Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-10-25
Awesome write up, as a teacher I love the concept low shelf and high shelf. Nice! ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops
This is an interesting article, but not very illuminating. Can anyone figure out what they're doing now that they were not doing before to make the books usable by XO users? It isn't clear from the article. They have had books in PDF format since before the XO existed, so what's new here? James Simmons Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:59:15 +0200 From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Subject: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops To: Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org, iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: 378b2b050910241459y1f7015fau3bb7e711728c4...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:44, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: This is an interesting article, but not very illuminating. Can anyone figure out what they're doing now that they were not doing before to make the books usable by XO users? It isn't clear from the article. They have had books in PDF format since before the XO existed, so what's new here? I think they are mentioning that the books are available in a more light-weight format. having a 10-kilobyte file beats the heck out of a 5-megabyte file maybe EPUB? Regards, Tomeu James Simmons Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:59:15 +0200 From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Subject: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops To: Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org, iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: 378b2b050910241459y1f7015fau3bb7e711728c4...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops
Tomeu, I thought about that myself, but they specifically are targeting the XO users and they mention the Read Activity, and it will be some time before you can read EPUB's on the XO because it will need a newer version of Sugar than the XO has available to it. Also they seem to say not PDF but practically speaking that's all you can use on the XO with Read. Sounds like I'm not the only one who's confused. James Simmons On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:44, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: This is an interesting article, but not very illuminating. Can anyone figure out what they're doing now that they were not doing before to make the books usable by XO users? It isn't clear from the article. They have had books in PDF format since before the XO existed, so what's new here? I think they are mentioning that the books are available in a more light-weight format. having a 10-kilobyte file beats the heck out of a 5-megabyte file maybe EPUB? Regards, Tomeu James Simmons Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:59:15 +0200 From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Subject: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops To: Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org, iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: 378b2b050910241459y1f7015fau3bb7e711728c4...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Fwd: [math4] Teacher's Tools
This may be of interest here. Regards, Tomeu -- Forwarded message -- From: ALEXANDER JONES (RIT Student) acj3...@rit.edu Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 16:37 Subject: [math4] Teacher's Tools To: fourthgradem...@lists.sugarlabs.org Hello all, my name is alex jones and I'm a 3rd year game design at RIT currently taking a OLPC course with professor Stephen Jacobs. My current project is to build a finalized design document for a program that will aid teachers in the classroom. I've finally finished my prototype and would like to invite you all to try it out here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Teacher%27s_Tools and feel free to discuss it here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Teacher%27s_Tools If you have any personalized questions or would like more information please dont hesitate to contact me with this email (acj3...@rit.edu) ___ FourthGradeMath mailing list fourthgradem...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops
Hi... I was also wondering what the big deal is here. A while back I took time to search for a good Algebra text in their library of ebooks. I was underwhelmed. You would think that algebra is algebra and any book is better than none. I was very disappointed with what they had. What was good enough for my dad when he was in high school (1920) isn't going to work with today's student. What we need as some really good open-source ebooks written by current educators. But it ain't goin' to happen. Educators have to eat too. Caryl (Retired educator... anyone want to collaborate on a FLOSS manual for beginning algebra?) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 15:46, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Tomeu, I thought about that myself, but they specifically are targeting the XO users and they mention the Read Activity, and it will be some time before you can read EPUB's on the XO because it will need a newer version of Sugar than the XO has available to it. Also they seem to say not PDF but practically speaking that's all you can use on the XO with Read. Sounds like I'm not the only one who's confused. Seems to actually be EPUB: http://blog.laptop.org/2009/10/25/1-6-million-books/ Don't know what is OLPC's deployment plan. Regards, Tomeu James Simmons On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:44, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: This is an interesting article, but not very illuminating. Can anyone figure out what they're doing now that they were not doing before to make the books usable by XO users? It isn't clear from the article. They have had books in PDF format since before the XO existed, so what's new here? I think they are mentioning that the books are available in a more light-weight format. having a 10-kilobyte file beats the heck out of a 5-megabyte file maybe EPUB? Regards, Tomeu James Simmons Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:59:15 +0200 From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Subject: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops To: Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org, iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: 378b2b050910241459y1f7015fau3bb7e711728c4...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Table of activities shipped by deployments?
I think it would be interesting and motivating for Activity developers to have a page listing which activities are shipped by each deployment. (I just learned today that Typing Turtle v17 is in the OLENepal distribution) Would someone from the deployment team be willing to organize this effort? Ideally it would be nice to see a page for each deployment (SL and OLPC), each with a table of activity names and version numbers. -Wade ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops
For what it is worth, Peru is currently shipping 300 ebooks on their XOs. They plan to up that to 500 ebooks. These books are hand-selected by the ministry of education, so while the numbers may be relatively modest, I am sure the impact must be enormous. -walter On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 15:46, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Tomeu, I thought about that myself, but they specifically are targeting the XO users and they mention the Read Activity, and it will be some time before you can read EPUB's on the XO because it will need a newer version of Sugar than the XO has available to it. Also they seem to say not PDF but practically speaking that's all you can use on the XO with Read. Sounds like I'm not the only one who's confused. Seems to actually be EPUB: http://blog.laptop.org/2009/10/25/1-6-million-books/ Don't know what is OLPC's deployment plan. Regards, Tomeu James Simmons On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:44, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: This is an interesting article, but not very illuminating. Can anyone figure out what they're doing now that they were not doing before to make the books usable by XO users? It isn't clear from the article. They have had books in PDF format since before the XO existed, so what's new here? I think they are mentioning that the books are available in a more light-weight format. having a 10-kilobyte file beats the heck out of a 5-megabyte file maybe EPUB? Regards, Tomeu James Simmons Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:59:15 +0200 From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Subject: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops To: Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org, iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: 378b2b050910241459y1f7015fau3bb7e711728c4...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops
I'm intrigued by the Rural Design Collective whom I hadn't heard of. The blog link seems to be bad so: http://ruraldesigncollective.org http://ruraldesigncollective.org/lab/ui/ They seem to be coding an Activity which lives on a USB stick with eBooks, but I don't think it is in the Activity Library (activities.sugarlabs.org) Sean On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 15:46, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Tomeu, I thought about that myself, but they specifically are targeting the XO users and they mention the Read Activity, and it will be some time before you can read EPUB's on the XO because it will need a newer version of Sugar than the XO has available to it. Also they seem to say not PDF but practically speaking that's all you can use on the XO with Read. Sounds like I'm not the only one who's confused. Seems to actually be EPUB: http://blog.laptop.org/2009/10/25/1-6-million-books/ Don't know what is OLPC's deployment plan. Regards, Tomeu James Simmons On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:44, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: This is an interesting article, but not very illuminating. Can anyone figure out what they're doing now that they were not doing before to make the books usable by XO users? It isn't clear from the article. They have had books in PDF format since before the XO existed, so what's new here? I think they are mentioning that the books are available in a more light-weight format. having a 10-kilobyte file beats the heck out of a 5-megabyte file maybe EPUB? Regards, Tomeu James Simmons Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:59:15 +0200 From: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Subject: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kidswith OLPC Laptops To: Sugar Labs Marketing market...@lists.sugarlabs.org, iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Message-ID: 378b2b050910241459y1f7015fau3bb7e711728c4...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to Kids with OLPC Laptops
Sean, I have had a few email exchanges with the Rural Design Collective. My understanding of what they're doing is that they have a static website on the stick which can be navigated using the Browse Activity. The books will be in the DJVU format the last I heard (only a week or two ago). Sayamindu has suggested that his Get Books Activity (OPDS version of Get Internet Archive Books) might be used as an interface to the library on a stick they have developed. They seem interested; it would certainly give them a better named Journal entry for the downloaded book than Browse gives them. Lots of good things will happen for young readers when the XO can run something later than .82. EPUB support, DJVU support, Text to Speech with highlighting for Read Etexts, Read will be able to remember the page you left off reading on, Aleksey's Library Activity, etc. James Simmons On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: I'm intrigued by the Rural Design Collective whom I hadn't heard of. The blog link seems to be bad so: http://ruraldesigncollective.org http://ruraldesigncollective.org/lab/ui/ They seem to be coding an Activity which lives on a USB stick with eBooks, but I don't think it is in the Activity Library (activities.sugarlabs.org) Sean ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] ASLO testing
If you have a minute please test: http://activities-testing.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/ Bugs fixed since last round of testing: 1. # of Activities downloaded number added 2. Fixed pagination for long search results 3. Fixed user profile section 4. cleaned up a few general typographical inconsistencies Thanks, Josh ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] ASLO testing
If you have a minute please test: http://activities-testing.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/ It's the first time I come into this page, and it looks very cool! I have two complains though: the color scheme looks nice, but the contrast level (mostly the light blue text) seems a little low to me: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CSS-TECHS/#style-color-contrast But more important, some activity descriptions have no license info. Showing that every activity is free software is an important issue and should be enforced. This is a problem in the current ASLO site too. Other than those two things, I like it a lot :) pgpr9ecgPGpKs.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Photos From Audubon MS Project
If anyone knows of other secure email sites for children, in addition to ePals, please let me know. EPals requires a teacher to register and monitor the accounts. It may be difficult to find an overworked, underpaid LAUSD teacher who has the time and is willing to do this. Hi Caryl, Can you talk more about the requirements for this communication piece. Who do the students need to communicate with and what are the security requirements? It maybe that Moodle or another serverside solution might create the functionality you need without necessarily using email. If you have other questions... just ask! Caryl -- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:09:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [IAEP] Photos From Audubon MS Project From: gerald.ard...@gmail.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Caryl, Thanks for sharing these pictures. Can you share more details about this project, like: How many XOs are there? How many students? Which grades/age groups? How were the teachers/students trained? We should probably talk. Gerald On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi... Here is a link to the photos from the Audubon Middle School Contributors Project. This is an after school program in south central LA that Jamaal volunteers with. I mentor their Contributors Program project: *http://tiny.cc/kzXwn* http://tiny.cc/kzXwn Enjoy! Caryl P.S. I got an email from them today... they now have internet access. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Photos From Audubon MS Project
Hi Gerald and all, I have invited the director of the project at Audubon MS to bring 3-4 of the students to assist Jamaal and I in having a hands-on session for teachers with the XOs at a CUELA/LAUSD tech fair. It happens in about 3 weeks. If they come it will be great for them, and the teachers they will be assisting. I'll take pictures and report. Caryl Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:04:55 -0400 Subject: Re: [IAEP] Photos From Audubon MS Project From: gerald.ard...@gmail.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: support-g...@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Caryl, Thanks for sharing about this project/program. What is most interesting (and exciting) to me is that there are trends that I see in our (5th grade) program and yours. Every time that the students get to become owners of the devices and/or software, whether by re-imaging the machines or downloading new activities or showing another student how to do something, the learning environment changes. This is particularly interesting because I also see my 5th graders owning the devices as well right from the start. They seem to relate to them like they do their cell phone or iPod, and completely unlike how I see them interact with typical computers. We should stay in touch as things develop. Best, Gerald On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello Gerald, and anyone else who wants to know about the project at Audubon MS. Things have changed a lot with the FAMLI after school program since they started their Contributors Program project. They lost a lot of their funding and went from 50+ students down to 20+. They have 10 XOs. The students are in grades 6-8 (ages 11-14) with a couple of older students from a nearby high school. The program runs after school from 3 pm to 6 pm on school days and they also meet on Saturdays. They divide their time between activities that are physically active to others that are quiet such as tutoring and using the XOs. They are also learning music and dance that comes from the Black American culture. Their director, Torre Reese is wonderful and the students love him! The original idea was that, as much as possible, the students would be in charge of the project. They have some very bright youngsters in the group and this seems to be working out... under adult supervision. So far there hasn't been a lot of training. I visited them for the first time last week (when I took the pictures), and found they had all mastered using the mesh and chatting with the mesh. At that time they didn't have internet for the XOs (now they do), but someone managed to download SimCity using a router from some local business! The XOs haven't gone home with the students yet. Security is a huge concern. This is south-central Los Angeles. We are discussing letting the students check out the machines when a parent is picking them up and having the parent sign it out. The students will help work out these details. With the help of a great IT professional, Ron Goodall, they now have internet. Their hope is to make contact with students their age in other countries via the internet. Meanwhile, they have given their XOs names of different countries just for fun. When I arrived, I discovered they were still running build 767 which came with their machines. I happened to have a usb key with 802 on it so I showed one of the students (who had been asking all sorts of knowledgeable questions about the Sugar OS) how to do it and left the usb key with him. Torre reported that the next day he showed the other students how to do it and they reflashed all of the machines. Now that they have updated their software, they will be able to try a lot of other things. I have asked that they do a project for us, evaluating the various Activities and suggesting ways that they could be used for learning. They have agreed and we will set that up when I get back from Hawaii. If anyone knows of other secure email sites for children, in addition to ePals, please let me know. EPals requires a teacher to register and monitor the accounts. It may be difficult to find an overworked, underpaid LAUSD teacher who has the time and is willing to do this. If you have other questions... just ask! Caryl Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:09:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [IAEP] Photos From Audubon MS Project From: gerald.ard...@gmail.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Caryl, Thanks for sharing these pictures. Can you share more details about this project, like: How many XOs are there? How many students? Which grades/age groups? How were the teachers/students trained? We should probably talk. Gerald On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... Here is a link to the photos from the Audubon Middle School Contributors Project. This is an after school program in south central LA that Jamaal volunteers with. I mentor their
Re: [IAEP] Calculate and SocialCalc Lesson ideas?
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 09:11:35PM -0400, Gerald Ardito wrote: I can recommend [an example lesson plan's] flow: [...] Hope this helps. Thanks - I added your suggestions to the template: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Lesson_plan_template/Wiki_Version#Instructional_Procedures Gerald Martin pgpoS8HzXlbEW.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [SoaS] [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)
I'm trying to boot into TOAST from an SD card. I created it using usb-creator included in Trisquel GNU. As per instructions from Ruben I created a /boot/olpc.fth and copied respective files into initrd.img and vmlinuz. The contents of my olpc.fth file are: \ Boot script for SD Boot \ created from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Custom_bootloader ro boot=casper rootdelay=1 splash console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 fbcon=font:SUN12x22 to boot-file sd:\boot\vmlinuz to boot-device sd:\boot\initrd.img to ramdisk unfreeze boot Nevertheless, can't boot. It freezes. Clues please? Anyone done this? Regards from Lima Icarito El 2 de octubre de 2009 06:04, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.comescribió: On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:36:20AM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:50:31AM +0200, Rubén Rodríguez Pérez wrote: El jue, 01-10-2009 a las 22:04 +0100, Martin Dengler escribió: One like SoaS uses[1] might be good to include, but - I'm sorry for the lack of searching skills - I couldn't find a place to submit a patch that includes a suitable olpc.fth. We use the issue tracker for that: http://trisquel.info/en/project/issues Thanks - I'll file a request to have XO-1 boot Trisquel. I filed a request at http://trisquel.info/en/issues/please-include-bootolpcfth-ext2-bootable-parition with an example patch at http://www.martindengler.com/~martin/tmp/makedistro.patchhttp://www.martindengler.com/%7Emartin/tmp/makedistro.patch- but I don't know the environment so it might be totally the wrong place for inclusion of olpc.fth. Martin ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Sebastian Silva Colectivo FuenteLibre http://blog.fuentelibre.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] A proposal from Trisquel (Was Re: [SoaS] [DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel)
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 08:06:29PM -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote: I'm trying to boot into TOAST from an SD card. I created it using usb-creator included in Trisquel GNU. As per instructions from Ruben I created a /boot/olpc.fth and copied respective files into initrd.img and vmlinuz. The contents of my olpc.fth file are: \ Boot script for SD Boot \ created from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Custom_bootloader ro boot=casper rootdelay=1 splash console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 fbcon=font:SUN12x22 to boot-file sd:\boot\vmlinuz to boot-device sd:\boot\initrd.img to ramdisk unfreeze Right after the unfreeze line, can you try adding these lines: setup-smbios dcon-unfreeze visible ...? boot Nevertheless, can't boot. It freezes. Can you expand on freezes, please? Regards from Lima Icarito Martin pgpdi7Oi7e9cO.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
