[IAEP] deployment feedback (was Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11))

2009-08-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 03:39, Raul Gutierrez Segalesr...@rieder.net.py wrote: On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 15:06 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Or are you saying the feedback is getting through and I'm just not

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New sugar meeting channel in Spanish

2009-08-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 00:50, Pilar Saenzmapis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thinking about how to involve more Spanish speakers into IRC meetings, it's available a transbot between #sugar-meeting and the new #sugar-reunion channels. Spanish users can join #sugar-reunion and all sentences will be

[IAEP] sunjammer: VM relocated back to old host

2009-08-15 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Hello, unfortunately our new XEN host cloud9.fsf.org has a hardware stability issue that we could not solve while working remotely. Therefore, yesterday night we decided to migrate Sunjammer back to its old home to avoid further unplanned downtime while we analyze the outstanding issue with

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] sunjammer: VM relocated back to old host

2009-08-15 Thread Luke Faraone
On Aug 15, 2009, at 12:42, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: I enabled mod_mem_cache in the hope it will save some computation, but if it's not effective we might have to reduce the number of Apache processes and start returning 500 server busy errors. Maybe pipe downloads through the

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] sunjammer: VM relocated back to old host

2009-08-15 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 09:00, Daniel Clark dcl...@pobox.com wrote: I haven't used it in a while, but a year or two ago http://codeen.cs.princeton.edu/ was pretty sweet for large file transfers. Can we use it without any changes on the users' end? From what I saw on the site, it seems to

[IAEP] Invitation to add annotations to sugar olpc fedora11 jhbuild TURTLE ART templates 1

2009-08-15 Thread Dennis Daniels
This is an invitation to add annotations to my video. Collaboration and sharing of subject matter expertise is critical to the success of Sugar especially in the realm of documentation and training. Just follow this access link and click on the video to start annotating.

Re: [IAEP] Invitation to add annotations to sugar olpc fedora11 jhbuild TURTLE ART templates 1

2009-08-15 Thread Walter Bender
A few observations about your template movie: (1) Since you are running the experimental version of Sugar (with Metacity) you are bumping up against a bug with Window ordering (I'll dig up the ticket for you momentarily) that is causing the Journal object chooser to appear under the Turtle Art

Re: [IAEP] Invitation to add annotations to sugar olpc fedora11 jhbuild TURTLE ART templates 1

2009-08-15 Thread Walter Bender
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: A few observations about your template movie: (1) Since you are running the experimental version of Sugar (with Metacity) you are bumping up against a bug with Window ordering (I'll dig up the ticket for you

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-15 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bill, Not sure if you wanted answers :-) On 15 Aug 2009, at 02:51, Bill Kerr wrote: I might try these next week and see how they go: does altering the size of an object affect its drop time? No does joining objects together (large and small) affect drop time? No Remember, you can

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 15 Aug 2009, at 20:58, Asaf Paris Mandoki wrote: build a complex or elegant building that doesn't fall down This can be done on top of an earthquake simulator (see attached image). The earthquake simulator can be modified to produce longitudinal and transverse waves. Now that is a really

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-15 Thread Bill Kerr
thanks for response and additional suggestions, Gary and Asaf (and screenshots are very useful) I'll create a worksheet for my class and post the link when done - thinking that I'll organise it into a basic, harder and advanced sections Caroline there are already great ideas for lessons and

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-15 Thread Asaf Paris Mandoki
I'll create a worksheet for my class and post the link when done - thinking that I'll organise it into a basic, harder and advanced sections Good idea. is water possible? that would fit nicely with density experiments Water as a medium is technically possible but I'm still not sure how could

[IAEP] bundling Wikijunior

2009-08-15 Thread Sameer Verma
Has anyone bundled Wikijunior or a part of it? http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-15 Thread Alan Kay
Hi Folks I've previously written a fair amount on this list about what real science is actually about and it would be tiresome to repeat it. And I'm sure you have reasons for what you've been suggesting in this thread about ways to use a simulation software package in Sugar. But are you

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-15 Thread Bill Kerr
hi alan, I'm not sure how your argument here would not apply also to etoys? Is your objection mainly to the name of the program - physics? On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Folks I've previously written a fair amount on this list about what real

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] sunjammer: VM relocated back to old host

2009-08-15 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Sat, 15-08-2009 a las 13:59 +0200, Luke Faraone escribió: On Aug 15, 2009, at 12:42, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: I enabled mod_mem_cache in the hope it will save some computation, but if it's not effective we might have to reduce the number of Apache processes and start

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-15 Thread Bill Kerr
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm not sure how your argument here would not apply also to etoys? It does if you try to teach how the real world works by making computer simulations without doing experiments. But if you'll check out our materials

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] sunjammer: VM relocated back to old host

2009-08-15 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Relating aslo management, maybe we can ask mozilla folks about it? , would be nice to know how is their setup. Rafael Ortiz On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Bernie Innocentiber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Sat, 15-08-2009 a las 13:59 +0200, Luke Faraone escribió: On Aug 15, 2009, at 12:42,