[Sugar-devel] Fwd: REVU: [ubuntu/karmic] gears 0.5.21.0~svn3334+dfsg-0ubuntu1 (New)

2009-07-01 Thread David Van Assche
interesting gears now .debbed for ubuntu guess alien might be enough to make the rpm? D -- Forwarded message -- From: Stefan Lesicnik Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:19 PM Subject: Re: REVU: [ubuntu/karmic] gears 0.5.21.0~svn3334+dfsg-0ubuntu1 (New) To: Siegfried Gevatter C

Re: [Sugar-devel] HelloWorld documentation in sugarlabs wiki

2009-07-02 Thread David Van Assche
They are at least available at linux-for-education.org as moodle courses. It would be great if we start getting used to create moodle courses instead of wiki entries for anything that is kinda like a lesson or a tutorial, as it means easier grouping, moving, choosing, translating, and more complex

Re: [Sugar-devel] TuxPaint and saving to journal (Was: Duplication of effort)

2009-07-28 Thread David Van Assche
the activity handbook link on the Almanac page is broken... David On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:03, Christoph > Derndorfer wrote: > > I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the Sugar Almanac so far: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Developme

Re: [Sugar-devel] TuxPaint and saving to journal (Was: Duplication of effort)

2009-07-28 Thread David Van Assche
Well its not that it doesn't resolve, it goes to a page not found... On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Christoph Derndorfer < christoph.derndor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:30 PM, David Van Assche wrote: > >> the activity handbook link on the

[Sugar-devel] article about Sugar in Wired magazine

2009-08-03 Thread David Van Assche
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/08/inventing-a-new-paradigm-sugarlabs-and-the-sugar-ui/ enjoy David Van Assche -- Charles de Gaulle<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_de_gaulle.html> - "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself

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

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
cold hard facts about Sugar as used in South America and Africa. kind Regards, David Van Assche On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David Farning wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Christoph > Derndorfer wrote: > > Sean DALY schrieb: > >> IMHO, close study of small de

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

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
the people deploying our software don't > want to talk to us despite our requests, but other people still think > we don't want to know about them. > > Frustratedly yours, > > Tomeu > > > kind Regards, > > David Van Assche > > > > On Thu, Aug 13,

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

2009-08-13 Thread David Van Assche
e client sugar sessions to track things... perhaps, programs being used, length of time used, internet connectivity or not, etc. What I'm saying is, we could build some kind of statistic tracking into the computers as long as its not efficiency damaging or privacy violating... kind regards, Dav

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

2009-08-14 Thread David Van Assche
talking about is digitising the current manual feedback that is happening elsewhere (how many users running which apps, lesson plans being used, languages, how many computers requiring repairs, general problems people are running into, and generally people's feelings on sugar usage, maybe even sur

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

2009-08-14 Thread David Van Assche
regards, David Van Assche On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Andrés Nacelle wrote: > Hello you all, > > In first place thanks for asking, 'm glad to try to help here. > > Well, lets see. I think in first place we need to make sure witch is the > version of the SO and firmware on

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

2009-08-14 Thread David Van Assche
Openfire and Tigase, and Lua based Prosody. We are actually doing an internal evaluation of the various xmpp servers at my work, so I'll try publishing that... good luck, David Van Assche On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Andrés Nacelle wrote: > Hi David, we're aware of this situa

[Sugar-devel] DB module for moodle in XS server serously coool and needed addittion

2009-09-04 Thread David Van Assche
that links ot applications.sugarlabs.org Anyway, I remember Marting Langhoff trying to grab people's attention to this great module, well above is an implementation example which not only works, but looks ok to.. kind regaards, David Van Assche linux-for-education.org -- www.nuba

Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.86 plans

2009-09-29 Thread David Van Assche
And we are relying on jhconvert for openSUSE rpms too. Outside that we maintain more than 50 honey activities via oBS. kind regards, David Van Assche On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:06:56AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > > I am plannin

Re: [Sugar-devel] Tutorius Demo and Meeting

2009-10-27 Thread David Van Assche
Please put them in linux-for-education.org. Pages too if u do more work doing than the person that currently has one not only do you get his (his responsibility to engrave"I lost this tshirt in good shame and faith, but by the batttlecry of Eureeeka, I will reclaim it one again-2 to Full Name

Re: [Sugar-devel] On Sugar 0.84 - status of the "Chat/collab leader" issue...

2009-11-03 Thread David Van Assche
avent even thought about yet I know its exciting stuff though I dont thnink I'll be able to make it to Bolzano, but I understand there will be a strong remote presences... so I'd be happy to help out in that area, kind regards, David Van Assche On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Tomeu Viz

Re: [Sugar-devel] [pkg-fso-maint] Sugar on OpenMoko Freerunner

2009-11-03 Thread David Van Assche
I'm sure u can get around the enter name and password thing by giving control directly to mission control, via telepathy, and local link xmpp, or anonymous xmpp if u wanna use a xmpp server... but seems like generally telepathising the openmoko would be fun and make sense for all its comm capabili

Re: [Sugar-devel] On Sugar 0.84 - status of the "Chat/collab leader" issue...

2009-11-04 Thread David Van Assche
it, take a look here and you'll see what I mean: http://people.collabora.co.uk/~danni/telepathy-book/chapter.accounts.html kind regards, David Van Assche On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM, David Van Assche wrote: >> moving to m

Re: [Sugar-devel] On Sugar 0.84 - status of the "Chat/collab leader" issue...

2009-11-04 Thread David Van Assche
Don't get me wrong though, I agree thoroughly that we should really test it and make sure it plays as advertised But I think its gonna be easier to do that than test/scale/stabalise what we currently have. David On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:06 AM, David Van Assche wrote: > Well, at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Mesh

2009-11-04 Thread David Van Assche
r at all :-) Just stating some observations... kind Regards, David Van Assche On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Cecilia Abalde wrote: >> I think I understood salut ytelepathy gabble telepathy. >> My question now is: >> to salut telepathy works there must

Re: [Sugar-devel] Volunteer Opportunity

2009-11-07 Thread David Van Assche
5 and I'd bet we'd see a lot of problems just dissapear... kind regards, David Van Assche On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 6 Nov 2009, at 22:03, Sascha Silbe wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:17:32PM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] On Sugar 0.84 - status of the "Chat/collab leader" issue...

2009-11-07 Thread David Van Assche
te to MC 5... and give a warning or something, or keep some kind of sym links to the old functions... I dunno, kinda above my level of expertise... regards, David van Assche On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 13:16, Benjamin M. Schwartz > wrote: >

Re: [Sugar-devel] On Sugar 0.84 - status of the "Chat/collab leader" issue...

2009-11-09 Thread David Van Assche
unteer to do this. I am volunteering to help, but a lot of it goes above my head. I know the theory quite well, but I'm afraid of touching a lot of that code.... kind regards, David Van Assche On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 17:40, David

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing "Journal Entries" over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread David Van Assche
This all sounds like a great current solutinon, but shouldn't we be looking at more long term network ubquity solutions. It seems to be that having a telepathy backend and frontend would allow us to share files anty which wat inclydiung usb if that was desired. From my experience in schools, though

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing "Journal Entries" over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread David Van Assche
t way, set presence state, avtar, and any ohter cool sutff xmpp can do... I'm jus saying should we be exploring it? Daivd On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, David Van Assche > wrote: > > inclydiung usb if that was desired

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing "Journal Entries" over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread David Van Assche
and storing images in Base64 for example? David On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg > wrote: > > IMHO separating the meta-data from the file itself is a good idea. Having > one database at the root of the stick is just too

Re: [Sugar-devel] Roadmap to 0.88 --- Proposal

2009-11-21 Thread David Van Assche
coming up... kinid Reards, David Van assche On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) < boche...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > - Testing: I hope to see much much more testing in this release cycle. > > Two things should help here: a) I encourage the creation of a t

Re: [Sugar-devel] discovering open clip art library

2009-12-11 Thread David Van Assche
yeah its carried as standard in most distributions and installed, at least in then schools I've been to, and connected directly to software packages like open office and inkscape. On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 20:12, Christoph Derndorfer > wro

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Education on the XO

2009-01-04 Thread David Van Assche
ng a database of all the activities so that they can easily be searched for, categorised, etc. but I read that this was being done elsewhere so again, I didn't continue down that avenue, but I'll gladly continue if its of use... kind Regards, David Van Assche On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:04 PM

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Education on the XO

2009-01-04 Thread David Van Assche
e web based activity. kind regards, David Van Assche On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Albert Cahalan wrote: > David Van Assche writes: > >> Actually there are a whole bunch of examples I uploaded >> to schools.sugarlabs.org, the problem we have is of how >> to categorise them. ie

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Education on the XO

2009-01-05 Thread David Van Assche
Maybe we should try and put together some sort of roadmap and strategy for schools.sugarlabs.org. Perhaps we could schedule an IRC meeting regarding it? kind Regards, David Van Assche On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Tony Anderson wrote: > David, > > I didn't realize that you were

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-05 Thread David Van Assche
useful for making flash based learning objects for Moodle. The site for the soft is here: http://www.salasaga.org/ kind Regards, David Van Assche On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> On 05.01.2009, at 05

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Groupthink 0.1 pre-alpha

2009-01-14 Thread David Van Assche
This sounds like a great foundation for a sugar framework... something that not only coders can get a feel for... kind Regards, David Van Assche On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Ben, > > > Groupthink: Collab should be easy. > &g

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

2009-01-31 Thread David Van Assche
ities... I'd also suggest putting wubi on it so it can be run on windows... (cringe) Anyweay, so this would become the sugar addon image/cd/drive David Van Assche On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:49, Marco Pesenti Gritti > wrote: &

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

2009-01-31 Thread David Van Assche
You can easily make gdm the session manager from which to choose sugar or gnome, and thereby give them access to gimp, inkscape and whatever other apps... On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Simon Schampijer

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

2009-01-31 Thread David Van Assche
se to make something all encompassing that is useful for all educational groups... David On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote: > David Van Assche wrote: >> >> You can easily make gdm the session manager from which to choose sugar >> or gnome, and thereb

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

2009-01-31 Thread David Van Assche
ky is the limit... Anyway, edubuntu is a mix of gnome and kde edu apps... and soon sugar edu stuff too kind Regards, David Van Assche On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > Simon Schampijer schrieb: >> >> David Van Assche wrote: >>> >>>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Summary & Minutes from olpc-friends' Tuesday Deployment Meeting

2009-01-31 Thread David Van Assche
Enjoy: hpachas> _sj_, los temas de implementación pasan por 3 temas importantes the implementation themes are split into 3 important ones: hpachas> _sj_, logistico, técnico y pedagógico logistics, technical and pedagogical hpachas> pienso que se deben agendar reuniones en base a

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

2009-01-31 Thread David Van Assche
Yeah, I know... its what gave me the idea... kudos... ;-) David... On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Simon Peter wrote: > 2009/1/31 David Van Assche : >> Can't we split it into 2 parts, the regular startup and desktop bits >> (as created in teh oses) and then the downloadabl

[Sugar-devel] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

2009-02-10 Thread David Van Assche
ok? I guess this will be contreversial but it must be said and acted upon (much more importantly) Im gonna try and make this easy: SoaS - the latest fedora core based I tried to impress my 9 year old gescwister... (related one) Speak - it will not even launch why is it then on a disitributed

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

2009-02-10 Thread David Van Assche
S and any other distros floating around. This would > at least make clear what is known to be wrong, and steps underway to fix. > > As for the second point, namely providing activities requested by teachers, > I agree it is important, and I think Wade has an almost-ready typing tutor >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

2009-02-10 Thread David Van Assche
aroline Meeks > wrote: >> >> Do we have a place for testers to record the what works with which >> release? >> >> If not perhaps someone could set it up on the moodle system >> schools.sugarlab.org using the moodle database module: >> http://docs.mo

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

2009-02-10 Thread David Van Assche
>>> >>>> But despite a few public requests we haven't managed to get any SoaS >>>> test results posted there. >>>> >>>> -Wade >>>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Caroline Meeks >>>> wrote: >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

2009-02-10 Thread David Van Assche
needed no explanation for the interface... to them it was as natural as eating a piece of bread. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:14 PM, David Van Assche >> wrote: >>> Im

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] activites known not to either work at all or not on certin platforms

2009-02-11 Thread David Van Assche
n a CD and Sugar on a Stick? > > If this has been dealt with, any pointers to resources would be appreciated. > > thank you > > Sean > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:34 AM, David Van Assche > wrote: >> well this entire conversation was really brought about be

[Sugar-devel] logging irc setup

2009-02-12 Thread David Van Assche
well, u can find it here: http://www.nubae.com/logs/sugar There are various curious commands the bot can help with based on google stuff the list is as follows: [control command is @ and not !] example: @google define:sugarlabs # !google [.google.country.code] [define:|spell:|movie:] # #

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

2009-04-01 Thread David Van Assche
You guys should also look into jclic: http://clic.xtec.cat/en/jclic/ Its java, but lots of pre-existing examples already out there for courses and lessons, created by the ministry of catalonia kind Regards, David van Assche 2009/4/1 Lucian Branescu : > 2009/4/1 Bryan Berry : >> On Tue

Re: [Sugar-devel] webified and google gears

2009-04-14 Thread David Van Assche
is just a XUL extension, packaging shouldn't be a problem. >> >> You mean you are volunteering to package it? ;) >> >> David Van Assche already worked on it and got it pretty much working, >> but it never was submitted to fedora. Would you like to finish this &

Re: [Sugar-devel] webified and google gears

2009-04-14 Thread David Van Assche
Last time I built gears from source there were some hickups with wrong libraries and flags, but It wasn't too difficult. If any more help is needed, let me know. David On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:24 PM, David Van Assche wrote: > ok, here's what I've found so far... I'l

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

2009-04-26 Thread David Van Assche
ning in three weeks or >> so. If Sugar is usable in that environment, we'll definitely push for >> it in this lab. The lab is used by faculty and students from early >> childhood ed. and other departments inb CoE. They'd love to bring in >> teachers and childre

[Sugar-devel] feedback from the Distro (autopackaging team) at Sugar Camp and recent meeting with key members taking on that task

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
We had an IRC meeting yesterday (1 day after sugar camp!) to decide how to move forward with the decisions taken at Sugar Camp in the area of making packaging easier, performance better, testing easier, and volunteer support and QA attraction a more realistic process and approach. You can see the w

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

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
t of mirrors on the website > - or better mirror autoselection > > > Besides from getting bandwidth is there a way I can help to achieve > this? (I guess ssh access would be needed) > > Kind regards, > Marten > > > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:10 +0200, David Van Assche wro

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sharing to Groups

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
, what should I leave enabled so we can cut the fat as it were... kind Regards, David Van Assche On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira > wrote: >> Martin Langhoff, are you around ? > > Sure. I recom

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sharing to Groups

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
(Nubae) Van Assche On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:53 PM, David Van Assche > wrote: >> Talking about moodle, we really should decide what to enable on the > > Not only stop scaring people, but provide content about Sugar + sa

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

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
me too, shall we take a practical approach and suggest some locations? David (nubae) Van Assche On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Marten Vijn wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:46 +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> On 05/19/09 13:51, Walter Bender wrote: >> > Maybe we can find a time in the next fe

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sharing to Groups

2009-05-19 Thread David Van Assche
009 at 6:30 AM, David Van Assche > wrote: >> ah great, would be nice to be able to take care of everything, but >> think we have enough work on our hands, if we could get some other >> people on board that are experienced moodle admins, that would be >> great. thanks M

Re: [Sugar-devel] Simplifying sugar-jhbuild

2009-05-22 Thread David Van Assche
I can only speak of opensuse and mandriva but we compile xulrunner ourselves on those 2 plaftorms... David (nubae) On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Tomeu Vizoso > wrote: > > > As with any other sugar module, people want to run the lates

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Help to Find the PO file of Some Activities to able me to Translate Them

2009-05-25 Thread David Van Assche
ed emails... so better wiki than nothing, no? kind Regards, David Van Assche On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 25 May 2009, at 12:33, David Van Assche wrote: > > Super... that methodology should be written up some place as its a great >> guide to follow...

Re: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar?

2009-05-26 Thread David Van Assche
Where is the source? I dont see anything since march in git.sugarlabs.org David (nubae) On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:32 PM, James Simmons wrote: > Sean, > > I'm blowing my own horn here, but I just finished a new version of Read > Etexts that might be worth a look. The new version has a "Books" ta

[Sugar-devel] classroom presenter, iTalc for sugar (possible ports for LinuxTag Berlin showoff)

2009-05-27 Thread David Van Assche
Hi, At LinuxTag Berlin, there are 3 areas that are of particular interest to me, and might be considered novelties in the way sugar can/will be presented there. From one side, I will be representing sugar packaging on the openSUSE platform, and being part of the opensuse-edu team, we will show o

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] classroom presenter, iTalc for sugar (possible ports for LinuxTag Berlin showoff)

2009-05-28 Thread David Van Assche
nd pass control over to that student for a while. > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:17 AM, David Van Assche wrote: > >> Hi, >>At LinuxTag Berlin, there are 3 areas that are of particular interest >> to me, and might be considered novelties in the way sugar can/will be >>

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

2009-05-30 Thread David Van Assche
Yeah, this is also something that is relevant and usable across distros, so lets try and make it distro agnostic David On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Sean DALY wrote: > Well, I'd like to do a mockup of my idea (tonight), post it to the > wiki under Gary's, and have feedback from the Desig

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on suse and virtualised appliances to cheat network connectivity

2009-05-31 Thread David Van Assche
ks ago we had a very broken environment kind Regards, David Van Assche www.nubae.com ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

[Sugar-devel] collaboration testing session

2009-06-04 Thread David Van Assche
Hi folks, We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week Wednesday 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12 pm PST, most of Europe that will be 9 pm, 8 pm for the UK) So far we have 5 people signed up, but more are welcome as we really want to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread David Van Assche
regards, David (nubae) On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 06:09, David Van Assche > wrote: > > Hi folks, > >We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week > Wednesday > > 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 p

Re: [Sugar-devel] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread David Van Assche
Ok, etoys included too.. On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > On 05.06.2009, at 06:09, David Van Assche wrote: > > Hi folks, >We are having a collaborative sugar testing session next week Wednesday > 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm E

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] collaboration testing session

2009-06-05 Thread David Van Assche
> that > > someone on your team has access to what is going on on the server so you > can > > try to correlate any spikes to specific activities. > > > > Thanks, > > Caroline > > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 12:09 AM, David Van Assche > > wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal activity release 101 not tagged in Git

2009-06-06 Thread David Van Assche
And though packaging debian is quite different from doing rpms, I just finished getting all activities working for openSUSE. There were lots of little glitches that prevented activities from working,so if u run into any issues with particular activities, ping me and I might be able to tell u how to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal activity release 101 not tagged in Git

2009-06-06 Thread David Van Assche
AGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 04:52:08PM +0200, David Van Assche wrote: > >And though packaging debian is quite different from doing rpms, I just > >finished getting all activities working for openSUSE. There were lots > >of little glitches

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] Activity Awards, Activity Alerts, Frame Alerts

2009-06-06 Thread David Van Assche
ve forwards on this and get to it then... kind regards, David Van Assche On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Frederick, > > On 6 Jun 2009, at 00:30, Frederick Grose wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Gary C Martin > > wrote: > >

Re: [Sugar-devel] [math4] Activity Awards, Activity Alerts, Frame Alerts

2009-06-06 Thread David Van Assche
gt; In 1968, when I was six, I wrote a little 4-line poem about the > astronauts going up into orbit. My first-grade teacher, Mrs. Menzi, > typed it up and put a gold star sticker on it, and a gold star sticker > on my forehead too. Like a star in outer space! I'm still proud of >

[Sugar-devel] personalisation and collaboration

2009-06-07 Thread David Van Assche
Something has been in the back of my head for a while now, ever since I've seen the impressive capabilities of being able to share an activity with your neighbourhood. Being able to cooperatively use applications brings a new level of playability to it all, and it reminds me of when I first saw the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Getting data about the upgrading older machines and SoaS responsiveness.

2009-06-07 Thread David Van Assche
When it come to older pcs, it really makes sense to try and use LTSP. We have created a kiwi-ltsp usb stick for openSUSE, which gives a portable ltsp server wherever u plug it in. In most cases it would make sense for this to be the most powerful computer. It is as easy as installing the sugar and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Getting data about the upgrading older machines and SoaS responsiveness.

2009-06-07 Thread David Van Assche
nvironment part with ejabberd, if needed.. of course, it only works in wired environments. kind Regards, David (nubae) Van Assche On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:19 PM, David Farning wrote: > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:24 PM, David Van Assche > wrote: > > When it come to older pcs, it really mak

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] personalisation and collaboration

2009-06-07 Thread David Van Assche
r normally should be, to guide the learning process. kind Regards, David Van Assche On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:00 AM, David Van Assche > wrote: > > Something has been in the back of my head for a while now, ever since > I've

[Sugar-devel] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting) reminder

2009-06-09 Thread David Van Assche
Hi folks, This is a reminder about the collaborative sugar testing session we are having tomorrow, Wednesday 10th June at 20:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12 pm PST, most of Europe that will be 9 pm, 8 pm for the UK) We will have a good 5-10 people present, but more

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Grassroots-l] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting) reminder

2009-06-10 Thread David Van Assche
Hmm ok, I stand corrected :-) I'm wondering now where I got the 20:00 time from... David On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > On 09.06.2009, at 16:16, David Van Assche wrote: > > Hi folks, >This is a reminder about the collaborative sugar te

[Sugar-devel] sugar collaboration session June 10th report

2009-06-11 Thread David Van Assche
Hi, I've published the report for our collaboration session which took place June 10th 2009. Please leave your comments, especially those who took part. http://www.nubae.com/collaboration-session-sugar-june10 thanks, David (nubae) Van Assche ___ Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

2009-06-11 Thread David Van Assche
I recommend u take a look at the openSUSE offering. I took a careful look at the activities available and packaged those that seemed useful, relatively bug free, and fun. I think we have about 55 activities now. kind Regards, David (nubae) Van Assche On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:09 PM, James Simmons

[Sugar-devel] collaborative testing session (tomorrow's meeting, 17th June) reminder

2009-06-16 Thread David Van Assche
Hi folks,    This is a reminder about the collaborative sugar testing session we are having tomorrow, Wednesday 17th June at 19:00 UTC (That is 4 pm EDT, 3pm EST, 2 pm CST, 1 pm MST, and 12 pm PST, most of Europe that will be 9 pm, 8 pm for the UK) We will have a good 10+ people present, if last w

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 th

[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 Date: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [IAEP] [Marketing] Press release flurry planning (LinuxTag - FOSSED - NECC - GUADEC) To: Sean DALY Soas = sugar on a stick whether that be

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 Grose wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:45 PM, David Van Assche > wrote: >> >> Sean and others >> >> can we please try and use the term SoaS slighlty more agnostically. >> Right now, every time its

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

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
d Sugarlabs to > leave the "distribution" task to others.  Be friendly to any > distribution that includes Sugar - sure - but don't take on that > challenge yourself.  There is plenty to do that is more Sugar-specific what challenge exactly? kind Regards, David Van Assche ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
quite obviously missing from it) be Fedora centric? This smells to me like saying Office = microsoft... it smells very bad... which is why I'm raising my concerns over it somewhat... David On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 18.06.2009, at 20:28, David Van Assche wro

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. Schwartz wrote: > This is just a naming problem.  "Su

[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] linux for education portal

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
And I forgot the actual address of the site of course: www.linux-for-education.org On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:42 PM, David Van Assche wrote: > Hi there, >   We've just launched a pretty decent start for a linux for education > portal that should contain hundreds (we already have abo

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

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
rst to use the term click on a link (and patenteted it) Regards, David Van Assche <-- rest snipped for brevity --> ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

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

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
flame war. David Van Assche On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:49 PM, James Zaki wrote: > +1 Bert and others > > > 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

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

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
sure.. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:29 PM, David Van Assche wrote: > 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 t

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

2009-06-18 Thread David Van Assche
ion is Sugar on a Stick may reboot the computer and/or the > same stick may run with a VM or LTSP. > > I thought we had decided to use Flavors? i.e. Sugar on a Stick Strawberry is > our current release and it is based on Fedora 11. > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:18 PM, David Van Assch

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] multiple IM accounts

2010-03-03 Thread David Van Assche
logue asking for a changeover to the other protocol seems like the only thing I can think of. kind regards, David Van Assche On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > Hi all, > > as part of the effort to make Sugar a more "normal" Telepathy client, > Sugar should be

Re: [Sugar-devel] New IRC bot

2010-09-05 Thread David Van Assche
funny, I offered and set this up about a year ago, and my bot got banned from the channel because people were paranoid their conversations were being recorded... (grin/lol) D On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > Hi all, > > FIY, To keep IRC logs, I've setup IRC bot - supybot[1]

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] [AC Update] We are what we do.

2011-04-02 Thread David Van Assche
The more info the better... information shouldn't kill people. (read shouldn't) David Van Assche On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:05 AM, NoiseEHC wrote: >> >>>> "About pane" has a psychological effec

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Anly approve and not handle channels in the shell, part of OLPC #10738

2011-04-14 Thread David Van Assche
we can now communicate with any telepathy based client on other systems from a sugar based system? Perhaps you could explain how this effects activity sharing across activities on other oses (say chat client on gnome with sugar chat?) kind regards, David Van Assche On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:42

Re: [Sugar-devel] Tux Paint - Save and new

2011-10-23 Thread David Van Assche
Can it be ported to python? just a quesstion, maybe a stupid one David On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:12:31PM +, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote: >> >> >> This was the comments from an Uruguayab teacher.. >> I tell you why it is important for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Running sugar through PXE

2011-11-05 Thread David Van Assche
ime it can save, not to mention the tons of broken disks and sticks but its a battle that will be won when proof of concept is shown at various points in time and space.. kind ragards, David Van Assche P.S. If you are game, I would love a co-driver on this... working it alone is boring,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Dextrose] Proxy Control Panel (Was: New Dextrose-3...)

2011-11-30 Thread David Van Assche
Have you guys taken a look at total parent control... its an all in one gui that controls dansguardian, firehol, and squid, and is maintained quite heavily by many side projects apart from canonical: https://launchpad.net/webcontentcontrol Its worth a look kind regards, David van assche On Wed

Re: [Sugar-devel] badges for collaborative activities

2011-12-13 Thread David Van Assche
help students with. kind regards, David Van Assche On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:26 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > I was playing with Sugar collaboration between my XO-1.75 and my > crazy-nephew's XO-1.5 over the weekend. We wanted to "play together", > but it was hard to fin

Re: [Sugar-devel] badges for collaborative activities

2011-12-13 Thread David Van Assche
Yeah, I'm sorry if it came across that way, its just that I've got a sort of halted project which I really want to make collaborative, but am unsure how to move forward and include... I guess I was asking for some pointers towards really good documentation to make this a reality. kind regards, Dav

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