[IAEP] "How can we advocate for Free/Libre Software in Education?"

Hi At FSF Libre Planet last month, Walker and Devin asked - https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Education-needs-free-software.pdf - the following question to conclude: How can we advocate for Free/Libre Software in Education? As I am delving into OLPC history, I've been interested the last

Re: [IAEP] Khan Academy?

On 19 April 2016 at 21:40, Dave Crossland wrote: > My point is that they aren't shipping sugar platforms, they are shipping > android platforms; Sorry Tony :) I got confused between KAlite and their newer product, https://learningequality.org/kolibri/ KAlite is simply a web

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 97, Issue 52

Khan Academy Lite is a project to enable the Khan Academy capabilities to be made available offline from the internet (as on a school server). It is certainly not limited to Android since it is delivered as a website from the server. This project is an off-shoot of the Khan Academy which is

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 04:20:49PM +0100, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: > Hi all, > > It seems this conversation has gone a long way from wiki gardening :) > > My feeling is that the wiki does not serve _New_to_Sugar_ users > well. +1 > Moreover as there is a lack of reliable first steps

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 97, Issue 52

On 19 April 2016 at 18:50, Tony Anderson wrote: > It might be good for comparison: https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/. > VERY GOOD. Their platform - custom Android build - seems similar to OLPC Australia's "XO Duo" Android build. An old Paul Graham tip is to pay

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

in On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 18:04 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 19 April 2016 at 17:45, Walter Bender > wrote: > Not such a great experience on my

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 17:42 -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 19 April 2016 at 17:19, Iain Brown Douglas > wrote: > > Other slide shows I have experimented with, tend to leave too > much white > space, and/or it is difficult to

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 19 April 2016 at 18:04, Walter Bender wrote: > >> It complains that my phone is not adequate -- that I should use chrome or >> safari or firefox -- and gives me a skeleton presentation. >> > >

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 97, Issue 52

The Khan Academy Lite site seems to be similar in purpose to that of SugarLabs. It might be good for comparison: https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/. In this context, perhaps, the XO is one of the supported platforms. The site could give download and install instructions for major

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

On 19 April 2016 at 18:04, Walter Bender wrote: > It complains that my phone is not adequate -- that I should use chrome or > safari or firefox -- and gives me a skeleton presentation. > In fact that's just a feature of the 1st demo. http://valeka.net/freelancer/ and

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 19 April 2016 at 17:45, Walter Bender wrote: > >> Not such a great experience on my phone. >> > Did this not work? > > http://imgur.com/FpMncO1 > It complains that my phone is not adequate --

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

On 19 April 2016 at 17:45, Walter Bender wrote: > Not such a great experience on my phone. > Did this not work? http://imgur.com/FpMncO1 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

Not such a great experience on my phone. On Apr 19, 2016 5:43 PM, "Dave Crossland" wrote: > > On 19 April 2016 at 17:19, Iain Brown Douglas > wrote: > >> >> Other slide shows I have experimented with, tend to leave too much white >> space, and/or it is

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

On 19 April 2016 at 17:19, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: > > Other slide shows I have experimented with, tend to leave too much white > space, and/or it is difficult to arrange image and text nicely, and/or > images have to be re-sized at production time, resulting in the

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

On 19 April 2016 at 17:19, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: > the challenge is to find a "screen shot + text" slide show. > Jeykll is a simple static site generator; I think it can integrate well with remarkjs, looking at view-source:http://remarkjs.com :)

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 13:42 -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 19 April 2016 at 11:20, Iain Brown Douglas > wrote: > It seems this conversation has gone a long way from wiki > gardening :) > > > > :D > > What I have in mind for the wiki

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

On 19 April 2016 at 11:20, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: > It seems this conversation has gone a long way from wiki gardening :) > :D What I have in mind for the wiki gardening is focused entirely on the wiki content; and making a list of wiki pages to be migrated to

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

Iain, Great material. -walter On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Iain Brown Douglas < i...@browndouglas.plus.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 23:48 -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > > > > Hi Martin! > > > > On 12 April 2016 at 17:02, Martin Dengler > > wrote: > >

Re: [IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 23:48 -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > Hi Martin! > > On 12 April 2016 at 17:02, Martin Dengler > wrote: > > > > On 12 Apr 2016, at 14:45, Dave Crossland > wrote: > >