[Sugar-devel] Free XO-1s

2020-10-17 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I have a few XOs in my wardrobe and need to clear out some space, where's the best place to send them? I'm in NYC but can mail them where needed Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Tom Gilliard

2020-07-26 Thread Dave Crossland
Very sad news. Thanks for sharing ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Request for Comments: What's missing for a Sugar 1.0 release?

2019-05-20 Thread Dave Crossland
I'm curious how often those XO machines are updated to the latest release of Sugar. Does anyone have any estimates for how many machines are in active use and how many are really upgraded? On Mon, May 20, 2019, 3:18 AM Tony Anderson wrote: > Sugar Labs are the only people on the planet who

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] Sugar Labs changing directions

2019-05-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks Karen! Glad to hear that Conservancy will help make the transition smooth :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Newcomer Introduction

2019-01-26 Thread Dave Crossland
Welcome!! ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sl.org Down?

2019-01-26 Thread Dave Crossland
Server seems to be offline On Sat, Jan 26, 2019, 7:18 AM Sumit Srivastava Can't access it too. > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2019, 5:46 pm Vipul Gupta, > wrote: > >> Just tried on Chrome, can't seem to access it. >> >> On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 4:17 PM Samson Goddy >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Is it

Re: [Sugar-devel] Abandoned or orphaned activities

2019-01-23 Thread Dave Crossland
on, which > includes Sugar and these activities. The rest of my time is already > sold. > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 07:27:56AM -0500, Dave Crossland wrote: > > James, are you soliciting SL pay you as a contractor to fix Activities > not on > > the list? > > > > On

Re: [Sugar-devel] Abandoned or orphaned activities

2019-01-23 Thread Dave Crossland
James, are you soliciting SL pay you as a contractor to fix Activities not on the list? On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 1:15 AM James Cameron Nice idea, but hasn't happened yet, and I don't expect it to ever > happen without scaling up the number of testers and fixers. > > We just don't have enough people

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] welcoming the new Sugar Labs oversight board members

2018-12-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks for summarizing the recent organizational activity and best wishes to all :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] Meeting Reminder

2018-12-09 Thread Dave Crossland
I've set that up. Thanks for the instructions :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] Meeting Reminder

2018-12-09 Thread Dave Crossland
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 at 09:09, Walter Bender wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:04 PM Dave Crossland wrote: > >> Thanks for sharing the logs! >> > > FWIW, the logs from every meeting are available in the wiki: > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] Tidying up; images from 2010 to 2012

2018-12-09 Thread Dave Crossland
The benefits of keeping old data around that you currently see no use for, is that in the future you may want to use the data for some purpose, after all. And data storage is cheap. That being said, I have no objection to deleting them. I'm not sure anyone would notice if they just go. If

Re: [Sugar-devel] Workshop Success

2018-12-09 Thread Dave Crossland
Nice! ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] Tidying up; images from 2010 to 2012

2018-12-07 Thread Dave Crossland
I don't see the harm in leaving old stuff lying around if the disk has plenty of room. Surely there's more important things to do :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] Tidying up; images from 2010 to 2012

2018-12-07 Thread Dave Crossland
What % of the server disk space is used? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] Meeting Reminder

2018-12-07 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks for sharing the logs! ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Call for Design meeting

2018-09-09 Thread Dave Crossland
Love to see this happening! :) Please provide timezones in EST, CST, MT and PT for folks in the USA ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on Windows

2018-08-25 Thread Dave Crossland
Amazing news!! I think this is huge :) congratulations on making this happen :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO shut down target date? (was: licensing question)

2018-05-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25 May 2018 at 00:47, Tony Anderson wrote: > ASLO provides access to Sugar activities (*.xo bundles). Ways in which > users get Sugar is not relevant. When James said, "plenty of disk space these days to include all working activities in a build", that suggested to me

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO shut down target date? (was: licensing question)

2018-05-24 Thread Dave Crossland
On 23 May 2018 at 23:29, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:26 PM Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, May 23, 2018, 8:54 PM James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: >> >>&

Re: [Sugar-devel] licensing question

2018-05-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On Wed, May 23, 2018, 11:28 PM James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:23:24PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 23, 2018, 8:54 PM James Cameron <[1]qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > > If the source licen

[Sugar-devel] ASLO shut down target date? (was: licensing question)

2018-05-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On Wed, May 23, 2018, 8:54 PM James Cameron wrote: > > > > Tony's insistence on ASLO continues to amuse me. Most distribution of > activities now happens through bundles, tarballs, and GitHub. ASLO is > rarely used by distributors or indeed useful for anything except >

Re: [Sugar-devel] licensing question

2018-05-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On Wed, May 23, 2018, 8:54 PM James Cameron wrote: > > If the source license is GPLv3+, then anyone can relicense as Apache > 2.0. > N :) > This is ABSOLUTELY false. If the source license is GPLv3+, then anyone can add new code that combines with the GPLv3(+) code

Re: [Sugar-devel] FAQ on Sugarizer

2018-05-17 Thread Dave Crossland
On 17 May 2018 at 13:44, Lionel Laské wrote: > > > 2. Do you have a plan for reconciling the licensing issue [2]? The issue >> is marked as Wont Fix, but I don't think that is adequate. In addition, >> there has been a lot of unilateral re-licensing of GPL and AGPL

Re: [Sugar-devel] Python 3 port - How to test Sugar desktop module builds

2018-02-28 Thread Dave Crossland
Really great to hear this progressing :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] New pull request reviewers; Rahul and Yash

2018-02-22 Thread Dave Crossland
Congrats guys! ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: Introduction

2017-12-01 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Yash :) A funny coincidence, another Yash Agrawal contributed to sugar in 2016 ( https://github.com/YashAgarwal :) On Dec 1, 2017 3:56 PM, "Yash Agrawal" wrote: Hello to all, I know it may be too early but I want to introduce myself anyways and maybe get some help in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Outreachy

2017-08-23 Thread Dave Crossland
I think supporting Outreachy, even at a small loss, is worthwhile On 23 August 2017 at 18:58, Walter Bender wrote: > I've been approached by Outreachy [1] regarding our potential > participation in the next round (this fall in the northern hemisphere). We > are just

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] (Goals and Mission) with Microsoft in it?

2017-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
in GSoC which must > ease activities management, for both image builders and developers. I will > be helping on that. > > On May 12, 2017 1:25 PM, "Dave Crossland" <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > >> Do those xo run the latest release? >> >> On May 12, 201

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] (Goals and Mission) with Microsoft in it?

2017-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
nager if Sam P can't make it anymore. > > Certainly there are many things to improve, but we shall overcome. I don't > think solution is to discard all XOs schools have around here. > > Regards, > > Sam C. > > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:04 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] (Goals and Mission) with Microsoft in it?

2017-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
It seems to me that the classic Sugar python codebase could be returned to Quozl / OLPC, and Sugar Labs could focus on the JS Sugarizer codebase. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] GSoC 2017 results for SugarLabs

2017-05-04 Thread Dave Crossland
Congrats!! :) Looking forward to Monday IRC meeting :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On Apr 23, 2017 11:21 PM, "Tony Anderson" wrote: Hi James, Walter I reviewed the 71 activities for which I created a repository in github/sugarlabs Thank you Tony! Unless I hear to the contrary, I'll delete these duplicates. Sounds good to me My understanding from the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On Apr 23, 2017 7:08 PM, "James Cameron" wrote: We cannot host repositories on GitHub that don't have a license. That was true in the early days of github but it's no longer true. In fact it's a big problem, because a lot of stuff is posted on github without a libre license

Re: [Sugar-devel] motion for a new mission statement

2017-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On Apr 21, 2017 9:06 PM, "Tony Anderson" wrote: How is this not redundant to the motion approved in January 2017? For me it's an obvious incremental improvement. You can call it redundant if you think it's adds zero new value, but I am skeptical of that.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugarizer flatpak package

2017-04-13 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Great work :) On Apr 13, 2017 12:41 PM, "Manuel Quiñones" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on a flatpak package for Sugarizer. > > Flatpak http://flatpak.org/ is the new way to distribute applications > in GNU/Linux. Is great for many reasons. One reason is that the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] 2017 Goals for Sugar Labs

2017-04-09 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Thanks Walter. I'd like to better understand some additional context before diving in :) Does this mean Sameer you have stopped the project planning process you started, and we should not expect you to restart it again? Walter, are these the goals for this year, or are they your proposal for

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar on Surface Pro (Microsoft Partnership)

2017-04-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I agree completely On Apr 2, 2017 7:52 PM, "Samuel Greenfeld" wrote: > But what is a more proper port to Windows going to give us beyond what > Lionel has already done by including Sugarizer in pretty much every major > app store (including Microsoft's and Apple's)? >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugarizer dev platform is now open

2017-03-22 Thread Dave Crossland
Would git submodules be too complex? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugarizer dev platform is now open

2017-03-20 Thread Dave Crossland
Love it! ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2017-03-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Sorry to say I'm on vacation tomorrow but I will check the logs :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] GSoC

2017-02-27 Thread Dave Crossland
Congrats! ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSOC 2017 - Going Beyond Equal Temperament in Music Blocks

2017-02-20 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I am actually visiting Moratuwa this week on Thursday for the www.typoday.in workshops If you are on campus, we could meet up to chat about Sugar, GSOC, etc Cheers Dave On Jan 30, 2017 7:59 PM, "Sachithra Dangalla" wrote: Hi, I'm interested in the project

Re: [Sugar-devel] [UKids] The first Sugarizer deployment is now live!

2017-02-03 Thread Dave Crossland
This is HUGE! Congratts to Lionel and the OLPC France and Sugarizer communities! :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2017

2017-01-27 Thread Dave Crossland
I can't imagine any objections - GCI and GSOC seem to be a key input to the project :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Google Code In wrap up

2017-01-17 Thread Dave Crossland
Regarding a possible move from IRC to Slack, or Gitter, or something else as suggested by Ignacio, I wonder that we could just upgrade http://chat.sugarlabs.org from qwebchat to http://demo.shout-irc.com :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Re: [os-js/OS.js] [Extensions] Broadway implementation (#29)

2016-12-17 Thread Dave Crossland
Good stuff!  -- Forwarded message -- From: "Anders Evenrud" <notificati...@github.com> Date: Dec 17, 2016 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [os-js/OS.js] [Extensions] Broadway implementation (#29) To: "os-js/OS.js" <os...@noreply.github.com> Cc: "Dave

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 December 2016 at 11:28, Laura Vargas <la...@somosazucar.org> wrote: > > > 2016-12-02 11:27 GMT-05:00 Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com>: > >> >> On 2 December 2016 at 11:24, Laura Vargas <la...@somosazucar.org> wrote: >> >>> Looks like w

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 December 2016 at 11:24, Laura Vargas wrote: > Looks like we have 3 seats for 3 candidates :D > 6 candidates, assuming the 3 people in those 3 seats want to stand for reeleection? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 December 2016 at 09:19, Walter Bender wrote: > I have heard nothing from the Election/Membership committee about any > update. I hope my email last night could serve as such an update :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCI tasks

2016-11-09 Thread Dave Crossland
That works! Thanks! On 9 November 2016 at 22:13, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > Try https://codein.withgoogle.com/dashboard/tasks/?sp-order= > -modified_tasks=false > > -walter > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com&g

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCI tasks

2016-11-09 Thread Dave Crossland
I can't see how to list the tasks you uploaded...What is the direct URL? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Another school with XO laptops.

2016-09-29 Thread Dave Crossland
On 29 September 2016 at 17:49, samsongo...@hotmail.com < samsongo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I believe they run an older version of sugar.. I will make contact with > the school again concerning this. > > I would not be surprised if their version is 8-10 years old :)

Re: [Sugar-devel] Another school with XO laptops.

2016-09-29 Thread Dave Crossland
I'm keen to understand which release they run, and how they would like to proceed to upgrade them :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Release Sugar 0.109.2

2016-09-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks Sam! ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-08-18 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Yash! I just reviewed https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/help/work-product for the pass criteria, which says: Requirements It must be easy to identify the work you have done. (i.e. the changes you made or new code.) When someone goes to the provided URL it should be crystal

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-08-09 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Yash! I'd be very grateful if you could propose a plan for the Edit Fonts Activity project from here to the end of the GSOC period :) I've arranged a code review with Walter after Friday's GSOC meeting :) Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] Help Needed adding a module to my Activity

2016-08-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 8 August 2016 at 09:42, Sebastian Silva wrote: > The practice of embedding dependencies within bundles is really bad, it > implies duplication where two activities share a dependency, or, in the > case of multiple architectures, bloat. > Should prepare versions of

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora 24 osbuild doesn't work

2016-08-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 8 August 2016 at 02:38, Sam Parkinson wrote: > Yeah, you have a point. The whole setup seems too complex. We should > really just git clone a default set of activities into the user's > activities directory. > I thought that is what `osbuild pull` does? > But

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora 24 osbuild doesn't work

2016-08-06 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 August 2016 at 19:12, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > Install /home/broot/sugar-build/browse/collabwrapper to > /home/broot/sugar-build/build/out/install/share/sugar/activi > ties/Browse.activity/collabwrapper. > Traceback (most recent call last): > File &qu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora 24 osbuild doesn't work

2016-08-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi After ./osbuild pull worked I ran, ./osbuild shell build And hit this error - - - 8< - - - = Building = * Building automake * Building gwebsockets * Building sugar-docs * Building sugar-base * Building sugar-toolkit * Building sugar-toolkit-gtk3 * Building sugar * Building

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora 24 osbuild doesn't work

2016-08-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Also changing it from npm to nodejs worked :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora 24 osbuild doesn't work

2016-08-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Removing it worked! :) I'll send devel docs patches soon :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] Fedora 24 osbuild doesn't work

2016-08-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Following https://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html I got stuck setting up sugar with my first osbuild pull command :/ I went to https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download and installed it, then pulled up terminal and run, $ sudo dnf update -y $ sudo dnf install -y python2 $

Re: [Sugar-devel] Alias For Developement!

2016-08-05 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi samson To confirm you want x...@sugarlabs.org -> samsongo...@gmail.com What is x? Is your Gmail account the right one? Cheers Dave On Aug 5, 2016 5:00 AM, "Samson Goddy" wrote: > Hello all, > > Last time i was taking on how i should be mailing via sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-31 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks Yash! What will you work on next day? I hope you can make these daily posts with 3 things (today, tomorrow, and any questions) for the next 10 days :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Thoughts on Collab

2016-07-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 26, 2016 4:12 PM, "Sebastian Silva" <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> wrote: > > El 26/07/16 a las 14:05, Dave Crossland escribió: >> >> >> On Jul 26, 2016 2:36 PM, "Sebastian Silva" <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> wrote: >> > >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Thoughts on Collab

2016-07-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 26, 2016 2:36 PM, "Sebastian Silva" <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> wrote: > > El 26/07/16 a las 13:08, Dave Crossland escribió: >> >> Despite my suggestion to look at zeromq, I think we should be using the collaboration protocols that Lionel is using in Sugari

Re: [Sugar-devel] Thoughts on Collab

2016-07-26 Thread Dave Crossland
Despite my suggestion to look at zeromq, I think we should be using the collaboration protocols that Lionel is using in Sugarizer, so that someone running Sugar desktop and someone using Sugarizer on a Chromebook (for example, 2 kids in a family at home who attend 2 different schools that have

Re: [Sugar-devel] Thoughts on Collab

2016-07-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 25, 2016 11:07 PM, "Sam Parkinson" <sam.parkins...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: >> >> Please checkout zeromq :) > > Oh, that looks awesome! I think that is much better than

Re: [Sugar-devel] Thoughts on Collab

2016-07-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 25, 2016 10:13 PM, "Sam Parkinson" wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Abhijit Patel wrote: >> >> I have just found python modules like socket[1] for low level networking interface and SocketServer[2] which simplifies the task

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On 23 July 2016 at 12:20, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > Once that works, I suggest to halt writing new code and work on the code > documentation, the .xo packaging, the travis build checking, and other 'non > code' development tasks > I liked this quote of Walte

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-23 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Yash We have only 3 weeks left, so Eli and I want to review the code and work directly with you on this, but it will be inefficient if we are working on old code. So I want to ask you to send a daily 3-line email for each work day for the next 15 days, and also to push your work in progress

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-19 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19 July 2016 at 14:05, Yash Agarwal wrote: > 1. There is a issue with the Character Map, clicking on the glyphs doesn't > take you to the right glyph the second time > It seems that going to the main glyph grid then clicking a glyph will take you to that glyph, but

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-19 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi It ran first try on my XO-4 :) https://goo.gl/photos/6cemNHgLdK42J94T6 Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-19 Thread Dave Crossland
Great stuff Yash! ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Migration to Python 3

2016-07-16 Thread Dave Crossland
On 16 July 2016 at 19:14, Sam Parkinson wrote: > Maybe we target a collaboration re-write for next release :P > If we want to go totally custom, zeromq is really fantastic and I used it to add real time collab to FontForge by appropriating the undo system. However I

[Sugar-devel] FreeDesktop integration UI discussion

2016-07-16 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Sebastian just edited the wiki about the amazing FreeDesktop integration work he's been doing: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Features/FreeDesktop_integration=next=98058 He added 2 ui questions: > How to choose .desktop files to show in Sugar Launcher. I think something similar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 July 2016 at 09:04, Tony Anderson wrote: > The screenshot was archaeological - a feature since removed from Sugar. > Ah yes, I see, from 0.90 which is very old. > I have not used any formal social science methodology (and really don't > plan to - my time at the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 July 2016 at 05:16, Yash Agarwal wrote: > Yesterday's Work > fixing up small errors in the glyph editor > adding a basic pen tool: now we can make a contour with lines > https://github.com/sugarlabs/edit-fonts-activity/pull/74 > Okay cool, I'll see about fixing the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 July 2016 at 08:33, Tony Anderson wrote: > I think we all hope someone will attempt to work with and support our > users. I have a lot of experience over many years working > with deployments, but would not suggest anything I have done is definitive. > I understand

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
On 15 July 2016 at 08:22, Tony Anderson wrote: > Sugar is frozen to decisions made several years ago. I think that's because there is no UX lead who is able to show through user studies that changes are good. ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2016-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
I think user testing can resolve such ux disagreements. A setting to choose from both is not a wise design decision because there is still a question of which is default and how easy it is to set. Since Tony is advocating for a change, perhaps you could do a user test. Have you done one before?

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-13 Thread Dave Crossland
art user testing :) > > > > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 5:35 PM Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ys...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 3:38 AM Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Yash! >>> >>> On 6 July 2016 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Gsettings Schema Error

2016-07-12 Thread Dave Crossland
On Jul 12, 2016 7:20 AM, "Ütkarsh Tiwari" wrote: > > Hi, > I had been struggling with this issues for 2 days and you solved it with just one mail! Thank you Mr. Cameron :) You have rescued me from lot of issues a lot of times. Yes, we are very lucky to have

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: PR comments on 'Save as

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
Blank is good too ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: PR comments on 'Save as

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 July 2016 at 11:55, Tony Anderson wrote: > Name this project. Entry is computerize, refers to the widget. > I was thinking of 'entry' like 'journal entry' - what are items in the journal called? However, since the dialog already says "Please provide a name for your

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: PR comments on 'Save as

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 July 2016 at 10:56, Martin Dengler <mar...@martindengler.com> wrote: > On 11 Jul 2016, at 15:44, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > > > On 11 July 2016 at 10:40, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> wrote: > >> I prefer 'Untitled' as it suppor

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: PR comments on 'Save as

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 July 2016 at 11:15, Tony Anderson wrote: > The alert requries the user to provide a title or to quit (not saving the > document). My suggestion is that the alert should ignore a click on save > until the user provides a title or selects to quit. Untitiled in this >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: PR comments on 'Save as

2016-07-11 Thread Dave Crossland
On 11 July 2016 at 10:40, Tony Anderson wrote: > I prefer 'Untitled' as it supports the intent of the alert - to request > the user to supply a title. I also prefer Untitled, although I'm curious to hear why "xxx Activity" would be better. I wonder that "untitled" often

[Sugar-devel] Add abstraction layer for WebKit1/2 apis?

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I want to call attention to this PR thread on the sugar-toolkit-gtk3 github repo: https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/329 -- Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Tony's comments on localization

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 10 July 2016 at 12:16, Nick Doiron wrote: > Your primary issue would be getting a Cherokee font (including recent > Unicode addition of lower-case letters) to work on the laptop. > Google Noto solves this :) ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Private emails (was Re: Save as)

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
ce to fill the lists with email. However, since the various flaps concerning the Oversight Board, it is very > hard to find a discussion in IAEP that has any connection to education. I am sure you also are getting multiple emails from Dave Crossland - often I get as many as four copies.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Release Sugar 0.109.0.2 unstable

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Crossland
Thank you Sam this is great :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 July 2016 at 18:08, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> wrote: > I suggest to leave the Bezier tool for now and focus on shipping an .xo > that allows users to draw fonts using only straight lines, so that Eli and > I can do user testing :) > I've ordered the issues in the 1st

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Yash! On 6 July 2016 at 17:58, Yash Agarwal wrote: > Today's Work Report > Thanks for making a daily report :) > 1. adding a global configuration file- this will store the global settings > like the current working font, theme, font to be used for headings, etc. >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

2016-07-06 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 July 2016 at 05:32, Yash Agarwal wrote: > There were some issues with my Harddrive and I had to get it changed (it > wasn't a software issue) > Everything is working fine now and I'll be working again from today > Okay great! I guess the HD hardware failure caused

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSOC] add liveusb-creator as sugar app to 0.108

2016-07-06 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 July 2016 at 08:16, Walter Bender wrote: > If we do it again this year!! Would you consider applying again? It seemed to be very successful so I hope so :) Looks like the announcement will be in October :) ___

[Sugar-devel] 2008 Sugar UX review slide deck + Journal Rethink

2016-07-05 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Reading more about the Sugar UX history I found this PDF: http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080520-country-wkshp/Presentations/OLPC%20Country%20Meeting%20-%20Day%202%20-%20May%2021st,%202008/Refining%20Sugar.pdf Interesting reading! :) I see that the suggested changes to the Journal

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Test-Announce] livemedia-creator in f25 rawhide

2016-07-05 Thread Dave Crossland
Great job Tom! :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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