Re: [sugar] November developer meetings

2008-11-05 Thread Ed McNierney
Folks - It would be helpful if we could stop referring to this as a conference - it would make my life easier g. We should plan to use the time we have some visitors in town to (a) have them do some presentations or sessions or workshops and (b) focus quite seriously on the specific work that

[sugar] Postponement of XOCamp Event to January

2008-10-29 Thread Ed McNierney
bombard them with multiple forwards; thanks. Ed McNierney VP, Software Development One Laptop per Child [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Postponement of XOCamp Event to January

2008-10-29 Thread Ed McNierney
the event was you discuss roadmap on future feature and scope of next major release. By this postponement how will your planning and development schedule be affected? /Korakurider On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Ed McNierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks - The OLPC XOCamp event being

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Persistent activity storage

2008-10-22 Thread Ed McNierney
Since I presume we don't object to 'supporting our software' perhaps we should understand what we think the difference between 'hacks' and 'our software' is and see what is involved in transitioning code from one state to the other. Simply selecting a slightly less pejorative definition

Re: [sugar] [Server-devel] 9.1 Proposal: Printing support

2008-10-22 Thread Ed McNierney
Marvin Minsky once said: Some day paper will be a luxury item for the rich. When the Apple LaserWriter was introduced, Steve Jobs noted that In the quest to create the 'paperless office' all we have accomplished is to create demand for higher-quality paper! - Ed

Re: [sugar] 0.84/9.1 planning.

2008-10-13 Thread Ed McNierney
Folks - I would like to spend some time this week getting a bit more consensus on the goals and agenda for this conversation before we get too far ahead with planning and invitations. I don't want to spend the first day setting the scope and expectations for the week only to discover that some

Re: [sugar] saving files (was Re: notes from the field - Mongolia)

2008-10-10 Thread Ed McNierney
Tomeu et al. - Thanks - these are very good questions and are definitely on the right path (that path being, what exactly do we need to do about it?). It is not obvious to me from this thread whether the user goal is XO-to- XO file transfer or XO-to-other-computer file transfer. Do we know

Re: [sugar] 0.84/9.1 planning.

2008-10-10 Thread Ed McNierney
I'm not sure who the planning committee is, but this is the sort of schedule I was thinking about, too. - Ed On Oct 10, 2008, at 3:33 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to clarify: like our