Push + directional key makes a lot of sense to me. Adding memory of
the rotation direction used the last time the machine was in a given
ebook/non-ebook state, as has been suggested before, would help avoi
dextra presses as well.
SJ
On 6/6/07, Zvi Devir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Dan
Aggregating modules and activities outside of the home view is
generally important; we should do this cleanly in terms of
journalling, allowing anyone to define a cluster of related
activities.
Have you thought about packageing the Activity Center as its own
standalone activity that loads
To Marco's note, there is bug 2448 : changing evince so it does proper
mimetype checking and can display more than just pdf.
SJ
On 8/16/07, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some of these features requires evince changes. At some point we need
to redo the current evince hack
On 8/23/07, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 23, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Carlos Neves wrote:
Wait, does this mean I can't load an object from the datastore
programaticaly ?
Yes.
There goes the neighborhood! So all my assumptions on using the
datastore to retrieve stuff based on
On 8/23/07, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 23, 2007, at 10:45 PM, Carlos Neves wrote:
What about if the activity, on first start, would feed the images
to the datastore (the ones not already there) and then delete them
from the activity installation folder? This would solve
From the ongoing discussion on sharing data across activities:
| Why not make this the default state of sharable files that ship with
| an activity, and encourage activities to explicitly store sharable
| files in an appropriate directory? I'm not clear on why we want to
| make it difficult for
On 8/24/07, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 24, 2007, at 1:06 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Many parts of the system become simpler when anyone can read anything
by default.
Yeah, no. I could be convinced about application/resource files, but
user documents are not going
as collaboration begins). If you want
to do something different and private,, it should involve a conscious
step.
SJ
On 8/24/07, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 24, 2007, at 3:12 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Having user documents that are innately private runs counter to the
principles
On 8/24/07, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understood this problem to be solved already. We have the notion of
sharing, and more specifically of scoping (with groups). If I write a story
by myself, then it's private unless I explicitly say otherwise. If I draw a
painting in an
On 9/23/07, Bruno Coudoin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The process to build an activity is documented there:
http://gcompris.net/wiki/index.php/Todo_for_OLPC
This is particularly nice. I see the line for an icon for each activity.
When you say 'add support for Sugar's Jounal' does this include
We are reviewing the various manuals and how-tos about using the XO and
its interfaces tomorrow from 11:00 to 17:00 EST, in the Cambridge office
for the hardy souls who are here or have trekked out, and in #olpc-content
on freenode, for people online.
If you have any documentation,
It would certainly be nice to have SAGE apps on the laptop this
has come up before, and more interest would be welcome.
SJ
On Dec 8, 2007 3:10 PM, Sameer Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just saw this on Slashdot. Sage uses Python and could be a good
candidate for the XO some day. I am
That's funny. support.laptop.org resolves for me just fine.(it's
pointing to wiki.laptop.org/go/Support )
SJ
On Dec 27, 2007 10:37 AM, Gerard J. Cerchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Burns wrote:
feel free to use the forum forum, web chat or the email list as a
resource: [EMAIL
I'd like to see an eSpeak literacy project written up -- Once we have
a play button, with text highlighting, we have most of the pieces to
make a great read + speak platform that can load in texts and
highlight words/sentences as they are being read. Ping had a nice
mental model for this a while
Hemant and James,
Can you write something about this at a [[spoken texts]] page on the
wiki ('hear and read'? some other more creative name... )? The
Google Literacy Project is highlighting a number of literacy efforts
for the upcoming World Book Day, and your work would be fine
suggestions for
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Ivan Krstić
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where's the issue? You make the existing corpus a constant database,
and provide user modifications and additions as a tiny, human-readable
overlay file that's consulted first on lookups.
That works for a small group
2008/3/11 Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mar 12, 2008, at 12:21 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
That works for a small group tweaking a large database.
How is that not appropriate for each user's personal dictionary?
Having separate activities for maintaining personal and
highly-collaborative
Dear all,
We are participating in Google Summer of Code again this year, and now
accepting applications from mentors. We are holding the first of a series
of quick discussions about SoC tomorrow (saturday) at 2100 UTC / 1700 EST in
#olpc. Please join us to share advice to share from SoC's past,
Hello,
We have a new mailing list set up for summer of code participants. Please
join if you are interested in applying to be a mentor, contributing or
reviewing project ideas, applying as a student, or otherwise contributing to
the process.
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/gsoc
Mentor
Please do crosspost across the devel and sugar lists as well as the gsoc
list.
Just be sure to copy this list, so that newbies who don't have time to make
their way through all posts on devel or sugar can get information they need
this week, which is a bit stressful for applicants.
Tomeu, if you
Some old work by adamascj:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCities
SJ
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was some Brazilian work on this a while back... SJ
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Chris Bresee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Charles Merriam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
April Fool's was a good way to present what does eventually need to be
done, and what is done in some other open source projects.
It's a good way of doing it, and would require some work. I would set
up a set of stages
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:04 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/4/4 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
present it yourself via the dialin number, that would be ideal;
otherwise
someone else will present for you (though perhaps not as passionately)
and
You haven't been sitting
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki schools start this Friday and I
couldn't be more excited.
Fantastic. Please keep up a steady photo stream!
The rest of your email is perfectly put. --SJ
I find this discussion
-topic
arguments... but such moderation should be with a light hand.
SJ
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
I just forwarded a bunch of mail from non-subscribers from the past two
weeks. I am looking for 1-2 people to help moderate
Advice from the field : try dusting a jumpy touchpad with chalkdust. --SJ,
who is looking for a cite...
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Day 3 of the pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki and couple of issues have
come up
1. We are having a lot of trouble
[copying the sugar list...]
Trying to bring together various video projects in the air (I bet there are
more that I've left out):
Ben, what's the latest status on Colingo? I'd like to get a set of your
vids into the 'recommended' list for 8.2, our next update at the end of
August. How to
Basically, there are two separate problems here, and we should not
be solving them together. One is that the latest release may not be
the greatest - because of bugfix releases. I agree with Eben's proposal
of minor version numbers as a (totally optional) solution; as long as
the
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Version (activity_version) is just some sortable entity to be agreed
In other words, let us do the same thing that rpm and dpkg do.
It gives
There has been talk about expanding Pippy to support a variety of
programming languages, perhaps as plugins; to add syntax highlighting; and
general interest in seeing Develop proceed. Syntax highlighting in Write
has been brought up as well. C and Javascript environments have been
specifically
30, 2008 at 11:28 PM
Subject: RE: Art In All of Us -- OLPC
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Seth Woodworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi !
I am definitely open to more images. We have a 160,000+ number of images
from 175+ countries. We have infinite options to have the kids
Dear sugar library list readers,
We are looking for a list moderator for each of these lists. Moderators
primarily review posts from people who haven't yet joined the list, to
filter out spam; and, socially, help to keep any latent flamewars in check.
If you are interested, please reply
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:05 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
1. Create [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. We have discussed
this a few time over the last few months. Now that we are getting
distro (other the OLPC) related comments the time seems right
2. Create [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where is the code for this? Lede-detection code is a priority for me,
and I'd like to work on it. It should be easy to sense the start of
the first H2 and drop the rest of the article.
Is there some way to estimate the size impact on the whole of adding
one template (given how often it is
% chance of same when
looking at the last trusted editor's contribs) making it helpful to
have specific revisionids for articles in a snapshot.
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where is the code for this? Lede-detection code is a priority for me,
and I'd
I wouldn't include Bridge yet. It's great, but not complete. I would include:
WikiBrowse
PlayGo
Frotz
Clock
GCompris Chess
GCompris Sudoku
XaoS
Moon
StarChart
ePals
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Seth Woodworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I vote very strongly for Ruler. It's less than 20kb
Testing gg-763-1 earlier today, running a number of activities for an
hour. I later found that I could not restart or reboot via sugar; it
would let me select the option from the right menu, but then a
gray-circle process appeared in the top frame and nothing would
happen. If I quit that process
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:20:04AM -0400, elana langer wrote:
This is not a unique experience. This is a culture that lives close to
the land. Action- reaction. No one is used to waiting for an
computer to load or a bagel
:
is there anything like a poster/flyer in high resolution PDF?
p.
Samuel Klein wrote:
This year's G1G1 program will start November 17 in the US. Please
help us spread the word. Below is a short email blurb about this
year's program ( from [[G1G1 2008/text]] ). We are coordinating some
community
Annotation is different from editing and original creation.
A user can in fact annotate a file or document they do not have
locally. I find that use case more likely than the alternative; I
have never succeeded in pushing a book report upstream into a
publisher's next edition.
Annotation,
Tomeu:
Scott:
I think more like:
Nov 17-20: talks and hacking
Nov 21: priorities meeting, wrapup.
I'm not the planning committee, but this would be what I'd like to see.
Works for me. Should we be concerned that talk (or aguing) might
expand so much that there's little time to take
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Only when (some or all of) Object-2 gets folded in to Object-1 does
attribution become important: [Object-1 paragraph3 as edited by Jim Jones;
Object-1 paragraph22 as added (originated by) Sam Smith]. But when such
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Ed McNierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would also like to stop calling this 9.1 planning. We need to plan
Sounds like it is time for a naming contest for this [repeating]
event. Some that have been suggested / implied:
OLPCSW [08.11.1]
OLPC Miniconference
Does it make sense to have an afternoon or a full day about long-term
plans and their implications for immediate priorities and tests?
Try to capture topics that could be specific agenda items with their
own session or conversation -- by creating a separate thread about it
on the list, a separate
If all package updates were this awesome, perhaps everyone would read
[EMAIL PROTECTED] also: what is the verdict on a separate
[EMAIL PROTECTED] it seems to be in ocasional use. sj
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Dear Browse,
happy birthday! Marco
We should make sure that this works in the case of the 'xs' machine being a
disk attached to a teacher's xo, including the more limited times of
availability and bandwidth implied.
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Tony Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
All of this is already implemented in
I agree with David that this is a good logical order. Mon and Tue
aren't good days for some OLPC folks, but they might make good
hackfest days.
It would be great to have space we could use for the whole week; OLPC
will be short of conference rooms. Walter, let me know if I can help
with space
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
we met to discuss schedule and scope of the meeting today.
I was thinking of something along the lines of regular afternoon
presentations (including talk proposals that should really come up
before Jan) and a longer
Nice. A good point about Thanksgiving week -- the converse is that
the week before is often midterms for students. But there are a
number of local activity developers (or would-be devs who haven't
finished their first!) that would be excited to join.
SJ
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Tomeu
Shoebot, a free-software version of the awesome Mac program DrawBot
(which relies heavily Cocoa), is finished. Thanks to David Crossland
who tipped me off to this.
http://www.tinkerhouse.net/shoebot/
http://tinkerhouse.net/shoebot/Docs/Screenshots
From its getting started page:
I hope there are gobby sessions for all events, and that they are more
brainstorming and writing than presentation and recording video.
SJ
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:07 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:39 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope there are gobby sessions for all events, and that they are more
brainstorming and writing than presentation and recording video
we probably do -- if our 2nd of 2 houseguests is gone by then! SJ
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:18 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have room for Adam for the weekend.
david
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Adam Floss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone have a spare couch?
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