Re: [IAEP] Sugar 0.100 or 1.0

2013-05-17 Thread Chris Ball
direct people towards the HTML5 push and get their help with it. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://list

[IAEP] Not running for SLOBs re-election

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Ball
with deploying Sugar to consider taking part! We'll definitely need new faces now that one of the incumbents isn't running. Thanks for letting me serve for so long. I'll still be here at OLPC and helping out when I can. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <ht

Re: [IAEP] OLPC tablets and Nell in the wild?

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Ball
self part of the Sugar Labs community and expect that C. Scott does also; maybe others from the team too. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.su

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting reminder

2012-09-17 Thread Chris Ball
s for a discussion of our annual report to the Software > Freedom Conservancy and some topics regarding our programs in > internationalization (i18n). Apologies, I won't be able to make it; am in Shanghai for XO-4 bringup. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http:

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Local Labs motion

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Ball
y again on the same text in the future; it's because we're still looking into revising the text, not because I find the change unacceptable.) Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting proposal: Thursday, 3 May, at 21:00 UTC (17:00 EST)

2012-04-27 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Fri, Apr 27 2012, Walter Bender wrote: > It has been a while. A few things to catch up on. Can we muster a > quorum for the proposed date/time? I'll be there. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting announcement

2011-11-10 Thread Chris Ball
t #sugar-meeting on 2011-11-10 at 15UTC. This is happening now, but we're still waiting for a SLOBs quorum. Can anyone else join? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS]: Request for certifications of developing an activity

2011-07-12 Thread Chris Ball
design team to work something up.) Perhaps we could tie the certificate-awarding to posting an activity on ASLO and getting a review from someone on the Activity Team or something? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> On

Re: [IAEP] "Narrative Interfaces" at OLPC

2011-06-17 Thread Chris Ball
//www.dailymotion.com/user/sugarlabs/ Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar why would YOU want to?

2011-06-15 Thread Chris Ball
h a horizontal organization without chiefs, is the latest model in modern business management. What would happen? How much longer would Debian survive? Days? Hours? ... - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting reminder

2011-06-11 Thread Chris Ball
unfortunately I didn't have time to attend the meeting:-( > > Are the meeting minutes and/or logs available already? I can't seem to > find them on http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes They're always at meeting.sugarlabs.org straight away: http://m

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Next slobs meeting?

2011-06-05 Thread Chris Ball
mpt to implement trademark law inside a copyright license, the non-commercial clause would still be a show-stopper. :/ - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a lapto

[IAEP] Videos from EduJam

2011-05-14 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I've uploaded video of 17 EduJam talks now. More to come! http://blog.printf.net/articles/2011/05/14/edujam-2011 http://www.dailymotion.com/sugarlabs Enjoy, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ I

Re: [IAEP] SL Dailymotion account

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Ball
n't see a good way to get an edujam/sugarlabs account with those privileges quickly. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] SL Dailymotion account

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Ball
o much for upload bandwidth.) -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Chess activities

2011-04-29 Thread Chris Ball
think it's true that it's being worked on by anyone. It would be great if someone volunteered to improve it, though! - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

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

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Fri, Apr 22 2011, Chris Ball wrote: > I think you've repeatedly ignored Scott's claim that you can't modify > COPYING or the source files because that would be *changing* the > license, rather than taking advantage of GPLv3 redistribution rights. > Can you ask

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

2011-04-22 Thread Chris Ball
m that you can't modify COPYING or the source files because that would be *changing* the license, rather than taking advantage of GPLv3 redistribution rights. Can you ask Brett or someone at the FSF what the right thing to do is? - Chris. -- Chris Ball &l

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] New: Sugar Labs finances status page

2011-04-21 Thread Chris Ball
fterwards, that's why it looks like there aren't any minutes. For the SLOBS meeting, the links are: minutes: http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2011-04-21T19:00:15.html full log: http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2011-04-21T19:00:15 - Chris. -- Chris B

Re: [IAEP] New: Sugar Labs finances status page

2011-04-21 Thread Chris Ball
ht_Board/Minutes Log's at http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2011-04-21#i_2660201 - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.s

Re: [IAEP] GPL non-compliance, was Re: [SLOBS] GPLv3

2011-04-20 Thread Chris Ball
r core, then they're surely available by virtue of being shipped in Python source form in Ceibal's images, which satisfies the GPL. - Chris. -- Chris Ball <http://printf.net/> One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Ball
t the suggestions I got. I might have missed a mail -- did you make any progress with this? It'd be great to have this work be usable by others. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] For Sugar Everywhere, Google-ize!

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Ball
oard; we've been working closely together since the beginning, and OLPC is willing and able to yell if a software proposal sounds like it wouldn't work out for us. It's in all of our best interests to find a way to pool resources and work together! Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Re: [IAEP] For Sugar Everywhere, Google-ize!

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Ball
ink What do folks think -- did I miss anything important? Did I list anything that doesn't deserve to be listed? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] For Sugar Everywhere, Google-ize!

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Ball
there are people interested in making the current Sugar environment more powerful for its large installed base, and there are people interested in new cutting-edge technology designs, and they aren't necessarily the same people. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child

Re: [IAEP] For Sugar Everywhere, Google-ize!

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Ball
ut what it's possible to do with JavaScript these days, but the combination of being faster than Python and being pervasively editable is exciting. Do you know of any proof-of-concept Chrome extensions that do activity-like things or allow you to modify their own source on the fly that we should

Re: [IAEP] For Sugar Everywhere, Google-ize!

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Ball
rse, I don't actually believe everything I read on TechCrunch, but the fact that it's an immature and unproven platform is undeniable; SL shouldn't bet the farm on it as a platform yet, surely. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___

Re: [IAEP] Help Request

2011-02-08 Thread Chris Ball
t period of time. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-02-07 Thread Chris Ball
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2010/Abstract_Browser This reminds me -- it looks like Dinko's changes were not merged into Pippy mainline. Can you tell us about the status of his work? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child _

Re: [IAEP] Hackety Hack tutorial for Sugar

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Manu, Sure, I'm happy for anyone to maintain it. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Hackety Hack tutorial for Sugar

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Ball
t going to have time to work on this any more, though -- perhaps someone might be interested in taking over and uploading to ASLO, etc? Thanks, -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop

Re: [IAEP] Will This Work???

2010-12-10 Thread Chris Ball
if we decided that public-by-default wins on the merits. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Announcing the OLPC OS 10.1.2 final release!

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Ball
group of volunteers who created XO-1 Fedora 11 builds: our particular thanks to Daniel Drake, Bernie Innocenti and Steven M. Parrish for their work towards this release. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Pr

Re: [IAEP] "Mesh" Dreams = OLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Ball
custom mesh algorithm would have to run on the CPU -- prohibiting any kind of idle-suspend -- makes it a non-starter for an XO deployment in my eyes. Did you have any thoughts on this? - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It&#x

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] next meeting?

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > We've not met much this summer. I'd like to propose we meet next > Tuesday at UTC 15:00 (EST 11:00). Does this work for everyone? Yes, works for me. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- I

Re: [IAEP] Suggested change to Arithmetic blurb on http://activities.sugarlabs.org

2010-07-29 Thread Chris Ball
get people to fix up the code too. ;-) - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SLOBs weekly update, 2010-07-11

2010-07-12 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Walter forwarded the 3 requests. +1 from me to all 3. > > If that's a +1 from Walter, Bernie, and myself, we need one more > SLOBs +1 vote on each to pass it. +1 vote on each from me too. Thanks for pushing on this, Mel! - Chris. -- Chris Ball One

[IAEP] Announce: OLPC software strategy.

2010-07-07 Thread Chris Ball
f it in action here⁴. It's an exciting time for software development at OLPC. Many thanks for all of your support and efforts! - Chris, on behalf of the OLPC Engineering team. Footnotes: ¹: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.1 ²: http://fedorap

[IAEP] Announcing the OLPC OS 10.1.1 final release!

2010-07-07 Thread Chris Ball
notes/10.1.1#Installation Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SLOBs meeting tomorrow?

2010-07-01 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I should be able to make Tuesday too. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] What does "No wp tag" mean?

2010-06-23 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > No wp tag It means that disable-security has already been run once, so you don't have to do it again. (We might want to make it say that explicitly.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] Crazy Idea

2010-06-11 Thread Chris Ball
or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded or used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Documented APIs and built-in interpreter(s)." - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAE

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

2010-06-08 Thread Chris Ball
date. :) The MeeGo UI looks interesting in general, I've been wondering which API it's using to handle multitouch input. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

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

2010-06-05 Thread Chris Ball
ople from the > Fedora side who could assist. Thanks! I'm already spending time with the #fedora-arm folks, and we are considering trying to use Fedora all the same. It's not an easy decision, though. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child _

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

2010-06-04 Thread Chris Ball
oftware stack for XO-1.75 and XO-3. (The fact that we haven't decided what to use doesn't mean that we definitely *won't* use Fedora or GNOME. It simply means that we haven't decided yet. Advice welcome!) - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___

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

2010-06-03 Thread Chris Ball
e Sugar intro/login screen without a keyboard. :-) - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

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

2010-06-03 Thread Chris Ball
; the XO-1. Perhaps even more so, as Intel has been steadily > increasing the power friendliness of its x86 chips, with Atom & > so forth. The cost savings with ARM is significant, too. > I guess I'm going to need to learn to love curly braces :/ I don'

Re: [IAEP] Announcing the Development Team Lead election

2010-05-17 Thread Chris Ball
ople won't vote > freely without anonymity. Okay. Let's continue gathering candidates as we were, and then the team can decide what to do with the result; whether to have an internal election, full election or something else. > Thanks to you for taking this important task, I&

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Announcing the Development Team Lead election

2010-05-16 Thread Chris Ball
links to potential plans that the candidate would adopt, if elected. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Announcing the Development Team Lead election

2010-05-15 Thread Chris Ball
receive a token for doing so by e-mail. I've volunteered to run the election. Finally, many thanks to Tomeu Vizoso and Simon Schampijer for their great work as the Development Team Lead and Release Manager! - Chris. ¹: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2010-May/023825.html -

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Hello All... I've been following your comments on this. Am I the > only one who finds this charming but at the same time strangely > disturbing What did you find disturbing about it? - Chris. -- Chris Ball One La

[IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Chris Ball
http://vimeo.com/8709616 -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SPAM]Re: [SPAM]An intelligent sneakernet for the XO.

2010-04-13 Thread Chris Ball
Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] non-free activities on ASLO

2010-03-18 Thread Chris Ball
hird party markets independent of activities.sl.org. If we continue with the policy that was voted on, I think it would be important not to have anything inside .sugarlabs.org endorse or offer non-free activities, which would suggest choice 3 in your list above. Thank

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs GSoC 2010 Application In

2010-03-12 Thread Chris Ball
s just that the application itself has been accepted, and will later be reviewed. My mistake! - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs GSoC 2010 Application In

2010-03-12 Thread Chris Ball
> supporting OLPC projects. That sounds great; I'd be happy to chat more about this. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Kurzweil in Wine?

2010-02-17 Thread Chris Ball
d not work, because Wine will not have access to anything happening in Sugar. > Also does anyone know what they are using in Uruguay with > vision-impaired students? Not sure -- a few .uy deployment engineers are around on the -devel@ lists, so they can be asked directly. Thanks, - C

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Planet syndication instructions

2010-02-12 Thread Chris Ball
config; done ? - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Video Chat, Video Editing and VOIP activities for Sugar

2010-02-12 Thread Chris Ball
. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Video_Chat http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/video-chat-activity http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/013227.html - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Projec

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOBs] Scenarios for licensing our trademarks

2010-01-29 Thread Chris Ball
ar response from both sides. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Scenarios for licensing our trademarks

2010-01-29 Thread Chris Ball
liance with its conditions, in which case you don't. I don't see why the same idea of an automatic license that is only granted while its conditions are met would fail to be usable in a trademark license, but maybe there's a reason I haven't thou

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOBs] Scenarios for licensing our trademarks

2010-01-29 Thread Chris Ball
share that intuition, so I'd like to examine those constraints to see whether they really do lead to the conclusion of a manual license being necessary. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Proj

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOBs] Scenarios for licensing our trademarks

2010-01-29 Thread Chris Ball
an e-mail saying that you intend to use the marks and giving a link/description to your product". Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOBs] Scenarios for licensing our trademarks

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Ball
losest matches to our use case, and both have strong no-permission uses of trademarks available, which I'm sure helps to grow their ecosystems; I think people often avoid asking for permission, even in cases where it's clear that it will probably be given. (How d

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOBs] prep for Friday's meeting

2010-01-20 Thread Chris Ball
k the way to apply both patches to the draft is just to change "with prior written" back to "without prior written" in the preamble of §2.) Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOBs] prep for Friday's meeting

2010-01-20 Thread Chris Ball
ding written permission for the unmodified/bundling situations described in §2. What do others think? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

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

2010-01-14 Thread Chris Ball
t for 10.1. :) - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Announcing the OLPC OS 10.1.0 final release!

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Ball
notes/10.1.0#Installation Many thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBs] "Sugar on a Stick" usage motion

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Ball
rst > project to go through that process. I second, if no-one else's e-mail client beats me to it, and vote aye. Thanks, -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugar

Re: [IAEP] Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-05 Thread Chris Ball
e too, as long as Wade thinks it's ready/usable enough. A local decision not to include it is fine, but separate from the question of what we should provide as a default. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Educati

Re: [IAEP] Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-12-05 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > I'd suggest Stopwatch > http://dev.laptop.org/~bemasc/StopWatchActivity-3.xo Thanks, added. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.su

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

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Ball
allow us to. The activity should be taken down immediately, for that reason. (Sorry, Marcos.) - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarl

[IAEP] Wanted: List of Sugar activities for the XO-1.5

2009-11-23 Thread Chris Ball
rably 0.82) (b) complete translations for OLPC deployment countries (c) reasonably low disk space use (d) download popularity on activities.sugarlabs.org Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Projec

[IAEP] (Please read) Re: Proposed Trac - > Launchpad migration

2009-11-01 Thread Chris Ball
he same. * It will be hosted by Canonical externally, rather than by SL as Trac currently is. If any of these are not to your liking, the time to speak up is now, before it all happens. :) Thanks for reading, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One L

Re: [IAEP] New activity: Arithmetic.

2009-10-25 Thread Chris Ball
ring, and better question generation logic, etc). :) Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel

2009-09-28 Thread Chris Ball
bs distributes a Sugar-centric GNU/Linux distribution?" """ How the panel proceeds to organize themselves and answer these questions is entirely up to them. Once a report is ready, SLOBs will review it and vote on ratifying its suggestions. Thanks,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Long-term support for Sugar

2009-09-21 Thread Chris Ball
'm sure that issue > has been addressed. My understanding is that the developers consider it addressed by "%post runs as root, and if you don't like it then don't install RPMs [from untrusted sources]". So, we need to find out what&

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] Long-term support for Sugar

2009-09-21 Thread Chris Ball
hat it works with > multiple package backends so it will with Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, > SuSE and alot of other distros as well so it should be usable by > all distros :-) Would it be safe against someone trying to gain root in a %post script, though? - Chris. -- Chris Ba

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Long-term support for Sugar

2009-09-21 Thread Chris Ball
solution. If we could switch to .rpm *and* find a good way to install .rpms without being root, though, that would be pretty compelling. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop pr

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-19 Thread Chris Ball
eems pretty unlikely, though, given that SL is small enough that we know all of the actors personally. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] SoaS: Searching for Decision Panel volunteers.

2009-09-18 Thread Chris Ball
be on the panel, and probably (c) what the decision being paneled is. :) Please volunteer by replying to this mail if you're interested, and please do so by Thursday September 24th so that we can run the vote at the Friday September 25th SLOBs meeting. Thanks! - Chris. -- Chris Ball

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-18 Thread Chris Ball
g on them, unless we just let anyone who wants to be on it join.) > In any case, I think we should meet on Friday of next week. Okay. I'll be at the Linux Plumbers Conference, but I think I can make the meeting anyway. - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-18 Thread Chris Ball
e.g. ambiguity in the question, or wanting to abstain) To add a question to the list (I'm not going to add any of them myself), please add to the bullet points at: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Oversight_Board/Minutes#Friday_18_Sept_2009_-_14:00_UTC If you don't like the ide

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Sugar-devel] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-16 Thread Chris Ball
statement should be almost as effective as making the expensive legal statement for us. FWIW, - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New activity: Arithmetic.

2009-08-10 Thread Chris Ball
ate") between the two machines! > Bryan also asked me to show the activity to the folks here at the > OLE Nepal offices so if I get any feedback from them I'll forward > it to you. Great, thanks very much, - Chris. -- Chris Ball __

[IAEP] New activity: Arithmetic.

2009-08-10 Thread Chris Ball
e with an SL gitorious account to commit directly, that would be an ideal setup.) The GIT tree contains groupthink referenced as a submodule, so to check it out: git clone git://git.sugarlabs.org/arithmetic/mainline.git Arithmetic.activity cd Arithmetic.activity git submodule init git submodule up

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [Fwd: Follow-Up on: " looking for two groups of volunteers"]

2009-08-08 Thread Chris Ball
p the ability to make a final decision on. (Since it depends upon how much money's in the bank account at the time, and what the *other* committees think we ought to spend it on. :) How does that sound? - Chris. -- Chris Ball __

Re: [IAEP] the SoaS term

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Ball
Sugar in that way. I think SoaS has been widely understood to refer to a set of popular Fedora builds that Sugar Labs (rather than a distribution) creates itself, as a product. It might have been good to pick a different name in the beginning, but it doesn't seem like it's worth changing

Re: [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Ball
true of the colinux kernel. If the F10 build works with HAL already, it sounds like you (and he) are all set. - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Titanium App

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, We talked a while back about activity development that looks more like web development, and I see that Titanium App has released a Linux preview release today: http://titaniumapp.com/ - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ IAEP -- It's An Educ

Re: [IAEP] How to upgrade XOs to Sugar 0.84?

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Ball
pc-update daemon on an XS server (which can be somewhere out on the public net, if you like). - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Ball
ent is that a learning environment whose reason for existing is to encourage the creation and appropriation of content by learners should not attempt to accomplish this using a platform that provides *no method* for the learners using it to create or appropriate content! Thanks, - Chris. -- Chr

Re: [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Ball
27;t mean I would stop someone from writing a Flash player wrapper if they want to, and it means I would likely change my mind if free Flash players and editors became more available. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ IAEP -- It's

Re: [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-05 Thread Chris Ball
n swf (flash) > format. Here's another app that appeared in my RSS reader today, I haven't tried it; it seems to contain some of the ideas Bryan's interested in, though: http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2009/01/05/build-desktop-apps-with-web-ui-and-python/ http://titaniumapp

Re: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II

2009-01-02 Thread Chris Ball
lscreen) happens independently of improvements on how we help people to write Sugar activities. Does that make sense? - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II

2009-01-02 Thread Chris Ball
rinciple for Sugar (even in the face of extra convenience) is being represented and considered, I'm happy. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and II

2009-01-01 Thread Chris Ball
fine goal, but I don't think there are any simple solutions. For example, do we even have a Flash editor under Linux? Is the first instruction on how to write activities for someone in the developing world going to be "First, pirate a copy of Windows and Adobe Flash Pro

Re: [IAEP] Request for help packaging activities for Sugar on a Stick

2008-12-20 Thread Chris Ball
packaged, and no porting should be required: can't you just preinstall a bunch of .xo files? Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ball ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] membership guidelines again

2008-11-04 Thread Chris Ball
Hi David, On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 02:08:53PM +1800, David Farning wrote: > It has come to my attention that I have been remiss in creating membership > guidelines. I was waiting for SFC to get back to us with information about > an ICA. Have they done so now? Thanks, - Chris. -- C

Re: [IAEP] Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!

2008-10-30 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Jeremy, > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 17:53 -0400, Chris Ball wrote: >> A minor complaint: Sugar came up in 800x600, which doesn't look >> very good. I wonder if we can try for 1280x1024 by default >> instead. (It might just be the graphics card qemu is em

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