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

2013-07-31 Thread Gary Martin
Thanks Daniel, That's a great feature list, looking forward to giving this all a spin! Regards, --Gary On 31 Jul 2013, at 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.

Re: [IAEP] wiki.sugarlabs.org ongoing maintenance

2013-04-16 Thread Gary Martin
On 16 Apr 2013, at 06:03, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Today a serious security hole was announced for MediaWiki, so I started a long overdue upgrade of our main wiki. Thanks Bernie! Our wiki has grown quite large and the upgrade from Mediawiki 1.19 to 1.20 required several

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SLOB meeting on January 7

2013-01-08 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Daniel, On 9 Jan 2013, at 00:31, Daniel Francis fran...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:19:13 -0300 Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Thanks Walter, I want share two ideas to discuss may be in the next meeting: * I want to organize, with guys from UY something

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Ideas for a 3D activity

2012-10-09 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Ahmed, On 9 Oct 2012, at 17:02, Ahmed MANSOUR atpha...@inbox.com wrote: Hi, Since 3 years I received a XO from the contributor's program to work on a way to run 3D on XO-1.After testing several games[1], the solution I choosed for the project is to use Quake[2] and replace all

Re: [IAEP] Has anyone build a set of gears in Etoys or any other freely available program?

2012-07-06 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Steve, On 6 Jul 2012, at 22:22, Steve Thomas wrote: I got I asked my class to play LightBot and then asked them: How this is like and not like programming This lead into one kids responding its like mabey small motors and gears (wish I knew what was going on in her mind, I'll ask in

Re: [IAEP] Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education

2012-06-27 Thread Gary Martin
On 27 Jun 2012, at 12:53, Walter Bender wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Finally I

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs Website Revamp IRC Mtg 1-8-12 11:00amEST(16:00UTC)

2012-05-08 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Christian, On 8 Jan 2012, at 19:21, Christian Marc Schmidt christianm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all We met today on IRC to discuss the website design and content, but not many were present. It is important that we get your feedback as the work on the website progresses. Therefor, I am

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities

2012-03-17 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Manuel, On 17 Mar 2012, at 18:38, Manuel Quiñones wrote: El día 15 de marzo de 2012 10:48, Pablo Flores pflor...@gmail.com escribió: For B. either mallard (like GNOME does) or a wiki page can be used. We can add a shortcut in the activities to open them. IIUC it would be a button that

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities

2012-03-09 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Manuel, On 9 Mar 2012, at 03:36, Manuel Quiñones wrote: Hi Gonzalo, El día 7 de marzo de 2012 09:37, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org escribió: We receive many times request about adding help in the activities, and if is true Sugar propose a exploratory approach, not all the people

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] RFC:Simple Help widget for activities

2012-03-07 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Gonzalo, On 7 Mar 2012, at 12:37, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: We receive many times request about adding help in the activities, and if is true Sugar propose a exploratory approach, not all the people learn in the same way, and there are people who prefer a little guidance.

Re: [IAEP] play dvds

2012-03-05 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Ken, On 5 Mar 2012, at 20:10, Ken Hargesheimer minifa...@gmail.com wrote: I leave for Indonesia on the 15 Mar to teach organic, no-till farming. This is my 21st country to live in or visit. I average more than one trip per year. I work with subsistence farmers. Billions of people

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Easter Egg Time

2011-12-10 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Caryl, On 10 Dec 2011, at 20:40, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Again, Very interesting... I tried it on 2 different XOs this morning. It showed up on one but not the other. I think it may have been a case of the clock being set to an incorrect time. I haven't checked that yet. I took a

Re: [IAEP] OLPC computers spotted on a photo from 2015

2011-10-03 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Christoph, On 3 Oct 2011, at 15:54, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: If I'm not mistaken they're simply running the Scratch activity - which visually hasn't been adapted to Sugar so far. If I understand their design decisions, I think 'so far' is hoping too much for a closer UI fit with other

Re: [IAEP] How can we help kids get into the habits of looking for all possible causes and counter examples to problems?

2011-10-03 Thread Gary Martin
On 3 Oct 2011, at 18:35, Frederick Grose wrote: On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:58 AM, nanon...@mediagala.com wrote: On 02/10/2011 09:07 a.m., Maria Droujkova wrote: ...I have never had to do anything with REASONS for seasons or phases of the moon, outside of curriculum design. Have you?

[IAEP] Design Team Report

2011-09-16 Thread Gary Martin
Sugar Teams Update Report, September 2011 Name of team: Design Team Mission statement: The mission of the Design Team is to make Sugar beautiful, elegant, and highly functional for our target users. Short Term Goals (three–six months): 1. Write updated Sugar HIG. 2. Work with Activity Team to

[IAEP] Activity Team Report

2011-09-15 Thread Gary Martin
Sugar Teams Update Report, September 2011 Name of team: Activity Team Mission statement: The Activity Team develops and maintains many of the activities available for Sugar. We encourage independent developers to write and maintain activities, and we support them in their efforts. Our goal is

Re: [IAEP] Anyone up for a post Sugar Camp Hack Day? (was: Registration for the Sugar Camp in Paris (sept) are now open)

2011-08-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Christoph, On 11 Aug 2011, at 09:25, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, speaking to Sascha earlier today he mentioned the idea

Re: [IAEP] Proposed New K-12 Science Framework

2011-07-27 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Walter, On 27 Jul 2011, at 02:34, Walter Bender wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Caryl, On 26 Jul 2011, at 06:07, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Everyone, I received an email today from eSchool News with a link to a very

Re: [IAEP] Proposed New K-12 Science Framework

2011-07-26 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Caryl, On 26 Jul 2011, at 06:07, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Everyone, I received an email today from eSchool News with a link to a very important document everyone at OLPC and Sugar Labs should familiarize themselves with. It is the new K-12 Science Framework published by the National

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

2011-07-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Luke, 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 junk email, so not sure who else this may have hit, but thought it worth mentioning. Regards, --Gary On 10

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

2011-07-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Luke, On 11 Jul 2011, at 16:43, Luke Faraone 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 junk email, so

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

2011-06-17 Thread Gary Martin
On 17 Jun 2011, at 14:42, Esteban Bordón wrote: Thanks. We'll try to start to fix the most interest activities. Thanks for your screenshots. I've created a ticket for Cartoon Builder, TamTamMini, and Distance, if you could report and take more screenshots of other activities you discover

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

2011-06-17 Thread Gary Martin
report, we should try to help where we can (understanding that the majority of us are volunteers putting what free time we have into the effort). Regards, --Gary Sean On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 17 Jun 2011, at 14:42, Esteban Bordón

Re: [IAEP] Easter Egg In Moon Activity?

2011-06-14 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Caryl, On 14 Jun 2011, at 16:31, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, Is there an Easter Egg in the Moon Activity? Last December I turned on my XO to see what the moon would look like durning the last Lunar Eclipse. It was pink! :) Was this a fluke? ... my

Re: [IAEP] OLPC in Science-Subjects --- NEED HELP!!!

2011-05-13 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Johanna, On 12 May 2011, at 20:08, Johanna Wener johanna.we...@chello.at wrote: Hello Everybody! I’m studying at the University of teacher education in graz in austria to become a teacher for primary school. For my final thesis I’m working in a class with olpcs to find out which

Re: [IAEP] Olidata computers in Uruguay

2011-05-02 Thread Gary Martin
On 2 May 2011, at 16:47, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: the Sur list is following this thread in detail, I just wanted to share a FYI for developers. 30,000 Olidata laptops have been purchased by Ceibal at $130 apiece and teachers are being upgraded to those, trading in their XOs. Thanks for

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

2011-04-26 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Walter, On 26 Apr 2011, at 20:14, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I'd love to channel the energy of this debate into writing some code to expand the utility of View Source to (a) include all of Sugar, not just the Sugar activities; and (b) make it possible from View Source

Re: [IAEP] Sugar on tablets

2011-04-20 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Rita, On 20 Apr 2011, at 16:56, Rita Freudenberg wrote: Hi, we are working on a project getting Sugar running on a tablet (Pegatron Lucid). The tablet has an intel processor, Sugar is running on Fedora 14. We only had few activities after the installation, but imported them later and

Re: [IAEP] What's on SoaS?

2011-04-20 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Caryl, On 20 Apr 2011, at 17:17, Caryl Bigenho 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. Have been looking at SoaSv5-20110415-i686.iso in

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

2011-02-17 Thread Gary Martin
On 16 Feb 2011, at 20:35, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Christian Bryant christianabry...@linux.com wrote: I'm curious, is there a comprehensive requirements and/or design document for Sugar against which the recommendation is measured? I'd be

Re: [IAEP] Tools for the community 2nd meeting. Today at 9PM UTC on #sugar-meeting.

2011-02-03 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Pablo, On 2 Feb 2011, at 16:12, Pablo Flores wrote: Join today at 9PM UTC (4PM EST) our second meeting for discussing tools for the community, on #sugar-meeting. Today I'd like to focus on the idea of making a portal for sharing info. Let's think of an enhanced planet, which

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FW: My 1st experience in class with SoaS (by Cherry Withers)

2011-02-03 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Caryl, Cherry, Lovely to hear the Physics activity side of things went well. Thanks for posting! Regards, --Gary On 2 Feb 2011, at 20:40, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All Here is a great account of Cherry Withers' recent experience with SoaS and the Physics Activity with a class of 2nd

Re: [IAEP] Quick Dumb Question

2011-01-28 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Caryl, On 28 Jan 2011, at 22:29, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All When Sugar Labs says an Activity works with 0.82-0.88, how does that translate to the OLPC builds like 10.1.3? Yes, all these numbers are very confusing. I've been bumbling around on the technical side for some time and it

Re: [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set?

2010-12-26 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Caryl, On 26 Dec 2010, at 06:42, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... If one had a simple overlay with the Urdu keyboard symbols on it, what would be the exact procedure for switching the keys to Urdu? I tried in My Settings- Keyboard- Urdu - Urdu Pakistan, but the result

Re: [IAEP] Can't Wait..SF Summit Tips! (Oct 22-24)

2010-10-21 Thread Gary Martin
On 20 Oct 2010, at 22:23, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: I can't go but have a idea: Can anybody prepare a wall with papers and pens to the participants can write annoying bugs, wishes, favorites features, etc? I am working fixing the Activities included by default in the XOs, and

Re: [IAEP] stepping down as maintainer

2010-10-19 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 19 Oct 2010, at 17:50, 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

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] keeping it simple

2010-09-17 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Walter, On 17 Sep 2010, at 13:21, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: What do you think of http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter/Get_Sugar_Landing ??? It is simple. The down side is it requires one more click. I was also thinking of arranging the icons in a circle around

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [SoaS] [MARKETING] Get Sugar landing page

2010-09-14 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Peter, On 14 Sep 2010, at 22:06, pbrobin...@gmail.com pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, pbrobin...@gmail.com pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Walter

Re: [IAEP] Redesigning: Library, Read, Get-Books, and Content bundles

2010-07-20 Thread Gary Martin
On 20 Jul 2010, at 19:33, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote: There has been a lot of great progress with the Read and Get-Books (IA) activities. However, we have neglected to think about how we can better fit all of these pieces together. For instance, consider deployments that

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Sugar Labs 2010 Goals Review

2010-07-14 Thread Gary Martin
On 15 Jul 2010, at 04:10, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Tue, 13-07-2010 a las 16:04 +0100, Gary Martin escribió: I've asked two Activity Central developers to upgrade Pippy and Physics to the new toolbars. FWIW Physics-5 is out with new toolbar support among other things

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] Sugar Labs 2010 Goals Review

2010-07-13 Thread Gary Martin
Hey Bernie, On 13 Jul 2010, at 15:08, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Mon, 12-07-2010 a las 23:35 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard escribió: I started the evaluation, but didn't continue. Is a larger task than I can do with the time I have today. Particularly, because it should be

Re: [IAEP] [Design] Fwd: Write to Journal any time

2010-07-10 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Walter, On 10 Jul 2010, at 23:17, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: Cross-posting. -walter -- Forwarded message -- From: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:13 PM Subject: Write to Journal any time To:

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOBs] F11+0.88+XO1.* as a SL project

2010-07-01 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Caryl, On 1 Jul 2010, at 17:30, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... I love Sean's idea of listing and linking to resources from deployments around the world. With Google Translate these are accessible to everyone regardless of their language. I would also like to see

[IAEP] [Design] Multiple instances of same activity (Was: First steps with Sugar)

2010-06-15 Thread Gary Martin
Just wanted to raise one topic from Christoph's useful summary: On 15 Jun 2010, at 15:36, Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: * how to stop Activities + not having too many Activities running at once (since many first time users manage to bring their machines / XOs to