Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-10-11
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:03 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: .. The only activity shipped with Sugar is a very old version of Turtle Art./ Plan Ceibal installed that Sugar 0.87.1, (on Ubuntu 10.04.3) because they didn't Know that TurtleArt Runs on Ubunto+Gnome, they think that running Turtle Art under Sugar is the only Way to install it. Turtleart runs under Gnome. Unfortunately later XO OS's hide the Activities directory and do not allow read access. If you do not have the permissions or skill you can not then run Turtleart in Gnome. It might be good to include Turtleart with Gnome, in the same way Inkscape, Gnumeric and Abiword work out of the box. Is this practical? Indeed it would, I didn't even realise it ran under gnome. Walter, any chance of getting a .desktop file shipped as part of the release to make it easy to run under gnome, let me know if you want me to help get that done. Peter ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-10-11
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:03 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: .. The only activity shipped with Sugar is a very old version of Turtle Art./ Plan Ceibal installed that Sugar 0.87.1, (on Ubuntu 10.04.3) because they didn't Know that TurtleArt Runs on Ubunto+Gnome, they think that running Turtle Art under Sugar is the only Way to install it. Turtleart runs under Gnome. Unfortunately later XO OS's hide the Activities directory and do not allow read access. If you do not have the permissions or skill you can not then run Turtleart in Gnome. It might be good to include Turtleart with Gnome, in the same way Inkscape, Gnumeric and Abiword work out of the box. Is this practical? Indeed it would, I didn't even realise it ran under gnome. Walter, any chance of getting a .desktop file shipped as part of the release to make it easy to run under gnome, let me know if you want me to help get that done. Peter It already ships with a .desktop file. There is an RPM for TA that is woefully out of date. I'd love help getting it up to snuff. I guess it is time for me to finally learn something about packaging. -walter -- 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
[IAEP] Concurso de Ciencia para estudiantes entre 14 y 18 años
Se anunció recientemente un Concurso de Ciencia para estudiantes entre 14 y 18 años de todos los países del mundo. Este es el sitio del Concurso: http://www.youtube.com/spacelab?feature=inp-pr-space Copio y traduzco, de este sitio, la descripción general que se da sobre el concurso: = Traduzco: YouTube, Lenovo y Space Adventures están haciendo un concurso para encontrar un experimento espacial asombroso, con premios extraordinarios para los ganadores. Lean la guía Cómo Participar, las Reglas Oficiales y las Preguntas Frecuentes para entender completamente lo que necesitan hacer para participar en este concurso. Los finalistas de cada grupo etario (14-16 y 17-18) y de cada región global (Las Américas, Europa, Medio Oriente, África y Asia-Pacífico) participarán en una votación por parte del público en YouTube y serán juzgados [los experimentos propuestos] por nuestro panel de expertos internacionales. Las entradas para participar deberán recibirse no más tarde del 7 de Diciembre. = Copio: YouTube, Lenovo, and Space Adventures are running a competition to find an amazing space experiment with some extraordinary prizes for the winners. Read the How to Enter guide, the Official Rules, and the FAQs to fully understand what you need to do to enter the competition. The finalists from each age group (14 - 16 and 17 - 18) and each global region (The Americas, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific) will be put to the public vote on YouTube and judged by our international panel of experts. Entries must be received by December 7th. = Carlos Rabassa Voluntario Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal Montevideo, Uruguay ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-10-11
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:48 PM, nanon...@mediagala.com wrote: On 11/10/2011 09:38 p.m., Walter Bender wrote: .. The only activity shipped with Sugar is a very old version of Turtle Art. Plan Ceibal installed that Sugar 0.87.1, (on Ubuntu 10.04.3) because they didn't Know that TurtleArt Runs on Ubunto+Gnome, they think that running Turtle Art under Sugar is the only Way to install it. It is not my opinion, is what Plan Ceibal said on the official courseware to High school teachers. They teach that to the Professors that uses the Magellan. (that the reason to install Sugar was to run Turtle Art on Ubuntu) I Think they want Turtle Art and Etoys to run on a near future with the Lego robots that They already bought. They also installed under Gnome: Etoys, Geogebra, Tuxpaint, Mathgraph, Python Interpreter, Scratch, OpenOffice, Blender, Pitivi, etc. On the Sugar that is installed on Magellan LAptops there are many activities that don't Run at all (I don't know why). Y tried to install many activities and there are a few that runs. BRowse don't Run, for example, (I installed it with a pendrive). Turtle Art (the new one) runs OK, Write also, terminal, and the software update on the control panel. -- In some High School and technical svhools they have The MAgellan both TEachers and Children , but only in the departmente of Canelones (500,000 inhabitants). On the rest of Uruguayan High schools and technical Schools the Children have XO 1.5 (Sugar+Gnome) and the teachers have the MAgellan (Ubuntu+Gnome+Handicapped Sugar) Teachers have a 160 Gb Magellan, and children an 8 Gb SSD Magellan Sorry for my English, I Hope it is almost understandable for you. Paolo Benini Montevideo ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep Thanks for this update. Very helpful. Re Browse, it is a know problem: the underlying library is no longer maintained in Ubuntu, hence the switch to Surf, which uses Webkit. It would be great to learn a bit more about what other activities run and don't run. I imagine that Csound may not be installed, so many of the music activities will not run, for example. regards. -walter -- 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] Sugar Digest 2011-10-11
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:03 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: .. The only activity shipped with Sugar is a very old version of Turtle Art./ Plan Ceibal installed that Sugar 0.87.1, (on Ubuntu 10.04.3) because they didn't Know that TurtleArt Runs on Ubunto+Gnome, they think that running Turtle Art under Sugar is the only Way to install it. Turtleart runs under Gnome. Unfortunately later XO OS's hide the Activities directory and do not allow read access. If you do not have the permissions or skill you can not then run Turtleart in Gnome. It might be good to include Turtleart with Gnome, in the same way Inkscape, Gnumeric and Abiword work out of the box. Is this practical? Tony Turtle Art need not be installed in ~/Activities. You can unzip the .xo file anywhere and run it from the command line: ./turtleart.py -walter -- 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] Sugar Digest 2011-10-11
/On 12/10/2011 09:30 a.m., Walter Bender wrote: It would be great to learn a bit more about what other activities run and don't run. / On the MAgallan MG2 (Classmate II) of Plan Ceibal with Ubuntu 10 , Gnome and Sugar, there are some activities that works and others don't work: LOG - YES TERMINAL - YES TURTLE ART - YES PAINT - YES CALCULATOR - YES MEMORIZE - YES DISTANCE - YES PIPPY - YES BROWSE - NO WRITE - NO SCRATCH - NO READ - NO TAM TAM EDIT - NO TAM TAM SYNTH LAB - NO TAM TAM EDIT - NO ETOYS - NO Paolo Benini Montevideo ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
