Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tom Gilliard

2020-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
Sorry to hear of his illness and passing. I know he put a lot of effort supporting this project. RIP. Condolences to his family and friends.   mad rights organizer/activist at Nyc Icarus On Sunday, July 26, 2020, 04:48:58 PM EDT, Walter Bender wrote: I am saddened by the news that

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] It's Time to Sign Up For Sensors!

2012-10-14 Thread Kevin Mark
I take a significant amount of cords and electronic doodads through TSA regularly. I find that you'll only be hassled if the wires are parts are all mixed together making it hard to tell what's there in X-ray. I just keep a ball of rubber bands around and neatly coil and band each cable, and

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Sensors at SF Summit Sugar Camp...Wanna' play with us?

2012-10-08 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Mon, 10/8/12, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: [support-gang] Sensors at SF Summit Sugar Camp...Wanna' play with us? To: support-g...@laptop.org support-g...@laptop.org, IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Date: Monday,

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Turtle Blocks question

2012-10-05 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Fri, 10/5/12, Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] Turtle Blocks question To: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, support-gang support-g...@laptop.org Date:

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Turtle Blocks question

2012-10-04 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Thu, 10/4/12, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: From: Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] Turtle Blocks question To: Dr. Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, support-gang support-g...@laptop.org Date:

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Have You Heard From The Machine?

2012-09-27 Thread Kevin Mark
The version of python on the Mac, Fedora, XO, etc. while they might not be the same, should be similar enough that all people learning the language should find 99% of their program code function the same. There is that 1%, but my estimation is that you would have to use more advanced or

Re: [IAEP] Warning! Your email account may have been compromised

2012-09-25 Thread Kevin Mark
Sorry Folks :( It seems something has accessed my yahoo.com 'contacts' list AFAICT. I'm not sure what action to take. But obviosuly, 'no subject' or Email with only wierd, long URLs should be avoided by folks.  -K From: Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com To:

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-23 Thread Kevin Mark
Hello Agustin from the US :) --- On Sun, 9/23/12, Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez a...@sugarlabs.org wrote: From: Agustin Zubiaga Sanchez a...@sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18 To: Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org Cc: James Simmons nices...@gmail.com, iaep

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Thu, 9/20/12, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy? To: support-g...@laptop.org support-g...@laptop.org, IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, OLPC SoCal olpc-so...@laptop.org Date:

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Fri, 9/21/12, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote: From: Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net Subject: Re: [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy? To: support-g...@laptop.org support-g...@laptop.org, IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, OLPC SoCal olpc-so...@laptop.org

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Mark
@lists.sugarlabs.org, OLPC SoCal olpc-so...@laptop.org, support-g...@laptop.org support-g...@laptop.org Date: Friday, September 21, 2012, 7:39 PM On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 03:38:12PM -0700, Kevin Mark wrote: This is a minor update because I was reading a post[1] on sparkfun. This kit shows a kit

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Fri, 9/21/12, fors...@ozonline.com.au fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: From: fors...@ozonline.com.au fors...@ozonline.com.au Subject: Re: Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy? To: Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net Cc: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org Date: Friday, September

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] What Sensors and Where To Buy?

2012-09-21 Thread Kevin Mark
, Kevin Mark wrote: What your explanation makes clear is why people typically pay 3rd parties to develop educational material with pre-tested sample circuits and included parts. The average teacher will not have the expertise to just find a sensor, make a circuit, connect it, use software

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-20 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Wed, 9/19/12, S. Daniel Francis fran...@sugarlabs.org wrote: From: S. Daniel Francis fran...@sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18 To: Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net Cc: James Simmons nices...@gmail.com, iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar-dev

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18

2012-09-19 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Wed, 9/19/12, S. Daniel Francis fran...@sugarlabs.org wrote: From: S. Daniel Francis fran...@sugarlabs.org Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2012-09-18 To: James Simmons nices...@gmail.com Cc: iaep iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, Sugar-dev Devel

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Need Help! Unable to Update XO-1s for Project in Rural Montana

2012-09-15 Thread Kevin Mark
--- On Sat, 9/15/12, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [support-gang] Need Help! Unable to Update XO-1s for Project in Rural Montana To: Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond t support-g...@lists.laptop.org, IAEP

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Stanford Online Education Course

2012-09-14 Thread Kevin Mark
the XO and Sugar: they are something that, as available, can reach and benefit only a small proportion of those who receive the opportunity. On 09/11/2012 11:51 AM, Kevin Mark wrote: If you have any summary of what skills or valuable

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FW: News from CK-12 Foundation

2012-08-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:01:33PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All, Since I know some of you are familiar with the great work by the CK-12 Foundation with their free, online, flexbook texts, I know you will be If my memory serves, OLPC's SJ Kline was/is involved with that. -- | .''`.

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2012-06-10

2012-06-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 08:28:30AM -0500, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: (kudos for Gnome! BTW, I had been pushing for some XO-based microcontroller work - http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/OLPC_XO-1 as part of eat-my-own-catfood in enabling the XO for real-world use) (last weekend I was at

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] XO Self-Test for XO-1.5?

2012-05-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:37:44PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Folks, I was trying to use the XO self-test on the 2 Roadshow XO-1.5s that were recently returned (including the one with the ripped key). I followed the instructions on the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Self_Test it

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FOSTBs! (Free Open Source Text Books) FW: News from CK-12 Foundation

2012-05-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 02:02:31PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hola! Si deseas una traducci n, puedes usar Google o preguntame. Abrazos! Carolina My spidey-sense say to ask SJ about this as he might have been involved. -K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux ==.|

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Any Ideas For This?

2012-03-10 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 12:55:50PM -0800, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi... Anyone ever used Finale Note Pad (free mini version of Finale)? I need a way to move the bar lines. I have a 12 measure file of Mary Had A Little Lamb for my Tam Tam Mini FLOSS manual. Finale has put it on 3 lines of 6

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Need To Know: How to get the latest Help Activity on Macs and PCs???

2011-10-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 05:59:56PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:46:23 -0400 Subject: Re: Need To Know: How to get the latest Help Activity on Macs and PCs??? From: walter.ben...@gmail.com To: cbige...@hotmail.com CC: de...@lists.laptop.org;

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2011-10-11

2011-10-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 07:38:26PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: == Sugar Digest == 3. Ignacio Rodrigez, a young developer from Uruguay was issued a Magellan computer from Plan Ceibal upon entering middle school. He pointed out to me that the machine comes with Sugar installed on top of

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

2011-10-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 11:11:40AM -0700, Cherry Withers wrote: Rules: • Posters will be 13 x 19 inches in size. • Only 1 entry per project. • All artwork and lettering must be original. Copyrighted images are not allowed. • Entries must be submitted electronically in by

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] butiá robot challenges in sumo.uy event

2011-09-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 08:24:50PM -0300, Andres Aguirre wrote: Hi, I want to share with you what we was doing the last week here in Uruguay: http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/Review Hi Andres, this looks like more excellant work about the butiabot. I was showing

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] OLPC / Sugar folks in Finland

2011-09-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:51:18PM +0200, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Hi all, I was wondering whether anyone here happens to know of anyone doing OLPC / Sugar stuff in Finland? A quick search through the archives and the Web didn't yield much beyond a short exchange between Sameer, Seth,

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FW: [Olpc-uruguay] Carita triste

2011-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 07:30:12PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Folks, Can one of our many solutions that were discussed in the past few days about incorrect dates help these folks in Uruguay? I'll translate the note below and if one of you knows the answer, but not how to tell them in

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] SD Card Expert Needed

2011-08-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:52:23AM -0500, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: Kevin Gordon wrote Talk to Mikus. He is my muse on this stuff. On multiple occasions (including this one) when Caryl has posted a question to which I have previously developed an answer, I've offered Caryl my help. None of

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Narrative Interfaces at OLPC

2011-06-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 09:46:23PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi All Thanks for recording and posting these. Do any of you remember the Apple ii game for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Must have been circa mid 1980s. All text. Fun problem solving. I got the Babelfish! At

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Journal prompts (was: Re: FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar)

2011-06-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 08:16:23PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: snip So what we seem to be left with at this point is a system which tries to force users to add comments or tags even though there is very little incentive or supportive mechanisms to actually do much with that metadata.

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Journal prompts (was: Re: FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar)

2011-06-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 08:17:30AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote: snip As someone who is not versed in educational theory, I have tried to understand what intentions where put into Sugar. I have herd mention

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Journal prompts (was: Re: FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar)

2011-06-16 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:21:53PM -0400, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote: On Thu, June 16, 2011 8:17 am, Walter Bender wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 08:16:23PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: snip So what we

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] FW: [OLPC Bolivia] No logro aprender Sugar / I cannot learn Sugar

2011-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 07:58:48PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Folks, This is a FYI... Carlos Rebassa, a Rap Ceibal volunteer many of us met in Uruguay has come up with a surprisingly critical complaint about Sugar. He included a link to an English version, but did not send it to IAEP or