Asheesh, Karen, (and various other friends interested in learning... :-)
If you haven't already done so, you folks should think about finding yourselves
copies of Carol S. Dweck's book: Self-theories: their role in motivation,
personality, and development [1,2].
The punch-lines that I see for
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 at 00:11:13 +0100, Dinko Galetic wrote:
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
Hi Michael,
This reminds me -- it looks like Dinko's changes were not merged
into Pippy mainline. Can you tell us about the status of his work?
There were things
Teachers demand a technological mean to solve a problem of discipline and
computer literacy.
Launch GNOME under a separate account with a quota and with limited or no sudo
access. This will cut out most of the mayhem, thereby buying you time to work
out a more integrated solution.
Michael
Simon wrote:
What do others think about this?
I'm glad that you have a proposal that excites Bernie, Bert, and Tomeu.
I'm not sure what to think for myself because I don't know whether I
correctly understood your intent from my reading of your, Bernie's,
and Tomeu's words. (See below.)
Bernie
On June 7, Simon Schampijer wrote:
On 06/06/2010 10:30 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
SeanDaly if tomeu were here, he would say: we need someone
experienced, who knows the open source way, and does not need lots of
briefing to get up to speed (he will correct me if I err)
You can count on me
Tomeu,
Hi,
follows a plan about how to improve the situation regarding
maintenance of our software modules. If you care about it, please
reply even if only to say so...
I care.
, or even better, comment on it and
suggest improvements. I will assume that lack of replies mean people
How can we reach sustainability on the rest of the process?
Take employment elsewhere and work on Sugar in your remaining time if you still
feel moved to do so.
Michael
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IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)
Dear Sugar folks,
I have avoided wading into this discussion for some time because I wanted to
see where it went without my interference. Therefore, before I say anything
else, thanks for the entertaining show. :)
Next, here are some thoughts for you, based on my own work, uses of Sugar, and
Ben wrote:
Michael Stone wrote:
Consequently, I want to make using activities more like web pages. That's
why I work on rainbow and on networking design.
...
In my opinion, ideally, they click a URL and the software they
clicked runs most of the time. They don't care what version
Tomeu,
Frankly Michael, the only way I
Gary,
I'm tired and sad from talking on this subject but I still don't feel that
I've been understood. (Or, if I have been, I haven't understood the rebuttals
of my position, in which case I apologize for being so dense.) Anyway, here's
one more try:
Wow, blast from the past :-) Actually I'd
Gary,
Your reply just made my evening, and even more amusingly, I now think that we
may both be right.
Regards,
Michael
(In what ways are we both right, you ask? Very well:
You're right that some real progress has been made -- you've assembled quite a
list of Gregorio-approved features
Bernie,
1) Is anyone routinely testing Sugar in Debian?
Yes, though not deeply. I conduct my occasional rainbow/sugar integration
testing in Debian chroots via the instructions written down at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Chroot
which I am in the process of automating as
for me and letting me know what questions you are left with?
Ben Schwartz wrote:
Rainbow is not currently used much outside of the XO, but it should be,
and it can be. Michael Stone, who developed it, no longer works for OLPC,
but he has continued to update it. It can be packaged for any distro
Carrying on a fine tradition of July-based Sugar reflections [1, 2], I'm going
to offer some mostly unsolicited advice. (Sorry, Tomeu, but you asked me to
write. :^)
Dear Sugar Labs,
In the past year, you succeeded in removing two important barriers to entry
for new developers: you have
Wade,
Here are a couple of /very/ quick thoughts for you. Please let me know which
ones are helpful and which are simply confusing (or misguided).
Michael
The basic premises of this rant are that
we need to be able to mix, match and dissect activities
so therefore
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:56:52AM -0500, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
David Farning wrote:
Sorry there was a typo in my last email the site is actually
http://www-testing.sugarlabs.org/
I forcefully object to everything about this website. It is ugly,
off-putting, unnavigable, unreadable,
Folks,
Pia Waugh (greebo) and I have spent a fair bit of time in the last month
talking and thinking about what we can do in the next few months to best
support present and future olpc-ish deployments (typically with XOs, typically
running Sugar) and we'd like to share some of our thoughts with
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:14:22PM -0500, Walter Bender wrote:
Here is my short-term suggestion:
Why don't we appoint you as a monitor of the slobs list.
No, thanks -- I don't feel that I can be responsible for SL's organizational
conscience. Instead, I believe that this is something that we
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 12:25:13PM -0800, Bryan Berry wrote:
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 15:18 -0500, Walter Bender wrote:
(3) We need lots more Activities.
While there is consensus on this point, there is not consensus on the
best way to get a lot more Activities. That is, pulling a lot more
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 04:01:34PM -0500, Walter Bender wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Michael Stone mich...@laptop.org wrote:
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 12:25:13PM -0800, Bryan Berry wrote:
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 15:18 -0500, Walter Bender wrote:
(3) We need lots more Activities.
While
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:12:40PM -0500, Walter Bender wrote:
Can you please cite a few examples to help ground me further?
Let's try:
* the Etoys/Debian fight?
* the F6/F7 timeframe Java fight?
* the Debian/Fedora fight? (and the Ubuntu/Debian fight?)
* the activity packaging formats
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:20:34PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
According to http://sugarlabs.org/go/Image:Sucrose-0-82-roadmap.png , no new
features were developed in sugar after 0.81.3, we were in a feature freeze
until the 0.82 release. All changes after then are translations or bugfixes.
There
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 03:16:09AM +0100, Ivan Krstić wrote:
it's hard to divine whether your statement in this matter -- or, in
fact, a statement made by anyone but Nicholas -- carries any weight
whatsoever.
Such is life; I see no reason to let such doubts stop me.
For 500K kids, Sugar+OLPC
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:12:37PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
2. What would creating a Sugar Activity require from me and what
benefits would it bring?
I've been pondering this question in some depth for the last week using
my list summarization problem as a model. In hopes of offering something
Bill,
Here's a short dialogue between myself, Ben Schwartz, Martin Dengler,
and Bobby Powers on my interpretation of narrative as it might apply
to a user interface designed for engaging children in the world of
learning:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/Commentaries/Sugar_2
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Bryan Berry wholly captured my attention tonight when he said (in
summary):
Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to
manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential for
learning. [1]
This statement seems to me both indisputable and
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:57:45AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are still a few loose ends to tie with the Turtle Art
modification. I am trying to make it into somewhat of a case study
that can be hopefully a catalyst
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