Re: [IAEP] translating the graphical history in sugarlabs.org

Hi, 2009/5/3 Tomeu Vizoso : > Hi, > > has been thought how to do that? > > Pilar Saenz from Sugar Labs Colombia has started its translation and > has .xcf files (gimp) where the text is in a separate layer for easier > translation. > The xcf files are availables on sugarlabs wiki http://wiki.sug

Re: [IAEP] lesson plans in French

It may have been me, I got it from Samy at OLPC France and have linked to it several times Let's talk with them next week about how to translate this! I speak French fluently (I'm half French) but I've hesitated to take that on, very full plate thanks Sean On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Caro

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Project process visualization

Hi everyone, Thanks Sameer for forwarding the conversation to me, I was not on the IAEP and Marketing lists so far, just joined. > It would be great if you could work with Fred, Christian, Eben, Gary > and the rest of the wiki/web guy to create this into an interactive > 'map' for the project. Da

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Project process visualization

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 4:55 PM, David Farning wrote: > Hey Gaurav, > > The diagram is great!  This is what I had originally envisioned for > our getting started page on the [www|wiki].sugarlabs.org. > > The best part about the diagram is how it communicates how all of the > different pieces fit to

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] Planning for Sugar Camp Paris

Does it have good public transportation to the site? If so, this sounds great for the smaller days around the official OLPC France event. BTW, were you at wintercamp in Amsterdam? /temp/lab/ sounds familiar but I can figure out why:) David On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Nico wrote: > Hi Chris

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-05-03

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Bastien wrote: > Hi all, > > following David Farning's advice, we want to keep the SugarCamp as > informal as possible.  Yet we want to have some tangible output, on > top of the obvious (and noble) task of building the Sugar community. > > So we have been brainstor

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-05-03

Martin Dengler writes: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:45:29AM +0200, Bastien wrote: >> - Update several XOs from another XO > > You mean > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multicast_NAND_FLASH_Update#NANDblasting_an_Unsigned_NAND_Image_File > ? Well, yes, maybe (Samy?) Which reminds me we could add a

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Project process visualization

Hey Gaurav, The diagram is great! This is what I had originally envisioned for our getting started page on the [www|wiki].sugarlabs.org. The best part about the diagram is how it communicates how all of the different pieces fit together to make the ecosystem work. Yet, individuals can drill dow

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-05-03

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:45:29AM +0200, Bastien wrote: > - Update several XOs from another XO You mean http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multicast_NAND_FLASH_Update#NANDblasting_an_Unsigned_NAND_Image_File ? > - Run Sugar on a Nokia N800 N810 ok? http://guysoft.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/nokia-n810-run

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-05-03

Hi all, following David Farning's advice, we want to keep the SugarCamp as informal as possible. Yet we want to have some tangible output, on top of the obvious (and noble) task of building the Sugar community. So we have been brainstorming a bit and here are 17 challenges that we may want to

[IAEP] lesson plans in French

French document written by teachers in Gabon: #LINK http://collabo.fse.ulaval.ca/olpc/index.php?2009/02/13/13-redaction-d-un-guide-pedagogique-du-xo-par-une-communaute-d-apprenants I ran google translate on the blog article this looks great. But when I try the pdf it says too big to translate. I'

Re: [IAEP] NYSCATE - Nov 2009 in Rochester NY

Kevin Cole wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:38, Karlie Robinson > mailto:karlie_robin...@webpath.net>> wrote: > > So would anyone like to come to Rochester with your XOs and help > lead a > 3 or 6 hour hands on session? If so, what should we present for 3 > hours? > > No promise

Re: [IAEP] NYSCATE - Nov 2009 in Rochester NY

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:38, Karlie Robinson wrote: > Good afternoon everyone. > Charles Profitt has me thinking a lot about he New York State > Association for Computers and Technologies in Education Trade show in > Rochester NY, November 22-24, 2009. As Chas explains, if technology > isn't pit

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:57:21PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Simmons > wrote: > > Aleksey, > > > > ... In the > > Calibre screenshot we had File Size, Publisher, Date, Series, and I > > could easily do without any of them. > > Whereas I would use each o

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

Carol, I meant no insult to children. I just thought they could benefit from a basic structure which they could then add to. Not everyone is good at designing hierarchies. It's something you have to learn. My own mother has not really mastered the idea of hierarchical file systems. (Dad l

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Simmons wrote: > Aleksey, > > ... In the > Calibre screenshot we had File Size, Publisher, Date, Series, and I > could easily do without any of them. Whereas I would use each of them frequently. o File Size is particularly useful for deciding what to dump wh

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] Planning for Sugar Camp Paris

Hi Chris, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > With regards to logistics I was wondering where we'll have the meetings, > I assume the location that OLPC France is providing is only available on > Saturday? Are there any hacker-spaces, apartments, whatever that we can > occupy while we're there? >

[IAEP] OLPC Volunteer Infrastructure Group Meeting: [Now]

The Volunteer Infrastructure Group (/gang) Meeting is today (May 5th) at 4pm (EST) The Volunteer Infrastructure Group is a team of Volunteer Sysadmins who help maintain services and systems around OLPC and the OLPC/SugarLabs community. The weekly VIG meeting is an excellent chance to get involved

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:33:30PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: >> All, >> >> The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are >> looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content >> just as much if not m

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:12:39PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > Aleksey, > > It isn't clear to me what a "cloud of tags" is. Is there a familiar > application that does something like this? thanks to Martin, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud > I understand that users can tag things to sui

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

Jim, children are great collectors. I just think it is wise to try interfaces with varying numbers of items before concluding that one or another mode is "too complicated". If you'd like to try an interface that has tunable complexity, you might like to get a copy of the readerware trial. I can

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:12:39PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > Aleksey, > > It isn't clear to me what a "cloud of tags" is. Is there a familiar > application that does something like this? Perhaps he means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud > James Simmons Martin pgpVfrSC2AFqA.pgp Des

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

Aleksey, It isn't clear to me what a "cloud of tags" is. Is there a familiar application that does something like this? I understand that users can tag things to suit themselves, but still I'd want to impose some kind of structure on the views. When I started visiting libraries they had card

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:46:56PM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > To the extent that "Title", "Author", etc. are simply labels for two tags > that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a > good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view. a great idea!.. Inst

Re: [IAEP] School Report and request for help replicating some SoaS bugs.

On 05.05.2009, at 20:00, Caroline Meeks wrote: On the mac's they seemed to boot fine from the CD+USB but there was some sort of problem with the screen. I've attached a pic, has anyone else seen it? Looks a lot like what I reported for the Mac mini: http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:33:30PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > All, > > The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are > looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content > just as much if not more than as a way to share said content. > > As far as o

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

Here is fisheye. On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > To the extent that "Title", "Author", etc. are simply labels for two tags > that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a > good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view. A lot of p

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

To the extent that "Title", "Author", etc. are simply labels for two tags that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view. A lot of programs (including the dreaded Windows) allow selection of which columns to display, o

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

All, The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content just as much if not more than as a way to share said content. As far as organizing content goes, I like what Calibre does better than the tree view y

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

Here is a screenshot from Goodreads.com of the beginning of my Economics collection. I have to go around the house and find the rest, put them on a physical shelf together (I recently added three new bookcases), and add them to my list. People occasionally ask me where to get a particular book, or

Re: [IAEP] educational brew

Kathy Pusztavari writes: > "You could set up '4th grade math for Massachusetts' as a list of > things to master. It's quite similar to setting up a Makefile > with a target that exists purely to have a list of prerequisites." > > Albert - that is exactly what I was referring to. A set of curricul

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

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 creation/pu

Re: [IAEP] NYSCATE - Nov 2009 in Rochester NY

We have a meeting tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of May 18. When we firm things up, I'll post a note at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team/Meetings At that point we'll have final projects from the RIT students and I should have more info on what's been made and/or what point thing

Re: [IAEP] NYSCATE - Nov 2009 in Rochester NY

Hi Karlie, Walter and I are doing a talk at a similar show MassCUE (computer using educators) Oct 28-29th. I think we are just signed up for a 1 hour talk. We will be doing 9 hours over 3 days of professional development using an existing computer lab and SoaS in August in Worchester, MA. If you

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:41:01AM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > Sorry for posting the screenshot without text (I was reposting a compacted > version of the original screenshot, which our list manager wisely refused to > forward). My original post was: > > I have attached a screenshot of ca

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

Aleksey, Thanks, the .svg file helped. James Simmons Aleksey Lim wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:14:06AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: Aleksey, I read your Library document and the one linked to it on Unified Objects. This sounds like quite an ambitious project. I would agree with

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

Sorry for posting the screenshot without text (I was reposting a compacted version of the original screenshot, which our list manager wisely refused to forward). My original post was: I have attached a screenshot of calibre. This is a very useful way to look at books, though I'm sure many improv

[IAEP] Fwd: NYSCATE - Nov 2009 in Rochester NY

cross-posting to Marketing -- Forwarded message -- From: Karlie Robinson Date: Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:38 PM Subject: [IAEP] NYSCATE - Nov 2009 in Rochester NY To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Good afternoon everyone. Charles Profitt has me thinking a lot about he New York State Asso

[IAEP] NYSCATE - Nov 2009 in Rochester NY

Good afternoon everyone. Charles Profitt has me thinking a lot about he New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education Trade show in Rochester NY, November 22-24, 2009. As Chas explains, if technology isn't pitched at NYSCATE, it won't even be on the radar for districts

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:14:06AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > Aleksey, > > I read your Library document and the one linked to it on Unified > Objects. This sounds like quite an ambitious project. I would agree > with Tomeu that some kind of UI mockup would be a good idea. I've been > pr

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

Aleksey, I read your Library document and the one linked to it on Unified Objects. This sounds like quite an ambitious project. I would agree with Tomeu that some kind of UI mockup would be a good idea. I've been programming for a living for over 30 years and reading your description I fina

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Language Learning Courseware

SourceForge.net: synphony » home On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 03:01, Seth Woodworth > wrote: > > -- Forwarded message -- > > From: Neal Scogin > > Date: Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:36 PM > > Subj

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

Caroline, I am not in touch with them, and I probably should be. I think they will be at a summer meeting in Washington I plan to attend. Are there RIT people in this email group? On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote: > Hi Maria, > > Are you in touch with the 4th grade math proje

Re: [IAEP] educational brew

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > To benefit from a given lesson, one must master any prerequisites. The good news is that as time goes on, people (slowly) develop ways to help kids acquire prerequisites within learning new topics. For example, you can build lessons about

Re: [IAEP] versus, not

Bill, there is a difference between direct instruction and Direct Instruction. The latter (big D big I) is usually based on SRA's products and outlined in the Direct Instruction Rubric. Direct instruction (little d little i) is usually a general set of guidelines teachers use to directly instruct

Re: [IAEP] educational brew

"You could set up '4th grade math for Massachusetts' as a list of things to master. It's quite similar to setting up a Makefile with a target that exists purely to have a list of prerequisites." Albert - that is exactly what I was referring to. A set of curriculum to get you started but a good t

Re: [IAEP] educational brew

I think that is a great point, Maria. The homeschool community, especially in the US (that I know of), are great at field testing things. They are a resource that should not be overlooked as they are able to make use of new innovation quicker and are unable to afford to be as picky. They tend to

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC in Kindergarten

Hi Maria, Are you in touch with the 4th grade math project out of RIT? Thanks! Caroline On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Maria Droujkova wrote: > My company has developed some software prototypes for early algebra > that could work for 4-6 year olds. I would be interested in adopting > these i

[IAEP] Introduction

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone! /(apologies for more-or-less plagiarizing my fourthgrademaths mailing list introduction)/ My name is Basil Mohamed Gohar, and I'm an avid Fedora & free-software user. I am also very interested in free-as-in-freedom educational resour

Re: [IAEP] educational brew

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Bill Kerr wrote: > The other thing I should have said about rob's post but didn't was that I > pretty much agree with all of it as a description of the reality we face, > ie. my experiences of being an innovative teacher are similar enough to what > rob describes a

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Fedora?

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Ashar Iqbal wrote: > Is there a Sugar Fedora spin that I can download? I am sure I saw a torrent > but can't seem to find it again. If not, then what would be the easiest way > of getting  Sugar  running on a variety of old machines (no booting off USB, > just CDs

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [bytesforall_readers] Science education (India)

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > Now that India says it will buy 250,000 XOs, we need to involve > education NGOs and others there. I haven't seen/read more details than available at and,

Re: [IAEP] educational brew

Costello, Rob R writes: > most teachers that i know want to know that any 'innovation' > 'addresses the curriculum' ... > but this won't overturn the inertia in traditional curriculum content To a teacher, is curriculum the raw state/national standard or is it instead the content of the particula

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] versus, not

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > Fair enough. I agree that *most* people on the list agree that there > is not just one right way. And to use a metaphor that has been > oft-spoken in the US news of late, Sugar Labs has to have a "big > tent." > > Sugar itself has affordances