Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Simon Schampijer
The question is what you refer to when you talk about Sugar. The concept of an 
app is similar to the concept of an Activity in Sugar. If you want to bring 
educational material to the ipad you have to look at specific Apps like 'Move 
the turtle' which is similar to Turtle Art. 'garageband' is another one 
interesting for older kids. 

Regards,
Simon



Am 13.06.2012 um 07:50 schrieb Steven Thompson steven_sen...@yahoo.com:

 Even just in English in Japan could help kids. The common denomenator for jhs 
 and hs kids is an iPhone or android and the iPad at home...much more so than 
 buying an Intel Classmate or having a hope of getting an XO. 
 
 It's not about price or energy requirements here, its about good education 
 for kids. 
 
 Can we get sugar as a Mac Ap at the Ap Store?
 
 From: Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com; 
 To: Steven Thompson steven_sen...@yahoo.com; 
 Cc: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com; 
 community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; 
 sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org; 
 Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap? 
 Sent: Wed, Jun 13, 2012 1:10:09 AM 
 
 
 
 On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Steven Thompson steven_sen...@yahoo.com 
 wrote:
 Thank you all in this community for your creative dedication. 
 
 I am considering using sugar for my 4 year old daughter and her friends. 
 Parents have access to iPads. We are in Osaka Japan. 
 
 Can Sugar be used on an iPad? 
 
 If not does anyone have any suggestions for getting a group if Japanese kids 
 involved? The benefit of the tablet us that very strong cases can be easily 
 purchased for kid use. Why buy an Intel Classmate when we already have iPads 
 lying around! 
 
 All suggestions welcome, 
 Steven
 
 
 
 Dear Steven,
  
 One of the first things that is needed is more complete Japanese localization.
 
 http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ja/ 
 
 cjl
 Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator
 
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Chris Leonard
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Steven Thompson steven_sen...@yahoo.comwrote:

 Thank you for your quick response Simon.

  I could just use ipads with educational Aps but I too like using
 something that let kids get their hands dirty.

 Get an Intel Classmate or might there be hope of getting say, 10 XOs to do
 a research project in Japan even. I could do this.
 Steven


10 XOs is probably more than you would be able to get, but if you have a
reasonable proposal, you can apply to the Contributor's program.  You'd
also need a US address to ship to as OLPC doesn't do international shipping
for CP anymore after too many problems with customs.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program

Working on translations into Japanese and testing of them is possibly a
basis for a contributor's project proposal, or at least a valued
ancillary contribution of another type of proposal that would improve the
ROI.

cjl
Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator
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Re: [IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 2012-06-13, at 07:50, Steven Thompson wrote:

 Even just in English in Japan could help kids. The common denomenator for jhs 
 and hs kids is an iPhone or android and the iPad at home...much more so than 
 buying an Intel Classmate or having a hope of getting an XO. 

Sugar can be installed on any PC, not just Classmates or XOs.

 It's not about price or energy requirements here, its about good education 
 for kids. 
 
 Can we get sugar as a Mac Ap at the Ap Store?

I think Sugar-on-a-Stick (SoaS) can be plugged into recent Macs and works.

The iPad does not run Mac apps.

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Re: [IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
 On 2012-06-13, at 07:50, Steven Thompson wrote:

 Even just in English in Japan could help kids. The common denomenator for 
 jhs and hs kids is an iPhone or android and the iPad at home...much more so 
 than buying an Intel Classmate or having a hope of getting an XO.

 Sugar can be installed on any PC, not just Classmates or XOs.

 It's not about price or energy requirements here, its about good education 
 for kids.

 Can we get sugar as a Mac Ap at the Ap Store?

 I think Sugar-on-a-Stick (SoaS) can be plugged into recent Macs and works.

You've always been able to plug SoaS into x86 Macs and have it work
(just like any Linux distro), the latest version adds much better
support for it and there's been specific interest in making it work
properly with uEFI and all the Mac quirks.

It's quite easy to use SoaS on a usb key on Macs and with something
like VirtualBox you can run Sugar in a Window on Mac without too many
issues.

Sugar as an App on Mac is an interesting concept and with improving
Mac support within GTK3 something like the Sugar in a Window concept
we use for testing is quite conceivable once the Sugar port to GTK3 is
complete, of course like everything it needs someone to step up and do
the work.

Peter
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[IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Valerie Taylor
XO Activities as iOS or Android apps - sounds interesting. Is this do-able?

I know there are lots of issues at the core of XO and Sugar mission
and development. But there are also millions of kids with devices in
their pockets who would benefit from technology supported learning.

We are investigating BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for use in the US.
We haven't been able to get any interest in XOs. But the idea that
each kid with their own pocket learning device - includes iTouch with
wifi only, is getting a lot of attention. It's an education project
too, and one that is desperately needed to help bridge the widening
educational divide in the US.

Please think about it.

..vt
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Re: [IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Raffael Reichelt
Hello Valerie!
Am 13.06.2012 um 12:33 schrieb Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com:

 XO Activities as iOS or Android apps - sounds interesting. Is this do-able?

 I know there are lots of issues at the core of XO and Sugar mission
 and development. But there are also millions of kids with devices in
 their pockets who would benefit from technology supported learning.

 We are investigating BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for use in the US.
 We haven't been able to get any interest in XOs. But the idea that
 each kid with their own pocket learning device - includes iTouch with
 wifi only, is getting a lot of attention. It's an education project
 too, and one that is desperately needed to help bridge the widening
 educational divide in the US.

 Please think about it.

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I thought about that too.
For my side decided to implement activities as HTML5/CSS3/Javascript
applications. It is a powerfull combination producable and useable on
nearly any device without any preconditions - beside an actual
webbrowser.  For iOS an Android without pain wrappable to a local app
even with access to hardware like accelerometer, camera, mic ...
Additionally there are thousands of really nice webapps out there for
our kids. As some kind of starting point I did a simple kids
webbrowser for iOS maybe you would like to have a look on it in iTunes
App Store it is called: Kiosk Lite.

Regards,
Raffael
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Re: [IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Valerie Taylor
Thanks Raffael. Seems pretty useful after a quick look.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiosk-pro-lite/id409906264?mt=8
http://www.ipadkiosks.com/

How hard would it be to make an iPhone version too? We are trying to
get the bar as low as possible. We have kids and schools with very
limited resources who see the possibilities. An old iPhone with a
cracked screen ($8 on eBay) can still connect to wifi at school and in
the public libraries as well as download wonderful free standalone
apps.

There are several easy to use tools to create custom webapps, too, so
more educators can create and customize the learning experience.

It isn't Sugar or XO but it does allow a large population of kids in
the US to have most of the advantages of the OLPC vision.


As some kind of starting point I did a simple kids
 webbrowser for iOS maybe you would like to have a look on it in iTunes
 App Store it is called: Kiosk Lite.

 Regards,
 Raffael
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Re: [IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Raffael Reichelt
Hello Valerie!

Am 13.06.2012 um 16:42 schrieb Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com:

Thanks Raffael. Seems pretty useful after a quick look.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiosk-pro-lite/id409906264?mt=8
http://www.ipadkiosks.com/

That is unfortunately wrong. The correct Link is

Sehen Sie sich diese App im App Store an:
[image: Cover 
Art]http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/kiosk-lite/id512567266?mt=8ls=1
   Kiosk Lite

Raffael Reichelt

Kategorie: Bildung

Aktualisiert: 21.05.2012
http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/kiosk-lite/id512567266?mt=8ls=1

http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/kiosk-lite/id512567266?mt=8ls=1


iTunes für Mac und Windows http://www.apple.com/de/itunes/download/Hinweis:
Sie wurden nicht in einen E-Mail-Verteiler aufgenommen.
Copyright © 2012 iTunes S.à r.l. Alle Rechte
vorbehaltenhttp://www.apple.com/de/legal/

Sorry it is only the link to german store but I am on travel and have only
an iPad ;-)

How hard would it be to make an iPhone version too? We are trying to
get the bar as low as possible. We have kids and schools with very
limited resources who see the possibilities. An old iPhone with a
cracked screen ($8 on eBay) can still connect to wifi at school and in
the public libraries as well as download wonderful free standalone
apps.


This app should work with iPhone beginning from iOS 3.2

There are several easy to use tools to create custom webapps, too, so
more educators can create and customize the learning experience.

Exactly. And as I discussed with Tony at LinuxTag: It would be a great
Experience for the Kids to do their own webapps.
Regards,
Raffael
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Re: [IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Steven Thompson
Hello Sugar Friends:
Iphone is a common denominator. Android too. Ipad next up and coming. These can 
be education tools like never before. This could make Sugar oriented 
learning-play more widely used. I want it for my four year old daughter, Juli.
Steven (in Japan)

 
Steven Thompson steven_sen...@yahoo.com



 From: Valerie Taylor vtay...@gmail.com
To: Raffael Reichelt raffael.reich...@googlemail.com 
Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org 
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap?
 
Thanks Raffael. Seems pretty useful after a quick look.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiosk-pro-lite/id409906264?mt=8
http://www.ipadkiosks.com/

How hard would it be to make an iPhone version too? We are trying to
get the bar as low as possible. We have kids and schools with very
limited resources who see the possibilities. An old iPhone with a
cracked screen ($8 on eBay) can still connect to wifi at school and in
the public libraries as well as download wonderful free standalone
apps.

There are several easy to use tools to create custom webapps, too, so
more educators can create and customize the learning experience.

It isn't Sugar or XO but it does allow a large population of kids in
the US to have most of the advantages of the OLPC vision.


As some kind of starting point I did a simple kids
 webbrowser for iOS maybe you would like to have a look on it in iTunes
 App Store it is called: Kiosk Lite.

 Regards,
 Raffael
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Re: [IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Frederick Grose
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de
 wrote:
  On 2012-06-13, at 07:50, Steven Thompson wrote:
 
  Even just in English in Japan could help kids. The common denomenator
 for jhs and hs kids is an iPhone or android and the iPad at home...much
 more so than buying an Intel Classmate or having a hope of getting an XO.
 
  Sugar can be installed on any PC, not just Classmates or XOs.
 
  It's not about price or energy requirements here, its about good
 education for kids.
 
  Can we get sugar as a Mac Ap at the Ap Store?
 
  I think Sugar-on-a-Stick (SoaS) can be plugged into recent Macs and
 works.

 You've always been able to plug SoaS into x86 Macs and have it work
 (just like any Linux distro), the latest version adds much better
 support for it and there's been specific interest in making it work
 properly with uEFI and all the Mac quirks.

 It's quite easy to use SoaS on a usb key on Macs and with something
 like VirtualBox you can run Sugar in a Window on Mac without too many
 issues.

 Sugar as an App on Mac is an interesting concept and with improving
 Mac support within GTK3 something like the Sugar in a Window concept
 we use for testing is quite conceivable once the Sugar port to GTK3 is
 complete, of course like everything it needs someone to step up and do
 the work.

 Peter


In the spirit of exploring interesting concepts that might stimulate new
development, might someone explain the obstacles that prevent Sugar from
running on an iPad, as well, discuss potential approaches to overcome those
obstacles.

For example, Etoys, an independent but significant component in Sugar, can
be run on an iPad since June 2010,
http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2010/06/squeak-etoys-on-ipad.html
http://etoys.squeak.org/experimental/ipad/

Also with time, the current crop of iPads will become secondary devices as
newer tablets are released.  Folks will then be more willing to
void warranties and experiment with the operating systems.

  --Fred
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de
 wrote:
  On 2012-06-13, at 07:50, Steven Thompson wrote:
 
  Even just in English in Japan could help kids. The common denomenator
  for jhs and hs kids is an iPhone or android and the iPad at home...much 
  more
  so than buying an Intel Classmate or having a hope of getting an XO.
 
  Sugar can be installed on any PC, not just Classmates or XOs.
 
  It's not about price or energy requirements here, its about good
  education for kids.
 
  Can we get sugar as a Mac Ap at the Ap Store?
 
  I think Sugar-on-a-Stick (SoaS) can be plugged into recent Macs and
  works.

 You've always been able to plug SoaS into x86 Macs and have it work
 (just like any Linux distro), the latest version adds much better
 support for it and there's been specific interest in making it work
 properly with uEFI and all the Mac quirks.

 It's quite easy to use SoaS on a usb key on Macs and with something
 like VirtualBox you can run Sugar in a Window on Mac without too many
 issues.

 Sugar as an App on Mac is an interesting concept and with improving
 Mac support within GTK3 something like the Sugar in a Window concept
 we use for testing is quite conceivable once the Sugar port to GTK3 is
 complete, of course like everything it needs someone to step up and do
 the work.

 Peter


 In the spirit of exploring interesting concepts that might stimulate new
 development, might someone explain the obstacles that prevent Sugar from
 running on an iPad, as well, discuss potential approaches to overcome those
 obstacles.

 For example, Etoys, an independent but significant component in Sugar, can
 be run on an iPad since June 2010,
 http://croquetweak.blogspot.com/2010/06/squeak-etoys-on-ipad.html
 http://etoys.squeak.org/experimental/ipad/

 Also with time, the current crop of iPads will become secondary devices as
 newer tablets are released.  Folks will then be more willing to
 void warranties and experiment with the operating systems.

           --Fred

Etoys runs in a virtual machine. Once that VM is ported to a new
environment, Etoys will run.
Sugar on the other hand is a desktop and collection of applications
that require Linux and the Gnome toolkit (among other dependencies).
Once a Linux VM with Gnome is running in an environment, the process
of porting Sugar is *relatively* painless.

So the question is: is there a Linux/Gnome VM for the iPad? iPhone? iWhatever?

-walter

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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 2012-06-13, at 18:42, Walter Bender wrote:

 Etoys runs in a virtual machine. Once that VM is ported to a new
 environment, Etoys will run.
 Sugar on the other hand is a desktop and collection of applications
 that require Linux and the Gnome toolkit (among other dependencies).
 Once a Linux VM with Gnome is running in an environment, the process
 of porting Sugar is *relatively* painless.
 
 So the question is: is there a Linux/Gnome VM for the iPad? iPhone? iWhatever?
 
 -walter


Apple wouldn't allow a generic VM into their App Store. The only unrestricted 
environment on the iPad is the web browser.

I think Sugar's open and collaborative philosophy is fundamentally incompatible 
with Apple's current developer guidelines.

You could port single Sugar activities to the iPad, but since users would be 
prevented from changing them, Sugar's idea of learning by hacking would be lost.

- Bert -

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