[IAEP] Programming Needs?

Hi... On June 25 I will be taking my Roadshow in a Box to the Bozeman MT LUG. I would like to know if you have any special programming needs these folks might like to help with. Some of the members are with the CS dept at MSU, and all seem to be Linux programmers from what I can tell. Can

[IAEP] CUE Conference March 4-6, 2010 Call for Submissions

Hi Adam, SJ, and Caroline, and everyone else on these 2 lists, It is time to sign up for hands-on workshops at the CUE conference in Palm Springs, CA, March 4-6 next year. I was thinking the best thing would be to have the CUELA laptop library in the Open Source pavillion where folks could

Re: [IAEP] NECC Unplugged...Sign Up Now!

might need. Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 15:52:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [IAEP] NECC Unplugged...Sign Up Now! From: carol...@solutiongrove.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Caroline, My thinking is that it would be great

Re: [IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

machine that shows it and its a show stopper for me for all work in Boston Public Schools because their macbooks have this issue. Thanks, Caroline 2009/5/20 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Hi, I downloaded soas-beta.iso to my MacBook and burned it to a disk. I would like to get

Re: [IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

crediability with network administrators when teachers ask for it to be deployed or used in the classroom. Regards Roland 2009/5/25 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Hi Caroline, I had an idea in the shower this am (some of my best ideas come while I am in the shower). I think I may

Re: [IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

, Caroline 2009/5/20 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Hi, I downloaded soas-beta.iso to my MacBook and burned it to a disk. I would like to get it to boot and be usable on the MacBook. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Caryl ___ IAEP

[IAEP] NECC Unplugged...Sign Up Now!

Hi All, Well, my son, Chris, reminded me (by signing up) that I hadn't signed up to do a virtual session on the OLPC Contributors program for NECC Unplugged in late June. So...I just did! I signed up to do a 30 minute session about the Contributors program in Virtual Room A on Tuesday June

[IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

Hi, I downloaded soas-beta.iso to my MacBook and burned it to a disk. I would like to get it to boot and be usable on the MacBook. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Caryl___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

[IAEP] NECC Unplugged

Hi All, I went and checked out the schedule and info for participating in the NECC Conference (June 28-July 1) with a virtual presence in an Eluminate conference room. The sessions are limited to 30 minutes each. There is so much to tell of the OLPC and Sugar story. It would be great if

[IAEP] InfoTech Report

Hi, The XO computer and Sugar software were a hit at the LAUSD InfoTech event at the Los Angeles Convention center. I had my 3 Roadshow In a Box machines, plus 2 others set up in the CUELA booth at the kind invitation of CUELA co-president John Rivera. So many people fell in love with the

[IAEP] SoaS on a Mac: Further Adventures

Hello, I wanted to report on my progress with SoaS on my MacBook. I still haven't got the USB version working, but, as I mentioned yesterday, I did get SoaS running with Virtual Box. I was surprised how few programs were shown. Are others hidden but included? How are they accessed?

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 73

Hi Caroline, Bert, and everyone else, About 5 minutes ago I got SoaS to run on my MacBook. : ) I followed Bert's fine instructions again, adding one tiny detail (if Virtual Manager doesn't open, click on the little yellow folder at the right of the pull down bar...if it doesn't open, double

[IAEP] .zip turned into .vdi What now?

Hello Again, Still trying to get SoaS going on my MacBook. I downloaded the soas-beta-1.zip. It took a long time (almost 2 hrs on dsl). I finally had time to look at it and try to use it and discovered that it no longer is a zip file. Somehow it turned into soas-beta-1.vdi Was that

[IAEP] More Questions

Hello Again, Still trying to get the SoaS going on the MacBook. This time I went back to trying the Stick and helper CD. I booted to the CD first, then inserted the usb stick. It went through the loading of Fedora all right (like before), then when I chose boot from the menu, it went into

[IAEP] Sugar on MacBook...still no go

Hi, I tried all sorts of things with the file that I have downloaded twice now. I seem to be able to unzip it, but it converts to .vdi and when I click on it to open it, this is the message I get: The document “soas-beta-1.vdi” could not be opened. The file is too large. This is the file that

[IAEP] SoaS on a MacBook?

Hi... I've been trying to get the SugarLabs usb stick, Walter so kindly sent, to boot on my MacBook. I can get it to recognize the stick but when I try to boot from it, following the instructions from Apple Tech Support, it goes instead into OSX. The stick shows as a third drive on my

[IAEP] Virtual Box?

Hi...Well, the soas-boot.iso hasn't worked yet for me. Now I am trying the Virtual Box. I downloaded it and tried to follow the directions and ended up with a message that says:FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.When I try to set it up it offers the option of

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 38

To: Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Cc: IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: b74fba2b0904120619y19b2b92cp6edafa65ee75a...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi Caryl, I want you to know Dave and I are working on the Mac install. At FOSSVT

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 33

Hi Carolyn, Walter, et. al., O.K. So maybe SoaS is ready for Prime Time after all! Running on Macs...Wow! How do I contact David Bauer? Could I please, please, get a couple of labeled sticks for the LAUSD Tech Expo at the LA Convention Center April 25. I could make DIY ones here, but that

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 31

Hi Caroline and Mike... The big question is...will the new Sugar Labs USB stick run on a MacBook? Whether it does or not...are we ready for Prime Time? If so ... could you send one for me to demo in the CUELA booth at the LAUSD technology fair (for educators) on Sat April 25? Or is it too

[IAEP] (no subject)

Hi... Tonight I was reading the manual from the Peruvian website I found a few days ago. There was this link to another great educational website they have there: http://www.perueduca.edu.pe/web/visitante/inicio Again, it is in Spanish, but still worth checking out. Caryl

[IAEP] Ready for prime time?

Hi, There will be a technology fair on April 25 at the Los Angeles Convention Center for LAUSD (Los Angeles Unified School District). I have been asked to bring my Roadshow In A Box to demonstrate in the CUELA (Computer Using Educators of Los Angeles) booth. I would love to also be able to

[IAEP] Plan Ceibal in the Press

Hi... Plan Ceibal (OLPC in Uruguay was written up in Journal Americas Qarterly. If you missed it here is the link: http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/370 A Spanish version is here: http://www.teletrabajo.com.uy/noticias/el-plan-ceibal-en-la-prensa-de-eeuu/233/ Thanks go to Pato

Re: [IAEP] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84

Hi... The new Sugar manual looks very professional. You folks have done a great job. I was, however, disappointed to find that, although running it on a Mac is mentioned, the instructions for doing it are not included. The education world in the US is mostly a Mac world. A lot of people

Re: [IAEP] status on Sugar Guide for 0.84

(I have a bunch at the house myself). thanks Sean On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... The new Sugar manual looks very professional. You folks have done a great job. I was, however, disappointed to find that, although running

[IAEP] Colors for a.sl.o

Hi Why don't you ask some children what colors they would like? Offer a number of choices in both warm colors and cool colors and combos. BTW...dumb question coming...what does a.sl.o mean? I googled it and all I got was SugarLabs and something for adult dyslectics, ar yoo a slo red.er?

[IAEP] Colors

Hi... Maybe it's my Mac, but I find it very difficult to read the small white letters on the light turquoise-blue background. Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

[IAEP] Arts?

Hi... Many institutions categroize Fine Arts into 2 or more groups such as: Visual Arts...painting, sculpture, graphics, etc. Performing Arts...Music, Dance, Drama, etc. Things like Turtle Art and Etoys would fall into the Visual Arts category. The TamTam suite would, of course, be

[IAEP] Great Resources from Uruguay

Hi All, Paola Bruccoleri of Uruguay posted a link to a great resource page on the Project Ceibal website. It is full of lots of links to info on most of the activities and other educational resources. Most are in Spanish, but Google Translate could help.

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 12, Issue 51

Hi I guess you got this fixed. It is working fine now. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep Guess I should change from digest mode. I get everything late! Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [IAEP] Lots of Interest in SoaS at CUE

Subject: Re: [IAEP] Lots of Interest in SoaS at CUE From: echer...@gmail.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; a...@flossmanuals.net I like your Grannies Guides idea, and am passing it on to Adam Hyde of FLOSS Manuals. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige

[IAEP] Lots of Interest in SoaS at CUE

Greetings from the CUE (Computer Using Educators) conference in Palm Springs. There has been a lot of interest in SoaS here. Some folks I have talked with are quite tech savvy and will probably have no problem going to our web site and downloading the software successfully to run on their

Re: [IAEP] Adults and Sugar

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:17:23 -0500 Subject: Re: [IAEP] Adults and Sugar From: acaha...@gmail.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Caryl Bigenho writes: One man sat in front of the XO for several minutes with a puzzled look on his face. Finally he asked, Where

[IAEP] Activities Under Emulation

Hi All, I am working on a presentation I will be doing about OLPC and Sugar at a huge educator's conference in Palm Springs next week. I realize I need some nitty-gritty type info about the current state of Sugar emulation on PCs and Macs. Can anyone fill me in on the latest, most

Re: [IAEP] Adults and Sugar

Hi IAEP, I get this list via digest so I'm late to this topic. However, I did want to share my experience at the OLPC booth at SCaLE this past weekend. Caroline Meeks wrote: Put Sugar in front of the average adult sitting alone, without any instruction, for 20 minutes. I doubt many of them

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