Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-30 Thread David Van Assche
Not that I know all the moodle themes, but the custom corners theme is pretty pro looking and has worked well for me in terms of customisation. David On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:16 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Caroline Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [IAEP] Service-Learning Curriculum around Sugar Testing

2008-10-31 Thread David Van Assche
Hi David, I believe me and Bernie were the admins for moodle.sugarlabs.org, and this was setup at the time to demo for OLE Nepal, but since we installed our own Moodle there, moodle.sugarlabs.org got neglected and forgotten... I see its not up anymore, in any case. Kind Regards, David Van

Re: [IAEP] courses.sugarlabs.org

2008-11-01 Thread David Van Assche
If someone makes me a course creator there, then I can create categories and upload content that I've collected over the years. David Van Assche On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:55 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:13 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] Sugar on Ubuntu LiveUSB is ready

2008-11-01 Thread David Van Assche
PM, Caroline Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, I boot up with my USB. I enter Sugar. How do I get to System - Administration for Hardy Heron? On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:04 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually with the advent of intrepid Ibex, and I believe Hardy

[IAEP] scratch plugin for moodle

2008-11-01 Thread David Van Assche
There is now a scratch plugin for moodle, which allows integrating of scratch activites directly into moodle... http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=98510 David Van Assche ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP

[IAEP] http://www.nln.ac.uk/ - national learning network

2008-11-02 Thread David Van Assche
This is a uniquely interesting site with content for the entire British curriculum that has been put into a format importable in all VLEs, with a concentration on Moodle. They have over 1000 learning objects, all related to their curriculum and available to any school in the UK at no cost. They

Re: [IAEP] http://www.nln.ac.uk/ - national learning network

2008-11-03 Thread David Van Assche
this visual learning approach. David Van Assche On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We can do the same with Commonwealth of Learning, http://www.col.org/colweb/site. OneVillage Foundation, a partner of Earth Treasury, has been in discussions with them about

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] Sugar on Edubuntu

2008-11-05 Thread David Van Assche
for the similar reasons. David Van Assche On 11/6/08, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05.11.2008, at 13:55, David Farning wrote: .One sticking point was the availability of squeak on Ubuntu. If I remember this issue was beaten to death before I got involved with SL. I

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] Sugar on Edubuntu

2008-11-05 Thread David Van Assche
, 2008 at 7:18 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem here is that edubuntu and its packages are in Ubuntu Main, and for sugar to be in there, there must be no non-free software in it, and squeak is not totally free. Apple fonts not being modifiable, iirc. Its pretty much

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread David Van Assche
I think the fact no source code is available might cause a problem for it getting into Main... thats not necessarily such a bad thing though. Edubuntu addon packages will definitely go to universe, its just a question of when. The only difference is, no direct downstream support. But as I

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu - Summary

2008-11-07 Thread David Van Assche
I've just been corrected on this by a ubuntu dev, who states for it to get into universe, it must have source code available. That means that for now, squeak must stay in Multiverse the only option seems to seperate squeak from sugar, if sugar is to get into main or universe. David Van Assche

Re: [IAEP] squeak/etoys accepted into Debian main

2008-11-07 Thread David Van Assche
the edubuntu add-on cd, which teachers do use, in large classrooms the world over. Kind Regards, David Van Assche ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Wiki: main page cleanup

2008-11-17 Thread David Van Assche
for nice searching and listing of them, and obviously categorizing by alphabet and category. But I don't want to step on toes, nor do work for no reason... So let me know if I'm doing something wrong... David Van Assche On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello

Re: [IAEP] teams vs. projects

2008-11-26 Thread David Van Assche
There is also alfresco, which seems quite suited to larger projects: www.alfresco.com and is GPL. Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sameer Verma wrote: dotProject (http://www.dotproject.net/) and Project.net (http

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

2008-11-27 Thread David Van Assche
Altlinux is also pretty integrated with LTSP 5, would be cool to see some sugar via ltsp tests for altlinux... David Van Assche On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Aleksey Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008

Re: [IAEP] Ncomputing

2008-12-16 Thread David Van Assche
One thing we spoke about here locally was getting some thin client device that was really certified to work with Sugar and whatever distro... It would be a necessary requirement for country level deployments... Kind Regards, David Van Assche On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Walter Bender

[IAEP] telepathy, empathy and collaboration in gnome

2008-12-18 Thread David Van Assche
Here's an article about the state of collaboration in gnome itself, and a review of empathy, the new integrated gnome telepathy client, with support for tubes, as well as some other apps that do collaboration: http://www.nubae.com/telepathy-empathy-and-collaboration Kind Regards, David Van

Re: [IAEP] Education on the XO

2009-01-04 Thread David Van Assche
the activities so that they can easily be searched for, categorised, etc. but I read that this was being done elsewhere so again, I didn't continue down that avenue, but I'll gladly continue if its of use... kind Regards, David Van Assche On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Bryan Berry br

Re: [IAEP] Education on the XO

2009-01-05 Thread David Van Assche
Maybe we should try and put together some sort of roadmap and strategy for schools.sugarlabs.org. Perhaps we could schedule an IRC meeting regarding it? kind Regards, David Van Assche On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Tony Anderson tony_ander...@usa.net wrote: David, I didn't realize that you

Re: [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-05 Thread David Van Assche
be useful for making flash based learning objects for Moodle. The site for the soft is here: http://www.salasaga.org/ kind Regards, David Van Assche On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote

Re: [IAEP] Getting the message out - take2

2009-01-18 Thread David Van Assche
Actually, this is really important, I've been asked several times whether development on sugar has been stopped due to the olpc thing... so its definitly a good idea to spread this message David Van Assche On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: [cc += i

Re: [IAEP] Getting Involved

2009-01-21 Thread David Van Assche
+1 On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: How about combining Developer, Web Developer and Administrator into one and adding Educator I think technical people are more clueful about what their skills are and will click through to the next page where we

[IAEP] Report from the field (graz,Austria#1)

2009-01-27 Thread David Van Assche
presenting sugar on a stick with the very latest binaries and packages, that, at least on ubuntu, sugar is not ready for even experimental use, as more than 50% of the apps do not work, and networking seems to be broken too. kind Regards, David Van Assche www.nubae.com

Re: [IAEP] SoaS at FOSDEM

2009-01-29 Thread David Van Assche
Bernie, Can u bring your beagleboard and what you coded for it with you to Fossdem? I'm sure I'm not the only one that would be fascinated to see what u did kind Regards, David On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Jan

Re: [IAEP] irc logs

2009-02-03 Thread David Van Assche
Well, I have a logbot running on #ltsp and logging to http://www.nubae.com/logs It would be no skin off my back to have it logging another channel too. Its just one line in the eggdrop config file... David Van Assche On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Sebastian Silva sebast...@fuentelibre.org

Re: [IAEP] irc logs

2009-02-04 Thread David Van Assche
You can always set up your own eggdrop bot with logs2html which creates a webpage and updates every couple minutes... the results look very good: www.nubae.com/logs I could copy the eggdrop logs file and other elements... and then all u have to do is change the channel name/s David On Wed, Feb

Re: [IAEP] irc logs

2009-02-05 Thread David Van Assche
So... to log or not to log, that is the question ? On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: I for one would appreciate automatic logs, freely accessible, fully indexed. If someone is tallying votes: +1 for logs - Bert -

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

2009-02-10 Thread David Van Assche
ok? I guess this will be contreversial but it must be said and acted upon (much more importantly) Im gonna try and make this easy: SoaS - the latest fedora core based I tried to impress my 9 year old gescwister... (related one) Speak - it will not even launch why is it then on a disitributed

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

2009-02-10 Thread David Van Assche
to fix. As for the second point, namely providing activities requested by teachers, I agree it is important, and I think Wade has an almost-ready typing tutor (google these lists for a prior thread on this). On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:14 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: ok? I

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

2009-02-10 Thread David Van Assche
: Do we have a place for testers to record the what works with which release? If not perhaps someone could set it up on the moodle system schools.sugarlab.org using the moodle database module: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Database_module On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:14 PM, David Van Assche dvanass

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

2009-02-10 Thread David Van Assche
://docs.moodle.org/en/Database_module On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:14 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: ok? I guess this will be contreversial but it must be said and acted upon (much more importantly) Im gonna try and make this easy: SoaS - the latest fedora core based I tried

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

2009-02-10 Thread David Van Assche
) they needed no explanation for the interface... to them it was as natural as eating a piece of bread. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:14 PM, David Van Assche dvanass

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

2009-02-11 Thread David Van Assche
:34 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: well this entire conversation was really brought about because I couldnt practice speech with my 2 nephews... Im sorry if I crossed the line a bit, but I think what I said needed to be said... SoaS is indeed the best plqtform right now

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

2009-02-11 Thread David Van Assche
yes u are absolutly right... 0.84 is the focus now of every distro (maybe excepting debian) we will fix this all, but please, let us not sa y is a releasable usable product for educators until weve tested it ALL and we all agree that this is indeed the produuct (which i need nonconvicnig of) that

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

2009-02-12 Thread David Van Assche
it really is, a mature resposible Debian child. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:16:19PM +0100, David Van Assche wrote: yes u are absolutly right... 0.84 is the focus now of every distro

Re: [IAEP] Our first employee, sort of

2009-02-12 Thread David Van Assche
Absolutely great. Will she be working within schools.sugarlabs.org? If so, I'd love to help as I have quite a bit of experience with everything Moodle related and how teachers actually use it David Van Assche On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:14 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: I

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

2009-02-12 Thread David Van Assche
There are people in the field who are losing deployment opportunities because of this its not just a wishlist thing... Debian now contains the most unstable sugar release there is... is that where it wants to be? Affecting every *fork* and forcing us to hack around the issues? kind Regards, David Van

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on LTSP

2009-04-26 Thread David Van Assche
for it in this lab. The lab is used by faculty and students from early childhood ed. and other departments inb CoE. They'd love to bring in teachers and children from local schools to showcase it. I'm cc'ing David Van Assche in case he's not on this list (highly doubtful, though). I am

Re: [IAEP] personal marketing (bottum up approach)

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
One thing solution we use at openSUSE to get increcremental images, ie... you have an older version of SOAS or sugar or whatever image, but you want a newer one, well solution is to use rsync, but this would need to be enabled by the host (ie wherever all this is being hosted downloaded from

Re: [IAEP] personal marketing (bottum up approach)

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
Besides from getting bandwidth is there a way I can help to achieve this? (I guess ssh access would be needed) Kind regards, Marten On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:10 +0200, David Van Assche wrote: One thing solution we use at openSUSE to get increcremental images, ie... you have an older version

Re: [IAEP] VIA C3 based laptop

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
Or if its really Mandriva (what used to be called mandrake) that you want to run, I believe there are sugar packages for that distro, you might have to search the net a bit. I know Caixa Magica, which is based on Mandriva has been quite worked on to work for many netbooks including the classmate

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] personal marketing (bottum up approach)

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
me too, shall we take a practical approach and suggest some locations? David (nubae) Van Assche On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Marten Vijn i...@martenvijn.nl wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:46 +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: On 05/19/09 13:51, Walter Bender wrote: Maybe we can find a time

Re: [IAEP] Cheap User Testing (via Steve Krug)

2009-05-23 Thread David Van Assche
On a similar note I've been doing some publicity, but from the developer side. Basicaly, there are lots of projects that have irc channels, and many of those folks are interested in getting involved in other projects. Of course, its hard to convince people unless it works for particular distros...

Re: [IAEP] Help to Find the PO file of Some Activities to able me to Translate Them

2009-05-24 Thread David Van Assche
it shouldnt be too much extra work. Kind Regards, David Van Assche On 5/24/09, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 6:47 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Overall it would be nice if we had an activitiy matrix that showed the stages of projects

Re: [IAEP] Help to Find the PO file of Some Activities to able me to Translate Them

2009-05-25 Thread David Van Assche
Super... that methodology should be written up some place as its a great guide to follow... David On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi David, On 24 May 2009, at 11:47, David Van Assche wrote: Overall it would be nice if we had an activitiy matrix

Re: [IAEP] Help to Find the PO file of Some Activities to able me to Translate Them

2009-05-25 Thread David Van Assche
better wiki than nothing, no? kind Regards, David Van Assche On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 25 May 2009, at 12:33, David Van Assche wrote: Super... that methodology should be written up some place as its a great guide to follow... I'd much

[IAEP] classroom presenter, iTalc for sugar (possible ports for LinuxTag Berlin showoff)

2009-05-28 Thread David Van Assche
Hi, At LinuxTag Berlin, there are 3 areas that are of particular interest to me, and might be considered novelties in the way sugar can/will be presented there. From one side, I will be representing sugar packaging on the openSUSE platform, and being part of the opensuse-edu team, we will show

Re: [IAEP] classroom presenter, iTalc for sugar (possible ports for LinuxTag Berlin showoff)

2009-05-28 Thread David Van Assche
over to that student for a while. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:17 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, At LinuxTag Berlin, there are 3 areas that are of particular interest to me, and might be considered novelties in the way sugar can/will be presented there. From one side, I

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 14, Issue 58

2009-05-28 Thread David Van Assche
Please could you also give us the link to the source for the readetexts activity. We have it packaged in openSUSE, and I'd like to be able to offer the latest version... kind Regards, David Van Assche P.S. The last git commit I see for read e texts was in March... On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:26

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread David Van Assche
Yeah, this is also something that is relevant and usable across distros, so lets try and make it distro agnostic David On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I'd like to do a mockup of my idea (tonight), post it to the wiki under Gary's, and have

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SugarCamp Berlin

2009-05-31 Thread David Van Assche
If we could do a meet prior to Sunday, that'd be great as my plane leaves on Sunday 14.00 David (nubae) On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote: On 31.05.2009, at 21:45, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 21:32, David Farning

[IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-04 Thread David Van Assche
Hi folks, We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week 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 pm, 8 pm for the UK) So far we have 5 people signed up, but more are welcome as we really want

Re: [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread David Van Assche
Well as we just discussed in irc, some activities will actually share and allow for collaboration, but the vast majority do not and/or dont work between different distribution methods. In any case we can certainly try some out and send you the log files to dissect, in case u cannot make it. kind

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread David Van Assche
Ok, etoys included too.. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote: On 05.06.2009, at 06:09, David Van Assche wrote: Hi folks, We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week Wednesday 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [math4] Activity Awards, Activity Alerts, Frame Alerts

2009-06-06 Thread David Van Assche
lets decide how we move forwards on this and get to it then... kind regards, David Van Assche On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Frederick, On 6 Jun 2009, at 00:30, Frederick Grose wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Gary C

[IAEP] personalisation and collaboration

2009-06-07 Thread David Van Assche
Something has been in the back of my head for a while now, ever since I've seen the impressive capabilities of being able to share an activity with your neighbourhood. Being able to cooperatively use applications brings a new level of playability to it all, and it reminds me of when I first saw

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Getting data about the upgrading older machines and SoaS responsiveness.

2009-06-07 Thread David Van Assche
When it come to older pcs, it really makes sense to try and use LTSP. We have created a kiwi-ltsp usb stick for openSUSE, which gives a portable ltsp server wherever u plug it in. In most cases it would make sense for this to be the most powerful computer. It is as easy as installing the sugar and

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Getting data about the upgrading older machines and SoaS responsiveness.

2009-06-07 Thread David Van Assche
That's a good point, and I understand the thinking behind it, as if you are not 'changing' anything in an existing setup, people are less afraid that things might go terribly wrong. That's the reason we have ltsp on a usb stick... because you can stick in a server, and test it without installing

Re: [IAEP] personalisation and collaboration

2009-06-07 Thread David Van Assche
the learning process. kind Regards, David Van Assche On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:00 AM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Something has been in the back of my head for a while now, ever since I've seen

[IAEP] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting) reminder

2009-06-09 Thread David Van Assche
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 pm, 8 pm for the UK) We will have a good 5-10 people present, but

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

2009-06-10 Thread David Van Assche
Hmm ok, I stand corrected :-) I'm wondering now where I got the 20:00 time from... David On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote: On 09.06.2009, at 16:16, David Van Assche wrote: Hi folks, This is a reminder about the collaborative sugar testing

Re: [IAEP] some activities aren't in activities.sugarlabs.org

2009-06-10 Thread David Van Assche
Yes, these activites were based on what comes preinstalled on the openSUSE sugar build... it may be that some of these activities are only available on the live cd/dvd/usb/vm kind regards, David Van Assche On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Pilar Saenz mapis...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Just

[IAEP] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread David Van Assche
Hi folks,    This is a reminder about the collaborative sugar testing session we are having tomorrow, Wednesday 17th June at 19:00 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 pm, 8 pm for the UK) We will have a good 10+ people present, if last

Re: [IAEP] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
Sean and others can we please try and use the term SoaS slighlty more agnostically. Right now, every time its mentioned it always uses the Fedora backend without question or debate. I think of it a little like when someone says write me an office letter (and its quitely assumed by everyonen

[IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
sorry ended up going to Sean only... -- Forwarded message -- From: David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC) To: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Soas

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
obviously missing from it) be Fedora centric? This smells to me like saying Office = microsoft... it smells very bad... which is why I'm raising my concerns over it somewhat... David On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Bert Freudenbergb...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 18.06.2009, at 20:28, David Van Assche

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
right, otherwise, imagine I call the openSUSE cd version SoaC, Sugar on a CD or even SoaVM Sugar on a Virtual Machine am I the only one who see the broken logic here? David Van assche On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: This is just a naming

Re: [IAEP] linux for education portal

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
And I forgot the actual address of the site of course: www.linux-for-education.org On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:42 PM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there,   We've just launched a pretty decent start for a linux for education portal that should contain hundreds (we already have

Re: [IAEP] the SoaS term (was: Press release flurry planning...)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
the term click on a link (and patenteted it) Regards, David Van Assche -- rest snipped for brevity -- ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
war. David Van Assche On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:49 PM, James Zakijzgr...@sugarlabs.org wrote: +1 Bert and others my2cents Outside of the opensource world I've seen many non-mainstream groups become too thinly spread due the many dedicated individuals involved together. I've seen in first

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
further is probably going to spiral into something resembling a non-sensical flame war. David Van Assche On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:49 PM, James Zakijzgr...@sugarlabs.org wrote: +1 Bert and others my2cents Outside of the opensource world I've seen many non-mainstream groups become too thinly

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
and/or the same stick may run with a VM or LTSP. I thought we had decided to use Flavors? i.e. Sugar on a Stick Strawberry is our current release and it is based on Fedora 11. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:18 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Sean... u stated it very correctly. Lets

Re: [IAEP] LinuxTag

2009-06-22 Thread David Van Assche
Please leave me your number, as I'll be in Berlin tomorrow morning... David Van Assche P.S. same to u Simon... On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de wrote: On 06/21/2009 06:34 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, I am in Berlin and will be through June 28. I plan

[IAEP] segregated activities from the sugar platform

2009-07-01 Thread David Van Assche
Hi there, This may seem like a bit of a premature email, but it comes in reference to questions I was asked at the guadalinex offices about adding Sugar to their distribution. They mentioned there is a lot of freedom as to what content and activitities/applications can be put into the distro,

Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?

2009-07-02 Thread David Van Assche
A real simple alternative to powerpoint/impress that looks and smells like it, but with maybe really limited functionality would be loved by teachers everywhere, At least, all the teachers I have met rely very heavily on powerpoint in one form or another, be it integrated into other software like

Re: [IAEP] (engineering) capacity building

2009-07-16 Thread David Van Assche
One thing that comes to mind here is to guerilla market in irc channels... usually these are already full of developers and its just a matter of looking at the projects around, going to their respective channels, and let them briefly know wht sugar is and ask if they have time to spend on any

Re: [IAEP] segregated activities from the sugar platform

2009-07-20 Thread David Van Assche
I'm wondering if there isn't a way to include a dialogue that allows a user to share activities to other xmpp users that are listed in a listbox... Without collaboration there isn't much point in running activities outside of sugar. kind regards, David Van Assche On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:41 PM

[IAEP] article about Sugar in Wired magazine

2009-08-04 Thread David Van Assche
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/08/inventing-a-new-paradigm-sugarlabs-and-the-sugar-ui/ enjoy David Van Assche -- Charles de Gaullehttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html - The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs

Re: [IAEP] Sugar packaging in Squeeze, Karmic

2009-08-12 Thread David Van Assche
are completely up to date. kind Regards, David Van Assche On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 04:58:42PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Sorry for not including this list in the Cc list right away. I was unaware of its existence. No problem

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Competitive landscape: Intel Classmate executive blog post re updated software

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
This actually looks like a commercial ripoff of iTalc, an opensource app that does exactly what synchronous Eyes does: http://italc.sourceforge.net/ On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Thanks for the link, definitely an interesting

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
facts about Sugar as used in South America and Africa. kind Regards, David Van Assche On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Christoph Derndorfere0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Sean DALY schrieb: IMHO, close study

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
Van Assche On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Christoph Derndorfere0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Sean DALY schrieb: IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to all

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
sugar sessions to track things... perhaps, programs being used, length of time used, internet connectivity or not, etc. What I'm saying is, we could build some kind of statistic tracking into the computers as long as its not efficiency damaging or privacy violating... kind regards, David Van Assche

Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-14 Thread David Van Assche
manual feedback that is happening elsewhere (how many users running which apps, lesson plans being used, languages, how many computers requiring repairs, general problems people are running into, and generally people's feelings on sugar usage, maybe even surveys) kind regards, David Van Assche On Fri

Re: [IAEP] SoaS as a Sugar Labs project.

2009-08-24 Thread David Van Assche
be great entry paths for eager devs or eager users. my 2 cents... David Van Assche On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:00 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 20:58, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh

Re: [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-10 Thread David Van Assche
regards, David Van Assche On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: From: Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com Subject: [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki? To: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, Kellie Doty kmd...@mail.harvard.edu

Re: [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-10 Thread David Van Assche
curriki != moodle courses, format is quite different. So unless you create seperate instances of the courses one will have to choose either curriki format or moodle format. kind regards, David Van Assche On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 10

Re: [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-10 Thread David Van Assche
building a Moodle course, and wanted to put in materials of my own, I might use curriki to search for that content. kind regards, David Van Assche On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Dennis Daniels dennisgdani...@gmail.comwrote: Wikis, by their nature, don't lend well to formal organization. In order

Re: [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-13 Thread David Van Assche
for attacking, if it seemed that way, but it really does seem like people haven't studied themultitude of options that Moodle offers. kind Regard, David Van Assche Thanks, Caroline On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Chris Rowe ch...@ole.org wrote: Caroline, We at Open Learning Exchange (OLE) have

Re: [IAEP] Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-14 Thread David Van Assche
know... kind Regards, David Van Assche. On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: I see that Moodle can support a MySQL database. Has anybody implemented a system with a database of learning modules that a teacher can select from in creating a course? If so

Re: [IAEP] Moodle Integration Status - Was Where should we put Lesson Plans? Currwiki?

2009-09-14 Thread David Van Assche
out to all the students and student work in to teacher efficiently. Is there documentation? Can you make me a screen cast? This may well be valuable enough that its worth helping the teachers and students climb the UIs learning curve. On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:08 AM, David Van Assche

Re: [IAEP] changes in outlook with Sugar (was Re: Comments on David Kokorowski, David Pritchard and Mastering Educational SW)

2009-10-19 Thread David Van Assche
that synch with it. Would be relatively easy, and in fact I created pyqclicuser and admin a while back... but there is no reason we can't put the user part into moodle, since its all XML anyway. I believe this is the way hotpotatoes works. kind regards, David Van Assche On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:41 PM

Re: [IAEP] CurrWiki, documenting deployments (was Re: IAEP Digest, Vol 11, Issue 47)

2009-10-19 Thread David Van Assche
Out of curiosity, did anything come of this... or are we at the same stage as when this email was written in terms of a deployment plan for curriculum content? On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Bryan Berry

Re: [IAEP] thin clients

2009-10-24 Thread David Van Assche
solutions base on thin clients. I am ccing David Van Assche, the opensuse package maintainer. He will be most knowledgeable about (or can refer you to knowledgeable people) deploying Sugar on OpenSuse in a thin client environment. david The district has said it is switching to linux 100

Re: [IAEP] 3D Objects in education?

2009-10-25 Thread David Van Assche
oh yes, trace to bitmap. Elemental. Then u can get then te shade pictures of their faces whichb is great from about 10-20 images. But this swhere linux-for-eduaction.org really comes in handy one site kids ended up loving to to bits was, nic.ubu,nu, wthich you probably know seeing as

[IAEP] Fwd: 3D Objects in education?

2009-10-25 Thread David Van Assche
wow gmail just doesnt like me today -- Forwarded message -- From: David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [IAEP] 3D Objects in education? To: cristian paul penaranda rojas p...@kristianpaul.org Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org oh

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tutorius Demo and Meeting

2009-10-27 Thread David Van Assche
Please put them in linux-for-education.org. Pages too if u do more work doing than the person that currently has one not only do you get his (his responsibility to engraveI lost this tshirt in good shame and faith, but by the batttlecry of Eureeeka, I will reclaim it one again-2 to Full Name

Re: [IAEP] voip.sugarlabs.org

2009-10-30 Thread David Van Assche
Surely it would make more sense to take it down a level and use telepathy as the comms insftracture and from there use SIP where needed, but also chat, MUC, dbus-dbus tubes, video and audio group streaming and everything else xmpp is so good at. A communications box if you will, with it being

Re: [IAEP] SLs Chile and GNOME Chile

2009-11-02 Thread David Van Assche
its own. Telepathy has since really mattured though, and mission control 5, that includes an advanced presence service that hopeffuly some folks are porting to latest sugar,, David Van Assche On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Werner Westermann werne...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Tomeu, regards from

[IAEP] stat collecto activity

2009-11-03 Thread David Van Assche
these quizzes (for lack of a better word) would be very simple to create such an activity. Would there be ebnough demand and usage of such ab activity? regards, David Van Assche ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP

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