[IAEP] Gtk3 Hackfest, Praha 2011, news updates

2011-09-02 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, two major changes have recently occurred in Sugar's underlying technologies. Firstly, GTK+ 2 has been obsoleted by GTK+ 3, and GNOME is now based on GTK+ 3. Secondly, PyGTK, the underlying Python library that Sugar uses to call into GTK+, has been deprecated in favor of PyGObject

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] About Activity Central and Dextrose (was: [ANNOUNCE] New Dextrose-3 development build: Alpha-1 (dx3ng36))

2011-09-02 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from Gonzalo Odiard's message of Thu Sep 01 21:24:31 +0200 2011: There are a public list of patches? Not just a list, the patches themselves are public [1]. Sascha [1] https://people.sugarlabs.org/~silbe/dextrose/patchsets/ -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] About Activity Central and Dextrose (was: [ANNOUNCE] New Dextrose-3 development build: Alpha-1 (dx3ng36))

2011-09-02 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Thanks Gonzalo On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Sascha Silbe si...@activitycentral.comwrote: Excerpts from Gonzalo Odiard's message of Thu Sep 01 21:24:31 +0200 2011: There are a public list of patches? Not just a list, the patches themselves are public [1]. Sascha [1]

[IAEP] Google RISE Awards

2011-09-02 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi all, via Twitter I just stumbled across a new Google program called RISE (Roots in Science and Engineering) Awards where organizations can apply for up to $10,000 / €10,000 for projects promoting and supporting STEM and CS education initiatives. The application period in Europe has

Re: [IAEP] [Dextrose] [Sugar-devel] About Activity Central and Dextrose (was: [ANNOUNCE] New Dextrose-3 development build: Alpha-1 (dx3ng36))

2011-09-02 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Thanks Gonzalo On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Sascha Silbe si...@activitycentral.com wrote: Excerpts from Gonzalo Odiard's message of Thu Sep 01 21:24:31 +0200 2011: There are a public list of patches? Not just

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: unique activities TamTamMini-60 . . .

2011-09-02 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Exactly what I was going to suggest. Is there a reason you friend hasn't updated? Check with him first and, if he doesn't mind go for a newer build. Can anyone suggest the best choice for this update? I would say maybe 860 since 874 is very new and still may have a few bugs. Caryl

Re: [IAEP] [Local Labs] Local Labs updates

2011-09-02 Thread Laura Vargas
El formato en español para los local labs: Reporte de Estado Sugarlab Local Nombre del Equipo: Misión: Objetivos de corto plazo (3 - 6 meses): 1. 2. 3. Objetivos de mediano plazo (6 meses - 1 año): 1. 2. 3. Objetivos de largo plazo (1 año - 3 años): 1. 2. 3. Que obstáculos cree el equipo

Re: [IAEP] team updates

2011-09-02 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: At the last Sugar Labs oversight board meeting [1], we discussed the need to update the status of the various teams and local labs. You are receiving this email because you are currently listed as a team coordinator

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: unique activities TamTamMini-60 . . .

2011-09-02 Thread Sean Linton
Hi Reading the through the upgrade process I think I will leave this machine alone. I dont want to risk the upgrade not working and returning the machine without a usable OS. It is used by his daughter. S On 3 September 2011 03:41, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... Exactly

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: unique activities TamTamMini-60 . . .

2011-09-02 Thread James Cameron
Yes, you need experience before taking such a move with confidence. There is a save-nand feature built into the firmware that can take a backup of the existing build and journal for later restore. But I've no idea what version it began to work well with, and no idea what firmware version you

[IAEP] Why is Scratch more popular than Etoys?

2011-09-02 Thread Steve Thomas
I have taught both Scratch and Etoys to kids and hands down most kids prefer Scratch. I also prefer Scratch for certain things, but prefer Etoys for most learning and teaching. What can we learn from Scratch (and TurtleArt et al) to improve Etoys? And vice versa what can be done to improve

Re: [IAEP] Why is Scratch more popular than Etoys?

2011-09-02 Thread Cherry Withers
When I did my workshop on Etoys in the Philippines back in June, one kid did a draft of the same project in Scratch first using the pre-installed cliparts then did it in Etoys like I asked. It was a simple knock knock joke project with speech bubbles popping up when a moving bar touches a

Re: [IAEP] Why is Scratch more popular than Etoys?

2011-09-02 Thread Alan Kay
Both Etoys and Scratch were done by some of the same people (especially John Maloney), and both are on top of Squeak Smalltalk. The original Etoys interface was more like Scratch's (small area for action results, most of the screen area used for showing tools, tiles, etc.). The first Etoys was