The biggest job in things like Moodle and its courses is really
categorisation and the best way to go about doing this. You often end up
restructuring the whole menu system over and over as subjects and languages
pop up, ans subcatagories seem to move from location to location. For
example, the
I believe Dennis Daniels has done a lot of work in this area, at least the
screencasts part of it. I've forwarded this mail to him to so he can tell
you what, if anything he's got, and if not, he'll probably be glad to create
something.
David
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Caroline Meeks
Dear Sugar Community,
This is the last development release in the 0.86 release cycle - see the
0.86 schedule [1] for more details. Note, that we are one week away from
our final release!
Please test the landed features [2] carefully (the individual Feature
pages contain test cases). Please
s.boutayeb at free.fr writes:
OpenOffice for Kids (OOO4Kids) is available
...
http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Image:Ooo4kids2.png
On the subject of adapting software for kids...
Good: eliminating or enlarging fiddly things that are hard to control
with the mouse (ESPECIALLY WHEN
Some notes I think may be interesting.
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote:
For the Moodle advocates. I am a big Moodle fan. But I don't think its our
right now solution for the work we are talking about doing.
1. Our target, elementary school
Thank Martin!
Your email really helped me.
Here is my current thinking on lesson plans (not courses)
Dimension - Lesson Plans can be found.
Level 1 - People who did lesson plans have notes in varies places, if you
want to replicate what someone else has done you have to find them and ask
them
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
Thank Martin!
Your email really helped me.
No prob. I generally agree w your notes, except that reuse is heavily crossed by
- languages and dialects
- local culture, mores and MoE study programme
not sure what
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote:
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:25 -0500, David Farning wrote:
Project/SIGs are product focused. The exist to help guide a project
through it's life cycle. For example, there has recently been some
rather heated discussions
As long as no one (including developers) is confused that SoaS
release 1( Strawberry) alias SoaS-2 is running Sugar v0.84 and
Fedora 11.
I'm just wondering why SoaS-2 is in use... non-initiates will assume
that means SoaS release 2 (Blueberry), don't you think?
thanks
Sean
On Mon, Sep 14,
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 09:21 -0500, David Farning wrote:
The work going on in Nepal is one of the primary reasons for
establishing SIGs and projects. Nepal is doing an amazing job of
creating solutions for local problems.
Sigs/projects are a place where deployments can share ideas and work
Martin Dengler wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:32:55PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
== What is SoaS? ==
[...] SoaS aims to make it easy for local deployers to provide each
student with a thumbdrive (stick) [...]
Notably, this does not say SoaS is Sugar Labs' way of providing
[anyone]
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:32:55PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
== What is SoaS? ==
[...] SoaS aims to make it easy for local deployers to provide each
student with a thumbdrive (stick) [...]
Notably, this does not say SoaS is Sugar Labs' way of providing
[anyone] with a [image to put on
on a related note, I would love to see a broader webtech SIG focused on
bringing web technologies to Sugar. W/ the likelihood of hardware
acceleration for webkit and gecko in the next couple years, we ignore
these technologies at our peril. Mihai Sucan believes that js+html5
application
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote:
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 09:21 -0500, David Farning wrote:
The work going on in Nepal is one of the primary reasons for
establishing SIGs and projects. Nepal is doing an amazing job of
creating solutions for local problems.
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
As long as no one (including developers) is confused that SoaS
release 1( Strawberry) alias SoaS-2 is running Sugar v0.84 and
Fedora 11.
I'm just wondering why SoaS-2 is in use... non-initiates will assume
that means SoaS
This document is an open letter written to the Sugar Labs community. It
is an attempt to clear up the recent confusion about SoaS and let
community members know what SoaS is, what our goals are with regards to
it, and what possibilities we're considering for the future - both
technical and
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:17:42AM -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote:
[non-release-naming issue]
Please take this to the mailing list to which it belongs:
sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org.
Bill Bogstad
Martin
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote:
+1 to pretty much your whole message.
I would like a little clarification though on the boundaries of SoaS.
My interpretation is as follows:
SoaS takes the XO 1-1 model and replaces the one machine per student
Hi Caryl,
On 14 Sep 2009, at 18:07, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm just checking over the things left on the journals on the XO M-
stock machines I lent to the Bozeman and Billings (MT) LUGS.
Someone in Billings left this. What is it? The journal says it is
Audio by Cracker (the
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote:
Short Term Action Items:
* We create a SoaS mailing list.
* We establish the SoaS development team.
if you split off sugar-dev, to reach the involved people you either
have to crosspost all the time, or get everyone
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com
wrote:
Short Term Action Items:
* We create a SoaS mailing list.
* We establish the SoaS development team.
if you split off sugar-dev, to
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 13:56, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
To Martin's point, how about the routine use of a filterable tag,
[SoaS] , in the Subject to messages appropriately routed to either
IAEP or Devel or both?
I just created a Sugar on a Stick topic on Sugar-Devel's
Hi Gary,
I doubt the file was downloaded. It was just a little noise and there was a
photo like we get when we do the Audio recordings in Record. That screenshot
got corrupted b/c I took the USB drive out too soon. I could try to get it
again if no one can figure this out.
Caryl
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 14:04, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 13:56, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote:
To Martin's point, how about the routine use of a filterable tag,
[SoaS] , in the Subject to messages appropriately routed to either
IAEP or Devel or
Sean DALY wrote:
Sebastian, what's your take? Can we retire SoaS-{1,2,3} or fold them
into the public v1, v2 numbers?
Okay, let me shed some light in here, though I think this has already
been discussed in length.
In the early days when I started working on SoaS, we still had internal
builds
b
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 13:56, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
wrote:
To Martin's point, how about the routine use of a filterable tag,
[SoaS] , in the Subject to messages appropriately routed to either
IAEP or
This may have already come up in the 680 unread messages I have in my
inbox... If so, my apologies.
A researcher in my office subscribes to Miller-McCune magazine, whose slogan
is Turning Research into Solutions. After seeing last week's presentation
by SJ et al, he handed me an article from
Oscar Becerra addresses some of the issues raised in the article in
his response the the UN Foundation blog of last week:
http://www.undispatch.com/node/8859#comment-346
-walter
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote:
This may have already come up in the 680 unread
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 16:05, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
I would prefer to filter messages client side rather than having
something enforced on me.
Er, it's not *enforced*, as if you don't specify any topic you'll get all
mail sent to the list. Please see the help text Kevin
This article quotes the study of Romanian students which found that computers
lowered learning outcomes
I believe this study is flawed and its conclusions suspect
http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2008/06/home-pcs-lower-education-results.html
Tony
This may have already come up in the 680
Martin Dengler wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 06:33:47PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
Martin Dengler wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:32:55PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
== What is SoaS? ==
[...] SoaS aims to make it easy for local deployers to provide each
student with a
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote:
Martin Dengler wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 06:33:47PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
Martin Dengler wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:32:55PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
== What is SoaS? ==
[...] SoaS
Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
So my vision is that this SoaS is actually *the* way of distributing
Sugar, as a SL product. If Sugar Labs doesn't think so, I'd have
preferred to be informed much earlier.
I don't think you're likely to find much support for that vision as
phrased. I think this
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
So my vision is that this SoaS is actually *the* way of distributing
Sugar, as a SL product. If Sugar Labs doesn't think so, I'd have
preferred to be informed much earlier.
I
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:12:46PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
So my vision is that this SoaS is actually *the* way of
distributing Sugar, as a SL product. If Sugar Labs doesn't think
so, I'd have preferred to be informed much earlier.
I don't think you're
+1
I made a similar suggestion a couple of weeks back.
Thinking as someone who will probably be in it up to his neck, on the
teaching side, what I would like to see is a polished distribution,
installable on a hard disk, released once a year around April-May. That will
give me all summer to
SoaS is a great way to distribute Sugar, but it will certainly never be
*the* way, as long as all these other people are around, working hard
on other distribution mechanisms.
But, it could *the* way SugarLabs does it. As you correctly point out, other
people will always be able to do
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:05:08PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
So my vision is that this SoaS is actually *the* way of distributing
Sugar, as a SL product. If Sugar Labs doesn't think so, I'd have
preferred to be informed much earlier. But wait, who's SL here?
Is it me? Is it SLOBs?
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote:
This may have already come up in the 680 unread messages I have in my
inbox... If so, my apologies.
A researcher in my office subscribes to Miller-McCune magazine, whose
slogan is Turning Research into Solutions. After
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote:
This may have already come up in the 680 unread messages I have in my
inbox... If so, my apologies.
A researcher in my office subscribes to
Hello
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:26 AM, roberto robert...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 16:19, robertorobert...@gmail.com wrote:
hello everyone
i am trying to install sugar-on-a-stick using the process
Philippe Clérié wrote:
SoaS is a great way to distribute Sugar, but it will certainly never be
*the* way, as long as all these other people are around, working hard
on other distribution mechanisms.
But, it could *the* way SugarLabs does it. As you correctly point out, other
people will
2009/9/14 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net:
+1
I made a similar suggestion a couple of weeks back.
Thinking as someone who will probably be in it up to his neck, on the
teaching side, what I would like to see is a polished distribution,
installable on a hard disk, released once a year
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
So my vision is that this SoaS is actually *the* way of distributing
Sugar, as a SL product. If Sugar Labs doesn't think so, I'd have
preferred to be informed much earlier.
I don't think you're likely to find much support for that vision
Martin Dengler wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:12:46PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
So my vision is that this SoaS is actually *the* way of
distributing Sugar, as a SL product. If Sugar Labs doesn't think
so, I'd have preferred to be informed much earlier.
Alan Kay has complained loudly about Guitar Hero and other music games
that pretend to let you play guitar, where the guitar controller has
only five buttons for notes, instead of six strings crossing more than
20 frets. It doesn't transfer into real music performance.
The claim is now being made
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