Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] SoaS with SD cards irregularities

2009-08-09 Thread Bill Kerr
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Sascha Silbe wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:11:31PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote: >> >> The sticks I have with SD cards have started to fail on the older >>> computers >>> at school (after working ok for 2 weeks of lessons). But they s

Re: [IAEP] reporting bug and making recommendation on software

2009-08-09 Thread Claudia Urrea
Walter, Thanks for getting back to me. Yes, I meat Nicaraguans! I have the regular OLPC channels, but I wanted to get other channels of communications for Sugarlabs as people are now downloading software from this site (things like Getsatisfied). Thanks again! Claudia On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-09 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi Jim, i'm getting ready to prep the sticks. I will put both versions on. I can wait a few more hours if you want for the latest Read ETexts but I have to have my master done tonight. no time to do it tomorrow morning. Thanks! Tomeu, Thanks for the reminder on languages. I sent Cory an email b

Re: [IAEP] reporting bug and making recommendation on software

2009-08-09 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
@foster fo me is ok to put a link there in a related topic. Is get satisfaction easy to localize or translate ? Rafael Ortiz On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:16 PM, wrote: >> We are exploring a new feedback site: http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs > > Is it worth adding a link at getsatisfaction

Re: [IAEP] reporting bug and making recommendation on software

2009-08-09 Thread forster
> We are exploring a new feedback site: http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs Is it worth adding a link at getsatisfaction to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Contacts ? tony ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@list

Re: [IAEP] reporting bug and making recommendation on software

2009-08-09 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Claudia Urrea wrote: > Hi Walter, > > I just returned from Nicaragua where we did a workshop > with more than 50 people from the Ministry, local universities, > and schools. We used the latest version of Memorize, > and social calc, and other activities such as turtl

Re: [IAEP] GPA Class Notes August 5

2009-08-09 Thread Greg Smith
Hi David, That would be a big help. I am way behind reading the list and working on bugs. I appreciate any help you can give filing bugs based on the reports. GPA in the keyword field will let me query them later. I plan to do a full clean up of all GPA found issues some time in the last two wee

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-09 Thread Jim Simmons
Caroline, In honor of Little Brother being released as a plain text file I am working on fixing Read Etexts so it can deal with files that need word wrapping as well as those which do not. I've made a good start on this but I want to do a better job of regression testing than I have been doing la

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Fwd: Follow-Up on: " looking for two groups of volunteers"]

2009-08-09 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 13:55, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Is there anybody else interested in joining this committee? Sure, *raises hand for both*. -- Luke Faraone http://luke.faraone.cc ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Fwd: Follow-Up on: " looking for two groups of volunteers"]

2009-08-09 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Mel Chua wrote: >> For the trademark committee, one workflow that I'd personally be happy >> with is: >> >> * the trademark committee will set the trademark policy, and their >> policy will be backed up by SLOBS as the official policy. >> >> * separately, we'd need to decide whether we actually w

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-09 Thread Jim Simmons
I wasn't able to get the Baen library RTF download to work with Browse in my Sugar test environment either. You click on the link and nothing happens. James Simmons On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Luke Faraone wrote: > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 09:15, Jim Simmons wrote: >> >> The plain text versi

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-09 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 09:15, Jim Simmons wrote: > The plain text version on the website will not work with Read Etexts, > because that Activity is designed to work with Gutenberg etexts which > don't require word-wrapping. However it is possible that the > Gutenberg site itself will have a vers

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] NOW: Contributors Program Mtg! (Fri 2PM Boston time, #olpc-meeting)

2009-08-09 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Holt schrieb: > 3. OLPC Bayern Library - Munich/Munchen, Germany >http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=45454 >http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bayern (NEEDS REVISING) > >Requests 15 XO's over 18 months > >Project Objectives: >Translate the english manuals into a German/un

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-09 Thread Jim Simmons
Caroline, The plain text version on the website will not work with Read Etexts, because that Activity is designed to work with Gutenberg etexts which don't require word-wrapping. However it is possible that the Gutenberg site itself will have a version in the correct format, because I believe the

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Fwd: Follow-Up on: " looking for two groups of volunteers"]

2009-08-09 Thread Mel Chua
> For the trademark committee, one workflow that I'd personally be happy > with is: > > * the trademark committee will set the trademark policy, and their >  policy will be backed up by SLOBS as the official policy. > > * separately, we'd need to decide whether we actually want to (and can >  affor

Re: [IAEP] Anyone using the Map activity?

2009-08-09 Thread forster
Hi Nick Map V3 reports as V2 in the home list view Its still effectively twice as slow as google maps to go to a new location, would be better if it started zoomed out Does not display map/satellite/hybrid/terrain till you zoom (i think you pointed that out) sometimes measure takes its first poi

Re: [IAEP] eBook reading advice

2009-08-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 01:05, Luke Faraone wrote: > On Aug 8, 2009, at 16:26, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ > Its available in a wide variety of formats. Which one will work best in > Sugar? > > When it first came out, I converted it into an XOL file for us