Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Gathering ideas for Sugarlabs

2019-12-12 Thread Thomas Gilliard
I have been following #flatpaks of sugar-apps being developed now by tchx84 for use in #silverblue [1] and #fedora-workstation. they work well [2] great future use of sugar apps satelllit Thomas Gilliard [1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_32#Silverblue [2] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Meeting Reminder

2018-10-04 Thread Thomas Gilliard
It is impssible to login to sugar irc on f28 and f29 soas due to these registration requrements On 10/4/18 3:33 PM, James Cameron wrote: At the moment the issue with Freenode requires all of us to register before we can speak. This impacts new people.  It makes their joining as

[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] f24 Live-Media-Creator for Building Live DVD Remixes

2016-05-19 Thread Thomas Gilliard
I have finally worked out how to Do a livemedia-creator Remix in f24 [1] livecd-creator [2] will be phased out soon so this will be the only way we can do a live remix in the future Tom Gilliard satellit [1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_24#livemedia-creator [2]

[IAEP] [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] how to install sweets-desktop on a HD using an Mint13 Cinnamon DVD (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)

2014-01-04 Thread Thomas Gilliard
This is update to confirm that this seems to be a viable alternative Sugar-Desktop to use. Mint13 Cinnamon i686 (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) with 0.94 Sweets-Desktop -Installed today 1/4/2014 works as emulator in Mint cinnamon Education/Sugar or booted from DE chooser on login Supported Versions:

[IAEP] Sugar-desktop and Soas in Fedora 20 TC-1 Notes and Links

2013-11-16 Thread Thomas Gilliard
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Fedora_20 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sur] Sugar oversight board meeting

2013-11-04 Thread Thomas Gilliard
On 11/4/2013 4:17 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: On 4 November 2013 23:05, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com mailto:pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Sugar on Android or the Raspberry Pi might have an interesting marketing effect but the result would be truly terrible as it would be

[IAEP] Fwd: The Importance of Context and Human Factor in MOOC Education

2013-04-16 Thread Thomas Gilliard
Interesting post Original Message Subject:The Importance of Context and Human Factor in MOOC Education Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:09:19 + From: Educational Technology Debate edit...@edutechdebate.org To: satel...@bendbroadband.com Educational Technology

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Thomas Gilliard
I agree that it can be hard to find the present version of soas One reason v8 is not prominently displayed is that anaconda liveinst does not work for installation to a HD or USB See [4] for a work-around until this is fixed I am also listing the links for sweets-distribution-sugar 0.94 Tom

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Thomas Gilliard
On 03/22/2013 02:09 PM, Edward Mokurai Cherlin wrote: On Fri, March 22, 2013 12:19 pm, Peter Robinson wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Martin Abente martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Plans for SoaS v9

2013-03-22 Thread Thomas Gilliard
One more link to a wiki page I just updated: wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/previous_versions (Soas v1-Soas-v7 -download links) Tom Gilliard On 03/22/2013 03:26 PM, Thomas Gilliard wrote: I agree that it can be hard to find the present version of soas One reason v8 is not prominently

[IAEP] Fwd: Latin America Is Fertile With EduTech Experimentation

2013-03-21 Thread Thomas Gilliard
Interesting. FYI Tom Gilliard Original Message Subject:Latin America Is Fertile With EduTech Experimentation Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:08:04 + From: Educational Technology Debate edit...@edutechdebate.org To: satel...@bendbroadband.com Educational

Re: [IAEP] How can I get Camera to work on XO? Also how to access USB

2013-03-13 Thread Thomas Gilliard
On 03/13/2013 09:20 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 2013-03-13, at 16:50, Steve Thomas sthom...@gosargon.com wrote: Tried with Etoys 5.0 build 2406. But camera does not work. Saw this in trakcer, but no wifi access, although I can put files on a USB. Possibly the Camera plugin is missing? See

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FW: Fwd: Re: Need Help with RPi Raspbian Wheezy Download

2013-02-22 Thread Thomas Gilliard
Subject: Re: [support-gang] Need Help with RPi Raspbian Wheezy Download Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:30:15 -0800 From: Thomas Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com mailto:satel...@bendbroadband.com Reply-To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT laptop.org support-g

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] date/time for marketing meeting next week - Wednesday 1600 UTC?

2013-02-09 Thread Thomas Gilliard
Sean; I have edited the wiki page: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Documentation_Team/Notes/1.0#Resources to add a link to : http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Tutorial.iso 5.3M dd write to USB SAMPLE.iso of tutorial.pdf's (insert USB and open with write in sugar) The 1 GB USB has been

Re: [IAEP] Documentation Team meeting on February 7th

2013-02-04 Thread Thomas Gilliard
I will try to attend Tom Gilliard satellit On 02/04/2013 04:28 PM, Daniel Francis wrote: As discussed with the Sugar Labs Oversight Board, this year we are releasing Sugar 1 and would be great to provide the release with up-to-date documentation available. With that goal, we want to recruit a

Re: [IAEP] Raspberry PI

2013-01-29 Thread Thomas Gilliard
Sean; I do not know if I sent this link to you.: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Testing/Reports/ARM_RPi http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Testing/Reports/ARM_RPi#Start_Sugar Using: http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/raspberrypi/test-releases/rpfr17/ Also tested on the above testing page:

[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] A New Tutorial telling how to make a customized Live CD/DVD .iso file using livecd-tools and customized kickstart files

2012-12-16 Thread Thomas Gilliard
I hope that this will simplify and explain the setup and use of this useful tool for users: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Tutorials/Installation/Build_Your_Own_Remix_with_Fedora Presented with screenshots In a simplified manner with links to more examples in:

Re: [IAEP] Sugarized binaries? was Re: users doing python in XOs

2012-12-04 Thread Thomas Gilliard
On 12/04/12 11:24, David Corking wrote: Thanks Ruben! To all: If you find yourself supporting a sugarized activity, or improving the integration, you might need the C source of libsugarize.so I was pleased to find that Albert Cahalan already brought a copy from its original home and uploaded

Re: [IAEP] Introduction: teacher interested in SOAS

2012-11-22 Thread Thomas Gilliard
I use the liveinst command (fedora anaconda installer) in sugar root terminal [# ] to install to a 4 GB USB (with a led activity indicator) Teach the students to wait for the flashes to stop before removing them. These USB can be very cheap (I purchased some EMTEC 4GB for $9.95 recently) Look

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Announce] Mageia-2 has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator

2012-05-25 Thread Thomas Gilliard
On 05/25/2012 03:18 PM, Chris Leonard wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Great News; Mageia-2 has task-sugar 0.95.1 and sugar-emulator. [1] This is another Community Distribution for sugar [2] Ranked 6 in Distrowatch [3] (Mageia is

Re: [IAEP] Need Help With SoaS! (Including Mac) dd writable USB.img files

2011-11-22 Thread Thomas Gilliard
Caryl; I know it requires using the terminal, but these 2 Soas-v5-Coconut .img files may be the easiest way to build a number of booting SoaS USB sticks for your presentation. The instructions (actual screen shots of terminal of the writing to the USB's are included in these pages) The