Re: [IAEP] (Please read) Re: Proposed Trac - Launchpad migration

2009-11-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 03:36, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
 On 1 Nov 2009, at 22:06, Chris Ball wrote:

 Dear Sugar folks,

 This mail didn't get any replies, but it's important to know whether
 people agree with it before going ahead.  So, please understand that:

 * bugs.sugarlabs.org is moving from Trac to Launchpad.

 Ouch, oh my that's a bolt from the blue, thanks for emailing! I had no
 idea this was really on the cards, just assumed it was some background
 noise/chatter from a few folks who never liked using trac.

 Personally I've ignored Launchpad as I don't have time to burn on yet
 another 'lets try some other misc thingamajig' cycle. FWIW, will
 likely ignore Launchpad for a number of months more even if we
 migrated yesterday.

 * Existing bug data will be imported, but the bug numbers won't be the
  same.

 So the git commit messages referencing trac bug tickets will be future
 information garbage, oh joy.

 * It will be hosted by Canonical externally, rather than by SL as Trac
  currently is.

 If any of these are not to your liking, the time to speak up is now,
 before it all happens.  :)

 Not to my liking, but if some really smart/committed folks are willing
 to do the work, have it well tested, say this is really worth the
 pain, and don't mind some folks ignoring the move for a few months...
 Though, I would first really love to see a clear explanation of why
 this is a good idea, and how the move benefits us.

+1 to have a precise blurb explaining explicitly why this is a good thing to do.

All proposals should make explicit the resoning, risks, known
controversies and any issues that the submitter anticipates are
relevant to the discussion.

Btw, I couldn't create an account in the testing instance, no emails
seem to be sent.

Regards,

Tomeu

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Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] next SLOBs meeting reminder/agenda: 2009-10-30

2009-11-02 Thread Mel Chua
Quick note: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Requesting_a_SLOBs_decision

Better minutes/announcement-to-list/blog-post-to-Planet forthcoming,
but I wanted to close the conversation loop here with the updated
decision making procedure we came up with at Friday's SLOBs meeting.

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Re: [IAEP] 'apt-get install sugar-platform' available for Ubuntu9.10.

2009-11-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:02, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
 After a couple of weeks of reading tutorials, help from Aleksey, and
 some Ubuntu developers there are Sugar packages available for Ubuntu
 9.10.

Just gave them a try and worked great, congrats all! Which are the next steps?

Btw, why did we needed to build our own xulrunner?

Regards,

Tomeu

 For now, these packages are available on the Ubuntu-Sugarteam PPA
 (personal package archive) at
 https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam/+archive/0.86 .

 To use these packages, just add
 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugarteam/0.86/ubuntu karmic main' to the
 end of /etc/apt/sources.list

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Re: [IAEP] (Please read) Re: Proposed Trac - Launchpad migration

2009-11-02 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 22:36, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:

  * Existing bug data will be imported, but the bug numbers won't be the
  same.


 So the git commit messages referencing trac bug tickets will be future
 information garbage, oh joy.


As stated, there will be both a conversion table and a redirect service
available for the considerable future. We already have fragmentation between
SL bugs and OLPC bugs. Launchpad will allow us to keep our old bug numbers
Is there anything else that would make this work better for everyone?

An example of the redirection scheme:
https://launchpad.net/sugar/+bug/slbugs1534 points to a page titled Bug
#460049 (slbugs1534). We can change the nickname prefix to whatever we'd
like.


  * It will be hosted by Canonical externally, rather than by SL as Trac
  currently is.

 If any of these are not to your liking, the time to speak up is now,
 before it all happens.  :)


 Not to my liking, but if some really smart/committed folks are willing to
 do the work, have it well tested, say this is really worth the pain, and
 don't mind some folks ignoring the move for a few months... Though, I would
 first really love to see a clear explanation of why this is a good idea, and
 how the move benefits us.


To quote Bernie, our system administrator and current manager of Sugar Labs'
Trac instance:

bernie: my #1 reason for switching is that our trac instance is a wreck and
 nobody wants to maintain it.
 bernie: me less than anyone else. it's an awful application to maintain...
 especially now that it is riddled by spammers


Switching to Launchpad would free up admin time to work on improving other
services, such as ASLO http://activities.sugarlabs.org and the wiki.
Launchpad is already many times faster than the current Sugar Labs bug
tracker, and Canonical has committed to add capacity as the service grows.

In addition, Launchpad allows developers to manipulate bugs by email (a la
bugs.debian.org), permitting developers to choose their own workflow.

Launchpad also is better suited for multi-project collaboration, both within
Sugarlabs and with other distributionshttps://edge.launchpad.net/+tour/bugs.
We can easily track the status of bugs that affect both upstream Sugar and
the Sugar packages in, say, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Gentoo, all from the
same page.

We've been testing https://launchpad.net/soas Launchpad with the Sugar on
a Stick project for a few months now, and it's been working pretty well.

Finally, we would be able to migrate away from Launchpad at any time.

Thanks,
Luke Faraone
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Re: [IAEP] (Please read) Re: Proposed Trac - Launchpad migration

2009-11-02 Thread Wade Brainerd
I have no experience with Launchpad, but am often frustrated by the
performance of SL Trac.

At my office we switched from Trac to Redmine for internal project
development, since Trac's development seems to have slowed to a crawl.

Provided a high priority is placed on migrating bug numbers and
keeping links to dev.sugarlabs.org working, I'm not opposed.   I'll
probably take Gary's approach and let the dust settle though.  Now
that 0.86 is out it's probably the best time to do this.

Any chance OLPC would consider moving over too, so we could have true
connections between OLPC and SL bugs?

-Wade

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 22:36, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:

 * Existing bug data will be imported, but the bug numbers won't be the
  same.

 So the git commit messages referencing trac bug tickets will be future
 information garbage, oh joy.

 As stated, there will be both a conversion table and a redirect service
 available for the considerable future. We already have fragmentation between
 SL bugs and OLPC bugs. Launchpad will allow us to keep our old bug numbers
 Is there anything else that would make this work better for everyone?

 An example of the redirection scheme:
 https://launchpad.net/sugar/+bug/slbugs1534 points to a page titled Bug
 #460049 (slbugs1534). We can change the nickname prefix to whatever we'd
 like.


 * It will be hosted by Canonical externally, rather than by SL as Trac
  currently is.

 If any of these are not to your liking, the time to speak up is now,
 before it all happens.  :)

 Not to my liking, but if some really smart/committed folks are willing to
 do the work, have it well tested, say this is really worth the pain, and
 don't mind some folks ignoring the move for a few months... Though, I would
 first really love to see a clear explanation of why this is a good idea, and
 how the move benefits us.

 To quote Bernie, our system administrator and current manager of Sugar Labs'
 Trac instance:

 bernie: my #1 reason for switching is that our trac instance is a wreck
 and nobody wants to maintain it.
 bernie: me less than anyone else. it's an awful application to maintain...
 especially now that it is riddled by spammers

 Switching to Launchpad would free up admin time to work on improving other
 services, such as ASLO and the wiki. Launchpad is already many times faster
 than the current Sugar Labs bug tracker, and Canonical has committed to add
 capacity as the service grows.

 In addition, Launchpad allows developers to manipulate bugs by email (a la
 bugs.debian.org), permitting developers to choose their own workflow.

 Launchpad also is better suited for multi-project collaboration, both within
 Sugarlabs and with other distributions. We can easily track the status of
 bugs that affect both upstream Sugar and the Sugar packages in, say, Ubuntu,
 Fedora, Debian, and Gentoo, all from the same page.

 We've been testing Launchpad with the Sugar on a Stick project for a few
 months now, and it's been working pretty well.

 Finally, we would be able to migrate away from Launchpad at any time.

 Thanks,
 Luke Faraone
 http://luke.faraone.cc

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Re: [IAEP] What do I want Big Time To Be?

2009-11-02 Thread Jim Simmons
Caryl,

I don't know what your budget is, but you can get a refurbished PC for
under $100 here:

http://www.pcsurplusonline.com/index.cfm

I have bought several computers from this place.  They are sold with
no OS installed, sometimes with no hard drive, but generally they have
a CD-ROM drive, a keyboard, and a mouse.  These would make a pretty
good demo machines, IMHO.  I've been buying used IBM/Lenovo boxes for
my own use and like them a lot.  The Think Centre desktop model has
a small form factor that would make it almost as handy for
demonstrations as a laptop would be but would be more reliable and
cost much less.  (Generally speaking used laptops are no bargain).  HP
has a small form factor machine too, but I favor the IBM model.  It's
designed to be easy to work on without tools.

James Simmons


 Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 11:30:53 -0800
 From: Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com
 Subject: [IAEP] What do I want Big Time To Be?
 To: IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org
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 Hi All,

 I would like to be able to show them how it works on a MacBook (my machine) 
 and on a PC (if someone would just tell me how to get one for very little 
 $$$). I would like it to be stable software that runs on their choice of Live 
 CD or USB stick.

 How much of this is real already?  How much is in the dim and distant future? 
 Send links!

 Caryl
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Re: [IAEP] (Please read) Re: Proposed Trac - Launchpad migration

2009-11-02 Thread Luke Faraone
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 09:19, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have no experience with Launchpad, but am often frustrated by the
 performance of SL Trac.

 At my office we switched from Trac to Redmine for internal project
 development, since Trac's development seems to have slowed to a crawl.

 Provided a high priority is placed on migrating bug numbers and
 keeping links to dev.sugarlabs.org working, I'm not opposed.   I'll
 probably take Gary's approach and let the dust settle though.  Now
 that 0.86 is out it's probably the best time to do this.


I've just confirmed with our contacts at Canonical that bug aliases will be
created for all the old bugs, of the form sugarlabs- or sl-.


 Any chance OLPC would consider moving over too, so we could have true
 connections between OLPC and SL bugs?


I don't think it's been discussed, but I'll forward it to the OLPC VIG.  It
is certainly more likely if the Sugar Labs migration works well.

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Re: [IAEP] 'apt-get install sugar-platform' available for Ubuntu9.10.

2009-11-02 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
 I also had a strange problem, which I replicated (sadly :)).

 When I launched Sugar for the first time (and I had the same Browse problem)
 and then closed it, I could use the track pad and keyboards, but the mouse
 clickers wouldn't work. Removing Sugar did not fix the problem. Both times,
 I had to reinstall Ubuntu.

 I am working on a Dell Latitude 2100. Everything else I have tried with
 Ubuntu has worked fine.

 For what it's worth.
 Gerald


Browse doesn't load for me as well. When I use TurtleArt, it works
fine, but upon exiting, it throws me out to GDM. Looks like we still
have some X issues.

Where do we report bugs?
--
Sameer

 On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Ryan Kabir rka...@gmail.com wrote:
  For what it's worth - the install worked fine for me.
 
  Browse doesn't want to load, but I figure that's probably an issue on my
  part.

 I can confirm browse does not work for me either. I tried on 9.10 beta
 and a 9.10 final new install.
 I have not had a chance to collect the logs but I'll be doing that.

 Dave
 
  Awesome! Great work!
 
  Ryan.
 
  On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 14:34, Grant Bowman grant...@gmail.com wrote:
   You may have some other sources in your /etc/apt/source.list file
   that
   are conflicting.  I've got David's packages installed and running
   without those errors.  I saw errors like that were from the older
   packages.
 
  I removed the old ppa repositories beforehand.
 
   I don't think David's packages uninstall or conflict with the older
   packages yet to make the upgrade as seamless as it soon will be.  You
   can try remove all the older sugar packages.  To find the older
   packages try `dpkg -l | egrep sugar` and then apt-get remove the old
   ones before installing the new ones.
 
  I did that before installing. I still have the conflict.
 
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sugar-platform:
   sugar-platform depends on olpcsound; however:
   Package olpcsound is not installed.
  dpkg: error processing sugar-platform (--configure):
   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
 
  I tried the alternate command
 
  python /usr/bin/sugar-session 
 
  which produces an almost usable Sugar session, with lots of missing
  icons.
 
 
  [1] 4997
  moku...@mokurai-laptop:~$
  ** (sugar-session:4997): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype
  'WnckWindowState' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'
 
  ** (sugar-session:4997): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype
  'WnckWindowActions' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'
 
  ** (sugar-session:4997): WARNING **: Trying to register gtype
  'WnckWindowMoveResizeMask' as flags when in fact it is of type 'GEnum'
 
   Grant Bowman
   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam
  
  
   On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com
   wrote:
   There seems to be something missing in the repository, or perhaps
   something else is wrong.
  
   python-sugar-toolkit-0.86:
    Depends: python-sugar-0.86  but it is not installable
    Recommends: sugar-0.86  but it is not installable
    Recommends: python-carquinyol-0.86  but it is not installable
    Recommends: sugar-presence-service-0.86  but it is not installable
    Recommends: python-jarabe-0.86  but it is not installable
  
   This is named -0.86, but the version listed is 0.85.
  
   Leaving that out, and installing the rest,
  
   Errors were encountered while processing:
    sugar-platform
  
   E: /var/cache/apt/archives/olpcsound_1%3a5.10.90-1~ppa2_amd64.deb:
   trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libcsnd.so.5.2', which is also in
   package libcsnd5.2 1
  
   This is a broken dependency sugar-platform--olpcsound--libcsnd5.2
  
   Then when I try sugar-emulator, Xephyr starts, but not Sugar.
  
   sugar-emulator
   [dix] Could not init font path element
   /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic,
   removing from list!
   [config/dbus] couldn't take over org.x.config:
   org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied (Connection :1.79 is not
   allowed to own the service org.x.config.display101 due to security
   policies in the configuration file)
   unrecognised device identifier!
   (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
   unrecognised device identifier!
   (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
   unrecognised device identifier!
   (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
   unrecognised device identifier!
   (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
   unrecognised device identifier!
   (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
   unrecognised device identifier!
   (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
   unrecognised device identifier!
   (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (2)
   unrecognised device identifier!
   (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest 

[IAEP] SLs Chile and GNOME Chile

2009-11-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi,

have you considered reaching GNOME Chile for cooperation? Sugar's code
is more than 90% from GNOME and the two upstreams regularly cooperate.

There's lots of potential for resource pooling in the technical level,
and also in the advocacy for free software in education.

Regards,

Tomeu

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Re: [IAEP] SLs Chile and GNOME Chile

2009-11-02 Thread Werner Westermann
Hello Tomeu, regards from Santiago, Chile.

GNOME community, as far as I know, it had a lot of ups and down in their
effort to build collaborative work.  I really don't know if there's some
counterpart to talk to.  This is no sin for any free-software community, but
it gets hard to coordinate any kind of cooperation.  Where do you see that
there's potential around Chile?  Are yo talking to chileans involved with
GNOME?

I must say that stimulating GNOMErs to work around Sugar could be a good
idea, but I feel that should come from GNOME's vision and scope.  Two
chileans are in GNOME's board (Germán Poo http://www.calcifer.org/ and
Fernando San Martín http://blogs.gnome.org/fsmw/), and maybe they could
help.  Is there any work going around SL and GNOME today?

Best wishes,

werner


2009/11/2 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org

 Hi,

 have you considered reaching GNOME Chile for cooperation? Sugar's code
 is more than 90% from GNOME and the two upstreams regularly cooperate.

 There's lots of potential for resource pooling in the technical level,
 and also in the advocacy for free software in education.

 Regards,

 Tomeu

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[IAEP] agenda item for Friday

2009-11-02 Thread Walter Bender
I would like to discuss the current status/policies regarding the
SLOBs mailing list. We have a somewhat ad hoc mechanism for adding
observers to the list. I would submit that this policy actually
encourages us to use the closed list at times when the public lists
would be more appropriate. I would recommend we eliminate all
observers from the list and use it only for things that necessity of
the protection of the privacy of third parties require a private
discussion. The more limited the list, the less likely we'll use it.
I would recommend that the ombudsman be privy to the list as well. As
far as sending email to the list, it would be nice to enable send
access to all members of the community. But I am  not sure how to
configure mailman to do this.

-walter

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Re: [IAEP] What do I want Big Time To Be?

2009-11-02 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:30, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
 Hi All,

 When I asked if SoaS was ready for Big Time, Martin replied, What do you
 mean?  I'd recommend it but I don't know enough about what you want.

 So here is what I mean and want...

Agreed. I would like to emphasize that after the successful demos,
teachers should be able to go back to their schools and get started
without having to call on us for assistance. That means that

o They can find the download page through Google, even if they don't
have a URL. That works now to get to
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick, if they can remember
the name. If they can't, we have to think about what they will look
for instead.

o The download is automatic and trouble-free. Currently, no, according
to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry, which
puts the download locations on the third screen down, and talks about
Bittorrent, SHA hashes, downloading extra software, and other issues.

o There is an automated installer, so that no technical knowledge is needed. No.

o The installer offers to make a boot CD, and explains how the user
can tell whether one is needed. No.

o Enough documentation, tutorials, demos, and sample lesson plans are
included so that our teacher can convince other teachers that this is
worth their time, and also administrators and parents. We have made a
good start, but there is much more to be done.

Or, alternatively, we can point them to a ready supplier of CDs and
sticks with Sugar already installed.

Another way to look at this is through one of Fred Brooks's Laws from
The Mythical Man-Month:

The difference between a program you can use and a program you can
sell is three times the effort. (Brooks's principal Law is: Adding
manpower to a late software project makes it later.)

Hofstadter's Law also applies:

Projects tend to take twice as long as expected, even when you have
taken account of Hofstadter's Law.

Also stated as:

The first 90% of the work takes the first 90% of the time, and the
remaining 10% of the work takes the other 90% (sic) of the time.

Why is there never time to do a job right, but always time to do it over?

All of these laws have been amply verified during XO and Sugar
development. We are only as far advanced as we currently are because
this is not a commercial operation.

 I would like to be able to go into a room (or exhibit hall) filled with
 overworked, underpaid educators and while showing them Sugar on the XO, tell
 them they can run some of the same (and some even better) Activities on the
 equipment they already have at their schools... and that they can do it for
 free (free is good).

Free is the only way to get around the competing forces that have made
the schools' acquisition process such a bureaucratic nightmare.

 I would like them to get really excited about being able to get something
 for their students that is not only sound educationally, but that they can
 afford because the download is free. Their only cost is their chosen storage
 media.

The real question is whether they are allowed to use it on existing
school computers, even though it will not be installed and will not
affect what is installed.

 I would like to be able to show them how it works on a MacBook (my machine)
 and on a PC (if someone would just tell me how to get one for very little
 $$$). I would like it to be stable software that runs on their choice of
 Live CD or USB stick.

 I would like to be able to give them links for downloading it and for
 getting other Activities.

Done. SoaS Wiki page and a.s.l.o.

 I would like to be able to give them links for
 very easy to follow instructions for downloading and using the software.

Currently, easy for techies.

So simple, even a 12-year old can understand it. Quick, someone get
me a 12-year-old!--Groucho Marx

 And, I would like to be able to give them links to a place they can get help
 if they get stuck.

Right. That should be on the SoaS page. Instead, we ask them whether
they would like to help us.

 I know some of these things exist already but, unless I have missed
 something, most of them don't. My next presentation to educators will be at
 the CUELA/LAUSD Tech Fair on November 14.

 How much of this is real already?  How much is in the dim and distant
 future? Send links!

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Re: [IAEP] SLs Chile and GNOME Chile

2009-11-02 Thread David Van Assche
Hi Werner,
   I don't know if you know this, but both Sugar an Gnome share
identical code for collaboration and communication in the form of
Telepathy dbus api (http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/) The only
difference is that at the time their presence service was not so
advanced, so Sugar has its own. Telepathy has since really mattured
though, and mission control 5, that includes an advanced presence
service that hopeffuly some folks are porting to latest sugar,,

David Van Assche

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Werner Westermann werne...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello Tomeu, regards from Santiago, Chile.

 GNOME community, as far as I know, it had a lot of ups and down in their
 effort to build collaborative work.  I really don't know if there's some
 counterpart to talk to.  This is no sin for any free-software community, but
 it gets hard to coordinate any kind of cooperation.  Where do you see that
 there's potential around Chile?  Are yo talking to chileans involved with
 GNOME?

 I must say that stimulating GNOMErs to work around Sugar could be a good
 idea, but I feel that should come from GNOME's vision and scope.  Two
 chileans are in GNOME's board (Germán Poo http://www.calcifer.org/ and
 Fernando San Martín http://blogs.gnome.org/fsmw/), and maybe they could
 help.  Is there any work going around SL and GNOME today?

 Best wishes,

 werner


 2009/11/2 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org

 Hi,

 have you considered reaching GNOME Chile for cooperation? Sugar's code
 is more than 90% from GNOME and the two upstreams regularly cooperate.

 There's lots of potential for resource pooling in the technical level,
 and also in the advocacy for free software in education.

 Regards,

 Tomeu

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