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

2013-11-08 Thread David Farning
the community lead Edubuntu project) have left education, and sugar in particular, struggling at Ubuntu. Sean On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:46 AM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry Sebastian, yes I should

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

2013-11-07 Thread David Farning
-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [IAEP] Tech roadmap

2013-11-07 Thread David Farning
was to quietly get a proof of concept in place which adds value to deployments before suggesting making changes to upstream. Now, AC has to clean up and abstract the proof of concept work to prepare it for acceptance upstream. On Thursday, 7 November 2013, David Farning wrote: I agree :) Right

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread David Farning
and unstable) releases. I'm not saying to ship those to deployments of course, but they would help upstream development, marketing and testing... And they would help AC to make the transition to the next sugar release smoother. On 7 November 2013 02:05, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2013-09-16

2013-09-17 Thread David Farning
mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Android via HTML5

2013-09-16 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:51 AM, David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Sep 10, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: One

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Android via HTML5

2013-09-13 Thread David Farning
de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on Android via HTML5

2013-09-13 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Manuel Quiñones ma...@laptop.org wrote: 2013/9/13 David Farning dfarn...@activitycentral.com: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Sep 10, 2013, at 5:04 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Caryl

[IAEP] XSCE 0.3 RC2 Release Announcement

2013-05-28 Thread David Farning
to the folks whose months of springtime work went into this imminent accomplishment-- traveling days from quite different parts of North America to make this community product real. -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com ___ IAEP

[IAEP] Promoting Pablo Flores to CEO of Activity Central

2011-12-06 Thread David Farning
I am proud to announce that we are promoting Pablo Flores as the new CEO of Activity Central. Pablo has a strong background in all things OLPC and Sugar from his time at Plan Ceibal, leadership in Ceibal Jam, and most recently as community architect for Activity Central. Pablo and the rest of

[IAEP] Sugar Labs Oversight Board - Candidacy

2011-10-09 Thread David Farning
I, David Farning, would like to announce my candidacy for a position on the Sugar Labs Oversight Board. As a member on the original Sugar Labs Oversight Board, I came to feel that as much as I believed in the vision of OLPC and Sugar Labs there were a number of needs in the ecosystem which could

Re: [IAEP] [Dextrose] [Sugar-devel] About Activity Central and Dextrose (was: [ANNOUNCE] New Dextrose-3 development build: Alpha-1 (dx3ng36))

2011-09-02 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Thanks Gonzalo On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Sascha Silbe si...@activitycentral.com wrote: Excerpts from Gonzalo Odiard's message of Thu Sep 01 21:24:31 +0200 2011: There are a public list of patches? Not just

Re: [IAEP] team updates

2011-09-02 Thread David Farning
    David Farning What does the team see as its constraints from being more successful in its Mission? What are you doing to try to resolve the constraint? What can Sugar Labs 'central' or the community do to help? Documentation is a hard problem for community projects. One solution

[IAEP] EduJAM day 2.

2011-05-07 Thread David Farning
Another day of EduJAM is over. The Event coordinators from Ceibal Jam set an impressively high bar for future conferences. The morning centered around Status and Plans reports from deployments. Plan Ceibal started the day with a session on the technical status and efficacy of the project.

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

2011-05-03 Thread David Farning
-Original Message- From: qu...@us.netrek.org [mailto:qu...@us.netrek.org] On Behalf Of James Cameron Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 4:47 AM To: David Farning Cc: 'IAEP'; 'Sugar Devel' Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] EduJAM day 2 Tour of Uruguay On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 04:24:53PM -0300

[IAEP] EduJAM day 3 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-03 Thread David Farning
The theme for day was using the XO to help kids learn. Because this is not my area of expertise I will defer summarizing the day and take a moment to explain the rational for a technical focused summit for an education project. There are two aspect to the OLPC ecosystem, technological and

[IAEP] EduJAM day 1.5 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread David Farning
In the afternoon, our visit to the school was rained out. Instead we went to a local festival, after which two teachers joined us on the bus. There is a reoccurring theme of, There is no benefit in complaining about the hurdles, they are part of life. Let's, get the job doing. As this series of

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Olidata computers in Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread David Farning
-Original Message- From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel- boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Gary Martin Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 2:13 PM To: Yamandu Ploskonka Cc: IAEP SugarLabs; Sugar-dev Devel Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Olidata

[IAEP] EduJAM day 2 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread David Farning
This morning we are in a classroom observing (and after a few minutes participating) in a class room session involving turtle art. The first task was to draw a rectangle with two side being 3 cm long and the other two side being less then 3 cm. This involved using as ruler to determine how many

[IAEP] EduJAM day 2.5 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread David Farning
The afternoon and evening sessions of the tour were a great complement to the morning session. Yes, you heard correctly, afternoon _and_ evening sessions:) Pablo has us hopping. Tomorrow morning starts a 600am. The afternoon session was again at public school 286. Rather than observe and

[IAEP] Awesome day 0 for eduJAM.

2011-05-01 Thread David Farning
Yesterday was have picture perfect start to eduJAM! The day was planned by the Ceibal-volunteer associations as part of their annual (sometime biannual) meeting. For lack of a better word, my Spanish is still rather fuzzy, I will use the term Ceibal-volunteer associations to describe Ceibal-Jam,

[IAEP] EduJAM day 1 Tour of Uruguay

2011-05-01 Thread David Farning
EduJam started with a bang this morning with visit to the Aurora project in Tala, Uruguay. The project, run by a local farmers cooperative, brings WIFI to farmers outside of Tala. The local telcos decided that it is not profitable enough to bring service to the area. In true hacker fashion they

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

2011-04-25 Thread David Farning
technical discussion snipped Since this is the core point of disagreement within the community, the act of accepting or rejecting the GPLv3 assumes for us the deeper meaning of refusing or endorsing TiVo-ization and DRM in conjunction with Sugar. 'Premature optimization is the root of all

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] eduJAM! 2011: A Vibrant Summit With A Diverse Range Of Offerings

2011-03-21 Thread David Farning
-Original Message- From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel- boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Organización eduJAM! 2011 Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 2:05 PM To: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org Subject: [Sugar-devel] eduJAM!

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs 2010-2011 Election Information

2010-10-30 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Luke Faraone l...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the confusion regarding the 2010-2011 elections. We all could have done a better job promoting it. For that reason, I'm adjusting the election schedule[1] as follows:  * 2010-11-01 23:59 EDT:

[IAEP] Moving forward.

2010-10-25 Thread David Farning
Yesterday I sent a rather blunt email on my concerns about the project. It seems the observations resonated with many people while striking several nerves. The volume of private mail or CCed mail (to a subset of the Sugar Labs participants) responses was unexpectedly high. The five main themes

Re: [IAEP] stepping down as maintainer

2010-10-24 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Bastien bastien.gue...@wikimedia.fr wrote: Hi David, I think everyone agrees that Tomeu stepping down as a maintainer is a big loss.  I join my voice to those who already expressed this and my thanks to Tomeu for all the crazy work he's been achieving here -

Re: [IAEP] stepping down as maintainer

2010-10-23 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, for personal reasons have to drastically reduce my involvement in the project. Will be leaving maintenance of my modules and unsubscribing from the mailing lists. My place on the board is vacant from now on and

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Proposal release management

2010-06-24 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 24.06.2010, at 09:32, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, in May I tried to find someone to replace me as release manager [1] for 0.90, but as nobody has stepped up to do the job as we defined it I decided that it will

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] What Sugar ships (was Re: Proposal release management)

2010-06-24 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 24.06.2010, at 15:29, David Farning wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: To that extent I proposed to the Etoys developers to follow the Sugar development cycle

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

2010-06-18 Thread David Farning
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 as a new official project. It is sponsored jointly by Paraguay Educa and

Re: [IAEP] Health nuts

2010-06-15 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Beth Santos b...@waveplace.org wrote: Hey all, Looking for someone who can get me in touch with people who might be interested in developing health-focused Etoys education software- nutrition, sanitation, HIV/AIDS awareness, malaria prevention, anatomy, etc.

Re: [IAEP] maintaining activities (was Re: Too many open fronts?)

2010-06-10 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 06:17, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Wed, 09-06-2010 a las 02:59 -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis

Re: [IAEP] maintaining activities (was Re: Too many open fronts?)

2010-06-10 Thread David Farning
We have to focus on polish, on getting something useful in the hands of children. On making a difference there. We cannot leave XO-1.5 unfinished. We have to hear the SoaS crowd when they point out that very few activities are shippable. I agree in that focusing is very important. But

Re: [IAEP] Quote, docs (was Re: Sugar Digest 2010-05-20)

2010-05-24 Thread David Farning
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:42, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: ==Sugar Digest== One of the nice things as you walk through the museum is that on almost every wall is a quote about play. They have a nice

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Supporting Sugar .88 on the XO1

2010-05-21 Thread David Farning
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 02:04, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: david wrote:   As Bernie announced, we working on supporting Sugar .88 on the XO-1

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Supporting Sugar .88 on the XO1

2010-05-20 Thread David Farning
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: david wrote:   As Bernie announced, we working on supporting Sugar .88 on the XO-1. hi david -- for those of us joining this thread late, can you expand on what/who you mean by we?  (or tell me to read the archives, if that's

[IAEP] Working with a commercial entity.

2010-05-17 Thread David Farning
There has been discussion on development processes and a development team lead over the past couple of days. As this discussion moves forward, I would like the community to consider the effects of working with commercial entity. Over the past couple of months I have been exploring business

Re: [IAEP] Working with a commercial entity.

2010-05-17 Thread David Farning
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: 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

[IAEP] deployment focused event

2010-05-11 Thread David Farning
Following up on the 'realness' event happening later this month, we will be holding a deployment focused event in July to prepare Sugar for deployment in Maine. Last summer Sugar Labs spent a significant amount of resources, both real and emotional, on a pilot at the GPA. Now, a year later and

Re: [IAEP] stepping down as development team coordinator

2010-05-11 Thread David Farning
Thanks for all of your hard work over the years. You have left your excellent mark on Sugar and Sugar Labs. You have carried a heavy load for a long time! I hope that we continue to see your participation in the Sugar / OLPC ecosystem. (I am already seeing your name pop up around gnome:)

[IAEP] Fedora Summer Coding

2010-04-09 Thread David Farning
It might me worth submitting a few of the SoaS relate GSOC projects to Fedora Summer Coding. [1] If any projects are accepted by FSC, it would leave more GCOS slots open for non-SoaS projects. FSC looks close enough to GSoC that the additional overhead of working with both programs would be

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

2010-03-20 Thread David Farning
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...@gmail.com wrote: The problem with this approach is that it renders SoaS

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

2010-03-19 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Yes.  We ratified at a SLOBS meeting that non-free activities (or content) should *not* be hosted on ASLO, and attempted to specify what we mean

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] [Sugar-devel] Turtle Art on Activities.sugarlabs.org

2010-02-28 Thread David Farning
+1. Solutions Grovey has several moodle experts in house On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Bernie Innocenti lt;ber...@codewiz.orggt; wrote: On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 15:34 +, Aleksey Lim wrote: gt; we can move in several directions at the same time, gt; gt; * web hosting, gt; nbsp; I'm more

[IAEP] Turtle Art on Activities.sugarlabs.org

2010-02-25 Thread David Farning
The other day during an infrastructure meeting, Walter brought up some thought on how to enable kids to exchange Turtle Art projects Alsroot has been thinking about how to do this through a.sl.o since he became the activities.sugarlabs.org code maintainer. The high level view is that someone

[IAEP] ASLO bootcamp at RIT weekend of March 7 or 14

2010-02-17 Thread David Farning
I just wanted to poll the interest on these lists about an ASLO bootcamp which we are planning for either the weekend of March 7 or 14 on the RIT campus. The format will be a series of 5 sessions on: - 1.1 Session 0

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] ASLO bootcamp at RIT weekend of March 7 or 14

2010-02-17 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.orgwrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 15:18 -0600, David Farning wrote: I just wanted to poll the interest on these lists about an ASLO bootcamp which we are planning for either the weekend of March 7 or 14 on the RIT campus

Re: [IAEP] Local Labs for Mexico

2010-01-02 Thread David Farning
Gabriel, Would you please create a local lab proposal like the ones on http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs . From there we can start figuring out how to proceed most effectively. david 2009/11/17 Gabriel Molina skip...@gmail.com: Hello! I'm very interested in Sugar Project and I'd like

[IAEP] Looking for local labs.

2009-12-09 Thread David Farning
For the past year, I have been deliberately keeping Sugar Labs out of the way of local labs to help insure that early local labs were not over whelmed by the visions or personalities of Sugar Labs. Browsing the list lately, it looks like it might be time to take a shot at collecting ideas from

[IAEP] The sugar stack

2009-11-27 Thread David Farning
It seems time to think about the next _big_ technical issue for growing Sugar Labs. Clearly articulating the Sugar Stack. For the last year or so, we have been circling the issue with talk of stable APIs, Glucose, Fructose, and expected dependencies. Last year, we created the release cycle. At

Re: [IAEP] OOo4Kids available for Sugar!

2009-11-16 Thread David Farning
The basics of uploading to activities.sl.o sounds like something the marketing guy should know:) I am on IRC so I can walk you through the process. (you can upload it and then I will assign eric as author/developer so he owns and maintains the project) david On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:06

Re: [IAEP] OOo4Kids available for Sugar!

2009-11-16 Thread David Farning
on a link on the homepage of a.sl.o explaining to any potential Activity developer (myself included) how to do it Sean On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:16 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: The basics of uploading to activities.sl.o sounds like something the marketing guy should

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-11-16

2009-11-16 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: === Sugar Digest === 1. I am writing this update today while waiting to see if I will called to jury duty. I was originally supposed to report last week, but a deferment was granted since I was in Bolzano. I am not

[IAEP] Mirrors in Argentina and Paraguay

2009-11-14 Thread David Farning
A quick thanks to the local labs in Argentina and Paraguary. They have set up mirrors to help distribute Sugar Labs content. Their status will be updated on mirrors.sugarlabs.org next time page is updated. david ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Sharing Google Apps calendars

2009-11-05 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Personal and team calendars hosted at our Google Apps instance can now be shared with anyone outside the @sugarlabs.org domain also in read-only and read-write mode. Cool, I don't think this was possible when we first

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Sugar Digest 2009-11-02

2009-11-03 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:41 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I think there are more recommended activities than fit at any one time

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Sugar Digest 2009-11-02

2009-11-03 Thread David Farning
recommended list it is very easy to create an activities.sl.o editor's account for them. david -walter On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Rita Freudenberg r...@squeakland.org wrote: Walter Bender wrote: 5. Thanks to the efforts of Josh Williams, Aleksey Lim, and David Farning, the new http

[IAEP] Infrastructure Status Report

2009-11-03 Thread David Farning
While SoaS and Trademarks have gotten most of the attention lately, other parts of Sugar Labs are growing and moving forward. A lot is happening on the infrastructure side of the project. Some of it behind the scenes and some of it more public. --Capacity growth-- The biggest challenge faced

Re: [IAEP] 'apt-get install sugar-platform' available for Ubuntu9.10.

2009-11-03 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:02, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: After a couple of weeks of reading tutorials, help from Aleksey, and some Ubuntu developers there are Sugar packages available for Ubuntu 9.10

Re: [IAEP] 'apt-get install sugar-platform' available for Ubuntu9.10.

2009-10-29 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:29 AM, s.bouta...@free.fr wrote: Hi, After a couple of weeks of reading tutorials, help from Aleksey, and some Ubuntu developers there are Sugar packages available for Ubuntu 9.10. Thank you for your work. After some testing, I wrote a small blog-entry with some

Re: [IAEP] 'apt-get install sugar-platform' available for Ubuntu9.10.

2009-10-29 Thread David Farning
a new ~sugarteam/+archive/0.86-testing for testing our packages and leave ~sugarteam/+archive/0.86 for stabler public stuff. david On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 29

[IAEP] 'apt-get install sugar-platform' available for Ubuntu9.10.

2009-10-25 Thread David Farning
After a couple of weeks of reading tutorials, help from Aleksey, and some Ubuntu developers there are Sugar packages available for Ubuntu 9.10. For now, these packages are available on the Ubuntu-Sugarteam PPA (personal package archive) at https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam/+archive/0.86 . To use

Re: [IAEP] thin clients

2009-10-24 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Deborah Boatwright boatwrig...@newmarket.k12.nh.us wrote: Hello, I am intrigued by many aspects of Sugar on a Stick.  My school uses Novell with Windows XP on the desk top. Then I have a thin client network using LTSP-KIWI Opensuse that does not work

Re: [IAEP] We want to create our local Sugar Labs Argentina.-

2009-10-22 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Gustavo Ibarra ibarr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero dir...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Gustavo. Glad to have you here. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: Please copy

[IAEP] Slobs election results 2009

2009-10-14 Thread David Farning
The results are in for this years election. The winners are in for this years election. Walter Bender Tomeu Vizoso Mel Chua Bernie Innocenti Chris Ball Sean Daly Adam Holt David Farning Slobs Election Referee 2009 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Content Delivery Network is in production

2009-10-12 Thread David Farning
Seems to be working pretty well from here in Portugal, download.sl.o gets redirected to download2.sl.o (solarsail @ MIT?) and utwente.nl. Both max out my connection (1.2 MB/s). Nice, we will be adding mirrors as the system stabilizes. The goal is for the download infrastructure to be ready

Re: [IAEP] [Systems] Content Delivery Network is in production

2009-10-12 Thread David Farning
with the VIG to make our mirror system available to OLPC. david On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:34 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Seems to be working pretty well from here in Portugal, download.sl.o gets redirected to download2.sl.o (solarsail @ MIT?) and utwente.nl. Both max out

Re: [IAEP] Montessori madness...

2009-10-12 Thread David Farning
Stephen Jacobs (cced) the Professor of the OLPC/Sugar course at the Rochester institute of Technology is a product of Montessori schools. His mother was a Montessori teacher. I have found it helpful to include him in Montessori related discussion. He has a good sense of what happens 'in the

[IAEP] Content Delivery Network is in production

2009-10-11 Thread David Farning
For the last couple of week, we have been working with Peter Pöml to set up mirrorbrain as the content deliver network for Sugar Labs. There are a number advantages for using a content delivery network. 1. Usability - We can remove the mirror information from

Re: [IAEP] FW: Live webinar: VirtualBox Web Console

2009-10-03 Thread David Farning
I was talking with Sun about shipping a preconfigured Virtual Box+Sugar package just before the entered talks with oracle Mayne it is time to revisit that potential partnership. david On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, If you would like

[IAEP] 2009-2010 Sugar Labs Oversight Board Election Starting Soon

2009-10-01 Thread David Farning
, or dfarn...@sugarlabs.org David Farning SLOBs election 2009-2010 referee ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] 2009-2010 Sugar Labs Oversight Board Election Starting Soon

2009-10-01 Thread David Farning
We have just received a notice that when voting one person only got a partial list of candidates. They solved the issue by discarding the ballot and trying again. David Farning SLOBs election 2009-2010 referee On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:32 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote

[IAEP] Test ballot complete. Feedback

2009-09-29 Thread David Farning
not receive a voter token. I will verify their name against the membership log and update the email roster list as necessary. Does anyone else have feedback on the test election? Please submit that feedback to this list or to me personally. David Farning SLOBs election 2009-2010 referee

Re: [IAEP] Test ballot complete. Feedback

2009-09-29 Thread David Farning
| brian | APPROVED * Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@?.? | APPROVED * Dave Bauer d...@?.? | daveb | APPROVED The membership committee has added them to the roster. David Farning SLOBs election 2009-2010 referee On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:02 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: I

[IAEP] Sugarcamp_Bolzano_2009

2009-09-29 Thread David Farning
I would like to re-extend the invitation for Sugarcamp_Bolzano_2009[1]. As it stands, we have four people currently registered: 1. Simon Schampijer 2. Tomeu Vizoso 3. Walter Bender 4. David Farning If anyone else is interested please add your name to the wiki page[1]. 1. http

[IAEP] Xoos Special Interest Group

2009-09-28 Thread David Farning
As promised, we have started work on the XO operating system SIG at Sugar Labs. The SIG pages are at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Xoos . Based on feedback from the current developers working in this space, the most valuable starting point will be to start making daily Xoos builds. The next step

Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/9/21 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org: My idea is to start by getting a working version of the current versions of Sugar and Fedora running on an XO.  The SIG might lose some of the specific hardware benefits

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] 2 idea's to train people dyslexia

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
Marten, I would like to introduce you to Marilyn Hagle (CCed). She is active at the intersection of dyslexia and technology based education tools. She has recently written a grant to set up a pilot for researching and using sugar as a platform for helping kids overcome or adapt to their

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:30, Mel Chua meta...@gmail.com wrote: There's a lot going on in this thread, so here is my attempt to summarize discussions so far. If I've missed or misstated anything, my apologies - and it's

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] 2 idea's to train people dyslexia

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
, or is it an addon to an operating system, or both?  I would really like to download and installation .iso, but have not found such a thing.  Maybe I am not looking hard enough? I joined the IAEP list.  :) Hope you are well. Marilyn Quoting David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org: Marten, I would like

Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: For the past several months the OLPC/Sugar Labs ecosystem has been getting requests to provide releases of more recent versions

[IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-20 Thread David Farning
In some of the other threads we have been seeing an interest in the Sugar Labs Community improving the Sugar experience on the XO. As such, I would like to create a XO SIG within Sugar Labs. I have filed an initial draft application with the OLPC Contributors program for 5 loaner machines for

[IAEP] Mailing list consensus techniques.

2009-09-19 Thread David Farning
There are several passionate threads happening on various SL mailing lists. As we push through these discussion I would like remind participants about a couple of tactics I have learned for successfully building a consensus on a mailing list. 1. Never take (or make) it personal. Passion is

Re: [IAEP] [Debian-olpc-devel] Glucose 0.84 and 0.85 packaged for Debian!

2009-09-19 Thread David Farning
Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ Debian-olpc-devel mailing list debian-olpc-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-olpc-devel

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

2009-09-16 Thread David Farning
As Sean and Martin point out the consequences of this decision extend past SoaS. The effects seem to centre on four levels: 1. Procedural. 2. Mission, Vision, and Values. 3. Operations. 4. SoaS the project. As we work through the levels, a pretty good decision _should_ emerge. Procedural-- As

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-14 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:25 -0500, David Farning wrote: Project/SIGs are product focused.  The exist to help guide a project through it's life cycle.  For example, there has recently been some rather heated discussions

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-14 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 09:21 -0500, David Farning wrote: The work going on in Nepal is one of the primary reasons for establishing SIGs and projects.  Nepal is doing an amazing job of creating solutions for local problems

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-14 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Martin Dengler wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 06:33:47PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Martin Dengler wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:32:55PM +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: == What is SoaS? == [...] SoaS

[IAEP] Unifying the Sugar Labs experience Was: [Sugar-devel] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-12 Thread David Farning
Isn't this related to Brainstorm and Blueprints in Launchpad? Yes, I agree they are closely related. I would like to take a step back and look at the problems we are trying to solve. Backstory. Over the past couple of months I have spent most of my time working with 'external' people and

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

2009-09-10 Thread David Farning
participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach  - Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project

Re: [IAEP] student guidelines _very_ rough draft

2009-09-08 Thread David Farning
Thanks Martin, I'll ping Helen later today. david On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Martin Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW, Helen Foster @ Moodle handles that -- according to Google's SoC ppl -- is one of the best-run GSoCs. What I hear from students is that the explicit

[IAEP] student guidelines _very_ rough draft

2009-09-07 Thread David Farning
This summer, Sugar Labs had 12 students working under various gsoc, intern, workstudy, and co-op programs. Overall, the results have been promising. There are a few things which we can do to improve the experience for everyone. Based on conversations with other opensource project the three keys

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New Activities on a.sl.o was Sugar Digest 2009-08-11

2009-09-04 Thread David Farning
Thanks, They look great. david On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Gonzalo Odiardgodi...@gmail.com wrote: Caroline, i have uploaded rthe activities: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4212 http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4213

Re: [IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-04 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com wrote: David Farning wrote: The project guidelines are now on the wiki at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines . Please edit as necessary.   When it looks like the editing has stopped, I ask

[IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-02 Thread David Farning
The project guidelines are now on the wiki at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines . Please edit as necessary. When it looks like the editing has stopped, I ask the board the ratify the guidelines. david ___ IAEP -- It's An

[IAEP] PR for projects

2009-09-01 Thread David Farning
An interesting article on PR for open source projects. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/how-land-spot-spotlight-part-i Much of it reinforces Sean's points. A good read for all of us. david ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop

[IAEP] project policy consensus

2009-09-01 Thread David Farning
At the end of last week I posted a draft project policy[1] on the mailing list. It has not received any public or private criticism. Unless I hear otherwise, I'll post it to the wiki tomorrow with a 'draft' tag. david 1. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-August/007993.html

[IAEP] Sugarcamp Bolzano 2009

2009-09-01 Thread David Farning
It looks like it is time to plan another SugarCamp[1]. This time we have an invitation to spend the 7th to the 12th of November in Bolzano, Italy. It looks like six completely free days to work together on Sugar! The coolest part of this camp is the fact that we are collocating with the

Re: [IAEP] deployment team meeting?

2009-08-31 Thread David Farning
and the rest of Sugar Labs can prioritize their work accordingly. How does it sound? Thanks, Tomeu -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning

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