Re: [sugar] G1G1v2 Activities

2008-09-19 Thread Seth Woodworth
I vote very strongly for Ruler. It's less than 20kb non-compressed! It's too small *not* to include. Top Ten: 1.) Ruler 2.) Moon 3.) StarChart 4.) Bridge 5.) XaoS 6.) Frotz 7.) WikiBrowse Spanish 8.) Words 9.) Tumbleboy On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL

Re: [sugar] G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-19 Thread Seth Woodworth
What are your criteria? Are you ranking things by supportability and size? If so Ruler is a no-brainer. It's 20kb and is unlikely to break easily. On the other hand SimCity is hard to make drastic changes and still be called SimCity. It's currently buggy and has no active maintainer. On Fri,

Re: [sugar] [OLPC library] big images, resized images, SVG files

2008-09-04 Thread Seth Woodworth
I've been talking to Eben (a sugar-designer) about how to wrangle svg out of screenshots. svg's make a lot more sense in the long term documentation sense. svg's are going to be a *lot* easier to translate than a series of png's. Not to mention some kind of svg tool would be great for children

Re: [sugar] [OLPC library] Things I would like taken away from the wiki: Sign-up lists

2008-08-01 Thread Seth Woodworth
create a bot or tool that makes this ad-hoc list broadcasting function (including making sure people are notified via email), I would be ecstatic. Such bots are in existance on the english wikipedia, they are also open source. The issue is that people don't know how easy it is to start

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] TurtleArt, Logo, and XOs

2008-06-28 Thread Seth Woodworth
The built in speakers aren't going to avail you for anything much below 400 Hhz. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound#Speaker_Capabilities The speakers in the XO are from and for cellphone speakers. They are optimized for voice, and have less quality frequency response at the low end of the

Re: [sugar] [IAEP] Sugar for the rich

2008-05-27 Thread Seth Woodworth
This release of sucrose that requires jhbuild isn't ever the sort of thing you would need to build or work with on your XO. The XO's environment is such that it doesn't require the jhbuild system. And if you are on a unix based system, all of the tools that you need to build our sources, sucrose

Re: [sugar] Microsoft

2008-05-15 Thread Seth Woodworth
safely GPL'ed, I feel confident that Sugar can beat out Windows. Let's focus on getting sugar and linux and what we *can* do instead of being angry. I plan on staying and producing content, translations and improvements for OLPC and for children. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org Seth Woodworth On Thu, May

Re: [sugar] [support-gang] Microsoft

2008-05-15 Thread Seth Woodworth
He's not declaring a policy of ethical inaction. He made an announcement called Microsoft wherein he describes an OLPC-supported firmware modification that will allow Windows to boot on the XO-1. He p it to an OLPC mailing list. He then claimed no OLPC resources would be devoted to the

Re: [sugar] [support-gang] Microsoft

2008-05-15 Thread Seth Woodworth
of being angry. I plan on staying and producing content, translations and improvements for OLPC and for children. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org Seth Woodworth ___ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

Re: [sugar] Microsoft

2008-05-15 Thread Seth Woodworth
Wrong. It's called tit-for-tat, otherwise known as fair-is-fair. It's perfectly ethical to defend oneself against an adversary who has no qualms about anything. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. - Ghandi ___ Sugar mailing list

Re: [sugar] [support-gang] Microsoft

2008-05-15 Thread Seth Woodworth
devil's advocate: how would someone on the outside (of either OLPC, or sugarlabs) know that that is the case? all that has happened (from the public view of things) is that this new wiki has sprung up, claiming essentially that this is where sugar lives. there's been no announcement