[IAEP] Collaboration on ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread Stanley Sokolow
I'm having a similar invisibility problem, but involving an XO and a different laptop. I just received my G1G1 XO. Wanting to emulate another XO, I installed Sugar LiveCD on a Toshiba. The XO and Toshiba each can see and connect to my wireless AP (and other APs in the area), and browse the

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-24 Thread Simon Schampijer
Definitely a problem. We are thinking about having a landing page similar to the one in http://www.eclipse.org/ that hopefully will give a way for everybody to find how to better interact with us depending on their role. The idea is that a prospecting developer would just click on one of

Re: [IAEP] Anyone going to 25C3?

2008-11-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 24.11.2008, at 03:23, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Hi all, I briefly wanted to check in to see whether anyone here is planning on attending 25C3 (http://events.ccc.de/congress/2008/) in Berlin at the end of December? I'll be there from the 27th to the 29th, I've heard that some people

Re: [IAEP] Collaboration on ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread Morgan Collett
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:04, Stanley Sokolow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a similar invisibility problem, but involving an XO and a different laptop. I just received my G1G1 XO. Wanting to emulate another XO, I installed Sugar LiveCD on a Toshiba. The XO and Toshiba each can see and

Re: [IAEP] Proposal: IRC channel and mailing list for support

2008-11-24 Thread Luke Faraone
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 01:50, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's no reason to have two separate channels when 95% of the help will be the same information. If we do our job well, the number of Sugar users who do not have an XO is hopefully going to increase over time.

Re: [IAEP] Collaboration on ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread Walter Bender
To take advantage of the jabber-based collaboration, you should set all the machines to the same jabber server from the Network menu option in the Sugar Control Panel (The Control Panel is found in the hover menu that appears on the XO icon on the Home View.) We are in the process of compiling a

Re: [IAEP] Proposal: IRC channel and mailing list for support

2008-11-24 Thread Seth Woodworth
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seth Woodworth wrote: Instead of creating a new channel, why don't we merge with olpc-help and rename it if need-be. There's no reason to have two separate channels when 95% of the help will be the same information.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Collaboration on ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread Morgan Collett
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 15:30, Luke Faraone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 23:35, victor rajewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First up, sorry if this isn't the place for this discussion, but I understand that specialised discussion lists are still evolving... I've been

Re: [IAEP] Library content, the largest future group of contributors

2008-11-24 Thread Morgan Collett
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 20:09, C.W. Holeman II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are some comments on the Sugar Camp Brainstorm session. Sugarcamp (http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_proposal) had a link to: http://sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mchua/proposals#Sugarcamp_brainstorm SugarLabs the easiest

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] Sugar used for kids with disabilities.

2008-11-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, most of the people in the SugarLabs community is unable to do anything about OLPC's hardware, but as was commented in this thread, there's lots of work to do in the software side. Perhaps someone will volunteer to lead an Accessibility Team? See http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Teams

[IAEP] teams vs. projects

2008-11-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, was wondering if there would be some value of including the notion of projects inside SugarLabs' organizational structure. Teams seem to me as something not bounded in time, a way to focus energy. Projects would be smaller in scope, involve several teams and milestones would be an important

Re: [IAEP] teams vs. projects

2008-11-24 Thread Walter Bender
I think the idea of a roadmap (with project schedules) within each team would address much of this need. -walter On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, was wondering if there would be some value of including the notion of projects inside SugarLabs'

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] Sugar used for kids with disabilities.

2008-11-24 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi, I mistakenly CC'ed rather than BCC'ing in an earlier message in this thread. If you'd kindly edit out the @gallaudet.edu addresses, I'd appreciate it, as none of the folks on that list are at all technical, and wouldn't know Sugar from Salt. ;-) And the likelihood of them signing up for a

[IAEP] Important government demo opportunity

2008-11-24 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
http://www.netcaucus.org/events/2009/kickoff/demonstrate.shtml If we want to get in front of the United States government and talk the Sugar talk, this is the time. --g ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

[IAEP] ubuntu+arm

2008-11-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, these news of ARM partnering with Canonical for an ARMv7-powered netbook using Ubuntu may be relevant. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10097468-92.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-20 I just hope whoever ends up building the machines takes some inspiration from the XO... Regards,

Re: [IAEP] Important government demo opportunity

2008-11-24 Thread Walter Bender
I'm on it, -walter On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Greg Dekoenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.netcaucus.org/events/2009/kickoff/demonstrate.shtml If we want to get in front of the United States government and talk the Sugar talk, this is the time. --g

Re: [IAEP] Important government demo opportunity

2008-11-24 Thread Kevin Cole
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:34, Greg Dekoenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.netcaucus.org/events/2009/kickoff/demonstrate.shtml If we want to get in front of the United States government and talk the Sugar talk, this is the time. There have been similar rumblings about getting in

Re: [IAEP] teams vs. projects

2008-11-24 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Walter Bender wrote: I think the idea of a roadmap (with project schedules) within each team would address much of this need. Agreed. Project management is a pain in the ass, and we don't always have the resources to have dedicated and proper project management -- which

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-24 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Luke Faraone wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:22, Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +1  embedding mibbit or cgiirc in our wiki? I'll work on that in [[IRC]], as well as explaining all the different channels. (this will have some duplication from

Re: [IAEP] Proposal: IRC channel and mailing list for support

2008-11-24 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Luke Faraone wrote: All, In order to facilitate non-developer use, I'd like to propose the addition of the following: * #sugar-users - a channel for non-development how do I use this questions, akin to #olpc-help * a sugar-users mailing list for the same

Re: [IAEP] Proposal: IRC channel and mailing list for support

2008-11-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 24.11.2008, at 19:38, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Luke Faraone wrote: All, In order to facilitate non-developer use, I'd like to propose the addition of the following: * #sugar-users - a channel for non-development how do I use this questions, akin to

Re: [IAEP] Proposal: IRC channel and mailing list for support

2008-11-24 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote: The more typical setup would be #sugar for user questions and #sugar-devel as refuge for developers. Possibly. Frankly, if you can get an IRC client running reliably from one of the web pages, we can change our IRC channels after the fact at

[IAEP] Do you blog?

2008-11-24 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
You don't? Why not? The world needs to hear your voice. You do? Great! You should be aggregated on the Sugar Labs Planet! Just send an email to planetmaster at sugarlabs dot org with the URL of your blog feed. If you're unsure, just ask the planetmaster. Currently, there are only about a

Re: [IAEP] [Novalug] Important government demo opportunity

2008-11-24 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 10:50 -0500, Kevin Cole wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:34, Greg Dekoenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.netcaucus.org/events/2009/kickoff/demonstrate.shtml If we want to get in front of the United States government and talk the Sugar talk, this is the

[IAEP] Kickoff meeting: Sugar Labs Marketing Team

2008-11-24 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
Hello all. Reposting my blog entry from the other day. If you care about marketing, please read it, and then respond to my Request For Meeting, below. :) === In their excellent book The Starfish and the Spider, Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom make the compelling case that, in large

Re: [IAEP] Do you blog?

2008-11-24 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Nov 24, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: You don't? Why not? http://radian.org/~krstic/img/blogging.jpg :) -- Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://radian.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

[IAEP] Invitaton to US Chess Federation Scholastic Chess

2008-11-24 Thread Edward Cherlin
I just now sent this message on the US Chess Federation Web site, http://www.uschess.org/. Scholastic Chess includes all of the USCF activities in schools: teaching, clubs, tournaments, publications... One Laptop Per Child (http://laptop.org/) and Sugar Labs (http://sugarlabs.og/) have put chess

Re: [IAEP] Invitaton to US Chess Federation Scholastic Chess

2008-11-24 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
Brilliant, Ed! --g On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote: I just now sent this message on the US Chess Federation Web site, http://www.uschess.org/. Scholastic Chess includes all of the USCF activities in schools: teaching, clubs, tournaments, publications... One Laptop Per Child

Re: [IAEP] Invitaton to US Chess Federation Scholastic Chess

2008-11-24 Thread Seth Woodworth
This is great. I don't think that gnuchess is installed by default in all country deployments, but I'm pretty sure that it comes standard in at least one large deployment. Providing an awesome translated manual would be amazing. --Seth On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg [EMAIL

Re: [IAEP] [Novalug] Important government demo opportunity

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Lee
I can likely pitch in on the day of Internet Caucus if needed. I can bring some of the heavier, bulkier stuff like a Freeplay Weza or solar panels since I'm local. It was kind of fun hanging out across from Obama's DC Transition Headquarters at lunch today with an XO. Didn't meet any staffers,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Collaboration on ubuntu

2008-11-24 Thread victor rajewski
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:50 AM, Morgan Collett [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: snip Please make those files available by creating a ticket on http://dev.sugarlabs.org and attaching the files. Please state in the ticket what works and what doesn't (You can see the avahi entries, you can't see the

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 24 Nov 2008, at 22:04, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Definitely a problem. We are thinking about having a landing page similar to the one in http://www.eclipse.org/ that hopefully will give a way for everybody to

[IAEP] Fwd: [PyCon-Organizers] Teaching math using Python

2008-11-24 Thread Edward Cherlin
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Greg Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:59 PM Subject: [PyCon-Organizers] Teaching math using Python To: pycon-organizers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Tutorial List [EMAIL PROTECTED] The tutorial committee worked this afternoon

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-24 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary C Martin wrote: Just a nit pick, SciPy is much replaced by Numpy though SciPy still overlaps enough the documentation seems pretty useful. This is a typo. You mean that Numeric and Numarray are replaced by NumPy. SciPy is NumPy's sister

[IAEP] Invitaton to US Chess Federation Scholastic Chess

2008-11-24 Thread luis ACEVEDO
Hi Seth: This is great. I don't think that gnuchess is installed by default in all country deployments, but I'm pretty sure that it comes standard in at least one large deployment. In the Etoys image for OLPC there is a chess in the game section. Please look at this:

Re: [IAEP] teams vs. projects

2008-11-24 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: was wondering if there would be some value of including the notion of projects inside SugarLabs' organizational structure. Teams seem to me as something not bounded in time, a way to focus energy. Projects would be smaller in scope, involve several teams and milestones

Re: [IAEP] teams vs. projects

2008-11-24 Thread Caroline Meeks
In our case, it's harder, but might still make sense. If we go this route, let's make sure we support projects involving multiple teams. For example, Sugar on a Stick would touch Development, Infrastructure, Marketing... I am going to be setting up LiquidPlanner, a free for nonprofits,

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] list of complaints from sugarcamp community building talk

2008-11-24 Thread Gary C Martin
On 25 Nov 2008, at 00:52, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary C Martin wrote: Just a nit pick, SciPy is much replaced by Numpy though SciPy still overlaps enough the documentation seems pretty useful. This is a typo. You mean that Numeric and