On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
And there is a perfect reason for a stable distro such as RHEL or CentOS :-)
:-)
Two quick things I want to inject into this conversation.
- Timing affects this decision. We're not in the abstract -- this is
_now_. If
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:49 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
the interviewed social Darwinist is Robert Wright, the author of Nonzero
http://www.nonzero.org/
The filmmaker is Righteous Pictures http://righteouspictures.com/
Wright seems to believe that there is a higher purpose to
David, Sugaristas,
maybe there's a way to disable the auto-login-as-liveuser and create
a different account (and homedir!) for each user.
I don't know how SoaS does the auto-login-as-liveuser -- my recipe would be
- find out how, and disable the trick
- create accounts for each user
-
2010/5/14 Raul Gutierrez Segales r...@rieder.net.py:
Based on the backup function, I wrote a script that calculates the total
number of Journal entries
(among all users) for each activity. My idea was to infer the favorite
activities.. but I need
some heuristics because counting created
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:43 PM, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote:
Over the past couple of months I have been exploring business
opportunities to promote the adoption and development of Sugar. One
of these opportunities is a service and support business for
deployments. As such, we are
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
Done critically, creatively, and transparently, voluntary free software
projects
There is a bit of misdirection in there. Projects are rarely defined
as a voluntary free software project. IMHE successful
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote:
Making deals with
commercial partners have a tendency to spawn discrete communication and work
shared openly but as a result, not a peer process (a famous example is that
of Google Android release process of linux kernel
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:48 PM, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote:
As Bernie announced, we working on supporting Sugar .88 on the XO-1.
Excellent. No need for soul searching. Get it done for your users, get
the patches out :-)
Give not a second of thought to blame and failure.
cheers,
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:56 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
Do you think that the solution is to create a new and more narrow list
No more lists please ;-) ! Move thread to d...@lists.laptop.org where
it belongs ;-)
Mostly the same crowd, but not quite.
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Michael Stone mich...@laptop.org wrote:
Perhaps we should instead be talking about whatever role
describes the people who /do/ care about the code that goes in?
Programmer. Implementor. Product manager. :-)
I think the view is that features have their own
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Beth Santos b...@waveplace.org wrote:
See notes below about our Public Health meeting from Tuesday, June 22nd at
4pm EST.
Given the interest in health -- do you know about...
- USAID's health materials at http://www.globalhealthlearning.org/
- WHO Pacific's
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
So that could be what defines a project, but which are the
consequences of becoming an official project?
Yeah - what does it mean? I'd say just highlight, endorse, promote,
congratulate and celebrate projects :-)
Truth is,
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote:
Mel's response: To me, this is very clear - SL decides what version(s)
of Sugar it will support, and deployments will decide what version(s) of
Sugar they will use.
Exactly. That's a huge part of the Free in FOSS.
We can all
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote:
I think an honest assessment would indicate that OLPC has done some
initial work on supporting touchscreen devices, but that SugarLabs has
not (so far). (...)
SugarLabs is where many developers get together. Similar to
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote:
Where Mesh != 802.11s but rather an adhoc, self healing, self
organizing routable network.
Cerebro gave a great working demo of what you describe. Don't know how
they compare.
I think it is perfectly feasible to achieve
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Søren Hougesen
soren.houge...@gmail.com wrote:
For about a month ago, I asked as a curious outsider, if kids were actually
hacking sugar.
Two factors are important here:
- We all have very high and complex expectations for Sugar, so Sugar
itself is internally
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Teemu Leinonen teemu.leino...@aalto.fi wrote:
The issue is even more important when the project is claiming to
promote FLOSS culture, like in the case of Sugar. In my definition of
That is _not_ the primary goal of Sugar. Sugar aims for lots of goals,
first and
2011/1/19 Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@bolinux.org:
Ceibal ha publicado este llamado para capacitadores Moodle
http://tinyurl.com/4rnkl2v
Es trabajo a distancia, 1.000 USD por mes, requisito es ser residente de un
pais del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo
Excelente!
Si alguien está en una
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote:
thus having an image available might actually save bandwidth - AFAIK Sugar
is about half the size of a Fedora download
Yes it is smaller, but if Tim in Haiti is very bw-limited, even the
smaller thing is too large.
Hi folks. I wish to make a radical proposal:
Sugar is starting to move forward again. We could focus or we could
Get Distracted!
:-)
[ Yes, there are some interesting hints on the Android side. And on
the cloud. And Tablets! And ChromeOS! And Win7-on-Nokia! Don't forget
Kinect. Rebase and
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:31 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote:
Stepping back for a moment, the key question is: how can we get Sugar
out of the window manager and network manager and activity update and
UI toolkit business, where it's just not keeping up (and wasting our
efforts),
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:32 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote:
This seems to me to be a red herring. What does connectivity have to do
with your choice of OS?
While technically possible to write all sort of sw yourself, you
choose an OS based on the affordances it offers.
The OSs
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
olpc/Sugar/ICT4E who are based here in Madrid or elsewhere in Spain?
In Spain the Moodle community is very strong -- peaks around
Catalunya. Vasque country is strong on alternative linux distros for
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
PCs and Linux machines yes. But... there still lots of issues with Macs and
so far it does not work with the older G4 Power PC Macs (EToys to go does!).
Does Android run on your G4 PPC Mac?? Or is this all random talk?
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
The oversight board is considering a motion to upgrade the license of
Sugar from GPLv2 or later to GPLv3 or later. Before proceeding to a
vote, we'd like to request feedback from the community.
Interesting. (Bad
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Authors can express their intentions through a license. If you didn't
want your code to be redistributed under a later versions of the GPL,
then why didn't you distribute as GPLv2-only?
On a personal note here...
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:54 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
Yes, you seem to be confused Bernie. You can redistribute under a
license however you like, usually without explicitly stating it. But
if you alter the source files or replace COPYING, you are *changing
the license*.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
I sure wish that GPLv3 was limited to those bugfixes, and the
anti-tivo wording was segregatd to a new license; a bit like some
clauses were split off to the Affero-GPL.
The GPL always has been about protecting the
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:38 AM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
Murder? You bet! And this isn't hard to get over.
Easy. Oops. Not easy to get over.
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mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC
- ask interesting questions
- don't get
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com
wrote:
Walter, I am too dumb to know the full ins and outs of this. I also have
been advised that I should not mess with this because (as I
Folks --
one thing we need to be in good intellectual shape to handle loaded
questions. Everyone here probably knows them well, but I just re-read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
and it was rather refreshing and useful.
In general, if you don't know much about a topic, it is a
at 03:38 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
What is done with said code was never the business of GPLv2. GPLv3
starts getting its nose into the how it is used side.
Wait a moment: neither the GPLv2 nor the GPLv3 has ever put any
limitation on the way you can *use* the software. One could use GPLv3
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
Likewise, Sugar Labs has an obligation to act on all GPL violations
reported on Sugar Labs copyrighted code. But we cannot act on our own
if we do not hold copyright.
Minor technical note here -- SL has a right, but
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
To me, one of the more compelling arguments for considering GPLv3 is
When the Rules Are Broken: A Smooth Path to Compliance.
Interesting! I hadn't thought it'd be so awkward, but if one is to be
100% formal, you need
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Gabriel Eirea gei...@gmail.com wrote:
Fact 1: in Plan Ceibal the XO 1.0 and XO 1.5-HS don't provide access
to root.
Yes, but as Walter indicates, I understand it is allowed in newer OSs.
In any case I am aware of efforts to make it available.
This means that
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
srid...@laptop.org.au wrote:
This is with OLPC OS 10.1.3 (XO-AU 10.1.3-au2 - we haven't made any
changes that would affect reliability of collaboration). The XOs were
registered and using an XS.
I've reported this at
Hi Sridhar,
I don't fully understand your scenario.
You say an XS is not an option... but I thought you were using XS,
with Jerry's help? If you are using XS, you can use Moodle.
If there is no XS, then any webbased tool that offers a file upload
form to post a file to share will work. You can
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Martin Abente
martin.abente.lah...@gmail.com wrote:
I still didn't make up my mind about which technical approach should I
take in order to get this working, but I guess people already started
sharing some ideas. And I would appreciate more ideas and discussion
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:12 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
why not use Moodle or Sharepoint or Blackboard?
Yeah - there's an easy-installation Moodle package. That's what I'd go with.
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- ask interesting
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
Not sure the exact details but sharepoint does support sharing as
webdav. I'm not sure how it works on the server side but at work it
works with Fedora 14 and webdav on the client side.
AFAIK, if all you want is
The thing is -- you gotta put a computer around it to make it useful.
Add a screen, a keyboard, touchpad, speakers, microphone, camera,
storage...
Once you do all that, if you want a rugged form factor, it looks a lot
like a green-and-white unit we know. If you don't, then some of the
lowest-cost
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
srid...@laptop.org.au wrote:
Just a thought - how feasible would it be to take an existing
open-licensed font (there are lots of good ones) and substitute in an
a and 9 that are more consistent with Australian classroom
That is your best shot
On Feb 9, 2012 8:40 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
As to your various questions regarding programming, the answer is, it
depends.
Creo que Walter aqui esta reaccionando a intentos excesivos de definir
programar y escribir codigo.
Visto de afuera, esto de programar es
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 16.03.2012, at 19:45, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote:
Developers: begin to compile for ARM...
Actually, developers have been doing this for many months already.
As Bert says, we are shipping as a _result_ of the
2012/3/8 Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org:
Here is a mockup I did for the same activity with this ideas:
http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/simple_help_mock.png
I really like this work track. Manuel and Gonzalo's proposed examples
are, IMO, good to be options for activities.
The central goal is _a
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
concluded [3] that the Local Lab construct, which entails activities
above and beyond writing, improving and documenting FLOSS, fell
outside of the scope of our parent organization, the Software Freedom
Conservancy
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
It has been 7 months since the Bumblebee brainstorming group had its
discussion in San Francisco. I'm not sure what we thought would work for us,
My recommendation is to let each group do their own thing. It's their
Hi Caryl,
just to clarify -- the unit is XO-4. Two variants will be available --
XO-4 Laptop and XO-4 Touch (a laptop with multitouch screen).
The XO-4 Laptop is in general terms externally similar to XO-1.75, but
gruntier guts. XO-4 Touch adds multitouch, so the frame changes a bit.
cheers,
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Chris Leonard
cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
As I recall, this activity was already renamed once from xoscope after
it became clear it was colliding in name space with an oscilloscpe
activity.
Renames are a pain in infrastructure, and in upgrade handling for
Hi Yama,
what you outline in #1 is generally doable. Just a bit of elbow grease
to put the files in the Sugarized activity and have a wrapper to set
the appropriate *PATH variables.
#2 is generally not doable. As you say, there may be a way to do
without superuser privs...
You just have to find
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Tony Anderson tony_ander...@usa.netwrote:
Please let me know if there are any problems with the site.
It's missing a logo. Maybe this image can be stylized and repurposed...
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8207/8198080349_a40d2f849c_o.jpg
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