Re: [sugar] Sugar mtg minutes, 5th June 2008

2008-06-06 Thread Simon Schampijer
Simon Schampijer wrote: Topics * How can we improve the review process? action item: unmadindu/cjb setup review board http://www.review-board.org/ 1. Break your projects into small pieces that can be submitted for review independently. Submit for review as early as possible, by mailing

[sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed

2008-06-06 Thread Urko Fernandez
I have this idea while reading an article about OLPC published on businessweek* They talked, among other things, about a boy who seemed to think Internet was inside the XO-1, and I thought it could be a good idea to have this boy's village or town in google maps so he could learn in a simple

Re: [sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed

2008-06-06 Thread Urko Fernandez
can the XO can access Google maps? I don't have an XO-1, but Google Maps works in the browse activity under sugar-jhbuild. Beware: there's people who are afraid of Big Brother and might mind their villages being in the public's eye. (Apparently the Germans have some law about that)

Re: [sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed

2008-06-06 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wade Brainerd wrote: | Too bad the new Google Earth API is much too high level for these purposes, | it would be great if Google would open up the data. Check out openaerialmap.org It's fantastic. - --Ben -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [sugar] Idea: Aerial photographs of all villages where XO's are deployed

2008-06-06 Thread Walter Bender
For what it is worth, Seymour had a simple introductory project involving Google maps that he proposed in the early days of OLPC: have the children try to make a determination of when the photo was taken: time of day, time of year, which year, etc. -- opening the door to many of the ideas explored

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Fwd: Autonomous system for Sugar development....

2008-06-06 Thread Jim Gettys
Ivan, The community itself needs to decide on a set of people who are the group of sysadmin people for Sugar's possible move to be something all are comfortable about. These discussions should be best be on email, or at worst scheduled, published in advance IRC meetings (*with minutes*). This

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Fwd: Autonomous system for Sugar development....

2008-06-06 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: The community itself needs to decide on a set of people who are the group of sysadmin people for Sugar's possible move to be something all are comfortable about. Please don't top post, and please do quote relevant sections of original e-mails

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Fwd: Autonomous system for Sugar development....

2008-06-06 Thread David Farning
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 21:16 +0200, Ivan Krstić wrote: On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: The community itself needs to decide on a set of people who are the group of sysadmin people for Sugar's possible move to be something all are comfortable about. Please don't top post, and

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Fwd: Autonomous system for Sugar development....

2008-06-06 Thread Walter Bender
I've been working on a rough draft of a governance model that I'll post to the wiki for comments as soon as it is beyond the stream-of-conscience stage (leaning heavily on the Gnome model). Stay tuned!! -walter On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:01 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri,

Re: [sugar] List of Peru activities

2008-06-06 Thread Carlos mauro
Cool I send this email to peruvian list... Bytes 2008/6/6 Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, We've just finished putting together an image for Peru based on the update.1-703 build, and the image is intended for flashing on to Peru's next 100,000 laptops. We wanted to let everyone know

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] Bundlebuilder use manifest, fix_manifest function

2008-06-06 Thread Jameson Chema Quinn
Changes: bundle.py Added zip-agnostic _is_file() method to bundle class; used in activitybundle for checking MANIFEST without unpacking activitybundle.py Moved basic logic for processing MANIFEST, including list_files, to activitybundle.py ; this is necessary for checking when installing a

Re: [sugar] List of Peru activities

2008-06-06 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
Chris, are these the names as they are used in Perú? I thought some of the names were localized? Anyway, I translated your message and forwarded it on to Sur Yama Chris Ball wrote: Hi, We've just finished putting together an image for Peru based on the update.1-703 build, and the image

Re: [sugar] List of Peru activities

2008-06-06 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Yama, Chris, are these the names as they are used in Perú? I thought some of the names were localized? Anyway, I translated your message and forwarded it on to Sur Those are the activity class names from the defaults file, which don't get translated. The names are translated in

Re: [sugar] List of Peru activities

2008-06-06 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
Hi Sugarers, anyone with the savyy to get the activity names in the language it will actually be used_ Thanks! Yama Chris Ball wrote: Ugh. so I messed up, should have asked before posting. Sur is for end-users, bless their hearts, they couldn't care less for default files,

Re: [sugar] documentation effort for sugar api

2008-06-06 Thread David Farning
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 16:01 -0400, Faisal Anwar wrote: Hi Tomeu, Thanks for your email and willingness to help. I'm prioritizing getting something similar to the java almanac up and running, but if I can get a substantial body of how to's completed in the next couple of weeks, then I will