Re: [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:09 PM, David Van Assche wrote: > Hi folks, >    We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week Wednesday > 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and > 12 pm PST, most of Europe that will be 9 pm, 8 pm for the UK) > > So far we

Re: [IAEP] CUE Conference March 4-6, 2010 Call for Submissions

2009-06-05 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi Adam, SJ, and Caroline, and everyone else on these 2 lists, > > It is time to sign up for hands-on workshops at the CUE conference in Palm > Springs, CA, March 4-6 next year.  I was thinking the best thing would be to > have the CUELA laptop

[IAEP] CUE Conference March 4-6, 2010 Call for Submissions

2009-06-05 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Adam, SJ, and Caroline, and everyone else on these 2 lists, It is time to sign up for hands-on workshops at the CUE conference in Palm Springs, CA, March 4-6 next year. I was thinking the best thing would be to have the CUELA laptop library in the Open Source "pavillion" where folks could

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASLO - rebranding

2009-06-05 Thread Seth Woodworth
Excellent! After I saw the olpcnews post I spent an hour or so last night doing the same thing. I'm glad I don't have to finish / fine-tune ^__^ +1 On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 21:29, Josh Williams wrote: > > Thanks everyone, > > > > Gary mentio

[IAEP] Assessment of the Gnome Foundation

2009-06-05 Thread David Farning
The other day Tomeu point me toward the following link http://www.osbr.ca/ojs/index.php/osbr/article/view/883/853 I encourage you to read it! It provides a good, concise explanation of what the Gnome Foundation is doing and why they are doing it. Please compare, contrast, and critique the Sugar

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASLO - rebranding

2009-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 21:29, Josh Williams wrote: > Thanks everyone, > > Gary mentioned > >    "Hey, fab, looking much cleaner/simpler/Sugar-like :-) One quick >    thought (will try to take a closer look later), would double >    thickness borders work better, make the colour theme pop a little >

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASLO - rebranding

2009-06-05 Thread Josh Williams
Thanks everyone, Gary mentioned "Hey, fab, looking much cleaner/simpler/Sugar-like :-) One quick thought (will try to take a closer look later), would double thickness borders work better, make the colour theme pop a little more, feel more robust? Regards, --Gary " I ag

[IAEP] Fwd: [math4] ACM OLPC Article and Comments

2009-06-05 Thread Frederick Grose
-- Forwarded message -- From: Stephen Jacobs Date: Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:40 PM Subject: [math4] ACM OLPC Article and Comments To: fourthgradem...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/6/28497-one-laptop-per-child-vision-vs-re ality/comments

Re: [IAEP] Rwanda: Mineduc Embarks on OLPC Data Modification (by Microsoft)

2009-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 17:09, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Sean DALY wrote: >> http://allafrica.com/stories/200906040358.html >> >> I'm confused by this report. Does anyone know how Microsoft and USAID >> are "customizing" 77 modules on the XO-1? >> >> Nothing Ii cou

Re: [IAEP] Rwanda: Mineduc Embarks on OLPC Data Modification (by Microsoft)

2009-06-05 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > http://allafrica.com/stories/200906040358.html > > I'm confused by this report. Does anyone know how Microsoft and USAID > are "customizing" 77 modules on the XO-1? > > Nothing Ii could find on http://www.mineduc.gov.rw > I think they mean the c

Re: [IAEP] Rwanda: Mineduc Embarks on OLPC Data Modification (by Microsoft)

2009-06-05 Thread David Farning
My first guess would be localization of the interfaces and audio file. david On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > http://allafrica.com/stories/200906040358.html > > I'm confused by this report. Does anyone know how Microsoft and USAID > are "customizing" 77 modules on the XO-1? > >

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Jun 2009, at 09:24, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 06:09, David Van Assche > wrote: >> Hi folks, >>We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week >> Wednesday >> 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm >> MST, and >> 12 pm PST,

[IAEP] Rwanda: Mineduc Embarks on OLPC Data Modification (by Microsoft)

2009-06-05 Thread Sean DALY
http://allafrica.com/stories/200906040358.html I'm confused by this report. Does anyone know how Microsoft and USAID are "customizing" 77 modules on the XO-1? Nothing Ii could find on http://www.mineduc.gov.rw Sean ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASLO - rebranding

2009-06-05 Thread Sean DALY
Yes, much better integration with the rest of the site sections thanks Josh Sean On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:25 PM, David Farning wrote: > Hey, > > That is awesome! > > david > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Josh Williams wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I've been working on the css for ASLO, you

Re: [IAEP] ASLO - rebranding

2009-06-05 Thread David Farning
Hey, That is awesome! david On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Josh Williams wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been working on the css for ASLO, you can see where I'm at > http://activities-devel.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/ . I've tried to make > this fairly consistent with the design of sugarlabs.org

[IAEP] OLPC India news

2009-06-05 Thread Saurabh Adhikari
It seems that The Telegraph printed the following article that was put on its website months ago with a considerable lag. It is also on the BusinessWorld website. However, the printed article on May 29 created quite a buzz in eastern India. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090112/jsp/kn

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 05.06.2009, at 12:10, David Van Assche wrote: Ok, etoys included too.. Thanks :) Is it preinstalled on the "openSUSE sugar images" you mentioned? Are these the images you are referring to? http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/ Which collab server do you intend to

Re: [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:09, David Van Assche wrote: > Well as we just discussed in irc, some activities will actually share and > allow for collaboration, but the vast majority do not and/or dont work > between different distribution methods. In any case we can certainly try > some out and send y

Re: [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 05.06.2009, at 06:09, David Van Assche wrote: Hi folks, We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week Wednesday 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12 pm PST, most of Europe that will be 9 pm, 8 pm for the UK) So you mean 19:0

Re: [IAEP] future of the Sugar user experience

2009-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 19:23, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > Seems reasonable: "Design review" in addition to "code review" for new > patches.  Like code review, make a reasonable effort to have an > experienced designer or someone who knows the design for the > particular area, but if the patch stalls,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread David Van Assche
Ok, etoys included too.. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > On 05.06.2009, at 06:09, David Van Assche wrote: > > Hi folks, >We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week Wednesday > 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST

Re: [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread David Van Assche
Well as we just discussed in irc, some activities will actually share and allow for collaboration, but the vast majority do not and/or dont work between different distribution methods. In any case we can certainly try some out and send you the log files to dissect, in case u cannot make it. kind r

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 05.06.2009, at 06:09, David Van Assche wrote: Hi folks, We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week Wednesday 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12 pm PST, most of Europe that will be 9 pm, 8 pm for the UK) So far we have 5

Re: [IAEP] SoaS

2009-06-05 Thread Sean DALY
Greetings Joe Please be aware of some Sandisk-specific issues with Cruzers, they usually have the exotic U3 formatting arrangement - the stick presents itself to the host computer as a hub with CD-ROM and USB drives attached. Try inserting the key while running Vista, if several drive letters are

Re: [IAEP] gcomprise

2009-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 02:46, Samuel Klein wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Bruno Coudoin wrote: > >> Would it be acceptable to ship my activity bundle with symbolic link to >> the sounds bundles. Potentially these link will be dead unless the voice >> bundle is installed. >> > < If it is

Re: [IAEP] SoaS

2009-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 17:14, wrote: > Am running Fedora 10 and want to create a Sugar On A Stick.  Have a 4 GB > stick plugged into the computer's USB bus. Have Added the "liveusb > creator" software package (from the Fedora 10 list of packages) and run > it.  On the second try, the Live USB Cre

Re: [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 06:09, David Van Assche wrote: > Hi folks, >    We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week Wednesday > 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and > 12 pm PST, most of Europe that will be 9 pm, 8 pm for the UK) > > So far we h