Re: [Sugar-devel] production aslo update

2009-02-19 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 15:59, David Farning wrote: >> No new commits for the production instance of aslo. >> >> We will be running some clean.sh and build.sh scripts to update the >> .mo (translation) files. Upd

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-19 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: > How does the Mozilla add-on functionality decide if there is a version or > platform conflict for browser add-ons? it must be a piece of the browser > that does this via some interaction with data on the server. Shouldn't > there be

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work

2009-02-19 Thread David Farning
at is outside. But, to be honest, we are probably 3-6 months away from making those decisions. It is going to take a healthy dose of feedback from the distributions about best practices. david > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:41 AM, David Farning > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 20, 20

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] design team meeting (And finding a new regular time)

2009-02-19 Thread David Farning
I talked to a designer named josh who is doing interesting stuff. see http://sugarlabs.org/go/AddonsPortal/Design Sorry, but I don't remember his email. Goes by y0shu on irc. Another design related would be to standardizing the look and feel of the various Sugar Labs web sites. david On Fri,

Re: [Sugar-devel] production aslo update

2009-02-20 Thread David Farning
7;activities' david 2009/2/21 Korakurider : > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:10 AM, David Farning > wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 15:59, David Farning wrote: >>>> No new commits for the productio

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Moon-9, almost (Re: addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work)

2009-02-20 Thread David Farning
As part of /bin/build.py there is a .js add .css minimizer. It must be screw up. I think that we need to replace the minimzed .js and .css with upstream's and turn off the minimizer. david 2009/2/21 Tomeu Vizoso : > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 08:49, Wade Brainerd wrote: >> Yeah, it seems like a l

[Sugar-devel] aslo production update

2009-02-21 Thread David Farning
We just made another set of updates to aslo production. These are mostly string fixes. Keep the bug reports coming. We also started testing some maintenance scripts: Every morning (unless I forget) we will run: calculate total download calculate weekly download create review statistics create ra

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Moon-9, almost (Re: addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work)

2009-02-21 Thread David Farning
ing to the site. Special thanks to Wade for the steady stream of bug reports. david On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 21 Feb 2009, at 02:40, Gary C Martin wrote: > >> On 20 Feb 2009, at 17:02, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 17:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] design team meeting (And finding a new regular time)

2009-02-21 Thread David Farning
Christian, Will you post the new meeting information on http://sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Meetings ? On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote: > Hi there > > > Why don't we start by getting a day on the calendar for a regular design > meeting. How is Saturday at 11am? Does

[Sugar-devel] development team meeting

2009-02-21 Thread David Farning
Greg and other developers, Could you post your scheduled meeting information at http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Meetings? thanks david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] development team meeting

2009-02-21 Thread David Farning
you're not using? Loan it to a needy developer! > [[ http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Exchange_Registry ]] > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, David Farning wrote: > >> Greg and other developers, >> >> Could you post your scheduled meeting information at >> http

[Sugar-devel] wiki_laptop_org/go/Specifications

2009-02-21 Thread David Farning
A couple of weeks ago I recieved a request to migrate http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Specifications . Unless I hear otherwise, I will migrate that pages to the Development team in a few days. thanks david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarl

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar now has smoke test procedures.

2009-02-22 Thread David Farning
Very Nice, We were contacted Friday by a company that sells a rebranded Intel Classmate. They asked if Sugar would run on their product. It will be very helpful to have something like Smoke_test! david On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Mel Chua wrote: > Because of the impending 0.84 release an

Re: [Sugar-devel] User Interface Anoyances and Bugs in the latest Sugar On A Stick build dated 23 of February, 2009

2009-02-23 Thread David Farning
This is not noise at all! The day Sugar Labs starts to consider feedback and bug reports from users as _noise_ is the day we close up emacs and start pushing XP:( david On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Eduardo H. Silva wrote: > Tomeu assured me that I wouldn-t be creating noise in the mailing l

[Sugar-devel] addons.sl.org sandbox

2009-02-24 Thread David Farning
Hey all, It looks like we are having trouble with some of addons.sl.o workflow. When a developer first uploads a activity it is put in a sandbox. The instructions state that other 'logged in' users will be able to see the activity and review it. That does not currently seem to be the case:) De

Re: [Sugar-devel] future of the grab key?

2009-02-24 Thread David Farning
Paul, You are not probably not going to get much feedback from core developers on grab right now. That has nothing to do with the validity of the design or the quality of the implementation. It is entirely to do with where Sugar is in the release cycle. Testing and debugging. When the merge win

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs

2009-02-26 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hey Josh, thanks for the offer of help! > I definitely like your simple and kid-friendly theme for addons. I wonder > off the top of my head though, if it makes sense to make addons.sl.o look > *more* like the other sl.o sites? Have you gott

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Design for a.sl.o and sugarlabs branding/theme unity

2009-02-27 Thread David Farning
light background was what you would 'want' from computers. david > > Christian > > > From: Sean DALY [mailto:sdaly...@gmail.com] > To: ,Josh williams [mailto:joshcwilli...@gmail.com] > Cc: David Farning [mailto:dfarn...@sug

Re: [Sugar-devel] wiki_laptop_org/go/Specifications

2009-03-01 Thread David Farning
ropriate. >> >> How do others feel? > > Yeah, feel similarly. Wonder if someone could share their opinions > about how projects like fedora and ubuntu manage the feature proposals > for every release? > > Thanks, > > Tomeu > >> - Eben >> >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread David Farning
This become an issue of cost effectiveness. I understand Branded USBs are on the order of $8 a stick. The Fedora Ambassadors tried giving away USB keys. Thye found that they were not cost effective. The high cost per unit combined with the low 'stick rate' made them unfeasible. I understand ev

Re: [Sugar-devel] move Low-level_Activity_API to the SLs wiki

2009-03-01 Thread David Farning
On my TODO list for later this week. david 2009/3/1 Bert Freudenberg : > > On 01.03.2009, at 13:16, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> Hi David, Bert and Wade, >> >> should we move http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API to the SLs >> wiki? > > Yes. > > - Bert - > > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Moon-9, almost (Re: addons.sugarlabs.org is starting to work)

2009-03-01 Thread David Farning
e later: http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~bjordan/aslo2.png > > Brian > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 03:40, Gary C Martin wrote: >> > On 20 Feb 2009, at 17:02, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> > >> >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] easier installation of soas

2009-03-01 Thread David Farning
2009/3/1 Eben Eliason : > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: >> Make the LiveCD have a usb maker on the desktop when launched. > > That's a really good idea, actually. > >> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM, David Farning >> wrote: &

Re: [Sugar-devel] LiveCD with image writing activity (was Re: easier installation of soas)

2009-03-02 Thread David Farning
When we first made the first sugar on USB keys, Brian Jordan was in contact with the Ubuntu LiveCD/USB guru. May he can restart those conversations:) david On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:51 PM, wrote: > tomeu wrote: >  > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 21:47, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote: >  > > Make the LiveC

Re: [Sugar-devel] Mozilla Add-ons: FlipSticks Nomination

2009-03-03 Thread David Farning
Do I have something screwed up or is it was it intentional to send this nomination response to the list? david On 3/3/09, Sugar Labs Add-ons wrote: > Congratulations! Your nominated add-on, FlipSticks, has been reviewed by a > Sugar Labs Addons editor who approved your add-on to be public. > > Y

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #471 UNSP: Adopt activities.sugarlabs.org

2009-03-03 Thread David Farning
activities-devel.sl.o is now live. I intend that it will activities-testing will go live tomorrow and activities with go live the following day. I tried pointing activities at addons and mod-rewrite cause some weird errors. On 3/3/09, SugarLabs Bugs wrote: > #471: Adopt activities.sugarlabs.org

[Sugar-devel] aslo caching

2009-03-04 Thread David Farning
Are there any php experts around? I changed some .po files in activites.sl.o and then rebuilt the .mo files. After flushing memcache the changes were visible. Now for some reason, the changes seem to have reverted. Is it possible that the old information is being cached somehow? david

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] Buildslaves cleanup

2009-03-07 Thread David Farning
Nice, Are they running on a new machine at PGRMR? david On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > I ran a yum upgrade on the following machines: > >  buildslave1.sugarlabs.org   (F10) >  buildslave2.sugarlabs.org   (F11 rawhide) > > I also cleaned up a few orphaned packages, and

Re: [Sugar-devel] RAM DoS

2009-03-09 Thread David Farning
On 3/10/09, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 06:35:59PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote: >>That's the problem: Rainbow is not currently compatible with GNOME, > > Please explain your claim in more detail. > >>as in there are no bindings for launching a rainbow'd application > > What is a "

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-03-10

2009-03-10 Thread David Farning
Walter, Very nice tone. As we near the release window, it opens up the conversation from the immediately actionable to the possible. Now that the culture and rhythm 'getting things done' is pretty well established, I hope we can start encouraging those academic papers and interesting new technol

[Sugar-devel] also stats are not updating correctly.

2009-03-10 Thread David Farning
Something is currently wrong with the aslo log parser. The download, review, and rating stats are going to be a few day behind. david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity Versioning (Was Re: [RELEASE] Terminal v24)

2009-03-13 Thread David Farning
One project to look for on how to handle activity versions is eclipse. The notion of the eclipse plug-in ecosystem is virtually the same as it is in Sugar Labs. Eclipse has a few years of struggling with this issue under their belt. http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/documents/plugin-versioning.html

Re: [Sugar-devel] announce: alternate power management

2009-03-13 Thread David Farning
Very cool! How well will this integrate with the power management systems other distros are using? Can it become a 'Value Added' for other netbook manufacturers? david On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:33 PM, wrote: > hi -- > > i had an itch that needed scratching, and the result is a > reimplementat

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Priorities and Ideas (for GSoC)

2009-03-13 Thread David Farning
Hey Jameson, Mel Thanks for _proving_ me wrong. I had originally thought that Sugar Labs would only have the resources to handle two mentors/students this summers with out getting bogged down. It now looks like you have got a great handle on the project. david On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:49 PM,

Re: [Sugar-devel] announce: alternate power management

2009-03-15 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:37 PM, wrote: > scott wrote: >  > >  > >  > 3. with the OLPC kernel and this olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd (which > by >  > >  > the way are really realy nice, thanks a million pgf!) the XO suspends >  > >  > when via "lid" switch and the power button. >  > > >  > > gre

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Running sugar at almost-native speeds in Windows

2009-03-15 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Wade Brainerd wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Dave Bauer wrote: >>> Actually, you can create a .vmdk from .img using the QEMU tools.  It's just that .vmdk is much more widely supported that .img so it would >>>

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] InfoSlicer-4

2009-03-15 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Bastien wrote: > Aleksey Lim writes: > >>> And the project page on the git repo could mention the add-on and the >>> wiki page of the activity. >> in my mind, aslo page is more like a user-land page it just points to >> dev-land page on wiki(and wiki page points

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] DC Photo Jam 2 - New batch of photos of SoaS running on netbooks

2009-03-15 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > Mike, these are breathtaking! > > Walter, David - as they are CC, and already on Flickr, and the > permissions posted by Mike are very clear, I do think we could go with > these... what do you think? Yes, we can use these images. The license th

Re: [Sugar-devel] Etoys packaging (was: SugarPlatform-0.84.0 on Mandriva)

2009-03-16 Thread David Farning
2009/3/16 Bert Freudenberg : > On 16.03.2009, at 12:45, Aleksey Lim wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:11:05PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >>> >>> One minor issue I see with this packaging is that etoys is technically >>> part of glucose, but you packaged it as part of fructose (as "etoys- >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] SugarPlatform-0.84.0 o n Caixa Mágica the Magellan project

2009-03-17 Thread David Farning
Great job Aleksey, Let's bring Sean Daly, our marketing guy, into the conversation so he can work on a marketing plan going forward. Sean, For a very brief backstory. Magellan is a Portuguese firm with a contract to deploy on the order of 1 million locally made classmate based netbooks to childr

Re: [Sugar-devel] What should be included into SugarPlatform-0.84

2009-03-17 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/SugarPlatform/0.84 > > The Sugar Platform is a set of versioned components on which activity authors > can rely when targeting their activities to run on a particular Sugar version. We

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] call for aslo wiki pages

2009-03-17 Thread David Farning
several times I have logged on to aslo as admin to check the work queues they have been empty:) The number of activities and updates has been growing. 44 activities as of this morning! david On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:52 PM, David Farn

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing the mail header for activities.sugarlabs.org

2009-03-20 Thread David Farning
Kushal, Could you send more of the email context? I am having trouble tracking this down:( thanks david On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Kushal Das wrote: > Hi. > The mails from activities.s.o which had information about my activity > nomination shows subject line as : > > "Mozilla Add-ons: J

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity platform discussion

2009-03-20 Thread David Farning
Alsroot, Somethings to keep in minds while you are working on these policies. 1. Right now, the code churn rate is very high. In the beginning, all projects have high churn rates which settle down as the product becomes more stable and widely used. Issues which seem large right now will fade a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Changing the mail header for activities.sugarlabs.org

2009-03-20 Thread David Farning
Thanks Ivan I am fixing it now. Should push to production tomorrow morning. david On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Ivan Krstić wrote: > On Mar 20, 2009, at 4:15 PM, David Farning wrote: >> >> Could you send more of the email context?  I am having trouble >> tracking this

Re: [Sugar-devel] SWF Sugar

2009-03-22 Thread David Farning
009/3/21 Felipe López Toledo : > Hi. > > I have been reading your wiki, first of all, I have to say you: great > work!, keep doing it!. > > I want to help. My name is Felipe López Toledo, I'm a flash developer > for last 6 years and I'm interested in participating in gsoc 2009 with > this project:

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC proposal

2009-03-22 Thread David Farning
2009/3/21 Ishara Gunathilake : > hi > > I'm a applicant for GSoC. Here I attached my proposal for a sugar project > idea. > Please be kind enough to consider those documents and reply. Ishara, Your proposal looks interesting? It immediatly made me think of the work Resara (CCed) is doing in the a

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC idea: Chart/graph-making activity

2009-03-22 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Garrison Benson wrote: >> A traditional spreadsheet kind of interface would work (something like MS >> Excel or OO.o Calc) but I think a more basic, application-specific interface >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] How is SoaS built?

2009-03-24 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Hi everyone, > > are there any pointers to how the SoaS build works? Is it using the > Fedora livecd tools? Something else? > > more details below on what I am aiming for... Hey Martin, Good luck with Server on a Stick:) It would be ver

Re: [Sugar-devel] IMPORTANT: sugar-jhbuild: security update of xulrunner

2009-03-24 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Morgan Collett wrote: > 2009/3/24 Sascha Silbe : >> Hello! >> >> Short summary: >> If you're using sugar-jhbuild on Debian, please run "cd sugar-jhbuild && rm >> -rf source/mozilla source/hulahop install && ./sugar-jhbuild build" before >> using anything web-relate

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on various distros (was: Re: IMPORTANT: sugar-jhbuild: security update of xulrunner)

2009-03-24 Thread David Farning
Thanks for the update! david 2009/3/24 Sascha Silbe : > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:35:23PM -0500, David Farning wrote: > >> I have been trying to dog food Sugar on Jaunty. > > At least sugar-jhbuild is currently broken on a standard Jaunty install due > to a major bug Ubuntu

[Sugar-devel] aslo

2009-03-24 Thread David Farning
activities-testing has been rebased from the upstream svn. The security on activities.sl.o has also been tightened. Please ping me if anything broke. david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-03-24

2009-03-24 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > ===Sugar Digest === > > I have been buried in meetings over the past few days, so I am a bit > late in giving an update to the Sugar community. > > First, I want to wish Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero (dirakx) a rapid recovery. > > While I hav

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Announce] Sugar Labs wiki team 2009 launch meeting 30 March 2009 17:00 UTC (13:00 EDT, 10:00 PDT)

2009-03-25 Thread David Farning
The biggest gap in our wiki is scheduling and providing feedback on meetings and events. It must be: 1a. Easy for a team coordinator to scheudal a meeting. 1b. Easy for a participant to add items to the agenda. 2. Easy for a new participant to discover when meetings are held. 3.Easy to find and re

Re: [Sugar-devel] ideal flash activity to be remade as karma activity

2009-03-26 Thread David Farning
Yes, Wade's assessment is correct. As the number of moving pieces increases linearly, the complexity and overhead increases geometrically. Google wants to keep things as simple as possible to increase the chances success. So, what is success? Success is not necessarily a chuck of perfect code:)

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] ars technica

2009-03-26 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote: > http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/sugar-labs-announces-new-version-of-sugar-learning-platform.ars > Nice to see a positive article from Ars (if it is straight from the press > release), since they panned just about everything OL

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Digg SugarLabs .84 (+distroWatch)

2009-03-26 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Josh Williams wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Following up on the Ars thread, just thought of some other ways we can > get some good publicity. > > I put a link up at http://digg.com/linux_unix/Sugar_version_0_84_released > > If we all digg this story, it should drive

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] Do not open a new window for menu link on sugarlabs.org

2009-03-26 Thread David Farning
Carol, Would you mind working with Fred on the wiki? You have made a lot of good suggestions. The tension I am seeing is that Sugar Labs Veterans, who feel comfortable editing the wiki, are immune to the mess. People coming to the wiki for the first time say 'what a mess', but don't feel comforta

Re: [Sugar-devel] ideal flash activity to be remade as karma activity

2009-03-30 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Bryan Berry wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 09:08 -0600, Jameson Quinn wrote: >> Subzero, you have competition. >> >> Lucian, you should check out the mailing list threads for talk between >> Bryan and Felipe; they are talking about much the same ideas you are. >> >

[Sugar-devel] something funky at git.sl.o?

2009-03-31 Thread David Farning
Is something funky going on at git.sl.o? dfarn...@sunjammer:~/aslo$ git pull ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly I can no longer pull from slo-activites - started have problems yesterday morning? I the past, I have fix the pro

Re: [Sugar-devel] I hear you

2009-03-31 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On 03/29/09 23:42, qu...@laptop.org wrote: >> I've tested twinkle and it worked quite well for point to point calls. >> Both it and ihu could probably be modified to accept appropriate >> parameters to operate within the Sugar context if n

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bugs] #645 UNSP: make sugarlabs.org the default page

2009-03-31 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 31 Mar 2009, at 22:40, Gary C Martin wrote: > >> On 30 Mar 2009, at 14:59, Sean DALY wrote: >> >>> I really like this idea, "baseline" so first-time visitors won't get >>> lost between site sections >>> >>> Christian, would it be possible

Re: [Sugar-devel] Distributors mixing across Sugar branches (Was: Terminal v25 (attention distro managers!!))

2009-04-01 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:43:04PM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote: >>On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:12, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> - From a distributor point of view, it would be nice to be able

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] Gadget on XS

2009-04-01 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 03:22:12PM +0100, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: >>Le mercredi 01 avril 2009 à 14:14 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : >>> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:50:52AM +0100, Gui

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal: Multimedia Broadcasting

2009-04-03 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz >> 2. Telepathy does not currently support multi-point conferences. >> Collabora is working on it, but from what I hear it's not likely to be >> ready by June. > > Add the fact that the PH

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal: Multimedia Broadcasting

2009-04-03 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:10 PM, David Farning wrote: >> Then don't be!  OLPC has spent years arguing about how various >> solution will _not_ work.  How about giving the students a chance to >> test the

Re: [Sugar-devel] File transfer in Gabble!

2009-04-03 Thread David Farning
go Guillaume go! you rock On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: > Hey guys, > > I know that lot of you were waiting this feature since a long time; > file transfer in Gabble is there! Thanks for your patience. > > I did some (very simple) tests with Sugar and it seems to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [RELEASE] activities.sugarlabs.org v2

2009-04-03 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > Key features after merging/adapting upstream code: > > * new addon type Content(.xol bundles) >  addon's version will be incremented on each uploading > > * use bundle_id for activity GUID >  it should prevent creating two addons for

Re: [Sugar-devel] youtube ...

2009-04-04 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Gross wrote: > Hello, > > > > I tried running youtube on the OLPC. The browser showed to click here to run > flash, but flash never ran. Did anyone manage to run youtube in the browser? > Is there a flash puggin needed? If so, does it exist? > > > > Thanks >

Re: [Sugar-devel] youtube ...

2009-04-05 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Luke Faraone wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:36 PM, David Farning > wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Daniel Gross >> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > >> > >> > I tried runn

Re: [Sugar-devel] Monthly maps for sugar-devel list traffic

2009-04-05 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi folks, > > Just thought I'd mail the list, for those curious, that I've been > uploading monthly maps for the sugar-devel list traffic. Same process > as per the weekly IAEP maps, each just covers a longer time-scale. > Maps are over at: >

Re: [Sugar-devel] FoodForce2 with Collaboration

2009-04-05 Thread David Farning
Would you mind uploading Food Force to activities.sugarlabs.org to make it available to a wider audience of XO and Sugar users? david On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Mohit Taneja wrote: > Hi, > > The FoodForce2 game is now playable over the mesh network, the trading > scenario has been implement

Re: [Sugar-devel] FoodForce2 with Collaboration

2009-04-06 Thread David Farning
e able to complete this by the > end of the third week of April. > > Thank you. > > Regards, > > Manu > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:58 AM, David Farning > wrote: >> >> Would you mind uploading Food Force to activities.sugarlabs.org to >> make it

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unified Bundles

2009-04-07 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote: > Hi all, > > Aleksey finally prodded me (by creating an empty page and pointing me > at it) into writing down my idea for Unified bundles which merges .xol > and .xo files together. > > It diverged somewhat into a plan to recast activities whic

Re: [Sugar-devel] accessibility

2009-04-08 Thread David Farning
Also, it is starting to look like gnome 2.30 will be released as 3.0. There may be some major changes in store. david On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi, > > might be interesting to lurk during this session to learn more about > how we'll improve accessibility in Sugar. > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Unified bundles

2009-04-09 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:52 PM, James Simmons wrote: > Wade, > > One thing that I hope Unified Bundles will do is make ebooks more like > real books.  In a real library you have books with pictures, books with > just words, comic books, coloring books, and books with things that pop > up when you

[Sugar-devel] Sugar Collaboration for Poets

2009-04-12 Thread David Farning
I have started a Poets Guide to Collaboration at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Collaboration . It is a simplified guide that only looks at the use case when a XMPP Server is present. My first question is: Why is Ejabberd the preferred XMPP server? Some of the Java base servers appear to be very sc

Re: [Sugar-devel] Running Sugar with sugar-jhbuild - questions

2009-04-13 Thread David Farning
The most straight forward way would be to add the activites to extra-activities.modules in jhbuild at http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-jhbuild/repos/mainline/trees/master/config/modulesets . This would allow you to run .sugar-jhbuild build extra-activities to pull in the latest activities f

[Sugar-devel] CampKit/SchoolServer AP Advice

2009-04-14 Thread David Farning
Hey All, Thanks for the help getting an AP running yesterday:) I got my laptop to dual boot as an ejabberd server and then as a school server. I connected my XO via a usb to ethernet adapter. The next step is to add 1 or more wireless APs. What would you recommend to run a demo for a room of 10

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] May 16th Paris: ContentCamp? MiniCamp? MidiCamp? UltraCamp? SugarCamp?

2009-04-15 Thread David Farning
SugarCamp for general reference and SugarCamp Paris 2009 if we need to be more specific. I'll start adding a {{draft }} template to my emails until they are approved by marketing:) david On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > SugarCamp++ > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 17:25, Carol

Re: [Sugar-devel] Kartik - internship outside GSoC

2009-04-23 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: > Kartik, > > I think we can definitely find a useful way for you to contribute and > fulfill your internship requirements. You should write more about what kind > of project would interest you; the suggestions below focus more on > communicati

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS on XO issues for discussion

2009-04-23 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Martin Dengler wrote: > Sebastian and I had a discussion about SoaS builds being used on XOs. > > We wonder if anyone has any feedback or guidance on issues around SoaS > builds being used on (the NAND of) XOs, like: > > * Should SoaS2's software artifacts include

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] A Hardware Effort: Please Help!

2009-04-24 Thread David Farning
Hardware testing might be a good thing to do at Sugar gatherings such as Sugar Camp Europe next month. Invite participates to bring their favorite laptop and see if they can get it to work in that controlled environment. This would promote a number of on-ramp activities: Shift the focus from talk

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar on LTSP

2009-04-25 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Hello, > > I had a conversation with our tech folks on campus yesterday, and > Sugar via LTSP (http://www.ltsp.org/) came up. The original discussion > was about LTSP and thin and fat clients, but this group is in the > College of Education,

Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.82 activity updates

2009-04-28 Thread David Farning
This is a hard question. There is an inherent tension between software purchasers and software developers. Developers want the latest and greatest. Every six months a new release with new features, new technology and new bugs. Purchasers want stability. In this case, the school districts want

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Browse-108

2009-05-01 Thread David Farning
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Hi Simon, Sugaristas, > > Dave Bauer was asking where could he find recent Browse.xo releases, > and I did a bit of browsing and googling, and couldn't find it. > Searching my gmail inbox worked, but this isn't very generalisable. > >  - sug

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Browse-108

2009-05-02 Thread David Farning
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:04:06PM -0500, David Farning wrote: >>The conical source of information on activities _should_ be >>activities.download.org.  What activ

Re: [Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Browse-108

2009-05-02 Thread David Farning
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 11:30:22AM -0500, David Farning wrote: >>On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 06:04:06PM

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-05-03

2009-05-05 Thread David Farning
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Bastien wrote: > Hi all, > > following David Farning's advice, we want to keep the SugarCamp as > informal as possible.  Yet we want to have some tangible output, on > top of the obvious (and noble) task of building the Sugar community. > > So we have been brainstor

Re: [Sugar-devel] FoodForce II Beta Release

2009-05-09 Thread David Farning
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Manusheel Gupta wrote: > Andrés, > > Thank you. We appreciate your kind remarks. > >>May I ask what license is it under? > > We are working on this aspect with World Food Programme's legal department, > and the recommendation has been CPAL. Please have a look at th

Re: [Sugar-devel] More concrete design for easily installable device extensions?

2009-05-11 Thread David Farning
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Gabriel Eirea wrote: > Excuse me if I jump into this discussion. There is a problem here in > Uruguay related to this issue. Given the security system implemented > by Ceibal, users don't have root access. This makes it very difficult > to include changes in Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] personal marketing (bottum up approach)

2009-05-19 Thread David Farning
Infrastructure meeting are (usually) on Fridays. david On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > Maybe we can find a time in the next few days to all meet on IRC to > discuss this? CC'ng Bernie as he is most familiar with the SL > infrastructure. > > -walter > > On Tue, May 19, 200

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar and XS in VirtualBox

2009-05-20 Thread David Farning
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > Of the .iso images I have tried in VirtualBox, the following worked > correctly as far as I have gone with them: > > o Debian (with only a few Sugar packages available) > o Fedora (with Sugar packages) > o Caixa Mágica (but I have not insta

Re: [Sugar-devel] SugarCamp Links

2009-05-20 Thread David Farning
Lionel, Thanks for coordinating the event. The wide breadth of participation, passion, and skills was truly amazing. I look forward to working with you and the rest of OLPCFrance again in the near future. david On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:37 PM, LASKE, Lionel (C2S) wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Than

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: One week slip of Fedora 11 Release

2009-05-20 Thread David Farning
Unless there is a good reason, I would say no. Maintaining an upstream release date is an important planning tool for all of Sugar Labs' downstream partners and users. david On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > Shall we re-adjust our schedule accordingly? > > Ori

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Developer MINUTES

2009-05-22 Thread David Farning
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 6:43 PM, NoiseEHC wrote: > Are there any plans to port Sugar to the XO-1 or will it be the job of > OLPC so it will be effectively abandoned? Sugar sits on top of standard linux distributions. The challenge in this instance is on the shoulders of the hardware vendor to pu

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Localization] Help activity

2009-05-26 Thread David Farning
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:49 AM, S Page wrote: > Summary: There seems to already be Sugar 0.84 content translated into > various languages on flossmanuals.net that someone could "remix" as > HTML and link to from the Browse activity's home page. > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Caroline Meeks

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] Important Schedule Changes - Please Read!

2009-05-28 Thread David Farning
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Walter Bender wrote: > CCing the lists again, which seem to keep following off the thread > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 18:38, Sean DALY wrote: What we call beta - can't be announced as "is working

[Sugar-devel] Guadec

2009-05-29 Thread David Farning
Is anyone planning on attending Guadec this July? david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Official homepages for activities are at laptop.org?

2009-05-30 Thread David Farning
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:03:34PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote: >>Hi Jonas, >> >>On 30 May 2009, at 09:44, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> While updating packages for Debian, I failed to

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