On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 7:57 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have a volunteer who runs a small openID business who is willing to
help us migrate our logins to openID. This migration has been on our
infrastructure todo list for a couple of months.
I've been doing quite a bit of
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMHO, the XS OpenID work would be very valuable; the others are not really
important.
Note that all the OpenID discussions around the XS are based on the XO
having a modded Browse.xo that does authentication against
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:13 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With this in mind, the goal of creating new mailing lists is not to
fragment the existing community. It is to create footholds for other
communities to develop around the central learning platform.
It's about economies of
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reactions to my post remind me of the story of the lumberjacks
Fantastic story. However, in practice a CMS is often inferior to a
wiki in that it appoints keepers. The cook amongst the lumberjacks
has to cook daily and
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I actually have serious doubt about the learning value of
some of these activities, even ignoring the problems with
ease of use.
Facts and real-life practice are a great way to sort these things out.
Do get involved in
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sugar offers an excellent mode for discovery but no excellent way to
manipulate narratives. Both discovery and narrative are essential for
learning. [1]
I am catching up with this. What Bryan writes is correct, but I
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Brendan R. Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to propose a discussion on making the collaboration a bit more
standards compliant. The idea would be to get sugar to function more
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:07 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... lots of interesting things...
I'm very happy that the Sugar folks are in town -- under whatever
alibi -- and I'm keen on meeting, having a beer together and perhaps
talking a few technical things too ;-) After all,
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Should we have a list for each team?
per-team lists are IME not so good in the long term. Even splitting
users and devel lists usually works against efforts to build a
positive community.
Organising it by focus topic
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Luke Faraone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We should be careful, however, to avoid conflicts with OLPC lists. I'd
rather not have to disambiguate which devel list I am talking about.
There are often such overlaps. In cases whether that's prevalent people add
a
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert is ready to setup a VM and was asking if there's an image we
could unpack to bootstrap it.
Martin, what would you suggest? Should we just install the 0.5
install ISO?
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anybody know what is needed to get the server software to Debian
and Ubuntu? Is anybody interested in doing it?
I've outlined it several times on server-devel - use the power of the archive...
m
--
[EMAIL
*Big Bold Disclaimer - these opinions are strictly Martin's. No
statement here is formal, I'm just waiting for a timing-bug to rear
its ugly head.*
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:25 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote:
=== Journal ===
Tomeu Vizoso has been doing a wonderful work of bringing the journal
implementation closer to it's design.The Object chooser can now be
filtered by data type.
Cool, between this and the note
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Yeah, I recommend rsync'ing the ~/.sugar/default/datastore dir, maybe
skipping the index subdir. You have the layout explained here:
http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/DatastoreRewrite
Uhmmm. Ok, then I'll have to
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
I actually would have appreciated more feedback when I asked for it
some months ago. Anyway, I trust this layout change will simplify
things for you at the end.
Sorry, I probably hid at the sight of Journal rewrite
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
I meant it should have been optional, but if we switch to using the
Closes: header in the body, where we have no size constraints, then
we could has well use the prefix consistently.
One important note WRT 'Closes'...
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
Well, it's customary to introduce an additional state where the bug is
fixed in the developer's intentions, but not yet QA'd:
NEW - ASSIGNED - FIXED - CLOSED
Bernie,
99% of my commits are working on it, mate ;-)
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote:
First of all, IMO the *only* stable Sugar OS is OLPC XO Software 8.2.0
running on XO or emulator. As far as I know, none of the other
distributions has caught up in terms of activity support.
FWIW, I am keeping an eye on
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote:
I am dogfooding a bit with the Fedora SoaS. My Thinkpad X40 ...
Excellent news. Here's to more SL'ers doing the same :-)
Wearing my XSA hat, I want to get my hands on that second Sugar
platform and test interop
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Michael Stone mich...@laptop.org wrote:
6. Questions:
* Does this analysis hold water?
Seems to make sense, and looks like the strategies are quite rational.
* Is there anything we could spend our time on which would yield a
greater return on investment?
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
Monkey see, monkey do?
Heh! That's how *I* learn program! Perl by reading cpan modules, php
by working on moodle, bash by hacking on git, erlang by working on
ejabberd, etc, etc.
--
martin.maca...@gmail.com
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote:
this is the Final Release in our 0.84 development cycle [1]! Thanks to
W ho!
tomorrow morn - in some 12hs - the Welly testers team will be playing
with the latest SoaS, which I understand is the best place to see
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
I ran into Jason Cole
I know Jason fairly well ;-) and MoaS too.
the problem of creating content/lessons for Moodle.
Ah, the drama. In an XS/Moodle centric world, just create them in
Moodle, and if needed trade moodle course
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:49 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
This will require some degree of control to limit the mis-use of sugar
in substandard products.
That's a reasonable move. The trick w brands is to show that you
control the brands and logos...
This means that you are
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:56 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Well, it looks like the Paris MiniCamp is a go for the weekend of May
17 -18, 2009.
...
If it's a general (programming and other matters) event, I'll be keen
on attending. But the wikipage linked is under
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:11 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
It is an event for all! The original idea for the event was that
the developers would have some face to face time to hash out a road
map for 0.86.
Fantastic. I'll try to be there. I want to make the XS (and
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
trying to tease out what all the different failure mechanisms are
One failure mode I know of: Most USB sticks come pre-formatted from
factory in a funny FAT-16 LBA partition mode and fs format. If you
remove the
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
Ahh, this maybe where some of the confusing behavior we were seeing comes
from. Let me repeat what I think I understand so I can see if I have it
right.
Pretty close :-)
FAT is the same thing as FAT16
Yes...
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
Do note though that me and David spent 3 hours on Friday afternoon just
to get ejabberd running on a vanilla Ubuntu installation. Your millage
may vary but just be aware that it's definitely not a 1-click
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Albert Cahalan acaha...@gmail.com wrote:
That sounds like a printer that students aren't allowed to use.
Correct! But may be used seldom, as a special case, prize, etc. And
teachers _are_ allowed to print -- while there's a good chance, the
computers there are
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
Fair enough. I agree that *most* people on the list agree that there
is not just one right way. And to use a metaphor that has been
oft-spoken in the US news of late, Sugar Labs has to have a big
tent.
Sugar itself
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure what is meant by a big tent
Personally, I am building tools so...
...
when I look at minsky's theory of mind I see that he supports multiple
models of thinking but also argues against models of thinking that he
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
La Ruche
84 quai de Jemmapes
75010 Paris
Tél.:+33 (0)1 48 03 92 00
http://www.la-ruche.net
Hmmm. I am a bit lost. Where will the camp be? I thought OLPC-France
or someone else there was offering rooms Sat/Sun and maybe even
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
SoaS boots on the XO, which is also not a i686. The kernel rpm name
says i586 IIRC. I think it has a reasonable chance of working on
C3s.
Actually, I'm probably wrong on this one.
Wad reminds me that XS images
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote:
Submitters: Please go through all the open bugs you have submitted. If
BTW, if there's any guidance for the test team in Bxl on how to tag
the bugs found against latest SoaS, we'll be happy to follow...
This search
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:24 PM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote:
When it come to older pcs, it really makes sense to try and use LTSP. We
LTSP is an excellent path. Note that a happy LTSP adventure is
conditional on a good network infra and a decent TS machine. Wireless
won't do.
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Caroline
Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
But we can still think about environmental efficiency. I think Sugar on a
HW is wildly over the map in environmental efficiency and risks. The
software is almost incidental -- at its best it can help HW designed
to
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Martin
Denglermar...@martindengler.com wrote:
Reading the docs, I think that jidgo will allow the user to download
(say) a .iso and a .img (NAND) file by downloading the files that are
contained in them and then re-assembling the .iso and .img files?
You might
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote:
We can take this as a specific example. Lets say we had someone in this
thread who though wizzy was awesome and wanted to help? What should that
person do?
A good start: google for mentions of wizzy in
Hi Greg,
I will try to be there Saturday/Sunday (ie: after LT, but in time for
Fudcon). When is your presentation on education and foss? Will you mention
the wild success of Moodle? (Hint! hint!)
Educators rave about it, but the geek world doesn't see it as sexy. It
doesn't have to be sexy -- it
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
http://gizmodo.com/5301939/sugar-on-a-stick-turns-any-netbook-into-your-very-own-olpc
100 views in the first few minutes...
The marketing team @ SL is the stuff of legends. Congrats.
(I am sure there are significant
Hey, it talks about a School Server too :-D
(does that mean that Hamilton's patches for registration backup made
it into SoaS?
m
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
Reuters and Yahoo, and a number of print and TV station websites in
the US have published from
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:30 PM, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
The only problem was some slowdowns and a bit a disk churn as the use
of swap memory increased.
That's usually bad news on a webserver -- if the working set gets too
large for ram and apache gets swapped out, your
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Alan Kayalan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
We can see this with the XO and OLPC also. Much is made about getting
Hi Alan,
your answer is very humbling, and talks about solving a huge problem.
One that OLPC, Sugar and related projects are just one part of a wider
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Martin
Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
My preference -- as you can guess now -- is to understand how can we
aim for wider tools and approaches that take advantage of social
dynamics. These will be perhaps less directly effective in their
feedback loop
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote:
Also noticed recently that NN reacted against the netbook terminology:
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/2009/07/xo-is-not-netbook.html
Negroponte: Kids in Ethiopia don't have the internet in a nearby cloud ...
I like the phrase.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Caroline Meekssolutiongr...@gmail.com wrote:
Or, is this something you think our volunteer programmers should try to
reverse-engineer and create for Sugar and the XO?
Yes, or more likely for the XS. My first thought on how to approach it is
to rewrite the
Sorry for the crosspost.
I am hoping to drag people's attention towards an interesting thread
in the k-12 forum, about exemplary and interesting use of moodle in
high school.
It is of course different from our scenarios, but some patterns stand
out, and I think they are worth our attention...
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
That's what I was trying to explain ;) Though I do see some value in
It's a fantastic idea, but I have to concur with Tomeu -- make it work
_local_ (with the XS for example, though it doesn't have to be), and
from there
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Michael Stone
michael.r.st...@gmail.com wrote:
Could you post a link to that thread or better search terms?
It seems rather relevant to my ongoing work...
The whole EduBlog: Teacher Review Options thread is informative.
Within the search below try
- edublog
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Bill Kerrbillk...@gmail.com wrote:
Variables include:
...
- what is the partition table as printed by fdisk -p /dev/sdX ?
- for the main partition on the USB, where the SoaS is stored (a FAT
variant?) what are the fs options? (we need the moral equivalent of
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Caroline
Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
One of their features is the ability to do single sign to gather more
information about the user. F Here is my idea of how it might work.
Once Sugar is registered with an XS we could create a single sign on that
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Luke Faraonel...@faraone.cc wrote:
I think it would be useful to expose a (optionally disableable by the
school) option within the UI to report a problem, which (after gaining the
- If the user can connect to the XS and Moodle (via the AP! using DNS!)
- and
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
The idea is that the journal would have an actions view that would be
closer to what you refer to. Would contain actions that the user
carried and events that happened around the user.
The Journal as Sugar's documents view
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
I don't see where we disagree any of us, so maybe I'm explaining badly
myself. Let me try again.
I agree that the journal should be a journal, thus primarily about
actions and events and not about static pieces of data or
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:58 AM, Bryan Berrybr...@olenepal.org wrote:
I agree that automatic assessment is no magic cure-all but it does free
teachers from a lot of drudgery in grading worksheets.
I understand your point, and respect your good intentions. I worry --
quite a bit -- about the
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:14 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
We mostly assess that which can easily be measured rather than that which
relates to the important education outcomes.
Yes. We mostly assess that which can be easily measured _by humans_.
Imagine how it goes when we narrow that to
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:22 PM, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
Eclipse and Apache both have criteria for becoming a official
Note that Apache's reason to run this Apache Projects is to _extend
the legal protection shield to other projects_. If doesn't care one
zot about what the
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Bernie Innocentiber...@codewiz.org wrote:
My initial reaction was that community projects work by employing
maintainers rather than project managers.
Exactly. A PM can only fire you. A maintainer/leader can show his/her
priorities in showing areas of focus,
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Tomeu Vizosoto...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
I don't think we really expect to be repaid, at least my opinion is
that it's sad to see so much duplicated work and wasted effort because
knowledge is not where it's actually needed. Just that.
Completely agree with you.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Michael Stonemich...@laptop.org wrote:
but, unfortunately, I'm now reassured that I'm right that most of the really
big interesting Sugar-defining stuff like networking, collaboration,
hackability, customizablility, performance, simplicity, security, etc. was
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Bernie Innocentiber...@codewiz.org wrote:
+1. And after dinner we could get a laptop and write down some notes on
workable management practices for blessed projects like SoaS.
Get onto some coding -- it's more fun and productive than policy-ing :-)
m
--
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
I have interviewed Mr. Stallman several times in the past and will
brief him on the current situation. I don't know if he wrote the
actual copy in question.
It may be more effective to talk with Mako Hill. He is well known by
FWIW, Helen Foster @ Moodle handles that -- according to Google's SoC
ppl -- is one of the best-run GSoCs. What I hear from students is that
the explicit 'expectations' document is very good guidance. All the
docs are -- I think -- interesting:
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Category:GSOC
as a
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:56 AM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote:
To create a easy reference for linux commands, the best way was to use the
Moodle database module. You can create quite elaborate databases which are
then easily edited and added to by users.
What David is saying is true. Current situation
- For ease of integration - use Moodle itself, and
linux-for-education.org is a good place to do it. There is no other
curriki-like moodle instance that I know of. Moodle.org is building an
index of such resources though.
- IME Curriki is mainly
Some notes I think may be interesting.
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.comwrote:
For the Moodle advocates. I am a big Moodle fan. But I don't think its our
right now solution for the work we are talking about doing.
1. Our target, elementary school
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
Thank Martin!
Your email really helped me.
No prob. I generally agree w your notes, except that reuse is heavily crossed by
- languages and dialects
- local culture, mores and MoE study programme
not sure what
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote:
Short Term Action Items:
* We create a SoaS mailing list.
* We establish the SoaS development team.
if you split off sugar-dev, to reach the involved people you either
have to crosspost all the time, or get everyone
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
We already have de...@lists.laptop.org for OLPC,
fedora-olpc-l...@redhat.com and others for Fedora,
debian-olpc-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org for Debian,
ubuntu-sugart...@lists.ubuntu.com for Ubuntu. Why SoaS would be
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
Personally i would just get on with it and let the code do the talking...
Produce the best distribution that you can and people will use,
respect and protect it.
+1.
Sebastian -- you have unending respect from both
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Martin Dengler
mar...@martindengler.com wrote:
Seems completely redundant with F11-on-XO and SoaS-on-XO (not to
mention debxo and probably others). I don't see how this is going to
do anything but cause fragmentation and confusion.
Maybe it is just a new name
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
The goal is to provide a place where the various people working
But there _are_ people working on this already, and they probably have
plans, priorities, etc.
Why don't we just let them do their thing? Are they asking
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
I've been reading Montessori Madness for a few hours now, and I find
Another good one is Montessori Today
http://www.amazon.com/Montessori-Today-Comprehensive-Education-Adulthood/dp/080521061X
The funny thing is that since
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Martin, can you point to Bryan's theory or give me a hint on
search terms to find it?
I googled for it too, don't think he's posted anything
google-readable. He mentioned it in a couple of presentations at OLPC.
Boils
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote:
Let me go a step further than Martin. Anything, including the bestest and
newest computer thingie, will fail when the expected enabler is an
unenthusiastic teacher.
Sometimes. And sometimes it will make an
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Jim needs help setting up a school server. For starters, I referred him to:
He has the following questions.
what's missing at least in part is network
topology and possibilities, especially on the
LAN side of the xs.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/04/playpower-80s-computing-21st-century
Interesting. Though the challenge they have -- localising closed src
binaries... to non ASCII-using locales -- is rather hard.
Hard not to
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr je...@merlintec.com wrote:
The non ASCII is a complication, but changing binaries was very popular
in Brazil in the 1980s (the copyright law here was only extended to
software in 1987).
I am argentine, and grew up patching binaries on the
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Yama Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote:
Elonex One clones are available right now for about $75 USD in
quantities over 100. They were released original well after the XO 1,
and have about similar hardware. Originally they sold for about $300.
Again, probably
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka yamap...@gmail.com wrote:
ROFL!!!
żte tragaste un payasito?
This is not a forum for trolling. And do take note that this work...
is serious work for a lot of us. Not for you clearly.
I don't think you know much about the strange dynamics of
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
I am working with 140 5th grade students who are using XOs (mostly) and
netbooks with SOAS.
About 50 of them are using Etoys to create projects.
I am trying to find a way to share them with their teachers and each
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
As our 5th graders are doing more and more work with their XOs, their being
able to turn in and share their work products (as opposed to collaborating
with others) is becoming more and more important.
This is very
Hi David,
I think the Ceibal / LATU team has also been looking at various
accesibility tools for Sugar. I've been talking with them recently
about a 'Zoom' tool for kids with limited vision (hoping to post about
this soonish) , and I think they've done some work with a screen
reader.
CC'ing
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
You got some good replies already, but you may want to consider
contacting Gustavo Ibarra or Gonzalo Odiard (cc'ed) who are pushing
Sugar in Argentina.
My thoughts exactly.
Also -- if you're going to be in Buenos Aires,
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Collab_mockup
I see that you are pointing to Ubuntu's brainstorm, which has a huge
overlap with the wiki-ish blueprints and tasks/bugs as tracked in
launchpad/malone.
Comparing Ubuntu's
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote:
Your mail client doesn't collate mails with similiar content and identical
Message-IDs? Maybe Gmail has me spoiled, but I'm sure there are ways in
other clients...
Same here on the gmail spoilage. But naturally not everyone
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 3:33 AM, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.com wrote:
Old one http://cinelerra.org/about.php still , also can look at the
distros like ubuntu studio .
Cinelerra is a quirky beast, designed for high end hw, with lots of UI
complexity, abundant unexplained segfaults and
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 08:33 -0500, Gerald Ardito wrote:
By the way, how do you upgrade the XOs (we have XO-1s) to .84? This is
a very big deal for us.
We use a local variant of the F11-XO1 images by Stephen Parrish,
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
If you ask me: our recent F11-XO1 builds have reached equal or better
quality than build 801, provided you disable automatic power management.
Are all activities working, including collaboration? In Gnome, can you
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima yosh...@vpri.org wrote:
And if she gave an impression to think that giving laptops to
children in the disaster-hit country will solve their problems, it
would be a political suicide.
Do read Hillary's speech. It is actually pretty good, and
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
Yes. We ratified at a SLOBS meeting that non-free activities (or
content) should *not* be hosted on ASLO, and attempted to specify
what we mean by non-free:
I personally think it is very good that free are clearly separated
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote:
The short version is that instead of include all Activites by default,
we're thinking of shipping very few (6) Activities by default - the ones
that help users get further Activities and help
I read Sebastian's post... and is
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem with this approach is that it renders SoaS ineffective for
new tryers of Sugar (i.e. the overwhelming majority of teachers and
parents
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
the real intention is
this is where you start
But... what's the target user for a this is where you start? Someone
who can make their own spin... there's only very few of those target
users, and they can help
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
wrote:
the real intention is
this is where you start
But... what's the target user for a this is where you start? Someone
who can make
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
So what do you see that we are missing to be able to do that?
I'll assume you're referring to burning the usb disk. I agree with
you -- it's hard to point at any single thing that would make it
significantly easier (no
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
Our short-term goal is to meet a release criteria of no
regressions against build 801. Once this is done, we'll re-sync with
the latest improvements from our upstreams, F11-XO1.5 and F11-XO1.
Bravo. To Stephen, to all
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@gmail.com wrote:
The Decalogue is a proposal about how a project 1 to 1 should be, to
provide to the ministry of education of the city of Buenos Aires.
Its interesting remark that we and 12 associations are developing and
signing the
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