Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] OLPC / Sugar community in China?

2009-08-08 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Bastienbastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: I forgot to mention that I'm currently in Tokyo, Japan, taking a few days off.  If any of you knows some LUG around here, or have contacts with a university that I could visit to spread the word about Sugar, just drop

Re: [IAEP] Looking for very old hardware

2009-08-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 05:03:33PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:55:33PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: I would like very much to be able to put these old 5 1/2 floppies in, boot them up and print out the code so some enterprising Python programmer could convert them for

Re: [IAEP] modifying sugar tutorial: different paths for SoaS

2009-08-08 Thread Bill Kerr
thanks Tomeu (for the linux pointers too) sadly I cannot complete the sugar modification tutorial I keep getting messages like liveuser is not in the sudoers file and Permission denied for example when I try to make a backup file with cp SoaS is acting more like a live CD when it comes to linux

Re: [IAEP] modifying sugar tutorial: different paths for SoaS

2009-08-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:55, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote: thanks Tomeu (for the linux pointers too) sadly I cannot complete the sugar modification tutorial I keep getting messages like liveuser is not in the sudoers file and Permission denied for example when I try to make a backup file

[IAEP] Artwork Request for SoaS: Firstboot Theme

2009-08-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, as I've recently mentioned on-list SoaS now ships firstboot, which is a tool to configure some system-related stuff at... well, first boot! ;) So as this is usually quite Fedora-branded and since we aren't able to ship that trademarked logo, it would be great if we could get some

[IAEP] Who's interested in testing a new installer for SoaS?

2009-08-08 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, I'm looking for some volunteers to test the hard disk installation with the latest SoaS snapshot and newly designed installer. Since this upstream project is really in the early stages of development but also concerns a pretty critical part of SoaS, I'd prefer getting some

Re: [IAEP] My videos are on Sugar Labs video site

2009-08-08 Thread Jim Simmons
Yesterday I edited my Get IA Books--Read demo video and posted it on the SugarLabs video site. I also removed the original ReadEtexts:The Movie video and replaced it with a reencoded version. Because of modifications I made to the mencoder.sh script run by Kino I no longer have distorted text on

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Fwd: Follow-Up on: looking for two groups of volunteers]

2009-08-08 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com wrote: (fwd'ing to SLOBs, keeping IAEP in CC) Walter Bender wrote: We decided on two actions in today's Sugar Oversight Board meeting (See the transcript at

[IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-08 Thread Caroline Meeks
I know there have been advances in eBook reading in the last few months. I am preparing a master USB to copy for a presentation at World Con. I will be doing a panel with Cory Doctrow who wrote and has realeased CC the book Little Brother. Its up for a Hugo this year and I recommend it to anyone

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-08 Thread Luke Faraone
On Aug 8, 2009, at 16:26, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ Its available in a wide variety of formats. Which one will work best in Sugar? When it first came out, I converted it into an XOL file for use in Sugar. Not sure if

[IAEP] SoaS3-20090807 Install instructions to Hard disk and VMplayer Application available for download

2009-08-08 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
Today I worked with sdziallas to install the latest SoaS Snapshot http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/3/ Downloaded this file and ran VMware from the .iso file It booted right up and has been on Network Neighborhood all day. I first tried to run it on a hp Pavillion 1417d (Vista)

Re: [IAEP] Who's interested in testing a new installer for SoaS?

2009-08-08 Thread Edward Cherlin
I can test in several distros in VirtualBox. On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com wrote: Hi everybody, I'm looking for some volunteers to test the hard disk installation with the latest SoaS snapshot and newly designed installer. Since this upstream project is