Re: [Sugar-devel] Docker in Sugar/XO laptop

2015-05-26 Thread James Cameron
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:09:23AM -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote: > BTW the Gimp works fine under Sugar, only missing the ability to be > launched from an icon. I find the prospect of writing wrappers for > every GNU/Linux program absurd and hope Sugar will eventually be a > well behaving freedeskt

Re: [Sugar-devel] Docker in Sugar/XO laptop

2015-05-26 Thread Sebastian Silva
On 26/05/15 09:01, Tony Anderson wrote: > My confusion was the reference to pippy for writing web apps. I assume > the reference to Flask was to > the availability of Python packages to install. My remarks were that > it would be difficult to set up Flask or Django > on a school server and have st

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Sugar-news] Sugar DIgest 2015-05-26

2015-05-26 Thread Martin Abente
I never had to chance to meet Marco but I can say that I only have heard wonderful things about him, as a human being and as an engineer. My most sincere condolences to his family and friends. On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Christoph Derndorfer < christ...@olpcnews.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 26,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Sugar-news] Sugar DIgest 2015-05-26

2015-05-26 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > 1. It is with great sadness that write these words: Marco Presenti Gritti, > the principal Sugar developer from Red Hat from 2006 to 2008 and one of the > founders of Sugar Labs, passed away this past weekend after a long illness. > Marco wa

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar all-hands meeting

2015-05-26 Thread Tony Anderson
+1 On 05/26/2015 09:29 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: Looking at past minutes, I think I am proposing more of a change in procedure than topics for the oversight meeting. We need to get more people involved than are present in the IRC meetings. In general I am echoing what was said on the "Plan

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar all-hands meeting

2015-05-26 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
Looking at past minutes, I think I am proposing more of a change in procedure than topics for the oversight meeting. We need to get more people involved than are present in the IRC meetings. In general I am echoing what was said on the "Planning for the Future" email thread from three months ago.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar DIgest 2015-05-26

2015-05-26 Thread Sameer Verma
Just saw the news as well. https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2015-May/msg00027.html I exchanged a few notes with him about his illness some time ago (my mother had the same. She passed away a few months ago). Marco seemed to be doing better. His work will live on. Sameer On May

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar all-hands meeting

2015-05-26 Thread Walter Bender
The next Sugar Labs oversight board meeting is on Monday. Anyone in the community is, as always, welcome to suggest discussion topics. -walter On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > I know there have been various board and development meetings for Sugar. > > But I would like

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] Sugar all-hands meeting

2015-05-26 Thread Peter Robinson
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > I know there have been various board and development meetings for Sugar. > > But I would like to propose having an "all-hands" meeting where anyone in > the Sugar community as well as related groups (deployments, schoolserver, > etc.) coul

[Sugar-devel] Sugar all-hands meeting

2015-05-26 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
I know there have been various board and development meetings for Sugar. But I would like to propose having an "all-hands" meeting where anyone in the Sugar community as well as related groups (deployments, schoolserver, etc.) could raise a topic and attend. If there are few enough people, we mig

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Fedora 22 is here!

2015-05-26 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi All, Fedora 22, and by association, Sugar on a Stick 22 is now available. To go along with the new SoaS release we have a spiffy new site too. https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/ Full details about the Fedora 22 release is below. Thanks to all for their assistance and hard work in this

Re: [Sugar-devel] Docker in Sugar/XO laptop

2015-05-26 Thread Tony Anderson
I was responding to Sebastian Silva's comment: >You can write full, professional web apps from Pippy, if you have access >to one or two extra python packages ( personal favorite, try Flask > ). The trick is getting to them, which is why >Sam's proposal is quite good, acc

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar DIgest 2015-05-26

2015-05-26 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > 1. It is with great sadness that write these words: Marco Presenti Gritti, > the principal Sugar developer from Red Hat from 2006 to 2008 and one of the > founders of Sugar Labs, passed away this past weekend after a long illness. > Marco w

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 61

2015-05-26 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Sebastian Silva wrote: > On 26/05/15 08:13, Walter Bender wrote: > > The idea from Day One was that the Sugar environment would be for > > exploration and the GNOME desktop would be used for production. > I never read this and I completely disagree. IMHO one shoul

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 61

2015-05-26 Thread Sebastian Silva
On 26/05/15 08:13, Walter Bender wrote: > The idea from Day One was that the Sugar environment would be for > exploration and the GNOME desktop would be used for production. I never read this and I completely disagree. IMHO one should be able to do the same things on either desktop. Of course, this

[Sugar-devel] Sugar DIgest 2015-05-26

2015-05-26 Thread Walter Bender
1. It is with great sadness that write these words: Marco Presenti Gritti, the principal Sugar developer from Red Hat from 2006 to 2008 and one of the founders of Sugar Labs, passed away this past weekend after a long illness. Marco was a brilliant engineer whose work still reverberates throughout

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 61

2015-05-26 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Tony Anderson > wrote: > >> Somewhere I got lost. I had originally understood docker as a mechanism >> to run Sugar on platforms other than an XO. >> >> > You are right. This is a experiment, don;t take it

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 61

2015-05-26 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Tony Anderson wrote: > Somewhere I got lost. I had originally understood docker as a mechanism to > run Sugar on platforms other than an XO. > > You are right. This is a experiment, don;t take it out of proportion. > In learning to program in Python, I lean to

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Musicpainter-14

2015-05-26 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4730 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.104 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/29113/musicpainter-14.xo Release notes: Musicpainter-14 includes full network features, in which the user can share their creations to the worl

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bundlebuilder and mime-type related files

2015-05-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting James Cameron (2015-05-26 10:03:00) > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 08:49:41AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Quoting Martin Abente (2015-05-25 20:21:55) >>> So basically, there are 2 problems. >>> >>> 1. symlinks creation during ./setup.py --install (for installing the >>> mimetypes.xml file

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bundlebuilder and mime-type related files

2015-05-26 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 08:49:41AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Martin Abente (2015-05-25 20:21:55) > > So basically, there are 2 problems. > > > > 1. symlinks creation during ./setup.py --install (for installing the > > mimetypes.xml file .svg icons for mime types declared in > > act