our
short video just released for the Swedish education programme;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP4F7XG7-_A
I hope you enjoy! :)
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to go after
this activity. Keep in mind that this is for 4th and 5th graders.
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To: Christopher Lindgren
Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org
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Hello Teemu,
I agree completely that journals should be by default open. That's a
natural way for a group to share, and it has the potential to be
really inspiring.
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Teemu Leinonen teemu.leino...@aalto.fi wrote:
On 10.12.2010, at 22.06, Sascha Silbe wrote:
An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
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We have a devel-announce list that hasn't been much used. We also
have many people who are interested in getting news about any major
release or security update, but don't have time to read all of the
traffic that goes to devel.
Reuben, Paul and I were discussing this earlier today; I would be
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote:
I also want to remind people of the Latest Releases infobox on the
wiki homepage. Please update this information if you publish a new
stable
Inca Quest would be awesome. Is there a good topological map of the Incan road?
SJ
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Yama Ploskonka y...@netoso.com wrote:
Sebastian Silva and his rolling circus is about to embark in an amazing
trek getting to some amazing places. http://somosazucar.org/
Can
Quick comments : I agree with C.Scott's remarks 100%. Being too
strict about copyright or trademark is an easy way to kill
collaboration in the cradle, and Mozilla's done most of this
(including guidelines for logo modification and reuse) very well.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:43 PM, C. Scott
Here's a list of activities that I think would be great, both worth starring
and worth having unstarred (it's a large enough list now that it's confusing
to have them all on the home screen by default, but there are lots of great
activities that people who know about them will want even when
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
[ADD UNSTAR]
VNC Launcher
Not sure what this category is for, but I feel like I need to put in a
plug for Watch Me [1].
It's for activities with great demo potential
From a different library list. For those who don't know her, Allison Druin
among other things runs a children's testing lab where various sorts of
products and interfaces are tested by children (in Maryland and in 1 or 2
sister institutions around the globe). If you like this talk, she also
Bumping up this recent thread on the bookreader list about text-to-speech.
Mike and Gregor, in case you haven't seen what's currently possible:
I believe James S's Read Etexts uses speech-dispatcher to read selected
text. Aleksey and others may have done further work with espeak... I've
included
Congratulations to the new SLOBs; it was great to see a strong slate
standing for election!
SJ
ps - Can someone update the governance wiki page to describe the
two-tranche system?
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
Congratulations everyone! I am
I volunteer. I don't have a strong opinion yet, but am interested in
the future of SoaS. When I give talks about OLPC and Sugar, there are
almost always audience members who have used it.
SJ
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
Hi all,
Sebastian Dziallas has
Mel - thanks for this delightful and thoughtful post. I agree with
most of the points you and your aunt raise.
Ben says, about 'Friendly' and 'Consistent':
These two things sound pretty much the same to me.
They also sound absolutely impossible, taken strictly.
Taking a more relaxed
Only 30 shirts, eh? You might want to add 12 Smalls :) There just
*might* be some women or teens present.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Holth...@laptop.org wrote:
Thanks to the 10 ppl who pulled out all the stops designing+redesigning
these last 36hrs: there were so many colorful designs
at 2:53 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Paul - sounds great. And I should be at the 4th Ceibal Jam on
September 5. Pablo Flores will still be travelling, but I'll be able
to get some things started there with some of the original editors of
Uruguay's excellent booklet about
Tomeu - yes, thanks for the reminder. olpc asia is starting to
publish their posts in both English and Chinese, and just relaunched
their site; people who haven't are encouraged to give it a read.
SJ
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at
Hello,
I imagine a final use case in which children do have hundreds of books on
their XO, not two or three; they are stored compressed, and uncompressed for
reading; and the Journal stores the record of reading a book, but not the
uncompressed book itself.
When a stick or local library with
You might want to add more whitespace around the Browse icon. And
it's not so clear to me that it is a stack of books, or what the
bottom line is. An open book with pages might be more identifiable.
SJ
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
I really like this one,
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Jonas Smedegaardd...@jones.dk wrote:
What if we developers only announce in developer-oriented forums and
someone else (marketing team?) takes the task of communicating it to
end users?
Hmm. That sounds rigid to me.
I suggest transforming it into this instead:
Docs that don't use familiar language can be a turnoff. 'User' is a
familiar nuisance. 'Supporter' might also be apporpriate, since some
people who follow and care about sugar do not use it day to day and
are passing on the opinions of others, or their observation of others.
SJ
On Tue, May 26,
All together would be great (even including nepali from time to time,
even though google will not help you translate it). SJ
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:35 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Hi all,
recently
The screenshots help the discussion a great deal.
Thinking in terms of how you sort and change views is useful, since
there are a few very different use cases that could all rely on what
Aleksey is describing [local calibre, active filesharing, global
persistent file hosting and bundle
From the OER Consortium...
-- Forwarded message --
From: Judy Baker bakerj...@foothill.edu
Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Subject: [Free-Textbooks] Open Textbook Meetup Invitation
To: freetextbo...@freeculture.org
Open Textbook Meetup Invitation
The Community College Open
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
regardless of the scale of the GSoC program, it is small
relative to our needs and the potential size of the pool of interested
contributors. Therefore, we should consider designing a mentoring
program that can
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote:
I second Michael's suggestion about a web design that echoes the Sugar
design. Think how useful this would be if carried to school servers. And
as a basis for web-served Sugar-like activities.
This would be
Dear Johncn,
The bssd wiki is the best thing I have seen in a while. Congrats on
what you've accomplished so far. I would love to take part in a
session next week to see a demo of what you are developing.
As for the Yupik and Inupiaq dictionaries -- they are quite nice.
Have you been in touch
Every child and class faces this. In my fairly well-funded public
elementary and middle school, I must have had a handful of classes in
which I didn't have my own textbook for weeks, and had to share / had
nothing to take home. In other cases, there weren't enough of the
latest materials and I
Hemant, Tomeu, Assim and all,
Has there been any progress on TTS since last summer? I'd love to see
this project move forward. Prabhas has also indicated some interest
in working on language-learning support, which is directly related...
It would also be nice to have Listen and Spell among the
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:14 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com
wrote:
Im gonna try and make this easy:
SoaS - the latest fedora core based
I tried to impress my 9 year old gescwister... (related one)
Speak - it
You could try something like sharing the catalog of discussions but
not discussions themselves. A private tech list I remember (a private
version of wikitech-l?) made a point of publishing the subject lines
of its archives so that people understood what it was being used for,
or could ask for
In that vein, I'd love for someone to document how to add new
graph-reviewing, labelling, and import/export options to Measure.
Using graphs one has made, or looking at a history of graphs made and
data gathered, is hard -- not necc. easy enough to use in an ongoing
science experiment.
--SJ
On
Note: there will also be a global volunteering meeting at the same
time in #olpc from 3-5, and we will drop in and join for some of the
activity discussion.
SJ
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
Please join us for the first Sugar Labs
Mikus,
Some readers are mainly accessed online, but a reader is not a 'web'
service per se, it is an interface. Now it's true that every
interface is a service of a sort... I could host an fbreader instance
for you, but that wouldn't change anything.
Comparing fbreader with a standalone gnubook
Dear all,
We are working with the gnubook developers to help optimize it for
reading books on the XO. Those of you who have tested it out already
know what it looks like; for the rest of you, you can still see it in
action at the open library. Help and suggestions are much
appreciated. If your
wrote:
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote:
2. Housing beg
I will be in Boston from the night of the 12th (Monday, arriving on
a late train) to that of the 17th (leaving by train on the morning
Hi Jameson,
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:19 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com
wrote:
1. Diplomas
I know it sounds ridiculous, but here in Guatemala every conference or
Not /that/ ridiculous.
Keep reminding
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote:
2. Housing beg
I will be in Boston from the night of the 12th (Monday, arriving on
a late train) to that of the 17th (leaving by train on the morning
of the 18th). I am confident that I can, if necessary, find housing
Please don't wait. Draft the post, and point to [[sugar:XOCamp 2]]
where I'll put the details. SJ
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com wrote:
I was just about to write a guest post for OLPCNews asking for (tax
deductible) contributions towards the travel
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_as_Service_Learning
I've spoken to a number of people about creating an on ramp and eventually a
Hello,
Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Donna Benjamin do...@cc.com.au wrote:
I think there is a steadily
growing number of people keen to _do_ something productive to contribute
to the project. For some people that might just be buying a machine via
Ncomputing is certainly not greener than using XOs, except perhaps for
the part where you use computers in a comp. lab less than you use a
portable laptop.
But [no accounting] it's popular. It lets you use existing monitor
and sysadmin infrastructure. And a skole/sugar or ubuntu/sugar setup
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:39 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope there are gobby sessions for all events, and that they are more
brainstorming and writing than presentation and recording video
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm fine with roadmap discussion/coordination personally, I prefer
hard decision to happen in the mailing lists where everyone can
participate.
Yes, and where there is some time to marshall arguments and data.
SJ
Nice. A good point about Thanksgiving week -- the converse is that
the week before is often midterms for students. But there are a
number of local activity developers (or would-be devs who haven't
finished their first!) that would be excited to join.
SJ
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Tomeu
I agree with David that this is a good logical order. Mon and Tue
aren't good days for some OLPC folks, but they might make good
hackfest days.
It would be great to have space we could use for the whole week; OLPC
will be short of conference rooms. Walter, let me know if I can help
with space
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 9:56 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today I am finally getting to the long promised wiki cleanup. Why now?
Three non-core contributors complained about the wiki this week:)
(:
Questions
3. Should testing and QA be merged? If so, under what name?
Yes.
Of course you can also gift an entire geek if you know the right
fulfillment agencies... SJ
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just voted for G1G1 on this survey.
Laptop: OLPC XO (amazon.com/xo)
Please join me, and tell your friends. You might have
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Sean DALY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Effective marketing is targeted. Last year's typical G1G1 donor was
probably a generous IT type with a positive viewpoint concerning Free
software, curious
Yikes. Undersaturated billboard markets... I wonder how such things
impact the desire to 'launch' new announcements.
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, I saw a billboard in the Indianapolis airport this weekend
advertising last year's G1G1 program!!
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