My daily Google alert shows this story on Gizmodo, MIT Technology
Review, ferarriboy.com, and gadget.us.
A Google News search turns up several more.
o tuxjournal.net (Spanish)
o neteco.com (French)
o techradar.com UK
o slashdot
o h-online.com
We are getting good coverage in the geek outlets, but
Several SoaS betas were made available as .vdi files suitable for use
in VirtualBox. Can we get Strawberry in this form? Or can somebody
tell me how to create one?
--
Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name
And Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Tr
how it goes.
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox
>
> Thanks,
> Caroline
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>
>> Several SoaS betas were made available as .vdi files suitable for use
>> in VirtualBox. Can we get Strawberry in this
Works fine on Virtualbox OSE on Ubuntu J. Thx everybody. I see several
important improvements already. More testing tonight.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>
> Thank you. Downloading now. I am on a FLOSS Manuals book sprint today,
> but I can report back by thi
Somebody got a VDI working. We need to spread links around the Wiki on this.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/VirtualBox#Sugar_on_a_Stick
http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-strawberry-vdi.zip
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Great! I was trying to make Strawberry run
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Sean DALY wrote:
>
> I'm sorry Jonas, I had assumed the success of our launch (3700 SoaS
> downloads yesterday) would be of interest to all Sugar Labs
> contributors, in particular those who worked so hard on it. Does
> anyone else feel it's too much information? I
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Bastien wrote:
> I'm a bit skeptical about using flossmanuals for co-writing and
> translating Sugar's documentation.
>
> What are the real benefits over a simple wiki?
The documentation on the OLPC and SugarLabs Wikis is barely usable for
experts, severely incompl
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 20:13, Gary C Martin wrote:
>> Hi Tomeu,
>>
>> On 28 Jun 2009, at 09:59, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>
>>> 2009/6/21 Edward Cherlin :
>>>>
>>>> We have about 60 cha
Oh, Michael, you're in trouble now. ^_^
You risk reinventing the data-centric Ontology in an Object-Oriented
Programming form. This is one of the worst sinks for time and mental
energy that I know of. It saps the will, because soon users become
obsessed with making the map match the territory, whe
Better way: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities#Midnight_Commander
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Martin
Langhoff wrote:
> I am trying to get leases.sig from the XS to the USB stick. On 8.2.x,
> Browse.xo saves the file as
>
> File leases.sig from http://...
>
> ... two possible ways to m
I'm expecting you all to invent Linux groups any minute now. ^_^
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Andrés Ambrois wrote:
> On Friday 03 July 2009 02:29:56 pm Eben Eliason wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Gary C Martin wrote:
>> > On 2 Jul 2009, at 14:47, Eben Eliason wrote:
>> >> On Wed, J
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> so here it is, the Sugar on a Stick v2 Roadmap:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap#Roadmap
>
> Feedback is appreciated, and as we've just entered brainstorming phase,
> please go ahead and shoot you
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:25 AM, James Michael
DuPont wrote:
> Sascha,
> It build and installed all according to the instructions.
> I dont have this all here at the moment as I said. If you have any
> questions, you can see my build snapshot, that contains everything.
Where? I want to link to it
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Eben Eliason wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
>> On 3 Jul 2009, at 10:01, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>>> Wishlist: "show files by size" filter or option? If the Uruguay
>>> experience is any indicator, a fact of life is that users after all
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Martin Dengler wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:52:23AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> Nobody in the world seems to understand the Keep button. People think
>> it's for regular saving and you should do it before you close or switch
>> away from your activity.
>
> T
2009/7/10 Philippe Clérié :
> I am looking into implenting sugar for a Montessori school.
Maria would be so pleased. +1
Where is your school? Is there a Sugar/XO user group nearby?
> The
> current plan is to start with 10 to 20 (depending on budget)
> computers for a group of about 100 students
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Frederick Grose wrote:
> A new entry today
> on http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Community/Distributions/Ubuntu:
> (from) Neil Mayhew 16:28, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
>
> I was able to make the sugar packages work by adding a gconf setting:
>
> gconftool-2 -s /desktop/su
2009/7/10 Philippe Clérié :
> We're located in Haiti.
Excellent. I had a hand in getting Kreyol localization started.
> Sorry I left that off. And before anyone asks
> :-) we're not part of the pilot that was scheduled to begin in Haiti
> last year. I briefly worked with them. As far as I can tel
2009/7/10 Philippe Clérié :
>> Did the laptops get distributed first? If not, where are they?
>
> No the laptops were not distributed as far as I know. As to where
> they are, the information is not public so I don't know.
>
>> Excellent. I had a hand in getting Kreyol localization started.
>
> It'
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 05:41, Eben Eliason wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 10:45 +0100, Martin Dengler wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 09:52:23AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> > > Nobody in the world seems to understand the Kee
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> One comment re Write toolbars: there are numerous reports from the
> field that we don't support bulleted lists, et al. I think the
> pull-down menu on the style tab is not discoverable (in fact pulldown
> menus in general in Sugar are diffic
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Sugar Labs
Activities wrote:
> Url:
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4027
>
> Release notes:
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4027#release-notes
There is nothing in the Release Notes.
"Version 54 — July 13, 2009 — 3,330 KB"
What was changed?
> Revi
I have tried saving to HTML in several versions of Turtle Art up
through 51, but have gotten only HTML files with empty bodies.
Is the code there?
--
Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name
And Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destin
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> One of lacks that sugar environment has is simple way to share sugar
> objects for broad audience i.e. like scratch community has[1]
> (thanks to davidmorris form #sugar).
Yes, teachers and content developers need this, in addition
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
> Test case:
> 1) Create a new TurtleArt activity
> 2) Upload the new entry to the SL wiki using Browse
> 3) Use Browse to download the entry back to Journal
> 4) Resume it from Journal
Thanks. That's something I missed. I'll add it to [[The u
There are serious bugs in language switching in My Settings (the Sugar
Control Panel).
One is that switching to a language can result in bits of some other
language appearing, and switching back does not necessarily restore
the original language entirely. I have attached a portion of a screen
shot
Your supposition turns out to be incorrect. (below)
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:54, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>> There are serious bugs in language
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:54, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>> There are serious bugs in language switching in My Settings (the Sugar
>> Control Panel).
>
> Would be better to track each of these issues in individual tickets a
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Xenofon Papadopoulos wrote:
> I have added a new activity I'm working on to the git repository, name is
> Graph, it is plotting graphs of 1st and 2nd degree polynomials.
Have you seen the plot() function in Calculate? It can plot a wide
range of expressions.
http:
The Wiki entry
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal_Activity#Installing_activities
says
.xo bundles that are downloaded from the Browse activity are stored in
the Journal. By resuming the activity from the Journal entry will both
launch it and install it on the taskbar.
However, Resume does not ap
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:19:52AM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>> The Wiki entry
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal_Activity#Installing_activities
>>
>> says
>>
>> .xo bundles that are down
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Benjamin M.
Schwartz wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> I have lately seen a lot of duplication of effort in Sugar. I think this
> is bad. The success of Sugar demands discipline and careful planning from
> its developers.
>
> In particu
If those who know where things are and how things work are willing, we
can create proper Sugar API documentation. I'll help.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Luke Faraone wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 19:36, Ton van Overbeek
>> wrote:
Actually, I see Sugar API documentation at
http://api.sugarlabs.org/
including Module dbus_helpers.
Does this help?
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> If those who know where things are and how things work are willing, we
> can create proper Sugar API documentation
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I posted the full notes here:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Gardner_Pilot_Academy#Class_notes
Thanks.
> Three high level points:
> - Kids have no trouble finding new activities (e.g. Write) and they
> want to have more to use.
> -
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 2009/7/28 Aleksey Lim :
>> The problems that 0.84 has in case of activity versions are:
>>
>> * it can't upgrade activities if they were pre-installed from
>> native packages; it makes process of upgrading activities
>> from .xo impossible
>
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> Thanks for the comments and follow up!
> Addressing two points below from two of your responses:
> 1 - Name in Journal of file saved from browse
> I may have mixed two issues. This one is not tagging. The work flow
> for this is as
1) I am currently working on CS, math, and science lessons for primary
school classes based on Turtle Art in Sugar education software,
originally for the OLPC XO but now available for multiple versions of
Linux.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:G
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> Let me know how I can help!
Likewise.
> Thanks,
> CAroline
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:47 PM, David Farning
> wrote:
>>
>> It looks like we have enough sustainable contributors to revive the
>> Deployment team!
>>
>> The existing deployme
> from a bang-for-buck pov. But, from a community pov minor issues are
> easy to report, easy to turn into bug reports, and often easy to fix.
> By starting small we can learn and gain confidence that the process we
> are creating work. Once we have confidence in the process we turn
&g
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Andrés Arrieta
Perréard wrote:
> Hi,
> We've been testing turtle art and there is a menu called keyboard (at least
> in spanish). But there are som things we do not understand what they mean,
> like the block with a star.
In more recent versions of Turtle Art, that
I can test in several distros in VirtualBox.
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm looking for some volunteers to test the hard disk installation with
> the latest SoaS snapshot and newly designed installer. Since this
> upstream project is really in the
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 2009/8/27 Sameer Verma :
>> We have a lending library at SFSU, ready to go, but we need to have a
>> way to erase the config and journal every time the XO comes back from
>> a borrower.
> In my opinion, this is silly. Teach them how to run a s
We're going to do all of this for the XO-2 (ARM, dual haptic
multitouch screens), and as with trees, the sooner we plant the
better.
Can we get a virtual ARM running on a Linux X86 system? It seems
likely. QEMU has some form of ARM emulation. Also,
https://wiki.cse.buffalo.edu/services/content/vi
I was at a presentation last week of Abbyy OCR software, which works
on pictures taken by mobile phone cameras in more than 100 languages.
The company wants to give away software (though not source code) in
was that will get the company good publicity. So we are talking about
using their software w
2009/8/29 Tomeu Vizoso :
> Ok, so the idea is to focus our resources on the distribution level?
> I'm not very fond of that because:
> - polishing a distribution is _lots_ of work. Canonical, Novell,
> Redhat, etc. are putting lots of resources into there. I think that a
> small set of people can
I am in personal contact with Stallman (rms) on this. Who else here
knows him? We have met several times at computing events, and
discussed other questions in e-mail. I was a factor in his choice of
the XO as his main computer, which unfortunately lasted only a short
time, because he was unaware th
I downloaded SocialCalc from the Activities subdomain to the journal,
where it installed and ran with no difficulty. I will give it some
serious testing soon.
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Manusheel Gupta wrote:
> Dear community members,
>
> We are preparing for the next release of SocialCalc o
I ran through all of the basic functions of SocialCalc, including
every icon on every tab. I have tested some but not all of the 109
functions provided, with good results so far. Although there are
functions I could wish for, the only real deficiency I have found is
in the documentation.
I have cr
fly without problems, but I cannot type
other currency symbols such as € or £ within Sugar. I will have to do
much more language and locale testing.
> Thanks again for taking time to work with SocialCalc so we can help provide
> this functionality around the world through this platform.
&
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> === Sugar Digest ===
>
>
>
> 1. The car allowance rebate system (CARS), more commonly known as the
> “Cash for Clunkers” program, was used to bail out the US auto
> industry. People who had purchased gas guzzlers were rewarded with
> $4500 towa
Oh, don't fret. How about the good, even overenthusiastic, press (off
by one on the version)? ;->
XO 2.5 out
Fudzilla
This newest laptop from OLPC features the VIA C7-M a 1GHz variable speed
processor, which can manage full screen video playback, offering faster
etoys and and scratch animation,
Added to [[The undiscoverable]].
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently the ColorButton is not fully clear in it's behavior (see
> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/388). Click outside the palette to close
> it etc.
The problem in the bug is that clicking outs
The fonts in your list that render as "tiny letters that all
overprint" are mainly fixed-size bitmap console fonts that should not
be used in a GUI.
I don't understand why Lucida Typewriter would have a problem, nor do
I understand why only one Lucida font is inclueded in SOAS. The Lucida
family o
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> As for swap, if you are repurposing discarded machines on any kind of
> scale you are going to end up with non-functional machines which are a
> great source of parts. Strip the RAM from the dead machines and
> upgrade the rest. This is som
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Gerald Ardito wrote:
> Walter,
>
> Your report from the meeting from Washington is inspiring. Particularly, the
> "what are we waiting for."
+1
> As you know, I am in the process of documenting similar outcomes as part of
> a doctoral study for a deployment here
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Luke Faraone wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:19, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>> I think most mailing lists (at least the ones I'm subscribed to) set
>>> the reply to header as that of the mailing list s
I can give it a go. I'm planning a sequence of lessons on Python using
the programmable tiles in Turtle Art, ranging from simple function
calls to whole programs calling various libraries.
Does this student have a project picked out, or is he willing to take
on whatever we have for him? Which vers
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Walther Neuper wrote:
> Hi Tomeu,
>
> thank you for your mail !
>
> You ask:
>> Can you give us some more details about what do you plan to develop
>> and how do you expect it to be deployed?
> Christoph Derndorfer established a project in Austria, where 25 kids of
I'm extracting some of the for [[The Undiscoverable]].
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Eben Eliason wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Simon Schampijer
> wrote:
>> On 10/13/2009 04:36 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Michael just passed by the Acetarium and, since the din
If you keep good notes, I will turn them into better documentation
than we have now. I have been distressed by the lack of working Ubuntu
Sugar packages for the last six months.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 17:58, Grant Bowman wrote:
> This is great news! David Farning at Sugar Labs is beginning work
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:11, Erick Lavoie wrote:
> As discussed before, Tutorius is a project done by 9 students from
> Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada) aiming to integrate interactive
> tutorials inside Sugar to guide Sugar users in learning the platform and its
> activities. Our goal
Nobody has taken up my offer, so it is now dormant until I hear
otherwise. I did not intend my suggestions to replace whatever is
needed in the meantime. As I said, don't take anything personally.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:14, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> 2009/11/5 Edward Cherlin :
>> We
Excellent ideas. I would like to see the same option for programming.
There are doubtless applications for joint programming, but RO would
be great for XP pair programming and for code reviews.
Now if we can integrate all of this with chat...Have a look at the
Write interface in Floss Manuals. htt
This is wonderful. I have been tackling the problem of Usability from
a different direction, Discoverability, as you can see on my Wiki page
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Undiscoverable.
I am in the middle of greatly extending that study. I am also,
unfortunately, in the middle of moving from
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 20:12, Christoph Derndorfer
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Bryan Berry wrote:
>>
>> > The describtion of their dms is also so short that I'm not sure what
>> > to make of it?
>> there are a lot of notes farther down the page
>
> But the top of the page clearly s
Source code for the Open Voting Consortium demo conducted at Linux
World Expo in August is available in a git repository. See
http://www.fossfactory.org/project/p61
I would like to make this available for use in school elections within
Sugar. Is anybody interested in taking this on? The demo is i
anging. We
> can add all of that later.
You can discuss that with our security people.
> Thanks for bringing it up, I hope I can move it forward again.
You're welcome.
> Sebastian
>
> 2008/12/15 Edward Cherlin :
>> Source code for the Open Voting Consortium demo conduct
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> === Sugar Digest ===
> 5. There is also Proposals Section (See
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/GettingInvolved#Proposals)
> in the wiki for aggregating information about potential grant
> opportunities for Sugar Labs and region
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Eben Eliason wrote:
> Hello everyone -
>
> The Human Interface Guidelines [1] have been stagnant for some time,
> and I'm starting an initiative to remedy the situation. This effort,
> as I see it, has two components: 1) update the contents of the HIG and
> 2) tea
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Walter Bender
>> wrote:
>> > === Sugar Digest ===
>>
>> > 5. There is also Propo
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Bill Kerr wrote:
> from walter's sugar digest:
> 6. Hilaire Fernandes, who brought us DrGeo, has href="http://www.istoa.net";>a new project underway:
Thank you. This is excellent.
> :I am working on a learning system written in Smalltalk. The contents
> is only
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> === Sugar Digest ===
>
> 1. gitorious: It was time to try migrating TurtleArt, the project I am
> maintaining, over to git.sugarlabs.org. The new git system we are
> using, gitorious, has a user interface that is more "web-friendly"
> than an
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 23 Dec 2008, at 12:37, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 13:32, Morgan Collett > > wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 14:25, Tomeu Vizoso
>>> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 13:05, Gary C Martin
wrote:
> I was
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 24 Dec 2008, at 00:30, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>
>> I proposed separately making a TA tile set with icons rather than
>> names, but I don't know if anybody has picked up the idea. I proposed
>> a design, which j
In addition to the essential ideas discussed below, we need to have a
discussion of skill, and the appropriate kinds of practice for
achieving it. We have ample proof that reading cannot be taught simply
as a classroom subject. Those who catch the reading bug, and read all
sorts of things that no t
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Wade Brainerd wrote:
> If you have used TuxType, you will know that it's a simplistic typing
> *practice game* and in no way teaches the user how to type.
>
> That said, there are typing programs out there that could work. I just
> wanted to make a nice one for Sug
My proposal for a talk on the Earth Treasury digital textbook project
does not appear in the schedule, although it is described below on the
same page,http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOCamp_2/ . Can I get some time
for it? We have a dynamite list of partners, as outlined at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/C
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:50 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> Like many others, Friday will be my last day employed by OLPC. I've
> enjoyed working on the project a lot, and hope to find some way to
> continue the work that has been begun.
I'm very sorry to hear that. Will you be able to attend XOC
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Tony Anderson wrote:
> Bryan has started a very interesting discussion about what is needed for
> the XO to support education. I would like to add my two cents worth.
>
> We are learning (gaining new experience) every day that we are alive.
> The traditional differe
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:15 PM, David Farning wrote:
> I have just gone through the wiki and deleted the
> developmentteam/jhbuild/* pages:)
>
> These pages were created in around June of 2008 when jhbuild was the
> only method for running Sugar on non-XO platforms. Now that we have
> packages f
Would anybody here be interested in joining the nascent Open Animal
Crossing project?
http://code.google.com/p/openanimalcrossing/
AC in its four is one of the few cooperative family games. It has an
oversimplified economy and environment that is appropriate for
teaching many basic concepts, as
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Alex Holkner wrote:
> Thanks for the previous help in getting sugar-jhbuild updating from
> the correct git repository.
>
> I've now got a successful install (this involved upgrading to Ubuntu
> 8.10 and installing some additional packages not listed on the wiki --
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> I pushed a new version of the Portfolio tool (See
> http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/e/e6/TurtleArtPortfolio-7.xo).
>
> It has a number of improvements over the previous versions, including:
>
> * fixing a bug that prevented the Spanish versi
Is anybody going to PyCon? We have booth space and could use coders
and mentors for the sprints.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Edward Cherlin
Date: Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [PyCon-Organizers] Open government sprint?
To: Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Cc: Massimo Di Pierro
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://addons.sugarlabs.org is up and running. Please create accounts
> in there if you want to help in anything activity-related.
>
> Specifically, we need:
>
> - activity maintainers to upload their bundles,
Thanks. I'll submit my
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:14 PM, David Van Assche wrote:
> 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)
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
> When trying out Soas-200902231225 the journal stays empty.
> Anybody else seen this ?
This is true in several versions of Sugar, including Ubuntu packages.
Jonas Smedegård has made a patch for it, available from
http://debian.jones.dk/ s
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> Weeeh!
>
> A new Soas-1 is out. It contains all the bug fixes that made it into
> head in the last days. And you can use Wade Brainerd's fabulous Typing
> Turtle to get you going in 10 finger typing - /me won already a Gold Medal.
Does i
I used to use coLinux regularly when my contracts required me to work
on Windows, and I contributed various info to their Wiki. If Sugar on
coLinux turns out to be worthwhile, I will be happy to help with
documentation.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Hi all, I w
2009/3/6 Wade Brainerd :
> Glad to hear it works, I'm going to try it this weekend on my XO.
> I wonder if we could get the release team to execute these steps
> automatically for each release, and then make .img files available on
> downloads.sugarlabs.org along with the .iso files?
+1 I have als
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I wanted to get an idea for what Activities are actually currently
> working in a reasonable condition, here's a quick run through using
> the latest SoaS F11 build – Tomorrow I'll do the same with a recent
> F11 build from cjb.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> === Sugar Digest ===
>
> Baselines, Part 1: A few months ago, Tomeu Vizoso set a baseline for
> the Sugar "view source" functionality that had largely gone unrealized
> in most Activities. In the upcoming (March) release of Sugar, the
> defau
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Bastien wrote:
> Luke Faraone writes:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Bastien
>> wrote:
>>
>> I'm familiar with the Pootle OLPC server but my understanding was that
>> the gitorious page had more activities.
>>
>> Correct, however we have a reason
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> 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 [1].
>
> On Mag it lives in task-sugar meta-package [2] and includes:
> - sugar-fru
I got sugar-jhbuild to compile on Ubuntu for the first time, but I
don't understand how to use it properly. It has picked up all of the
packages I installed for the Ubuntu packaged version of Sugar, and I
don't know how to point it at any other Activity bundles. The Wiki
page doesn't explain these
Here is another needed port of Sugar.
http://itschool.gov.in/otherprograms.php#6
The Kerala IT Education Department believes that sharing is an
important virtue. However, sharing proprietary software would be a
violation of the End User. Building collaboration and sharing
practices are essential
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:46 PM, satya komaragiri
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a final year student from India. I wish to apply to GSoC this
> year by building upon my current work. I had discussed the feasibility
> and advantages of having Speech Recognition for an OLPC
+1
Which languages to start
2009/3/17 Sascha Silbe :
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:48:20AM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
>
>> Meanwhile, Sasche Silbe is working on keeping Sugar on Ubuntu up to date.
> Just for clarification: I'm working on getting sugar-jhbuild to work on
> Ubuntu Jaunty and Debian Squeeze, not native packages
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
> Greetings Satya,
>
I seem to remember reading that most of the world's
> languages draw from a pool of only 50-60 phonemes.
This turns out not to be the case. Individual languages commonly have
that many. English by itself has between 40 and 50
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