Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] EduJAM day 2 Tour of Uruguay

I would not personally know the history, but tap-to-click is intentionally disabled for the Synaptics touchpad in newer (10.1.x?) OLPC software builds for XOs. You should be able to edit /etc/modprobe.d/olpc-psmouse.conf to re-enable it: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10119 However, be aware that

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] XO power management hindering collaboration

In what build(s) is this occurring? And are you using a schoolserver or not? OLPC release 10.1.3 fixed some issues with XO 1.5's waking up in response to multicast traffic on the network. This is necessary for Salut/under the tree usage to work with power management. XO-1's with 10.1.3 are

[IAEP] Teaching that the error condition is normal, and the wisdom of crowds

Earlier this year, one of the public transit systems that I take to work decided to upgrade their fare collection system. The exact name or nature of this system is not important, apart from the fact it is a regional train line. But as someone hired to test Sugar its related items, I saw this

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Samsung Windfall: All of South Korea's Textbooks to Go Digital by 2015

XOs and Fedora include SCIM, which provides input methods for many languages including Korean. As long as the correct input methods fonts are installed, all that should be left to make them work in Sugar is some configuration. However a quick glance at Sugar's Pootle system (used for

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Problems!

It's not clear if you tried it, but I have cleared up a lot of weird keyboard issues by removing both the battery and external power, and then reconnecting them. This resets the embedded controller that controls the keyboard. If your firmware upgrade was significant enough jump, the embedded

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] OLPC SF 2011 Community Summit - Poster contest

It may also be a good idea if you can tell us a few details about how the posters are going to be printed. That way if they use images, they can be provided to you with a reasonable dpi setting, and we know if we should stick to solid colors/line art or if photos will work as well. On Wed, Oct

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] OLPC SF 2011 Community Summit - Poster contest

, They will be printed with Claria® 6-color ink printer at up to 5760 x 1440 dpi and ink droplets as small as 1.5 picoliters Bruce On 10/6/2011 3:40 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: It may also be a good idea if you can tell us a few details about how the posters are going to be printed. That way

Re: [IAEP] Video player for wiki.sugarlabs.org

Try tweaking the URL for XOs to use the olpc.dailymotion.com domain. The interface will scale itself down to make it XO-1 compatible. For example, in this case: http://olpc.dailymotion.com/sugarlabs On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Mon,

Re: [IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?

Although I cannot recommend a platform, I recommend being highly cautious about who generates and who edits material for a program which teaches disaster preparedness. Legal disclaimers will not be able to protect the author(s) if the information is blatantly incorrect, or even slightly

Re: [IAEP] Etoys or Scratch?

, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.orgwrote: Although I cannot recommend a platform, I recommend being highly cautious about who generates and who edits material for a program which teaches disaster preparedness. Legal disclaimers will not be able to protect the author

[IAEP] IEEE Global Humanitarian Technical Conference October 21-24

I got an email about the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technical Conference. It is in Seattle, Washington from October 21-24 (immediately after the OLPC-SF event). This definitely seems to be a doers conference, with a few papers last year on Open Source and Education. If anyone is interested you

Re: [IAEP] Will XO-4 work with Makey Makey?

Given a Makey Makey appears to emulate a standard USB HID keyboard/mouse there should be no reason it shouldn't work, as long as it doesn't try to draw excessive current from the USB port. The fact it is a HID device should also temporarily disable powerd from suspending (although you may have to

Re: [IAEP] Re-visiting 1984?

No, someone just thinks forum.laptop.org is compromised and infected with something. Whomever is left at OLPC with admin rights might want to look into it. There are other IRC web clients out there such as http://webchat.freenode.net/ which can get to the same channels if you need to get on IRC

Re: [IAEP] Board Status

Board elections typically depend on what an organization's articles of incorporation say. To clarify, there are several organizations related to what you might call OLPC/One Laptop per Child: - Sugar Labs, which spun off from OLPC in 2008 and maintains the Sugar user interface. This

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

If the current governing documents don't allow mid-term replacements due to someone resigning or shortages, that might be something worth amending them to include. On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: We run elections at the end of each year. If we have

Re: [IAEP] Will anything change this time?

Personally I would be more interested in why groups/organizations don't use Sugar than what existing deployments are looking for to continue using it. In order for Sugar to become more than a niche product it is going to have to accommodate a wider population. The XO/Sugar/Schoolserver

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)

for the Web I will give to every children the same opportunities I gave to XO users. Best regards from France. Lionel. Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 18:36:34 -0500 From: Samuel Greenfeld sam...@greenfeld.org To: IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org

[IAEP] Planning for the future

Disclaimer: The following are my views, and not the views of my current or past employers. About a year ago, I privately expressed concern that Sugar needed to ensure it had long-term sponsorship and a long-term user base. Since then, both the historical US-based OLPC organization and Sugar Labs

Re: [IAEP] ALERT JUSTICE DOWN [24 hours without response] (!)

Unless the hardware is newer than I think it is, it likely is quite old. OLPC's hardware in the Media Lab kept flaking out to the point most (all?) of it was eventually virtualized. How much would it cost to look into getting new hardware and/or using someone's virtualization platform? Sugar

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

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: I don't see how changing the communication media used for the meeting will get more people involved. In particular audio/video chat is worst than text when there are more people. But I agree we need more people in the

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

is on Monday. Anyone in the community is, as always, welcome to suggest discussion topics. -walter On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:28 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

[IAEP] Sugar all-hands meeting

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, schoolserver, etc.) could raise a topic and attend. If there are few enough people, we

[IAEP] Personal comments on the Sugar 2016 Vision proposal

I don't know if I will be able to make the meeting tomorrow; I am not really in a position to monitor IRC while at work. Reading the proposed Vision statement[*] we seem to be confusing a Vision Statement (which tends to be short & high level) with a detailed list of goals that Sugar Labs should

Re: [IAEP] Sugar/OLPC Relations

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Sam, I am eager to learn what you personally think the date should be :) > My personal answer (at least in past private discussions) has been to end support sometime in 2020. The logic behind that being: - OLPC no

[IAEP] Sugar/OLPC Relations

(Intentionally top-posted) On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > >>- A definite end-of-life date needs to put on XO-1 support. >> >> Sure! What do you think that date should be, Sam? > > What do other people think? > > I offer that Sugar Labs should follow

Re: [IAEP] Sugar/OLPC Relations

power an XO? You would need a suitable cable. > Caryl > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 3, 2016, at 11:43 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <sam...@greenfeld.org> > wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > >> Sam, I am

Re: [IAEP] 172 XO-1s for $24 each (+ freight) $4,000 total

I think if you tell the sponsor you want a stash to sell them, they'll be more than happy to keep them to sell for themselves. What Walter and I are getting at is that is servicing & reshipping 172 XOs (even if they come with 254 chargers + extra batteries) takes a lot more work than you may

Re: [IAEP] 172 XO-1s for $24 each (+ freight) $4,000 total

Having thought about this a bit more since this morning, I believe the best course of action would be to ask the recycler to directly donate the XO-1s to one or more projects which already accept them on a donation basis. These include the Columbus School for Girls (http://csgolpc.weebly.com/ ),

Re: [IAEP] Which cheap 2016 Laptop should be our reference?

I am going to take the unpopular stance here and say if all you are willing to support is a computer which requires no binary blobs, you are going to support no computer at all. It's just a question of who loads what binary blobs. Even x86 CPUs have their microcode loaders and digitally signed

Re: [IAEP] Is "Most Sugar Users Use XO Laptops" True?

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > Free and Open Source: It seems that the XO-4 contains more proprietary > software than the XO-1; and since Sugar isn't actually GPL, it seems Sugar > Labs only has a preference for this. > The core Sugar programs are

Re: [IAEP] "Windows Is Coming"

Alternatively (or perhaps alongside) a lot of schools are moving to Chromebooks these days. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/03/googles-chromebooks-make-up-half-of-us-classroom-devices.html If Sugar wants to be used in such environments, then it needs to work in a Chromebook's web browser or as an

Re: [IAEP] Motion: Solicit Membership Donations + Public Statements

Many US (and potentially other) employers match donations to non-profits made by their employees. The exact process varies by employer, but would require them to be made in the name of the Conservancy (with its known 501(c)3 EIN) with Sugar Labs as the target project. Would it be possible to

Re: [IAEP] Sugar network / School Network

In general, getting information about children using a product targeted at them is a bit of a legal minefield. There are countries which don't allow anything about younger children or what they do online to be known without parental and/or school consent. Said consent may require proving the

Re: [IAEP] Sugar network / School Network

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:09 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > Hi! > > On 16 May 2016 at 19:40, Samuel Greenfeld <sam...@greenfeld.org> wrote: > >> In general, getting information about children using a product targeted >> at them is a bit of a leg

Re: [IAEP] ASLO

ASLO isn't just a site for manual downloads. The build utilities for XO laptops hook into ASLO to download applications. Some sort of backward compatible API should be made for that. On Jul 14, 2016 12:43 PM, "Dave Crossland" wrote: > > On Jul 14, 2016 12:26 PM, "Tony Anderson"

Re: [IAEP] ASLO

installed to a user's home directory). A bigger decision might be to eliminate getting Activities through this API. On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > On 14 July 2016 at 13:13, Samuel Greenfeld <sam...@greenfeld.org> wrote: > >> The bui

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] Fwd: Please Help Support OLPC

Not that unusual; I've seen a few fundraising emails like this from time to time. More interesting (at least having worked for them) is that they moved from a portion of the 11th floor of a building in Miami to a single room on the 3rd to a new building entirely. Doubly interesting is that the

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [OLPC-SF] Fwd: Please Help Support OLPC

The Knight Foundation also sponsored the XO laptop deployments in Miami FL and Charlotte NC a few years ago. There are some videos of them published online. FWIW The Knight Foundation is a supporter of Public Radio in the US. Caryl Sent from my iPhone On Jul 9, 2016, at 11:12 AM, Samuel

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on Surface Pro (Microsoft Partnership)

Looking around, I found the following code online: http://www.greenfeld.org/1April2017/SugarNET.png It doesn't seem to do much more than my previous port did [*], but it at least compiles. [*] http://www.greenfeld.org/1April2011/ On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Samson Goddy

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar on Surface Pro (Microsoft Partnership)

t Unity and Xfce on WSL so I think it > might actually be possible to run Sugar. > > [1] - https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/07/08/bash-on- > ubuntu-on-windows-10-anniversary-update/ > > [2] - https://github.com/microsoft/bashonwindows/issues/637 > > Regards, >

Re: [IAEP] Motion to Change The Sugar Labs Rules of Governance

I disagree with this. While I have been on boards with an annoying member or two, letting a few board members vote the others off leads to coups and other odd politics. I have never personally seen such language in governing documents before. That said, what is considered a quorum of the

Re: [IAEP] Motion to Change The Sugar Labs Rules of Governance

If the election cycle is starting tomorrow, then I agree there's no real need for a recall vote, provided the person(s) in question are up for re-election this year {positions are staggered}. Personally I don't know what's going on here. If someone truly believes a recall vote is in order, then

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

My experience with the SFC is that while they like to do license enforcement, they are not platform purists. If you look at the bottom of sfconservancy.org they have their own social media accounts. The ".fla" file at least in #4758 actually may be the source code in binary format. I do not

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] Motion regarding xo-computer icon

reak ties with Sugar. On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> wrote: > > > On 16/09/17 18:19, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > > > By this measure, are we implying that Fedora & CentOS cannot be > distributed because they conta

Re: [IAEP] [SLOB] Motion regarding xo-computer icon

I agree with Sameer; if we want to debate this, this really needs a lawyer's opinion. Either that or just asking OLPC Inc. what they consider acceptable. Sugar has been using the XO logo for approximately 11 years now. My non-lawyer opinion is that if someone was to complain, they would be

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Uruguayan XOs Revival

OLPC has released firmware to unlock all XOs locked via standard means: https://wiki.laptop.org/go/Persistent_developer_key_firmware Definitely make sure you have permission first. You may have to ignore download warnings about the https:// page having http:// download links in Chrome/etc.. It