[IAEP] How to set autologin for SUGAR in USB and VM Applications

2009-08-20 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
The USB and VM applications I have been making require a login at the gnome display manager (gdm)screen: user=sugar password=sugaruser If you want them to behave like Soas-strawberry and boot right to sugar do the following: === For Autologin of Sugar: Sugar

[IAEP] Sugar on a Stick switches to a new Bug Tracker

2009-08-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, with the imminent release of the SoaS v2 Beta in just ten days, I would like to announce the switch to Launchpad as our bug tracker. We have been evaluating an instance Luke Faraone set us up with lately and are confident that it will fit our needs. The upcoming beta release is

[IAEP] organisational task list

2009-08-20 Thread David Farning
Hey all, I am heading back home after my vacation and am trying to plan the next couple of months. As such, I would appreciate help identifying and prioritising organisational tasks. 1. Slobs elections. 2. Trademark policy. 3. Establish engineering steering committee. 4. SugarCamp. 5. Deployment

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Competitive landscape: Intel Classmate executive blog post re updated software

2009-08-20 Thread Caroline Meeks
I've been wanting to try this but I can't get a.sl.o to send me an email to approve my account and I need an account to download it. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Caroline Meeks wrote: italic looks very interesting! Can it be

Re: [IAEP] Read Etexts Videos available

2009-08-20 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi James, This is good! But it would be better with music and annotations. I know we want to be using daily motion because it doesn't use Flash. But YouTube looks like it has tools that makes what we want to do much easier. Adds music with guaranteed usage rights and annotations. I wonder if

[IAEP] eSchool News article on using technology in Grades 1-5

2009-08-20 Thread Caroline Meeks
http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/building-a-cost-effective-digital-classroom/building-a-cost-effective-digital-classroom-articles/index.cfm?i=57064page=1 I tried to ignore the gratuitous references to microsoft projects because I think this is a nice view into what teachers with technology in

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Assessment in Karma

2009-08-20 Thread Bryan Berry
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:57 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: 2009/8/19 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: - Automatic assessment is snake oil, Bryan is well intentioned but deeply wrong. See the earlier email at http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg05584.html I agree

Re: [IAEP] organisational task list

2009-08-20 Thread Walter Bender
Maybe a slobs meeting a week from Friday? -walter On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:02 PM, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hey all, I am heading back home after my vacation and am trying to plan the next couple of months. As such, I would appreciate help identifying and prioritising

[IAEP] SOAS and Terminal

2009-08-20 Thread Kim Toufectis
Couldn't figure how to search your archive so forgive me if this question has already been asked/answered. I've got SOAS working on a Wintel Vista machine, nice and quick compared with my xo of course, but silent and won't seem to load Adobe Flash Player. I tried following the instructions on

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Assessment in Karma

2009-08-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Bryan Berrybr...@olenepal.org wrote: I agree that automatic assessment is no magic cure-all but it does free teachers from a lot of drudgery in grading worksheets. I understand your point, and respect your good intentions. I worry -- quite a bit -- about the