Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel

2009-09-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Sugar on a Stick is not trademarked; my position is that it should be, and the sooner the better. Is it actually possible to trademark it now its actively being used by third parties? Peter

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP][DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel

2009-09-30 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:28, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure what that's got to do with it? The olpc mesh isn't 802.11s capable. I mean for mesh communications between the XOs. Really? http

Re: [SoaS] Governance Trademark in the Wiki

2009-10-17 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Caroline, On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sean, What Sebastian means by this is that the Checksum must match. That means. I think your missing the point and understanding of SoaS. Also don't speak for Sebastian, he does have the ability to

Re: [SoaS] [Marketing] Governance Trademark in the Wiki

2009-10-19 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Sean, On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: This does seem sensible, but I don't see how it will help our branding, unless the decision rests with us to allow a remix to use the brand name. Otherwise, we'll just fragment the brand. What will people doing

Re: [SoaS] Sugar on a Stick Flash compatibility?

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone remind me please how Flash content is supported in Sugar on a Stick? Is Gnash in there, or needs to be added? I imagine the Adobe plugin would need to be added by hand. I'm not sure we mention what if anything

[SoaS] SoaS v2 feedback

2009-11-08 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, I finally got the time tonight to sit down and put the latest SoaS2 test release on my XO-1 to take it for a spin. Very nice. Unlike SoaS1 it boots again on my XO-1 :-) YAY! Now some quick feedback to help improve it. On the XO release at least if you remove the livecd-tools (which will

Re: [SoaS] SoaS v2 feedback

2009-11-08 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I finally got the time tonight to sit down and put the latest SoaS2 test release on my XO-1 to take it for a spin. Very nice. Unlike SoaS1 it boots again on my XO-1 :-) YAY! Now some quick feedback to help

Re: [SoaS] SoaS v2 feedback

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 01:18, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I finally got the time tonight to sit down and put the latest

Re: [SoaS] SoaS v2 feedback

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Douglas McClendon dmc.su...@filteredperception.org wrote: Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Martin Dengler wrote: On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 11:56:31PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, I finally got the time tonight to sit down and put the latest SoaS2 test

Re: [SoaS] YAY!!!! Sound works!

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Tam Tam sounds great on my classmate!  eTexts reader works too. Speak works! Speak guy in memorize still has issues...heading off to launch pad next. But I wanted to say thank you for sound!!! Woo hoo! Great to

Re: [SoaS] SoaS v2 approaching RC state

2009-11-24 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi all, with the next SoaS release coming up really soon (final image is supposed to be composed this weekend, release date is Dec 8), there's a new snapshot ready for you. It includes a lot of fixes and smaller

Re: [SoaS] Record rewrite -- was Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS v2 approaching RC state

2009-11-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On 11/26/09, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:25:12AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:51:55PM +, Peter Robinson wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi all, with the next

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Record rewrite -- was Re: SoaS v2 approaching RC state

2009-11-26 Thread Peter Robinson
with the next SoaS release coming up really soon (final image is supposed to be composed this weekend, release date is Dec 8), there's a new snapshot ready for you. It includes a lot of fixes and smaller adjustments. It's currently only available as a general .iso build,

Re: [SoaS] Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry is GOLD

2009-12-03 Thread Peter Robinson
Congratulations Sebastian on a great release! I know a lot of blood, sweat and tears went into this release. I'll owe you at least a couple of beers when we meet up at FUDCon. Cheers, Peter On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi everybody, I'm happy to

Re: [SoaS] rt2x00 firmware

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello, I was wondering if someone would like to package up a few more firmware blobs for Ralink wifi dongles. In particular, I'm interested in the RT2870 which, oddly enough, is used by Intel on the Classmate PC.

Re: [SoaS] rt2x00 firmware

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Dave Bauer dave.ba...@gmail.com wrote: These are in rpmfusion non-free. They work great. The module you'll need is kmod-rt2870 There are also kmod-rt2860 (eeepc 901) and kmod-rt3070 There's a new driver in the upstream 2.6.33 kernel. Peter

Re: [SoaS] rt2x00 firmware

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Robinson
It might be legally OK for Fedora, but it is not free software. I think you should not distribute or even recommend it. That might well be the case but it is also the case for just about all wireless drivers including the one used in the XO. I didn't know the XO required non-free drivers.

Re: [SoaS] Planning towards SoaS v3

2010-01-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, I'm sure Sebastian has already emailed about this subject but with SoaS 3 been approved as a Fedora 13 feature and myself being a co-maintainer with Sebastian I thought I'd put my point forward as to what I would

Re: [SoaS] Planning towards SoaS v3

2010-01-23 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi, Can you say more about how and why the boot helper is going to be buried? I've got a ton of older hardware that works just fine once its booted, some of it zips, but doesn't have the capability to boot from USB. When was the hardware released? What's the details of the hardware?

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-23 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.orgwrote: On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 08:53 +, Peter Robinson wrote: You can also use the upstream liveinst to install to a usb drive. You need a second stick (or a real liveCD) so that you boot the live image off one

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.orgwrote: On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 15:31 +, Peter Robinson wrote: liveinst is the official Fedora tool. Its part of anaconda. [...] dd or rawwrite isn't exactly what I would class as easy to use for the average user

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.orgwrote: On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 11:09 -0700, Douglas McClendon wrote: I don't think you understand the infrastructure yet. The USB stick being full isn't an issue, because the new overlay is in RAM only. The only way the

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-27 Thread Peter Robinson
- Can be easily booted on all Virtualisation solutions (KVM/Zen/VMWare/Virtualbox/Fusion/Hyper-V etc) with no changes as they all support booting off a CD iso image (your proposal would need the VM drivers for at least storage to work properly for all of them) They also all support

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-28 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.orgwrote: On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 13:32 +, Peter Robinson wrote: Yes, but no. The support booting of their own proprietary images so you'd have to produce a separate image for each type of VM technology you wish to use

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Douglas McClendon dmc.su...@filteredperception.org wrote: On 01/28/2010 02:38 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Douglas McClendon dmc.su...@filteredperception.org mailto:dmc.su...@filteredperception.org wrote: On 01/27/2010 06

Re: [SoaS] Sugar on a Stick Nightly Builds Available

2010-02-07 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.comwrote: Hi all, thanks to the awesome work of Kevin Fenzi and others, we've now nightly builds of Sugar on a Stick available. That means you can check the state of it on a daily basis here:

Re: [SoaS] SoaS update?

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Sebastian, On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Sebastián Codas s...@paraguayeduca.org wrote: Hello devel and SoaS members, I will introduce myself, I work in the Caacupé deployment and am working also on setting up one to one learning projects elsewhere in Paraguay. I really believe in the

Re: [SoaS] As shipped IRC application will not start in soas-i386-20100324 -Workaround suggested

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Robinson
Issue with xoIRC is know and will be addressed in the next day or so. Peter On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: As shipped IRC application* will not start, Pop up window appears with stop button Using  script: (written to 2 GB lexar firefly

Re: [SoaS] What's going on with Sugar on a Stick?

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Robinson
] has been pushed to stable). Activity authors are also advised that the final freeze date for package updates is April 27, so make sure to get fixes pushed well in advance to give package maintainers and the update system time to process. Peter Robinson has kindly agreed to act in case

Re: [SoaS] The new nightly composes of f13 Mirabelle cannot be installed to Hard disk

2010-03-28 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: I am worried about our next soas release: ==The new nightly composes of f13 Mirabelle cannot be installed to Hard disk: I have tried installing,using a Burned CD and a booted USB stick, to: a-) internal

[SoaS] proposed SoaS 3 installed methods?

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Robinson
I'm seeking feedback on install methods for SoaS (yes Bernie and Tomas I'm definitely looking in your direction - but not only you). With the unfortunate demise of xyz-installer I would like to look at what options we have going forward. From upstream there's liveinst, livecd-tools and the GUI

Re: [SoaS] SoaS 3 Activity list

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 29.03.2010, at 12:51, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, Having had some feedback on the proposal of shipping just 6 Activities for SoaS 3 I'm modifying the proposal a little and increasing the number to 10 [1

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SoaS 3 Activity list

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter: I just tested soas-i386-20100328.17.iso As a 2GB Firefly USB formated fat16 labeled FEDORA (before use) Using Ubuntu 9.04 terminal sudo su password: su -c livecd-iso-to-disk  --format --reset-mbr

Re: [SoaS] SoaS 3 Activity list

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 29.03.2010, at 12:51, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, Having had some feedback on the proposal of shipping just 6 Activities

[SoaS] Sugar 0.88.0 stable release in Fedora 13 and testing of daily images.

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, I pushed the following final release sugar 0.88.0 release packages [1] to both F-13 and rawhide this morning. Thanks to Tomeu and all for their continued hard work towards the release. Now the hard work ramps up for the rest of us. They will be showing up in the daily images of F-13 just

Re: [SoaS] Sugar 0.88.0 stable release in Fedora 13 and testing of daily images.

2010-04-03 Thread Peter Robinson
) Tom Gilliard satellit Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, I pushed the following final release sugar 0.88.0 release packages [1] to both F-13 and rawhide this morning. Thanks to Tomeu and all for their continued hard work towards the release. Now the hard work ramps up for the rest of us

Re: [SoaS] Sugar 0.88.0 stable release in Fedora 13 and testing of daily images. : Yes fix works

2010-04-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter Robinson wrote: Thomas, actually looking at this further it has been fixed but the upstream fix hasn't made it to stable yet (stable is on hold due to the preparations for the Fedora 13 Beta release

[SoaS] Wireless testing on SOAS-3

2010-04-08 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, With both support for 3G sticks in Sugar 0.88 and the addition support of some common netbook wifi chips in Fedora 13 it would be good to get some feedback on how well this works in some of the recent SOAS-3 nightly builds. In particular some reports on how well the rt2x00 chips work

Re: [SoaS] soas-i386-20100410.19.iso Report -(will not start)

2010-04-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: I tested http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/soas-i386-20100410.19.iso on Vmworkstation 6.5.3 with EeePC1000HE running Ubuntu 9.04 It gets to the graphic wheel on booting and then

Re: [SoaS] [Fwd: Re: [Question #95622]: No root device found; Boot has failed, sleeping forever] MacBook Pro with the Blueberry imaged USB and the Boot Helper CD in place.

2010-04-12 Thread Peter Robinson
The problem with the booting on new Macs (all 64 bit Macs) is that they use EFI and for some unknown reason some component in Linux doesn't support booting a 32 bit Linux OS from a 64 bit EFI system. Its on my todo list to investigate exactly which component is at fault and to bother/bribe/etc who

[SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-12 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, Sorry for my lack of response over the last week. I've been on holidays and tried to stay offline as much as possible. I think I've now caught up on most of the backlog of emails and other bits. New points from the last week or so: - New Record release 66. It should be appearing in

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: init 3 start of soas-i386-20100411.16.iso as 2GB USB Login: liveuser $ sugar-emulator Traceback (most recent call last):  File string, line 1 in module  File

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Sorry for my lack of response over the last week. I've been on holidays and tried to stay offline as much as possible. I think I've now caught up on most of the backlog of emails and other bits. New points

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10 sugar-artwork fixed 0.88 sugar start

2010-04-14 Thread Peter Robinson
Robinson wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Sorry for my lack of response over the last week. I've been on holidays and tried to stay offline as much as possible. I think I've now caught up on most of the backlog of emails and other

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-14 Thread Peter Robinson
-gabble.i686-0.9.9-1.fc13 still no connection Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Sorry for my lack of response over the last week. I've been on holidays and tried to stay offline as much as possible. I think I've

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Caryl, The netbook that I am recommending at the moment is the Acer Aspire One 532H http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/acer-aspire-one-532h-review/ It is well supported in Fedora (I think everything works out of the box for both Fedora and Sugar) and is the device that Mel is using for her

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Robinson
of the box. Tom Gilliard Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Caryl, The netbook that I am recommending at the moment is the Acer Aspire One 532H http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/acer-aspire-one-532h-review/ It is well supported in Fedora (I think everything works out of the box for both Fedora and Sugar

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 12/04/10

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Those are the applications on 414 and their version numbers read from f3 listing write does not work though it starts and stops Etoys and write are not selected for f3 ring display

Re: [SoaS] Read Only SoaS Almost Passes the Teacher Test... but not quite.

2010-04-18 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Caryl, Do you think you could try the 64 bit version of SOAS on your Mac and see if it works? There is an issue booting the 32 bit version off newer Macs. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/soas-x86_64-20100416.18.iso Regards, Peter On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:46 PM,

Re: [SoaS] Read Only SoaS Almost Passes the Teacher Test... but not quite.

2010-04-18 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Caryl, Try with the Mac first and see if it works and then we'll take it from there. Cheers, Peter On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, I have started the download.  Would you like me to make a non-persistant version using the Terminal on

Re: [SoaS] Read Only SoaS Almost Passes the Teacher Test... but not quite.

2010-04-18 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Caryl, You can grab the latest build from here. Grab the x86_64 one. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/ Peter On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Peter, My first attempt at downloading did not complete. Now the link

[SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 19/04/10

2010-04-19 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, No major updates to report this week. The main points are: - nightly breakage due to issues with sugar-artwork are now resolved - I've now fixed the Record 66 rpm. On my eeePC 901 I could poke tongues at myself, but I've not tested actual record etc. Please do so. It should be showing up

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 19/04/10

2010-04-19 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter I just did the rpm install: rpm -Uvh http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/sugar-record/66/2.fc13/noarch/sugar-record-66-2.fc13.noarch.rpm' and Record will not start. What does the log report? It

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 19/04/10

2010-04-19 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Hi; Just a thought; Is there no way to sugarize the SugarClone command  and required files into a .xo or rpm to install in sugar from ASLO? This would be a much nicer solution Is it GUI or command line

Re: [SoaS] Weekly status report - Mon 19/04/10

2010-04-20 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter I just did the rpm install: rpm -Uvh http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/sugar-record/66/2.fc13/noarch/sugar-record-66-2.fc13.noarch.rpm' and Record will not start. I managed to miss applying

Re: [SoaS] SoaS spin page content: can haz halp?

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Mel Chua m...@redhat.com wrote: I'm struggling with the content for the SoaS page (spin webpage). Here's what we've got so far. I think it's better than what it was before, but it still feels... not quite there.

[SoaS] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, So as it stands the final Activity list that we're pushing for SOAS-3 will be as below unless someone gives me reasonable doubt as to the release team's (Sebastian and myself) decision. So the final list is: - browse - physics - turtleart - irc - log - terminal - Record - Read - Write -

Re: [SoaS] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Robinson
: As stated previously, it's a mistake for this release to be numbered v3. I won't be able to do anything with it. Sean On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, So as it stands the final Activity list that we're pushing for SOAS-3 will be as below

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 26.04.2010, at 21:16, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, So as it stands the final Activity list that we're pushing for SOAS-3 will be as below unless someone gives me reasonable doubt as to the release team's

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Frederick Grose fgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: SugarClone script should be included http

Re: [SoaS] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: ==Preliminary soas-i386-20100426 testing== 2GB USB: ./livecd-iso-to-disk  --format --reset-mbr --overlay-size-mb 1200 /home//Desktop/soas-i386-20100426.16.iso /dev/sdg Boot in ACER Aspire One no

Re: [SoaS] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: No, the version numbers in the press releases were changes I proposed fom the existing numbering. So SoaS-1 became the beta-1, SoaS-2 became the v1. The objective was to make the numbers instantly understandable, and allow us

Re: [SoaS] Does the string freeze mean that there will be no more nightly-composes of soas?

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Thomas, CC:ing the list for those others that aren't aware of this. On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter; Does fedora string freeze mean that there will be no more nightly-composes of soas? (the last was soas-i386-20100501.07.iso)

Re: [SoaS] Sugar 0.88 packages

2010-05-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello Peter Sebastian, looks like the two of you have been effectively maintaining the Sugar packages for some time. For our next XO-1 XO-1.5 builds, I've been back-porting the Sugar 0.88 packages to Fedora 11.

Re: [SoaS] Testing liveinst in SoaS-3

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Robinson
Thomas, zyx-liveinstaller (now available by yum install in f13) gedit gparted and SugarClone http://people.sugarlabs.org/fgrose/SugarClone should be added to the soas spin ASAP SOAS-3 is done. Any changes will now be targetted at SOAS-4. zyx installer was not working and had been stated

Re: [SoaS] SoaS 3 (Mirabelle) release 5/25 publicity/recruitment plans

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Robinson
Sean, On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Sebastian, Our problem is the incoherence between the two previous versions of SoaS and this one, and the incoherence with our marketing strategy which is to promote a rich ecosystem of Activities for which Sugar is

Re: [SoaS] sunjammer hosted Mirabell; A suggestion.

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Sebastian ; Since we are hosting a second DL site: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-3-mirabelle.iso Could you modify a second copy to automatically log in to ASLO on starting Browse? I

Re: [SoaS] [Marketing] sunjammer hosted Mirabell; A suggestion.

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Robinson
that ASLO has is that people are likely to have seen it before if they're a firefox user. Peter On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Sebastian ; Since we are hosting

Re: [SoaS] [Marketing] [IAEP] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename Colour Suggestions

2010-06-04 Thread Peter Robinson
I believe the themeing for SoaS is Icecream and not berries. I vote for vanilla or Cookies Cream :-P Peter On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: Gooseberry. Green. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gooseberry Tasty, funny name, what more do we want? ;)

Re: [SoaS] Request Feature status for the Sugar-Creation-Kit DVD in the next Soas Spin.

2010-06-05 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Sean, It would be useful if you could reply in line so I can tell exactly which bit of the thread below that your referring to so I'll make a guess. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Well, on the Sugar Labs side the Sugar Creation Kit as championed by

Re: [SoaS] bios and soas

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 12:06 AM, george pope gpope...@gmail.com wrote: The message below bounced this AM due to a subscription mix up. After I sent it I tried running the SOAS .iso file on a 2009 Asus Eee PC 701 note book and even saw the USB in a bios window. But I was too chicken to click

Re: [SoaS] Proposed New Feature: Features/Revised Browse default-bookmarks.html

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: In a discussion with Peter Robinson last night' on #sugar-meeting,I learned that a custom Browse bookmark can be downloaded from the fedora repository. I propose to use this Feature to allow a custom set

[SoaS] Sugar Creation Kit review for inclusion in SoaS

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Thomas, My initial reaction is Wow, what a lot of good stuff! There's a lot of stuff in here that is a feature in and of itself but (and there's always a but) I feel the SCK as it stands won't become a 'Feature' of SoaS. I'll make some bullet points below of my concerns and flesh the data

Re: [SoaS] Sugar Creation Kit review for inclusion in SoaS

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Robinson
/Revised_Browse_default-bookmarks.html Cordially; Tom Gilliard satellit Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Thomas, My initial reaction is Wow, what a lot of good stuff! There's a lot of stuff in here that is a feature in and of itself but (and there's always a but) I feel the SCK as it stands won't

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Heads-up: POSSE folks hacking in Fedora/Sugar thisweek and next

2010-06-09 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Art Hunkins abhun...@uncg.edu wrote: I've noticed that neither the SoaS CD Boot Helper nor the SoaS Floppy Disk Boot Helper manage to boot SoaS Mirabelle (Fedora 13). (For that matter, the Floppy Disk Helper doesn't boot anything but Strawberry.) I don't think

Re: [SoaS] [IAEP] Mirabelle for Macs

2010-06-11 Thread Peter Robinson
Caryl, I've redirecting this to the SoaS list as its not really iaep related. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... Your friendly Mac-person here... I am on this page:

Re: [SoaS] [soas] modified browse index.html works in a live soas USB as start new screen on sugar-browse

2010-06-14 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Thomas, The modified browse index.html now works. I can install modified-index.html in a live USB.: Look at: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Revised_Browse_default-bookmarks.html#Change-Browse.activity_index.html-to-use-Modified-Browse-html_in_a_live_USB I request that this be

Re: [SoaS] [soas] modified browse index.html works in a live soas USB as start new screen on sugar-browse

2010-06-14 Thread Peter Robinson
. Peter Tom Gilliard satellit Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Thomas, The modified browse index.html now works. I can install modified-index.html in a live USB.: Look at: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Revised_Browse_default-bookmarks.html#Change-Browse.activity_index.html-to-use

Re: [SoaS] [Marketing] Sugar on a Stick Meeting Minutes (2010/06/14)

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Robinson
, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:   On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote:   Thanks everybody for attending the SoaS meeting today. There are a   couple of things

Re: [SoaS] Please consider including the script livecd-iso-to-disk in root of Soas-v4-Mango-lassi

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Sebastian; Please consider including the script livecd-iso-to-disk in the root of Soas-v4-Mango-lassi We do include it already it SoaS-v3, I believe at your request, so I'm not sure what your problem is.

Re: [SoaS] Your thoughts on My proposed feature Revised_Browse_default-bookmarks

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Sascha: Thanks for the feedback. I met with mchua this morning on #sugar-meeting and It looks like the proposal is to just add 1 item to existing Browse start new screen for the Soas Spin only. A Crude

Re: [SoaS] Boot Splash-Screen

2010-06-19 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Raffael Reichelt raffael.reich...@googlemail.com wrote: I understood, we are now an official Fedora-Spin, but should our bootscreen not be at least sugarized? I think I remember strawberry booted with a nice sugarlabs logo. It is sugarized. For the SoaS boot we

Re: [SoaS] Limited Internet Access for SOAS

2010-06-19 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Raffael Reichelt raffael.reich...@googlemail.com wrote: I had a talk with sebastian at linuxtag about including local squid with a whitelist in soas. I do not know how others thinking about this but I am generally concerned about giving unlimited internet access

Re: [SoaS] Localized builds

2010-06-19 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Raffael Reichelt raffael.reich...@googlemail.com wrote: Talking with parents and teachers about soas I realized it is mandatory to provide localized builds of soas in order to make it attractive for them to give it to their children. This localized builds

Re: [SoaS] Localized builds

2010-06-19 Thread Peter Robinson
2010/6/19 Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Raffael Reichelt raffael.reich...@googlemail.com wrote: Talking with parents and teachers about soas I realized it is mandatory to provide localized builds of soas in order to make it attractive for them to give

[SoaS] Fwd: Final Fedora 11 Updates push 6/24

2010-06-23 Thread Peter Robinson
FYI for the deployment groups that might have something they'd like to be pushed or that have packages in updates-testing for F-11 -- Forwarded message -- From: Josh Boyer jwbo...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:23 PM Subject: Final Fedora 11 Updates push 6/24 To:

Re: [SoaS] Kernel Panic on EXT4 in SoaS when installing GCC

2010-06-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Peter Lambrechtsen plambrecht...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-s...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Peter Lambrechtsen's message of Sun Jun 27 12:54:13 +0200 2010: As soon as it's finished installing the

Re: [SoaS] Kernel Panic on EXT4 in SoaS when installing GCC

2010-06-28 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Peter Lambrechtsen plambrecht...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Peter Lambrechtsen plambrecht...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Sascha Silbe

Re: [SoaS] soas-i386-20100921.15.iso CD Boot test bug report

2010-09-22 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: CD Boot test soas-i386-20100921.15.iso f14(Laughlin) Sugar on a stick (Mango Lassi) 1-)grey boot screen, boots to Name__ 2-) pops up enter keychain password 6+times (does not work) then it lets soas

[SoaS] Read Activity on Fedora 14 / SoaS v4

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, With this update below I've now fixed Read on Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-python2-desktop-2.31.1-7.fc14 I've only given it a cursory test so if others could please do so and add Karma (remember you need to be logged into bodhi for your karma to actually have

Re: [SoaS] Missing gettext dependency needed for localised activities

2010-09-27 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: On 23 Sep 2010, at 08:49, Simon Schampijer wrote: On 09/21/2010 07:22 PM, Gary Martin wrote: Hi Simon, On 20 Sep 2010, at 11:30,

Re: [SoaS] Update Karma points for Sugar 0.90 --- Current Summary

2010-10-01 Thread Peter Robinson
As a note I'll be packaging the last of the releases today. I've been travelling the last day or so and ran out of time. Peter On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Disclaimer:  I am asking for help. And I am sharing my experiences: Hi, Sugar 0.90 has

Re: [SoaS] dist-f14-updates-candidate --- dist-f14-updates-testing

2010-10-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 04.10.2010, at 13:17, Peter Robinson wrote: On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Hi, the packages below are in the status: dist-f14-updates-candidate. Do they need

Re: [SoaS] dist-f14-updates-candidate --- dist-f14-updates-testing

2010-10-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Hi, the packages below are in the status: dist-f14-updates-candidate. Do they need to get tagged in order to get into dist-f14-updates-testing? Who/Where can this be done? Or is it because we are in Freeze or for

Re: [SoaS] dist-f14-updates-candidate --- dist-f14-updates-testing

2010-10-04 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Hi, the packages below are in the status: dist-f14-updates-candidate. Do they need to get tagged in order to get into dist-f14-updates-testing? Who/Where can this be done? Or is it because we are in Freeze or for

Re: [SoaS] Sugar: Browse has no busy indication when loading pages

2010-10-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Hi, I did file that ticket [1] (previously a request from F11) since I think it is worth an inclusion. I patched the F11 rpm today and the experience is so much better, just the expected user feedback. If anyone

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] Read Activity on Fedora 14 / SoaS v4

2010-10-10 Thread Peter Robinson
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: On 09/25/2010 04:01 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, With this update below I've now fixed Read on Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-python2-desktop-2.31.1-7.fc14 I've only given

Re: [SoaS] Meeting today?

2010-10-11 Thread Peter Robinson
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Hey, as the Final Change Deadline [1] is approaching quickly we maybe should meet today. I think there is a bank holiday in the US,

Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] New upstream releases of telepathy-salut and telepathy-gabble

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Robinson
These are in updates-testing but need some more karma ;-) Peter On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Hi, there have been new releases of telepathy-salut and telepathy-gabble. Those fix #2389, so they are worth considering packaging for a good

Re: [SoaS] the final sprint to SoaS 4

2010-10-14 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Peter Robinson wrote: Hi All, We're on the final sprint to SoaS v4 Adam Williamson has created some testing guidelines for Fedora QA for Sugar desktop testing. You can find details here [1

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