Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: new content bundle

2009-06-18 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:11:53PM -0500, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero wrote: Rafael Ortiz -- Forwarded message -- From: Rodolfo D. Arce S. rodolfoa...@eyuhoo.com Date: Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:47 AM Subject: new content bundle To: de...@lists.laptop.org Hello:

Re: [Sugar-devel] translate.sugarlabs.org down?

2009-06-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 00:52, Bastienbastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Sayamindu, I can't access the translation interface:  http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ Seems to be up now. Regards, Tomeu Maintenance? --  Bastien ___ Sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Linuxtag - What is left to do to make it a success?

2009-06-18 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:59:53AM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2009 Quoting that page: Not permitted by Linuxtag: * wireless access points (You are not permitted to operate your private wireless LAN. Please take this serious.

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 20:00, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 16 Jun 2009, at 20:50, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: we are considering using the composite extension in order to improve the perceived graphics performance of Sugar. It would be great if someone could test it by running the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Linuxtag - What is left to do to make it a success?

2009-06-18 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 06/18/2009 10:57 AM, Sascha Silbe wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:59:53AM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/LinuxTag2009 Quoting that page: Not permitted by Linuxtag: * wireless access points (You are not permitted to operate your

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-18 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:09:06AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Wonder if that's intended, as going to a zoom level involves some kind of animation, i.e. is not intended to take you there as fast as possible. What kind of animation? I can't remember ever having seen one (unless you count the

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:21, Sascha Silbesascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:09:06AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Wonder if that's intended, as going to a zoom level involves some kind of animation, i.e. is not intended to take you there as fast as possible.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Correct mailing list was Re: Show Must Go On - SoaS for the XO-1

2009-06-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 03:50, David Farningdfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: We have seriously hijacked the original thread:( If we kept the subject line in sync with the threads' topic, people could have an easier time to know what to read and what not and we could resist better splitting mls.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics Roadmap

2009-06-18 Thread Brian Jordan
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 17 Jun 2009, at 06:29, Edward Cherlin wrote: Did you look at my Turtle Art version of Alan Kay's third-grade gravity lesson? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Gravity.odt I had a read, but it didn't get me very

Re: [Sugar-devel] tutorials u can recommend?

2009-06-18 Thread Felipe López Toledo
Hi Bryan here is a really good canvas tutorial from Mozilla https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Canvas_tutorial also check http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/html-5-canvas-the-basics/ I read this tutorial, it helped me with the drawing stuff (I used this idea within quadrilaterals, see the double

[Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-18 Thread Greg DeKoenigsberg
Hello folks. Is there any interest in figuring out how assessments might work in a Sugar activity API? Teachers frequently talk about the need to assess the progress of their pupils. In the context of an activity, how do teachers do that? I don't think there's a clear mechanism, and I

[Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets

2009-06-18 Thread Caroline Meeks
We've been having an issue on some newer macs with the screen going blank. Deds and Pauline have been working on the issue and here is what they have discovered that works. Note that this is using standard keyboard and not the apple one. If using apple keyboard you might need to change the keys

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-18 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 14:31, Greg DeKoenigsbergg...@redhat.com wrote: Hello folks. Is there any interest in figuring out how assessments might work in a Sugar activity API? Teachers frequently talk about the need to assess the progress of their pupils.  In the context of an activity, how

Re: [Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets

2009-06-18 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi Caroline, We've been having an issue on some newer macs with the screen going blank. Deds and Pauline have been working on the issue and here is what they have discovered that works. When you say going blank do you mean that the screen randomly blanks and then comes back again either after

Re: [Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets

2009-06-18 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Caroline, We've been having an issue on some newer macs with the screen going blank. Deds and Pauline have been working on the issue and here is what they have discovered that works. When you say going blank

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-18 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: 0. I'm guessing there will be some simple API, maybe sugar.activity.assess. Or maybe it's actually part of datastore. The obvious thing, to me, is to store it in the Datastore object's metadata properties. Perhaps two integer fields, score and maxscore. No new API

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-18 Thread James Simmons
David, I am doing that now, but the page I'm pointing to is the one on wiki.laptop.org. Should I abandon that page and create a new one somewhere else? Should I perhaps move my pages to wiki.sugarlabs.org and replace my current page with a link to ASLO? James Simmons David Farning

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-18 Thread David Farning
I don't think is really matters where you homepage is located. The important bit is to think of the activity portal as an easily search-able common entry point for users. The home page is for anything else you might want to convey. david On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM, James

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-18 Thread James Simmons
David, I've created a newer and shorter page on wiki.sugarlabs.org for Read Etexts and linked it to ASLO. I've also replaced the contents of the old wiki.laptop.org with a link to ASLO. This should eliminate a lot of redundant updating. If there are no complaints I'll do the same thing for

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-18 Thread David Farning
James, That looks good. You can also point directly to the Read Etexts activity on ASLO with http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4035 and you can point to the download with http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/downloads/latest/4035 If browse correctly reports the Sugar version, ALSO

[Sugar-devel] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Sean DALY
We've discussed my idea to do a flurry of press releases over the next couple of weeks, coinciding with our presence/sessions at: * LinuxTag Berlin June 24-27 http://www.linuxtag.org/2009/en.html * Free Open Source Software in Education (FOSSED) Bethel, Maine June 24-26 http://www.fossed.com *

[Sugar-devel] transition from activities/all to activities portal

2009-06-18 Thread David Farning
Chris, Upon further examining http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Browse_(8.2), I think that we can maintain backwards compatibility both technically and socially by using the existing /Activities/NAME_(VERSION) by pointing the links on that page to

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-18 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:13:52AM -0500, David Farning wrote: James, That looks good. You can also point directly to the Read Etexts activity on ASLO with http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4035 and you can point to the download with

[Sugar-devel] Testing streamlined sugar-jhbuild

2009-06-18 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Hello, we'd like to get the streamlined branch merged, but there's doubt that many distributions we don't test frequently with would break randomly due to older package versions or missing patches. If you're running a *recent* distro other than Fedora or Ubuntu, please check out this repository,

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-18 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Aleksey Limalsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:13:52AM -0500, David Farning wrote: James, That looks good.  You can also point directly to the Read Etexts activity on ASLO with http://activities.sugarlabs.org/sugar/addon/4035 and you

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
Sean and others can we please try and use the term SoaS slighlty more agnostically. Right now, every time its mentioned it always uses the Fedora backend without question or debate. I think of it a little like when someone says write me an office letter (and its quitely assumed by everyonen

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing streamlined sugar-jhbuild

2009-06-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Bernie and others, [commenting since I was adressed personally] On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 06:46:25PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: we'd like to get the streamlined branch merged, but there's doubt that many distributions we don't test

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Bert Freudenberg
(excluding IAEP from cc list) On 18.06.2009, at 19:45, David Van Assche wrote: Anyway, the point is not to tie SoaS to one distro... Err, SoaS *is* a distro. It currently is based on Fedora, it might get based on something else in the unforeseeable future, but having a gazillion SoaSes

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [IAEP] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Sean DALY
I beg everyone's pardon, I was under the impression that SoaS is Fedora-specific... are there plans to do versions based on other distros? Sean On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Bert Freudenbergb...@freudenbergs.de wrote: (excluding IAEP from cc list) On 18.06.2009, at 19:45, David Van Assche

[Sugar-devel] the SoaS term (was: Press release flurry planning...)

2009-06-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 [cross-posting to match posting-style of what I respond to] On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:45:45PM +0200, David Van Assche wrote: can we please try and use the term SoaS slighlty more agnostically. Right now, every time its mentioned it always uses

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [IAEP] [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
sorry ended up going to Sean only... -- Forwarded message -- From: David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC) To: Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com Soas =

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick Branches

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
Done... On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Frederick Grosefgr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:45 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Sean and others can we please try and use the term SoaS slighlty more agnostically. Right now, every time its mentioned it

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] SSB creator

2009-06-18 Thread Lucian Branescu
Latest version at http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/webified 2009/6/11 Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com: Update http://honeyweb.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/ssb-creator/ 2009/6/7 Bobby Powers bobbypow...@gmail.com: On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Lucian Branesculucian.brane...@gmail.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 18.06.2009, at 20:28, David Van Assche wrote: Soas = sugar on a stick whether that be on Fedora, Suse, debian, or mandriva... they are all the same thing, and I would argue SoaS is NOT a distro... just a dsitribution mechanism... for example, I call my opensuse based sugar on stick

Re: [Sugar-devel] the SoaS term (was: Press release flurry planning...)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
Well, here is where I totally disagree. The term SoaS actually came from the ubuntu derived Sugar on a stick. so by your logic, as it was 'coined' by an individual who chose to put sugar on a usb stick using ubuntu, who by the same logic is the sole owner and user of that term. I think that really

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
Well, that ship sailed quite a while ago. I find it hard to believe that you missed the significant publicity surrounding Sugar being available on openSUSE in ALL formats (cd/dvd/usb/vm appliance) as I've been touting that for at least 2 months now. In fact the collaboration sessions that have

Re: [Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets

2009-06-18 Thread Amir Ansari
Hi Caroline I can only think of three ways of doing this: 1. Offer a Mac-specific SoaS; 2. Add an extra option to the boot menu to allow Mac booting; 3. Use a (modified?) initrd to try to detect whether the computer is a Mac, after the bootloader but before loading the full kernel, and

[Sugar-devel] updating from ASLO

2009-06-18 Thread David Farning
The basic principle behind the ALSO updater seems to be that you send a url to ASLO - Services and it responds with a list of available updates. Server side, the updater is part of ALSO services, a collection of activity related services. The relevant code is found under

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
This is just a naming problem. Sugar on a Stick is a generic descriptive phrase that has been repurposed as a proper noun. This inevitably leads to confusion, because the two meanings do not agree. I encourage the developers of the Fedora-derived image to adopt a new name, to solve this

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
right, otherwise, imagine I call the openSUSE cd version SoaC, Sugar on a CD or even SoaVM Sugar on a Virtual Machine am I the only one who see the broken logic here? David Van assche On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: This is just a naming

[Sugar-devel] linux for education portal

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
Hi there, We've just launched a pretty decent start for a linux for education portal that should contain hundreds (we already have about 50) totally creative commons or similar free license courses that can be used online directly (guest access to all courses) or downloaded to export into one's

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread James Zaki
+1 Bert and others my2cents Outside of the opensource world I've seen many non-mainstream groups become too thinly spread due the many dedicated individuals involved together. I've seen in first hand in a few different sports, and know of it in a couple of other examples, such as French left wing

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from ASLO

2009-06-18 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 02:28:35PM -0500, David Farning wrote: The basic principle behind the ALSO updater seems to be that you send a url to ASLO - Services and it responds with a list of available updates. Server side, the updater is part of ALSO services, a collection of activity related

Re: [Sugar-devel] updating from ASLO

2009-06-18 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:31:42PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 02:28:35PM -0500, David Farning wrote: I tried this: http://activities-devel.sugarlabs.org/services/update.php?id=bounceappID={3ca105e0-2280-4897-99a0-c277d1b733d2}version=foo id: GUID of activity in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Marketing] [IAEP] Fwd: Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Sean DALY
For me, Sugar on a Stick (or on a liveCD, or in virtualization, or as a session) is about a Sugar experience, not a Sugar on an underlying distro/meta-OS/hardware experience. No disrespect to the massive effort that goes into packaging and adapting Sugar to a distro (and I am certainly aware that

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics Roadmap

2009-06-18 Thread Asaf Paris Mandoki
Thanks for all the input. I got the icons ready but now I've found some bugs on the new buttons I coded. I would rather fix them before committing but maybe it's better to let everyone see what I'm doing. With this activity, bugs usually just close the application and I don't really know what's

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bookreader] Epub and Read

2009-06-18 Thread Rebecca Hargrave Malamud
Hello, Sayamindu - I am working with a group in Oregon to create bundles of the IACL books for the OLPC XO. I am looking for some guidance on what the best format is to provide the books in since it looks like we will need to work within the XO Read activity offline environment (I did some

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DC LoCo] Upcoming Official Ubuntu Derivative

2009-06-18 Thread Kevin Cole
Hi all, It's probably come up elsewhere on these lists and I just missed it, but one of our Ubuntu DC LoCo members, Marti Martinson, recently posted a message about Lubuntu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubuntu and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu) which appears to be the new OFFICIAL lightweight

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Bookreader] Epub and Read

2009-06-18 Thread Rebecca Hargrave Malamud
Great! I just got back from an Open Library developers meeting last week, but did not get the opportunity to talk to Peter (I attended the second week of the conference) - although I did talk to Raj Kumar about the state of GnuBook integration and the XO. I definitely want to support existing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Elements Docs

2009-06-18 Thread Asaf Paris Mandoki
Thanks for the docs Chris. I've been looking at the code of elements we have inside the physics activity. It seems they're not the same version. There are some features implemented in the physics activity code that aren't in the main code (e.g. world.add.motor). Does anybody know why don't we

[Sugar-devel] [Invitation] Sugar Labs Market ing Meeting @ Tue Jun 16 5pm – 6pm (sugar-d e...@lists.sugarlabs.org)

2009-06-18 Thread Sean Daly
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Show Must Go On - SoaS for the XO-1

2009-06-18 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Wow, great stuff, can't wait to try this out at home!! One question though: Do I have to write the image to NAND or can I also directly boot the XO from an SD-card / USB key? Thanks and keep up the excellent work! Christoph Zitat von Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com: Hi everybody,

Re: [Sugar-devel] webkit, hulahop; developing apps using browser engine DOM for widgets

2009-06-18 Thread Mihai Sucan
Hello! Le Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:23:38 +0300, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com a écrit: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Bobby Powersbobbypow...@gmail.com wrote: While not hand-tuned, I believe on the latest rawhide-xo images (and Fedora 11) you can download

[Sugar-devel] browse on devxo-1

2009-06-18 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Tried launching Browse (108) on devxo-1. Failed. The error message (on webactivity.py line 35) - ImportError: No module named gnome. I compared Soas2-20090614 (on which Browse launched) against devxo-1 (on which Browse did not launch). No difference in the source files in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets

2009-06-18 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Ah Ha! You have just opened an interesting can of worms! When I try to use SoaS with boot helper on my MacBook I also get Mac and Windows as my boot options. However the Windows image is actually WindowsI since I have it installed via Bootcamp. I need it for some internet sites that don't

Re: [Sugar-devel] [opensuse-edu] Re: linux for education portal

2009-06-18 Thread Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:44 PM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: And I forgot the actual address of the site of course: Learn something new already, huh? ;-) Looks very interesting! Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.net openSUSE Community Manager:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [opensuse-edu] Re: linux for education portal

2009-06-18 Thread Doug Glenn
It is, but he has been working my butt off adding content :) How do I get roped into these things? All I wanted to know was how to get a login :) We do need to get some mods done to the server to allow for larger content files. I've had to hold off on importing some until it gets corrected.

Re: [Sugar-devel] the SoaS term (was: Press release flurry planning...)

2009-06-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:28:09PM +0200, David Van Assche wrote: Nowhere is there any mention of something distro specific, nor should there be. Please leave it to each distribution to babtise their work. I am actually quite surprised that

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] Fwd: Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Sean and the rest of you all, On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:38:02PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: For me, Sugar on a Stick (or on a liveCD, or in virtualization, or as a session) is about a Sugar experience, not a Sugar on an underlying

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
ok, This is becoming silly... Fedora nor Sugarlabs (and I think I consider myself quite a central contributor to sugarlabs) does not have a patent, trademark or anything else that should somehow allow it to kidnap the term sugar on a stick, which is a far too generic term to be kidnapped by

Re: [Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets

2009-06-18 Thread Bobby Powers
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Caryl Bigenhocbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Ah Ha! You have just opened an interesting can of worms!  When I try to use SoaS with boot helper on my MacBook I also get Mac and Windows as my boot options. However the Windows image is actually WindowsI since I have

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] the SoaS term (was: Press release flurry planning...)

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:28:09PM +0200, David Van Assche wrote: [Sugar on a Stick] should [...] describe the medium by which sugar is delivered (a usb stick) Nowhere is there any mention of something distro specific, nor should there be. I'm amused that a few meme-weeks ago we had a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] the SoaS term (was: Press release flurry planning...)

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:26:53PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:45:45PM +0200, David Van Assche wrote: can we please try and use the term SoaS slighlty more agnostically. Right now, every time its mentioned it always uses the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] the SoaS term

2009-06-18 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I completely disagree. To me, SoaS is a specific distribution coined by Sugar enthusiasts (who happen to also most/all of them also to be Sugar developers). I disagree as well. I'm quite satisfied with SugarLabs' support and usage of the SoaS .ISO as produced by

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
Sean... u stated it very correctly. Lets leave whats under the hood, there where its supposed to be... we are driving a car, and whether thats a mercedes, bmw or ford really shouldnt matter as long as it drives now if u want specific items in your car or u want your car to drive in a

Re: [Sugar-devel] transition from activities/all to activities portal

2009-06-18 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hello David. That's the best option in my opinion. cheers!. Rafael Ortiz On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:31 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: Chris, Upon further examining http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Browse_(8.2)http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Browse_%288.2%29, I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets

2009-06-18 Thread Caroline Meeks
Hi, The current status is that SoaS + CD Boot Helper work on many macs. On some macbooks we need to need nomodeset Today at the Lilla Fredrick School it booted through all the dots appearing then went to the shell and could not find boot. The exact same USB and boot helper boots my iMac just

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Caroline Meeks
I agree with much of what has been said. Sugar on a Stick should not be linked to any one distro. The way I look at it is there are currently potentially three ways a kid can get access to their Sugar. 1. One-to-One Laptops - Each kid gets a laptop. 2. Virtualization - When you are connected to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:16:44PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: I agree with much of what has been said. Sugar on a Stick should not be linked to any one distro. Laudable goal, but please don't underestimate how much work this is. I think Sebastian and David have an idea what's involved, but

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Sean DALY
Martin - we worked out Flavors at the marketing meetings Sean On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Martin Denglermar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 07:16:44PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: I agree with much of what has been said. Sugar on a Stick should not be linked to any

Re: [Sugar-devel] testing composition for speeding up graphics performance

2009-06-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jun 2009, at 10:29, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:21, Sascha Silbesascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:09:06AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Wonder if that's intended, as going to a zoom level involves some kind of animation, i.e. is

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:50:00AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: Martin - we worked out Flavors at the marketing meetings Ok. It'd be nice if there was a mail sometime stating that. I guess your one a few minutes ago was that mail. Sean Martin pgpKArskHMzKK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Sugar-devel] Physics Roadmap

2009-06-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jun 2009, at 11:48, Brian Jordan wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 17 Jun 2009, at 06:29, Edward Cherlin wrote: Did you look at my Turtle Art version of Alan Kay's third-grade gravity lesson?

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Sean DALY
I'm having difficulty with this launch (which was originally planned for three months from now :-) We're making it, but it's a pressure situation... On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Martin Denglermar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 01:50:00AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick Branches

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Dengler
I've made some changes - hopefully acceptable to all but in case they're not I wanted to be up front about it to allow the appropriate steps to be taken. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:38:50PM +0200, David Van Assche wrote: Done... On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Frederick Grosefgr...@gmail.com

Re: [Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:23:38AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote: Is there a way we can modify SoaS so that mac users don't have to [add nomodeset to the kernel command line] but it still works for everyone? Yes (SoaS could put nomodeset in its kernel command line). Also you/we/someone should

Re: [Sugar-devel] FUDCon hackfest proposal: assessment

2009-06-18 Thread Gary C Martin
On 18 Jun 2009, at 15:10, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: 0. I'm guessing there will be some simple API, maybe sugar.activity.assess. Or maybe it's actually part of datastore. The obvious thing, to me, is to store it in the Datastore object's metadata properties.

Re: [Sugar-devel] transition from activities/all to activities portal

2009-06-18 Thread Samuel Klein
This sounds good. Making the how-to-upload tutorial more prominent will help as well. So that new releases such as [[jam2jam]] are put in the right place... SJ On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrerodir...@gmail.com wrote: Hello David. That's the best option in my

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:17:09AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: I'm having difficulty with this launch (which was originally planned for three months from now :-) We're making it, but it's a pressure situation... It'd be nice was meant without its usual sarcastic implication, sorry. I did mean I

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO vs. wiki.laptop.org activities

2009-06-18 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi James, On 18 Jun 2009, at 15:28, James Simmons wrote: David, I am doing that now, but the page I'm pointing to is the one on wiki.laptop.org. Should I abandon that page and create a new one somewhere else? Should I perhaps move my pages to wiki.sugarlabs.org and replace my

[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [math4] i18n

2009-06-18 Thread Frederick Grose
Forwarding to a couple of mailing lists... -- Forwarded message -- From: Mike Major jmi...@bellsouth.net Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:07 PM Subject: [math4] i18n To: Math List fourthgradem...@lists.sugarlabs.org i'm struggling right now with how to display some text on the

[Sugar-devel] Soas backstory and summary was Re: [IAEP] Fwd: [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC)

2009-06-18 Thread David Farning
I just thought I would take a minute to fill in the Sugar on a Stick back story and summarize the thread. That way we can let it ferment a bit before we get back to it at the next marketing meeting. Last August Brian Jordan and I made the original Sugar on a USB memory stick at the XO-Sugar Book

[Sugar-devel] FW: Current Stable OS Install

2009-06-18 Thread Martin Dengler
Good example of how to answer the question of what to say when introducing SoaS as an install option: - Forwarded message from Holt h...@laptop.org - Jacob Haddon wrote: Forgive the question. I've been digging through laptop.org and fedora wikis, forums and dev lists for this

Re: [Sugar-devel] my changes to Karma/quadrilaterals

2009-06-18 Thread Bryan Berry
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 23:49 -0500, Felipe López Toledo wrote: the tar content is quite differente from git. that is probably my fault anyway, I got your point: separate css, js, images, audio and so on into folders (agreed!) I see you tried to include std html elements.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets

2009-06-18 Thread Amir Ansari
But the problem is that 'modeset' works with other machines and takes advantage of a very useful kernel feature. Adding a blanket 'nomodeset' removes this feature - it allows Mac booting, but to the detriment of all other hardware. Ideally, there should be a way to detect whether it's

Re: [Sugar-devel] Getting Sugar to run on certain mac chipsets

2009-06-18 Thread Bobby Powers
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Amir Ansaria...@open-edu.co.uk wrote: But the problem is that 'modeset' works with other machines and takes advantage of a very useful kernel feature. Adding a blanket 'nomodeset' removes this feature - it allows Mac booting, but to the detriment of all other