Re: [IAEP] Anyone using the Map activity?

2009-08-09 Thread forster
Hi Nick Map V3 reports as V2 in the home list view Its still effectively twice as slow as google maps to go to a new location, would be better if it started zoomed out Does not display map/satellite/hybrid/terrain till you zoom (i think you pointed that out) sometimes measure takes its first

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

2009-08-09 Thread Mel Chua
For the trademark committee, one workflow that I'd personally be happy with is: * the trademark committee will set the trademark policy, and their  policy will be backed up by SLOBS as the official policy. * separately, we'd need to decide whether we actually want to (and can  afford to)

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-09 Thread Jim Simmons
Caroline, The plain text version on the website will not work with Read Etexts, because that Activity is designed to work with Gutenberg etexts which don't require word-wrapping. However it is possible that the Gutenberg site itself will have a version in the correct format, because I believe

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] NOW: Contributors Program Mtg! (Fri 2PM Boston time, #olpc-meeting)

2009-08-09 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Holt schrieb: 3. OLPC Bayern Library - Munich/Munchen, Germany http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=45454 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bayern (NEEDS REVISING) Requests 15 XO's over 18 months Project Objectives: Translate the english manuals into a

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-09 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 09:15, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: The plain text version on the website will not work with Read Etexts, because that Activity is designed to work with Gutenberg etexts which don't require word-wrapping. However it is possible that the Gutenberg site itself

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-09 Thread Jim Simmons
I wasn't able to get the Baen library RTF download to work with Browse in my Sugar test environment either. You click on the link and nothing happens. James Simmons On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Luke Faraonel...@faraone.cc wrote: On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 09:15, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com

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

2009-08-09 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Mel Chua wrote: For the trademark committee, one workflow that I'd personally be happy with is: * the trademark committee will set the trademark policy, and their policy will be backed up by SLOBS as the official policy. * separately, we'd need to decide whether we actually want to (and

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

2009-08-09 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 13:55, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Is there anybody else interested in joining this committee? Sure, *raises hand for both*. -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-09 Thread Jim Simmons
Caroline, In honor of Little Brother being released as a plain text file I am working on fixing Read Etexts so it can deal with files that need word wrapping as well as those which do not. I've made a good start on this but I want to do a better job of regression testing than I have been doing

Re: [IAEP] GPA Class Notes August 5

2009-08-09 Thread Greg Smith
Hi David, That would be a big help. I am way behind reading the list and working on bugs. I appreciate any help you can give filing bugs based on the reports. GPA in the keyword field will let me query them later. I plan to do a full clean up of all GPA found issues some time in the last two

Re: [IAEP] reporting bug and making recommendation on software

2009-08-09 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Claudia Urreacallaur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Walter, I just returned from Nicaragua where we did a workshop with more than 50 people from the Ministry, local universities, and schools. We used the latest version of Memorize, and social calc, and other

Re: [IAEP] reporting bug and making recommendation on software

2009-08-09 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
@foster fo me is ok to put a link there in a related topic. Is get satisfaction easy to localize or translate ? Rafael Ortiz On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:16 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: We are exploring a new feedback site: http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs Is it worth adding a link

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-09 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi Jim, i'm getting ready to prep the sticks. I will put both versions on. I can wait a few more hours if you want for the latest Read ETexts but I have to have my master done tonight. no time to do it tomorrow morning. Thanks! Tomeu, Thanks for the reminder on languages. I sent Cory an email

Re: [IAEP] reporting bug and making recommendation on software

2009-08-09 Thread Claudia Urrea
Walter, Thanks for getting back to me. Yes, I meat Nicaraguans! I have the regular OLPC channels, but I wanted to get other channels of communications for Sugarlabs as people are now downloading software from this site (things like Getsatisfied). Thanks again! Claudia On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at