Re: [IAEP] sugar-toolkit bindings

2008-10-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:21:30PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote: IMHO it's not worth replicating sugar-toolkit in C (and certainly not *yet*, given the API is still in flux). The D-Bus API is reasonably easy to use and independent of your choice of language. See

Re: [IAEP] Sugar packages for non-mainstream distros

2008-11-13 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:23:20AM +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Aleksey Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just some thoughts and some practices (specific?) of Sugar packaging process http://sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/jhconvert Sounds very very similar

Re: [IAEP] Sugar packages for non-mainstream distros

2008-11-13 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:17:18AM +0200, Guy Sheffer wrote: Yes, I have done this for debian :-) . We can merge the code. On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:23 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Aleksey Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just some

Re: [IAEP] Meeting reminder (Deployment team)

2008-11-18 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:26:34PM -0500, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: Hello everyone. As Walter can't come and we have community meeting at the same hour, also taking into count that Walter's reports are essential on this discussion , I propose to do this meeting next Wednesday.

Re: [IAEP] Sugar packages for non-mainstream distros

2008-11-27 Thread Aleksey Lim
as far as know, altlinux was based on Mandriva, but at present there are lots differences (but not sure I'm not RPM guy:) On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:42:58AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Aleksey Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:05:16AM

[IAEP] Sugar platform overview

2008-12-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all On the threshold of discussing package related issues during next fudcon I think it demands to be pre-discussed (at least face-to-face fudcon discussion is restricted in number of participant). At first, I think just-packaging is not core problem. While packaging sugar for Gentoo,

Re: [IAEP] Sugar platform overview

2009-01-01 Thread Aleksey Lim
another benefit of central db: #28: migrate from gnomevfs to gio/gvfs -+--

[IAEP] Sugar on Mandriva

2009-01-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all I am going to develop/support sugar packages for Mandriva, if you are a Mandriva user/developer - you are welcome to http://sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Community/Distributions/Mandriva -- Aleksey ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop

Re: [IAEP] Sugar platform overview

2009-01-06 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:18:51AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 08:27, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: I think having central [meta-db] has many benefits: - collaboration: everybody works in one trunk not doing the same work while packaging sugar

Re: [IAEP] Sugar platform overview

2009-01-06 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:18:51AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 08:27, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: I think having central [meta-db] has many benefits: - collaboration: everybody works in one trunk not doing the same work while packaging sugar

Re: [IAEP] Sugar platform overview

2009-01-07 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:14:29PM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote: (why not cc sugar-devel@ too?) Aleksey Lim wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:23:40PM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Aleksey Lim wrote: in fact, my concern is not about distributing binaries but about something

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-28 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 08:05:30AM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote: On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:17 -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: Hi everyone, Please join us for the first Sugar Labs ActivityTeam IRC meeting this Friday, 3PM EST in #sugar-meeting on FreeNode.

Re: [IAEP] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

2009-02-11 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, Reading this thread I've realized that there is a huge lack of target distro, many people work for various distros and the fact is - there is now fully featured sugar for at least one distro. I think we should choose *one* target distro for incoming 0.84 release. I don't mean choose it

Re: [IAEP] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:09:07PM -0500, Caroline Meeks wrote: On all: the cursor was invisible to start. It appeared after I navigated to the Journal and opened the detail view of an entry. Speak didn't work. Ok! So this is still occuring; I don't know, what might be causing this,

Re: [IAEP] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:43:09PM -0500, Caroline Meeks wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.comwrote: Caroline Meeks wrote: On all: the cursor was invisible to start. It appeared after I navigated to the Journal and opened the

Re: [IAEP] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 08:21:04PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: new release will include: @pkgs['turtleart-activity'].update( :version= '36', :type = 'tarball', :snapshot = '20090221', :revision = '2876869020584497e61a340d4ca3c4c8a8cbde7f', :uri

Re: [IAEP] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-22 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:20:13PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Why did you exclude Etoys, which was included and working fine in previous versions of SoaS? do not worry Bert :) etoys is nashe vse and its part of sugar-fructose(prev. activities are honey) -- Aleksey

Re: [IAEP] SoaS - Another Snapshot

2009-02-22 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 05:58:50PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 22.02.2009, at 17:31, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:20:13PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: Why did you exclude Etoys, which was included and working fine in previous versions of SoaS? do not worry Bert

Re: [IAEP] soas - boot.iso

2009-03-04 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 02:30:55AM +0100, n...@cercos.de wrote: Hi all, this is my first post to this list :-) I tried to download from sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick#Downloads the boot.iso, but got the following error-message: Not Found The requested URL /~marco/boot.iso was not found

Re: [IAEP] What to call ASLO in the wiki?

2009-04-02 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:37:34PM -0500, David Farning wrote: Just looking to get some sort of consensus on what to call ASLO in the wiki? So far I have found remora, remora port, addons, addons portal, activities portal, aslo, and a.s.o, and Activities Team/aslo? I think consistently

[IAEP] [RELEASE] activities.sugarlabs.org v2

2009-04-03 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, Key features after merging/adapting upstream code: * new addon type Content(.xol bundles) addon's version will be incremented on each uploading * use bundle_id for activity GUID it should prevent creating two addons for the same activity * Application field should be filled for

Re: [IAEP] Unified Objects (was Unified bundles)

2009-04-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:54:45PM -0400, Wade Brainerd wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Eben Eliason eben.elia...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Proposal. To achieve this target, instead of inventing new versioning scheme

Re: [IAEP] Unified Objects (was Unified bundles)

2009-04-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:12:17AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Benefits. With this scheme accepted user will have unified interface to all objects(and theirs versions) - content(generated by activities

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Unified Objects (was Unified bundles)

2009-04-11 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 03:30:00AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Now here's a mess of ideas from which these three basic intuitions originate: 1. It would be nice to be able to generate various views of what the user can do with shell globs rather than by writing complicated queries over

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Advanced search on ASLO

2009-04-25 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 04:23:54AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: On 25 Apr 2009, at 03:46, Josh Williams wrote: Just wondering if there was a consensus to ditch the advanced search options? I think it might be a good idea for the sake of simplicity and ease of use for kids. However, I

Re: [IAEP] Books Books Books

2009-04-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Yes! In theory there are thousands of free books. We need people to be able to experience that there are books available for Sugar when they try Sugar. I like the idea of hooking the readers to a library. I don't know how much

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Fwd: [Sur] sugarlabs.org: sugerencia

2009-05-01 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:31:29PM -0700, Josh Williams wrote: Martin Dengler wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:42:32PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: Alas, if I had the technical chops to code what is necessary, I would have done so already :-( [...] Designing a slick,

Re: [IAEP] Books Books Books

2009-05-04 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 12:40:33PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 15:51, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Yes!  In theory there are thousands of free books.  We need people to be able to experience

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-04 Thread Aleksey Lim
/Activities/Library#Roadmap James Simmons Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 15:51, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Yes! In theory there are thousands of free books. We need people to be able

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-04 Thread Aleksey Lim
In case of Library activity I'm going to follow simple rules: * use local datastore API to search/filter objects * use remote datastore API(in some way) to search/filter objects from remote users(sources) * use telepathy tubes for notifying users about changes * sync shared objects while

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:14:06AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: Aleksey, I read your Library document and the one linked to it on Unified Objects. This sounds like quite an ambitious project. I would agree with Tomeu that some kind of UI mockup would be a good idea. I've been

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:41:01AM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: Sorry for posting the screenshot without text (I was reposting a compacted version of the original screenshot, which our list manager wisely refused to forward). My original post was: I have attached a screenshot of

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:33:30PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: All, The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content just as much if not more than as a way to share said content. As far as

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:46:56PM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: To the extent that Title, Author, etc. are simply labels for two tags that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view. a great idea!.. Instead of

Re: [IAEP] Library Activity

2009-05-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 04:12:39PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: Aleksey, It isn't clear to me what a cloud of tags is. Is there a familiar application that does something like this? thanks to Martin, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud I understand that users can tag things to suit

Re: [IAEP] Why are some activities on the activity portal and others aren't?

2009-05-10 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 09:56:50AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: In an OLPC Boston discussion someone mentioned social calc. Pie charts and line charts for the SocialCalc spreadsheet activity, including some lesson ideas (you can try making charts if you have Firefox or an XO laptop):

[IAEP] Common glossary

2009-05-21 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, After several questions(my own and from the others) on IRC what does XYZ acronym mean? I've created common glossary (in addition to per team glossaries) on our wiki. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Glossary Everybody are welcome to improve it. -- Aleksey

Re: [IAEP] Library-1 Feedback

2009-06-02 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:50:26AM -0500, James Simmons wrote: Aleksey, I was eager to try your Library activity but I couldn't get to it until last night because my XO is running .82. I had to use SoaS to bring it up. I have to say it's a good first effort at this and I was impressed.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting) reminder

2009-06-09 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 04:16:38PM +0200, David Van Assche wrote: Hi folks, This is a reminder about the collaborative sugar testing session we are having tomorrow, Wednesday 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12 pm PST, most of Europe that will be 9

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-09 Thread Aleksey Lim
merging new AMO commits (we can suggest our changes directly to AMO but thats another story). Thanks, James Simmons Aleksey Lim wrote: You are an editor now and can do the best on http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/editors/featured ;) And after fixing #948 all featured activities

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-10 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 05:34:29PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: I think that's a great idea - will be very helpful in identifying the classics. I've created Fructose(but not sure about name) category for that reason i don't mind trying to write the instructions if someone else can edit post

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-10 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 07:08:45PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: FWIW, I have tried and failed to understand fructose, glucose, honey, etc. When I get around to writing a little Activity I guess I'll climb that learning curve. I'm sure it's a useful classification system, but I don't think

Re: [IAEP] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, Let me finalize this What tags we should use for GCompris/Fructose/etc discussion :) New AMO version and incoming ASLO v3 version have collections feature https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections I think we can move tags GCompris and Fructose(Core, etc) to collections

Re: [IAEP] SoasS-strawberry torrent

2009-06-25 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:28:33AM -0500, David Farning wrote: Looks good. I have added the torrent to the primary download page. Maybe use for this purpose linuxtracker.org there are plenty of linux distribution torrents I've requested them for category Sugar -- Aleksey

[IAEP] [RELEASE] activities.sugarlabs.org v3

2009-06-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, Key features after merging/adapting AMO upstream code. From users point of view. * Collections feature. Anyone can create own collection of activities http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/collections/add add existed collections to favorites list

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] activities.sugarlabs.org v3

2009-06-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
From distributors point of view. * New ASLO check user agent string for SugarPlatform version in format: Sugar Labs/major-version.minor-version for example Sugar Labs/0.84 and add hints to download button to prevent loading incompatible activities. -- Aleksey

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

2009-07-08 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:11:02PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: We used paint at the GPA today and some of the kids did amazing things with it. Others were pretty frustrated. http://picasaweb.google.com/solutiongrove/GPARoom33Paint?authkey=Gv1sRgCJzK6r_1zsalLg# The program needs some love

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

2009-07-09 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:41:33PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Nod, I've done that for Memorize and maybe we will for Paint too. It will take some thought to get it right and I've got a lot on my plate right now. Worth it if it turns into code but right now I'm wondering

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

2009-07-09 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:28:09AM -0500, David Farning wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 06:26:00PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Nod, I've done that for Memorize and maybe we will for Paint too.  It will take some

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Paint improvements?

2009-07-09 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:07:11PM -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:28:09AM -0500, David Farning wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Wed, Jul

Re: [IAEP] [Fwd: activities]

2009-07-13 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:46:27PM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: Wade, I have finally posted the ShowNTell activity to ASLO. I hope to post the Quiz activity tomorrow. The BotSpeak activity appears to be redundant. The ShowNTell activity needs a help button to show how the activity works.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-07-15

2009-07-15 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:20:36PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: 8. Aclso heck out Aleksey's work on the datastore [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/versionsupport-project/repos/mainline/blobs/raw/1261a49d3e97c827b86acb48f64ab85c722e8fdf/datastore-redesign.html]. I guess it was sascha_silbe :)

Re: [IAEP] activities

2009-07-16 Thread Aleksey Lim
...@gmail.com, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org, iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Wade, I have finally posted the ShowNTell activity to ASLO. I hope to post the Quiz activity tomorrow. The BotSpeak activity appears to be redundant. The ShowNTell activity

[IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-16 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, One of lacks that sugar environment has is simple way to share sugar objects for broad audience i.e. like scratch community has[1] (thanks to davidmorris form #sugar). So, I've created [2]. Original idea was having highly integrated sharing features into sugar shell but looks like we can

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-16 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:17:13AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all, One of lacks that sugar environment has is simple way to share sugar objects for broad audience i.e. like scratch community has[1] (thanks to davidmorris form #sugar). So, I've created [2]. Original idea was having

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-16 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:41:31AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:17:13AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all, One of lacks that sugar environment has is simple way to share sugar objects for broad audience i.e. like scratch community has[1] (thanks to davidmorris

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] enhancing the reading experience in Sugar

2009-07-24 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:49:19PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi all, during the last weeks we have seen very interesting discussions about how to improve the reading experience in Sugar. Several members of the community have provided very interesting feedback on top of the work of Jim,

Re: [IAEP] The Children's Library On OLPC project

2009-07-25 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:37:07AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: Jim Simmons writes: A Journal entry consists of a file plus metadata. There is no real advantage in NOT storing the book in the Journal. You can convert whatever book format you're reading into a zipped archive of same on

[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] [ASLO] Suggest users proper activity version to download

2009-08-01 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, Current version of activities.sugarlabs.org analyzes Browse version and suggests proper activity version to download. So, click on Download button and activity page(e.g. [1]) will provide activity version compatible with current user's environment. The full list of activity versions on

Re: [IAEP] [Bugs] #1117 NORM: Image collection from Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

2009-08-01 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:33:22PM -, SugarLabs Bugs wrote: #1117: Image collection from Museum of Fine Arts in Boston +--- Reporter: walter | Owner: tomeu Type:

Re: [IAEP] [Bugs] #1117 NORM: Image collection from Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

2009-08-01 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:58:09PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:33:22PM -, SugarLabs Bugs wrote: #1117: Image collection from Museum of Fine Arts in Boston +--- Reporter: walter

[IAEP] [ber...@codewiz.org: Sugar packaging in Squeeze, Karmic]

2009-08-11 Thread Aleksey Lim
, Morgan Collett morgan.coll...@gmail.com, Simone Roselli srose...@develer.com, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org, Christopher R. Gabriel cgabr...@truelite.it, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:16:49 +0200 Hello, I would like

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Performance tuning for activities.sugarlabs.org

2009-08-12 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 02:07:58AM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Over the past months, CPU usage on Sunjammer has been increasing gradually to the point that it made the system unusable during prime time (east coast daytime hours):

Re: [IAEP] activities.sugarlabs.org - xo

2009-08-25 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 08:52:08PM +1000, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: For some reason Browse on my XO is having difficulty getting anything from activities.sugarlabs.org but my PC with Firefox is OK. Do you mean you can't even open activities.sugarlabs.org page or you can't download .xo

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] project policy consensus

2009-09-01 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:44:48PM -0500, David Farning wrote: At the end of last week I posted a draft project policy[1] on the mailing list. It has not received any public or private criticism. Unless I hear otherwise, I'll post it to the wiki tomorrow with a 'draft' tag. david 1.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New Activities on a.sl.o was Sugar Digest 2009-08-11

2009-09-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 01:51:23PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Very cool. What is the process for getting them translated into other languages? On A.sl.o how do we tell teachers what languages an activity is available in? For now, there is no way to show on ASLO what languages support

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-10 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 03:51:55PM -0500, David Farning wrote: The project guidelines are now on the wiki at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines . Please edit as necessary. When it looks like the editing has stopped, I ask the board the ratify the guidelines.

Re: [IAEP] SOAS Write problem

2009-09-28 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 11:22:24PM -0400, Gerald Ardito wrote: Caroline, I tried to do just that. I cannot erase the version of Write that's there, and I cannot install the new one. It downloads just fine and appears in the Journal, but will not install. Could you enable debug mode[1], run

Re: [IAEP] SOAS Write problem

2009-09-28 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 07:53:48PM +0800, Hamilton Chua wrote: Gerald, It seems the kickstart file I use installed the write activity via rpm. I don't know if this is possible from a usb stick but it might be worth a try. sugar-0.86 should proper handle this situation, if there are

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Test ballot complete. Feedback

2009-09-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:02:22PM -0500, David Farning wrote: I would like to announce the completion of the Sugar Labs Test Election. Know issues: The election server is very overloaded. It was not uncommon for the server to take a minute or more to process a a submission. As far as I

Re: [IAEP] ASLO updates

2009-10-15 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:42:15AM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: [cc += dfarning, alsroot, syst...@] El Wed, 14-10-2009 a las 17:47 -0700, Josh Williams escribió: I've made some bug fixes to the new ASLO design, I've tested it lightly and it seems to work in all major browsers (even

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] ASLO updates

2009-10-15 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:34:50AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:42:15AM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: All links to activity bundles appear to be broken :-( For example: http://activities-devel.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/file/26072/xpi/labyrinth-7.xo

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] ASLO updates

2009-10-15 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:34:50AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:42:15AM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote: [cc += dfarning, alsroot, syst...@] El Wed, 14-10-2009 a las 17:47 -0700, Josh Williams escribió: I've made some bug fixes to the new ASLO design, I've tested

[IAEP] [activit...@sugarlabs.org: Sugar Labs Activities: Doom-1 Nomination]

2009-10-16 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, Got the followed notification from ASLO, so the question I have in mind - should ASLO editor be guided only technical questions during pushing activities to the public(in all previous cases it was so). - Forwarded message from Sugar Labs Activities activit...@sugarlabs.org -

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO updates

2009-10-24 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:30:08PM -0700, Josh Williams wrote: Updates have been made to ASLO, I'm sure there are display bugs floating around because a lot of the code was changed. Please take a few minutes to test it out: http://activities-testing.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/ If you're

Re: [IAEP] ASLO testing

2009-10-27 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:42:50PM -0700, Josh Williams wrote: If you have a minute please test: http://activities-testing.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/ Bugs fixed since last round of testing: 1. # of Activities downloaded number added 2. Fixed pagination for long search results 3.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] The sugar stack

2009-11-27 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:55:20AM -0600, David Farning wrote: It seems time to think about the next _big_ technical issue for growing Sugar Labs. Clearly articulating the Sugar Stack. For the last year or so, we have been circling the issue with talk of stable APIs, Glucose, Fructose, and

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] The sugar stack

2009-11-27 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:56:42PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:55:20AM -0600, David Farning wrote: Many of the discussion about this have stalled because of confusion over what aspect the stack we are trying to define. As a starting point, I would suggest: 1

Re: [IAEP] [ASLO] [NOMINATION] Skype-1

2009-11-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
I guess its another point for future policy[1] for ASLO editors, should we allow non-FOSS software on ASLO. [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Editors/Policy On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:14:56AM -0500, Sugar Labs Activities wrote: New activity was nominated to be public. Name:

[IAEP] Non-technical Activity Library editors policy

2009-11-29 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, There were some threads in mailing lists last time about what activities could be approved to be public on Activity Library[1]. Well, some of these questions are very arguable, but the worst thing which could be is what we have now - lack on any definitions. So, I created a first version

Re: [IAEP] ASLO Reviews

2009-11-30 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 05:37:49PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: My guess is that we get few reviews because you need to create an account on ASLO before you can do it.  A normal Activity user has no other use for such an

Re: [IAEP] Non-technical Activity Library editors policy

2009-11-30 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:11:17AM +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:19:31AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: There were some threads in mailing lists last time about what activities could be approved to be public on Activity Library[1]. Well, some of these questions

[IAEP] [FEATURE] Activity as a regular Journal Object request for inclusion to 0.88

2009-12-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, This post is not about particular feature but about proposed to 0.88 features that can be composited to one set. Some of them could be implemented in 0.88 partially, some are invasive, some not. We lost possibility to push several such features in 0.86 and we have a chance to do it once

[IAEP] [FEATURE] [DESIGN] Journal Reload a new attempt

2009-12-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
(oops, wrong subject) Hi all, This post is not about particular feature but about proposed to 0.88 features that can be composited to one set. Some of them could be implemented in 0.88 partially, some are invasive, some not. We lost possibility to push several such features in 0.86 and we have

Re: [IAEP] [FEATURE] [DESIGN] Journal Reload a new attempt

2009-12-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
..to continue summarising.. In fact, all proposed features are not about increasing complexity but about decreasing for floor level - user all time works with sugar objects(activities, activity objects, foreign object etc) but from different views. And let developers/deployments/teachers

[IAEP] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-14 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, (be careful, pathos content:) I'm going to post about my sugar vision(not only about technical cases) which I'm going to implement during 0.88 release cycle(though non of these points are tight to sucrose releases). The major point of some of my proposals to 0.88 sucrose has social

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] sounds in Speak

2009-12-14 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:48:39PM -0700, Sameer Verma wrote: Hello everybody, This afternoon, I had an interesting conversation with a Montessori teacher, about Speak. She asked me why Speak says a when a is pressed and not the *sound* of the letter a. Montessori teachers teach the shape

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 21, Issue 26

2009-12-14 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:02:13AM -0800, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Everyone A couple of things: Re: Future of Zero Sugar [snip] I think I've found proper way - instead of decentralising technical aspects in core development, decentralise method of sharing changes between

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-14 Thread Aleksey Lim
, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Aleksey Lim wrote: So, I have strong intension to switching development focus from core team, which develops sucrose - glucose(core) and fructose(some core activities) to wide range of developers/doers thus some kind

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Future of Zero Sugar

2009-12-15 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 02:01:18PM +, Gary C Martin wrote: On 15 Dec 2009, at 13:36, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:52:56AM -0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:07, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: * implementing Zero Sugar initiative, in my

Re: [IAEP] Sharing work between XOs/SOAS devices

2009-12-15 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:30:22PM -0500, Gerald Ardito wrote: Hello all. As our 5th graders are doing more and more work with their XOs, their being able to turn in and share their work products (as opposed to collaborating with others) is becoming more and more important. My temporary

Re: [IAEP] Sharing work between XOs/SOAS devices

2009-12-15 Thread Aleksey Lim
to Library and we will have two sharing activities FileShare and Library-2. Thanks. Gerald On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:30:22PM -0500, Gerald Ardito wrote: Hello all. As our 5th graders are doing more and more

Re: [IAEP] sustaining development

2009-12-28 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:30:20AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:16:10AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all, I'm totally n00b in such field and sorry if I'm talking about obvious things but what I have in my mind is organizing sufficient infrastructure/place/rules

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] [DESIGN] Journal Reload a new attempt

2010-01-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:56:28PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 03:20, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: (oops, wrong subject) Hi all, This post is not about particular feature but about proposed to 0.88 features that can be composited to one set

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] [DESIGN] Journal Reload a new attempt

2010-01-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 08:37:09AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:56:28PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 03:20, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: (oops, wrong subject) Hi all, This post is not about particular feature but about

[IAEP] [POLL] collab.sugarlabs.org

2010-01-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
Hi all, Background: Step in issue, sugar is not unique here, thats the problem for other FOSS projects as well. But sugar has it's own specific nature - sugar stimulates(at least should) doing not just using, our audience could have additional layers - teachers for examples. Projects

Re: [IAEP] [POLL] collab.sugarlabs.org

2010-01-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:58:17AM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Aleksey Lim wrote: So, the question is should we have special place to treat such issues in convenient and casual developer/requester friendly manner. -1 1. Fragmentation is bad. We should instead attempt to unify

Re: [IAEP] [POLL] collab.sugarlabs.org

2010-01-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:16:29PM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Aleksey Lim wrote: collab.sl.o shouldn't be development site but central point there devs, users, doers, educators meet. Thus it shouldn't dublicate sites like wiki/track/etc. What do you mean by meet? Are you

Re: [IAEP] [POLL] collab.sugarlabs.org

2010-01-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:05:31PM -0500, Walter Bender wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Hi all, Background:  Step in issue, sugar is not unique here, thats the problem for other  FOSS projects as well. But sugar has it's own specific

Re: [IAEP] [POLL] collab.sugarlabs.org

2010-01-05 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:15:46PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: I personally like what Greg Smith did back at OLPC: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_requests does anyone know the right ml link for http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Overview -- now it points to

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