Re: [IAEP] Sugar DIgest 2015-05-26

2015-05-26 Thread Sameer Verma
Just saw the news as well. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2015-May/msg00027.html I exchanged a few notes with him about his illness some time ago (my mother had the same. She passed away a few months ago). Marco seemed to be doing better. His work will live on. Sameer On May

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar all-hands meeting

2015-05-26 Thread Walter Bender
The next Sugar Labs oversight board meeting is on Monday. Anyone in the community is, as always, welcome to suggest discussion topics. -walter On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org wrote: I know there have been various board and development meetings for Sugar.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar all-hands meeting

2015-05-26 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
Looking at past minutes, I think I am proposing more of a change in procedure than topics for the oversight meeting. We need to get more people involved than are present in the IRC meetings. In general I am echoing what was said on the Planning for the Future email thread from three months ago.

Re: [IAEP] sugar numbers

2015-05-26 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Dan Tenason dan.tena...@mail.ru wrote: Dan - if you are sincerely interested in the numbers, why don't you write to the education ministries? In serious research, as in serious journalism, you need to consult official sources. Sean Daly (no e) I would

Re: [IAEP] Sugar DIgest 2015-05-26

2015-05-26 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: 1. It is with great sadness that write these words: Marco Presenti Gritti, the principal Sugar developer from Red Hat from 2006 to 2008 and one of the founders of Sugar Labs, passed away this past weekend after a

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-news] Sugar DIgest 2015-05-26

2015-05-26 Thread Martin Abente
I never had to chance to meet Marco but I can say that I only have heard wonderful things about him, as a human being and as an engineer. My most sincere condolences to his family and friends. On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Christoph Derndorfer christ...@olpcnews.com wrote: On Tue, May 26,

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Sugar all-hands meeting

2015-05-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org wrote: I know there have been various board and development meetings for Sugar. But I would like to propose having an all-hands meeting where anyone in the Sugar community as well as related groups (deployments,

[IAEP] Sugar all-hands meeting

2015-05-26 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
I know there have been various board and development meetings for Sugar. But I would like to propose having an all-hands meeting where anyone in the Sugar community as well as related groups (deployments, schoolserver, etc.) could raise a topic and attend. If there are few enough people, we