[IAEP] Fwd: Sugar Digest 2009-11-02

2009-11-03 Thread Walter Bender
I must not be getting enough sleep. I forgot to CC iaep and dev. -walter -- Forwarded message -- From: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:53 PM Subject: Sugar Digest 2009-11-02 To: community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org === Sugar Digest === 1. Steve

Re: [IAEP] SLs Chile and GNOME Chile

2009-11-03 Thread Werner Westermann
Thanks David, the technical background is not our best side, but we need to get in track. If you know ideas around Gnome and Sugar development it would be great to know. Regards, werner 2009/11/3 David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com Hi Werner, I don't know if you know this, but both

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Sugar Digest 2009-11-02

2009-11-03 Thread Walter Bender
I think there are more recommended activities than fit at any one time. They are chosen randomly from the list. As to how the list is compiled, I do not know, but I believe that Etoys is already a recommended activity. I'll double-check. -walter On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Rita Freudenberg

Re: [IAEP] SLs Chile and GNOME Chile

2009-11-03 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
I know that gnome-es is very active and at least one fellow Colombian developer with experience on gnome, we can begin to work with them at sugar-desarrollo. Rafael Ortiz On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Werner Westermann werne...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks David, the technical background is

Re: [IAEP] [Bookreader] Text to Speech readers for XO

2009-11-03 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
The Internet Archive has started to distribute books as DAISY (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAISY_Digital_Talking_Book), something we should definitely take a look at. We might also consider leveraging the GNOME accessibility framework to provide book-reading features for Epubs and PDFs in Read -

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

2009-11-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All, Hi, I've put some comments inline... 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... I would like to be able to go into a room (or

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Sugar Digest 2009-11-02

2009-11-03 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:41 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I think there are more recommended activities than fit at any one time. They are chosen randomly from the list. As to how the list is

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Sugar Digest 2009-11-02

2009-11-03 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:41 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I think there are more recommended activities than fit at any one

[IAEP] stat collecto activity

2009-11-03 Thread David Van Assche
The new google wave stuff made me think of a maybe interesting activity that would be very easy to write but might be useful for teachers to gain feedback from their students, while treating them more as peers in the constructionist philosophy. The idea is, to have a a multiple choice like

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Sugar Digest 2009-11-02

2009-11-03 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I think there are more recommended activities than fit at any one time. They are chosen randomly from the list. As to how the list is compiled, I do not know, but I believe that Etoys is already a recommended

[IAEP] Infrastructure Status Report

2009-11-03 Thread David Farning
While SoaS and Trademarks have gotten most of the attention lately, other parts of Sugar Labs are growing and moving forward. A lot is happening on the infrastructure side of the project. Some of it behind the scenes and some of it more public. --Capacity growth-- The biggest challenge faced

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

2009-11-03 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: 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.

Re: [IAEP] Stat collection

2009-11-03 Thread ALEXANDER JONES (RIT Student)
Please check out http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Teacher%27s_Tools it's a project that i've been working on and have posted several emails to several mailing lists about. It is extremely similar and i have gotten positive feedback from a few people about its usability. feel free to comment on it

Re: [IAEP] Stat collection

2009-11-03 Thread David Van Assche
Yes it is quite similar indeed, but I think it'd better be served with python and telepathy as an activity from within sugar, rather thn a dlasbb /web app.I guess its mostly a personal thing, but I have an exteme dislike of Flash based apps... In LTSP labs, for exmple, unless u are running