Bill
I have been putting together a guide on reprogramming the Physics Activity
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Modifying_Activities#Modifying_Physics
because:
I like Physics, its good learning
The Python/Sugar 'wrapper' code is not too difficult to program
So another option is to modify the code
Hi,
An interesting interview with Charles Kane has just been published in Australian
IT: Cheap PCs for kids spinoff
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25843285-24169,00.html
Regards
Samy
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Hi,
this might be of interest to people worried about growing the Sugar
Labs' community:
http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2009/07/22/barriers-to-community-growth/
Regards,
Tomeu
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 14:58, Bastienbastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote:
Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org writes:
About having a person at every deployment, some months ago I started
creating this list of contacts:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Places
Thanks for the
Recently I just had a summer technology camp at an elementary school in
Shaftsbury, Vermont. It was a week long camp consisting of fourteen children
from surrounding schools (Shaftsbury, North Bennington, Bennington) in
grades 4/5/6-into-7th. Students learned how to install and configure Ubuntu
on
Hi...
My neice is a TV producer for a local station in Florida. She is looking for
interesting back-to-school articles they might be able to follow-up with.
Anything out there that anyone knows about that talks about the XO or SoaS?
Must be in the USA.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Caryl Bigenhocbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi...
My neice is a TV producer for a local station in Florida. She is looking
for interesting back-to-school articles they might be able to follow-up
with. Anything out there that anyone knows about that talks about
Caroline and I plan to expand th Gardner Pilot School Sugar on a Stick
program this fall (this summer, we are piloting with two
grade-levels).
-walter
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Caryl Bigenhocbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi...
My neice is a TV producer for a local station in Florida.
2009/7/28 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net:
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 04:48:25 Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
Yes, if deployers make very clear what is a priority for them and
do so in a compelling way, I'm sure volunteer developers will
make their plans accordingly.
Perhaps the highest priority should
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote:
quoting Tomeu from another thread (with no bad feelings at all):
Sugar Labs has currently no resources to focus on anything, it
depends on volunteers doing whatever they want. I chose to spend my
time to make easier for more
===Sugar Digest===
1. Greg Morris from Nexcopy, the company that donated one of their USB
Duplicator to Sugar Labs, has been busy with another generous effort.
Check out http://recycleusb.com, a website dedicated on turning used
flash drives into portable learning devices for children, schools
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:03 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org
wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote:
My second semester year 10 control tech class is trialling SoaS.
My blog is
Apologies for jumping back to the beginning of the thread. Daniel
makes some good point here on a theme that have been raised repeatedly
over the lifetimes of both the Sugar project and OLPC.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote:
quoting Tomeu from another thread
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote:
On 28 Jul 2009, at 03:18, Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com
wrote:
Hi Edward,
On 28 Jul 2009, at 02:52, Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM,
Pick us!!! :)
We have cute diverse kids doing cool things and photo releases already done!
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
Caroline and I plan to expand th Gardner Pilot School Sugar on a Stick
program this fall (this summer, we are piloting with
* Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com [090725 03:14]:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Luke Faraonel...@faraone.cc wrote:
On Jul 24, 2009, at 17:51, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, there is making sure that the membership list is up to date;
there was some
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Jeff Elknerj...@elkner.net wrote:
I've just written a blog post reflecting on what a learned in teaching
Summer enrichment classes about girls and programming:
http://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2009/07/where-to-all-geek-girls-go.html
Thoughts and/or
Caryl, Robert, et al,
This seems to be a project worth supporting. I'm not sure that my skills
are up to the task. But I'd like to explore further what is needed and
whether there are others who would be willing to fill in the pieces which I
am missing.
I have programmed in various languages
Hi,
Sugar Labs is a non-profit under the Software Freedom Conservancy which
develops and maintains the Sugar Learning Platform, the GNU/Linux Graphical
User Interface used on the OLPC XO-1 and elsewhere. The majority of the
software we release is under the GPL (some under MIT/new-BSD). We also
Thanks for hosting Nicco! I had a great time.
Let me know if any of the kids report that their stick died. I'm on a
crusade to improve stick durability and I want to know what the failure
modes in the wild are.
Thanks!
Caroline
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Nicco Eneidi nbottice...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Wouldn't be cool to have Sugar installed as well on these computers?
http://linuxagainstpoverty.org/
Indeed. At some point we will be able to talk to installfests about
creating school servers, too.
I don't see anything
Hi Bill,
I'm excited that you are doing pilot. How old are the kids? From the blog
posts it looks like you have some XOs, are you using SoaS on other computers
too?
We don't have a system for feedback yet so until people complain about the
volume lets talk here on the list.
I think feedback
Hello everybody,
This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori teacher,
about Speak. She asked me why Speak says a when a is pressed and not the
*sound* of the letter a. Montessori teachers teach the shape and sound of
letters first, and then the name of the alphabet. I did
I spoke to Willow today when I saw her at the local cafe and asked her if
she's used SoaS since Friday and she said she got to use it once since then.
Her computer time in general is fairly limited but she's having no problems
so far.
I am preparing a letter to be sent out tomorrow in the mail as
I'd imagine that the sound of the letter would vary depending on language,
right?
There is a dictionary for each language (eg. en_dict for English) which is
compiled from a rules file and a list file, you can find a description of the
syntax for these files in the dictionary documentation
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
===Sugar Digest===
snip
Here is where the trouble began. First of all, the version of Turtle
Art I used to build the game is newer than the version they had
installed on their machines. Normally, this wouldn't be an
Tuesday: July 28, 2009
GPA Notes
Walter: (Has the clock program on Turtle Art open as kids walk in) (Kids
notice the second hand, which was not there last week and react with
excitement.)
Walter: 3rd graders have been coming up with ideas for games. Today we are
going to work towards making our
There were two stick failures today:
-Briana (Turtle Art remained on loading screen)
-Natasha (would not go past Fedora screen)
the login screen? Did it have liveuser filled in?
Thanks!
--
Anurag Goel
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I tried typing in liveuser as the login but it still failed to go past the
Fedora screen.
On 7/28/09, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote:
There were two stick failures today:
-Briana (Turtle Art remained on loading screen)
-Natasha (would not go past Fedora screen)
Sameer,
This is very interesting, I think an educational website that I have seen do
this properly is the Alphabet activity on www.starfall.com
I've used this site quite a bit with my kindergarten and first grade
students in the past and have even seen it in use with Adult Ed students at
an adult
The broken sticks are currently in a separate drawer at GPA. I will try
using Briana's stick on my laptop tomorrow at GPA.
On 7/28/09, Anurag Goel agoe...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried typing in liveuser as the login but it still failed to go past
the Fedora screen.
On 7/28/09, Caroline Meeks
Carrying on a fine tradition of July-based Sugar reflections [1, 2], I'm going
to offer some mostly unsolicited advice. (Sorry, Tomeu, but you asked me to
write. :^)
Dear Sugar Labs,
In the past year, you succeeded in removing two important barriers to entry
for new developers: you have
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