2012/1/13 Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com:
On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 03:21 +0100, Rubén Rodríguez wrote:
The method I think would be a breakthrough for a school is to use a thin
client environment. One server is enough to run a typical school, you
only need to manage one standard
for learners and teachers?
- Are things easy enough for people creating learning material to get it
into the hands of others?
Thanks all
Tim McNamara
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[0] http://okfn.org
[1] http
This is excellent work. Well done.
Tim McNamara | @timClicks http://twitter.com/timClicks |
timmcnamara.co.nz
On 13 May 2011 04:56, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
Noy Shoung says he has about a hundred Cambodians ready and willing to
work on localization and translation projects
the interface fairly confusing and am
slightly worried I am breaking things.
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On 28 December 2010 20:11, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I am working with a project that wants to download Kahn Academy's math
lessons ( http://www.khanacademy.org/ ) and use them offline on the XO-1.
Hi Caryl,
As discussed before, distributing YouTube videos is
On 28 October 2010 09:04, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All...
Here are some dumb questions for you. In a couple of weeks I will be
doing a 2-hr hands-on workshop (at the CUELA Tech Fair) about OLPC, Sugar,
and open source software teachers may want to try with their classes
? (Why don't we use Canonical's Launchpad?)
Regards,
Tim McNamara
@timClicks
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Sugar Labs appears to be eligible to part of the United Nations Online
Volunteering[1]. There is a pool of about 200,000 registered volunteers, I'm
not sure how many are software developers - most projects are vanity website
development. Sugar would be an interesting
This may be a good way to tap
On 9 October 2010 11:33, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
Quoting Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com:
I have a partial draft of a textbook on the subject at
http://www.booki.cc/discovering-discovery/ It encourages XO owners to
explore on their own and find out what questions they have before we
On 9 October 2010 12:14, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Folks...
I'm working on the abstract for my proposed presentation at CUE 2011 in
Palm Springs in March. The filing deadline is Monday, but I was hoping to
put it in tomorrow morning since we will be traveling Sunday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11475335
Tim
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On 4 October 2010 06:39, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
Is there a way to have different people repeatably agree on how good a
CRT monitor is? Is there a quantitive measure that is reasonably easy to
use? A test image that can somehow get repeatable results by different
On 25 September 2010 02:22, Pablo Flores pflor...@gmail.com wrote:
My support to Rosamel too!
The translation is not a minor issue and it would be good to challenge
ourselves to find solutions so we can integrate in discussions people that
speak different languages. Isn't there some kind of
The analogy doesn't quite fit, as it's possible to do complex things in all
of those tools and it's easy to do simple things in EToys. Each Activity can
be used in this learning model, e.g. training wheels to motorbike.
Tim
On 25 September 2010 05:48, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org wrote:
On 17 September 2010 02:19, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote:
Tim,
Do I have documentation? Surely your jest!
http://en.flossmanuals.net/ActivitiesGuideSugar/TextToSpeech
This is a chapter of Make Your Own Sugar Activities!, a FLOSS Manual
I wrote (with much help from the folks on
On 16 September 2010 09:00, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote:
If we support VIrtualBox we
should probably also support VMWare, Hyper-V, KVM and Xen. Who's going
to do all that testing when we have barely the resources to do a
single image.
Peter
I am a teacher of sorts and have
[adding Sugar devel]
On 16 September 2010 07:14, James Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote:
Caryl,
I haven't tried this out yet but I think it's a great idea. Text to
speech is underutilized in Activities, in my opinion. It isn't that
difficult to add TTS to an Activity, and every kid I've
From http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4204, we currently
have:
Arithmetic is a game that tries to show all the participants the same
questions at the same time, gives an ongoing scoreboard of how many
questions each participant has answered correctly, and measures the amount
of
Compare Breakout[1] with Break Out[2]
I haven't checked the USPTO's database, but I'm fairly certain that Atari
would have registered it.
Tim
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)
[2] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4235
On 15 July 2010 07:04, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote:
Are developers using Sugar as their day-to-day development
environment yet?
Certainly not me... I'm not even sure it will ever happen. Even
[...]
However, I've seen many teachers using Sugar. Not just Browse. They also
On 9 July 2010 19:52, Kevin Kirton kpkir...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for that Caryl. I'm using Gmail and it seems I have to click
Reply to all instead of Reply, which I keep forgetting. But even
now, the IAEP address only comes up as CC. Hmmm
Kevin -
I'm not an administrator of IAEP, but
On 8 July 2010 06:19, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Dinko,
A quick note on my way out the door. Since you are writing the tutorial in
the first person singular (rather than first person plural editorial we,
you probably will want to have it be the computer (or Python)
On 25 June 2010 14:39, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Saturday I need to show someone via Skype how to use the XO as a book
reader. So far no luck with it. I have tried both the Read Activity and
the Read E Texts Activity and can't seem to get either to work well. Are
there any
On 4 June 2010 09:07, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
Hi Tim,
As soon as I heard that OLPC was moving to ARM, I winced
slightly. This is going to make life much more difficult, because
of our longstanding Linux, Python and recent GNOME heritage. What
is Sugar Labs' role with
together with http://www.opentextbook.org/?
Tim McNamara
http://people.sugarlabs.org/~tim/
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The original of this report is in OLPC Oceania's web storage:
http://box.net/keydox
-Tim.
On 21 April 2010 03:58, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
http://olpcoceania.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-solomons-study-puts-hard-evidence.html
Chris -
You must have known something! Sugar Labs is part of the fold. [1]
Thanks all for helping me along. Now the real fun starts :)
Tim
@timClicks
[1] http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2010
On 13 March 2010 12:11, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
Hi Tim,
On 18 March 2010 08:45, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote:
Panama? No mention of Haiti itself, alas.
Politicians are only as good as their advisers. This is a really positive
development, even if some facts are missed.
Tim
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Hi all,
If you have 30 seconds free, please review
http://issuu.com/timclicks/docs/sugarlabs_gsoc_2010. I've gone for
simplicity over . My main consideration was tying together growth
children's learning. I think you'll smile when you see the result.
If people are relatively happy with it, we
back a few times over the course of
the next few weeks.
Please feel to contact me off the list at paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz if you
have any questions.
Very best regards,
Tim McNamara
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On 11 March 2010 16:58, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.orgwrote:
We have a lot of choice of different styles:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/
http://people.sugarlabs.org/
http://download.sugarlabs.org/
Hello everyone -
Sorry for cross posting. Tomeu I thought this opportunity may be of
interest to individuals on this list. Looking forward to hearing from you.
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Date: 10 March 2010 10:07
Subject: Copy writing
On 1 March 2010 12:11, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org wrote:
Hi All,
I've been trying to run SoaS on both my Windows XP and Vista netbooks and
ran into the problem of not being able get a wifi access. So I went through
these exercise:
1) downloaded the linux driver support for the
On 1 March 2010 13:00, Cherry Withers cwith...@ekindling.org wrote:
Hi Tim,
Thanks. But I can't do yum because it relies on a network connection
which I don't have in the first place. At least
that's how I thought it works.
Yes, that's correct. Your best bet is to find an ethernet cable
On 12 February 2010 23:25, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote:
Would someone be interested to present something about Sugar here?
Regards,
Tomeu
Looking at some of the subject areas, the papers committee are likely to
look very favourably on a paper from Sugar Labs. Areas include:
2010/1/13 Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net
It would like to make most of these conversations available to the
rest of the community, but I don't have the time to log and publish
them myself.
+1 for a log bot
Is there a good reason why we don't auto log the channel?
jeff elkner
Max Moritz is in the public domain. It would be a wonderful addition to
the collection, if possible. Does anyone know whether it is available?
2009/11/26 Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com
Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry will be launched at the Netbook World
Summit in Paris on December 8th and Walter
2009/11/18 Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de
On 18.11.2009, at 07:38, Tim McNamara wrote:
I'm a FLOSS manuals contributor. If someone with the know-how adds it to
the wiki, I'll port it to the FLOSS Manuals site :)
@timClicks
Can't do. FLOSS Manuals inexplicably uses GPL
2009/11/19 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org
Btw, if anyone would like to work on improving the Scratch experience
for Sugar users (including making its installation easier) I will be
happy to provide pointers, help and contact the Scratch maintainers
and other people who want to see this
Here is a quick list of epub libraries targeted at children / youth.
http://www.snee.com/epubkidsbooks/
http://www.feedbooks.com/type/Young%20Readers/books/top
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2009/11/18 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com
Hi All,
Just reading through all your interesting posts from the past couple of
days. I have a couple of ideas to share...
Re:
From Walter...
5. The Spanish-language version of Sdenka Z. Salas Pilco's guide to
using Sugar in the classroom is
2009/10/19 Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
I would like to get together with others at some prearranged time to
work on collaboration in SoaS. I have some ideas about lesson plans
that need to be tried out, and I need to see whether it will be
possible to arrange demos for others. If this
2009/10/17 Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 13:59, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote:
Dear all,
Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc
activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works
very well on the native
Hi all,
I've been asked by the organisers of the Kiwi PyCon
2009http://nz.pycon.org to
give a 45m interactive presentation. There will be about 150 expert python
programmers interested people there, including Weta
Digitalhttp://www.wetafx.co.nz(have you head of those movies, the
Lord of the
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