Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-20 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Martin, On 20 Mar 2010, at 15:54, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote: The short version is that instead of include all Activites by default, we're thinking of shipping very few (6) Activities by default - the ones that help users get

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 24, Issue 39

2010-03-20 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 20 Mar 2010, at 17:59, James Simmons wrote: If I could suggest adding either (but not both) of Get Internet Archive Books or Get Books. GIAB is pretty robust, has just been given a new-style toolbar, and no longer leaves behind a useless Journal entry after it runs. This (or

Re: [IAEP] Anki - open source memorization tool.

2010-03-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Mar 2010, at 02:38, Caroline Meeks wrote: An open source memorization tool. Looks simple and cool and already runs on Linux, might be a good addition to Sugar. http://ichi2.net/anki/index.html Interesting, but looks way too complicated for kids (just my opinion)... it has more

Re: [IAEP] More new and revised chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

2010-02-27 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 24 Feb 2010, at 17:48, Gary C Martin wrote: Hi James, On 24 Feb 2010, at 16:52, James Simmons wrote: Gary, It's kind of interesting but I see a lot of words in there like should, good, putting etc. Well it is based on your word usage ;-b Actually, perhaps 600 terms

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] JTLA Special Edition: Educational Outcomes and Research from 1:1 Computing Setting

2010-02-19 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Christoph, On 19 Feb 2010, at 10:27, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Hi all, thanks to an article on eschoolnews.com (http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/02/16/11-programs-only-as-good-as-their-teachers/) I stumbled across a special edition of the Journal of Technology, Learning and

Re: [IAEP] kickstarter: funding for activity development?

2009-12-19 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 19 Dec 2009, at 12:33, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, just came across http://www.kickstarter.com/ and wonder if a team of activity developers could fund a project that way? Interesting site, thanks for the link. US only at the moment, though I guess SL could be the entity?

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 15 Dec 2009, at 13:36, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:52:56AM -0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:07, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:16:02AM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: I strongly agree w/ tomeu on this. Making Sugar

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-12-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Dec 2009, at 15:30, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:48:39PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: Hello everybody, This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori teacher, about Speak. She asked me why Speak says a when a is pressed and not the *sound* of the

Re: [IAEP] Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-05 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Mike, On 5 Dec 2009, at 20:43, Mike Dawson wrote: Hi All, The GCompris stuff is very very nice indeed and I would highly recommend having some of them. Even just because it has such great demo power and then further activities can be installed from the school server. My concern with

Re: [IAEP] Help Activity on XO-1.5 [was: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5]

2009-11-29 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Adam, On 29 Nov 2009, at 22:36, Holt wrote: Brian/Seth Sandy raised a critical issue on our Support call today-- how much work would it be to upgrade your great Help Activity from Sugar 0.82.1 to Sugar 0.84.x for the XO-1.5? And how can experienced Support people help Help (and learn

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] AP: Schools shun Kindle, saying blind can't use it

2009-11-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Nov 2009, at 18:44, Luke Faraone wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 13:35, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: So, no text-to-speech on Kindle? Very silly. The blind will have to wait for the mp3 versions of books, then. The Kindle has text to speech, but they allow it to be

Re: [IAEP] (Please read) Re: Proposed Trac - Launchpad migration

2009-11-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Nov 2009, at 22:06, Chris Ball wrote: Dear Sugar folks, This mail didn't get any replies, but it's important to know whether people agree with it before going ahead. So, please understand that: * bugs.sugarlabs.org is moving from Trac to Launchpad. Ouch, oh my that's a bolt from the

Re: [IAEP] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [SoaS] [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)

2009-10-18 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Rubén, Feedback after testing trisquel-sugar_3.0RC_i686 on a recent MacBook Pro: 1). Live CD boots and runs fine on a MacBook Pro (though has no wireless network, or camera support, and screen redraw was a little slow in some activities so I guess no or little use of gfx hardware

Re: [IAEP] GPA Report - Feedback on using the Journal

2009-10-09 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 9 Oct 2009, at 02:42, Caroline Meeks wrote: Today we worked with two groups on multiplication. They made squares with each side being a different multiplication problem that had the same answer. http://screencast.com/t/sUbiof2H We also had them reflect in their

Re: [IAEP] SOAS Write problem

2009-09-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Gerald, On 27 Sep 2009, at 01:35, Gerald Ardito wrote: Walter, Thanks for the suggestion. When I examine the log file, here's what I see: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/util.py:25: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import

Re: [IAEP] SOAS Write problem

2009-09-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Gerald, Many thanks for the feedback. On 27 Sep 2009, at 02:52, Gerald Ardito wrote: Gary, This image came from Caroline Meeks at Solution Grove. It came as part of a version of SOAS that she put together for me. Gerald OK, looks like a SoaS build mistake. Caroline, just a quick

Re: [IAEP] Which Language?

2009-09-25 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caryl, On 26 Sep 2009, at 05:00, Caryl Bigenho wrote: On Thursday, Ben wrote in the IAEP list: My feeling is that the most important thing we can do in this area is to make it easy to write Activities that are intrinsically cross- platform. To borrow a phrase, one way to do this is

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Long-term support for Sugar

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bernie, On 23 Sep 2009, at 17:19, Bernie Innocenti wrote: El Tue, 22-09-2009 a las 16:51 +0100, Gary C Martin escribió: This is not a what if it works right now and since 0.84. Any .xo bundle in your Journal can be 'sent to' over the either to any friend, where by Journal

Re: [IAEP] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 23 Sep 2009, at 20:10, Caroline Meeks wrote: The current status of the GPA is: The 4th grade classroom has a bank of 6 machines that can boot Sugar on a Stick. The 4th grade specialist has one used laptop that can boot Sugar on a Stick. Access to the PCs in the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Long-term support for Sugar

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On 23 Sep 2009, at 20:22, Bernie Innocenti wrote: El Wed, 23-09-2009 a las 14:33 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz escribió: Or, we bless a small number of completely self-contained virtual machines (e.g. etoys squeak, mozilla javascript, Sun Java, perhaps a restricted python), and then run

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bill, On 24 Sep 2009, at 00:17, Bill Bogstad wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Sure, you could just link the ~/default/datastore directory on the VM to the matching location on the stick. I'm not sure how the pretty way to do

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] A Virtual Box solution that works with Sticks

2009-09-23 Thread Gary C Martin
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Bill, On 24 Sep 2009, at 00:17, Bill Bogstad wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Sure, you could just link the ~/default/datastore directory on the VM

Re: [IAEP] Bug reporting

2009-09-15 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Dennis, On 16 Sep 2009, at 04:40, Dennis Daniels wrote: Greetings, I have roughly diagrammed the bug reporting process for Sugar here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Reporting_a_bug.png -- snip -- The tool I'm using for the diagrams is Umbrello. I'd be happy to post the XMI to these

Re: [IAEP] What Activity Is This?

2009-09-14 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caryl, On 14 Sep 2009, at 18:07, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Folks, I'm just checking over the things left on the journals on the XO M- stock machines I lent to the Bozeman and Billings (MT) LUGS. Someone in Billings left this. What is it? The journal says it is Audio by Cracker (the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick v2 Release Naming

2009-09-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Sep 2009, at 21:40, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Martin Dengler wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:30:30PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: re marketing course: in fact I have accepted Mel's invitation to do a classroom for Fedora. Congratulations. re logos: Strawberry=6, Blueberry=4, and 5

Re: [IAEP] turtle art: 2 instances, no?

2009-09-07 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bill, On 7 Sep 2009, at 12:09, Bill Kerr wrote: I can't see any way to load 2 instances on the SoaS version If I have a project loaded, saved and named Then go into the journal and try to load an older saved version then it doesn't load but puts me back to the current open version I

Re: [IAEP] turtle art: 2 instances, no?

2009-09-07 Thread Gary C Martin
On 7 Sep 2009, at 15:03, Bill Kerr wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Bill, On 7 Sep 2009, at 12:09, Bill Kerr wrote: I can't see any way to load 2 instances on the SoaS version If I have a project loaded, saved and named Then go

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Remove the naming alert in 0.86

2009-09-02 Thread Gary C Martin
://erikos.sweettimez.de/ --- Categories: Sugar, Deployment and Teaching [2] http://planet.sugarlabs.org/ +1 on removing the “naming alert”, this has been bugging me since the day it's been introduced. Adding “rewards” to the Journal is something that David Van Assche and Gary C Martin discussed

Re: [IAEP] deployment team meeting?

2009-08-30 Thread Gary C Martin
On 30 Aug 2009, at 17:32, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: would like to propose a meeting to talk about how deployments can provide better feedback and how we can process it so developers and the rest of Sugar Labs can prioritize their work accordingly. How does it sound? +1! Regards, --Gary

Re: [IAEP] svg animations, no?

2009-08-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 Aug 2009, at 10:07, Lucian Branescu wrote: Your best bet is using a browser runtime, like hulahop. Gecko has good support for SVG, but without SMIL. You'll have to use JavaScript for animations. Right now, the only runtime I know of that can run SMIL is Opera, and that one is useless

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Physics-3

2009-08-29 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bill, On 29 Aug 2009, at 14:44, Bill Kerr wrote: the default single click shape does not work for the box but does work for circle and triangle Just to confirm, this is tested and working. But, I think what happened here is that you may have dragged a very small (too small) box

Re: [IAEP] [math4] Git tutorial

2009-08-29 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi David, On 29 Aug 2009, at 18:47, David Farning wrote: Currently, there are tidbits of information on git spread around the wiki. One of the hurdle for new contributors (of code) is figuring out how to create an ssh key, set up an account on git.sl.o, and use git. I would like to

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Physics-3

2009-08-29 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bill, On 30 Aug 2009, at 01:30, Bill Kerr wrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Bill, On 29 Aug 2009, at 14:44, Bill Kerr wrote: the default single click shape does not work for the box but does work for circle and triangle Just

[IAEP] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Physics-3

2009-08-28 Thread Gary C Martin
Just thought I'd forward this over to IAEP. (If you are running an older build of SoaS, you'll need to erase the existing Physics Activity before trying to upgrade. The older SoaS shipped with Activities installed in a non-standard place, with administrator permissions, preventing the

Re: [IAEP] SoaS as a Sugar Labs project.

2009-08-25 Thread Gary C Martin
On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:49, Gary C Martin wrote: On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:03, Michael Stone wrote: El Mon, 24-08-2009 a las 20:58 +0200, Martin Langhoff escribi=F3: And also... and completely from the outside... I'll apologise in advance for saying something I know might be controversial. I worry

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-22 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bill, On 22 Aug 2009, at 22:44, Bill Kerr wrote: hi alan, still thinking about the broader issue you raise about the importance of real science and its connection to computer based work and how to attempt to implement this in school settings (complex issue) however, I do notice

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Aug 2009, at 17:49, Caroline Meeks wrote: How do we help people find this sort of idea and the video I made? I think we need to link them from the activities.sugarlabs.org page somehow. Is there already a solution for this? Currently we're building up:

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-15 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Bill, Not sure if you wanted answers :-) On 15 Aug 2009, at 02:51, Bill Kerr wrote: I might try these next week and see how they go: does altering the size of an object affect its drop time? No does joining objects together (large and small) affect drop time? No Remember, you can

Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?

2009-08-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 15 Aug 2009, at 20:58, Asaf Paris Mandoki wrote: build a complex or elegant building that doesn't fall down This can be done on top of an earthquake simulator (see attached image). The earthquake simulator can be modified to produce longitudinal and transverse waves. Now that is a really

Re: [IAEP] SoaS with Rosie's Girls

2009-08-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Aug 2009, at 08:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:25, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: This is turning out to be a very important concept to explain to people. Does anyone

Re: [IAEP] Any way to hide google translation stuff in the printable version of wiki pages?

2009-08-06 Thread Gary C Martin
On 6 Aug 2009, at 21:07, Kevin Cole wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 14:57, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've set up Google Translations in the wiki sidebar for a community evaluation, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Welcome_to_the_Sugar_Labs_wiki . In addition to making all

Re: [IAEP] Any way to hide google translation stuff in the printable version of wiki pages?

2009-08-06 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Kevin, On 6 Aug 2009, at 23:32, Kevin Cole wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 17:52, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hmmm, wow folks actually still print? :-) I had a colleague who would incessantly print out every email she received and file it away by date, that was quite

Re: [IAEP] SoaS in the classroom feedback

2009-07-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 Jul 2009, at 18:25, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: 1) once I have created a stick can I upgrade just one program, such as the version of Physics which saves (if so how?), or do I have to wait until that version is

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content tothe Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-27 Thread Gary C Martin
On 27 Jul 2009, at 18:13, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 16:08, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 22 Jul 2009, at 10:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 14:46, Costello, Rob Rcostello.ro...@edumail.vic.gov.au wrote: if you need some one to look at a

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content tothe Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-27 Thread Gary C Martin
On 27 Jul 2009, at 23:23, Costello, Rob R wrote: i've got flash CS4 and the latest ASV decompiler ...might have missed an email but i asked offlist if the swf had been moved...can debug on windows (if that word survives the technical or ideological filters!) if needed

Re: [IAEP] SoaS feedback

2009-07-27 Thread Gary C Martin
On 28 Jul 2009, at 01:18, Bill Kerr wrote: My second semester year 10 control tech class is trialling SoaS. My blog is http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/ describes some of the lesson plans and issues arising. Student blogs (first impressions) are linked on the sidebar One big issue at

Re: [IAEP] SoaS feedback

2009-07-27 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Edward, On 28 Jul 2009, at 02:02, Edward Cherlin wrote: It saves on mine, in Strawberry. Which version of SoaS are you using? Just to confirm: Physics-2 has no save support, v2 is the currently released/distributed version. We have been working on the next Physics release cycle in its

Re: [IAEP] SoaS feedback

2009-07-27 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Edward, On 28 Jul 2009, at 02:52, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Edward, On 28 Jul 2009, at 02:02, Edward Cherlin wrote: It saves on mine, in Strawberry. Which version of SoaS are you using? Just to confirm:

Re: [IAEP] SoaS feedback

2009-07-27 Thread Gary C Martin
On 28 Jul 2009, at 03:18, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Edward, On 28 Jul 2009, at 02:52, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Edward, On 28 Jul 2009,

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content tothe Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Jul 2009, at 10:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 14:46, Costello, Rob Rcostello.ro...@edumail.vic.gov.au wrote: if you need some one to look at a fla or decompile a swf and have a look at what the actionscript is doing i can probably help don't know anything much

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content tothe Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Jul 2009, at 15:15, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 16:08, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 22 Jul 2009, at 10:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 14:46, Costello, Rob Rcostello.ro...@edumail.vic.gov.au wrote: if you need some one to look at a

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] An Opportunity to bring vital content tothe Sugar/XO world - Needs technical help.

2009-07-22 Thread Gary C Martin
On 22 Jul 2009, at 15:41, Gary C Martin wrote: On 22 Jul 2009, at 15:15, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 16:08, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 22 Jul 2009, at 10:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 14:46, Costello, Rob Rcostello.ro

Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-19 Thread Gary C Martin
Thanks Martin, On 19 Jul 2009, at 10:30, Martin Sevior wrote: Nice screen shot! The toolbars look very easy to understand and easy use to me. Unfortunately I can't really give much of a critique because it's hard for me to think like a primary-school child now :-) A fair and most valid

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] sugerencia para actividad clock

2009-07-18 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 18 Jul 2009, at 10:56, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Paola asks in olpc-sur about adding to the Clock activity the capability of changing the time. Don't know who is the maintainer of the Clock activity, thus sending this email to IAEP. It's another Sugar Labs adoptee Activity I'm

Re: [IAEP] clock activity

2009-07-14 Thread Gary C Martin
On 14 Jul 2009, at 23:54, Caroline Meeks wrote: Can the clock activity be used to teach telling time? It seems to only show the current time with no way to change it. The second graders just did a unit on telling time and it might be cool to do something with time on Sugar. Clock

Re: [IAEP] New version of Read Etexts available, now supports annotations and multiple bookmarks

2009-07-13 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 13 Jul 2009, at 15:46, Jim Simmons wrote: Tomeu, Read Etexts is in pootle right now. Unfortunately, since I tend to develop my project incrementally there are probably strings in my Activity that never made it into pootle. If there is anything anyone needs from me to get

Re: [IAEP] GPA Notes from visit on Wed July 8

2009-07-08 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Greg, First, thanks for the great write up! On 8 Jul 2009, at 20:40, Greg Smith wrote: Seemed like a lot to me but most kids did it with a little help at some steps. The other hard work flow was creating two images, one right after the other. Here are the steps for that: - Open paint

Re: [IAEP] Reading (was Re: changes in outlook with Sugar

2009-07-04 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Jim, On 4 Jul 2009, at 17:09, Jim Simmons wrote: Edward, I think you have an interesting idea here. It reminded me of the scene in _2001 A Space Odyssey_ where Hal 9000 is having the higher functions of his brain disconnected and he tries to sing Daisy while he still has enough

Re: [IAEP] segregated activities from the sugar platform

2009-07-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Jul 2009, at 10:44, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: I explained that with the move to metacity this would be a possibility in the not too distant future (I hope I did not speak out of tone.) Well, with the metacity move, activities that behave badly in terms of window sizing will be exposed and

Re: [IAEP] Physics

2009-06-30 Thread Gary C Martin
On 30 Jun 2009, at 17:21, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All, I sent this yesterday, but it got filtered out by some machine since I didn't send it as a reply. So I am sending it again today. This is the old science teacher in me talking...I think the Physics Activity has great potential for

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Wireless

2009-06-27 Thread Gary C Martin
of that NAT behaving like new virtual local network, as if your VM was running behind another separate AP. Regards, --Gary Thanks, Caroline On 6/26/09, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Laura, On 26 Jun 2009, at 14:13, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Laura Johns wrote: Hmm... I

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 15, Issue 114

2009-06-27 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Jim, On 27 Jun 2009, at 03:02, Jim Simmons wrote: The problem with books on a shelf is that Aleksey is already using that image for his Library Activity and I think it is more fitting for that because he is creating a sort of electronic bookshelf, whereas I'm creating a card catalog. The

Re: [IAEP] picked up by CrunchGear, with YouTube video

2009-06-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Jun 2009, at 17:09, Sean DALY wrote: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/24/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-your-old-computer-into-an-olpc/ Cool, great little youtube video as well – it's nice to see a video of someone's (admittedly an adult techy) first hands on encounter with the Sugar UI.

Re: [IAEP] Mac Woes

2009-06-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 25 Jun 2009, at 00:36, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... OK, here's the dumb question for today. I am sitting here in the wilds of MT with only a Mac and would like to create the latest Strawberry Soas for my Mac. Hi. I haven't had a chance to try booting the Strawberry SoaS on my

[IAEP] ActivityTeam meeting on Friday June 26th - 17:00 UTC

2009-06-23 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi All, David Farning has suggested agenda items for the ActivityTeam to cover; I'm not sure we can realistically solve many, but it would at least be good to see what page each of us is on, where we might be able to pull in the same direction, and bounce about some ideas in realtime :-)

Re: [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Jun 2009, at 08:37, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all, Let me finalize this What tags we should use for GCompris/Fructose/ etc discussion :) New AMO version and incoming ASLO v3 version have collections feature https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections I think we can move tags

Re: [IAEP] soas install to hard disk

2009-06-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 11 Jun 2009, at 10:08, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, I'm forwarding this to some people who I heard yesterday in IRC discussing this issue. Yea, FWIW I had a quick go as a test case trying to see if it was possible to install Soas booted from a USB stick onto the XO nand. I was doubtful it

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Gary C Martin
like Sucrose, Fructose, and the like. It also shows numbers like I wanted, both by Category and at the top they have 1,455,889,902 add-ons downloaded, 162,086,241 add- ons in use. Our numbers will be less impressive, of course. James Simmons Gary C Martin wrote: Not too much input

Re: [IAEP] Booth Banner page on wiki!

2009-06-10 Thread Gary C Martin
different color versions. Kudos to Gary C Martin for his work on this. The plan is for one to live in Germany and the other in France, taken to events, conferences, SugarCamps as necessary. Note to Mike Lee, Seth: if you wish, you can find a local supplier and have one made from the source files

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-10 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 10 Jun 2009, at 17:48, James Simmons wrote: Martin, First and foremost ASLO has to make sense to grade school kids and their teachers. That's why I didn't care for GCompris as a category. Now since we can give an Activity up to three Categories it might make sense to

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-07 Thread Gary C Martin
attention to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k Sean On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 4 Jun 2009, at 16:35, Gary C Martin wrote: On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote: Yes that would be very helpful I think I was just going

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:24, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 06:09, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week Wednesday 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jun 2009, at 12:24, Sean DALY wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo Christian - I myself prefer the rays to dots which I feel too closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is possible (networks being connected to at startup?) Coloured dots

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote: Yes that would be very helpful I think I was just going to start tinkering again, I'll make an animated version of Eben's XO and progress-bar for evaluation. If we can reach consensus by tomorrow and finish the actual PNG frames over the weekend we

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-06-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Jun 2009, at 16:35, Gary C Martin wrote: On 4 Jun 2009, at 15:45, Sean DALY wrote: Yes that would be very helpful I think I was just going to start tinkering again, I'll make an animated version of Eben's XO and progress-bar for evaluation. Just uploaded an animated version showing

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-06-01

2009-06-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Jun 2009, at 09:05, Martin Dengler wrote: On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:36:46PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: [delete that page you talked about, create a page with just orphaned activities] Help welcome! You're being too polite :). Me? Polite? How very dare you ;-) I can't tell

Re: [IAEP] My first experience with eTexts

2009-06-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Jun 2009, at 15:44, James Simmons wrote: Caroline, The books can be downloaded as a Zip file. In the Zip file is a small website for offline reading. I'm copying your question to the IAEP list because there has been some discussion about making the Browse Activity able to work with

Re: [IAEP] My first experience with eTexts

2009-06-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Jun 2009, at 20:44, Caroline Meeks wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 1 Jun 2009, at 15:44, James Simmons wrote: Caroline, The books can be downloaded as a Zip file. In the Zip file is a small website for offline reading. I'm

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Gary C Martin
just fine) 2) seemed odd for the dots to appear from 6 o'clock to 6 o'clock (12 to 12 feels more natural to me) 3) lack of any colour (though this is tough to avoid breaking HIG iconography on colour use) Regards, --Gary Christian On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Gary C Martin g

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread Gary C Martin
On 30 May 2009, at 16:36, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote: I agree with your points--comments below: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Christian, On 30 May 2009, at 10:17, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote: Hi Gary, this looks good, though I wonder

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 14, Issue 58

2009-05-28 Thread Gary C Martin
On 28 May 2009, at 18:04, James Simmons wrote: David, I thought I had answered that one with a previous email. First, you can see the latest git changes at this link: http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/readetexts/repos/mainline/trees/master I don't know why the main page doesn't show

Re: [IAEP] Did anyone get a photo of the getting involved Funnel we did in Paris?

2009-05-28 Thread Gary C Martin
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Looks like my friend Diana took one. Thanks On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi, Here's the monster res version... Regards, --Gary On 25 May 2009, at 21

Re: [IAEP] adding or updating an Activity: two typical teacher scenarios, let's lower barrier to installation

2009-05-27 Thread Gary C Martin
On 27 May 2009, at 15:35, Sean DALY wrote: Scenario 1: Let's say I'm a teacher reading about Sugar in a magazine. I consider myself comfortable with computers, visit the web every day, but have never used the command line. I've succeeded in downloading SoaS, loading it onto a stick with the

Re: [IAEP] Help to Find the PO file of Some Activities to able me to Translate Them

2009-05-25 Thread Gary C Martin
a future update control panel checking with activity.sugarlabs.org). Regards, --Gary David On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi David, On 24 May 2009, at 11:47, David Van Assche wrote: Overall it would be nice if we had an activitiy matrix

Re: [IAEP] Did anyone get a photo of the getting involved Funnel we did in Paris?

2009-05-25 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Caroline, On 25 May 2009, at 21:38, Caroline Meeks wrote: Hi, Can anyone point me to a picture of the funnel my group did in the Paris camp. I want to do a write up on it. It's here, but it's too low resolution (non-pro Flickr I'm afraid), will email you the high resolution image off

Re: [IAEP] Help to Find the PO file of Some Activities to able me to Translate Them

2009-05-24 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi David, On 24 May 2009, at 11:47, David Van Assche wrote: Overall it would be nice if we had an activitiy matrix that showed the stages of projects. The Activity Team have been making contact with past authors, slowly, slowly we're moving along even if it means adopting extra activities

Re: [IAEP] The eBook ah ha moment for Sugar on a Stick

2009-05-13 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 May 2009, at 19:42, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: This issue was discussed at length about a week ago, and James Simmons and Alexei (I think) were discussing the provision of a library activity. Until that happens, I think James' reader activity and Sayamendu's fbreader activity

Re: [IAEP] The eBook ah ha moment for Sugar on a Stick

2009-05-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 May 2009, at 18:37, Caroline Meeks wrote: For the next SoaS Beta I'd like to help users trying out Sugar, especially educators, have an ah ha moment about how Sugar on a Stick can open a huge world of books for their students. The US elementary schools I visit have a computer lab

Re: [IAEP] How Can We Showcase Turtle Art Portfolio

2009-05-12 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 May 2009, at 23:23, John Tierney wrote: Hello All, Would like commentary from the community on how we can try and showcase the abilities of Turtle art Portfolio along with the things each of us are working on. The email below came from my inability(due to my confusing question)

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Sur] Labyrinth 6

2009-05-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 8 May 2009, at 10:22, Simon Schampijer wrote: Gary C Martin wrote: On 17 Apr 2009, at 08:15, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Congratulations to Gary and Aleksey. Paola is a teacher from .uy and has already tried the new version of Labyrinth and written a small tutorial about how to create mind maps

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Sur] Labyrinth 6

2009-05-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 8 May 2009, at 10:44, Simon Schampijer wrote: Simon Schampijer wrote: Gary C Martin wrote: On 17 Apr 2009, at 08:15, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Congratulations to Gary and Aleksey. Paola is a teacher from .uy and has already tried the new version of Labyrinth and written a small tutorial

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] versus, not

2009-05-08 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Kathy, On 8 May 2009, at 23:28, Kathy Pusztavari wrote: David, Do you have any good links for those of us just starting? Links that would answer how to install python, how to interface with sugar from a different platform (XP, Mac), sugar specific issues in developing activities

[IAEP] Logic simulator

2009-05-03 Thread Gary C Martin
Noticed this Flash based logic simulator: http://joshblog.net/projects/logic-gate-simulator/Logicly.html Would be quite a simple sandbox activity to make (python, gtk+, ciaro); but before I burn time (well add to my future todos list), do teachers on this list think it is more than

[IAEP] Some ars technica soas coverage

2009-04-25 Thread Gary C Martin
Just noticed this in my feeds so thought I would pass on: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/sugar-labs-releases-beta-of-live-usb-learning-environment.ars --Gary ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

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

2009-04-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Apr 2009, at 18:44, Caryl Bigenho wrote: 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

Re: [IAEP] Advanced search on ASLO

2009-04-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 25 Apr 2009, at 03:46, Josh Williams wrote: Hey everyone, I've finally started a style sheet for ASLO. You can see what I have so far at http://activities-devel.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/ . It's not much, but I'm moving forward. Fab :-) Just wondering if there was a consensus to

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: SoaS on a MacBook?

2009-04-21 Thread Gary C Martin
On 21 Apr 2009, at 21:38, Caroline Meeks wrote: I'm pretty sure you will definitely need the CD Helper. But I was able to boot my iBook with one so I'm very much looking forward to your results! Just a quick report on trying to boot Soas2-200904161412.iso on a MacBookPro without luck.

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Sur] Labyrinth 6

2009-04-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Apr 2009, at 08:15, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Congratulations to Gary and Aleksey. Paola is a teacher from .uy and has already tried the new version of Labyrinth and written a small tutorial about how to create mind maps with it, see link in the forwarded email below. Thanks Tomeu, very

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Unified Objects (was Unified bundles)

2009-04-08 Thread Gary C Martin
On 8 Apr 2009, at 20:17, Wade Brainerd wrote: The idea that activities actually exist in the Journal (and only in the Journal) is really exciting to me. Yes, it's a right old lucky dip mess for what you find in Journal for Activity bundles just now. Old bundle versions that you're not sure

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)

2009-04-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Apr 2009, at 04:26, Caroline Meeks wrote: Results Boots up fine. Love the sugar branding! There are a lot fewer activities in the ring then SoaS1 Memorize, Speak, Moon, Turtle, Jigsaw puzzel, joke book, typing turtle, cartoon builder, Finance, Freecell - Work great. Sound works

  1   2   >