Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] Watch WEB: The Film for free today

2014-11-17 Thread Kevin Cole
://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Grassroots mailing list grassro...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots -- Physical Kevin Cole, RHCE Team Contact Ubuntu Linux

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] Fareed Zakaria on the Ethiopia project

2012-11-11 Thread Kevin Cole
Irony: It's not captioned... ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] UC Davis News Information :: iMobot rolls, crawls and creeps

2011-03-31 Thread Kevin Cole
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9804 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Open Source Ecology

2011-03-17 Thread Kevin Cole
A bit of a stretch, perhaps, this one, but given the interest in The Boy Who Built Windmills I thought there might be room for it here. http://www.everythingology.com/open-source-ecology/ -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC ___ IAEP -- It's

[IAEP] Camara is a volunteer organisation that uses technology to improve education in Africa

2011-03-15 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi all, I just stumbled into this group and thought perhaps others might be interested if not already connected... http://camara.ie/web/ -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP

[IAEP] USA TODAY: Online game makes math practice out of this world

2011-03-14 Thread Kevin Cole
http://usat.me/44780414 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Fwd: NASA MAKE Challenge announced

2011-03-02 Thread Kevin Cole
-- Forwarded message -- From: Phil Shapiro pshap...@his.com http://makezine.com/space/ MAKE is happy to announce that we're partnering with Teachers in Space and NASA's Emerging Commercialization Space Office (ECSO) to organize the first MAKE Challenge. The goal of this challenge

[IAEP] Interactive game 'Vanished' doubles as an educational tool - USATODAY.com

2011-02-22 Thread Kevin Cole
Interactive game 'Vanished' doubles as an educational tool http://usat.me/43997794 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Retweet: Thoughts on Starting a Social Revolution

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin Cole
vikramsurya tweets: http://bit.ly/ewkgnd Great blog post from #OLPC exec -- Thoughts on Starting a Social Revolution --http://twitter.com/vikramsurya/status/38124015075852288 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

[IAEP] Slashdot: Open Source Hardware Hits 1.0

2011-02-11 Thread Kevin Cole
://www.openhardwaresummit.org/oshw-logo-v1-0/ -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Anyone here familiar with St. Louis Byte Works?

2011-01-10 Thread Kevin Cole
Given the Scratch classes and other open source education they offer, it sounds like an outfit that may be worth connecting with, though I imagine someone here already is... ;-) http://stlbyteworks.org/programs/ -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC

[IAEP] Kno ships Linux educational tablets - The Inquirer

2010-12-21 Thread Kevin Cole
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1933851/kno-ships-educational-tablet ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] iTWire - Brazil plans large education GNU/Linux deployment

2010-12-09 Thread Kevin Cole
http://m.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/43797-brazil-plans-large-gnulinux-deployment ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Fwd: Google Science Fair competition: Students ages 13 - 18 years old.

2010-12-06 Thread Kevin Cole
--- GOOGLE SCIENCE FAIR --- On 11 January, 2011, we are launching the inaugural Google Science Fair. We have partnered with NASA, CERN, National Geographic, Scientific American and the LEGO Group to create a new STEM competition that is more open, accessible and

[IAEP] Play Discuss Alternate Reality Game Pheon at Smithsonian American Art Museum - Games Gateway - U.S. Mid Atlantic Region (Arlington, VA) - Meetup.com

2010-12-02 Thread Kevin Cole
http://www.meetup.com/gamedev-175/calendar/14752718/?fullDesc=true Read the full game description above... Sounds like an idea that may have a cousin (present or future) in Sugar-space. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)

Re: [IAEP] Phasing out Google Apps

2010-12-01 Thread Kevin Cole
you've worked with Thunderbird or similar enough to know how to create folders and move messages into them.) A web search also turns up fairly good instructions for how to do the same with the text-based mailer Mutt... -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC

[IAEP] The international open data hackathon is happening Dec 4

2010-11-16 Thread Kevin Cole
FYI: http://www.opendataday.org/ Quoting the site: What is this? It’s a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments. --

Re: [IAEP] NN, Mitra, and the role of the teacher

2010-10-26 Thread Kevin Cole
losers as teachers too, where it almost seemed they actively worked against learning. But those are the ones that become distant memories (traumatic amnesia?) very quickly. The others burn brightly in my memory like Jedi Knights. -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC

[IAEP] Fwd: FCC Partners w/ the Coleman Institute Raising the Floor to launch cloud computing challenge

2010-10-22 Thread Kevin Cole
A friend sent this my way: -- Forwarded message -- I thought this might interest you. But particularly the part about “Raising the Floor” about which you can learn more here: http://raisingthefloor.net/ (web/computer accessibility for people with disabilities in developing

[IAEP] Fwd: SlashDot News - Tablets are game-changers for special needs kids

2010-10-22 Thread Kevin Cole
be used for non-medical purposes. -- Kevin Cole| Key ID: 0xE6F332C7 (GPG/PGP) Gallaudet University | WWW: http://research.gallaudet.edu/~kjcole/ Dawes House 305 | V/TTY: (202) 651-5135 Washington, D.C. 20002-3695 | FAX: (202) 651-5746

Re: [IAEP] Make Your Own Sugar Activites! is on Lulu.com

2010-10-08 Thread Kevin Cole
continue to improve our products and services to meet your highest expectations. We appreciate your patience and understanding. Thank you, Sridhar Ramamurthy Lulu Enterprises, Inc -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

[IAEP] ZDNET Video - Negroponte: Turn tablets into a 'constructionist medium' - 6 days ago

2010-10-07 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi, Just an FYI: My news feed pointed me to: ZDNET Video - Negroponte: Turn tablets into a 'constructionist medium' - 6 days ago http://i.bnet.com/video/itunes/10z0930_Mobilize_Negroponte_sd_DL.m4v -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/

[IAEP] Reminder: Inaugural USA Science Engineering Festival 10/10 - 10/24

2010-09-02 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi all you scientists and engineers (and others), Just a quick reminder.  The Inaugural USA Science Engineering Festival is coming to the Mall 10/10 - 10/24. Details at: http://www.usasciencefestival.org/ P.S. Note the list of partners, particularly some of the Science and Engineering Outreach

[IAEP] Stamp $50 Android tablet prototype raises eyebrows in India and beyond (video)

2010-08-24 Thread Kevin Cole
Just another future possibility... http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/23/stamp-50-android-tablet-prototype-raises-eyebrows-in-india-and/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

[IAEP] Recent News: Google now offers Video Chat in Linux

2010-08-23 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi all, Just an FYI: Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/use-linux-now-you-can-video-chat-too.html | Use Linux? Now you can video chat too | Thursday, August 19, 2010 | 5:03 PM | Posted by Tristan Schmelcher, Software Engineer | | If you’ve been wanting to use voice and video chat on

[IAEP] Fwd: [DCRobotics] URGENT - VOTES NEEDED - AMEX Members Project - FIRST slips to #2

2010-08-20 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi, I'm passing this request from a the local FIRST Robotics group. While not directly XO / Sugar related, they are something of a kindred soul. Recall the recent FIRST Robotics / XO / Python gig that was held recently... Act if you're so inclined... -- Forwarded message --

[IAEP] Cheap ($300) fluorescent microscopes for developing world

2010-08-11 Thread Kevin Cole
http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/SgU51k4bjqM/cheap-300-fluorescent-microscopes-for-developing-world.ars ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] OLPC's Negroponte offers to help India realize $35 tablet

2010-08-04 Thread Kevin Cole
http://feeds.arstechnica.com/~r/arstechnica/index/~3/7rWFpqPC7HE/olpcs-negroponte-offers-to-help-india-realize-35-tablet.ars ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Software Freedom Day 2010.09.18

2010-08-02 Thread Kevin Cole
have our SFD event at the Takoma Park Folk Festival (http://tpff.org/) on September 12th instead.) -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs potentially a trade mark infringer

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin Cole
like Breakout and bears the strikingly similar name Break Out... Bzzzt. I lose. -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Labs potentially a trade mark infringer

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin Cole
Off the top of my head... * Bounce Through (Bounce Thru) * Tear Down the Wall -- though that immediately conjures up We don't need no education ;-) * Eureka -- as in I've just had a break through * Deconstruct -- deconstructionism? ;-) * Wrecking Ball * Knock Down

Re: [IAEP] Catching Up

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Cole
Android is kin to Linux with a heavy dose of Java. Sugar tends to be more Pythonic than Java-esque, but perhaps the Android Scripting Environment (ASE) can mitigate some of that... http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-android-scripting.html On Jul 27, 2010 9:42 PM, Caryl

[IAEP] Poor Vision? There's an App For That

2010-07-03 Thread Kevin Cole
In a previous thread, discussion of smartphone and vision came up. This may be of interest... http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/w8hXkU6tdB0/Poor-Vision-Theres-an-App-For-That necro81 writes Researchers at MIT's Media Lab have developed a smartphone app that allows users to measure

Re: [IAEP] FW: [support-gang] Voting Continues: Gnome vs Sugar -- The judgement day

2010-06-28 Thread Kevin Cole
20+ years of binomial nomenclature thinking have left a lot of people prewired to a certain type of drill-down searching for applications and commands within those applications. (For example, Firefox lives within the Internet menu, and I forget what the official name for the File, Edit, View,

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

2010-06-25 Thread Kevin Cole
That's sort of where I was thinking: Make it harder or at least something requiring more than a button push. I know when I was having troubles with not being able to use the mouse, I was able to get to a virtual terminal, drill down to the appropriate file and edit it to switch desktop

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

2010-06-24 Thread Kevin Cole
protection)? Or is it something more obscure than that? -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Open Video Chat on Boing Boing

2010-06-22 Thread Kevin Cole
://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/21/students-create-vide.html -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington, DC ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Fwd: [education-wg] Learning in the Gnu/Linux community

2010-06-13 Thread Kevin Cole
Passing this on, as I dare say many (if not all) here are in the Target audience. -- Forwarded message -- From: Don Davis donda...@reglue.org Date: Jun 13, 2010 10:44 AM Subject: [education-wg] Learning in the Gnu/Linux community To: education...@opensourceforamerica.org Hello,

[IAEP] Apple Eases Restrictions On iPhone Developers

2010-06-12 Thread Kevin Cole
Regarding the recent discussion of Sugar on an iPhone and Apple's position on interpreted languages: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/qWtSOhKr4To/Apple-Eases-Restrictions-On-iPhone-Developers WrongSizeGlass writes MacRumors has a story on a report by Apple Outsider's Matt Drance

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

2010-06-05 Thread Kevin Cole
Suddenly, Bug Jam conjures up a new and unpalatable image. ;-) On Jun 4, 2010 11:08 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: I thought it was fruit and varieties of fruit? Things you might combine with Sugar to make a Jam? Caryl From: b...@freudenbergs.de Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:43:40

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

2010-06-04 Thread Kevin Cole
I doubt I'm the first to ask... Any thoughts about accessibility and touch screens? Voice recognition? External keyboard / mouse (perhaps wireless)? Or just offer alternative inexpensive computers, SoaS, etc., recognizing that one size does not fit all? -- Kevin Cole Sugar Labs DC Washington

[IAEP] Some RIT videos of interest to folks here

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi, RIT's team has posted videos that may be of interest... http://rit.mirocommunity.org/ -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] VERY PRE-DRAFT XO-1.5 / Sugar 0.84 Getting Started Guide!

2010-04-02 Thread Kevin Cole
I don't currently see a place for the GNOME screenshots I made... nor the control panel for that matter. Is that something for a future date? -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a

[IAEP] Fwd: System76 [Computers loaded w/ Ubuntu] Partners with Kids On Computers

2010-03-24 Thread Kevin Cole
Just an FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: syste...@system76.com Date: Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:41 Subject: System76 Partners with Kids On Computers System76 Partners with Kids On Computers System76 and Kids On Computers have partnered to bring computers and open source software

Re: [IAEP] Response to Intervention - Is this being used outside the US?

2010-03-12 Thread Kevin Cole
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 21:12, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: This is a simple, yet powerful idea of tracking student progress in real time and trying different interventions to see what works. I give a brief three minute description here: 

Re: [IAEP] Response to Intervention - Is this being used outside the US?

2010-03-12 Thread Kevin Cole
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:34, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 21:12, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: This is a simple, yet powerful idea of tracking student progress in real time and trying different interventions to see what works. I give a brief

[IAEP] University of the People

2010-03-10 Thread Kevin Cole
A co-worker told me he heard about this outfit on NPR today... From their web site: __ University of the People http://www.uopeople.org/ ABOUT US University of the People (UoPeople) is the world’s first tuition free online

[IAEP] CoolTools book review: The Art of Game Design

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Cole
The subject of games comes up periodically e-here and e-there. I subscribe to Kevin Kelly's weekly e-newsletter Cool Tools which this week recommends The Art of Game Design (http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/004195.php), with some excerpts . Do with it what you will. -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo

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

2010-02-15 Thread Kevin Cole
Probably not the best choice, but look into some of the AccessGrid work as well. If nothing else, it may give you ideas... http://www.accessgrid.org/ -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project

[IAEP] Microsoft brings kids developer tool to the PC

2010-01-22 Thread Kevin Cole
A dispatch from the Evil Empire as seen on ZDnet (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-384161.html) Microsoft researcher Matt MacLaurin came up for the idea for Kodu in his kitchen in the fall of 2006, noticing the way his three-year-old daughter watched her mom browse away on Facebook. MacLaurin

[IAEP] Free Culture X (FC X): We've got an invite.

2010-01-21 Thread Kevin Cole
to have you demonstrate the XOs there, as well. Thanks, Kevin On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Kevin Cole kjc...@dc.sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, I attended WFUD last week, but was unfamiliar with FC X until visiting the site today.  I am the team contact for the Ubuntu DC Local Community (LoCo

[IAEP] 02.13 - 02.14: Free Culture X (FCX), Washington, DC

2010-01-19 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi Mike, Jeff, et al, Coming up soon: http://conference.freeculture.org/ You'll note the second photo down on the right hand side from Free Culture 2008... ;-) Perhaps we should put in an appearance, no? -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/

Re: [IAEP] Calendar

2010-01-07 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi Rita, Although I didn't do it for Sugar Labs, I've done it for other projects (e.g. the DC Ubuntu LoCo calendar -- http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/GoogleCalendar-- which is embarrassingly empty at the moment). It's fairly straightforward: Create a Google Calendar, then go to Calendar Settings for

[IAEP] apt-get upgrade broke TOAST

2010-01-06 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi, I filed a report on Trisquel's web site: http://trisquel.info/en/issues/apt-get-upgrade-breaks-sugar-toast and the latest suggestion was that the trouble was something that Sugar Labs people would need to look at. I have no idea if the poster is correct about that. Rather than repeat the

Re: [IAEP] apt-get upgrade broke TOAST

2010-01-06 Thread Kevin Cole
2010/1/6 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org 2010/1/6 Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com: I completely misdiagnosed the trouble. My fault: I should have looked at ~/.sugar/default/logs/shell.log sooner. I had previously uncommented the TriangleLayout in favoritesview.py. The, in my Favorites

Re: [IAEP] hearing impaired education and Sugar

2010-01-02 Thread Kevin Cole
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 23:47, David Han ds...@bu.edu wrote: Hi all, I'm David Han, a Boston University student. I'm working with Caroline and Anurag in Boston. There is a prominent school for the hearing impaired in Allston, MA (Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing). This is

Re: [IAEP] [DESIGN] Ideas and questions on SL.o

2009-12-27 Thread Kevin Cole
While wikis, blogs, and other social networking phenomena may be great for personal empowerment and self-esteem, not everyone can who wants to write can write. It often seems to me that there is this illusion that wikis in particular are self-organizing, self-correcting organisms requiring very

Re: [IAEP] Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth stepping down as CEO

2009-12-18 Thread Kevin Cole
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 14:14, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10417460-92.html Another data point: I sent this out to my Ubuntu LoCo last night: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 20:42 Subject: Jane Silber to become CEO of

Re: [IAEP] hearing impaired education and Sugar

2009-12-16 Thread Kevin Cole
As a follow-up to the previous message... Getting a wee bit ahead of current reality, here's two projects to keep an eye on with regards to software specifically targeted at deaf audiences: Dicta-Sign: http://www.dictasign.eu/ Zebedee:

Re: [IAEP] Deadline to vote for the ISTE 2010 keynote is tomorrow, December 15th!

2009-12-15 Thread Kevin Cole
Note the site also has a Keynote Topics section: http://iste2010.uservoice.com/pages/30480-closed-forum-iste-2010-conference-keynote-topic-suggestions Although it says Closed it appears one can still vote for topics. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] Do nice guys finish first?

2009-12-11 Thread Kevin Cole
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 14:44, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote: This is a nice distinction! Cheers, Alan ...thus david's evil plot to gain credit and attention was fulfilled. Bwah-hah-ha! ;-) -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/

[IAEP] Fwd: Gallaudet participates in Google program to caption YouTube videos

2009-11-24 Thread Kevin Cole
I've mentioned previously about the need for captioning in web video...  This just in: News from today's Daily Digest (an internal Gallaudet PR web rag) http://news.gallaudet.edu/Daily_Digest/EventXite_-_Announcements/Gallaudet_participates_in_Google_program_to_caption_YouTube_videos.html

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

2009-11-23 Thread Kevin Cole
A bit late in the conversation, an FYI: Ubuntu (Karmic) now provides a nicer way to add repositories. Type the following at a shell prompt: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sugarteam/0.86 Using the command above results in both importing the GPG key for a PPA and creates a file in

[IAEP] A possible source of educational games, etc.

2009-10-29 Thread Kevin Cole
Hey all, On one of the Ubuntu mailing lists, there was a post about 10 things to do after you install Karmic (the newest release of Ubuntu) http://www.reddit.com/tb/9z2xk/ It's a fairly long post, but buried in there was the PlayDeb site http://www.playdeb.net/ which list some Debian packaged

Re: [IAEP] sugar live cd for windows

2009-10-17 Thread Kevin Cole
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:53, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 13:59, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: Dear all, Wish to ask you for pointers to improve the performance of SocialCalc activity while running it on Sugar Live CD for Windows. SocialCalc works

[IAEP] Fwd: [OSA-Announce] UPDATE: Welcome to Open Source for America!

2009-10-16 Thread Kevin Cole
I know it's a bit US-centric for some, but it looks like Tim O'Reilly's latest gig has made some progress. I signed on early, and then thought my subscription got lost in the e-mail. ;-) Given that some of you have partied with senators and other congressional wonks, I figured you'd like to

Re: [IAEP] Slobs election results 2009

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Cole
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 15:10, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: The results are in for this years election.  The winners are in for this years election. Winners? Are you sure? My condolences, er... contratulations, to you all. ;-) Lazily yours, Kevin

Re: [IAEP] Slobs election results 2009

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Cole
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 19:06, Kevin Cole dc.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 15:10, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: The results are in for this years election.  The winners are in for this years election. Winners? Are you sure?  My condolences, er... contratulations

Re: [IAEP] Grannie Needs Help!

2009-10-08 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi Caryl, The school won't need another computer. A Wireless Access Point (WAP) is a fairly common solution. Two well-known brands (Linksys and Netgear) can be found at many computer and/or electronics stores. Best Buy leaps to mind. Two randomly selected images for reference:

[IAEP] Educating World Citizens conference happening now...

2009-10-08 Thread Kevin Cole
A bit late for a notice, but perhaps the speakers or sponsors would be receptive to the stuff we're doing (and, in fact, are probably already on-board, and I'm once again far, far behind the curve). http://www.educatingworldcitizens.org/ ___ IAEP --

[IAEP] A charging station for rechargable laptops?

2009-10-02 Thread Kevin Cole
This is a story, not directly linked with computers, but with teens and technology -- one teen in particular. And, it could be linked to computers... Wired Science: Teen’s DIY Energy Hacking Gives African Village New Hope http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/10/kamwamba-windmill/

Re: [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.86.0 Final Release

2009-09-30 Thread Kevin Cole
First: congrats to all. Second: User-friendliness bug: The release notes say Please see the instructions (SoaS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc.) of choice to upgrade to this release. No link to instructions provided in either e-mail or wiki version. Searching the wiki turned up Supported Systems

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Which Language?

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin Cole
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 00:00, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, On Thursday, Ben wrote in the IAEP list: My feeling is that the most important thing we can do in this area is to make it easy to write Activities that are intrinsically cross-platform. To borrow a phrase, one

Re: [IAEP] Which Language?

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin Cole
If all you have is a hammer, it's time to put another nail in the J coffin. Although the J executable is a free (as in beer) download from Jsoftware (the only place I found a downloadable J), with regard to the source code, the J page at http://www.jsoftware.com/source.htm states: Fees

[IAEP] Pearson Foundation -- the non-profit arm of Pearson Corp

2009-09-24 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi, Disclaimer: I'm not endorsing or opposing, merely informing. Do with the following what you will. In my day job one of my tasks involves perverting -- er, reinterpreting and renorming -- standardized test scores. (In a nutshell, standardized tests often compare test takers to a national,

Re: [IAEP] [SoaS] The Future of Sugar on a Stick (was [Sugar-Devel] The Future of Sugar on a Stick)

2009-09-14 Thread Kevin Cole
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 14:04, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 13:56, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: To Martin's point, how about the routine use of a filterable tag, [SoaS] , in the Subject to messages appropriately routed to either IAEP or Devel or

[IAEP] Another article that could probably use some measured response.

2009-09-14 Thread Kevin Cole
This may have already come up in the 680 unread messages I have in my inbox... If so, my apologies. A researcher in my office subscribes to Miller-McCune magazine, whose slogan is Turning Research into Solutions. After seeing last week's presentation by SJ et al, he handed me an article from

Re: [IAEP] [Grassroots-l] SHIRT SLOGAN VOTE! Class Acts Poster! OLPC/Sugar Community Book Sprint (Sept 6-11, Washington DC)

2009-08-31 Thread Kevin Cole
How about something like Open or Open Me with something suggesting either opening something that looks ambiguously like a book or a laptop (or perhaps an activity)? The double-play on open would resonate with some, while leaving another meaning for the uninitiated. Open Me. Look inside, for

[IAEP] Trouble trying to change my home view icon the right way...

2009-08-07 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi, Not sure where to ask, but rather than sign up for YAML (Yet Another Mailing List), I thought I'd try here first. In the past I changed my icon the wrong way, by overwriting computer-xo.svg. It worked. Recently, on my XO running a clean install of the G1G1 802, I attempted to do it

[IAEP] Any way to hide google translation stuff in the printable version of wiki pages?

2009-08-06 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi, Whenever I print something from the wiki, I get an expanded (sometimes over one page) listing of all the many wonderful translations of a page before getting to the actual content. Is there a way to tweak the CSS to hide that when media = print? -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC

Re: [IAEP] Any way to hide google translation stuff in the printable version of wiki pages?

2009-08-06 Thread Kevin Cole
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 14:57, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: I've set up Google Translations in the wiki sidebar for a community evaluation, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Welcome_to_the_Sugar_Labs_wiki. In addition to making all pages longer, the 'Using the Wiki' section of the

Re: [IAEP] Any way to hide google translation stuff in the printable version of wiki pages?

2009-08-06 Thread Kevin Cole
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 17:52, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hmmm, wow folks actually still print? :-) I had a colleague who would incessantly print out every email she received and file it away by date, that was quite fun to watch ;-) On a community wiki, material is going to be

[IAEP] Slashdot: East Africa Gets High-Speed Internet Access Via Undersea Cable

2009-07-24 Thread Kevin Cole
Just an FYI if you hadn't heard: URL: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/23/2130218/East-Africa-Gets-High-Speed-Internet-Access-Via-Undersea-Cable Technology: East Africa Gets High-Speed Internet Access Via Undersea Cable Posted by timothy on Friday July 24, @01:53AM from the

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Board elections (was Re: Sugar Digest 2009-07-22)

2009-07-24 Thread Kevin Cole
What's involved in running said election? IIRC, it was done with Selectricity last time, no? Is there more to setting it up than listing the names, setting a deadline and checking the results? (I assume nominees can supply their own press via the wiki, and it seems I remember a link between

[IAEP] Fwd: [Dclug] Open Source for America web site launched today

2009-07-22 Thread Kevin Cole
Tangentially on-topic... ;-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Phil Shapiro pshap...@his.com Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:43  by Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media.    http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/     I like this.           Phil -- Phil Shapiro  pshap...@his.com

Re: [IAEP] [Dclug] Open Source for America web site launched today

2009-07-22 Thread Kevin Cole
P.S. I haven't yet listened to it, but Tim O'Reilly was on Kojo Nnamdi's Tech Tuesday show WAMU 88.5 FM (American University, Washington, DC) yesterday... http://wamu.org/programs/kn/09/07/21.php I imagine the web site came up in conversation. ;-) ___

Re: [IAEP] Ncomputing

2009-07-03 Thread Kevin Cole
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:58, Luke Faraonel...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 15:29, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: One thing we spoke about here locally was getting some thin client device that was really certified to work with Sugar and whatever distro... It would be

[IAEP] HUMOR: SoasS-strawberry torrent

2009-06-25 Thread Kevin Cole
Mm. We HAVE to get some restaurants to offer that for dessert (or perhaps a drink): I'll have a Strawberry Torrent, please! Heavy on the Sugar. -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project

[IAEP] Fwd: DC FIRST Robotics at NECC

2009-06-24 Thread Kevin Cole
Heads up DC locals! I just received e-mail from the regional director of FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics, and she tells me that Denise Lewis, the DC Assistant Regional Director and DC Senior Mentor, will be at NECC. Given the stuff we're talking about

Re: [IAEP] Computesr for Learning. gov

2009-06-24 Thread Kevin Cole
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 16:33, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote: http://computersforlearning.gov/ Is anyone familiar with this? Just heard about it in a talk at FOSSED I hadn't heard of the site before, but I went and had a look (and forwarded the URL to several other folks).

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] United we Serve

2009-06-20 Thread Kevin Cole
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:28, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Hi Kevin, I'm not finding these instructions can you help? It appears there are a few different options: 1) On the main page (http://www.serve.gov/) one can click the blue Register Now button under Register your

Re: [IAEP] Show Must Go On - SoaS for the XO-1

2009-06-20 Thread Kevin Cole
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 03:37, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com wrote: Hi everybody, I'm very pleased to announce the first early preview of a new generation of SoaS XO-1 images. Those consist not only of the latest and greatest Sugar bits, but also a F11 base system and a special OLPC

Re: [IAEP] Show Must Go On - SoaS for the XO-1

2009-06-20 Thread Kevin Cole
In the words of Emily Litella[1] Oh... Never mind. ;-) The solution: disable-security. (The USB key had the developer key. So, in: boot. Out: no developer key, no boot.) References: 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Litella ___ IAEP -- It's An

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] United we Serve

2009-06-19 Thread Kevin Cole
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 14:47, Mike Leecurious...@gmail.com wrote: Serve.gov meta-searches aggregators like VolunteerMatch. That might be the best place. I brought this up at our DC biz meeting earlier in the week, and were OK with it. There's instructions on Good for All on setting up a

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] United we Serve

2009-06-19 Thread Kevin Cole
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 18:52, Kevin Coledc.l...@gmail.com wrote: There's instructions on Good for All on setting up a shared Google spreadsheet that can be queried for events needing volunteers. I began to do that for some of our local efforts, but then got sidetracked. Oops. Good for All,

Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Kevin Cole
I have only one thing to say in response: IAEP ;-) As much as I want to use Sugar to encourage people in a particular direction with their other software choices, it seems that SoaS as conceived should remain largely above the fray of what's under the hood. That just scares many away, especially

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: An interesting project I stumbled across

2009-06-13 Thread Kevin Cole
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 19:18, Frederick Grosefgr...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarding to the community... -- Forwarded message -- From: William Schaub Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM Subject: An interesting project I stumbled across To: Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com This

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: An interesting project I stumbled across

2009-06-13 Thread Kevin Cole
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 15:30, Kevin Coledc.l...@gmail.com wrote: If memory serves me correctly (always a big if), I first saw wizzy in connection with the Shuttleworth Foundation's TuxLab project... Ah, yes... Here's the reference I was thinking of... /me blows the dust off it and coughs a

[IAEP] Provider of Interactive Teaching Solutions Joins Linux Foundation

2009-06-12 Thread Kevin Cole
According to the Linux Foundation Newsletter... | Provider of Interactive Teaching Solutions Joins Linux Foundation | | The Linux Foundation welcomes mimio as the newest member | of the Linux Foundation. | | mimio, a leading provider of interactive teaching solutions, recognizes | the increasing

Re: [IAEP] Provider of Interactive Teaching Solutions Joins Linux Foundation

2009-06-12 Thread Kevin Cole
Then again, perhaps that was premature... ;-) Under Downloads | Keep current with the latest software | | Enjoy all the amazing things you can do with your | mimio Interactive system by taking advantage of the | most recent software releases. Upgrade here in minutes | to the newest versions of

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