On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:29 AM, s.bouta...@free.fr wrote:
Hi,
After a couple of weeks of reading tutorials, help from Aleksey, and
some Ubuntu developers there are Sugar packages available for Ubuntu
9.10.
Thank
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:29 AM, s.bouta...@free.fr wrote:
Hi,
After a couple of weeks of reading tutorials, help from Aleksey, and
some Ubuntu
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Caryl,
Thanks for sharing these pictures.
Can you share more details about this project, like:
How many XOs are there?
How many students?
Which grades/age groups?
How were the teachers/students trained?
Maybe
An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Caryl,
Facebook provides a link to photo albums accessible without a Facebook
login. Look at the bottom of your album page and post it!
Sameer
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
I've been reading Montessori Madness for a few hours now, and I find
Another good one is Montessori Today
http://www.amazon.com/Montessori
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
I wanted to add something to this conversation.
I am a public middle school science teacher, and, as some of you know, the
technology facilitator in my building working with our 5th grade students
and teachers with a
In my typical Friday afternoon TED Talk overindulgence, I came across
this one. Its hilarious and informative. It also talks to some of the
things we've argued about in this project.
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
cheers,
Sameer
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Bert Freudenbergb...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
Thanks to all who made the FSF change this.
- Bert -
+1
Sameer
On 02.09.2009, at 08:14, Bill Kerr wrote:
Yes the new paragraph is more reasonable:
Microsoft is now targeting governments who are purchasing XOs,
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com
wrote:
After a discussion with the FSF, they agreed the picture was not really
appropriate and that the text should clearly distinguish OLPC from Sugar.
FYI.
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From: sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com
Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Subject: Designing for Children - Conference, Educational Meet,
Exhibition at IDC IIT Bombay
To: olpc-in...@googlegroups.com
http://www.designingforchildren.net/
Has anyone bundled Wikijunior or a part of it?
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior
Sameer
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in this case). The Ubuntu side of things doesn't get to
see much of say, what conspires between Canonical and Dell.
This is a much needed discussion.
cheers,
Sameer
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San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http
not have an answer
for her, but I wondered if it would be possible to have an option in Speak
to do so.
I'd imagine that the sound of the letter would vary depending on language,
right?
cheers,
Sameer
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San Francisco State
list
market...@lists.sugarlabs.org
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
Hi Caroline,
Looks like OLPC-SF will get at least a dozen sticks. I'll send you more
precise numbers once I hear from others.
Sameer
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San
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:07 AM, jimj...@well.com wrote:
wait wait: i hope i wrote that mtsa is a
set of people who together have fluency in
english, dari, and pashto as well as some
computer familiarity.
that any one person combines some useful
subset and also has time to chip in work
On 7/3/09, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote:
Sameer,
The issue of what to do with existing Power Point slides can probably
be handled by using Google Docs, which can import existing Power Point
presentations from your hard drive. Once imported you could download
them as PDF's for
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jim Simmonsnices...@gmail.com wrote:
Sameer,
The Read Activity can display PDFs fullscreen. You need to open the
PDF the usual way and then press Alt-Enter. Currently Read displays
documents as continuous pages, but I believe that evince can display
one
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:43 AM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote:
A real simple alternative to powerpoint/impress that looks and smells
like it, but with maybe really limited functionality would be loved by
teachers everywhere, At least, all the teachers I have met rely very
heavily
/Spreadsheet).
Some folks have tried OpenOffice for kids on the XO.
http://olpc-france.org/blog/2009/04/ooo4kids-openoffice-for-kids-on-the-xo/
cheers,
Sameer
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San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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+1
Some similar approaches: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sneakernet and
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Motoman
Sameer
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to be said first. Just like following APIs and standards for
making code talk across systems, we will need standards for making
chapters collate into a book, but those are tactical issues. We need
to address strategic matters first.
cheers,
Sameer
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style license and (2) maybe explore an interface (AJAX or
otherwise) that would allow Zoom in and Zoom out of different
cycles and levels for big picture and drill down details with
explanations and links at each level.
cheers,
Sameer
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One of my all time favorite devices gets one of my all time favorite
environments! Read on.
http://guysoft.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/nokia-n810-running-olpc-sugar/
cheers,
Sameer
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Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA
to 10).
We have a local Montessori that has two XOs and is considering using
them with the 4 to 5 year olds. They haven't started yet, but it would
be interesting to see what their experience is like once they begin in
the summer.
Sameer
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/ltsp-linux-terminal-server-project-netbooted-fat-client-for-ubuntu-hardy-and-intrepid)
on Intrepid+GNOME.
cheers,
Sameer
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up with OSBC. Thought I'd
pass this along for comments.
cheers,
Sameer
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Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com wrote:
you can find a stream at www.publicradiofan.com
http://www.wpr.org/book/visionaries/index.html
Sameer
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
To the Best of Our Knowledge, with
a Asterisk server set up, so let me know if I can help.
cheers,
Sameer
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San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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IAEP
is
such a generic word :(
How about Sugar Labs Chocolate? :)
Isn't Sugar on a Stick a lollipop?
Sameer
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Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
http://www.zooomr.com/photos/sameerverma/6300789/
This one is great! We don't seem to have many photos showing what kids are
actually doing with Sugar. Can we use this one in marketing?
Sure. I just changed the
are taken.
Sameer
Uh, now what?
Keep plugging away :-)
Sameer
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the journal with ease removed any
doubts in my mind as to why Sugar doesn't have a file manager. These
kids don't even know what a file looks like! Why bother with a
metaphor that is as clear as mud for them?
Sameer
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Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State
FYI, I'm on gmail, and for some reason, the URL *shows*
http://forum.laptop.org/chat but still *points* to
http://support.laptop.org/chat
Correct URL is http://forum.laptop.org/chat
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Sameer
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Holt h...@laptop.org wrote:
1) See you in just less than 3hours, at
from the attendees
(Windows/MSFT drama). So, at the very least, we should have a
significant presence in the exhibit areas. Some of you Sugarheads
should really present in sessions as well!
Sameer
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Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
samples will be a bit difficult. I'll look for examples.
I'm curious about how you plan on using BSC in this scenario.
cheers,
Sameer
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Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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http
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sameer Verma wrote:
dotProject (http://www.dotproject.net/) and Project.net
(http://www.project.net/) are good candidates. They are both FOSS,
although I haven't had much luck locating Project.net's FOSS license
The Gantt plugin it's a good solution there.
Rafael Ortiz
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sameer Verma wrote:
dotProject (http://www.dotproject.net/) and Project.net
This is interesting. Bill Kendrick ran code_swarm against CVS logs of
TuxPaint. Wonder what code_swarm of Sugar will look like...
Code Swarm: http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/
Sameer
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San Francisco State University
list to join for marketing efforts?
cheers,
Sameer
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Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
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Ed writes:
This is the first time I have heard that G1G1
, look-n-feel, etc.
If we do merchandise from somebody like Cafepress, we don't have to
get into the business of printing, cutting etc.
I cannot setup shop at Cafepress because the logos involved aren't my
copyright, but if someone from OLPC initiates, I'd be glad to help.
Sameer
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Can we do a Google calendar or something equivalent for Sugar and
other meetings/events so that others can subscribe to the ical feeds?
Sameer
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. Does anyone know how to make meetings
repeat bi-weekly in Google calendar?
-walter
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Walter Bender
[EMAIL PROTECTED
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* A kickstart file that can be used by any Fedora user to generate such an
image trivially.
So. Where shall we host them? Somewhere in Fedora-land, or somewhere in
Sugar-land?
Why not both, and torrent it up on http://linuxtracker.org/ ?
Sameer
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Although it is difficult to specify a precise definition
[snipped]
This creates ambiguity. If it doesn't add to the process, I suggest we
remove it altogether.
Sameer
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San Francisco State University
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