On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:21 PM, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> SCIM (m17n) was not stable enough when we started. Recent versions are much
> more stable and we are trying them out this year.
Good. I can't judge, but here is a Kannada Inscript keyboard layout
done in SCIM.
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On Thursday 13 Aug 2009 2:12:07 am Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > What have been the issues preventing you from using Sugar? What
> >
> >> blockers still exist which would prevent you from using Sugar?
> >
> > LaTeX and Stellarium were two big show stoppers. We just wanted a
> > 'digital kit' that c
The lists iaep@ and sugar-devel@ get far too much spam and moderating
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Until when I'll find some time to install and properly configure
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The FSF sysadmins are going to relocate our virtual machine Sunjammer
today in the evening.
The new host has faster processors, twice as much memory, a faster RAID1
array and generally better hardware. The downtime is projected to last
15-30 minutes, but it may last longer in case of unexpected i
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:50 PM, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 Jul 2009 12:03:35 am David Farning wrote:
>> Have you considered using Sugar or Sugar on a stick for your program?
> The project was conceived before SoaS. We faced severe constraints with power
> budgets and tech support. W
Great news! please do keep us informed and also let me know when you do
publicity so I can link to you.
Thanks!
Caroline
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:17 AM, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> On Monday 13 Jul 2009 9:11:10 pm K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> > On Monday 13 Jul 2009 7:02:33 pm Caroline Meeks wrote
For Guadalinex-edu, we are taking jhconvert packages as a base, under
Karmic. These are the most up to date and probably most tested packages
currently available for Ubuntu (courtesy of Aleksey) It would make sense to
bundle these with edubuntu too, at least until the debian packages are
completely
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:58:42PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
Sorry for not including this list in the Cc list right away.
I was unaware of its existence.
No problem.
Even if not that loud on the radar, the OLPC team at Alioth has been the
main point of Debian-base Sugar packaging coordin
IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to
all teachers and Learners. The observations and take-aways need to be
triaged of course, starting with what can/should be done by Sugar
Labs, but I am convinced many learnings will benefit large
deployments. Until reliable means
On Monday 13 Jul 2009 9:11:10 pm K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
> On Monday 13 Jul 2009 7:02:33 pm Caroline Meeks wrote:
> > What sort of results do you have so far?
>
> The new academic year has just started. In the prev one, around 75% of the
> kids learnt to handle the computer well enough to create a
On 12 Aug 2009, at 08:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:25, Caroline
> Meeks wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso
>> wrote:
>>
>>> This is turning out to be a very important concept to explain to
>>> people. Does anyone know of any educational mate
Hi,
It's time to revive Deployment Team.
Next meeting Wednesday August 19th - at 14 UTC (9 EST) on
irc.freenode.net (channel: #sugar-meeting).
Please add to the agenda below and please join in with your ideas.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Meetings/Minutes/2009-08-19
best regards,
First of all, it's wonderful to finally see this activity.
Plenty of words in the UI are not easy, starting with "difficulty". :-)
There doesn't seem to be any scratch space to work in, but I'm just
looking at the screen shot. Can the user lay out a long division in
the standard form? Can the use
Jim Simmons' Read Etext can speak texts using text-to-speech. Would it
be interesting to not speak some words and just pause for the duration
of the word? I am thinking that there are vocabulary lists by grade.
These vocabulary lists could be used to exclude words from audible
speaking. What do
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:25, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 17:15, Nicco Eneidi wrote:
>> > On Friday, August 7th, I presented Sugar to fifteen girls ages 10-13 who
>> > were participants in the Rosie's Girls Summer
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