Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting summary (one of many)

2016-05-10 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Walter! Thanks for clarifying, that all makes good sense :) -- Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting summary (one of many)

2016-05-10 Thread Dave Crossland
On 6 May 2016 at 17:11, Walter Bender wrote: > I will send a separate email for each motion discussed so that we can > vote by email. > I can only see 3 email threads, [IAEP] [SLOB] Finance Manager Motions [IAEP] [SLOB] Yoruba i18n motion [IAEP] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion Where the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-09 Thread Dave Crossland
On 9 May 2016 at 14:39, Harshita Srivastava wrote: > Would any time between 11am to 3pm New York time be suitable for the > meeting? :) > I'm at work in the daytime but I can make time at lunch - 12.30pm - 1pm - on Mondays and Wednesdays. The Friday meeting at 8am is set by Walter for all GSOC

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-09 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Earlier today, Eli and Yash met on IRC for about an hour, and Yash made a quick blog post about it - thanks Yash! I propose meeting every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8am NYC time for 30 minutes to sync up :) Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing l

[Sugar-devel] BlackDuck's OpenHub graph of Sugar

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi https://www.openhub.net/p/sugar/commits/summary offers a graph of Sugar development activity that is a bit different to the one on Github, https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/graphs/contributors although basically the same. What was the jump in activity around 2012/2013/2014, and why did it die

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 8 May 2016 at 23:42, Dave Crossland wrote: > The ufo3 branch of defcon is probably the most important bit, as defcon is > the bedrock of all python font editing tools, and the ufo3 branch is under > active development but feature complete :) > > https://github.com/typesupply/d

Re: [Sugar-devel] Python Versions?

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
Thanks! On 8 May 2016 at 23:23, Sebastian Silva wrote: > Currently Sugar supports up to Python 2.7 > > El 08/05/16 a las 22:27, Dave Crossland escribió: > > > Hi > > What python version(s) should Sugar Activities be written in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
: > Okay :) > On 09-May-2016 4:37 am, "Dave Crossland" wrote: > >> >> On 8 May 2016 at 16:44, Harshita Srivastava >> wrote: >> >>> I have set up the Sugar development environment and tried the code in it >>> too. Everything is wo

[Sugar-devel] Python Versions?

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi What python version(s) should Sugar Activities be written in? -- Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [GSOC] Project: Journal Rethink discussion

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
So this is more like tagging blog posts than a folders-filesystem> ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 8 May 2016 at 16:44, Harshita Srivastava wrote: > I have set up the Sugar development environment and tried the code in it > too. Everything is working fine :) > Kindly tell me the further steps to proceed :) > I recommend reading the TruFont source code - https://github.com/trufont/trufont/

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [GSOC] Project: Journal Rethink discussion

2016-05-08 Thread Dave Crossland
On 8 May 2016 at 06:14, wrote: > I think that the idea of providing a way of sorting learning into > "mini-journals" is very helpful. Users can make a mini-journal for a unit > of work in school, an assignment/project or a group activity that a teacher > is running. > Where is the best explanat

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-07 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 7 May 2016 at 16:09, Lionel Laské wrote: > > 2016-05-07 22:06 GMT+02:00 Dave Crossland : > >> Do you think having the motion as it is with $Y = 0 is ok? >> > > Yep. > Okay good :) Caryl, is your intention for the motion to be drafted with $X and $Y undefine

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-07 Thread Dave Crossland
Do you think having the motion as it is with $Y = 0 is ok? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 7 May 2016 at 11:47, Chris Leonard wrote: > > I'm looking for an executed copy of the current SugarLabs-SFC FSA to > > confirm, unfortunately the wiki version looks at variance with the > > template, but as a wiki page, it has no "official" status. > > > > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_L

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 7 May 2016 at 10:51, Sebastian Silva wrote: > > > El 07/05/16 a las 09:52, Dave Crossland escribió: > > > Walter seconded the motion > > From Walter's email: > "Members of the oversight board, please reply to this email solicitation > for a vote on the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOB] GSoC mentor stipend motion

2016-05-07 Thread Dave Crossland
On 7 May 2016 at 08:53, Sebastian Silva wrote: > With Walter recusing himself and you dissaproving Walter seconded the motion ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-06 Thread Dave Crossland
ediately for > missing one or both dutires twice, even if separated by 2 years? If so, we > need to spell it out. If conversely we want to fire the Financial Manager > immediately, for failing to fulfill 1 duty or the other, then we should say > that more explicitly. > > > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-05-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Harshita! On 29 April 2016 at 15:49, Dave Crossland wrote: > I've added you to the https://github.com/sugarlabs/font-editor-activity > repo, and Yash has added his proposal to the gh-pages branch. Please check > it out, set up a Sugar development environment, and try out t

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 6 May 2016 at 10:35, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > I am hoping all the differences have been ironed out and that my motions > receive a majority vote. I just checked https://docs.google.com/document/d/16jIFuZ9bX-Bv675BpA1KmcEcRcX4PRCOUEX0ICRUkOc/edit and it still has a lot of my suggestions to b

[Sugar-devel] Minecraft-like Activity?

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
and a fantastic idea, other things came up on the other lanes though and like many great ideas was left behind. I would love to hear that it took hold in those areas it seemed a great fit for. -tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Dave Crossland Date: 1 May 2016 at 23:39 Subject: Re: [FoRK]

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on an PocketCHIP requires UI to work at 640x480

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
On 5 May 2016 at 18:11, Walter Bender wrote: > I should try to dig up the grayscale fonts I designed for IBM back in the > day. The worked well on low-res screens. Bitmap fonts aren't subject to copyright so not IBM nor anyone else owns them :) ___ Suga

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on an PocketCHIP requires UI to work at 640x480

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
On 5 May 2016 at 17:05, Eli Heuer wrote: > One thing that frustrates me with many activities on my XO-1 is small, > blurry, unreadable text. Vera is not great :/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/lis

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on an PocketCHIP requires UI to work at 640x480

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
On 5 May 2016 at 16:14, Walter Bender wrote: > Pretty extreme but pretty cool. FWIW, the first 15 years or so of my > computing career was spent working at 640x480 :) I guess what I really want is a CHIP in a rugged case with a 10" Pixel Qi screen for $100 :) _

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on an PocketCHIP requires UI to work at 640x480

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
From: Ben Young (Next Thing Co. Crew) Date: 5 May 2016 at 14:49 Subject: [Next Thing Co.] Re: Sugar on an PocketCHIP? To: Dave Crossland Hi Dave, There's some instructions on the Sugar Labs wiki [https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Debian] for installing Sugar on Debian. However, the inst

Re: [Sugar-devel] Font Editor Activity [GSoC '16]

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Yash Thanks for the blog post - I made a few edits directly to the formatting. Walter said in the monthly update, We'll be meeting as a group on Fridays at 12:00 UTC beginning in late May on irc.freenode.net, #sugar-meeting. Feel free to join us. Would be great if you can get the code in ht

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-05 Thread Dave Crossland
vote... Send an email to > this thread. > > Caryl > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 3, 2016, at 6:44 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > On 3 May 2016 at 09:37, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > >> Why does the vision statement say "but not phones"? I run Sugariz

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-05-03 Thread Dave Crossland
On 3 May 2016 at 09:37, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Why does the vision statement say "but not phones"? I run Sugarizer on my > iPhone and Ed's Android phone. There are some formatting issues but they > are easily overcome. In the real world of developing countries, children > are probably more likely

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Font Editor: thoughts on UI/UX

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 May 2016 at 13:57, Walter Bender wrote: > We may need to add splines to Turtle Blocks to make this real. Would not > be too difficult. > Eli will join the wiki gardening weekend so lets discuss it then :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@l

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Font Editor: thoughts on UI/UX

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I think the idea is that instead of drawing a bezier contour outline for a letter, some logo code draws the letter - that code could be written or constructed by placing blocks. On 2 May 2016 at 11:44, Walter Bender wrote: > Not 100% clear what you mean by Turtle scripting, but we extended T

[Sugar-devel] Consolidating github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs to sugarlabs/www-sugar

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I would like to raise the topic of https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/issues/20 on this list for comments from you all :) -- Cheers Dave ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-d

Re: [Sugar-devel] facebook verification

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 May 2016 at 08:41, Sean DALY wrote: > I very strongly advise anyone wanting to deal with trademark issues, > including recovering squatted social media accounts, to work with the SFC, > who registered and maintain the trademark and handle legal matters > pertaining to our mark. > I agree; S

Re: [Sugar-devel] facebook verification

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Awesome! On 2 May 2016 at 07:23, samson goddy wrote: > > I just made a report with samsongo...@sugarlabs.org > -- > From: d...@lab6.com > Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 07:20:24 -0400 > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] facebook verification > To: samsongo...@hotmail.com > CC: sam.pa

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Newbie on Sugar

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
On 2 May 2016 at 05:06, Sean DALY wrote: > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Tony Anderson > wrote: > >> I suppose on Windows, Notepad+ is still the best choice. I haven't worked >> on a Mac for twenty years and so - no help. > > > > FWIW, I like PSPad on Windows and TextWrangler on Mac OS, both h

Re: [Sugar-devel] facebook verification

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 2 May 2016 at 05:38, samson goddy wrote: > I looked and couldn't find any way to verify through the fb account I have > > > I guess it already taken care of by Dave Crossland. > No, I am still waiting for the sugarlabs.org website to be updated with the contents of th

Re: [Sugar-devel] facebook verification

2016-05-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I think the best thing to do is for someone with an @sugarlabs.org email to fill in this form, https://support.twitter.com/forms/trademark What is the US trademark registration number? What is the trademarked goods and services class number? On 2 May 2016 at 07:16, samson goddy wrote: > R

Re: [Sugar-devel] facebook verification

2016-05-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 1 May 2016 at 19:35, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 1 May 2016 at 18:49, samson goddy wrote: > >> are we going to take the same step for the twitter verification? > > > Sure. > It seems per http://muddyrhino.com/how-to-get-a-verified-twitter-account/

Re: [Sugar-devel] facebook verification

2016-05-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 1 May 2016 at 18:49, samson goddy wrote: > are we going to take the same step for the twitter verification? Sure. Who has a login for the https://twitter.com/sugarlabs account? The pagebook account is currently https://www.facebook.com/SugarLabs-187845102582/ which isn't ideal. FB has a re

Re: [Sugar-devel] facebook verification

2016-05-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 1 May 2016 at 14:46, samson goddy wrote: > here is the username and password Since this is posted to the public list I changed it ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] facebook verification

2016-05-01 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 30 April 2016 at 16:25, samson goddy wrote: > I and Dave are doing the proposal to get the facebook page verified here > is the pull request from github. Sean i guess you have to approve this. > https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/pull/21 > I've merged this, and Sam said he'll set

Re: [Sugar-devel] [support-gang] Screenshot of gnome desktop (OLPC OS)

2016-04-29 Thread Dave Crossland
Is there a suitable FAQ page on the wiki to add this to? On Apr 29, 2016 7:32 PM, "Tony Anderson" wrote: > Sebastian, > > Thanks. I had vaguely remembered making some screen shots in gnome - that > was how I did it. > I'll forward this info. > > Tony > > On 04/29/2016 09:34 PM, Sebastian Silva wr

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

2016-04-29 Thread Dave Crossland
Sorry, I meant the GSOC motion, which Walter said was via private email https://docs.google.com/document/d/16jIFuZ9bX-Bv675BpA1KmcEcRcX4PRCOUEX0ICRUkOc/edit?usp=asogm is Caryl's ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.su

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding working in font editor activity

2016-04-29 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Harshita! Welcome!! :D I've added you to the https://github.com/sugarlabs/font-editor-activity repo, and Yash has added his proposal to the gh-pages branch. Please check it out, set up a Sugar development environment, and try out the code in the repo's master branch. Also please see http://li

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

2016-04-28 Thread Dave Crossland
+eli, sugar-devel Hi Yash Hope you are doing well and your exams are good :) Eli and I just got an email from the GSOC team that sets out some things that you should do in the next 2 weeks as part of the 'community bonding' period: - Becoming familiar with the community practices and processes.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Discussion platform

2016-04-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27 April 2016 at 09:32, Utkarsh Tiwari wrote: > What would you guys suggest? > I suggest preparing a docker file for loomio with Sugar Labs branding/configs, and then setting it up with motions for the next SLOB meeting - which I think are listed on the wiki :) ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] Discussion platform

2016-04-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27 April 2016 at 13:55, Venketesh Mahapatra < mahapatra.venket...@gmail.com> wrote: > I personally think gitter is a better choice. at least the #sugar should > be moved to gitter. > Perhaps a better web based IRC client could be offered, like www.Shout-IRC.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar On Broadway?

2016-04-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26 April 2016 at 18:34, Sebastian Silva wrote: > That was a rough uncommitted patch... > > Hopefully we'll have merge requests for it soon :-) > Sure, I guess I'm encouraging the adoption of modern practices where-ever I can :D I'm very excited about Broadway and Sugar!! :D _

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar On Broadway?

2016-04-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26 April 2016 at 16:57, Sebastian Silva wrote: > Forgot to attach the rough patch... > Patches on a mailing list, hehehe I haven't seen that in a few years :D Please do post a link to a git branch :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.s

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar On Broadway?

2016-04-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26 April 2016 at 16:19, Sebastian Silva wrote: > A real product would need some product design and a sustainability > strategy. > Sugar Labs can sell access to a hosted version to 1st world parents at $10/month. ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-de

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar On Broadway?

2016-04-26 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 26 April 2016 at 16:08, Manash Raja wrote: > > Ya, I tried running sugar on bradwayd just today itself and was about to > ask Sebastian about it. Got surprised to see this thread :) > Great minds think alike - or fools seldom differ??? : D > 1) How and where will this feature be used. >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar On Broadway?

2016-04-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26 April 2016 at 15:36, Sebastian Silva wrote: > I posted this idea to the > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2016 but we got not student > proposals for it. > OH! Wow Haha I must have seen that but not actually registered it in my mind :) Sorry!! :D __

[Sugar-devel] Sugar On Broadway?

2016-04-26 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi I wonder if anyone has tried running Sugar under broadway? If you haven't heard of broadway, its a part of the GTK+3 project that allows interacting with GTK+3 applications through a browser, using VNC-style techniques. It seems this might be an interesting alternative to Sugarizer for making

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

2016-04-25 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 25 April 2016 at 07:42, Devin wrote: > *If* GitLab and/or trac, for example, had the features of GitHub and had > a plugin that weeded out spam would it *then* be preferable to GitHub? > Not for me: The primary reason Github is preferable for me is that it is the system used by almost all

Re: [Sugar-devel] slider puzzles

2016-04-24 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25 April 2016 at 01:16, Tony Anderson wrote: > Indeed, oh noble vision! Can we get someone to create a 'pledge of > allegiance'. Something about 'I promise never to use my computer for useful > work. I will devote all of my attention to development of ever more eye and > ear-catching bells and

Re: [Sugar-devel] slider puzzles

2016-04-24 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 25 April 2016 at 00:54, Tony Anderson wrote: > I could find six: Browse, Log, Read, Record, Terminal, and Write in > 13.2.5. > It seems only Browse is on Github today - https://github.com/sugarlabs/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=activity I guess migrating the others is part and parcel of decidin

Re: [Sugar-devel] slider puzzles

2016-04-24 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25 April 2016 at 00:06, Chris Leonard wrote: > I am working on compiling a canonical list of activities AWESOME :D ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] slider puzzles

2016-04-24 Thread Dave Crossland
On 24 April 2016 at 21:48, Tony Anderson wrote: > The 'official' list is ASLO. (activities.sugarlabs.org). > I'm not sure that is an official list, since anyone can upload anything there :) > There are eight activities which have been made non-erasable suggesting > they are considered an integ

Re: [Sugar-devel] slider puzzles

2016-04-24 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Sam! On 24 April 2016 at 21:33, Sam Parkinson wrote: > Most activities are not under the sugarlabs org. I'm not really sure > which is better, but the previous idea seemed to be: > > github.com/sugarlabs == maintained by sugarlabs. Not all activities are > at all related to sugarlabs. => b

Re: [Sugar-devel] slider puzzles

2016-04-24 Thread Dave Crossland
On 24 April 2016 at 17:31, Walter Bender wrote: > There was a GCI project (See > https://github.com/Boquete/activity-sliderpuzzle ) to clean up slider > puzzle. > Seems like it should be in the sugarlabs org, so I filed https://github.com/Boquete/activity-sliderpuzzle/issues/1 :) ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] Javascript Activities

2016-04-24 Thread Dave Crossland
On 24 April 2016 at 16:06, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 24.04.2016, at 06:41, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 23 April 2016 at 22:52, wrote: > >> E-Toys is just a black screen on my Note 5. >> > > That's a pity! Etoys seems to me to be one of the most important

Re: [Sugar-devel] Javascript Activities

2016-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 23 April 2016 at 22:52, wrote: > E-Toys is just a black screen on my Note 5. > That's a pity! Etoys seems to me to be one of the most important yet undervalued Sugar Activities :) The "Squeakers DVD" in http://squeakland.org/resources/audioVisual/ is cool, shows how powerful it can be fo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

2016-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20 April 2016 at 09:04, Dave Crossland wrote: > How to decide? ? :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Javascript Activities

2016-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On 23 April 2016 at 23:12, Tony Anderson wrote: > Please send this information to Lionel Laske (lio...@olpc-france.org). > Better, file it as an issue in https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer/issues :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] Javascript Activities

2016-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
On 23 April 2016 at 22:14, wrote: > Once Sugarizer is more mature I'll probably target it directly, but right > now it doesn't seem like its there yet. What do you think "there" would be like? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.o

Re: [Sugar-devel] New Sugar labs website

2016-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! On 23 April 2016 at 16:11, Utkarsh Tiwari wrote: > I have updated SugarLabs GSoC'16 wiki with the list of > the accepted projects/students and their assigned mentors. I'll soon > add my proposal PDF on that page and will ask others students for the > same. > Great! ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] New Sugar labs website

2016-04-23 Thread Dave Crossland
Venketesh and Sanchit, I suggest signing in to Github and 'watching' the https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs repo, so that you get email notifications of all comments there, and then participate in the issues and pull requests as you are able, along with participating in the IEAP, Marketing

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 21 April 2016 at 11:13, Sanchit Bansal wrote: > Should I push it and will it be merged into master ? Make a pull request :) https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.suga

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Dave Crossland
On 21 April 2016 at 09:36, Sean DALY wrote: > what's the best way to comment/point out an issue? Do I need to create an > account with Github or will my SL wiki account work? Yes, create a github account and file issues in https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/issues :) ___

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Dave Crossland
rs in marketing, but that's very unusual for > FLOSS projects :-) > > In fact the homepage does cycle the logo variants - that's good! > > There are typos in the text though... who can fix those? > > I am relieved to see that the press page survived at its perma

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-21 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 21 April 2016 at 09:08, Sean DALY wrote: > I didn't realize the existing site had been scrapped already. > I would like to ask you to be more positive about the new members of the community being enthusiastic about contributing. > FWIW, the Sugar branding calls for randomly switching be

Re: [Sugar-devel] Vision

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! On 20 April 2016 at 19:16, James Cameron wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 06:54:58PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > > Is it possible to configure the swap to run on the SD card, which, if > failing > > due to thrashing, can easily be replaced? > > When OLPC

Re: [Sugar-devel] Vision

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 20 April 2016 at 22:32, James Cameron wrote: > No, not at all. There are plenty of ways to test a fix that do not > involve images. Images are the unicorn again. > ... I feel very frustrated. I need fun, and humor, and friendly, happy vibes. I would like to ask you to PLEASE be courteo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 20 April 2016 at 19:58, James Cameron wrote: > Solution 1 is a change that may lose ticket reporters, > Hmm, do you mean people will refuse to report tickets because its Github? > and creates an > environment where instead of there being one place to report tickets, > the place to repor

Re: [Sugar-devel] Vision

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 20 April 2016 at 18:27, James Cameron wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 05:22:21PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > > On 20 April 2016 at 16:46, James Cameron <[1]qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > > the performance ratio between our low-cost &

Re: [Sugar-devel] Vision

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20 April 2016 at 16:46, James Cameron wrote: > the performance ratio between our low-cost > low-power hardware and the competition was already evident on Fedora > Linux; it didn't need Windows to expose it > Sorry if this is an obvious question, but, can anything done to make Sugar feel faste

Re: [Sugar-devel] Samson's proposal to SLOBs

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! Its been 2 weeks since this thread was last updated; has anything else happened to move the proposal forward? Am I right that this will be decided on at the next SLOB meeting? Samson, some more questions below: On 6 April 2016 at 08:00, samson goddy wrote: > Thanks for the question Dave,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Samson's proposal to SLOBs

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20 April 2016 at 13:45, Chris Leonard wrote: > A hypothetical Translate Activity would be a > logical extension of the Sugar HIG concept of showing source code and > have substantial potential ot reach an even wider audience than we do > currently and by implementing a unique "bootstrapping" c

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20 April 2016 at 11:11, Venketesh Mahapatra < mahapatra.venket...@gmail.com> wrote: > MediaWiki: a custom bootstrap skin can be used which will match the > website. It is optional because many people are habituated with the old > one. link: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:BootStrapSkin >

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20 April 2016 at 11:11, Venketesh Mahapatra < mahapatra.venket...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mozilla addons - I think a better alternative may be instantsearchJS > https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch.js/ . It is faster and the UX > is pretty good. > I'm not sure that is an alternative to ad

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20 April 2016 at 09:54, Justin Overton wrote: > - It would be easier for new developers to find and contribute if it were > on github I agree, this is my primary reason for proposing (1) also: I think the primary problem facing Sugar Labs is the small developer community, and so I think cons

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20 April 2016 at 09:21, Vishal Batchu wrote: > is it possible to let the developer community know why you, Walter and > James are in favour of solution 1 whereas Devin and Sam are in favour of > solution 2? Please read the thread :) http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2016-April/

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 20 April 2016 at 08:35, Walter Bender wrote: > While SLOB can vote on this, personally I think it is up to the developer > community to decide. Sure, that's reasonable. How does the developer community resolve conflicts? > Can you summarize the recent discussion to date and ask for a t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Regarding GSoC proposal

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Utkash! It is too late, but don't worry :) On 20 April 2016 at 08:44, Utkarsh Tiwari wrote: > Hi, > > I guess it's too late for this but I couldn't add the 'screenshot' > popup prototype I developed to my proposal :( Is there anything I > could do fix it? > > Regards, > Utkarsh Tiwari >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Vision

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20 April 2016 at 00:48, James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:33:44PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > Interestingly OLPC also offer XO-4s today with either Fedora+Sugar, > > or Android, or Windows XP. > > No, we only build them with Fedora + Sugar + Gnom

Re: [Sugar-devel] Vision

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Manash! On 20 April 2016 at 01:04, Manash Raja wrote: > I would like to add a few thoughts. > Thank you! :D > I am a new member to the community and from my personal experience I found > that when it comes to contribution, it is quite difficult at the beginning > to align with the vision o

Re: [Sugar-devel] Vision

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20 April 2016 at 01:52, Sam Parkinson wrote: > > But Gtk+ is actually fine. > Does it run on iOS and Android? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Issue tracking on Github?

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
e it is contentious, it requires a SLOBs vote. I'll draft a motion. -- Forwarded message ------ From: Dave Crossland Date: 20 April 2016 at 08:28 Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Any js related beginner bugs that I can work on To: sugar-devel On 20 April 2016 at 04:59, Love Mehta wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Any js related beginner bugs that I can work on

2016-04-20 Thread Dave Crossland
On 20 April 2016 at 04:59, Love Mehta wrote: > I was feeling really dumb after not being able to find any bugs I could > work on. > I'm glad you would speak on this list to say that - another good reason for shutting down trac and moving the issue tracking to github since the source code is ther

Re: [Sugar-devel] Vision

2016-04-19 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19 April 2016 at 23:14, Justin Overton wrote: > I did look to see if I could find a way to buy an XO-4, but I ended up > rooting my chromebook instead. It mostly runs fine on the chromebook, but > several of the apps don't work. EToys, Speech, and a couple of others. Cool! I think Sugar Lab

Re: [Sugar-devel] Vision

2016-04-19 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! I'm adding back the list - I feel annoyed that the SL lists are currently configured for reply-to-sender-only, but the systems team rejected my proposal to change this. Does it bother you? :) The other question I'm curious to ask you is, would you buy an XO-4 for your kids if they were avail

Re: [Sugar-devel] Vision

2016-04-19 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19 April 2016 at 22:19, Tony Anderson wrote: > Sebastian Silva has just given us a way to leverage the library of Sugar > activities outside of Sugar, another way to extend the benefits of the > Sugar community. This is https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/FreeDesktop_integration and is li

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Fwd: GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-19 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19 April 2016 at 15:01, Sanchit Bansal wrote: > How do you guys like the slider to the show the three main images of the > website or I should do something else ? > > What do you think ? > If the images are in a scrolling page that is simple - like today - or fading in, like https://www.withc

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Fwd: GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-19 Thread Dave Crossland
On 19 April 2016 at 04:47, Sean DALY wrote: > Hopefully the MIT Sloan conclusions will be taken into account > Yes, https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team#MIT_Sloan_MarketLab_Study is GREAT! :) ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
On 18 April 2016 at 22:00, Tony Anderson wrote: > OLE Nepal later converted the squeak activities to html5/javascript > because to speed up execution and reduce the memory size of the activities. THAT is interesting! :) Thanks! ___ Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Gonzalo Could you help explain this? :) On 18 April 2016 at 19:33, James Cameron wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 06:37:49PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote: > > > > On 18 April 2016 at 17:48, James Cameron <[1]qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > > [2]

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 18 April 2016 at 18:21, Sam P. wrote: > Content is genuinely the most important. No matter how nice your design > is, no new visitor will be able to get what sugarlabs is by looking at your > site - it simply doesn't say it! I agree 100%, however, as I understood it, I think Juan Carlos

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi On 18 April 2016 at 15:04, Juan Carlos Murillo wrote: > > In addition to Sugar Labs main webpage, Wiki, Planet, and the Translation > webpages, which other websites do you think will need to be redesigned? > I would prioritize/order them as: homepage, activities.sugarlabs.org, wiki, lists, p

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC 2016 Website Redesign

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
On 18 April 2016 at 17:48, James Cameron wrote: > help.sugarlabs.org > How is this generated? ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
On 18 April 2016 at 16:01, Justin Overton wrote: > Is this the correct place for the current javascript development? > https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-web > That's the python wrapper that allows web-platform activities to run within a full Sugar Desktop. There's also a js wrapper that allows

Re: [Sugar-devel] Active development

2016-04-18 Thread Dave Crossland
On 18 April 2016 at 11:47, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Etoys is arguably a World of activities. > In theory there's no difference between theory and practice. Let me put this another way: I am new to SmallTalk and it makes grand claims, yet I can not see much real world impact. It seems like it

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