Re: [IAEP] Lots of Interest in SoaS at CUE

2009-03-10 Thread Edward Cherlin
I like your Grannies Guides idea, and am passing it on to Adam Hyde of FLOSS Manuals. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Greetings from the CUE (Computer Using Educators) conference in Palm Springs. There has been a lot of interest in SoaS here.  Some

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2009-03-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:52:00PM -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote: On Mar 5, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: which made me assume that I was only moderator, not admin. I've reset the admin password for iaep and sent it to Jonas; anyone else

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2009-03-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 09:52:50PM -0400, Ivan Krstić wrote: On Mar 6, 2009, at 4:09 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Any idea how something like this could have happened? Probably by a list admin/moderator mistakenly flagging his message as spam. ...or

Re: [IAEP] updating the Sugar manual for 8.4 release

2009-03-10 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:31:39PM -0500, Anne Gentle wrote: With the new 8.4 release coming up in a very short time, I've read through the users guide and the release notes Are OLPC planning an 8.4 release of their XO-specific distribution? If

Re: [IAEP] updating the Sugar manual for 8.4 release

2009-03-10 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Anne, I've been confused too and we have worked out a way forward: The version number of Sugar which will be launched this Monday the 16th is 0.84 When Sugar on a Stick is ready in Q3 of this year, it will be version 1.0 thanks Sean Marketing Coordinator On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:33 AM,

Re: [IAEP] [FM Discuss] updating the Sugar manual for 0.84 release

2009-03-10 Thread Anne Gentle
My apologies. I hear eight four and transcribe in my head to eight dot four, but it is point eight four. Thanks for clarifying. Thank you Walter for signing up for chapters! Also, Sean, thank you for the date update. Let's make our goal 3/16 instead of 3/13. I'm delighted to get three more days.

Re: [IAEP] [FM Discuss] updating the Sugar manual for 0.84 release

2009-03-10 Thread Sean DALY
Well... that's 9:00 AM EST on Monday, so maybe Sunday night is more accurate The possibility exists there will be a wave of traffic, so the sonner the better ;-) thanks Anne Sean On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Anne Gentle annegen...@gmail.com wrote: My apologies. I hear eight four and

Re: [IAEP] updating the Sugar manual for 8.4 release

2009-03-10 Thread Rita Freudenberg
Anne Gentle wrote: Installing Activities - http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/InstallingActivities All of this chapter's screenshots should be updateed to show where you download Activities now. Ok, the screenshot for Etoys is updated. By the way, there is no Etoys manual yet.

Re: [IAEP] updating the Sugar manual for 8.4 release

2009-03-10 Thread Rita Freudenberg
Rita Freudenberg wrote: Anne Gentle wrote: Installing Activities - http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Sugar/8_4/InstallingActivities All of this chapter's screenshots should be updateed to show where you download Activities now. Sorry, I didn't update the InstallingActivities, but the

Re: [IAEP] [FM Discuss] updating the Sugar manual for 0.84 release

2009-03-10 Thread David Farning
On 3/10/09, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Well... that's 9:00 AM EST on Monday, so maybe Sunday night is more accurate The possibility exists there will be a wave of traffic, so the sonner the better ;-) thanks Anne Sean On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Anne Gentle

[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-03-10

2009-03-10 Thread Walter Bender
=== Sugar Digest === 1. Now that the Sugar community and the Release Team have wrapped up 0.84, it is time to talk about our “Big Overarching Vision Goals for 2009” I've written some notes in order to kick off the discussion. '''What are our objectives?''' In an era of ''limited resources''

Re: [IAEP] Lots of Interest in SoaS at CUE

2009-03-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi Ed and all, Actually, I worked on the FLOSS manuals during the book sprint last summer...connecting from my log cabin in MT. I plan to work on them again soon, but am currently swamped with follow-up work with all the names I collected at the two conferences I took XOs to in the last 3

[IAEP] Video chat contact

2009-03-10 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Hi all, after several attempts I finally managed to get the Video Chat activity (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Video_Chat) working so Freemor and I could talk for a little while. However we also ran into a couple of very odd issues, e.g. my Video Chat instance disappeared from the frame as soon

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-03-10

2009-03-10 Thread David Farning
Walter, Very nice tone. As we near the release window, it opens up the conversation from the immediately actionable to the possible. Now that the culture and rhythm 'getting things done' is pretty well established, I hope we can start encouraging those academic papers and interesting new

[IAEP] New sugarlabs website

2009-03-10 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
Congratulations on the new website. It looks great. The designer did a wonderful job of listening to feedback, which isn't easy. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [IAEP] New sugarlabs website

2009-03-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 21:46, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Congratulations on the new website.  It looks great.  The designer did a wonderful job of listening to feedback, which isn't easy. Yes, kudos to Christian and the people who contributed feedback and content. I really love

Re: [IAEP] New sugarlabs website

2009-03-10 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
Thanks so much, Tomeu and Carol! I think Bernie is looking into the http://sugarlabs.org issue... Walter and I had discussed translations earlier. We could either go the route of Google Translate, or turn to volunteers to help translate the content manually... Does anyone have thoughts on this?

Re: [IAEP] New sugarlabs website

2009-03-10 Thread Luke Faraone
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt christianm...@gmail.com wrote: Walter and I had discussed translations earlier. We could either go the route of Google Translate, or turn to volunteers to help translate the content manually... Does anyone have thoughts on this? We can

Re: [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 06:00:02PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote: Hi all, I was musing on ways to ease demoing for Windows users, and I thought of something: why not leverage the work done by coLinuxhttp://www.colinux.org/? They already have prebuilt

Re: [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Luke Faraone
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.comwrote: Interesting but you'd need an X server running on Windows, according to http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/XCoLinux (IIUC). So you're still going to have to get them not only an EXE with coLinux, but one with cygwin/X

[IAEP] A culture of meta-cognition

2009-03-10 Thread Caroline Meeks
This semester I've had the privileged of observing in some local schools as part of my graduate class. Today I was struck by how much good teachers talk about and think about thinking and learning. They explicitly tell students to think and reflect themselves on their thinking and problem

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Faraone wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.comwrote: Interesting but you'd need an X server running on Windows, according to http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/XCoLinux (IIUC). So you're still going to

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Sascha Silbe
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

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sascha Silbe wrote: 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

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Luke Faraone
On 3/10/09, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sascha Silbe wrote: 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

Re: [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-10 Thread Edward Cherlin
I used to use coLinux regularly when my contracts required me to work on Windows, and I contributed various info to their Wiki. If Sugar on coLinux turns out to be worthwhile, I will be happy to help with documentation. On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi,