Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Heart Rate Monitor Peripheral

2009-04-10 Thread Peter Robinson
Alas, the blocker with Measure (and Turtle Art with Sensors) is that we haven't come to consensus regarding a packaging strategy for the binary drivers we include for support of the sensor input; these differ by architecture, which wasn't a problem when we were building for just one

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Heart Rate Monitor Peripheral

2009-04-10 Thread Peter Robinson
a problem in the short run, correct? On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Alas, the blocker with Measure (and Turtle Art with Sensors) is that we haven't come to consensus regarding a packaging strategy for the binary drivers we include for support of the sensor

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Heart Rate Monitor Peripheral

2009-04-10 Thread Peter Robinson
There are two separate issues I encountered with TA (and Measure). One is the need for patches to the alsa audio to accommodate the special OLPC hardware modifications. That would need to be accepted upstream by the alsa project, and then distros will automatically get the changes when they

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Heart Rate Monitor Peripheral

2009-04-12 Thread Peter Robinson
There are two separate issues I encountered with TA (and Measure). One is the need for patches to the alsa audio to accommodate the special OLPC hardware modifications. That would need to be accepted upstream by the alsa project, and then distros will automatically get the changes when they

Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:21 PM, David Farning dfarn...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Sean DALY sdaly

Re: [IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 18:10, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Robinson
I would like to add to this that the activity developer is at least CCed on bugs in Fedora so they can more actively see the issues with their activity and react to the bugs. Where my activity developer hat, this would be very useful. I suspect that at least some of the non-responsiveness of

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:42 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote: FWIW, at litl we are switching from a xulrunner-based brower to a chromium-based browser.  We are seeing a big performance improvement, plus it's making it easier for us to implement plugin isolation and better memory

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

2010-03-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:37 AM, John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello All, In wanting to have Teachers and Developers try Sugar are best bet may be to attack this with a two-fold approach. The idea would be to give the prospective Teacher/Deployer Two SoaS-A stable version-say

Re: [IAEP] What's going on with Sugar on a Stick?

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Robinson
] has been pushed to stable). Activity authors are also advised that the final freeze date for package updates is April 27, so make sure to get fixes pushed well in advance to give package maintainers and the update system time to process. Peter Robinson has kindly agreed to act in case

Re: [IAEP] The Observer article on OLPC in Rwanda

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/28/rwanda-laptop-revolution A well-written article which effectively communicates OLPC's goals in the context of Rwanda's troubled recent hostory. 4-page spread in the print

[IAEP] Fwd: Helping kids develop mobile applications?

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Robinson
This was posted to mobile-devel-l...@gnome.org by Stormy. I figure, while not directly gnome mobile sugar uses alot of the gnome mobile stack. Someone from San Francisco might be interested or able to do a combined sugar and gnome-mobile event. Peter -- Forwarded message --

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.88.0 Stable Release

2010-04-01 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:35:20PM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: 0.88 is the latest version of Sugar, consisting of Glucose, the base system environment; and Fructose, a set of demonstration activities. This new release

[IAEP] olpc on southpark

2010-04-08 Thread Peter Robinson
Apparently one of the SouthPark creators likes the XO :-) http://mohammed.morsi.org/blog/node/312 http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/04/08/south-park-face-episode-tron/ Peter ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [IAEP] Long-term development strategy (Was: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119)

2010-04-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 13:29 -0700, Jon Nettleton wrote: Has there been any discussion on whether CentOS was an option as a base for the distro?  With RHEL/CentOS 6 hopefully within sight, that would give a nice

Re: [IAEP] Long-term development strategy (Was: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119)

2010-04-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 23:54 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: Bernie, I'm not sure the point of this point at this point in time. To copy and paste part of the response I did to the other thread on fedora-olpc for others

Re: [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Caryl, The netbook that I am recommending at the moment is the Acer Aspire One 532H http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/acer-aspire-one-532h-review/ It is well supported in Fedora (I think everything works out of the box for both Fedora and Sugar) and is the device that Mel is using for her

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] SoaS on What Machines?

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Robinson
of the box. Tom Gilliard Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Caryl, The netbook that I am recommending at the moment is the Acer Aspire One 532H http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/acer-aspire-one-532h-review/ It is well supported in Fedora (I think everything works out of the box for both Fedora and Sugar

Re: [IAEP] Long-term development strategy (Was: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119)

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 07:59 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: I agree on this, but it misses the point :-) Not exactly. That was just supposed to continue your point-point-point pun :)  * GSM connectivity requires up

Re: [IAEP] Long-term development strategy (Was: New XO-1.5 10.2.0 build 119)

2010-04-17 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 23:31 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: [...] I'm not against packaging Sugar for RHEL. I just think it would cost more to support after the first year or two. Agreed. And in fact I said

Re: [IAEP] Reformat USB stick, How?

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Caryl, In my experiments trying to create usable SoaS sticks, I have had a few flops.  Unfortunately these USB sticks now have a severe identity crisis. They believe they are actually CDs.  You can't write to them.  You can't rename them (at least not in a way a mere mortal like me knows

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] OLPC rules out Windows for XO-3

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 17:52, John Tierney jtis4...@hotmail.com wrote: Thought this article would be of interest to the community. OLPC Rules out Windows for XO-3

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename Colour Suggestions

2010-06-04 Thread Peter Robinson
I believe the themeing for SoaS is Icecream and not berries. I vote for vanilla or Cookies Cream :-P Peter On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: Gooseberry. Green. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooseberry Tasty, funny name, what more do we want? ;)

Re: [IAEP] One Laptop per Child and Marvell Join Forces to Redefine Tablet Computing for Students Around the World

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Chris,   http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/one-laptop-per-child-and-marvell-join-forces-to-redefine-tablet-computing-for-students-around-the-world-95007559.html   The press release doesn't say so, but the tablet will run Sugar   and GNOME over Fedora. A belated follow-up:  I

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] OLPC rules out Windows for XO-3

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi,   Linux has been running well on ARM for a long long time. Yeah.  In specific, today I got Sugar running on the ARM SoC we'll be using for XO-1.75 and XO-3, and it didn't require any porting at all. It would have

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] OLPC rules out Windows for XO-3

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi,   Linux has been running well on ARM for a long long time. Yeah

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Heads-up: POSSE folks hacking in Fedora/Sugar thisweek and next

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Art Hunkins abhun...@uncg.edu wrote: I've noticed that neither the SoaS CD Boot Helper nor the SoaS Floppy Disk Boot Helper manage to boot SoaS Mirabelle (Fedora 13). (For that matter, the Floppy Disk Helper doesn't boot anything but Strawberry.) I don't think

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] RFC: F11-0.88 as a Sugar Labs Project

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:17 PM, David Farning dfarn...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote: On 06/17/2010 10:28 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: At the next meeting, I would like to propose the Fedora 11 with Sugar 0.88 builds for the XO-1 and XO-1.5

Re: [IAEP] liveusb-creator error

2010-06-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@gmail.com wrote: The problelm appear when it is creating the overlay partition. Can you try doing a small overlay? How big is the usb key? You'll need at least 2 gig for an overlay. Peter On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Werner

Re: [IAEP] Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day

2010-06-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Kevin Cole kjc...@dc.sugarlabs.org wrote: That's sort of where I was thinking: Make it harder or at least something requiring more than a button push. I know when I was having

[IAEP] Tablets are game changers for special needs children

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, There's some interesting bits linked here about how tablets are massively helpful for children with special needs, something to consider when dealing with development for the XO-3 and related technologies.

Re: [IAEP] Follow-up. Next Question: Which Fedora?

2010-11-07 Thread Peter Robinson
Blueberry was just 32bit. Mirabelle was the first to support both 32 and 64 bit, it was one of the side effects of the move to Fedora infra and release process. Peter On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks for the answers to the .iso vs .vdi question.  

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] Moving On.

2010-12-15 Thread Peter Robinson
always open to direct email. Just a ping away. Email this address. For Sugar on a Stick, Peter Robinson has alreading been leading the effort up to the latest Mango Lassi release of Sugar on a Stick and done an incredible work over the past year, leaving me confident that everything was taken care

[IAEP] Live USB Creator on Windows

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, There's (finally) a new Live USB Creator out for Windows that fixes the issues seen with creation of SoaS v4 Live USB keys. You can get it from here https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ (you want version 3.9.3). Details are here for those that are interested in what's fixed

Re: [IAEP] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: This is very exciting stuff!  Being hardware independent would be great.  I look forward to seeing it work in Uruguay! Sugar already is hardware independent. It runs quite happily on a range of x86, ARM, PPC amongst

Re: [IAEP] Exploring Sugar-on-Tablets

2011-04-12 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Caryl, On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, 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!). Android won't fix the PowerPC support either.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Moving Sugar to GPLv3+

2011-04-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 18:47 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Q: Do we need to ask the permission of all copyright holders? A: No, we'll

Re: [IAEP] What's on SoaS?

2011-04-24 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Caryl, On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All Is there a link that tells what is included (Sugar Activities, Gnome(?)) etc. on each build of SoaS?  I poked around a bit on the Sugar Labs wiki, but couldn't find it. The list for SoaS v5

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-AU] More 'human' voice synth (TTS)

2011-06-21 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.auwrote: I'm wondering if there's anything we can do to make TTS sound more 'human'. We'd like to be able to use the XOs to teach English literacy, but the espeak voices are very robotic. My understanding is that espeak

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] [ANNOUNCE] Sugar Labs Licensing Referendum (non-binding) results

2011-07-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Luke Faraone l...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On 07/10/2011 10:23 PM, Gary Martin wrote: I was surprised as I had no recollection at all of the original email (subscribed to way too many Sugar related lists), but after some digging found it had been clobbered as

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] ASUS Eee PC X101 @ $199: A worthy non-XO platform for Sugar?

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Ron Feigenblatt doc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Asus Germany just announced that the X101 should become available in Austria and Germany in mid-August and with a price tag of €169 (~$241). I think

Re: [IAEP] what is this keyring needed for?

2011-08-08 Thread Peter Robinson
SoaS 5 will be out in the next week or so and that is fixed. There's a scriptlet which you can use to remove it but its a little fiddly. Peter On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:24 PM, David Ally david_a...@yahoo.com wrote: I got sugar on a stick fedora 14 and created the usb but while downloading some

[IAEP] Sugar on Fedora on Power PC

2011-10-04 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, I know a number of people are interested in Sugar on Power PC. With the upcoming release of Fedora 16 the Power PC Secondary Arch is in full swing and they plan on releasing Fedora 16 for PPC shortly after the mainline F-16 release. I don't have the hardware or the time to deal with

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-10-11

2011-10-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:03 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:   .. The only activity shipped with Sugar is a very old version of Turtle Art./ Plan Ceibal installed that Sugar 0.87.1, (on Ubuntu 10.04.3) because they didn't Know that TurtleArt Runs on Ubunto+Gnome, they think that

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2011-10-18

2011-10-18 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: == Sugar Digest == 1. Daniel Drake has announced the second release candidate of the new OLPC software release [0], which incorporates the latest Sugar bits. You can download 'signed' images for testing from:

[IAEP] Announcing the release of Sugar on a Stick 6 (Pineapple)

2011-11-09 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, I'd like to like to announce the release of Sugar on a Stick version 6 (codename Pineapple). Available for both i686 and x86_64 platforms this release brings the newly released Sugar 0.94.1 to a base of Fedora 16. It includes a lot of new and updated Activities as well as improved

Re: [IAEP] Need Help With SoaS! (Including Mac)

2011-11-21 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Folks... I finally have a couple of days with access to both PCs and my Mac, so now is the time to try SoaS!  I need to be able to test it on both the Windows machines and the Mac.  After about an hour of reading

Re: [IAEP] TI MSP430 running on XO 1 - Robotics!

2012-02-10 Thread Peter Robinson
2012/2/10 Yamaplos . yamap...@gmail.com: The TI MSP430 chips are a very attractive alternative to add robotic options for XO / Sugar users. Microcontrolers are the brain behind many engineering hobby and educational pursuits, but many alternatives are expensive or very hard to run in the XO.

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-AU] Browse is old

2012-03-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 23:52 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Browse is old and not useful for a lot of newer content. Our communities are creating content in HTML5, an effort that we want to encourage. However, Browse is based

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Browse is old

2012-03-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 3 March 2012 23:52, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Browse is old and not useful for a lot of newer content. Our communities are creating content in HTML5, an effort that we want to encourage.

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC-AU] [Sugar-devel] Browse is old

2012-03-14 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: On 13 March 2012 07:15, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: I don't use it day-to-day, but for more than two years now I've been installing (via 'rpm') the midori browser in all the XO-1 builds that have ever

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Cautions on using a f17 beta DVD to upgrade a f16 hard disk installed with sugar-desktop

2012-04-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Caution; Just using the f17 Beta DVD to do an upgrade from f16 to f17 will leave an incomplete upgrade. DVD upgrade of F16 - to F17 requires yum update on Reboot to complete. [1] This is a very large update.

[IAEP] ANNOUNCE: Sugar on a Stick 7 (Quandong)

2012-06-05 Thread Peter Robinson
I'd like to announce Sugar on a Stick 7 (Quandong) There's been a lot of work go into this release from a lot of communities from Fedora and all the Fedora 17 features that give us new and exciting hardware support to the Sugar Labs community and all the new features that come with the Sugar 0.96

Re: [IAEP] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 2012-06-13, at 07:50, Steven Thompson wrote: Even just in English in Japan could help kids. The common denomenator for jhs and hs kids is an iPhone or android and the iPad at home...much more so than buying an

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar as a Mac Ap?

2012-06-14 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg b

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] TI MSP430 running on XO 1 - Robotics!

2012-09-26 Thread Peter Robinson
: I just bought the TI MSP430 to test it with the Xo 1.0. Thank you Yama :-) Luis El 10 de febrero de 2012 11:06, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com escribió: 2012/2/10 Yamaplos . yamap...@gmail.com: The TI MSP430 chips are a very attractive alternative to add robotic options for XO

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] TI MSP430 running on XO 1 - Robotics!

2012-09-27 Thread Peter Robinson
Launchpad. You can have arduino IDE too with a yum install arduino I believe. Peter On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: Yama and Walter, Thanks. I was not as clear as I wanted

[IAEP] Open source course builder

2012-09-30 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi all, Google has released an open source course builder that some people might be interested in. http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/11/google-releases-course-builder/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/google-launches-open-course-builder Peter ___ IAEP

Re: [IAEP] Introduction: teacher interested in SOAS

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:10 PM, John Landis j...@johnlandis.net wrote: Thanks so much for the warm welcome. Particularly to Patricio, Harriet, and Kevin for sharing such fascinating links. If it's okay, I'm going to use this list as a sounding board for my thoughts as I explore Sugar.

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-11-30

2012-11-30 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: == Sugar Digest == “Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.” (Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent; doutez de tout, mais ne

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] OLPC

2012-12-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:36 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 03:53:32PM +1100, James Cameron wrote: For a truly shared computer, I suggest switching to a login screen before Sugar, such as that provided by the default Fedora (before OLPC OS removed it). I

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2013-01-25

2013-01-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: == Sugar Digest == There are certainly cases where applying objective measures badly is worse than not applying them at all, and education may well be one of those. --Nate Silver 1. Not to be deterred by Nate

Re: [IAEP] Raspberry PI

2013-01-29 Thread Peter Robinson
It already works fine on the Fedora releases for Sugar. Peter On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps a good opportunity to get Sugar in the hands of more kids http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jan/29/google-raspberry-pi-s -- Daniel

Re: [IAEP] Google Summer of Code project ideas

2013-03-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: We have been accumulating project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2013 [1]. Please take a few minutes to add a favorite project or sign on as a co-mentor to an existing project. Also, feel free to help us refine the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.99.1 (unstable)

2013-07-31 Thread Peter Robinson
On 31 Jul 2013 18:52, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, this is the first feature frozen release. We landed all the features that we initially planned and a few more. Thanks to everyone involved! Highlights: * Multi selection in the journal * Service providers selection in

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] Helping test Sugar 0.100

2013-10-07 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: No, I never had a koji user. How can I have one? Become a Fedora packager. Peter ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.100.0 (stable)

2013-11-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, we are proud to announce the release of Sugar 0.100.0. A lot is new for both users and developers, see the release notes http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.100/Notes Sources:

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.100.0 (stable)

2013-11-04 Thread Peter Robinson
, dbus.ByteArray('ef47d2e4dc6551ba96f6ceded9023243ea4ee519 ', variant_level=1)) On 4 November 2013 16:14, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, we are proud to announce the release of Sugar 0.100.0. A lot

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.100.0 (stable)

2013-11-04 Thread Peter Robinson
: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/51575/38360107/ Thanks, Peter On 4 November 2013 21:25, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have much of a clue about Write but... can you send the activity log

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] Sugar oversight board meeting

2013-11-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Gonzalo - I'm sorry, I was unable to attend the SLOBs meeting today. There are issues with doing PR about the release * It's not clear to me where we are going. The OLPC/Sugar development ecosystem seems to be at a

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.100.0 (stable)

2013-11-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Broken annotation in abiword. Trying to figure out the correct one then I'll open a bug + patch. Thanks! Let me know when you've got a patch and I'll test it. Peter On 4 November 2013 22:40, Peter Robinson pbrobin

Re: [IAEP] [Sur] Sugar oversight board meeting

2013-11-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 November 2013 23:05, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Sugar on Android or the Raspberry Pi might have an interesting marketing effect but the result would be truly terrible as it would be essentially

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Sur] Sugar oversight board meeting

2013-11-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 November 2013 22:53, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: * It's not clear to me where we are going. The OLPC/Sugar development ecosystem

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [Sur] Sugar oversight board meeting

2013-11-05 Thread Peter Robinson
Look at these older tests of sugar on the RPi: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Testing/Reports/ARM_RPi This part of the Advanced topics wiki page on the sugarlabs wiki: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Advanced_Topics#ARM Tom Gilliard I could not find any evidence of

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [Sur] Sugar oversight board meeting

2013-11-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi… Last year at SCaLE George Hunt helped me get Sugar running on my RPi. Because our booth was so busy, it took parts of both Saturday and Sunday to get it going. I then tried it when I got home and found that it was

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.100.0 (stable)

2013-11-05 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 November 2013 00:07, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Broken annotation in abiword. Trying to figure out the correct one

Re: [IAEP] Sugar oversight board meeting

2013-11-05 Thread Peter Robinson
) as it doesn't need 3D. The i.MX6 devices (WandBard, Utilite, CuBox-i etc) should have accelerated graphics in the F-21 time frame. Peter On Tuesday, 5 November 2013, Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 November 2013 23:05, Peter

Re: [IAEP] Sugar oversight board meeting

2013-11-05 Thread Peter Robinson
you see by enabling newer versions to be built for older releases while maintaining the stable shipped release in mainline. Peter On Tuesday, 5 November 2013, Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:42 PM

Re: [IAEP] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I think Sugar Labs needs to express a clear, realistic technology roadmap. For example, we have been talking a lot about Sugar on Android,

Re: [IAEP] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: I forgot a note about toolkits * The gtk2 toolkit is deprecated and frozen but it will be supported as long as possible (at some point I guess some dependencies might start disappearing from distributions, making that

Re: [IAEP] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: Did you run into any specific issue? It has been a while, but I had some issues with lack of introspection support with some pad stuff... will

Re: [IAEP] Sugar 0.101.0 (unstable)

2013-12-08 Thread Peter Robinson
this is the first development release of the cycle that will bring us to 0.102. Highlights: * Allow to limit the number of open activities. * More informations about hardware and software in control panel. * Allow to hide the Register menu. * Add support for 5 GHz frequency channels. * A

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Users cannot find Sugar with gnome-software in Fedora 20

2014-08-31 Thread Peter Robinson
Sugar is not found in a search of Software. Richard Hughes, the owner of Fedora's Changes/AppInstaller [2], put out a call [3] for maintainers to ship an AppData specification [4], so that Software will find registered apps. I asked Richard how I could help fix this and this is from

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Users cannot find Sugar with gnome-software in Fedora 20

2014-09-01 Thread Peter Robinson
Richard Hughes, the owner of Fedora's Changes/AppInstaller [2], put out a call [3] for maintainers to ship an AppData specification [4], so that Software will find registered apps. I asked Richard how I could help fix this and this is from his reply. [quote]

Re: [IAEP] [REVISION] Revised version of OLPC OS for tablets

2014-11-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:01 AM, Ryan Cunningham rvskmbr...@gmail.com wrote: I am sending to you a link to a revised version (created from scratch) of my tablet port of the OLPC OS. The major changes are as follows: * The Marvell Libertas firmware and olpc-update are now properly removed

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-13 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Sam, Gonzalo et el, I've worked with the Fedora web team to update it some based partially on Sam's details below. Details are here: http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/ Let me know of any feedback, I personally think it looks really fab! Peter On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Sam

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-15 Thread Peter Robinson
, May 14, 2015 at 7:09 PM Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Sam Parkinson sam.parkins...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Sam, Gonzalo et el, I've worked with the Fedora web team to update it some based partially on Sam's

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-16 Thread Peter Robinson
, May 15, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: It's already in process On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Sam P. sam.parkins...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, I think Walter send out a good copy [1] with headers - maybe we could use those headers? Thanks, Sam

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-19 Thread Peter Robinson
at 12:38 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Walter sent some edits, I believe most of those have gone in, we need to update titles still I believe. This is what we currently have

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-19 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Sam P. sam.parkins...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:01 PM Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: Thanks, Sean, for the careful proof reading

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-19 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Peter, On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:01 PM Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: Thanks, Sean, for the careful proof reading. Fair copy attached. I originally included

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-19 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 15:00 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Peter, On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:01 PM Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Iain Brown

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-20 Thread Peter Robinson
, if it is required. Iain Peter, when need this be finished? Gonzalo On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 15:00 +0100

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-20 Thread Peter Robinson
. Peter, when need this be finished? Gonzalo On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Iain Brown Douglas i...@browndouglas.plus.com wrote: On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 15:00 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Peter, On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:01 PM Peter Robinson

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

2015-05-20 Thread Peter Robinson
_Please_consolidate_the_changes_before_send_to_Peter_. Thanks, Gonzalo, is good advice. I've just spent two hours manually providing updates. It will be live on staging shortly. Please provide any further updates against that. Right the new updated content is live on staging. Please

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Sugar all-hands meeting

2015-05-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org wrote: I know there have been various board and development meetings for Sugar. But I would like to propose having an all-hands meeting where anyone in the Sugar community as well as related groups (deployments,

[IAEP] SoaS Review/Article

2016-05-15 Thread Peter Robinson
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/83446.html ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] SoaS Review/Article

2016-05-15 Thread Peter Robinson
Fedora 24 On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:41 AM, T.K. Kang <tsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great. It is sugar .106. Would like to use .108 sugar with better network > connectivity. > Where can we get this build? > > Cheers > > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Peter Robinson <

Re: [IAEP] SoaS Review/Article

2016-05-15 Thread Peter Robinson
>>> Could someone following that more closely offer any additional details >>> and thoughts on possible paths into a easily accessible .108 release? >> >> I am one of the Fedora release engineers, you could not get any closer >> to the process. I would like to >> >> I'd like to see updated

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