[sugar] [RELEASE] Pippy v30 released

2008-11-17 Thread Brian Jordan
Hi, Cscott released Pippy version 30 today, download it [1] or get the source [2]! It's sporting a fancy new physics engine, mildly less violent default export icon, and a smaller editor font. [1] http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/bundles/Pippy-30.xo [2]

[sugar] Dependencies (was [Activities] Tux Typing on OLPC XO)

2008-10-20 Thread Brian Jordan
How should dependencies like TuxType's be handled? (found list at http://sophie.zarb.org/rpm/Momonga,4,x86_64/tuxtype/deps ) Thanks Brian -- Forwarded message -- From: David Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:39 AM Subject: [Activities] Tux Typing on OLPC XO

[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] [IAEP] Narrative.

2008-10-09 Thread Brian Jordan
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, Here's a short dialogue between myself, Ben Schwartz, Martin Dengler, and Bobby Powers on my interpretation of narrative as it might apply to a user interface designed for engaging children in the world of learning:

Re: [sugar] Combined Sugar/XO manual outline

2008-09-09 Thread Brian Jordan
Opening the XO? It would act as a good what are these things on my laptop map. Or maybe we could combine it with the Ports section? Ports + features? Brian On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What follows is the flow of chapters (devised by Seth, Adam

[sugar] Combined Sugar/XO manual outline

2008-09-08 Thread Brian Jordan
Hi all, What follows is the flow of chapters (devised by Seth, Adam, Cynthia and myself) for the Sugar / XO manual to (hopefully) be included on the XO for G1G1. Make all reviews, edits and contributions to these sections as soon as possible! XO - Introduction

Re: [sugar] Combined Sugar/XO manual outline

2008-09-08 Thread Brian Jordan
are pretty stand-alone and their chapters shouldn't need remixing) -walter On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, What follows is the flow of chapters (devised by Seth, Adam, Cynthia and myself) for the Sugar / XO manual to (hopefully) be included

Re: [sugar] Panorama activity

2008-09-05 Thread Brian Jordan
*bump* http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Panorama_camera_activity (code? Nirav is interested in doing something similar!) Brian On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:56 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The XO happens to be perfect for shooting

Re: [sugar] Attention! Activity authors: spanish title translations

2008-09-03 Thread Brian Jordan
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Activity authors, (on devel AND sugar) (and [EMAIL PROTECTED]) :-O mailing lists just aren't very efficient... eh? The following activities (which can be downloaded from

Re: [sugar] OT: Anybody worked with robot and OLPC

2008-09-02 Thread Brian Jordan
Photos of a group Learn 2 teach, teach 2 learn that seems to have worked with a robot and XO: http://www.flickr.com/photos/connors934/2799061287/in/set-72157606960529196/ Found via tag olpc on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/olpc/ Cheers, and good luck Carlos! Brian On Tue, Sep 2,

Re: [sugar] Developing activities.

2008-09-02 Thread Brian Jordan
Hi David, I first would like to thank you for your great work on LiveUSB and documentation-sprinting this past week! On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:05 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those who have not yet gotten a chance to look at the results of Morgs activity developers survey.

[sugar] Physics Game Jam / Competition - August 29-31, Cambridge MA

2008-08-12 Thread Brian Jordan
] with specific questions about registration. Spread the word! Brian Jordan ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Design Question

2008-07-20 Thread Brian Jordan
+1 for ring view... but as an every-activity-on-your-computer ring, rather than by default having nothing shown, by default have every activity shown. On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Can I get a quick +1/-1 on this question related to

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] #447: grab/scroll key

2008-07-14 Thread Brian Jordan
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:19:46AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Brian Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brilliant work, Erik! I had a chance to play with your first working hand scroll

Re: [sugar] [OLPC-Games] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

2008-07-14 Thread Brian Jordan
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:58:32 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we could simulate a pendulum or a Newton's cradle? How do you handle collisions?

Re: [sugar] [PATCH] #447: grab/scroll key

2008-07-13 Thread Brian Jordan
Brilliant work, Erik! I had a chance to play with your first working hand scroll, and it's beyond explanation how fun it is to be able to scroll around using the touchpad without aiming for a gtkScrollBar. For all to consider: there are two grab buttons. What if one tended to grab + move

Re: [sugar] [OLPC library] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

2008-07-12 Thread Brian Jordan
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's true, however I think it's also been agreed that we need support for, at a minimum, major and minor version numbers for activities. We should probably make some final decisions on that and make sure that any

Re: [sugar] [OLPC-Games] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

2008-07-12 Thread Brian Jordan
Hi Yoshiki, These are great! I've added them to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Physics_(activity) . Feel free to add more yourself via the upload mechanism: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:Upload ! A priority is XML-format scene saving, so we can share great scenes like yours and those that will be

Re: [sugar] [OLPC library] [OLPC-Games] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

2008-07-12 Thread Brian Jordan
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 5:48 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you, Brian, Are you now commuting to 1CC? Yup! If so, we (all Etoys team including Takashi, who did ODECo ODE binding for Etoys) are visiting Cambridge the week after next, so we may have a chance to talk

[sugar] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

2008-07-10 Thread Brian Jordan
of functionality that we haven't implemented yet. Cheers, Brian Jordan 3D intern trapped in a 2D world ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar