Hi Rodolfo and all...
Long ago, in a very early version of SoaS, I seem to recall that Tam Tam was
included. However, it did not work well as each operating system had its own
way of making sounds on ttam he computer. I remember it being very poor quality
on the Mac. If they could overcome
Hi SoaS folks... plus Greg!
If you do find a way to do this it would be wonderful. But, it will have to be
easy to explain to parents, teachers, and kids. They are our target audience
(right?). I'll forward a copy of this to Greg Dreshler up at UCSB. He was one
of my booth volunteers from
Hi Folks...
I finally have a couple of days with access to both PCs and my Mac, so now is
the time to try SoaS! I need to be able to test it on both the Windows
machines and the Mac. After about an hour of reading confusing, conflicting,
and convoluted info online, I am now thoroughly
Hi All..
Are we talking about Coconut or Pineapple?
Caryl
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 18:24:52 +0100
From: raffael.reich...@googlemail.com
To: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel]
MacBook_Persistent_SoaS_v5_and_SoaS_v6_EFI_Boot_USB ( boots directly from USB )
Hello Peter!
It
Any chance of trying to get Tam Tam to work on SoaS?
Caryl
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:18:36 +
From: pbrobin...@gmail.com
To: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: [SoaS] SoaS v7?
Hi All,
So there's no rest for the wicked its time to think about what
is preferred as wireless is handled in
the VirtualBox envelope.
Regards;
Tom Gilliard
Note:
A Soasv5 Coconut importable virtualbox appliance is already on the wiki
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Sugar_on_a_Stick-V5-Coconut
On 11/02/2011 11:01 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi Tom
Wow! Is this for real? Does it have persistent storage too? Guess I'll
have to find out how to do this. Hope I'll be able to pass it on to someone I
am working with in Southern California who works at an Apple school.
Caryl
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:39:07 +0200
From:
Hi All...
There was a lot of discussion about the Khan Academy videos at eduJAM in
Montevideo last week. I just ran across something else about them. ck12.0rg,
the group that is doing open source textbooks for California has tied the Khan
Academy videos their Algebra 1 Flex Books. They
Hi All
This is great news! I will work on learning to do this when I get back to SoCal
in Dec. Then I can share it with others at presentations, visits and the like.
I really like the way Etoys-to-go can move from system to system. If this works
even half as well, it will be big news.
Caryl
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:15:53 +
From: mar...@martindengler.com
To: danceswithc...@gmail.com
CC: abhun...@uncg.edu; soas@lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SoaS 4 - Mango Lassi is out.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:53:27PM -0500, DancesWithCars wrote:
This has probably
Hi
It has been about 6 mos since I last ran SoaS on my eeePC. I am a Mac
person. I can't remember how to get Sugar running on the PC.
I have tried a lot of different things... alt, ctrl, ctrl-c, ctrl-d, F2,
ctrl-alt, and so forth. Nothing works. I tried opening Windows first and then
on some of my machines.
Mike
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi
It has been about 6 mos since I last ran SoaS on my eeePC. I am a Mac
person. I can't remember how to get Sugar running on the PC.
I have tried a lot of different things
Hi...
I have been advocating for SoaS to run on both Intel and PowerPC platforms all
along. I think Sugar Labs has done pretty well with getting it up and running
on the Intel machines and should continue working in that direction. At the
same time, there are still a lot of the old PowerPC
Hi Tom and all...
You have done a great job organizing this. The only thing I would suggest is
adding something for Mac testers, maybe a separate chart, that refers to the
method (and version of the method) they are using... Virtual Box or boot-helper
CD or something else if something else
* +1 to Sascha's very astute comments below.
Caryl
From: sascha-ml-ui-sugar-s...@silbe.org
To: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:53:22 +
Subject: Re: [SoaS] Limited Internet Access for SOAS
Excerpts from Raffael Reichelt's message of Sat Jun 19 06:47:02 + 2010:
Hi All,
Here is a chance to see what educators are thinking about in online learning.
This Online Teaching Conference 2010 is being held in San Diego June 16-18.
As its name implies, if you can't attend in person, you can attend online!
Registration for online participation is free. If
I thought it was fruit and varieties of fruit? Things you might combine with
Sugar to make a Jam?
Caryl
From: b...@freudenbergs.de
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 11:43:40 +0200
To: pbrobin...@gmail.com
CC: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org; i...@lists.sugarlabs.org;
sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org;
Mirabelle isn't a berry... it is a plum!
Caryl
From: sdaly...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:32:23 +0200
To: sebast...@when.com
CC: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org; i...@lists.sugarlabs.org;
sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org; market...@lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [SoaS] [Marketing]
Hi...
Funny this has come up. I was just thinking about this how about
Sequoia? Sequoia is a variety of strawberry, a national park, and a Native
American (more properly spelled Sequoyah) who independently invented a written
language, bringing literacy to his Cherokee Nation. In
Hi...
Funny this has come up. I was just thinking about this how about
Sequoia? Sequoia is a variety of strawberry, a national park, and a Native
American (more properly spelled Sequoyah) who independently invented a written
language, bringing literacy to his Cherokee Nation. In
Very shiny Mel, love it! I will try it as soon as I get to MT. No time right
now since we are packing and will leave early Thursday.
Caryl
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 21:58:11 -0400
From: m...@melchua.com
To: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: [SoaS] Mirabelle page updated
It's got shiny on
Less Technical
From: echer...@gmail.com
To: cbige...@hotmail.com
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 13:43, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
FLOSS manuals don't seem like the place for something like this that changes
constantly and rapidly.
I thought that that was part of the point of FLOSS
And just who will the end user be? Hopefully an educator. And what os are
they likely to use? Windows or Mac OS-10. A few enlightened folks may run
Linux.
Strange... right now, the SoaS I made on a friend's PC runs only on my MacBook.
The one George Hunt helped me make on my MacBook
Hi All,
In my experiments trying to create usable SoaS sticks, I have had a few flops.
Unfortunately these USB sticks now have a severe identity crisis. They
believe they are actually CDs. You can't write to them. You can't rename them
(at least not in a way a mere mortal like me knows how
Hi All,
Today was showtime for SoaS at the LAUSD InfoTech and Parent Summit at the
Los Angeles Convention center. This year's event was sponsored by Target as one
of their community involvement projects. Everything was free... even parking
and a great lunch! They said there were about 4000
22, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
You are absolutely right, Tom! I wrote that without looking at my notes...
a bad idea when it is past bedtime!
Has anyone started a wiki page about the different ways to use SoaS on
different kinds and models of machines? I
it would agree that it is not suitable for the
audience intended without some revisions.
James Simmons
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the link...
Most of this was written by other folks and doesn't meet what I would call
Grannie's
...@lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [SoaS] SoaS on eeePC900... change boot order in BIOS... not
working.
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
HI Friends,
I am now struggling with several new SoaS issues. Let's solve them one at a
time.
If you have
Hi Folks...
Here is a progress report on my attempt to get SoaS ready to demonstrate at
InfoTech this coming Saturday. I was hoping to have it ready to Disseminate
as well, but that part hasn't come together yet. So, for now it is
Demonstrate, yes. Disseminate, no. But that could change
] [support-gang] Progress Report on SoaS for InfoTech
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 05:18:18PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Bad News: Function keys won't work at all. Can't get home if you
open the Journal.
If you mean the F1 through F4 keys don't work to switch between Sugar
views, you should be able
an
XO!
On 04/18/2010 09:39 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi Nick,
Thanks for the link to the Science For Citizens site. Sounds like
most of these projects are for the US only. I wonder if there are
similar projects in other countries? Some really nice lessons could be
developed
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, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi
*overlapping* data, which is the real reason they forbid
cellphones on planes.
That is why real seismeters are set underground, as far away from human
activity as possible.
On 04/18/2010 05:31 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi...
Here is something intriguing I heard about on NPR yesterday
Hi All...
Mario González in Uruguay has a question. Perhaps one of you has an answer
for him. I will translate...if you need a translation of a response, I'm a
little bit better than Google!
Caryl
Hi George and All,
Thanks to George's patience and persistence and all of the hints you sent, I
finally got the image-writer-mac program to work and make a SoaS usb stick. We
used the method where we dragged the files over from a finder window to the
terminal window.
I feel sure it is
...@lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [support-gang] SoaS Almost Passes the Teacher Test... but not
quite.
on my OSX10.4, if you open finder, ctlclick on the usb name in the left
column, I am given the option to rename the USB stick.
George
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote
Hi Bert, Tom, and All,
In case you are all wondering why I want to make this so easy, remember that
while I am sort of a closet techie and could learn to do all these fancy
work-arounds, I also have many years experience working with and training
other educators who are very shy about using
...@lists.sugarlabs.org; support-g...@laptop.org
Subject: Re: [SoaS] SoaS For Dummies?
Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi Bert, Tom, and All,
In case you are all wondering why I want to make this so easy, remember that
while I am sort of a closet techie and could learn to do all these fancy
work-arounds, I
in the water on that.
Any ideas for that?
Caryl
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:41:23 -0700
From: s...@manybits.net
To: cbige...@hotmail.com
CC: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org; i...@lists.sugarlabs.org;
support-g...@laptop.org
Subject: Re: [IAEP] SoaS on What Machines?
Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi All
Hi Again,
I think I should have included these questions in my original email:
1) Have you run SoaS? And which version was it?
a) from a usb stick without a boot helper cd?
b) from a usb stick with a boot helper cd?
2) Have you run it from a Live CD?
3) Have you run it in a Virtual Box?
In
Hi All...
I have decided that I really should invest in an inexpensive windows laptop or
netbook to use in my volunteer work with Sugar Labs and OLPC. I have been
looking online and visited one electronics store yesterday (Fry's). Here are
my thoughts...
I would prefer an ultralight
OK...
So how do I get it to work?
Caryl (MacBook running OS 10.5.8)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 16:19:27 +1000
From: qu...@laptop.org
To: satel...@bendbroadband.com
CC: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [SoaS] SoaS Good News/Bad News (Congratulations and Comments)
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at
Hi James,
You must not open it that way. You should open Terminal, and type
cd ~/Downloads; python image-writer-mac.py soas-2-blueberry.iso
Doing it this way should not cause PythonLauncher to be run. Can you
please confirm you were trying to open the file in a Finder window?
Hi All...
Here, at last, is an SoaS progress report along with some more questions. As
you may recall, I am hoping to have a good working version of SoaS to
distribute to interested educators at the LAUSD Tech Fair at the LA Convention
Center on April 24.
Hi Tom,
I am still working my way through the resources in the Sugar Creation Kit and I
ran into a snag when trying to make the Strawberry Live CD. The Blueberry
(v.2) appears to be OK with the disk having 581.9 MG written to it (I will test
it on a PC at a friends house Tuesday afternoon).
...@hotmail.com
CC: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [SoaS] Sugar-Creation-Kit DVD (preliminary version):
soas-1-strawberry.iso problem
Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi Tom,
I am still working my way through the resources in the Sugar Creation Kit and I
ran into a snag when trying
Hi Tom,
I have started making my way through the huge collection of resources you have
compiled for the DVD. It will take a while as I keep getting distracted by
interesting things and wanting to read more than needed for a simple test. So
far I have only gone over the first few on the
;
Tom Gilliard
Hit tab on first booting to get boot device selector menu
It works great to make soas usb's
Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi All...
The download appears to be successful. It took about 13 hours on my plain-wrap
ATT dsl line. I will try to make the DVD later today. I am still
, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi Mel, Sebastian and Sean,
Here is a crazy mindstorm for you...
Is it possible to create a single CD that has the SoaS file download
that could be transferred to a computer that could then make the USB
version... and at the same time (same CD) have the live CD
Hi...
This could result in having, at last, what I have been asking for for over a
year now... a stable, easy to use version that I can encourage teachers and
others to use. That would be wonderful!
The ideal version would:
Be easy to make either a usb or live cd version for Linux (both
The Memorize Activity is so versitile... can be used in all subjects and even
other languages. IMHO it should be a part of any version of Sugar. Kids like
it. Teachers like it. It can be used collaboratively. It is one of the best
Sugar Activities. It is not on the list the link below leads
] Sugar on a Stick Changing Engineering Direction
Caryl Bigenho wrote:
Hi...
This could result in having, at last, what I have been asking for for
over a year now... a stable, easy to use version that I can encourage
teachers and others to use. That would be wonderful!
We think so too
Hi All...
Thanks to the help of Gonzalo Odiard of Sugar Labs Argentina, I have just
finished downloading the last of 14 files that contain the contents of the 2
disk training DVD sent to all of the schools in La Rioja Argentina after the
teams of 2 (one teacher and one school IT person).
Hi All...
Here are a few random musings about the first 2 days of SCaLE 8X.
Day One... OSSIE (Open Source Software In Education)... my presentation went
well and a lot of folks have commented on how much they enjoyed it. It was
definitely low tech. I had a slide set to talk about followed
Hi,
I'm working on my presentation for SCaLE 8X this weekend and do not at the
moment have access to Blueberry and Strawberry SoaS. Can someone give me links
to lists of Activities included in each of these?
Thanks,
Caryl
Hi Bernie and all,
I am working on a presentation for educators about Sugar at the SCaLE 8X event
in Los Angeles on Feb 19-21. I am away from home at the moment and probably
won't get a chance to post or send it to you until just before the talk.
I do plan to include a lot of screen shots
Hi...
I've been following your discussion with interest, especially since I set it
off... and I am meeting with the folks in Buenos Aires tomorrow evening. One
thing I should have mentioned in one of my earlier emails is that when I
created the usb stick for Blueberry with the live usb
Hi...
Two rather huge issues:
1) Sugar Labs does not have Spanish translations available on either the SoaS
Strawberry or Blueberry web pages. I wanted to print these out to take to the
school in Argentina that wants to do a Sugar deployment in the PC lab in one of
their elementary schools.
Hi... see below...
Was he trying to burn onto the CD with Blueberry? This shouldn't be
needed, he can just use his favorite disc burning application.
Right... he was using his favorite disk burning app.
--Sebastian
Caryl
=
Hi All,
I was playing in PC Land yesterday, trying to get a working SoaS Blueberry.
Downloaded the live usb maker from the net. Made the stick. Put it in
daughter-in-law's medium-sized hp netbook and tried it. After we finally got
it booted (she insisted it wouldn't work, only Windows would)
Hi,
My MacBook is a 4,1. Will it work on my machine?
Caryl
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:32:26 -0500
From: pjo...@redhat.com
To: fedora-devel-l...@redhat.com
CC: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: Re: [SoaS] Booting Fedora live USB on MacBookPro
On 11/10/2009 02:40 PM, Bernie Innocenti
, since as a newbie I wouldn't know what
'liveUSB' means and I might be using an SD card.
SJ
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi...
It's sort of like root beer...
You can buy AW or Barq's or other private labels... or make your own
Hi Again,
Douglas has a good point... if you are a Linux developer. However, if our
target end users are to come from the education community, it is very doubtful
that they will be familiar with publications such as the excellent one he
references. Having many different names for different
/09, Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com ha scritto:
Da: Dave Bauer d...@solutiongrove.com
Oggetto: Re: [SoaS] Experimental Virtualbox Boothelper for Mac OS X
A: Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com
Cc: Sugar-Labs Mailing lists soas@lists.sugarlabs.org
Data: Giovedì 29 ottobre 2009, 14:01
Hi Dave and All,
During the summer of 2008 I helped write a guide to updating the software on
the XO. Officially it is called the No-Fail Update but unofficially and in
rtfm it is called Grannies Guide to Updating.
FWIW, I'm Grannie. If you check it out, you will find it is very
but nobody's telling me why.
Martin
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 06:36:19PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
SJ wrote:
Caryl, your input on the recent thread on the soas-list would be
appreciated. I think Bill got some of this summary right, but some of
it needs to be clarified. (And I'm
Hello Folks,
With all this discussion of naming conventions, we seem to be failing to
consider our targeted end-users: classroom teachers. Most of them think Fedora
is a hat. It could just as well be derby as far as they are concerned. I
suggest we propose a name to apply to all Sugar
is a primary key to life on our planet and nicely fits the
launch of the version for the OLPC X0-1 :-)
Regards Roland
2009/9/30 Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com
Hello Folks,
With all this discussion of naming conventions, we seem to be failing to
consider our targeted end-users
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