[sugar] The great battery experiment

2008-10-15 Thread Richard A. Smith
As I reported in my report that went to community news I'm looking for power use and battery life information. Here's a modified version of what I sent in for community news: Richard would like to call for help from the G1G1, developer, and testing community. Gathering large amount

[sugar] code contributions to Sugar (was Re: Sugar Clock)

2008-10-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. I think this is a good example of why contributing to Sugar is necessarily hard. Many small technical contributions from the community require significant policy decisions by the leaders. When Sugar's

Re: [sugar] code contributions to Sugar (was Re: Sugar Clock)

2008-10-15 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. I think this is a good example of why contributing to Sugar is necessarily hard. Many small technical contributions from the community

Re: [sugar] code contributions to Sugar (was Re: Sugar Clock)

2008-10-15 Thread David Farning
A good first towards solving this challenge is developing a project level self awareness of the different types of decisions we make. 1. Pedagogical 2. Technical 3. Political As a general rule we should strive to make decisions base on their pedagogical soundness, technical merit, and

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] sugar spin and liveusb-creator

2008-10-15 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Caroline Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Marco, I'd like a Wiki page where you and I can track tasks that need to be done before I can do the next test run at each of the 2 schools and also write down which version of Sugar we plan to test next at which

[sugar] Reviews report

2008-10-15 Thread Release Team
= Rejected requests = Flickering when switching to home http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7675 ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Reminder: Demo of next-gen journal ideas *tomorrow noon* @ 1cc

2008-10-15 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:41 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be giving a demo of some next-generation journal ideas (and code) at noon Wednesday at OLPC's 1cc offices. I'll make sure to have it

Re: [sugar] code contributions to Sugar (was Re: Sugar Clock)

2008-10-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 15 Oct 2008, at 09:30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. I think this is a good example of why contributing to Sugar is necessarily hard. Many small technical contributions from the community require significant

Re: [sugar] code contributions to Sugar (was Re: Sugar Clock)

2008-10-15 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
The hierarchy of types of decisions you mention is quite interesting. I am afraid that expediency (can be done) might end up ruling things. It is easier (or so I think) to reach consensus or at least an I-can-live-with-that in technical matters. The approach to the pedagogical view has so far

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-15 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Carlo : nowhere in the default GUI there is a clock, even if, in the control panel there is a panel to configure it. I think that personal watches are maybe not so easily owned by kids around the word, so a standard clock could be a little, but welcomed feature. (not talking about the clock

[sugar] Audio from demo of Scott's next-gen journal ideas, noon, 10/15/2008

2008-10-15 Thread Brian Jordan
http://dev.laptop.org/~bjordan/scottfs.mp3 (170 MB) http://dev.laptop.org/~bjordan/scottfs.ogg (127 MB) http://brianio.com/cscotts-journal-remix-proposal/ (flash player of MP3 file) Listen with headphones for the win -- was recorded with in-ear microphones. Brian On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:42

Re: [sugar] [olpc-office-announce] Audio from demo of Scott's next-gen journal ideas, noon, 10/15/2008

2008-10-15 Thread Mel Chua
Brian Jordan wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/~bjordan/scottfs.mp3 (170 MB) http://dev.laptop.org/~bjordan/scottfs.ogg (127 MB) http://brianio.com/cscotts-journal-remix-proposal/ (flash player of MP3 file) Listen with headphones for the win -- was recorded with in-ear microphones. Brian IRC

Re: [sugar] (very) Little Proposals for 9.1

2008-10-15 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 03:06:21PM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I'm surprised at the debate of providing a clock in the Frame. All the bike sheds in your town must be mass-produced :). http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Tdang/XO_Setup#Add_a_Clock_to_Home_View ... If an User can put in a clock

Re: [sugar] Tagged Journal Proposal

2008-10-15 Thread pgf
a few random observations that i had today, prompted by scott's talk/demo: - while people don't tend to name their jpegs (today), they do tend to group them into folders (e.g. vacation_pix). the equivalent of this in a tagged world would be bulk tagging. i assume

Re: [sugar] [olpc-office-announce] Audio from demo of Scott's next-gen journal ideas, noon, 10/15/2008

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I apologize for the length and ramblingness; I'll try to put together a screencast tomorrow with the good bits in 5 or 15 action-packed minutes. Does anyone have any screencast tools they'd recommend? I've heard that http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/about.php is

Re: [sugar] [olpc-office-announce] Audio from demo of Scott's next-gen journal ideas, noon, 10/15/2008

2008-10-15 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:23 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize for the length and ramblingness; I'll try to put together a screencast tomorrow with the good bits in 5 or 15 action-packed minutes. Does anyone have any screencast tools they'd recommend? --scott I used

[sugar] Fwd: Tagged Journal Proposal

2008-10-15 Thread Walter Bender
forgot to reply-all -w -- Forwarded message -- From: Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:07 PM Subject: Re: Tagged Journal Proposal To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Haven't had a chance to review the talk note yet, but one observation based on Paul's comment: On

[sugar] Datastore and Nautilus, an amusing ponder

2008-10-15 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It seems to me that the points of controversy at Scott's datastore talk primarily concerned the way data is stored. In particular, the Journal requires the storage of a certain amount of metadata about each file, and the way we store this metadata

Re: [sugar] Tagged Journal Proposal

2008-10-15 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a few random observations that i had today, prompted by scott's talk/demo: - while people don't tend to name their jpegs (today), they do tend to group them into folders (e.g. vacation_pix). the equivalent of this in

Re: [sugar] Tagged Journal Proposal

2008-10-15 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eben Eliason wrote: | Proposal (off the cuff, please poke holes in this): We might beef up | the HIG in the area of tagging, and even suggest a set of canonical | tags for various types of content. (Localized, of course.) Combining | this with

[sugar] Meeting about the journal

2008-10-15 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello Scott, I chatted a bit with Eben on how to go forward on the Journal, and we think it would be good to make it *the* topic for tomorrow design meeting. Are you able to make it? It's at 11.30 your time, on irc. There are two main things that I really want to figure out: * What is the

Re: [sugar] Tagged Journal Proposal

2008-10-15 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Proposal (off the cuff, please poke holes in this): We might beef up | the HIG in the area of tagging, and even suggest a set of canonical | tags for various types of content. (Localized, of course.) Combining |

Re: [sugar] Meeting about the journal

2008-10-15 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I chatted a bit with Eben on how to go forward on the Journal, and we think it would be good to make it *the* topic for tomorrow design meeting. Are you able to make it? It's at 11.30 your time, on irc. There are

Re: [sugar] Meeting about the journal

2008-10-15 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:57 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not premature, but we probably won't nail down the answer yet. Sure. I've already got mockups and more, but there are some corner cases I don't know the answers for. Activities can just use GtkFileChooser.

Re: [sugar] Meeting about the journal

2008-10-15 Thread pgf
c. scott ananian wrote: Anyway, we can discuss this more tomorrow am. I'll be in at work tomorrow am; poke me or one of the early risers on IRC (pgf, erikg, etc) if I don't remember to log in, tune in, etc. yow. my reputation is shot. :-) =- paul fox, [EMAIL

Re: [sugar] Tagged Journal Proposal

2008-10-15 Thread Gary C Martin
On 16 Oct 2008, at 01:51, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Proposal (off the cuff, please poke holes in this): We might beef up | the HIG in the area of tagging, and even suggest a set of canonical | tags for various