Re: [IAEP] Spanish Translation request

Glad to help ;) Rafael Ortiz On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Thank you! I have sent it on to the school for review.  Big help, we want to > get this document into the big pile of things parents have to sign at the > beginning of the year which apparently goes out on Mon

Re: [IAEP] Spanish Translation request

Thank you! I have sent it on to the school for review. Big help, we want to get this document into the big pile of things parents have to sign at the beginning of the year which apparently goes out on Monday. Thanks! Caroline 2009/9/9 Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero > Hi Caroline et all. > > Att

Re: [IAEP] Spanish Translation request

Hi Caroline et all. Attached is a free translation please review it. Rafael Ortiz On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > The GPA school has a large spanish speaking population. We need to send a > letter home to parents to get permission to collaborate with an acad

Re: [IAEP] installation problem

Dave After reserving 1GB, windows reports 1.87G total, 1.36G used, 0.526G free The log below shows attempts ranging from 1.539GB to 1.05GB In all cases it fails near the 99% point, on closer reading it was only 1.539GB that reported insufficient space. My recollection is that the on screen displa

[IAEP] Spanish Translation request

The GPA school has a large spanish speaking population. We need to send a letter home to parents to get permission to collaborate with an academic study out of Pace university in NY. The school translator is very busy right now with school starting. Is there anyone who could translate this letter

Re: [IAEP] Electricity and magentism

> At GPA we will be working with the 4th grade. Their fall science topic > is Electricity > and magentism. > We have the GCompris activity: GCompris Electric 11 > > Any other suggestions? http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2009/03/xo-electricity-and-magnetism.html This works on the XO but may not wo

[IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

> From: Caroline Meeks > Subject: [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki? > To: iaep , Kellie Doty > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I'd like to introduce Kellie Doty, she is a fellow student in the > Technology, Education and Innovati

Re: [IAEP] share videos from XO?

daliymotion.com is Sugar/OLPC friendly in that it accepts OGG. -walter On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: > I've wasted too much time today already in trying to share XO-originated > videos. >  This is a major issue for deaf people, and as you know we're at Gallaudet > (Wash

Re: [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

I personally wasn't aware of Currwiki http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ though on first glance it appears interesting though seriously lacking any quantitative evaluation (and we know the value of that a la USA/ NCLB). The question I have: how will sugar users teacher/students be able to

[IAEP] Electricity and magentism

At GPA we will be working with the 4th grade. Their fall science topic is Electricity and magentism. We have the GCompris activity: GCompris Electric 11 Any other suggestions? Thanks! Caroline -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax

Re: [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 19:18, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > But Kellie pointed out that teachers need to be able to find things through > various paths such as subject, grade level and activities used. > We could make use of Semantic MediaWiki,

[IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

I'd like to introduce Kellie Doty, she is a fellow student in the Technology, Education and Innovation program at Harvard Grad School for Education and she is in Intern at Sugar Labs this fall working on the GPA project. Kellyie's role will be to help us develop curriculum, test it at GPA and publ

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

I will stay clear of whether or not we should say what to whom, but when the time comes: Cacao, native to Mexico, Central and South America, has been cultivated for at least three millennia in that region. It was used originally in Mesoamerica both as a beverage, and as an ingredient in foods. (wi

[IAEP] Answering teacher and other users questions on Launchpad

I worked with teachers today at GPA. School starts tomorrow. I pointed one of the teachers to Launchpad to ask questions. I did this rather then IAEP because I'd like to build up a FAQ set of answers that is automatically searched. And I had to pick one of the many mediums we had and at that mome

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 11:56:25PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Martin Dengler > wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > >> In fact Martin if I remember correctly we had already discussed this > >> on-list... I will try to find the thre

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

what about replacing colors with Gimp? > basically, a reread of the marketing meetings in June (and the lists) > shows us formulating the plan. The beauty shot of the branded USB > sticks for example was designed to have the colors of the first four > versions of SoaS, and hence be reusable... sinc

[IAEP] share videos from XO?

I've wasted too much time today already in trying to share XO-originated videos. This is a major issue for deaf people, and as you know we're at Gallaudet (Washington DC university for the deaf) trying to do Good Things http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/edit/ClassActs Anyway, it id work in Novem

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-June/001546.html found it, was during a (sometimes heated) discussion concerning Sugar vs. Sugar on a Stick, SoaS referring only to the Fedora distro or not, and some other topics :-) basically, a reread of the marketing meetings in June (and the l

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > In fact Martin if I remember correctly we had already discussed this > on-list... I will try to find the thread. Please let me know. I did google for 'sugar "ice cream" soas' before I said I couldn't find anything besides the IRC meetin

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

Somebody has been watching too many Windows commercials... :-) > environment which could be as basic as showing the interface with > rollover balloons, or as complex as actually processing data. > > anyway, from a marketing perspective, I respect and agree that some "secret" around the name mig

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

In fact Martin if I remember correctly we had already discussed this on-list... I will try to find the thread. The idea is to maximize launch impact by keeping the element of surprise on our side. This is also why the ice-cream shop doesn't announce their summer specials in advance - people like t

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 04:42:07PM -0400, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: > >> I guess Sean's corrected you and I that it's ice-cream flavours :). > If it's ice cream flavors, Vanilla and Chocolate are universal... I guess I was assuming that there needs to be a tie-in between the colour of the flavour a

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

> I guess Sean's corrected you and I that it's ice-cream flavours :). > > sure! >> yet a couple snags I see, No blueberries (arandanos) I ever saw in >> South/Cental America... (very delicious in Virginia, though!) >> >> Shouldn't we try to aim for something easy to localize and feel >> owners

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 04:04:33PM -0400, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: > > Thank you, I love this naming concept with fruit names. I guess Sean's corrected you and I that it's ice-cream flavours :). > yet a couple snags I see, No blueberries (arandanos) I ever saw in > South/Cental America... (very

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:10:40PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > Hi Martin > > The idea is ice cream flavors Ok. I hadn't picked up on this, despite being in the meeting when it was mentioned[1]. I suspect others may not have, either. > and Blueberry works since I had rollup banners and posters ma

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

Hi Martin The idea is ice cream flavors and Blueberry works since I had rollup banners and posters made in both the Strawberry and Blueberry colors, keeping them current for at least a couple of years (considering their cost). However, as stated previously it hasn't been our plan to name SoaS rel

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

Thank you, I love this naming concept with fruit names. yet a couple snags I see, No blueberries (arandanos) I ever saw in South/Cental America... (very delicious in Virginia, though!) Shouldn't we try to aim for something easy to localize and feel ownership of? Strawberry was good, orange,

[IAEP] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

Hi, This is to solicit feedback on the naming and colouring of the Sugar on a Stick v2 release scheduled for 2009-11-24[1]: 1) Release name: Blueberry 2) Release logo colours: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Logo_white_04.png Please "reply all" with any feedback. If you want to get involved

[IAEP] Getting a SoaS Docs Effort off the Ground

From looking at the currently available documentation for Sugar on a Stick, I think it makes sense to collaborate on writing well written official instructions for it. So I've entered a Blueprint in Launchpad on it: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/soas/+spec/better-docs-for-soas I'd like to g

Re: [IAEP] installation problem

It's too late now but shouldn't this thread be on sugar-de...@? pgp36jMHT2NQT.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] installation problem

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > this seems to be caused by LiveUSBCreator trying to resume the > download of a different file. > > Can you delete any files named soas-strawberry.iso and try again? > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > thanks, i tried again, with 1501 MB assigned and ever

Re: [IAEP] installation problem

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Dave Bauer wrote: > > What does windows report as the free space on the stick? if you mean before the installation: WS correctly reports the stick is totally empty ... thank you -- roberto ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] New versions of Read Etexts and View Slides available

Tomeu, I hadn't thought of that. I'm going to subscribe to that list and send them the same information. Thanks, James Simmons On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 23:42, Jim Simmons wrote: >> The usual automatic announcement went out to the Sugar-Devel

Re: [IAEP] 40 maths shapes challenges

introduced turtle art and barry newell's 40 shapes to my students today about half way through the lesson someone asked, "how do you do the circle?" before I could say anything another student replied, "that's easy - just use arc" you've gotta laugh (an arc primitive wasn't there for the original

Re: [IAEP] installation problem

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 17:33, roberto wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 16:19, roberto wrote: >>> hello everyone >>> i am trying to install sugar-on-a-stick using the process suggested in: >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawbe

Re: [IAEP] New versions of Read Etexts and View Slides available

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 23:42, Jim Simmons wrote: > The usual automatic announcement went out to the Sugar-Devel list but > I thought it might be appropriate to mention something here too. Hi Jim, do you think it's worth asking for feedback in olpc-sur even if the activities may not be fully trans