Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread Tony Anderson
It must be a sign of a mature organization that it has so much time to devote to this. Keep in mind, Samson is going to a Scratch conference. As I understand it, Scratch is now based on Flash. The nature of Flash makes 'open source' and 'free software' a bit problematic. Tony On 06/13/2017

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics license mixes GPLv3+ and zlib?

2017-06-13 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 07:22:47PM -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote: > On 13/06/17 17:55, James Cameron wrote: > G'day Sebastian, > > Good evening James, > > Is this license combination compatible? GPLv3+ of Physics with > an embedded binary of pybox2d under a zlib license. > > I've no

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics license mixes GPLv3+ and zlib?

2017-06-13 Thread Sebastian Silva
On 13/06/17 17:55, James Cameron wrote: > G'day Sebastian, Good evening James, > Is this license combination compatible? GPLv3+ of Physics [1] with an > embedded binary of pybox2d [2] under a zlib license. I've no idea why you would ask me this, I am neither a licensing expert nor, yet, a

[Sugar-devel] heading to GUADEC?

2017-06-13 Thread Walter Bender
Any Sugar devels heading to GUADEC? If so, would you be interested in representing Sugar Labs at the GNOME Advisory Board meeting? -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

[Sugar-devel] GSOC project report for week 2

2017-06-13 Thread pericherla seetaramaraju
Hi everyone, I have posted my GSOC project report for the 2nd week on my blog. My blog can be viewed at https://psramarajugsocblog.wordpress.com. Do check it out and provide your feedback. Thanks and Regards, Seetarama Raju ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

[Sugar-devel] Physics license mixes GPLv3+ and zlib?

2017-06-13 Thread James Cameron
G'day Sebastian, Is this license combination compatible? GPLv3+ of Physics [1] with an embedded binary of pybox2d [2] under a zlib license. Also; - Physics has both COPYING and LICENSE with whitespace changes only, which are GPLv3+; which should it be? - Physics/lib has LICENSE which is

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread D. Joe
Open Source and Free Software are not mutually exclusive terms. Perhaps you are thinking of the distinctions between copyleft software versus permissively licensed software? For those to whom this is old news, please forgive this brief review, but it seems important at this point to get it out

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread Samson Goddy
On Jun 12, 2017 1:33 PM, "Adam Holt" wrote: On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Ignacio Rodríguez wrote: > Sorry I did not reply before. > > It's a yes (+1) for me. > Let's hope everyone votes now! > Yes! This motion will pass (4 out of 7 votes is the bare

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote: > My experience with the SFC is that while they like to do license > enforcement, they are not platform purists. If you look at the bottom of > sfconservancy.org they have their own social media accounts. > I

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread Samson Goddy
On Jun 13, 2017 8:19 PM, "Sebastian Silva" wrote: On 13/06/17 13:53, Samson Goddy wrote: This was a project i did in 2014.. Because kids using the xo laptops were actually playing those mentioned games online. I had to port them as a activity for sugar. I didn't

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread Sebastian Silva
On 13/06/17 13:53, Samson Goddy wrote: > > This was a project i did in 2014.. Because kids using the xo laptops > were actually playing those mentioned games online. I had to port them > as a activity for sugar. I didn't write or own the swf. It is free, > there are versions for those in Android

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread Samson Goddy
On Jun 13, 2017 7:12 PM, "Sebastian Silva" wrote: On 13/06/17 12:50, Samson Goddy wrote: Your mentioning Facebook, iPhone, Windows, Flash, LinkedIn etc, do not fit with this agreement, so we would sincerely appreciate if you do not promote these entities while

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
My experience with the SFC is that while they like to do license enforcement, they are not platform purists. If you look at the bottom of sfconservancy.org they have their own social media accounts. The ".fla" file at least in #4758 actually may be the source code in binary format. I do not

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread Sebastian Silva
On 13/06/17 12:50, Samson Goddy wrote: > > Your mentioning Facebook, iPhone, Windows, Flash, LinkedIn etc, do > not fit with this agreement, so we would sincerely appreciate if > you do not promote these entities while representing Sugar Labs. > > Could you explain more, because i

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Sebastian wrote, "Your mentioning Facebook, iPhone, Windows, Flash, LinkedIn etc, do not fit with this agreement, so we would sincerely appreciate if you do not promote these entities while representing Sugar Labs." Huh??? It seems since the goal of Sugarizer is to make it

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread Samson Goddy
On Jun 13, 2017 5:45 PM, "Sebastian Silva" wrote: Hi Samson, I hope you will have a successful travel. Thanks Sebastian. As a member of Sugar Labs and one of the signataries of our Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement with the Software Freedom Conservancy

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi Samson, I hope you will have a successful travel. As a member of Sugar Labs and one of the signataries of our Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement with the Software Freedom Conservancy I would appreciate if during your trip you would

Re: [Sugar-devel] L-earning

2017-06-13 Thread Charles Cossé
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > "I've discovered that using internet access as a currency results in > effective learning." > > Do you have some documentation regarding this assertion? I find it suspect. > > No documentation, but I'd say plenty

Re: [Sugar-devel] L-earning

2017-06-13 Thread Walter Bender
FWIW, Nolan Bushnell, of Atari and Chucky Cheese fame, recently resurfaced a model whereby you pay kids cash to go to school (it is common in Central America to pay parents to let their kids go to school). Seems there is some potential synergy. -walter On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Walter

Re: [Sugar-devel] L-earning

2017-06-13 Thread Walter Bender
"I've discovered that using internet access as a currency results in effective learning." Do you have some documentation regarding this assertion? I find it suspect. I am not sure that the nature of most Sugar Activities maps well to this model: most are tool-oriented as opposed to a specific

Re: [Sugar-devel] L-earning

2017-06-13 Thread Martin Dengler
On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 11:45:23AM +1000, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 07:08:46PM -0600, Charles Cossé wrote: Motivation: I've discovered that using internet access as a currency results in effective learning. This will benefit inattentive or time-poor parents who would rather

[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Measure-101

2017-06-13 Thread Sugar Labs Activities
Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4197 Sugar Platform: 0.98 - 0.110 Download Now: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/downloads/file/29281/measure-101.xo Release notes: * New translations (Chris Leonard et al), * Port to Gtk+ 3.0, GStreamer 1.0, for Ubuntu 16.04 and later