On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:22:24PM -0400, Gerald Ardito wrote:
Caroline,
I tried to do just that. I cannot erase the version of Write that's there,
and I cannot install the new one. It downloads just fine and appears in the
Journal, but will not install.
Could you enable debug mode[1], run
Hamilton,
Thanks. I'll try that.
And thanks for your support with this project.
Gerald
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Hamilton Chua hamilton.c...@gmail.comwrote:
Gerald,
It seems the kickstart file I use installed the write activity via rpm.
I don't know if this is possible from a usb
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 07:53:48PM +0800, Hamilton Chua wrote:
Gerald,
It seems the kickstart file I use installed the write activity via rpm.
I don't know if this is possible from a usb stick but it might be worth
a try.
sugar-0.86 should proper handle this situation,
if there are
Hi,
I'm trying to understand this.
Is it possible to use the booting method Bill found, where we boot one
kernal in Virtual Box, then that Linux mounts the USB and then it boots the
Sugar kernal on the stick?
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.comwrote:
Hi Dave,
Albert,
The original question was about developing Activities for a classroom
assignment, with the idea that these Activities could be widely
distributed. With these two constraints Python is the winner by
default. If you need to write Activities for school you need good
documentation on how to
Jim Simmons, in part:
The original question was about developing Activities for a classroom
assignment,
with the idea that these Activities could be widely distributed.
If (big IF) J will run on XO, labs is a built in feature of J.
Ken Iverson had his stroke at 83 while at the keyboard
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:08:56AM -0400, gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada
(705) 250-0112) wrote:
Jim Simmons, in part:
The original question was about developing Activities for a classroom
assignment,
with the idea that these Activities could be widely distributed.
If (big IF) J
Martin Dengler:
Since you don't know if J can run on the XO, J is not a good thing to
recommend for developing activities on the XO, right?
Wrong. J is worth investigating. J is so cross platform and so powerful
that it is a lifetime useful tool for teaching and for thought.
J, like
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to understand this.
Is it possible to use the booting method Bill found, where we boot one
kernal in Virtual Box, then that Linux mounts the USB and then it boots the
Sugar kernal on the stick?
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:36:03AM -0400, gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada
(705) 250-0112) wrote:
Martin Dengler:
Since you don't know if J can run on the XO, J is not a good thing to
recommend for developing activities on the XO, right?
Wrong. J is worth investigating.
Hi all,
In Friday's SLOBs meeting, we approved the creation of a decision
panel, with the following people eligible to join the panel:
Sebastian Dziallas
Luke Faraone
Martin Dengler
Bill Bogstad
Faisal Khan
Benjamin M. Schwartz
Samuel Klein
Sean Daly
Tabitha Roder
Caryl Bigenho
Daniel Drake
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
Hi all,
In Friday's SLOBs meeting, we approved the creation of a decision
panel, with the following people eligible to join the panel:
Can I take it that SLOB is not formally requesting a two week deadline
to report back as
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 00:00, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
On Thursday, Ben wrote in the IAEP list:
My feeling is that the most important thing we can do in this area is to
make it easy to write Activities that are intrinsically cross-platform.
To borrow a phrase, one
Bill Bogstad wrote:
[...]
We will conduct any public discussions in the
s...@lists.sugarlabs.org mailing list with a subject line tagged with
[DP].
[...]
Suggestion: As a favor to the mailing list archive searcher of the
future, consider a tag [in addition to,instead of] DP. The DP
process
I've looked at some initial discussion on the decision panel (I
don't even have time to read all of it) and I think it's time to go
back to the start.
For each question:
who's asking?
is it a reasonable question?
have we definitely failed to reach community consensus?
what effects will the
Geez!
lets reserve the SOaS name as a marketing term, for clarity of
message. (even though Sebastian can use it for now)
and others
+1
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IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
Martin wrote:
The question was what language can be used now.
You're answering a different question.
Possibly. Depends on whether J can be used now (or soon).
I do not know the answer.
Let us assume the answer is no.
Then the next relevant J question
is whether Roger Hui et al
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:05:36AM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote:
I've looked at some initial discussion on the decision panel (I
don't even have time to read all of it) and I think it's time to go
back to the start.
Why are you prolonging this even more? SLOBs decided that a Decision
Panel was
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 01:38:09PM -0500, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:
[an opinion]
+1
Please in the name of all that furthers education, stop voting on
things that don't require voting :).
http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/125203.html
If you're just saying me too, I thought that died out:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 02:57:48PM -0400, gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada
(705) 250-0112) wrote:
Martin wrote:
The question was what language can be used now.
You're answering a different question.
Possibly. Depends on whether J can be used now (or soon).
Only if
Thanks to the packages Aleksey made last week, we have been able to
build a new Trisquel+Sugar iso, this one using the latest Sugar on top
of the latest Trisquel, and also fixing the bugs from the first release.
It works nicely on wired or wireless computers, the installer is now
Sugar themed,
If all you have is a hammer, it's time to put another nail in the J coffin.
Although the J executable is a free (as in beer) download from
Jsoftware (the only place I found a downloadable J), with regard to
the source code, the J page at http://www.jsoftware.com/source.htm
states:
Fees
As promised, we have started work on the XO operating system SIG at
Sugar Labs. The SIG pages are at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Xoos .
Based on feedback from the current developers working in this space,
the most valuable starting point will be to start making daily Xoos
builds. The next step
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 14:05, Sean McGrath s...@manybits.net wrote:
Bill Bogstad wrote:
We will conduct any public discussions in the
s...@lists.sugarlabs.org mailing list with a subject line tagged with
[DP].
Suggestion: As a favor to the mailing list archive searcher of the future,
On 28.09.2009, at 17:36, gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada (705)
250-0112) wrote:
J, like APL, sadly does not get the publicity that it deserves.
A fate it shares with other nice languages.
Like, err, Smalltalk.
I would not be surprised if Roger Hui were willing to create an
I have received an inquiry on implementing constructionism from a high
official in the Bolivian government.
Since my opinion may be biased :-), I request you help us with clear,
simple and please objective answers (no vapor-stuff), if at all possible
Yamandu
The short answer is probably
Hi Yama,
Try this reference it has actual data that supports constructivism
Wenglinsky, H. (2005) Chp. 4 in Using Technology Wisely: the keys to success
in
schools, Columbia University Teachers College Press, NY, 60-77, *CP *
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka
Can't be true? MAD (Make A Difference) It is! Twitter them Masses now
http://blog.laptop.org
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Hi Yam,
Firstly, I am not an educationalist or even a constructionalist
But I suspect that if the goal is to get better scores on standard
tests, the best way to achieve that is to teach to pass the test (which
is what a lot of education systems are set up to do)
If however, you want to teach
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