[IAEP] bullying

2009-10-29 Thread DancesWithCars
Hey Communities: I'm wondering how bullying, really anti bullying is being addressed in the OLPC XO / SL project(s) both internally among staff and volunteers and what kids are taught or not taught about it. -- DancesWithCars leave the wolves behind ;-)

[IAEP] 'apt-get install sugar-platform' available for Ubuntu9.10.

2009-10-29 Thread s . boutayeb
Hi, After a couple of weeks of reading tutorials, help from Aleksey, and some Ubuntu developers there are Sugar packages available for Ubuntu 9.10. Thank you for your work. After some testing, I wrote a small blog-entry with some screenshots on OLPC France's blog, here:

Re: [IAEP] bullying

2009-10-29 Thread Walter Bender
I am not aware of any efforts along those lines. Are there models we could learn from? -walter On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:53 AM, DancesWithCars danceswithc...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Communities: I'm wondering how bullying, really anti bullying is being addressed in the OLPC XO / SL project(s)

[IAEP] Qualcomm, Room to Read, Nepal Telecom and S-Fone Establish Computer Labs with 3G Internet Connectivity in Rural Communities (Nepal and Vietnam)

2009-10-29 Thread Sean DALY
http://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2009/091026_Qualcomm_Room_to_Read.html#at http://blog.roomtoread.org/room-to-read/2009/10/getting-connected-qualcomm-and-room-to-read-launch-the-school-wireless-computer-lab-pilot-in-nepal-a.html ___ IAEP -- It's An

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tutorius Demo and Meeting

2009-10-29 Thread Erick Lavoie
Edward Cherlin wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:11, Erick Lavoie erick.lav...@gmail.com wrote: As discussed before, Tutorius is a project done by 9 students from Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada) aiming to integrate interactive tutorials inside Sugar to guide Sugar

Re: [IAEP] Ombudswoman Requested (Sugar Labs volunteer position)

2009-10-29 Thread Walter Bender
walterbender mchua: re defining the roles of the positions, I am a bit surprised at the direction the ombudsman position is being morphed. In my experience, ombundsmen are passive. Perhaps we need a shadow board, but I am not sure we need a proactive ombudsman. mchua walterbender: Ok -

[IAEP] questions about 2 soas features

2009-10-29 Thread roberto
hello i'd like to know two things about soas-strawberry: 1. if it is possible to make a usb installation persistent, meaning that each time i reboot into that, all settings and activities are saved and reloaded; in this moment i do not know how to do it 2. i read in the floss manual for sugar that

Re: [IAEP] questions about 2 soas features

2009-10-29 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:27 PM, roberto robert...@gmail.com wrote: hello i'd like to know two things about soas-strawberry: 1. if it is possible to make a usb installation persistent, meaning that each time i reboot into that, all settings and activities are saved and reloaded; in this

Re: [IAEP] questions about 2 soas features

2009-10-29 Thread roberto
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: A better list for Sugar on a Stick specific questions is: s...@lists.sugarlabs.org thank you then i'll post there -- roberto ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not

[IAEP] Teacher's Tools

2009-10-29 Thread ALEXANDER JONES (RIT Student)
Hello all, my name is Alex Jones and I'm a 3rd year game design at RIT currently taking a OLPC course with professor Stephen Jacobs. My current project is to build a finalized design document for a program that will aid teachers in the classroom. I've finally finished my prototype and would

[IAEP] surveys about sugar usage for development priorization

2009-10-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, this is the first round of surveys intended to let us know what our users need most. Feel free to pass them to people you know that are using Sugar: http://tinyurl.com/sugar-survey-v1 http://tinyurl.com/cuestionario-sugar-v1 I'm going to send these links to olpc-sur and then wait to see the

[IAEP] voip.sugarlabs.org

2009-10-29 Thread Bernie Innocenti
A few months ago, I've set up a VOIP box based on Trixbox (http://www.trixbox.org/) with the goal of providing conference rooms for the Sugar community, especially the less geeky teams. Since then, this VM has been sitting idle on bender (and later on treehouse), waiting for me to find some time

[IAEP] OS Internet Books for High School

2009-10-29 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All, While we have been worrying about free textbooks on the internet for younger children, the 1000 pound gorilla in the high school text book room, California, has made it really start to happen for older students. Here is an excerpt from Chris Bigenho's blog that has some interesting

Re: [IAEP] 'apt-get install sugar-platform' available for Ubuntu9.10.

2009-10-29 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:29 AM, s.bouta...@free.fr wrote: Hi, After a couple of weeks of reading tutorials, help from Aleksey, and some Ubuntu developers there are Sugar packages available for Ubuntu 9.10. Thank you for your work. After some testing, I wrote a small blog-entry with some

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] next SLOBs meeting reminder/agenda: 2009-10-30

2009-10-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 23:46, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote: Three quick notes about our next meeting (same time, same place - #sugar-meeting at 1400 UTC Friday 30 Oct): 1. A place for the agenda is here. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Meeting_Log-2009-10-30. If you'd like

[IAEP] A possible source of educational games, etc.

2009-10-29 Thread Kevin Cole
Hey all, On one of the Ubuntu mailing lists, there was a post about 10 things to do after you install Karmic (the newest release of Ubuntu) http://www.reddit.com/tb/9z2xk/ It's a fairly long post, but buried in there was the PlayDeb site http://www.playdeb.net/ which list some Debian packaged

Re: [IAEP] voip.sugarlabs.org

2009-10-29 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: A few months ago, I've set up a VOIP box based on Trixbox (http://www.trixbox.org/) with the goal of providing conference rooms for the Sugar community, especially the less geeky teams. Since then, this VM has been

[IAEP] FW: [support-gang] OS Internet Books for High School

2009-10-29 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Again, OK, Now I notice they have books for younger children as well, including Algebra I (which CA did not require or review). It looks pretty good on my Mac. It can be read without downloading, but requires Flash. There is a PDF version that can be downloaded and used off line.

Re: [IAEP] 'apt-get install sugar-platform' available for Ubuntu9.10.

2009-10-29 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:29 AM,  s.bouta...@free.fr wrote: Hi, After a couple of weeks of reading tutorials, help from Aleksey, and some Ubuntu developers there are Sugar packages available for Ubuntu 9.10. Thank

Re: [IAEP] 'apt-get install sugar-platform' available for Ubuntu9.10.

2009-10-29 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:29 AM,  s.bouta...@free.fr wrote: Hi, After a couple of weeks of reading tutorials, help from Aleksey, and some Ubuntu

Re: [IAEP] 'apt-get install sugar-platform' available for Ubuntu9.10.

2009-10-29 Thread David Farning
Thanks for the bug report. I pushed a new copy xulrunner. It has been accepted but it is going to wait in the build queue for about 18 hours before in makes it to https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam/+archive/0.86 . Sorry about that. I didn't expect anyone to blog about the repo yet. I'll make

Re: [IAEP] [Bookreader] Text to Speech readers for XO

2009-10-29 Thread Samuel Klein
Bumping up this recent thread on the bookreader list about text-to-speech. Mike and Gregor, in case you haven't seen what's currently possible: I believe James S's Read Etexts uses speech-dispatcher to read selected text. Aleksey and others may have done further work with espeak... I've included

Re: [IAEP] Teacher's Tools

2009-10-29 Thread Mel Chua
My current project is to build a finalized design document for a program that will aid teachers in the classroom. I've finally finished my prototype and would like to invite you all to try it out here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Teacher%27s_Tools and feel free to discuss it here:

Re: [IAEP] voip.sugarlabs.org

2009-10-29 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Thu, 29-10-2009 a las 15:58 -0700, Sameer Verma escribió: Hi Bernie, What's the purpose of this VoIP box? Primarily conferencing. In the future, we might want to use it for end-user technical support and things like that. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs