Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Sora Edwards-Thro
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Someone remarked that teachers don't like to use Sugar. If not,... why not? Ask them! I hate to say that the user's not always right, but in Haiti at least, some of the teachers are disappointed when they see Sugar

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread James Cameron
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 08:13:04PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: One other thing I should mention about some Sugar Activities… some of them really lack color. [...] This was possibly the design decision to support the colourless display of the XO laptop when used outdoors, as well as colour

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Folks… Sorry I didn't put my 2 cents worth in sooner, but here are some questions/suggestions I have re: planning for the future…. Someone remarked that teachers don't like to use Sugar. If not,… why not? Ask them! Obviously, the teachers in Uruguay like it and use it. But not all of it.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Sora... Thanks for your thoughtful from the field answers! We need more of them. I think I'll ask my friend Rosamel in Uruguay what she thinks and if she might ask some of her collegues too. Mañana. I have to do it in Spanish so I'll wait until morning when I am thinking clearly. Caryl Date:

Re: [IAEP] Upgrading XOs

2015-02-27 Thread Tony Anderson
I have finished categorizing the Sugar activities on BERNIE. The Backup and Backup4G are the activities installed on the standard builds. The Standard activities that I believe work without restriction. The Spanish category is evident. The Web activity are activities that require web-service

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] XO Infinity ?

2015-02-27 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
I hope this is not affected by Osborne effect [1] These looks like 3d software generated images, from that to a product ready to ship, there are a long way. Gonzalo [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Lionel Laské lio...@olpc-france.org wrote: Hi

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Thanks Sora for sharing. We are working in a questionnaire to get more information from the local deployments. If you agree, we can send it to you to get more information from Haiti deployments. Gonzalo On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Sora Edwards-Thro s...@unleashkids.org wrote: I just got

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Thanks Samuel for start this public discussion. I share some of your concerns, and agree with your points. I think we agree web activities is the way to move forward. We started to work on that for Sugar 0.100, and that will provide us the possibility of run activities in any browser, in android,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Jerry Vonau m...@jvonau.ca wrote: I know this is not a sugar issue directly, more of an OLPC issue but since Fedora F12 the entire i686 platform's userland is being compiled with -mtune=atom[1] which would use sse[2]. -mtune is designed not to break any

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Dan Tenason
Friday, February 27, 2015 2:07 PM -03:00 from Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org: Thanks Samuel for start this public discussion. I share some of your concerns, and agree with your points. I think we agree web activities is the way to move forward. We started to work on that  for Sugar

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
The problem with partners is that any partner who has established a history of making good decision will ask the same question Mr. Greenfeld asked to start this thread. If they get the same response Dr. Bender gave Mr. Greenfeld they take their money and go back home. Several individuals

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread Jerry Vonau
On February 27, 2015 at 6:23 AM Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Jerry Vonau m...@jvonau.ca wrote: I know this is not a sugar issue directly, more of an OLPC issue but since Fedora F12 the entire i686 platform's userland is being compiled with

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

2015-02-27 Thread James Cameron
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 03:31:50PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 04:20:02PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: On February 25, 2015 at 3:09 PM James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 01:20:19PM -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote: I know this is not a sugar issue