Re: [IAEP] Help with Wiki FR activity

2012-01-25 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Hello, > I have a first test version of a Wikipedia offline activity in French, > similar to the versions we have actually in English and Spanish. > I need help doing quality control, specially check if there are pages > with non appropriat

[IAEP] SCaLE 10X Recap

2012-01-25 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Everyone and a warm welcome to 27 new members on our olpcSoCal mailing list! If you missed SCaLE 10X this past weekend, you missed a great conference! OLPC and Sugar Labs had a large presence there with an Upscale slide-talk about volunteering on Friday night, two presentations in the OSSI

Re: [IAEP] Sugar UI font

2012-01-25 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Just a thought - how feasible would it be to take an existing > open-licensed font (there are lots of good ones) and substitute in an > "a" and "9" that are more consistent with Australian classroom That is your best shot IMHO. Just mak

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-01-25

2012-01-25 Thread Walter Bender
== Sugar Digest == 1. I was in Colombia last week and had a chance to meet up with some Sugar hackers in Bogota. It was nice to catch up with Rafael Ortiz and Pilar Saenz and to meet Fabian Prieto. The interest in Sugar in Colombia is on the rise, so it is great that there is a local community tha

Re: [IAEP] Sugar UI font

2012-01-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 25 January 2012 23:59, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > The typeface that comes closest to our needs is Andika [1]. It has a > 'bowl a' (a good thing) but it also has a hooked 9 (a bad thing). It > also isn't very legible at small sizes. > > I'm surprised that no fonts that meet our criteria appear

Re: [IAEP] Sugar UI font

2012-01-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 25 January 2012 23:17, Chris Leonard wrote: > > Just a thought I would like to throw into the mix while you are still > in the investigation phase.  You might want adding a selection > criteria that the font should be capable of representing of any > unusual characters that may have been introd

Re: [IAEP] Sugar UI font

2012-01-25 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Our first thought was to use one of the Australian schools handwriting > fonts [1]. We're currently experimenting with the Queensland Compact > Bold font [2], as it is more legible than the others. However, any > cursive font is less rea

[IAEP] Contributors Program 2PM EST Friday Jan 27

2012-01-25 Thread Holt
Know a community project needing XO-1s (*) to advance learning software/hardware/activities/content using Sugar especially?! Remind all such serious projects to apply to OLPC's Contributors Program well before 2PM EST this Friday Jan 27, thanks: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_prog

Re: [IAEP] Sugar UI font

2012-01-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Our first thought was to use one of the Australian schools handwriting fonts [1]. We're currently experimenting with the Queensland Compact Bold font [2], as it is more legible than the others. However, any cursive font is less readable on a screen. Feedback so far has been primarily negative. Wha

Re: [IAEP] 2 new tutorials: Liveinst from f16 Soas and f16 Netinstall Sugar-desktop only

2012-01-25 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Thomas C Gilliard < satel...@bendbroadband.com> wrote: > Hi; > > I just composed 2 tutorials - annotated screen-shots of f16 Sugar installs: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/**Sugar_Creation_Kit#F16_Sugar_** > Install_from_a_Booted_Live_CD_**with_liveinst