Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com writes:
Did you get any feedback as to why the proposal wasn't accepted? Because
similarly to you it's my impression that Sugar-related activities should fit
in quite well with RISE's scope...
You'd think Sugar would be a good fit for Summer of Code as
Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com writes:
== Sugar Digest ==
5. Daniel Francis, a youth from Uruguay, has joined Developer Team
meetings and will be mentored by Sascha Silbe in reviewing patches to
Sugar itself. A nice example for other aspiring contributors.
The nice flurry of new
Excerpts from Bernie Innocenti's message of 2011-11-10 19:20:20 +0100:
I use Gnash on my computer and I report bugs to the developers from time
to time. Though, after so many years of development, I'm starting to
suspect that HTML5 will make Flash irrelevant before Gnash replaces it.
It
Hi!
Saw this float by yesterday on #sugar. Very interesting read.
http://gandre.ws/blog/2011/11/06/angry-birds-is-no-super-artillery/
Sascha
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Dear SLOB candidates,
I've read your announcements with interest. They all explain well
where you're coming from and who you are. What I'm missing, however,
is what you want to *do* during your election period.
I'm aware that the SLOB isn't supposed to do much (and agree on this
philosophy), but
Excerpts from Sebastian Silva's message of 2011-10-25 04:15:29 +0200:
But Sugar will instead continue along the X-order so to say of the Frame.
Could we change this default?
Also, is there a setting for this in metacity or does Sugar have its own
Alt-Tab
implementation?
I should really
Excerpts from Gonzalo Odiard's message of Thu Sep 01 21:24:31 +0200 2011:
There are a public list of patches?
Not just a list, the patches themselves are public [1].
Sascha
[1] https://people.sugarlabs.org/~silbe/dextrose/patchsets/
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Excerpts from Stefanie Nobel's message of Tue Aug 23 14:37:48 +0200 2011:
have you already found an accommodation? Here is a list with some holiday
flats:
http://paris.fr.craigslist.fr/vac/
Thanks! It's too late this time since most people already booked their
accomodation and the idea was
Excerpts from Bastien's message of Sat Aug 20 01:27:46 +0200 2011:
I'm quite excited by the list of participants for this second SugarCamp
in Paris (sept. 10th and 11th):
[...]
OLPC France will hold a SugarCamp organization meeting next tuesday so
that we can discuss and solve the practical
Excerpts from Christoph Derndorfer's message of Tue Aug 02 00:19:45 +0200 2011:
but still need
accomodation. It would be nice to share an apartment with some fellow
Sugar hackers, preferably with snore-proof walls for the bedrooms. ;)
Assistance from a local resident with organising a
Excerpts from Christoph Derndorfer's message of Fri Jul 08 16:31:24 +0200 2011:
@Bastien: Count me in! :-)
I'm going to join the fun (and hard work!) as well, but still need
accomodation. It would be nice to share an apartment with some fellow
Sugar hackers, preferably with snore-proof walls
Excerpts from Bernie Innocenti's message of Sun Jun 05 06:33:40 +0200 2011:
* Membership fees
Could you elaborate what you have in mind here? :-)
It's a prototype idea, not yet discussed anywhere yet. I'd like to know
what the board members would think about asking a yearly fee from
Excerpts from Martin Langhoff's message of Tue May 17 18:34:09 +0200 2011:
Unfortuntely, there's no easy way to do it with CIFS or NFS -- it
would be an interesting addition to Sugar (possibly to the Journal)
but it's a big project.
NFS mounts do turn up as storage devices in the Journal (at
Excerpts from Johanna Wener's message of Thu May 12 21:08:31 +0200 2011:
The big problem I have is, that everything that the children do on the olpc
could not be used for learning because there is no way to print their works
out.
I expect others to reply to the educational part of that
Excerpts from Frits Hoff's message of Sat Dec 11 08:19:37 +0100 2010:
[nothing because the mail was HTML-only]
Can you resend as plain text, please? Even if I use a browser (w3m) to
display the HTML, it's such a mess (on the screen - haven't tried
reading the source) that I can't (easily) figure
Excerpts from Teemu Leinonen's message of Thu Dec 09 10:31:02 +0100 2010:
Is it possible for a teachers to read (and comment) the student's
Journals?
Actually it would be great if all the Journals on XO could be (by
default) open for reading (and commenting) by everyone in the learning
Excerpts from Tomeu Vizoso's message of Tue Oct 19 18:50:23 +0200 2010:
for personal reasons have to drastically reduce my involvement in the project.
It's sad to see you leave; I hope it's neither completely nor forever.
Working with you has helped me improve myself. Sugar Labs will loose an
Excerpts from Bastien's message of Sun Oct 24 14:55:30 +0200 2010:
There is something I miss in the list of teams/projects for people
persons: community management. This is very different from marketing
and outreach. Maybe this project/role could be advertized somewhere
on the wiki.
Excerpts from Caroline Meeks's message of Sun Oct 03 19:39:51 +0200 2010:
Is there a way to have different people repeatably agree on how good a CRT
monitor is? Is there a quantitive measure that is reasonably easy to use?
A test image that can somehow get repeatable results by different
Excerpts from Carlos Rabassa's message of Fri Sep 24 14:20:52 +0200 2010:
If you write in Plain English, the language form required in some countries
for legal documents involving the public, this is English without technical
words, using vocabulary at the level of the general public,
Excerpts from Walter Bender's message of Tue Sep 14 18:30:54 +0200 2010:
I've been doing some work on the Get Sugar landing page in the wiki,
which has been the source of some confusion amongst our potential user
community. My proposed modifications (See
Excerpts from Tim McNamara's message of Wed Jul 14 19:54:40 + 2010:
I think it's highly inappropriate to say that eating your own dogfood means
that software developers, or even teachers, should use Sugar. Sugar is an
environment that is used by teachers to create learning environments for
Excerpts from Bernie Innocenti's message of Sat Jun 26 07:34:16 +0200 2010:
ericb2 http://www.educoo.org/pages/partenaires/
ericb2 Adam sent me some machines, and you are counted as partner
ericb2 you means Sugar Labs
While AFAICT it's nice to have Sugar Labs mentioned on that page, it
Excerpts from Caryl Bigenho's message of Sat Jun 26 21:29:50 +0200 2010:
I agree with Sameer and Marife. From an educator's point of view, having
both Sugar and Gnome available has a lot of advantages. Sugar offers a
kid-friendly environment, while at the same time offering some great
Excerpts from Beth Santos's message of Tue Jun 22 22:27:08 + 2010:
Anyone not on the hea...@waveplace.org listserv who would like to take part
in the topic identifying and project executing, send me an email and I will
add you.
Is there a reason you're not using the existing
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 11:59:38AM -0500, David Han wrote:
*How can we take the data from the students' Journals and save it on a
single computer?*
If you're using a school server (XS), it's probably easiest to use the
backup function (never tried it, so can't tell).
Another option is to tar
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 05:21:32PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trademark and
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Trademark/Guidelines
Sugarize is unacceptable use of the trademarks?? You're (*) kidding,
right?
And while the new policy/proposal is certainly an
Vizoso (6 release, 1 maintenance, 1 workaround)
9 Sascha Silbe (4 bug fixes, 3 improvements, 1 cleanup, 1
refactoring)
2 Sayamindu Dasgupta (1 bug fix, 1 improvement)
2 latu (1 improvement, 1 style fix)
2 Martin Abente (relayed by Simon) (2 bug fixes
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 07:12:18PM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
One problem with acer aspire one:
It will not boot from an SD slot (see notes below), [...]
Ouch, good to know. I would have expected this to work on laptop
(netbook) that comes with a built-in SD card slot.
My lexar SD to
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:06:53PM -0400, Gerald Ardito wrote:
Speaking for teachers working with students, the extra work to
download the
extra activities desired for over a hundred flash drives would be
daunting
at best.
FWIW, I think downloading activities to each individual stick is an
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 01:36:44PM -0700, Josh Williams wrote:
I'm in the camp that it's better to set a maximum width because I
think it's harder to read long strings of text.
If you really want to do this (I still wouldn't like it), please at
least base it on font size (em). Using pixel
Hi!
There are a lot of projects listed we cooperate with (GCompris, Scratch,
Ooo4Kids, ...), but I can't see Sugar mentioned anywhere on their page.
Maybe someone should tell them about us?
CU Sascha
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[Again restricting post to iaep because I cannot cross-post]
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:59:09PM +0100, Sean DALY wrote:
If we extend our trademarks use freely, we 1) run the risk of losing
them 2) will be unable to build awareness of the brand.
The same is true of the opposite and I fear this
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 08:29:58AM -0500, Jeff Elkner wrote:
I'm really not interested in beating a dead horse, [...]
I deliberately focussed on your workflow issue exactly to avoid that.
:)
[...], but I have 4 different computers on which I normally work, plus
I work on other people's
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:33:38PM +1100, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
A possible solution would be to give users the ability to inspect and
alter the mime of journal items.
As of 0.86 the details view show the MIME type. I don't think we should
let users edit it in the details view (it's
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:19:31AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote:
There were some threads in mailing lists last time about what
activities
could be approved to be public on Activity Library[1]. Well, some
of these questions are very arguable, but the worst thing which could
be
is what we have now
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 07:40:26PM +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote:
* Backup up by the community *
The proposer of the feature has to get feedback from the community.
This includes technical feedback, feedback from the deployments etc.
See as well in the last paragraph about which points the
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 07:34:46PM +0100, roberto wrote:
- i've installed sugar on Debian 5.0 but, as you already know, a lot
of activities are missing; turtleArt is one of this, so i think i
cannot use it on my Debian (tell me if there is a workaround ...)
Jonas is working on packaging Sugar
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 10:14:37AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
Start New is not working in the field. I can be standing behind a
child
coaching them on every move of the mouse and I still can't get them to
use
it. The impulse to click on what the icon for what they want to do
is too
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 02:20:43AM -0400, DancesWithCars wrote:
Then a frozen membership list, first before a call
for elections.
Please don't spread FUD.
This has been discussed over a month ago:
From: Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:59:33 -0400
Message-ID:
Posting to iaep only since cross-posting doesn't work for me anymore
(non-subscribed email addresses get rejected) and it's more than just a
technical issue (so sugar-devel isn't enough).
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:21:46AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
Perhaps we drop this dialogue and then
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:11:31PM +0930, Bill Kerr wrote:
The sticks I have with SD cards have started to fail on the older
computers
at school (after working ok for 2 weeks of lessons). But they still
work
fine on my newer Dell mini inspiron.
The older ones are not XOs, right?
Warning:
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:55:33PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
I would like very much to be able to put these old 5 1/2 floppies in,
boot them up and print out the code so some enterprising Python
programmer could convert them for Sugar. I'm not even sure the disks
will still work. They are
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 02:41:35AM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
[copying USB stick via dd]
Sucessfully copies the USB stick! this is an exact copy and boot and
runs well.
Just a word of caution: Because it's an exact copy, it will duplicate
your identity as well if you've ever logged in to
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 05:07:31AM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
ie: The over-riding determining factor is that the copied to USB stick
has to have equal or greater capacity than the copied from USB stick
for the dd process to be sucessful.
Exactly.
* Do you have a suggestion on how to
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:39:31AM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
This procedure has to be used on all dd copies of USB
You can also do it on the master stick before doing the dd if there's
no data in the Journal you want to preserve.
Note: I have not seen any failures to USB sticks from
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:51:48PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sugar/+bug/396200
Bug #396200 reported by Edward Cherlin on 2009-07-06
Looks like SL #310 [1] / Ubuntu #325706 [2] to me. Opened on 2009-02-05,
i.e. about one Ubuntu release cycle ago and
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:13:55PM +0200, Marten Vijn wrote:
Generally they use adhoc-mode on the wifi-card with is not supported
well on all cards.
Do you know this for sure for OpenMesh? They use the Atheros chipset
with multiple network interfaces (ath0..ath2) in Linux and always use
the
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:33:58AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
Does anyone else feel it's too much information?
While the information itself is interesting and useful, a more
digest-like mode of dissipation would be appreciated, e.g. one mail per
day.
CU Sascha
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On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:01:38PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
[whole list of links]
Much better, thanks!
Congratulations for this success (and thanks for the hard work leading
to it), BTW - both to the marketing team and the SoaS team!
PS: I guess most people who are interested in this are at
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:23:02PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
I'll regroup links but I do hope those of us who speak the languages I
don't (I can only read en-fr-ru I'm afraid) can assist in pointing out
particularly good or particularly bad coverage
FWIW I liked the pro-linux.de one. They seem to
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:19:01AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
http://gizmodo.com/5301939/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-any-netbook-into-your-very-own-olpc
Where do they get all those old screenshots from? ^^
Do we have a gallery for the journalists to use that's linked from press
releases?
CU Sascha
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:36:02AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
Hi Sascha, in fact I have no idea where that one came from. We
provided the SoaS beauty shot in the press release
(http://www.sugarlabs.org/press/Sugar-on-a-Stick-Strawberry.png) and I
provided the gallery link to Technology Review last
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:59:53AM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2009
Quoting that page:
Not permitted by Linuxtag:
* wireless access points (You are not permitted to operate your
private wireless LAN. Please take this serious.
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 02:10:14PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
I saw this too:
http://blog.wizzy.com/post/OLPC-and-Classmate-in-Nigeria
Great, just what I needed for my seminar! 20k$/month for an internet
connection, wow!
I couldn't find any technical information about the solution, although
it
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:58:27AM +1000, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
hierarchical views of the underlying filesystem
Which parts of the filesystem are you talking about (other than external
storage) exactly? The system (i.e. anything outside /home)? Sugar config
files? Installed
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:44:33AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
Sending the docs to cups-pdf for conversion and then talking to Moodle
for teacher review can be done via /usr/bin/lpr,
But that would sidestep the Journal and prevent review of the actual
output (i.e. what it looks like on paper,
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 09:27:07PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
I gave them my card which has links to the contributors program,
sugar-on-a stick, and lots of other useful info about OLPC and Sugar.
Nice idea. Because of the attractive design, I've been asked about it
two times already at
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:20:49PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
Your comments, suggestions, and edits are welcome.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Legal/Code_of_Conduct
I have trouble parsing the following sentence (section Be flexible):
Try to find the appropriate forum for your
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:22:14PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
They are in Cambridge. Why don't you call them? I'll ping them on
behalf of Earth Treasury. Let me know if you find any more like them.
Thanks for your answers, Walter and Edward!
I've written an email to First Mile Solutions,
Hi!
Sorry for the slightly off-topic posting, but as some deployments might
actually be facing these issues I thought it might be worth a try.
As part of my study, I'm going to give a talk on networking challenges and possible solutions in
developing countries (*). The title of the original
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 02:51:21PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
We can also make use of Semantic Media Wiki to create forms that lead
into a
table.
+1 for that as it's possible to do queries then (instead of manually
scanning the table).
CU Sascha
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On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 03:44:05AM -0400, Seth Woodworth wrote:
I'd like to encourage everyone to build on the great work of Arjun
Sarwal and help us extend the sensor interface with our peripheral --
the heart rate monitor.
Looks great! As I intended to do a similar device in the future (it's
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:26:01AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
I dont have a car (but a drivers licence) and would like to join you
in Hamburg (if the meeting is on May 16th in Paris).
I'm afraid what won't make much sense (as much as I'd like to visit
Hamburg again) as we're starting from
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:56:31PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
I was wondering, if the plans aren't finalized, could we consider
meeting that weekend in Paris instead?
Prague is significantly cheaper for us to reach via train (312 EUR
Prague vs. 424 EUR Paris; 2-way, 2 persons) and car (gas is
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:27:31AM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
Prague is significantly cheaper for us to reach via train (312 EUR
Prague vs. 424 EUR Paris; 2-way, 2 persons) and car (gas is about 20%
cheaper).
Wow, trains are for you rich people!
Yep. :-/
If we decide fast enough, there
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 02:44:07AM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
Have you considered driving to Paris?
Yes, I have (see my first reply). Unless someone else is coming with us
(and providing a car), I would need to check with our carsharing club
first about driving outside germany, but it
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:26:59PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
So, the principal difficulty with using coLinux with Sugar is that it
uses
a Windows-side X server, which provides its own window manager. We
need
to use our own, custom-configured window manager, in order for the GUI
to
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 07:20:05PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote:
If you have used TuxType, you will know that it's a simplistic typing
*practice game* and in no way teaches the user how to type.
I thought that's what you're looking for. How do you imagine a typing
teaching activity to work?
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 12:10:09PM -0800, Bryan Berry wrote:
The Typing Turtle will be immensely useful and immensely popular in
Nepal. A typing tutor is one of the most frequently requested programs
by the Nepali kids and teachers alike. Thanks alot to Wade for working
on it.
Have you tried
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