Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SL member list/joining criterion

2016-05-21 Thread Sebastian Silva
El 15/05/16 a las 10:04, Sebastian Silva escribió: > > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Adam Holt wrote: > > > > In any case, with about 4 months having have passed since > January's election, can the Sugar Labs' legal board of directors > please now get access to the verified-current-member

Re: [IAEP] 2 Motions Ready (or Not) [Sur] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] another motion (Quispe trip to Translation Summit)

2016-05-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 18 May 2016 at 13:55, Dave Crossland wrote: > I am waiting for Adam to draft what he wanted to see there :) > I found something on the Finance wiki page so dropped that in and edited a little bit, so I think these motions are ready to roll once Caryl's motions are in.

Re: [IAEP] Windows is Coming

2016-05-21 Thread Walter Bender
We pushed as far as we could given the resources we had at the time, but there were components of the motherboard (embedded controller comes to mind) which had Quanta-proprietary code. We did use Open Firmware instead of the typical BIOS of the time. Everything on top of that was Software Libre. -

Re: [IAEP] SPL Sugar Project Leader + Sugar Project Secretary + Auditor team?

2016-05-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 21 May 2016 at 16:21, Adam Holt wrote: > while SL is a Conservancy project, it must use a ledger-cli compatible >> system. >> >> It is a text file based system (eg >> http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Example-Journal-File) and >> Adam has access to the Sugar Labs text file. This f

Re: [IAEP] Windows is Coming

2016-05-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 21 May 2016 at 20:00, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Dave Crossland (2016-05-22 01:25:07) > > I have't seen anything about XOs that would meet > > http://www.oshwa.org/definition but I'll be very happy to see them :) > > No doubt what you will be happy about is to argue _against_ any su

Re: [IAEP] Windows is Coming

2016-05-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Dave Crossland (2016-05-22 01:25:07) > I have't seen anything about XOs that would meet > http://www.oshwa.org/definition but I'll be very happy to see them :) No doubt what you will be happy about is to argue _against_ any such OSHW-certified laptops, same way as you argue against Free

Re: [IAEP] Windows is Coming

2016-05-21 Thread Caryl Bigenho
While I don't "do Windows," I do use Mac, iOS, and Android. What libre hardware do Latin American educational systems have access to now that the OLPC-XO product stream is drying up? Android devices are ubiquitous. iPhones and iOS are found worldwide. That is why Lionel's Sugarlzer running on hi

Re: [IAEP] Windows is Coming

2016-05-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 21 May 2016 at 19:18, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > What libre hardware do Latin American educational systems have access to now > that the OLPC-XO product stream is drying up? I'm curious why you think any XO was libre hardware? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Open_Hardware says, The development of

Re: [IAEP] [Off Topic] devastation in the Peruvian rainforest

2016-05-21 Thread Laura Vargas
In the mean while, a generation of hopeless Guarani children killing themselves in "Brasilian" lands. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/18/brazils-guarani-indians-killing-themselves-over-loss-of-ancestral-land?CMP=share_btn_fb 2016-05-10 3:33 GMT+08:00 Laura Vargas : > https://ww

Re: [IAEP] Windows is Coming

2016-05-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 21 May 2016 at 13:14, Sebastian Silva wrote: > El 21/05/16 a las 10:24, Dave Crossland escribió: > > > On 21 May 2016 at 02:18, Sebastian Silva > wrote: > >> There are huge interests invested in trying to sell Windows (and Android) >> to our Latin American public education systems and us

Re: [IAEP] SPL Sugar Project Leader + Sugar Project Secretary + Auditor team?

2016-05-21 Thread Adam Holt
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > - keep track of project financial assets, income, expenditures and any >>> other financial information >>> >>> You are doing a great job :D >>> >>> I can only deduce things out of public conversations. That is a very >> limited and stress

Re: [IAEP] Windows is Coming

2016-05-21 Thread Sebastian Silva
El 21/05/16 a las 10:24, Dave Crossland escribió: > > On 21 May 2016 at 02:18, Sebastian Silva > wrote: > > There are huge interests invested in trying to sell Windows (and > Android) to our Latin American public education systems and us > supporting

Re: [IAEP] SPL Sugar Project Leader + Sugar Project Secretary + Auditor team?

2016-05-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! *Adam, please see my request below :)* On 21 May 2016 at 02:38, Laura Vargas wrote: > Hi! > > 2016-05-20 20:51 GMT+08:00 Dave Crossland : > >> Hi >> >> On 20 May 2016 at 00:38, Laura Vargas wrote: >> >>> What do you think? >>> >> >> Debian has 1,000s of active contributors. From what I can

Re: [IAEP] SPL Sugar Project Leader + Sugar Project Secretary + Auditor team?

2016-05-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 21 May 2016 at 02:38, Laura Vargas wrote: > we should open debate to all community members Other than discussion on this list, what does that look like? :) Cheers dave ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.su

Re: [IAEP] Windows is Coming

2016-05-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 21 May 2016 at 02:18, Sebastian Silva wrote: > There are huge interests invested in trying to sell Windows (and Android) > to our Latin American public education systems and us supporting it would > be counterproductive in my humble opinion How do you propose to grow sugar usage 10x? ___