Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted into Debian main

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:12:34PM -0800, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: >At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 05:56:39 +0100, >Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> >> > (In regards to whether it is just a philosophical checkbox, I tend >> >to think so. If a company makes a product b

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Debian

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:37:13PM -0800, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: >At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 04:26:55 +0100, >Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:12:13PM -0800, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: >> >At Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:45:00 +0100, >> >Jonas Smedegaa

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted into Debian main

2008-11-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 05:56:39 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > (In regards to whether it is just a philosophical checkbox, I tend to > >think so. If a company makes a product based on an open-source project > >and sells it to Cuba from the US, the company may be punished > >regardless what

[IAEP] Fwd: Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy

2008-11-07 Thread Edward Cherlin
Some people might find this relevant to our work. -- Forwarded message -- From: Rakesh Biswas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:19 PM Subject: Handbook of Research on Electronic Collaboration and Organizational Synergy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Forwarding this rec

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted into Debian main

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:21:10PM -0800, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: >At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 00:09:34 -0300 , >Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: >> >> My point was: is forbidding the export clause as part of the Open >> Source definition a practical concern or is it

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted into Debian main

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:09:34AM -0300, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: >Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> [a couple of good and clearly summarized observations snipped] > >I'll try to keep this short too... Uh, I did not consider "short". I shall do my best too

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Debian

2008-11-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 04:26:55 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:12:13PM -0800, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: > >At Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:45:00 +0100, > >Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> > >> The Squeak image "Etoys" (the only one cu

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted into Debian main

2008-11-07 Thread David Van Assche
>> If teachers and children don't care, then the reason is simply that they >> got someone else to do that boring (and perhaps complex) task for them. >> It still needs doing. I suspect the same applies to you (Edubuntu is a >> distribution too!). > > What I meant is that this crowd normally doesn'

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Debian

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:12:13PM -0800, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: >At Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:45:00 +0100, >Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> >> The Squeak image "Etoys" (the only one currently packaged officially >> for Debian) is in "non-free" due to ftpmasters

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted into Debian main

2008-11-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 00:09:34 -0300 , Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: > > My point was: is forbidding the export clause as part of the Open Source > definition a practical concern or is it just a philosophical checkbox? I > agree that it would not make sense to have one rule for Squeak and > another for t

Re: [IAEP] Teams!

2008-11-07 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Rafael Ortiz Hi greg On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I love the idea of teams. Teams working together are awesome. Teams > share a common goal. Teams hold one another accountable. Go Team! > > So we've got a list of teams on the left navbar

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted into Debian main

2008-11-07 Thread Jecel Assumpcao Jr
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > You are perfectly right. Subject changed. Thanks! > [a couple of good and clearly summarized observations snipped] I'll try to keep this short too... > [it is good to have such debates] Indeed, but not everybody likes it. The Squeak community itself pulls in opposite

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted as free software... (was Re: Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Matthew Fulmer
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 01:32:49AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >Part of the honest worry about these issues comes from very good > >reasons not to just trust everyone. But it also seems that e.g. Debian > >needs to widen its circle of trust to include experts in wider > >varieties of progra

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted as free software... (was Re: Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Sat, 8 Nov 2008 01:32:49 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > >Part of the honest worry about these issues comes from very good > >reasons not to just trust everyone. But it also seems that e.g. Debian > >needs to widen its circle of trust to include experts in wider > >varieties of programmin

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted as free software... (was Re: Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:56:44PM -0800, Alan Kay wrote: >Sure, I completely agree. And now is a chance to apply the idea that >via the Internet "the whole world" is the pool of resources for making >and taking care of open and free software. In a

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Fri, 7 Nov 2008 19:45:00 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > The Squeak image "Etoys" (the only one currently packaged officially for > Debian) is in "non-free" due to ftpmasters judging it not possible for > the security team to maintain throughout the (multiple year long) > lifespan of a De

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted into Debian main

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:24:56PM -0300, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: >Holger Levsen wrote: >> On Friday 07 November 2008 19:45, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> > The Squeak image "Etoys" (the only one currently packaged >> > officially for Debian) is in "no

Re: [IAEP] Packaging eToys (was Sugar on Edubuntu)

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:06:48PM -0500, Gavin Romig-Koch wrote: > Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: >>> >>> Please note that the reason for eToys being kept out of debian >>> "main" is *not* that it is considered non-free. >>> >>> Debian maintains more than

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted as free software... (was Re: Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Alan Kay
Sure, I completely agree. And now is a chance to apply the idea that via the Internet "the whole world" is the pool of resources for making and taking care of open and free software. Seems as though no simple group can handle the scaling implied by having the whole world supply software, even

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted as free software... (was Re: Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:47:16PM -0800, Alan Kay wrote: >So the only misconception I saw in the last few exchanges was part of a >lot of correct conclusions by Holger. The misconception was: "it's >because the impossibility to bootstrap etoys." > >

[IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted as free software...

2008-11-07 Thread Jecel Assumpcao Jr
Holger Levsen wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008 19:45, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > The Squeak image "Etoys" (the only one currently packaged officially for > > Debian) is in "non-free" due to ftpmasters judging it not possible for > > the security team to maintain throughout the (multiple year lo

Re: [IAEP] Packaging eToys (was Sugar on Edubuntu)

2008-11-07 Thread Gavin Romig-Koch
Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: >> >> Please note that the reason for eToys being kept out of debian "main" >> is *not* that it is considered non-free. >> >> Debian maintains more than 20.000 packages, and eToys as so far been >> judged too "odd" for Debian to maintain, eg. for patching in case of >>

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted as free software... (was Re: Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Alan Kay
Actually, this discussion is getting closer to what's actually the case. When you get anything made in Squeak (such as Etoys) you are getting all of Squeak, including a portable machine that contains a full set of sources and the development tools to make anything, including new versions of Sque

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted as free software... (was Re: Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > thanks from me to Jecel for clarifications too! > > On Friday 07 November 2008 19:45, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > The Squeak image "Etoys" (the only one currently packaged officially for > > Debian) is in "non-free"

[IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted as free software... (was Re: Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, thanks from me to Jecel for clarifications too! On Friday 07 November 2008 19:45, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > The Squeak image "Etoys" (the only one currently packaged officially for > Debian) is in "non-free" due to ftpmasters judging it not possible for > the security team to maintain through

Re: [IAEP] Teams!

2008-11-07 Thread Chris Leonard
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/WikiTeam > > Who's the owner... cjl? The TODO list looks good... names attached? > > No, not the owener, just a contributor. By volume of work, I'd say dfar

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:07:13PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: >On Friday 07 November 2008 14:39, David Van Assche wrote: >> the only option seems to seperate squeak from sugar, if sugar is to >> get into main or universe. > >thats not an option, but

Re: [IAEP] Squeak sources (was: Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary)

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:30:57PM -0300, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote: >David Van Assche wrote on Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:39:00 +0100 >> I've just been corrected on this by a ubuntu dev, who states for it >> to get into universe, it must have source code avai

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Friday 07 November 2008 14:39, David Van Assche wrote: > the only option seems to > seperate squeak from sugar, if sugar is to get into main or universe. thats not an option, but it's the (fine) status quo. there are these things called "packages"... regards, Holger, who also ap

[IAEP] Squeak sources (was: Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary)

2008-11-07 Thread Jecel Assumpcao Jr
David Van Assche wrote on Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:39:00 +0100 > I've just been corrected on this by a ubuntu dev, who states for it to > get into universe, it must have source code available. That means that > for now, squeak must stay in Multiverse the only option seems to > seperate squeak from su

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:50:52PM +1800, David Farning wrote: >Yesterday we had a long thread about Sugar on Ubuntu which was helpful >yet filled with misunderstandings. If you insist on focusing solely on Ubuntu, then please do not bother cc'ing m

[IAEP] Packaging eToys (was Sugar on Edubuntu)

2008-11-07 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:54:38PM +1100, Costello, Rob R wrote: >> From outside this all looks as though it might suffer from being a >> little too pedantic in adhering to definitional terms > >> It

[IAEP] Teams!

2008-11-07 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
I love the idea of teams. Teams working together are awesome. Teams share a common goal. Teams hold one another accountable. Go Team! So we've got a list of teams on the left navbar of the Sugar wiki (and one or two elsewhere). I figured I'd check them all out and give my unsolicited feed

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] Sugar on Edubuntu

2008-11-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:54:38PM +1100, Costello, Rob R wrote: >From outside this all looks as though it might suffer from being a >little too pedantic in adhering to definitional terms >It feels as free and open as can be, in terms of what you can

Re: [IAEP] Mongolian translations for Turtleart

2008-11-07 Thread Walter Bender
So I am just about finished converting TA to SVG. I am doing this both to make it easier to localize and to make it easier to scale to different size screens. What I don't yet have a handle on is the best way to deal with the translation of the strings in the SVG files. The problem is one of scalin

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available)

2008-11-07 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:08 AM, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Is there a corporate identity for Sugar... ie a document that > describes how logos should be placed, color scheme, fonts, web layout, > etc? > > David Van Assche Walter and I have a phone call planned with Software Fre

Re: [IAEP] Mediawiki update

2008-11-07 Thread David Farning
Nice, Now we will have to take a look at the translation templates to see if we can get them working correctly. david On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've upgraded the MediaWiki instance of wiki.sugarlabs.org to 1.13.2. > Please, let me kn

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available)

2008-11-07 Thread Christian Schmidt
I'm working on the t-shirts, should have something early next week. Where are we printing them? Any thoughts? Christian _ From: Marco Pesenti Gritti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Walter Bender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bernie Innocenti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Schmidt

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] November conference (meeting notes)

2008-11-07 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
I might have hit with a generous donor that might pay my way... Could you confirm dates so they can get me tickets early while they are still less expensive? I would want to learn and share, and if possible/if there is interest work on Wetware issues, especially The Medium Is The Message as ap

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Morgan Collett
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 15:39, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just been corrected on this by a ubuntu dev, who states for it to > get into universe, it must have source code available. That means that > for now, squeak must stay in Multiverse the only option seems to > sepera

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread David Van Assche
I've just been corrected on this by a ubuntu dev, who states for it to get into universe, it must have source code available. That means that for now, squeak must stay in Multiverse the only option seems to seperate squeak from sugar, if sugar is to get into main or universe. David Van Assche

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available)

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes. Plus I need to push the rest of Christian's suggested changes, > including the landing page... Maybe today is the the day? Also, Walter forgot to send out his moo.com cards artwork and Chritian t-shirts!!! Marco _

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Morgan Collett
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 15:12, David Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the fact no source code is available might cause a problem for > it getting into Main... thats not necessarily such a bad thing though. > Edubuntu addon packages will definitely go to universe, its just a > question

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available)

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Landing page? woow! Marco On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:35 AM > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available) > To: Marco P

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread David Van Assche
I think the fact no source code is available might cause a problem for it getting into Main... thats not necessarily such a bad thing though. Edubuntu addon packages will definitely go to universe, its just a question of when. The only difference is, no direct downstream support. But as I understan

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available)

2008-11-07 Thread David Van Assche
Is there a corporate identity for Sugar... ie a document that describes how logos should be placed, color scheme, fonts, web layout, etc? David Van Assche On 11/7/08, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > D

[IAEP] Fwd: Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available)

2008-11-07 Thread Walter Bender
-- Forwarded message -- From: Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:35 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available) To: Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> yes. Plus I need to push the rest of Christian's suggested changes, includi

Re: [IAEP] Sugar bug tracker now available

2008-11-07 Thread Morgan Collett
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 05:24, Bernie Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've just asked Ivan to setup a bug tracker for us on solarsail. > > This is intended for filing Sugar bugs unrelated to any particular > platform, and for code reviews. > > At the moment, the system has no regis

[IAEP] Logo (Re: Sugar bug tracker now available)

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Should we use the one line version of the logo on dev.sugarlabs.org? Marco ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, additionaly to what Bert said: to summarize _my understanding_ again: there is source, there is just no ascii representation of the source / you cannot compile the source to binaries. Because the source comes as blobs (being the VM in it's state), which can be edited inside the virtual mac

Re: [IAEP] Wiki cleanup

2008-11-07 Thread Simon Schampijer
> 3. Should testing and QA be merged? If so, under what name? > My preference would be for TestingTeam (merged). Marco >>> Yes I prefer TestingTeam as well. The sidebar says TranslationTeam, in the >>> name of consistency this should be Translation I think. >>> >> QATea