Re: [sugar] Sugar on Ubuntu LiveUSB is ready

2008-10-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:19 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like our friends at Ubuntu have been hard at work building a Subuntu live usb. Simon Peter, also know as probono, has posted information on downloading and building the usb at

Re: [sugar] USB Based Community Access - What could work technically?

2008-10-31 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Bill Bogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all of this discussion of Sugar on a USB, it's not clear what part of the taxonomy from here: http://www.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy is being discussed. Do the activities (fructose/honey) always come from the user's

Re: [sugar] Greetings from New Hampsire

2008-10-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[sorry about the late reply] On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Brendan R. Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On larger installations, schools will want sugar to integrate with there existing file and print servers, as

Re: [sugar] [pymaemo] modifications to python and use on OLPC's XO

2008-10-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
[cc'ing sugar] On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Anderson Lizardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm a developer in the Sugar [0] project and we have some performance issues in the OLPC's XO [1] that I think are

Re: [sugar] Proper D-Bus usage (was Re: October 29 - Tarballs due for 0.83.1)

2008-10-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29.10.2008, at 03:42, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could easily hack the DS in 0.83 to return D-Bus strings for standard properties that are

[sugar] [RELEASE] TurtleArt-15

2008-10-31 Thread Walter Bender
sources: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-15.tar.bz2 News: * shebang patch -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

[sugar] [RELEASE] sugar-artwork-0.83.1

2008-10-31 Thread Simon Schampijer
== Source == http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.83.1.tar.bz2 == News == * Ensure that all common drag operations use a sugar cursor * Generate two themes based on SUGAR_SCALING * #8779 Merge sugar-artwork patches from debian package. * #8778 Buttons cannot be

Re: [sugar] Proper D-Bus usage (was Re: October 29 - Tarballs due for 0.83.1)

2008-10-31 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomeu Vizoso wrote: And see xattrs for a design that avoids this mess. xattr values are also just bytes with no type, and so will have exactly the same problem. Their behavior would be equivalent to D-Bus's a{ayay}. Python's behavior in this

Re: [sugar] Proper D-Bus usage (was Re: October 29 - Tarballs due for 0.83.1)

2008-10-31 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomeu Vizoso wrote: And see xattrs for a design that avoids this mess. xattr values are also just bytes with no type, and so will have exactly the same problem.

Re: [sugar] Data Storage and User-facing System Requirements [was Re: 9.1 Proposal: Files]

2008-10-31 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:09:16PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Garrison wrote: It seems from my reading of mailing lists, IRC logs, and listening to conversations with people that we are trying to resolve all of these issues by

Re: [sugar] Proper D-Bus usage

2008-10-31 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 31.10.2008, at 03:30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29.10.2008, at 03:42, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could easily hack the DS in 0.83 to

[sugar] Sucrose 0.83.1 Development Release

2008-10-31 Thread Simon Schampijer
This is our first Development Release in the 0.84 cycle. The code base has seen many refactoring efforts to improve the platform. To improve performance several heavy shell dependency have been dropped and the journal and the shell service has been merged into the shell. Furthermore the

[sugar] OLPC Game Jam Perú Fotos de archivo

2008-10-31 Thread Carlos mauro
http://unimauro.blogspot.com/2008/10/olpc-game-jam-per-los-hablaron-con-sara.html :) -- http://unimauro.blogspot.com/ Creemos en el amor de los Seres Humanos Carlos Mauro Cárdenas Fernández 4582877 980525716 ___ Sugar mailing list

Re: [sugar] Sugar on Ubuntu LiveUSB is ready

2008-10-31 Thread David Farning
There is a Edubuntu developer planning session on Nov 5th. At that point, we will see about the process of making Subuntu an official release. Ubuntu educational efforts have not seemed to pay off for them yet. They have recently shifted their inhouse edubuntu developer to Ubuntu mobile.

Re: [sugar] USB Based Community Access - What could work technically?

2008-10-31 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Caroline Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is a request for technical assistance for Sugar on a Stick. It looks like we have a pilot school for our USB boot project, Earth Treasury is making arrangements for two more, in Ghana and Uganda. Perhaps we can

Re: [sugar] Sucrose 0.83.1 Development Release

2008-10-31 Thread S Page
Simon Schampijer wrote: This is our first Development Release in the 0.84 cycle. The code base has seen many refactoring efforts to improve the platform. Will OLPC joyride builds pick up the new Sucrose? Furthermore the datastore has been rewritten, to simplify and improve maintainability.

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Report cards on XO

2008-10-31 Thread Samuel Klein
We should make sure that this works in the case of the 'xs' machine being a disk attached to a teacher's xo, including the more limited times of availability and bandwidth implied. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Tony Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: All of this is already implemented in

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu LiveUSB is ready

2008-10-31 Thread David Van Assche
The politics are far more complicated, edubuntu used to be a thriving community, which prompted Canonical to market the Educational side more and use the Ubuntu branding rather than edubuntu. It caused some confusion and the community sort of migrated to various areas, the most notable being LTSP.

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu LiveUSB is ready

2008-10-31 Thread David Farning
Thanks David that explanation make a lot more sense than my naive one. Who is the marketing/education contract guy? I would like to touch base with him. I will also be at the meeting to explain background issues if necessary. The other guys on the Ubuntu SugarTeam have gained much more

Re: [sugar] USB Based Community Access - What could work technically?

2008-10-31 Thread Caroline Meeks
Yes, lets definitely work together on this! Thanks, Caroline On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Caroline Meeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This is a request for technical assistance for Sugar on a Stick. It