On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Claudia Urrea clau...@laptop.org wrote:
Have you tried the Portfolio Activity? teachers can ask
the students to start putting together their work of the
wee, reflecting on what they did
^^
Great typo :)
I second the suggestion to use Portfolio. It's
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On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote:
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 04:30:08AM -0500, Samuel Klein
:37 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Terminal is currently hidden by default on many builds. How about
unhiding
it or replacing it with an activity that offers more of an intro to the
command line?
It is an important tool for understanding how your computer works
, is waiting for you.
Why do you think there are a wrong message here?
Gonzalo
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Then it makes more sense to me to say once you have learned how to su
olpc, you can use terminal to hack your user experience rather than once
Terminal is currently hidden by default on many builds. How about unhiding
it or replacing it with an activity that offers more of an intro to the
command line?
It is an important tool for understanding how your computer works.
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I understand why Scratch isn't hosted on aslo at present, but it would be
nice if it were hosted in a fashion that supported discovery of and
review/discussion of it. Scratch is Sugar's most popular programming
activity, after all...
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Thomas C Gilliard
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Scratch doesn't seem to be on ASLO. On the other hand, when I sign in and
try to upload it, I am told the file is already in the system. Can
someone link me to it?
It is ***really hard*** to find the link to upload an activity. Can this
be added in a few more places? If you don't think to
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, too) than fix it.
What version of Sugar is this, BTW? 11.2 isn't a valid Sugar version.
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An aside about Physics - it was used with great happiness by the
children in Gaza, and features in some of the photos we just got back
from there. More as soon as we have release to publish them :-)
SJ
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Hi Asaf,
On 28
Nicholas,
That's great. I'll try to test that on my upcoming bus trip...
copying the sugar devel list as well. Tim, can you ask your
colleagues active in Haiti to test this as well?
SJ
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Nicholas Doiron
ndoi...@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
Hi everyone,
The beta
at 00:21, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:07, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com
wrote:
I think we are looking at a great probortunity here. We have a project
My mind balks at that word
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:07, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
I think we are looking at a great probortunity here. We have a project
My mind balks at that word, but I agree with this message wholeheartedly.
,
Read Etexts, View Slides, Get IA Books, Get Books, how to download
books with Browse, working with e-books in the Journal, etc. I still
have to get through the current book, and that will take awhile.
James Simmons
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Jim
From a different library list. For those who don't know her, Allison Druin
among other things runs a children's testing lab where various sorts of
products and interfaces are tested by children (in Maryland and in 1 or 2
sister institutions around the globe). If you like this talk, she also
Bumping up this recent thread on the bookreader list about text-to-speech.
Mike and Gregor, in case you haven't seen what's currently possible:
I believe James S's Read Etexts uses speech-dispatcher to read selected
text. Aleksey and others may have done further work with espeak... I've
included
Ditto :)
I will be showing off Sayamindu's new work at the Making Books
Apparent event in San Francisco next Monday night. If any of you are
in the area, let me know and I'll make sure you get an invitation.
Now we need to encourage more people to organize OPDS servers of
children's works, and
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Martin Dengler
mar...@martindengler.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:03:37AM -0400, Mel Chua wrote:
Sebastien's original question[2] is unanswered perhaps because it's
been deemed maybe-already-answered[3] or peripheral
To the contrary, it seems to me
I volunteer. I don't have a strong opinion yet, but am interested in
the future of SoaS. When I give talks about OLPC and Sugar, there are
almost always audience members who have used it.
SJ
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
Hi all,
Sebastian Dziallas has
Mel - thanks for this delightful and thoughtful post. I agree with
most of the points you and your aunt raise.
Ben says, about 'Friendly' and 'Consistent':
These two things sound pretty much the same to me.
They also sound absolutely impossible, taken strictly.
Taking a more relaxed
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Sayamindu Dasguptasayami...@gmail.com wrote:
First of all, a PDF is pretty much just well-behaved postscript.
You can embed that in more postscript. The user can thus scribble
all over the document.
In this context, I have been playing around with Read +
Journal needs to cover these features (whatever they resolve to be). Every
activity author should not be inventing various implementations of a book
shelf UI concepts for dealing with a monoculture 'collection' of objects.
Imagine if I wanted to put together a 'collection' of Physics
Interop is important. It would be useful to be interoperable with the
default OCW format as well : an imsmanifest xml file in the root
directory.
I'd recommend eventually moving to a manifest format that supports
including a number of other files -- so whatever location Sugar / the
Journal looks
Missing here is a way to handily install/uninstall a named set of works from
your journal/XO.
If you could search through the 2000 books on a usb stick, find 40 results,
copy those into your Journal as a named collection, and later choose to read
individual books (without making na addition
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote:
Journal needs to cover these features (whatever they resolve to be).
That would be handy. I would prefer a standard for /how/ to cover these
features that indivicual activities can implement though -- this could let
This makes perfect sense to me. In particular, Read should be able to read
.xol files and display books contained within them if they are in a
known/readable format. Adding support over time for alternatives to
catalog.atom would not be difficult (there are some learning-objects formats
that
A good point - now's an excellent time to start using it. it can be used
for a soft interaction -- a warning on installation if the activity might
not be compatible.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering whether
Paul -
The sugar development list is a good place to look for someone with
time to help. Extending Write to do what you have in mind may indeed
be the best way to proceed - they had some developers interested in
doing more work for the XO but lacking funds.
SJ
Seth Woodworth wrote:
| Write
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Martin
Langhoffmartin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Simon Schampijersi...@schampijer.de wrote:
Actually I came along this myself the other day. I would propose to have the
file name as the entry title and the 'downloaded from'
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Jonas Smedegaardd...@jones.dk wrote:
What if we developers only announce in developer-oriented forums and
someone else (marketing team?) takes the task of communicating it to
end users?
Hmm. That sounds rigid to me.
I suggest transforming it into this instead:
This sounds good. Making the how-to-upload tutorial more prominent
will help as well. So that new releases such as [[jam2jam]] are put
in the right place... SJ
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz
Guerrerodir...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello David.
That's the best option in my
Sayamindu - I met Peter Brantley last week, who is actively working
with others towards a revised OPDS spec. They are considering local
library v. global library issues, for which an offline OLPC classroom
provides a good example.
A separate epub-reader that can be dropped into Read sounds
Woohoo! Thank you, Bruno... SJ
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Bruno Coudoin bruno.coud...@free.fr wrote:
I just uploaded all the individual activity bundles at the usual place
[1]. Each bundle now contains all the locales as supported by GCompris.
There is also a localized click on letter
I'd prefer to see all meanings for a word within the set of
dictionaries chosen. If you are learning two langs, you should see
relevant words in both languages when you select a string.
SJ
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 13:27,
setup.py has always bugged me for the reasons stated. SJ
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 28.04.2009, at 17:34, Luke Faraone wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:30, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de
wrote:
That would make sense. In fact, I
Calibre is great. Kovid Goyal has expressed some interest in the past
in seeing it on the XO; you could get direct input there. (Kovid, see
below for current bookreader-related work, and Manu's ideas for an
improved interface to one's collections of texts)
SJ
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:09 AM,
Saymindu - is this different from what Browse does (re: providing a
wrapper for launching various activities based on format)? I copy
sugar-devel. SJ
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta sayami...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Samuel Klein s
Thanks, Sayamindu.
I've put bookreaders, improvements to core activities (should offline
email be there?) and schoolserver-related work near the top of the
OLPC list at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_Code/Ideas
Activities that can be used immediately in the field would make
excellent OLPC
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:12 PM, S Page i...@skierpage.com wrote:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XoIRC still points to laptop.org for bundle,
source, POT. Several other migrated activities likewise have incorrect
wiki.laptop.org pages.
Indeed. Please tag those at the top with {{Migrated to
Can someone create a project hosting page for new projects on the sl wiki?
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:29, S Page i...@skierpage.com wrote:
Then http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_hosting is obsolete. What's the
at 3:26 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
I like that part. Are there criteria for removing someone's project
if it's deemed inappropriate?
Not yet, but I assume if someone thinks that somebody else's use of SL
infrastrucutre is not under the project scope we'll discuss it on the
sugar
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:14 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com
wrote:
Im gonna try and make this easy:
SoaS - the latest fedora core based
I tried to impress my 9 year old gescwister... (related one)
Speak - it
This is sweet... SJ
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote:
== Source ==
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/CartoonBuilder/CartoonBuilder-2.tar.bz2
== Bundle ==
http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/CartoonBuilder/CartoonBuilder-2.xo
==
Well, if you mainly want to appeal to / capture memeshare from people
with a serious academic/linguistic/coding bent, you can be as obscure
as you want. Make each name an anagram of a metaphor of something
sugary, followed by the one's digit of the year in which the project
was founded.
Or what
who has access to that list? can we have a public infrastructure
discussion list for issues such as this one? --SJ
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a developer who has been
yeah, pyjamas + sugar needs some serious promotion.SJ
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
http://pyjs.org/
You write in Python and compile into an AJAX-enriched website.
Same code can also run as desktop
for joining in.
SJ
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote:
We've made a few schedule changes today, with talks about
customization, signing, and activation moved to later in the
afternoon, and a longer session on the school server through the
morning.
http
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
I guess Bryan thinks of it as a play on Mathland (in Papert's sense,
not the curriculum of the same name). The name of squeakland.org was
inspired by the same idea:
What would happen if children who can't do math
Let me add:
1. Making collaborative Maze even more awesome.
This is currently the most addictive multiplayer game on the XO, and
it needs a further dusting of crack, including better statistics,
handicaps, c.
2. Making Speak collaboration effective.
This has the potential to be an awesome
will participate in
this thread.
SJ
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote:
On reflection, I think it might be a good thing to make a single
really excellent mentoring framework for people through sugarlabs..
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On reflection, I think it might be a good thing to make a single
really excellent mentoring framework for people through sugarlabs, and
not to have two gsoc programs at all. OLPC will have a good bit of
mentoring to do to look after travelling interns, which is likely to
be a larger program than
I'd use both, until there are other suggestions about how to handle
email overload for people who are working on activities but not sugar
(save to package the result). The activities list is pretty specific,
and was started because of people who couldn't read all of the traffic
on sugar but
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