[IAEP] Register as a GCI mentor for Sugar Labs

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Leonard
Dear Sugaristas, We need mentors to register on Melange as part of GCI2012. Please note that not all tasks are coding tasks so please consider registering even if you are not a coder. 1) Please go to: http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012 and select Login from the left

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 56, Issue 23

2012-11-19 Thread Brooks, Kevin
John, we run a SoaS after school program at two K-6 schools in Fargo. We have a computer science undergraduate making the sticks, and I'll warn you--our failure rate on sticks is often about 20%. We haven't been able to identify all the problems: sometimes them simply won't boot, other times

[IAEP] Renaming the Telescope activity to Scope

2012-11-19 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, I have received requests that the Telescope activity [1] be renamed to Scope, since, off late it has been used in conjunction with not just a monocular, but small microscope attachments (the kind which were distributed at the SF summit). In that light, the name Telescope is no longer widely

[IAEP] Fwd: [gci-announce] Re: Google Code-in 2012 Contest announced for 13-17 year old students interested in open source

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Leonard
-- Forwarded message -- From: Stephanie sttay...@google.com Date: Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:25 PM Subject: [gci-announce] Re: Google Code-in 2012 Contest announced for 13-17 year old students interested in open source To: gci-annou...@googlegroups.com The Google Code-in contest for

Re: [IAEP] Renaming the Telescope activity to Scope

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Leonard
Anish, As I recall, this activity was already renamed once from xoscope after it became clear it was colliding in name space with an oscilloscpe activity. http://git.sugarlabs.org/xoscope I would suggest that in accordance with the Sugar HIG guidance

Re: [IAEP] Renaming the Telescope activity to Scope

2012-11-19 Thread Anish Mangal
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Anish, As I recall, this activity was already renamed once from xoscope after it became clear it was colliding in name space with an oscilloscpe activity. Correct. http://git.sugarlabs.org/xoscope I would

Re: [IAEP] Renaming the Telescope activity to Scope

2012-11-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: As I recall, this activity was already renamed once from xoscope after it became clear it was colliding in name space with an oscilloscpe activity. Renames are a pain in infrastructure, and in upgrade handling for

Re: [IAEP] Renaming the Telescope activity to Scope

2012-11-19 Thread RJV
On the downloads page, the text seems to suggest a camera - This mode allows the user to view the live image stream from the camera. Furthermore following controls and settings can be set in this mode: * Capture the image * Change camera settings like Exposure, Brightness, Contrast etc. * Delay

Re: [IAEP] Renaming the Telescope activity to Scope

2012-11-19 Thread Simon Schampijer
Am 20.11.2012 um 06:23 schrieb Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: As I recall, this activity was already renamed once from xoscope after it became clear it was colliding in name space with an oscilloscpe