
On Aug 8, 2009, at 16:26, Caroline Meeks wrote: http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ Its available in a wide variety of formats. Which one will work best in Sugar? When it first came out, I converted it into an XOL file for use in Sugar. Not sure if that file is still hosted th

[IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-08 Thread Caroline Meeks
I know there have been advances in eBook reading in the last few months. I am preparing a master USB to copy for a presentation at World Con. I will be doing a panel with Cory Doctrow who wrote and has realeased CC the book Little Brother. Its up for a Hugo this year and I recommend it to anyone w

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Fwd: Follow-Up on: " looking for two groups of volunteers"]

2009-08-08 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > (fwd'ing to SLOBs, keeping IAEP in CC) > > Walter Bender wrote: >> We decided on two actions in today's Sugar Oversight Board meeting >> (See the transcript at >> http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting.log.20090710_0905.html): >> >> (1

Re: [IAEP] My videos are on Sugar Labs video site

2009-08-08 Thread Jim Simmons
Yesterday I edited my Get IA Books--Read demo video and posted it on the SugarLabs video site. I also removed the original ReadEtexts:The Movie video and replaced it with a reencoded version. Because of modifications I made to the mencoder.sh script run by Kino I no longer have distorted text on

[IAEP] Who's interested in testing a new installer for SoaS?

2009-08-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm looking for some volunteers to test the hard disk installation with the latest SoaS snapshot and newly designed installer. Since this upstream project is really in the early stages of development but also concerns a pretty critical part of SoaS, I'd prefer getting some testing

[IAEP] Artwork Request for SoaS: Firstboot Theme

2009-08-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, as I've recently mentioned on-list SoaS now ships firstboot, which is a tool to configure some system-related stuff at... well, first boot! ;) So as this is usually quite Fedora-branded and since we aren't able to ship that trademarked logo, it would be great if we could get some

[IAEP] squeakfest at UCLA next week; bring a child, get in free

2009-08-08 Thread rita
Hi everyone, We're two days away from the start of Squeakfest USA (http://squeakfest.org ), which is being held at the UCLA Faculty Center from Monday, August 10th to Wednesday, August 12th. We're excited by the presentations we've got lined up, including a keynote by Alan Kay. Presenters will d

[IAEP] [Fwd: Follow-Up on: " looking for two groups of volunteers"]

2009-08-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
(fwd'ing to SLOBs, keeping IAEP in CC) Original-Nachricht Betreff: [IAEP] Follow-Up on: " looking for two groups of volunteers" Datum: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:35:20 +0200 Von: Sebastian Dziallas Antwort an: Sebastian Dziallas An: IAEP (referring to [2] here) Walter Bender wrote:

Re: [IAEP] modifying sugar tutorial: different paths for SoaS

2009-08-08 Thread Bill Kerr
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:55, Bill Kerr wrote: > > thanks Tomeu (for the linux pointers too) > > sadly I cannot complete the sugar modification tutorial > > I keep getting messages like "liveuser is not in the sudoers file" and > > "Permission

Re: [IAEP] modifying sugar tutorial: different paths for SoaS

2009-08-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:55, Bill Kerr wrote: > thanks Tomeu (for the linux pointers too) > sadly I cannot complete the sugar modification tutorial > I keep getting messages like "liveuser is not in the sudoers file" and > "Permission denied" for example when I try to make a backup file with cp >

Re: [IAEP] modifying sugar tutorial: different paths for SoaS

2009-08-08 Thread Bill Kerr
thanks Tomeu (for the linux pointers too) sadly I cannot complete the sugar modification tutorial I keep getting messages like "liveuser is not in the sudoers file" and "Permission denied" for example when I try to make a backup file with cp SoaS is acting more like a live CD when it comes to lin

Re: [IAEP] Looking for very old hardware

2009-08-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 05:03:33PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:55:33PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: I would like very much to be able to put these old 5 1/2" floppies in, boot them up and print out the code so some enterprising Python programmer could convert them for

Re: [IAEP] modifying sugar tutorial: different paths for SoaS

2009-08-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 07:47, Bill Kerr wrote: > http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/ModifyingSugar > > 4. The Home View code is in /usr/share/sugar/shell/view/Home. Type this > command and press enter: > > cd /usr/share/sugar/shell/view/home > > the paths have changed for SoaS > I spent some time loo

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC / Sugar community in China?

2009-08-08 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Bastien wrote: > I forgot to mention that I'm currently in Tokyo, Japan, taking a few > days off.  If any of you knows some LUG around here, or have contacts > with a university that I could visit to spread the word about Sugar, > just drop me an email, thanks. > > (