Re: [IAEP] Write: The file 'abc.odt' is corrupt and therefore cannot be opened. LibreOffice can try to repair the file...

2011-12-11 Thread Martin Sevior
Hi Yamalos, Actually Write saves as ODT by default. What you see is a bug in your Ubuntu distro. I think it's fixed now. Try updating your Ubuntu distribution. Cheers Martin On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Yamaplos . yamap...@gmail.com wrote: I came upon this error trasferring a file from a

Re: [IAEP] The OLPC Australia programme in action

2011-06-14 Thread Martin Sevior
Awesome! Great video! I'm very happy to have played a small part in the program :-) I'll cross post it to abiword-dev and blog about it. Cheers Martin On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: Hi everyone, Here's a video we produced to mark OLPC

Re: [IAEP] Commenst for an Oceania project

2011-05-15 Thread Martin Sevior
of AbiWord and Write. Best Regards, Martin Sevior On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Ian Thomson i...@spc.int wrote: Hi All, In the Pacific Ocean, we have a list serve for educationalists. There have been some posts about the article from Australia about their Governments “struggles

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

2011-02-16 Thread Martin Sevior
The current collection of sugar apps use pyGtk for interfaces. In the case of Write, this is a C++ library linked with Gtk-2 with the UI written with pyGtk. It seems to me that the minimum requirement for this idea to have the remotest chance of reusing all the work that has gone into sugar so

[IAEP] Congratulations to OLPC Australia!

2010-03-31 Thread Martin Sevior
I came across this article in the mainstream Australian National Newspaper, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/joy-as-computer-power-comes-to-yirrkala/story-e6frg6nf-1225848236378 A massive congratulations to OLPC Australia for this. Those are 3 very

Re: [IAEP] Sugar in Chile

2009-08-02 Thread Martin Sevior
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Werner Westermann werne...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings to all. Patricio Acevedo left the audience shocked after presenting Sugar in the 2nd Innovation Workshop:  The Creative

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-07-28

2009-07-28 Thread Martin Sevior
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Walter Benderwalter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: ===Sugar Digest=== snip Here is where the trouble began. First of all, the version of Turtle Art I used to build the game is newer than the version they had installed on their machines. Normally, this wouldn't be an

Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-19 Thread Martin Sevior
, at 22:58, Martin Sevior wrote: We do not expose the underlying code to extract the numeric value of the word count from a document at present. It would trivial to add that to the API if there was consensus this would be a useful thing to do. Now is a good time to put in such requests because

Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-19 Thread Martin Sevior
HI Gary, I'll put together a screen cast of the AbiWord linux build showing all the features Real Soon Now. If you have access to a windows machine you can just download our abiword-2.7.7 binary from: http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/2.7.7/Windows/abiword-setup-2.7.7.exe

Re: [IAEP] Adding a word-count to write

2009-07-18 Thread Martin Sevior
HI Christoph, We do not expose the underlying code to extract the numeric value of the word count from a document at present. It would trivial to add that to the API if there was consensus this would be a useful thing to do. Now is a good time to put in such requests because we're just finishing

Re: [IAEP] OLPC Australia press release

2009-05-27 Thread Martin Sevior
Congratulations everyone! I'm very proud be a part of this. It's wonderful to see disadvantaged children in my own Country benefit from our work. Martin Sevior On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a report that does mention Sugar: http

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Sevior
flower (thing doesnt even exist) ok, that is about 50% of the failed testtube babies... It might help to just give up on Ubuntu and just work with Fedora. We've documented the issue with libabiword on Ubuntu and Debian very, very clearly for many months. Martin Sevior

Re: [IAEP] Fwd: Developer gathering in Trondheim, Norway - January 2009

2009-01-26 Thread Martin Sevior
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: Hi Martin, On Montag, 26. Januar 2009, Martin Sevior wrote: One of the things that Debian needs to do to package sugar is to distribute AbiWord as libAbiword with a small binary wrapper. This has been done

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

2008-12-20 Thread Martin Sevior
Hi Caroline, I clicked on the various links to see the status of Write but I couldn't see anything. Is it already on SoaS? Cheers Martin On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Dear Sugar Activity Maintainers and other volunteers with

Re: [IAEP] introduction - hi I'm Donna

2008-12-09 Thread Martin Sevior
Welcome Donna! Thanks for the XO's :-) If you manage to create a meeting in Melbourne I'll do my best to attend. Cheers Martin On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Donna Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've long been a passionate advocate of the OLPC project, and followed with