Re: [IAEP] sunjammer.sugarlabs.org: emergency maintenance downtime, Tue May 31 17:00 UTC

2011-05-31 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Sunjammer is back online. Apologies for the prolonged outage. This machine hadn't been rebooted in a very long time (over 500 days), therefore I took the opportunity to upgrade the kernel, and migrate the filesystems to ext4. As a result of these and other performance tweaks, all services should

Re: [IAEP] Dyslexia - Cost of Commercial solutions

2011-05-31 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:30 PM, wrote: > Just now I received an email with technology recommendations from Susan > Barton (who I think is a pretty cool dyslexia advocate) and they total > between $500 - $1000, depending on what type of RFB&D book reader player you > choose. > > That is why I am

[IAEP] Dyslexia - Cost of Commercial solutions

2011-05-31 Thread marilyn
Just now I received an email with technology recommendations from Susan Barton (who I think is a pretty cool dyslexia advocate) and they total between $500 - $1000, depending on what type of RFB&D book reader player you choose. That is why I am so fanatical about getting open source software

[IAEP] Daisy Readers

2011-05-31 Thread marilyn
James, Ah . . . I think I understand. The thing about RFB&D/Learning Ally is that their books are free for students who have been diagnosed with dyslexia or other reading impairments by a doctor. It has to be really official and documented. However, most dyslexic students will not have the op

[IAEP] SABER: System Assessment and Benchmarking for Education Results

2011-05-31 Thread Chris Leonard
Although the message below is focused on school health issues, the links within to the SABER program may be of great interest as an assessment framework. SABER: System Assessment and Benchmarking for Education Results http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTEDUCATION/0,,contentMDK:22710

[IAEP] sunjammer.sugarlabs.org: emergency maintenance downtime, Tue May 31 17:00 UTC

2011-05-31 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Sorry for the short notice, at the FSF we have to reboot the XEN machine which hosts sunjammer for about 1 hour. The following public services will be temporarily unavailable: activities.sugarlabs.org activities-devel.sugarlabs.org activities-testing.sugarlabs.org activities-lb0.sugarlabs.org act

Re: [IAEP] I am so excited I can hardly stand it - how about a Daisy Reader too?

2011-05-31 Thread James Simmons
Marilyn, The only free source of material in Daisy format that I know of is the Internet Archive. For example, one of the books I donated: http://www.archive.org/details/BigAviationBookForBoys Looking at the Daisy file it seems to have no advantage over a plain text file. I understand that the

Re: [IAEP] Texas Senate Bills 866 & 867 regarding dyslexia passed over the weekend

2011-05-31 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On 30 May 2011 22:24, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > > Well, you are describing our solution :) > > Great to hear! We are excited about this :) > > > Read can open PDF, EPUB, DejaVu and text files. Can do text to speech > > with word highligh