Re: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?

2009-10-02 Thread Caroline Meeks
Thanks Alan and Bert! I have made progress. My next problem is that my caterpillar is too big! Even when I resize cartoon builder still wants to make it full sized. http://screencast.com/t/MH1XZmd27s On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > About how to get the drawing out of Et

[IAEP] FW: Live webinar: VirtualBox Web Console

2009-10-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, If you would like to learn more about Virtual Box from the engineers working on it, you might want to check out this webinar. Caryl Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:49:40 -0700 From: s...@communications2.sun.com Subject: Live webinar: VirtualBox Web Console To: cbige...@hotmail.com

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-02 Thread Rubén Rodríguez Pérez
El vie, 02-10-2009 a las 20:40 -0400, Caroline Meeks escribió: > Thanks Ruben Great news! > > > I think besides freedom the other word that comes to mind is Power. > And a lot of it! > > To see a room with 25 old computers and monitors on all day and I > think all night...that is a waste of Pow

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-02 Thread Caroline Meeks
Thanks Ruben Great news! I think besides freedom the other word that comes to mind is Power. To see a room with 25 old computers and monitors on all day and I think all night...that is a waste of Power. Replace those with a server and give the individual computers to kids who don't have one. To

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-02 Thread Rubén Rodríguez Pérez
> Will you be working on an LTSP Sugar? LTSP has amazing benefits on > cost of ownership when you view it on a per computer basis. Sugar is already working in our Trisquel edu based LTSP server. :) > > I'm hoping we eventually get an LTSP/USB solution that still lets the > student take their e

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-02 Thread Caroline Meeks
Trisquel was born as a university project, and it has a strong focus in > education. We think schools are the main battlefront for free software. > This is why we made the Trisquel Edu edition, including several sets of > educational software running on GNOME, and tools for class management > like

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Xoos Special Interest Group

2009-10-02 Thread David Farning
The core focus of the Sig is to be an upstream for the the deployment releases. My guess is that while the project is not identical to either Sugar on a Stick, or Martin's work on making the sugar on a Stick run on the XO, we will have a very significant code overlap. I am planning on starting fr

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Xoos Special Interest Group

2009-10-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
David Farning wrote: > As promised, we have started work on the XO operating system SIG at > Sugar Labs. The SIG pages are at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Xoos . > > Based on feedback from the current developers working in this space, > the most valuable starting point will be to start making dail

[IAEP] A charging station for rechargable laptops?

2009-10-02 Thread Kevin Cole
This is a story, not directly linked with computers, but with teens and technology -- one teen in particular. And, it could be linked to computers... Wired Science: Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/kamwamba-windmill/ __

Re: [IAEP] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [SoaS] [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-02 Thread Rubén Rodríguez Pérez
> I filed a request at > http://trisquel.info/en/issues/please-include-bootolpcfth-ext2-bootable-parition > with an example patch at > http://www.martindengler.com/~martin/tmp/makedistro.patch - but I > don't know the environment so it might be totally the wrong place for > inclusion of olpc.fth.

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

2009-10-02 Thread Holt
Please join us Right Now reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: (2PM EDT Boston Time Friday) http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * New projects & libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach: http://wiki.laptop.org/g

[IAEP] boot-your-usb-drive-in-virtualbox

2009-10-02 Thread Carlo Falciola
Does this could help? http://agnipulse.com/2009/07/boot-your-usb-drive-in-virtualbox/ It's a procedure to boot USB sticks into an (empty) VM of VirtualBox, I did not test it yet because I'm at work, but seems doable. Note: 1.this is for Windows based VirtualBox only 2. not (yet) an idea on if

[IAEP] "Sugar - Not necessarily unhealthy" (master thesis at the University of Bremen)

2009-10-02 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
This one just came through via the OLPC Germany mailing list and I thought it's probably of interest to some of you here as well... Sven Bergmann wrote his master thesis at the University of Bremen on the use of XOs and Sugar in primary schools and called the thing "Sugar - Not necessarily unhe

Re: [IAEP] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [SoaS] [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-02 Thread Rubén Rodríguez Pérez
> I filed a request at > http://trisquel.info/en/issues/please-include-bootolpcfth-ext2-bootable-parition > with an example patch at > http://www.martindengler.com/~martin/tmp/makedistro.patch - but I > don't know the environment so it might be totally the wrong place for > inclusion of olpc.fth.

Re: [IAEP] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [SoaS] [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-02 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:36:20AM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:50:31AM +0200, Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote: > > El jue, 01-10-2009 a las 22:04 +0100, Martin Dengler escribió: > > > One like SoaS uses[1] might be good to include, but - I'm sorry for > > > the lack of sea

Re: [IAEP] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [SoaS] [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-02 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:50:31AM +0200, Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote: > El jue, 01-10-2009 a las 22:04 +0100, Martin Dengler escribió: > > On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:47:57PM +0200, Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote: > > > You can find more info here: http://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-sugar > > > > Thank

Re: [IAEP] Any ideas how to make an image with a transparent background inSugar?

2009-10-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
About how to get the drawing out of Etoys: Drag-and-drop it into the Sugar Frame's clipboard, or just press Ctrl- C when its halo is showing. Then either insert into the activity you want directly by drag-and- drop or Ctrl-V (if the activity supports that), or store the clipping in the Jour