Hi,
I am not a dyslexia expert, maybe a bit more that average.
idea 1
Today I read in a newspaper that it helps people
to let them hear what they (words not the characters).
People made commerial software for and improved really
the performance of kids.
idea 2
typetrainers (learning to type
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 09:34 +0200, Marten Vijn wrote:
Hi,
I am not a dyslexia expert, maybe a bit more that average.
idea 1
Today I read in a newspaper that it helps people
to let them hear what they (words not the characters).
__^ type*
*Actually I do knwo a lot
On 16.09.2009, at 03:11, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Bert,
On 16 Sep 2009, at 00:51, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
I want to find a datastore entry with a specific title and mime_type.
But it returns *all* entries with that mimetype instead. Here's the
log:
1253058031.600170 DEBUG root:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:09, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 16.09.2009, at 03:11, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Bert,
On 16 Sep 2009, at 00:51, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
I want to find a datastore entry with a specific title and mime_type.
But it returns *all* entries with that
On 16.09.2009, at 13:48, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:09, Bert Freudenberg
b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 16.09.2009, at 03:11, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Bert,
On 16 Sep 2009, at 00:51, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
I want to find a datastore entry with a specific title and
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 14:05, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 16.09.2009, at 13:48, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:09, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de
wrote:
On 16.09.2009, at 03:11, Gary C Martin wrote:
Hi Bert,
On 16 Sep 2009, at 00:51, Bert
On 16.09.2009, at 14:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
Right now we only index what the journal needs, see the _PREFIX_
constants below:
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-datastore/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/carquinyol/indexstore.py#line32
That's good info. Can you say in which version
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 14:22, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 16.09.2009, at 14:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
Right now we only index what the journal needs, see the _PREFIX_
constants below:
On 16.09.2009, at 14:40, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 14:22, Bert Freudenberg
b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 16.09.2009, at 14:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
Right now we only index what the journal needs, see the _PREFIX_
constants below:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 14:50, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 16.09.2009, at 14:40, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 14:22, Bert Freudenberg
b...@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 16.09.2009, at 14:11, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
Right now we only index what the journal needs,
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 20:04, Caroline Meeks
carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote:
I'd like to announce to just the sugar development list at this point.
We are ready for the first tests of backup and restore on a Sugar Stick. We
will be using this code for both Sugaronastick.com and the GPA but
As Sean and Martin point out the consequences of this decision extend
past SoaS. The effects seem to centre on four levels:
1. Procedural.
2. Mission, Vision, and Values.
3. Operations.
4. SoaS the project.
As we work through the levels, a pretty good decision _should_ emerge.
Procedural--
As
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:08 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
As Sean and Martin point out the consequences of this decision extend
past SoaS. The effects seem to centre on four levels:
1. Procedural.
2. Mission, Vision, and Values.
3. Operations.
4. SoaS the project.
2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com:
Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an
official answer on this. Soon.
Is the current SoaS going to be the primary way Sugar Labs distributes a
Sugar-centric GNU/Linux distribution?
Isn't there a wider question first?
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:24, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com:
Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an
official answer on this. Soon.
Is the current SoaS going to be the primary way Sugar Labs distributes a
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:24, Daniel Drake wrote:
2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas:
Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an
official answer on this. Soon.
Is the current SoaS going to be the primary way Sugar Labs distributes a
Sugar-centric GNU/Linux distribution?
I went to a talk at the Hauser Nonprofit Institute at Harvard yesterday.
Someone asked a question the director, who teachers nonprofit
administration, about why they choose the 5 areas they focused on. he said:
Some people think the opposite of Strategic Management is bad management.
Actually
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:38, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)
boche...@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:24, Daniel Drake wrote:
2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas:
Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an
official answer on this. Soon.
Is the current SoaS
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:24, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com:
Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an
official answer on this. Soon.
Art,
Being a frugal person I do all my home computing on legacy machines
like the ones you've tested with. As far as SoaS is concerned, I
agree with your conclusions. I got better results than you did with
my Pentium III because I've installed a USB 2.0 expansion card on it.
I haven't tried a
Hi,
the other day I passed maintenance of the Journal and the Datastore to
Aleksey, who has been doing already a great job at helping with new
features, bug fixes, design discussions and all the rest of what makes
a maintainer.
But I would like to warn that Aleksey codes very fast and lives very
2009/9/16 Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com:
Sebastian,
I have a similar question. What I want to know is, when I am finally
able to upgrade my XO from .82 to something better, will I use SoaS to
do it? Or will I be able to do upgrades over the network as I have
done in the past?
You will
Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:24, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com:
Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an
official answer on this. Soon.
Is the current SoaS going to be the primary way Sugar Labs
This is a basic question I have as well.
Art Hunkins
- Original Message -
From: Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com
To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; Sebastian Dziallas
s...@sugarlabs.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] SLOBs Position on SoaS
Hi all,
Benjamin Berg has accepted becoming the maintainer of sugar-artwork.
He is the main developer of the GTK+ theme that gives the Sugar look
to our UI controls and one of the most knowledgeable people on GTK+
theming.
Also, Gary has became a peer of the sugar-artwork module, where he
will
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 17:11, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote:
Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:24, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com:
Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an
official
2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com:
Args! I notice that what I asked could have been misunderstood. I didn't
mean to imply SoaS being only way of distributing Sugar. That's out of
question and was never my intention. I apologize for any confusion if this
feeling has been created.
Hi Jim,
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:31:19AM -0500, Jim Simmons wrote:
I have a similar question. What I want to know is, when I am finally
able to upgrade my XO from .82 to something better, will I use SoaS to
do it? Or will I be able to do upgrades over the network as I have
done in the
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Daniel Drake wrote:
I wonder, though, if the current SoaS is going to be the primary
LiveUSB distribution of Sugar supported by upstream (known as SoaS).
I think Sugar should treat all downstreams equally, so there would be no
primary distro. But users/deployments may
Caroline Meeks wrote:
[...] snip!
I agree with Daniel's
question. Sebastian, what is your theory of change here? What do you think
we should do and why does doing it and doing it now as an official strategic
decision get us closer to having all the world's children use Sugar?
So well. I
On 2009-09-16, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com:
I wonder, though, if the current SoaS is going to be the primary LiveUSB
distribution of Sugar supported by upstream (known as SoaS).
I think Sugar should treat all downstreams equally, so
Isn't there a wider question first? the one that asks if Sugar Labs is
actually interested in being a distributor rather than just an
upstream.
Sugar Labs needs to be a distributor because:
1) You need a product to market. The comparison with Gnome does not hold.
There have always been
SoaS is a game-changer. In a world where approximately 93% of desktops
run a version of Windows, 5% run a version of Mac OSX, and GNU/Linux
distros make up the remaining 1-2%, SoaS offers the possibility to
boot on 90% of them and run in a VM in the other 10%. Not to mention
reader devices neither
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote:
Art,
Being a frugal person I do all my home computing on legacy machines
like the ones you've tested with. As far as SoaS is concerned, I
agree with your conclusions. I got better results than you did with
my Pentium
2009/9/16 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net:
Isn't there a wider question first? the one that asks if Sugar Labs is
actually interested in being a distributor rather than just an
upstream.
Sugar Labs needs to be a distributor because:
I disagree.
1) You need a product to market. The
Hi Sebastian,
In my opinion, Sugar Labs has about four options how to act wrt
SoaS.
(1) SL decides the current SoaS to be *the* SoaS and enforces the
brand. (Did you know that you're able to lose a trademark when
not enforcing it?) Exceptions could be granted by a
2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com:
Now it comes to what I think is important in a project. And that is - also -
certainty and trust. Those are pretty important factors. For developers, as
well as for users, to know where one stands.
Personally i would just get on with it and let
2009/9/16 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
That's true for SoaS, Sugar and for any other FOSS project, but I
think it's a reasonable request to ask for some explicit commitment
from the umbrella organization, just to not have to switch orgs every
release.
What kind of commitment do you have
This note is only tangentially a response to Peter Robinson's...
Here's my thought process...
Computer technology can improve education for children.
Collaboration (i.e. Sugar) and free software (i.e. Linux) is the best
way to make this happen.
The question is how do we get educators/schools
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 18:37, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/9/16 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
That's true for SoaS, Sugar and for any other FOSS project, but I
think it's a reasonable request to ask for some explicit commitment
from the umbrella organization, just to not have
2009/9/16 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
I cannot speak for Sebastian nor the whole SoaS community, but
something like making SoaS an official project in SLs could go a long
way. This would mean saying that Sugar on a Stick is a project with
this vision, this mission, this roadmap, this
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 18:58, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
2009/9/16 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org:
I cannot speak for Sebastian nor the whole SoaS community, but
something like making SoaS an official project in SLs could go a long
way. This would mean saying that Sugar on a Stick
Activity Homepage:
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4197
Sugar Platform:
from 0.82 to 0.86
Download Now:
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/version/29238
Release notes:
27
* added exception for gconf for old builds
26
* fixed toolbar display bug
* cleaned up sound record code
*
Peter Robinson wrote:
2009/9/16 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net:
1) You need a product to market. The comparison with Gnome does not hold.
There have always been distributions that made Gnome their official desktop
environment, even very early on. That is not the case for Sugar. Whether in
Hi,
this may interest you:
http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2009/09/some-pics-from-the-new-gnome-activity-journal/
We are going to meet with some of the Zeitgeist team in Bolzano later
this year and we'll talk about ways to work together.
Regards,
Tomeu
--
«Sugar Labs is anyone who participates
Hi Aleksey,
this may be a source for ideas if we decide to drop gtk.TreeView in
the Journal for 0.88:
http://abock.org/2007/06/27/my-hack-week-the-new-banshee
Regards,
Tomeu
--
«Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar.
What Sugar Labs does is determined by the
It is now possible to install Sugar-Desktop ONLY to a Hard disk using
the F11 net install .iso.
It is no longer required to have Gnome or KDE as a companion
desktop.
So we do have a Sugar-Desktop distribution already in F11.
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
Peter Robinson wrote:
2009/9/16
First, by secondary, I did not mean to imply second class. I use KDE on both
Ubuntu and Fedora. And I know they are not in anyway second class citizens
on either distribution. In this case, secondary meant alternate, other,
whatever is not the default. I apologize if I wasn't clear.
It seems
The fonts in your list that render as tiny letters that all
overprint are mainly fixed-size bitmap console fonts that should not
be used in a GUI.
I don't understand why Lucida Typewriter would have a problem, nor do
I understand why only one Lucida font is inclueded in SOAS. The Lucida
family of
I admit to having some difficulties understanding why you would want to keep
Sugar as an upstream only. Perhaps the arguments have already been made.
I'm a late comer to the list so I am certainly unaware of what's been
discussed prior to my joining in July. If so could someone please give me
Two questions:
1) Is there a difference between Fedora 11 and SoaS with regard to how many
sound cards are supported?
2) Would it be possible to configure a SoaS USB drive so that the unused
portion could function as a swap drive?
Frankly, if a full Fedora 11 supported more sound cards and
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
Personally i would just get on with it and let the code do the talking...
Produce the best distribution that you can and people will use,
respect and protect it.
+1.
Sebastian -- you have unending respect from both
Art,
Sugar on the XO does not have a swap partition because swapping to
disk would quickly wear out the solid state drive. You'd have the
same problem on a thumb drive, plus swapping to a drive connected to a
USB 1.0 port would not be fast. Now the other idea of checking to see
if the computer
Jonas,
As an Activity developer I want to have my stuff run well for as many
children as possible. As an XO owner I want my XO set up as much as
possible like the XOs out in the field, so I can be sure that children
with XOs have the best experience possible. .82 has some serious
deficiencies:
Is there any reason to prefer ejabberd on the server rather than another
Jabber server? I am thinking of using jabberd2 instead.
I can't seem to wrap my head around ejabberd's configuration file but I am
quite comfortable with the xml used by jabberd2.
--
Philippe
--
The trouble with
2009/9/16 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net
Is there any reason to prefer ejabberd on the server rather than another
Jabber server? I am thinking of using jabberd2 instead.
From what I can understand, ejabberd was the only jabber server which
supported Sugar collaboration extensions.
--
No, not really. We are not big enough for the major vendors to keep
on us their watch list.
If you ping me with what you need off list, I can help you with
ZaReason contacts.
david
2009/9/16 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net:
:-)
Does anybody have any pull with HP? For some incomprehensible
Bill Bogstad wrote:
This note is only tangentially a response to Peter Robinson's...
Here's my thought process...
Computer technology can improve education for children.
Collaboration (i.e. Sugar) and free software (i.e. Linux) is the best
way to make this happen.
The question is
Bill Bogstad wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote:
Art,
Being a frugal person I do all my home computing on legacy machines
like the ones you've tested with. As far as SoaS is concerned, I
agree with your conclusions. I got better results than you
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 06:36:45PM -0500, Philippe Cl??ri?? wrote:
Does anybody have any pull with HP?
Not any more, I was retrenched a couple of months ago.
For some incomprehensible reason they
refuse to deliver the Mini 110 to Haiti.
Try asking them why.
Not all models are sold in all
=== Sugar Digest ===
1. At the urging of Yama Ploskonka, I went to Washington to the
Interamerican Development Bank (IADB) to attend a seminar
[http://www.iadb.org/news/detail.cfm?Language=Englishid=5654],
“Reinventing the Classroo: Social and Educational Impact of the
Incorporation of
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Douglas McClendon
d...@filteredperception.org wrote:
Bill Bogstad wrote:
[swapping on hard disk with SoaS
Anybody want to code/script this up?
does /etc/rc.d/init.d/livesys (search for swapon) in f11/soas not already do
just that?
I just checked both F11
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Douglas McClendon
dmc.su...@filteredperception.org wrote:
Bill Bogstad wrote:
...
I also don't think we can leave Sugar LiveUSB to any distribution.
My impression is that both LiveCD and LiveUSB Linux distributions are
essentially gimmicks for all of them.
I
hi roshan
actually, Bryan and Christoph have been worked on the html files,
so, I'm a little unfamiliar with them. ie. I don't if my changes will affect
other documents
anyway I will take a look of those pages.
thanks :)
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:27 AM, roshan karki ros...@olenepal.org wrote:
Felipe,
I noticed that you said we are using Javascript 1.8 for Karma.
I strongly recommend that we stick w/ Javascript 1.6 or even 1.5
Only Firefox supports Js 1.8. Chrome does not and Safari does not.
Chrome does seem to support some aspects of Js 1.8 like
map(), filter() , some(),
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com wrote:
As for swap, if you are repurposing discarded machines on any kind of
scale you are going to end up with non-functional machines which are a
great source of parts. Strip the RAM from the dead machines and
upgrade the
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Gerald Ardito gerald.ard...@gmail.com wrote:
Walter,
Your report from the meeting from Washington is inspiring. Particularly, the
what are we waiting for.
+1
As you know, I am in the process of documenting similar outcomes as part of
a doctoral study for a
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