[IAEP] Sugar on a Stick Documentation Joins the Stage

2010-02-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, I've taken some hours last weekend to spend some time to finally get some better documentation off the ground. I started with what is going to be called a Creation Kit. Note that this is far from being complete for now, but should do the trick as a proof of concept. It lives here:

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on a Stick Documentation Joins the Stage

2010-02-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com wrote: I've taken some hours last weekend to spend some time to finally get Very cool. What's the build line? I perused the XML looking for how to reproduce soas builds ;-) but it's understandably

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Sugar on a Stick Documentation Joins the Stage

2010-02-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com wrote: I've taken some hours last weekend to spend some time to finally get Very cool. What's the build line? I perused the XML looking for how to reproduce soas builds

Re: [IAEP] Blueberry Strawberry Activities Lists?

2010-02-17 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi, I'm working on my presentation for SCaLE 8X this weekend and do not at the moment have access to Blueberry and Strawberry SoaS. Can someone give me links to lists of Activities included in each of these? Thanks, Caryl = Sorry for seeing this a little late; trying

[IAEP] Haitian Creole healthcare songs

2010-02-17 Thread Edward Cherlin
Can we get these into the Sugar content library for Haiti? Would anybody like to ask them? These are not just for the current emergency. http://www.savethechildren.org/newsroom/2010/songs-health-advice.html?WT.mc_id=sn_combined Save the Children Provides Songs with Lifesaving Health and

[IAEP] ASLO bootcamp at RIT weekend of March 7 or 14

2010-02-17 Thread David Farning
I just wanted to poll the interest on these lists about an ASLO bootcamp which we are planning for either the weekend of March 7 or 14 on the RIT campus. The format will be a series of 5 sessions on: - 1.1 Session 0

[IAEP] CoolTools book review: The Art of Game Design

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Cole
The subject of games comes up periodically e-here and e-there. I subscribe to Kevin Kelly's weekly e-newsletter Cool Tools which this week recommends The Art of Game Design (http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/004195.php), with some excerpts . Do with it what you will. -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo

[IAEP] Webinar tonight, February 17th: Math game design framework

2010-02-17 Thread Maria Droujkova
This is a part of the Math 2.0 Interest Group series of weekly open webinars. We will discuss a few game design books, see what game mechanics correspond to math ideas, and look at examples of favorite (or not) math games. Wednesday, February 17th 2010 we will meet in the LearnCentral public

[IAEP] Kurzweil in Wine?

2010-02-17 Thread Caroline Meeks
I've noticed that many of the Special Education teachers are very innovative and interested in Sugar. I've seen a great deal of interest in Text to Speech. Students with severe enough disabilities to qualify get Kurzweil, but it costs $1000 for a one seat licence!

Re: [IAEP] Kurzweil in Wine?

2010-02-17 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Caroline, I've seen a great deal of interest in Text to Speech. Students with severe enough disabilities to qualify get Kurzweil, but it costs $1000 for a one seat licence! There's text-to-speech software for GNOME (so, generally compatible with Sugar) called Orca:

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] ASLO bootcamp at RIT weekend of March 7 or 14

2010-02-17 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 15:18 -0600, David Farning wrote: I just wanted to poll the interest on these lists about an ASLO bootcamp which we are planning for either the weekend of March 7 or 14 on the RIT campus. The format will be a series of 5 sessions on: * 1.1 Session 0 Systems

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] ASLO bootcamp at RIT weekend of March 7 or 14

2010-02-17 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.orgwrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 15:18 -0600, David Farning wrote: I just wanted to poll the interest on these lists about an ASLO bootcamp which we are planning for either the weekend of March 7 or 14 on the RIT campus.

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Friday's meeting...

2010-02-17 Thread Mel Chua
On 02/17/2010 10:42 PM, Walter Bender wrote: I will be traveling Friday morning, so I won't be able to join you at the SLOBs meeting. :( -walter If we've got an agenda queued up, I'd be happy to chair. (I'd also be equally happy to defer if someone else would like to chair, I run enough IRC