Re: [Sugar-devel] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ down again

2009-06-23 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Frederick Grose wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Bernie Innocenti > wrote: >> >> Thanks for reporting it. >> >> We've been having a lot of trouble with Pootle lately.  Possible >> solutions are being discussed on the systems@ list, if you're interested >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar + OLPC mesh network selection logic

2009-06-23 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Gary, > >   > Hmmm, how about when a class of kids first boot up and >   > _automatically_ connect to some random, unfiltered, strangers >   > open/public wifi next to the school, rather than following the >   > teachers instructions to attac

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs Engineering Steering Committee

2009-06-23 Thread David Farning
A couple of time over the last several weeks, there have been some high level discussions about Sugar Labs technical issues. The most recent one has been about differing needs of distributors and core developers. If we factor in the current size and expected growth rate of the sugar ecosystem, it

Re: [Sugar-devel] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ down again

2009-06-24 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On 06/23/09 22:09, David Farning wrote: >> The list is at http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/systems . I am not >> sure why it is not showing up as a public list. >> >> Bernie, >> >> Is there a reaso

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] we've been slashdotted

2009-06-24 Thread David Farning
Sunjammer is holding up so far. The FSF has some very fat pipes at their co-lo facility. david On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Sean DALY wrote: > http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1243255/OLPC-Fork-Sugar-On-a-Stick-Goes-10 > ___ > IAEP -- It's A

[Sugar-devel] Server load

2009-06-24 Thread David Farning
Hey all, Could you please hold off from running CPU intensive operations on Sunjammer for a couple hours? The publicity around the SoaS release is causing a nice load spike. thanks david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http:

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: How do I get to upload a very nice VMware appliance to sunjammer?

2009-06-25 Thread David Farning
Some Mac related questions from Thomas Gilliard. He has been working on VMimages for Sugar Labs. david -- Forwarded message -- From: David Farning Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:59 AM Subject: Re: How do I get to upload a very nice VMware appliance to sunjammer? To: Thomas C

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Unsubscribing from IAEP (Was: picked up by [some media])

2009-06-25 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 03:51:28PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: >>Actually the PR team, the marketing team and the publicist team today >>are: the marketing team > > Whatever.  Please con

[Sugar-devel] SoaS Strawberry release debrief - development

2009-06-25 Thread David Farning
A quick debrief of how the SoaS-strawberry release went from 20,000. Over all, it was a nice disciplined release. A little bit of featuring pushing in the last couple of days, but Gary and Sean kept things tight over the last couple of days:) A couple of ideas for the next release: A. Nail dow

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to create a project on SugarLabs gitorious?

2009-06-26 Thread David Farning
Rather than create a new activity, does it make sense to create a fr branch of the existing help activity at http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/help ? Is is possible that most of your work can be pushed back upstream into help? or is it too early to start looking at these types of abstractions. da

Re: [Sugar-devel] Flossmanuals?

2009-06-26 Thread David Farning
Have you pinged the FM mailing list at http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net . They are usually pretty helpful. The biggest reason for leaning on FM is that they have a good reputation for creating usable end user documentation. Traditionally, documentation is one of

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [RELEASE] activities.sugarlabs.org v3

2009-06-29 Thread David Farning
The looks great. Big improvements in usability. david On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > Key features after merging/adapting AMO upstream code. > > From users point of view. > > * Collections feature. >  Anyone can create own collection of activities >  http://acti

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] Linuxtag - R ésumée

2009-06-29 Thread David Farning
2009/6/29 Sean DALY : > I'm exhausted and even asked myself if it was worth it I was so tired > last night. But this morning I was recharged! > > I have posted a link to my Flickr photostream > (http://www.flickr.com/photos/39656...@n02/sets/72157620524327203/) at > the bottom of the LinuxTag 2009

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugarcamp - November 7th-12th 2009 ?

2009-06-29 Thread David Farning
/2009/ > [2] http://www.tis.bz.it/ > [3] http://www.freesoftwareweek.org/ > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.o

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugarcamp - November 7th-12th 2009 ?

2009-06-30 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 06/29/2009 10:09 PM, David Farning wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Simon Schampijer >>  wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> the SFScon 2009 will be held in Bolzano [1

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugarcamp - November 7th-12th 2009 ?

2009-07-01 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > On 07/01/2009 12:49 AM, David Farning wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Simon Schampijer >>  wrote: >>> >>> On 06/29/2009 10:09 PM, David Farning wrote: >>>> >>>>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Trimming down ling wiki names

2009-07-02 Thread David Farning
basic disciple is established, it makes sense to relax the rules a bit. Call for help - - If any new participants are interested in learning more about Sugar and Sugar Labs, a few hours helping Fred tend the wiki would be a great place to get involved:) david > --Fred > >

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Version variable

2009-07-15 Thread David Farning
Is there a good way to determine which version of sugar is running so it can be passed to update-control? -- David Farning Sugar Labs www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo

[Sugar-devel] sugar-update-control.aslo ready for testing

2009-07-16 Thread David Farning
vity&appVersion=0.84 http://activities.sugarlabs.org/services/update.php?id=org.laptop.WebActivity&appVersion=0.86 aloroot rocks! -- David Farning Sugar Labs www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarl

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-16 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 10:17 -0500, David Farning wrote: >> Attached is a very early prototype of a sugar updater which pulls from ASLO. >> >> It kind-of works on jhbuild;-/ To test, unzip and drop it into >> sugar-

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

2009-07-16 Thread David Farning
oad and review process are pretty heavy for minor things. On the other hand * Some content will be of global interest and be worth the effort to upload and review. david > > -- > Aleksey > ___ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-update-control.aslo ready for testing

2009-07-17 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 16:10, David Farning wrote: >> Another pre-release of sugar-update-control.aslo is ready for testing. >>  It is now available at >> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-update-control/repos/asl

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from aslo

2009-07-17 Thread David Farning
_ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- David Farning Sugar Labs www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-update-control.aslo ready for testing

2009-07-18 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 13:10, David Farning wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 16:10, David Farning wrote: >>>> Another pre-release of sugar-update-con

[Sugar-devel] sugar-bundle-updater code review

2009-07-20 Thread David Farning
o make make the group and collection code paths compatible. David Farning Sugar Labs www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA reports and target features

2009-07-21 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Greg Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > I came up with a strategy to focus development on a successful Sugar > implementation in a single school. That is an outstanding idea. By focusing on an implementation at a single school: 1. _All_ fixes identified and made as a resu

Re: [Sugar-devel] Board elections (was Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-07-22)

2009-07-24 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 20:05, Walter Bender wrote: >> >> 3. I put out a call for help with our Election Committee a few weeks >> ago. We need to hold an election for the Oversight Board in August. So >> far, I have gotten no volunteers. It is

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Any mention of platform parameter was removed from Activity Library

2009-07-27 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > Since now there is only one way to provide information in what > environment activity should work - Sugar Platform version. > > Sugar Platform is not just sugar release but > "a set of versioned components on which activity authors c

Re: [Sugar-devel] Duplication of Effort: Don't do it.

2009-07-27 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have lately seen a lot of duplication of effort in Sugar.  I think this > is bad.  The success of Sugar demands discipline and careful planning from > its developers. Yes, duplicat

Re: [Sugar-devel] community influence on development

2009-07-28 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > quoting Tomeu from another thread (with no bad feelings at all): > > "Sugar Labs has currently no resources to focus on anything, it > depends on volunteers doing whatever they want. I chose to spend my > time to make easier for more people to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Why am I so popular?

2009-07-28 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 00:28, Jim Simmons wrote: >> Aleksey, >> >> If I was responsible for this I'd cover my tracks better.  I would >> make Bastien's video insanely popular too. >> >> I was paying at least some attention to these numbers and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity as regular objects proposal

2009-07-28 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/7/28 Aleksey Lim : >> The problems that 0.84 has in case of activity versions are: >> >> * it can't upgrade activities if they were pre-installed from >>  native packages; it makes process of upgrading activities >>  from .xo impossible >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] A Fine Tradition...

2009-07-29 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > Carrying on a fine tradition of July-based Sugar reflections [1, 2], I'm going > to offer some mostly unsolicited advice. (Sorry, Tomeu, but you asked me to > write. :^) > >   Dear Sugar Labs, > >   In the past year, you succeeded in removing

Re: [Sugar-devel] will the one true browse please stand up?

2009-07-30 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > Our site (Holy Mother School, Nashik, India) is having trouble getting > the autologin feature of moodle-xs to work. It is suspected that browse > is the culprit. I installed browse-102 by customization key on XO-1 > build 802, yet suspici

Re: [Sugar-devel] How big might a full install of Fedora Sugar be?

2009-08-01 Thread David Farning
2009/7/31 Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) : >> What about doing a F11 GNOME install to a large USB drive, yum installing >> Sugar stuff, removing the unwanted bits, resizing the partitions to >> desirable size, and then dd ing that to a desirable USB stick (marked >> bootable) as a master img? > > And do

Re: [Sugar-devel] safer customization key (was Re: will the one true browse please stand up?)

2009-08-01 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/8/1 Tomeu Vizoso : >> What do you propose doing? > > Leaving packaging to the experts (the distributions) and focusing on > being a good upstream -- only stepping into the packaging areas where > the distro people are lacking. > > I think a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Bugs] #1117 NORM: Image collection from Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

2009-08-01 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:58:09PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:33:22PM -, SugarLabs Bugs wrote: >> > #1117: Image collection from Museum of Fine Arts in Boston >> > +

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick File Structure - Summary of problems and potential solutions

2009-08-01 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: > My original response went only to you (it seems like I'm having more > and more of this, sorry about that) so you in turn only replied to me. Google was having trouble with the Reply-to-all default in gmail and removed it June 16 a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Screen Reposition?

2009-08-01 Thread David Farning
Art, Would you mind taking a look at the bug tracker[1] and adding this issue as new bug if it is not already there. dev.sugarlabs.org david On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Art Hunkins wrote: > Second of two responses: > > Attached is my activity, OurMusic-1.xo. > > As it is, it gives a partial

Re: [Sugar-devel] Screen Reposition?

2009-08-02 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Art Hunkins wrote: > Did you mean something like: > SoaS text is way too small when displayed on an XO-1? Yes, something like that with the very useful information you provided above. david > Art Hunkins > > - Original Message ----- From:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Screen Reposition?

2009-08-02 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Art Hunkins wrote: > Yes, my version of SoaS is the most recent Strawberry. > > I'd like my new activity to work on XO-1 as well as SoaS in as many contexts > as possible. > > There seems a disconnect between "other efforts to make builds specific for > the XO" and c

[Sugar-devel] First step towards an efficient feedback process

2009-08-03 Thread David Farning
One of the challenges over the next couple of months will be figuring out how to turn 'feedback' from deployments into useful 'information' which the bug squad and deployment team can use. As a first step, I would like to suggest that we keep deployment related threads on i...@sl.o. After all, de

[Sugar-devel] Reviving the Deployment Team

2009-08-03 Thread David Farning
It looks like we have enough sustainable contributors to revive the Deployment team! The existing deployment team information is at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team . I would like to begin by slightly narrowing the deployment teams mission to: The mission of the Deployment Team is to

Re: [Sugar-devel] First step towards an efficient feedback process

2009-08-03 Thread David Farning
s I did:) Developer use tech-talk. Deployers (for the most part) don't. The challenge is creating processes (bridges) which meet the needs of two important constituencies, deployers and developers. david > Anyway, it's getting late, time to grab some sleep... > Christoph > On

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Sur] sitio sugarlabs

2009-08-04 Thread David Farning
Sorry I don't speak spanish so we will have to depend on google translate. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Gabriel Eirea wrote: > (translation of Paola's comments; this is an issue I brought up a > couple of times in the past) > > Hi.. > This Saturday's afternoon I realized that on the sugarlabs s

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Sur] sitio sugarlabs

2009-08-04 Thread David Farning
not present. >> >> Probably is some error  regarding localization... >> >> >> >> Rafael Ortiz >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:42 AM, David Farning wrote: >>> Sorry I don't speak spanish so we will have to depend on google tra

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Reviving the Deployment Team

2009-08-04 Thread David Farning
those hard problems. hope that helps david On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Caroline Meeks > wrote: >> Let me know how I can help! > > Likewise. > >> Thanks, >> CAroline >> >> On Mon, Aug 3, 200

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-08-05

2009-08-05 Thread David Farning
Art, Thanks for the feedback. Would you be willing to work with me to narrow down the problem into actionable items we can add to the bug tracker. On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Art Hunkins wrote: > My feedback on new SoaS snapshot: > > New version is slower loading, and contains numerous short

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-08-05

2009-08-05 Thread David Farning
u please add your name to the cc: field so the developer who picks this up can easily get a hold of you from information they need it? thanks david > Art Hunkins > > - Original Message - From: "David Farning" > To: "Art Hunkins" > Cc: "Sugar-

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] Issues Clock Maze Measure Physiscs

2009-08-05 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Andrés Arrieta Perréard wrote: Andres, Thanks for the feedback. Would you mind working with me to turn this feedback into bug reports for the development side of the project. thanks david > Hi, > I've been having some problems with clock, maze, measure, and phy

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] Issues Clock Maze Measure Physiscs

2009-08-05 Thread David Farning
ach activity which is failing. Thanks for taking the time to work through this. davd > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:16 PM, David Farning > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Andrés Arrieta >> Perréard wrote: >> >> Andres, >> >> Thanks for the fee

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-08-05

2009-08-05 Thread David Farning
yment side and the developer side or the project. david On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Art Hunkins wrote: > Done. > > Art Hunkins > > - Original Message - From: "David Farning" > To: "Art Hunkins" > Cc: "Sugar-dev Devel" > Sent

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] Issues Clock Maze Measure Physiscs

2009-08-06 Thread David Farning
Andrés, Most of it** is looking like a hardware gfx card driver issue under Fedora. I am not sure how to fix that or even who is knowledgeable about the issue. I have Cced Tomeu and Simon maybe they have some advice. Thanks for sticking with us on this. david On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:20 PM, An

Re: [Sugar-devel] Karma's Chakra - 2 views on lessons

2009-08-06 Thread David Farning
2009/8/6 Christoph Derndorfer : > Thanks a lot for the information. > And I'm not a teacher myself so all my comments above are based on > second-hand experience. > However my understanding is that the learning goals for each grade are very > well defined and due to the small variety of different s

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Turtleart] Quesstions and Issues w Journal

2009-08-06 Thread David Farning
Andrés, Turtle art is a well maintain Activity. That maintenance is done by Walter Bender. I have CCed him. The first issue looks like it could be solved by better Spanish documentation. (As always, help wanted) On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Andrés Arrieta Perréard wrote: > Hi, > We've been

Re: [Sugar-devel] New Bug Report - help

2009-08-07 Thread David Farning
ed. Text that covers the entire > screen on the XO-1, covers only one-third of SoaS (upper left corner). > Text formatting in PyGTK (as with gtk.Label) must be completely redone for > SoaS. > > Art Hunkins > abhun...@uncg.edu > - Original Message - From: "Art Hunkins

Re: [Sugar-devel] New Bug Report - help

2009-08-07 Thread David Farning
Art has created a bug report at http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1146 . david On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:42 AM, David Farning wrote: > Thanks Art. > The steps to file a bug report are: > 1. register with dev.sugarlabs.org by going to > http://dev.sugarlabs.org/register > 2. sign i

Re: [Sugar-devel] Deployment feedback braindump

2009-08-10 Thread David Farning
FWIW, It sounds like you both are pretty much in sync and are providing two much needed voices. The challenge that you both are clearly articulating is that of seemingly unlimited needs and limited resources. The only thing I would like to add is, "Please note the tone of this discussion with co

Re: [Sugar-devel] Results of today's Jabber Testing

2009-08-12 Thread David Farning
Thanks for the advice. We will be going to do some more tests this morning. I think we will spend a while learning about the tools which you and martin mentioned then run another debug session. david On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Dave Bauer wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Marti

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Sean DALY schrieb: >> IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to >> all teachers and Learners. The observations and take-aways need to be >> triaged of course, starting with what can/should be done by Sugar >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Farning
David, Thank you, that is exactly the direction that we need to head! david On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:11 PM, David Van Assche wrote: > From my end, I can offer extensive feedback on Sugar usage in Andalucian > schools, when we ship our next release in September. As this is a pretty > controlled

Re: [Sugar-devel] feedback from a teacher in Uruguay

2009-08-14 Thread David Farning
Tickets filed for 2-5. Thanks david 2009/8/13 Gabriel Eirea : > Hi all, > > I'm sending below the original text (in Spanish) of a teacher friend's > request. I'll try to translate her main concerns. > > 1) Mesh network doesn't work. Very few kids can get in the same > "network". She claims it got

[Sugar-devel] community support

2009-08-14 Thread David Farning
http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs is getting some questions from users. If you are interest in community support, here is your chance:) david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick on XOs for XO Lending Libraries?

2009-08-18 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Ton van Overbeek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Caroline > Meeks wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm curious if we are to the point technically where an XO lending library >> could create a stick for an XO borrower and lend them the XO.  The borrower >> could then use S

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network UI feedback

2009-08-21 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Sorry, late to this party, but I've finally got a recent build with Tomeu's > Ad-hoc network support installed on 2 XO's here for testing (no luck with > SoaS-on-XO-1 builds yet, but F11-for-XO-1 build 5 works well). OK... some > quick screen

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network UI feedback

2009-08-21 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 21 Aug 2009, at 21:15, David Farning wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Gary C Martin >> wrote: >>> >>> Sorry, late to this party, but I've finally got a recent build with >>>

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] trac.sugarlabs.org: Trac being upgraded, Aug 23 10:00-13:00 EST

2009-08-24 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > El Mon, 24-08-2009 a las 11:17 +0200, Bert Freudenberg escribió: >> -1 to trac.sugarlabs.org too >> >> *If* a name change is desired then at least make it a generic one >> (like bugs.s.o), otherwise we have to change again should we decide

Re: [Sugar-devel] Etoys packages

2009-08-26 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > On 26.08.2009, at 14:53, Gavin Romig-Koch wrote: > > On 08/26/2009 08:27 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > I keep forgetting to copy Gavin on new release announcements. But then, I > can't possibly cc all the package maintainers for all the

Re: [Sugar-devel] erasing the journal and config

2009-08-27 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> 2009/8/27 Sameer Verma : >>> I posed this question on OLPC Support Gang earlier and got responses >>> that its not possible to do so under bitfrost and rainbow. >>> >>> ==

Re: [Sugar-devel] The ARM is near

2009-08-27 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Sharp PC-Z1: > http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/sharps-5-inch-pc-z1-netwalker-honors-the-zaurus-legacy/ > > Nokia N900: > http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/ > > A new wave of devices is approaching.  They have touchscreens, but they > also

Re: [Sugar-devel] The ARM is near

2009-08-28 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: As a developer, dropping .xo support would take a lot of work from my shoulders, but I suspect our users would kill us... >>> >>> I suspect users will kill you as well when activities don't work on >>> machine X but they do on Y..

[Sugar-devel] SoaS reliability

2009-08-28 Thread David Farning
Has any progress been made on this front? It looks like the direction to lean is in generating comparative data. OLPC has all ready created a Nand testing frame work at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/NAND_Testing . By running these tests on standard SoaS and Satellit's full installs we can move from

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] new technical list in spanish

2009-08-29 Thread David Farning
o continue writing in mangled English:( to help keep the bar low for non-native English speaker who might feel their ability to communicate in English is not up to par:) david > Regards, > > Tomeu > > -- > «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. >

Re: [Sugar-devel] The ARM is near

2009-08-29 Thread David Farning
2009/8/29 Philippe Clérié : > Your points are well taken and generally I agree with them. Except > that I never suggested you should "abandon upstream development". > Sugar is your calling card, your differentiator, your trademark, your > value added... etc, etc, etc. It's what make you, you. :-) I

[Sugar-devel] GHOP

2009-08-29 Thread David Farning
Just a quick heads up that it looks like google will be running a second round of GHOP[1]. It will likely be later this year or early next year. So high school teachers and students let's start thinking about this. Any volunteers ready to stick up hand their to run the program for SL:) The cool

[Sugar-devel] Does honey still serve a useful purpose?

2009-08-30 Thread David Farning
I have been looking at the process for creating and release new activities. I have been wondering, 'What is the advantage of distributing activities through distros as Honey?' It would seem that installing the activities as .xo bundles via the activity-bundle facility is more reliable and less wo

[Sugar-devel] project policy consensus

2009-09-01 Thread David Farning
At the end of last week I posted a draft project policy[1] on the mailing list. It has not received any public or private criticism. Unless I hear otherwise, I'll post it to the wiki tomorrow with a 'draft' tag. david 1. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-August/007993.html ___

[Sugar-devel] Sugarcamp Bolzano 2009

2009-09-01 Thread David Farning
It looks like it is time to plan another SugarCamp[1]. This time we have an invitation to spend the 7th to the 12th of November in Bolzano, Italy. It looks like six completely free days to work together on Sugar! The coolest part of this camp is the fact that we are collocating with the GnomeHac

[Sugar-devel] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-02 Thread David Farning
The project guidelines are now on the wiki at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines . Please edit as necessary. When it looks like the editing has stopped, I ask the board the ratify the guidelines. david ___ Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] New Activities on a.sl.o was Sugar Digest 2009-08-11

2009-09-04 Thread David Farning
Thanks, They look great. david On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Caroline, i have uploaded rthe activities: > > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4212 > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4213 > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-04 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > David Farning wrote: >> >> The project guidelines are now on the wiki at >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines . >> >> Please edit as necessary.   When it looks like the

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA follow up

2009-09-07 Thread David Farning
Hey Greg, Thanks for lending your time and skill to Sugar Labs. Your work caused three significant improvements in Sugar Labs: 1. You and the rest of the GPA team identified and ticketed many bugs which need fixing. 2. You demonstrated through action and results how an effective bug wrangler wo

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to add karma api to api.sugarlabs.org?

2009-09-09 Thread David Farning
2009/9/8 Bryan Berry : > hey Dave, > > How can I put the api docs for Karma on a.sl.o? This is going to involve digging into some code that has been running for over a year without being touched--I think I rebooted the build server once in that time. Any sysadmin types looking for a good getting

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hello, was Re: Hack to get a USB/SD to autologin to only "Sugar-desktop on a stick". from a F12-alpha live CD

2009-09-09 Thread David Farning
Thanks for joining us Douglas. I would like to point out that there are two separate yet interlinked issues at hand: 1. Easy and fast install. 2. Running OS natively on removable solid state media. Douglas' Liveos solved the first issue. It is very fast and easy to install an OS to a hard drive

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hello, was Re: Hack to get a USB/SD to autologin to only "Sugar-desktop on a stick". from a F12-alpha live CD

2009-09-09 Thread David Farning
results david On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Martin Dengler wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 03:21:50PM -0500, David Farning wrote: >> Thanks for joining us Douglas. >> >> I would like to point out that there are two separate yet interlinked >> issues at hand:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hello, was Re: Hack to get a USB/SD to autologin to only "Sugar-desktop on a stick". from a F12-alpha live CD

2009-09-10 Thread David Farning
cClendon wrote: > David Farning wrote: >> >> Thanks for joining us Douglas. >> >> I would like to point out that there are two separate yet interlinked >> issues at hand: >> 1. Easy and fast install. >> 2. Running OS natively on removable solid state med

[Sugar-devel] Unifying the Sugar Labs experience Was: [IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-12 Thread David Farning
> Isn't this related to Brainstorm and Blueprints in Launchpad? Yes, I agree they are closely related. I would like to take a step back and look at the problems we are trying to solve. Backstory. Over the past couple of months I have spent most of my time working with 'external' people and organ

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-14 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Bryan Berry wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:25 -0500, David Farning wrote: >> Project/SIGs are product focused.  The exist to help guide a project >> through it's life cycle.  For example, there has recently been some >> rather heated

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-14 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bryan Berry wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 09:21 -0500, David Farning wrote: >> The work going on in Nepal is one of the primary reasons for >> establishing SIGs and projects.  Nepal is doing an amazing job of >> creating solutions for local

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-16 Thread David Farning
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 a

Re: [Sugar-devel] new journal and datastore maintainer

2009-09-16 Thread David Farning
ployment and want to see those modules converge to its needs, you > would better keep Aleksey informed about those. > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > -- > «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. > What Sugar Labs d

Re: [Sugar-devel] Any pull with HP?

2009-09-16 Thread David Farning
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 : > :-) > > Does anybody have any pull with HP? For some incomprehensible reason they >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 94

2009-09-17 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/9/17 Jim Simmons : >> So the real answer to your question is, how will the other kids >> upgrade and when will they be able to do it? > > In the majority of cases (i.e. large deployments) it will be done as a > coordinated effort by the o

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Slip of Sucrose 0.86 by one week

2009-09-17 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Dear Sugar community, > > today at the Developers Meeting it was decided to enact a one week slip > of the 0.86 Sucrose release. > > = 0.86 Final release the 25th September = > This is due to the remaining bugs in the stable branch and so

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Debian-olpc-devel] [IAEP] Glucose 0.84 and 0.85 packaged for Debian!

2009-09-19 Thread David Farning
is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. > What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David > Farning > > ___ > Debian-olpc-devel mailing list > debian-olpc

Re: [Sugar-devel] Smile activity version 1

2009-09-19 Thread David Farning
By way of introduction for the newer contributors-- Wade started and was the first co-ordinator of the Activities Team. He took a break last spring for the birth of a child:) I wonder if he has looked at activities.sugarlabs.org lately. It has had over 680,000 activity downloads, most of them sin

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Debian-olpc-devel] [IAEP] Glucose 0.84 and 0.85 packaged for Debian!

2009-09-20 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 03:24:23AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> >> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 06:49:00PM -0500, David Farning wrote: >>> >>> 2. manually sync /debian from git.debian.org to git.gnew

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] 2 idea's to train people dyslexia

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
Marten, I would like to introduce you to Marilyn Hagle (CCed). She is active at the intersection of dyslexia and technology based education tools. She has recently written a grant to set up a pilot for researching and using sugar as a platform for helping kids overcome or adapt to their dyslexia

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to add karma api to api.sugarlabs.org?

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
. Create a ccs style sheet to coordinate the look and feel of the landing page, sugar docs, and karma doc. I don't know any javascript or css so it would be helpful if you could find some one to take 1 and 3. david 2009/9/14 Bryan Berry : > On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 14:02 -0500, David Farni

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:30, Mel Chua wrote: >> There's a lot going on in this thread, so here is my attempt to >> summarize discussions so far. If I've missed or misstated anything, my >> apologies - and it's a wiki, so go fix it. ;-) >> >

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