Re: [IAEP] A Fine Tradition...

2009-07-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 07:40, Michael Stonemich...@laptop.org wrote: 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

[IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu Jaunty (was: Re: etoys, moodle, gcompris, kde-edu and other sister projects)

2009-07-29 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:51:48PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sugar/+bug/396200 Bug #396200 reported by Edward Cherlin on 2009-07-06 Looks like SL #310 [1] / Ubuntu #325706 [2] to me. Opened on 2009-02-05, i.e. about one Ubuntu release cycle ago and

Re: [IAEP] SoaS in the classroom feedback

2009-07-29 Thread Bill Kerr
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: 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? thanks for the mail, Caroline one xo

Re: [IAEP] SoaS in the classroom feedback

2009-07-29 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: 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

[IAEP] Lets Get Satisfaction (was: Community Influence)

2009-07-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, it's really good to see this discussion getting off the ground. While being at LinuxTag, we discussed with some folks how to improve the way of getting feedback from our users, without putting too much barriers in their way. So while looking around and at various issue tracking

Re: [IAEP] Lets Get Satisfaction (was: Community Influence)

2009-07-29 Thread Luke Faraone
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:35, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.comwrote: So while looking around and at various issue tracking systems, I discovered GetSatisfaction. I had seen that before already, but wasn't sure of its current state. There you go: http://getsatisfaction.com/ We had

Re: [IAEP] Lets Get Satisfaction (was: Community Influence)

2009-07-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Luke Faraone wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:35, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com mailto:sebast...@when.com wrote: So while looking around and at various issue tracking systems, I discovered GetSatisfaction. I had seen that before already, but wasn't sure of its current

Re: [IAEP] Lets Get Satisfaction (was: Community Influence)

2009-07-29 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Walter Bender wrote: It isn't obvious at first glance why this particular site appeals to you. Could you describe its features and the problems you think they address? It is the one I came across and a quick research (not very deep, admittedly) didn't result in many comparable alternatives -

[IAEP] Read Etexts now supports highlighting, annotations, and multiple bookmarks

2009-07-29 Thread Jim Simmons
I just posted version 14 of Read Etexts on ASLO: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4035 This version has new features I refer to collectively as annotations. This includes: 1). Multiple bookmarks, so you can navigate quickly to important content. 2). Annotations, which are

Re: [IAEP] Lets Get Satisfaction (was: Community Influence)

2009-07-29 Thread Frederick Grose
http://idea.laptop.org/drupal5/ideatorrent is a resource that OLPC's Volunteer Infrastructure Group have experimented with. A sugarlabs.org variant may be an easy step. It has the idea, solution, voting features, and possibly could be configured to segregate questions, problems, praise, etc.

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Elections at SPI

2009-07-29 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Luke Faraone wrote: We were planning to have our second annual board election, and were wondering if SPI would be willing to hold/host it as a neutral third party. We would be able to provide SPI with a list of member email addresses, as well as a list of candidates, and would ideally like a

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] community influence on development

2009-07-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 28.07.2009, at 07:22, Martin Dengler wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:24:13PM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote: However, I feel like it could be better if the community (who I might even stretch to call customers) could have more influence. [...] What are the options for the community having

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Elections at SPI

2009-07-29 Thread Luke Faraone
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:19, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Last year we used http://selectricity.org/ , largely without incident. Do you have a reason to do otherwise this year? This reason: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 17:51, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com

Re: [IAEP] SoaS in the classroom feedback

2009-07-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: 1) once I have created a stick can I upgrade just one program, such as the version of Physics which saves (if so how?), or do I have to wait until that version is officially released and then reformat all the sticks - I suppose

Re: [IAEP] SoaS in the classroom feedback

2009-07-29 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Edward Cherlinecher...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: 1) once I have created a stick can I upgrade just one program, such as the version of Physics which saves (if so how?), or do I have to wait until that

[IAEP] GPA Class Notes July 29 - GS

2009-07-29 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Here are some notes from my 1.5 hours in the computer lab at GPA with 10 3rd graders. They are also posted here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes Comments before class: - We usually boot up each computer with USB stick but Caroline mentioned that its

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Elections at SPI

2009-07-29 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Luke Faraonelfara...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:19, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Last year we used http://selectricity.org/ , largely without incident.  Do you have a reason to do otherwise this year? This reason:

Re: [IAEP] SoaS in the classroom feedback

2009-07-29 Thread Gary C Martin
On 29 Jul 2009, at 18:25, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: 1) once I have created a stick can I upgrade just one program, such as the version of Physics which saves (if so how?), or do I have to wait until that version is

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [support-gang] FW: OLPC Projects/VideoEditing and Video Edit

2009-07-29 Thread Robert M Ochshorn
Hello George, Carol, ... , On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:41:11PM -0400, George Hunt wrote: 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

Re: [IAEP] SoaS in the classroom feedback

2009-07-29 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: 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

[IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-07-29 Thread Caroline Meeks
We found out today that summer school ends a week sooner then we thought! It ends next week. We want to send the sticks home with the kids. We need to write a letter to the parents explaining what the stick is. Does anyone have any suggestions or sample letters? Thanks! Caroline -- Caroline

Re: [IAEP] Letter to GPA Parents

2009-07-29 Thread forster
We found out today that summer school ends a week sooner then we thought! It ends next week. We want to send the sticks home with the kids. We need to write a letter to the parents explaining what the stick is. Does anyone have any suggestions or sample letters? What would be good, but