Re: [IAEP] Why #sugar should be logged - a plug for transparency and ease of use.

2010-01-12 Thread Luke Faraone
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 21:25, Jeff Elkner wrote: > Can I just use #sugar-meeting, then, instead of #sugar? That would work > for me. > #sugar-meeting is for just that, meetings. Things outside of meetings are not recorded. -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc _

[IAEP] G1G1 Lives Again... Sort Of....

2010-01-12 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... I found this on the Bozeman LUG website. Interesting concept. http://www.montanalinux.org/olpc-news-jan2009.html Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http:

Re: [IAEP] Why #sugar should be logged - a plug for transparency and ease of use.

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff Elkner
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Dave Bauer wrote: > Apparenly it was discussed. Some people do not like publicly available logs. > I log all my IRC channels locally. This is handy because I can use desktop > search to find something. I can't point someone else to them, but I suppose > I could ema

Re: [IAEP] GCompris was Re: Sugar Digest 2010-01-07

2010-01-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 19:24, Caroline Meeks > wrote: > >> > >> === In the community === > >> > >> 2. Bruno Coudoin announced the release of GCompris Version 9.0. > >> Aleksey is already working on making sure that it is properly packaged >

Re: [IAEP] Why #sugar should be logged - a plug for transparency and ease of use.

2010-01-12 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Jeff Elkner wrote: > Hi All, > > II have two personality quirks that often get in my way: I have a > great deal of trouble multitasking, and I would loose my head were it > not attached to my shoulders. What I need from a computer are tools > that complement my l

Re: [IAEP] Why #sugar should be logged - a plug for transparency and ease of use.

2010-01-12 Thread Luke Faraone
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 17:54, Jeff Elkner wrote: > Is there a good reason why we don't auto log the channel? > We've talked this subject practically to death. See http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg06656.html. (hint: the thread you want is here

Re: [IAEP] Why #sugar should be logged - a plug for transparency and ease of use.

2010-01-12 Thread Tim McNamara
2010/1/13 Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net > It would like to make most of these conversations available to the > rest of the community, but I don't have the time to log and publish > them myself. > > +1 for a log bot > Is there a good reason why we don't auto log the channel? > > jeff elkner >

[IAEP] Why #sugar should be logged - a plug for transparency and ease of use.

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff Elkner
Hi All, II have two personality quirks that often get in my way: I have a great deal of trouble multitasking, and I would loose my head were it not attached to my shoulders. What I need from a computer are tools that complement my limitations, and help me be more productive. irc can be such a to

Re: [IAEP] GCompris was Re: Sugar Digest 2010-01-07

2010-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 19:24, Caroline Meeks wrote: >> >> === In the community === >> >> 2. Bruno Coudoin announced the release of GCompris Version 9.0. >> Aleksey is already working on making sure that it is properly packaged >> for Sugar and available on http://activities.sugarlabs.org. >> >> >

Re: [IAEP] dealing with mailing lists

2010-01-12 Thread Marten Vijn
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 17:58 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi, > > this message is to share my concern with the fact that people that > could play a very important role in Sugar Labs have expressed their > inability to read and participate on any of our mailing lists. Any > ideas about what we could

[IAEP] GCompris was Re: Sugar Digest 2010-01-07

2010-01-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
> > > === In the community === > > 2. Bruno Coudoin announced the release of GCompris Version 9.0. > Aleksey is already working on making sure that it is properly packaged > for Sugar and available on http://activities.sugarlabs.org. > > > Congrats to the GComris team! I have found GCompris activi

Re: [IAEP] dealing with mailing lists

2010-01-12 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi >>> I would also like to suggest to those colleagues who are subscribed to >>> the mailing lists but are not being able to keep up with them >>> regularly, to set up a rule in their mail client that highlights those >>> emails that include their addresses in CC or that mention their names. Ano

Re: [IAEP] dealing with mailing lists

2010-01-12 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi, > > this message is to share my concern with the fact that people that > could play a very important role in Sugar Labs have expressed their > inability to read and participate on any of our mailing lists. Any > ideas about what we could

[IAEP] Cheap Air to SCaLE 8X

2010-01-12 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks, A lot of airlines are having sales right now so I checked the fares for Boston to LAX. You could come in to LAX on Virgin America on Thursday (Feb 18) for $109 (one way) and return to Boston on Monday (Feb 22) for another $109. That makes a fare of $218 plus tax. To return on Sun

Re: [IAEP] dealing with mailing lists

2010-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 18:08, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> could play a very important role in Sugar Labs have expressed their >> inability to read and participate on any of our mailing lists. > > Why -- Traffic? S/N? Directness/rudeness? A pre

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Several chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-12 Thread Jim Simmons
Bert, That is the kind of feedback I was hoping to get, actually. I figured if I make a definite statement like "Every Activity needs at least some Python" someone who knows better would correct me. I will make a more qualified statement in my next revision. I am hoping that the book will be re

Re: [IAEP] dealing with mailing lists

2010-01-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > could play a very important role in Sugar Labs have expressed their > inability to read and participate on any of our mailing lists. Why -- Traffic? S/N? Directness/rudeness? A preference for web forums? ... ? > I would also like to suggest

[IAEP] dealing with mailing lists

2010-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, this message is to share my concern with the fact that people that could play a very important role in Sugar Labs have expressed their inability to read and participate on any of our mailing lists. Any ideas about what we could do here? Is Walter's Community Newsletter enough? What about when

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Several chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.01.2010, at 16:43, Jim Simmons wrote: > > http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.01.11-23.05.32.pdf Very nice, Jim! It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Sugar activity should be written in Python. However, there are other means to go about that, and s

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Several chapters of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" ready for review, feedback

2010-01-12 Thread Jim Simmons
As many of you know, I've been working on a handbook for creating Sugar Activities and I have added another couple of chapters to it (on Pootle and distributing your Activity) and made numerous corrections to earlier chapters, many of them based on suggestions you made. Stuff still to do: Text To

[IAEP] [SLOBS] budgets

2010-01-12 Thread Walter Bender
At the last oversight board meeting (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Minutes-2010-01-08) we had a brief discussion of our modest budget. We'll be continuing that discussion at this week's meeting (Friday at 16UTC, 11EST). In preparation for that discussion, I am requesting that