[Sugar-devel] move Low-level_Activity_API to the SLs wiki

2009-03-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi David, Bert and Wade, should we move http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API to the SLs wiki? Regards, Tomeu ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] move Low-level_Activity_API to the SLs wiki

2009-03-01 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 01.03.2009, at 13:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi David, Bert and Wade, should we move http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API to the SLs wiki? Yes. - Bert - ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Bugs] #448 UNSP: Addons.sl.o doc category should be changed

2009-03-01 Thread Gabriel Eirea
As a reference, content in the Ceibal portal (ceibal.edu.uy) is organized as follows (areas of knowledge): Artistic Natural sciences Social sciences Language Mathematics Second language/Foreign languages (order is alphabetically in Spanish) For sugar activities, a mix of educational and

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] TurtleArt-38

2009-03-01 Thread Walter Bender
== .xo == http://addons.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/file/25918/turtle_art-38.xo == Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-38.tar.bz2 == Features == * reorganized palettes to deemphasize some of the more esoteric blocks * added beginning of

[Sugar-devel] idea for gsoc 2009

2009-03-01 Thread Divya
Hello I am into python development for last two and half years and looking forward to participate in gsoc 2009. I successfully participated in gsoc 2008 under GNU Project developed gnome-gnowserhttp://code.google.com/soc/2008/gnu/appinfo.html?csaid=F834885142E69883. I used PyGTK pydot for the

[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84 Tarballs Due

2009-03-01 Thread Simon Schampijer
Dear Sucrose Maintainers, please provide source tarballs for the Sucrose 0.84 Release [1] by the end of the Second of March and announce them as explained here: http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release#Module_release This will be our *Golden Image* - this is hard code freeze. Any fixes

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design ideas for a.sl.o and sugarlabs

2009-03-01 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:51 PM, ,Josh williams joshcwilli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Wade, I agree with you that there needs to be a unity between the websites and things are definitely confusing. That design I made is basically a wire frame to give us an idea for the layout. I wanted it to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Bugs] #448 UNSP: Addons.sl.o doc category should be changed

2009-03-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Mar 2009, at 12:41, Gabriel Eirea wrote: As a reference, content in the Ceibal portal (ceibal.edu.uy) is organized as follows (areas of knowledge): Artistic Natural sciences Social sciences Language Mathematics Second language/Foreign languages (order is alphabetically in Spanish)

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if it may be possible to lower further the barrier for the less technical users that want to download sugar on a stick. Maybe we could offer a .zip for download that can be expanded on a bootable usb stick and just work? Regards, Tomeu Hi, I'm

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:58:30PM -0500, Eben Eliason wrote: As I understand it, this cannot be so simple because it needs to be a bootable image, and not just a set of files. What about raw disk images

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:01:15PM -0500, Eben Eliason wrote: This assumption, however, excludes the Windows-using majority. Only if it's the only option, which wasn't my intention. CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:01:15PM -0500, Eben Eliason wrote: This assumption, however, excludes the Windows-using majority. Only if it's the only option, which wasn't my intention. Good point; that's

Re: [Sugar-devel] wiki_laptop_org/go/Specifications

2009-03-01 Thread David Farning
Ok, this is on hold until I hear back. It is not often I get to remove things for my todo list:) david 2009/3/1 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 18:03, Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org wrote: Well, I'm uncertain, mostly because some of the specs are outdated, many others

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread David Farning
This become an issue of cost effectiveness. I understand Branded USBs are on the order of $8 a stick. The Fedora Ambassadors tried giving away USB keys. Thye found that they were not cost effective. The high cost per unit combined with the low 'stick rate' made them unfeasible. I understand

Re: [Sugar-devel] move Low-level_Activity_API to the SLs wiki

2009-03-01 Thread David Farning
On my TODO list for later this week. david 2009/3/1 Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de: On 01.03.2009, at 13:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Hi David, Bert and Wade, should we move http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API to the SLs wiki? Yes. - Bert -

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread pgf
eben wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:58:30PM -0500, Eben Eliason wrote: As I understand it, this cannot be so simple because it needs to be a bootable image, and not just a set of files.

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Eben Eliason
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Make the LiveCD have a usb maker on the desktop when launched. That's a really good idea, actually. On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: This become an issue of cost

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Moon-9, almost (Re: addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work)

2009-03-01 Thread David Farning
Brian, James Simmons had a similar problem with one of his activities last week. Will look into it as soon as I can. david 2009/3/1 Brian Jordan bcjor...@gmail.com: I was able to upload Pippy to aslo successfully on Friday, but it now appears the upload bundle page is not working:

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:30:00PM -0500, Eben Eliason wrote: 1) Download the SoaS file for [windows] [linux] or [mac] 2) Plug in a USB drive that's 1GB or larger 3) Click the thing that's named/looks-like 'X' to make your Sugarstick Part 3 is the interesting one. To make a USB stick

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread David Farning
2009/3/1 Eben Eliason e...@laptop.org: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche c...@msbit.com wrote: Make the LiveCD have a usb maker on the desktop when launched. That's a really good idea, actually. On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:25:00PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote: Wait, isn't SOAS just a bunch of files on a stick? AFAICT, they don't modify the underlying FS (or at least Ubuntu's liveUSB creator doesn't). It can't be just files, otherwise it wouldn't be bootable. For that, the boot sector

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Sean DALY
Eben - FYI I am pricing the first run of 100 Sugar Labs branded USB sticks now, if you have a moment please look at: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-February/000341.html http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-February/000363.html thanks Sean On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Eben Eliason
Sean, Awesome! It looks to me like those sticks might be pretty hard to print on, given the indentation near the cap, which cuts the printable area nearly in half. Also, my own instinct would be to choose black or white plastic to be consistent with the guidelines for using the Sugar Labs logo,

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Gary C Martin
On 1 Mar 2009, at 21:25, Luke Faraone wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: The underlying problem is that on Linux, users normally don't have direct access to removable media, only indirectly via mount (which is setuid). Other

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread Sean DALY
thanks Eben In theory the logo printing is on the other side of the stick these candidate sticks are translucent plastic, and plastic is generally cheaper than metal, and especially colored (i.e. non-black or silver or gold) metal. I have made the case to Christian (cf. the thread) that

Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:09:26AM -0800, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: My post was a request to the most knowledgeable person, Michael to do the service of taking the time to write a document that clearly lays out . the purpose (not in security speak but in terms of the benefits it brings to end

Re: [Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

2009-03-01 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:52:49AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: Caius kaio Chance wrote: GPL requires attachment of COPYING? Yes. I believe the way Debian handles this is by interpreting the distribution as a whole as being shipped as one. -

Re: [Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

2009-03-01 Thread Caius kaio Chance
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernie Innocenti さんは書きました: Seems like a great idea to me... But I think it already came up some time ago, and I vaguely remember that RH legal blocked it because the license itself -- not just a symlink to it -- had to accompany the package. GPL

Re: [Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

2009-03-01 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
quote who=Bernie Innocenti date=Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 12:53:34AM +0100 Seems like a great idea to me... But I think it already came up some time ago, and I vaguely remember that RH legal blocked it because the license itself -- not just a symlink to it -- had to accompany the package. Well,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

2009-03-01 Thread Elena of Valhalla
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Caius kaio Chance wrote: GPL requires attachment of COPYING? Yes. no, GPL doesn't[1], a pointer is enough, but GNU FDL does [1] You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this