I made a (very) little survey: - the Alice in wonderland (with Illustrations) is 1.7 MB in size - other epub books I found, probably text only, lies in between 100 to 300 K - Sdenka_Salas_-_The_XO_Laptop_in_the_Classroom.pdf is 5.6 MB
- I added a spreadsheet made out of pootle latest statistics of today Question 1: what could be a reasonable size to add to journal <= 50 MB? Question 2: one book for a selection of languages (<10) and few more in english? Does make sense? ciao carlo --- Mar 17/11/09, Sean DALY <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Da: Sean DALY <[email protected]> > Oggetto: Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) > A: "Yama Ploskonka" <[email protected]>, "Carlo Falciola" > <[email protected]>, [email protected], "Sugar-Labs Mailing lists" > <[email protected]> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 17:48 > It's an excellent point; after all, > Mingoville > http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I believe > claims over 1 > million users, 100+ activities for children to practice > English. > > But there's another facet: dominant languages such as > English, > Spanish, French, put pressure on minority languages. Sugar > has a role > to play supporting many languages, not just in the > interface, but in > content. There have been suggestions in the past that we > position > Sugar as a great way to learn English, and indeed it can > be > (especially in a connected environment), but I feel English > should not > be privileged over local languages. > > My concern is the timing... Sebastian is under pressure for > a December > 8th launch and will need help collating books. > > The Blueberry launch is also threatened by > sugaronastick.com, which as > long as it is up will create confusion. > > Sean > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Yama Ploskonka <[email protected]> > wrote: > > sorry to keep the off-topic on topic, :-), but in my > experience the > > possibility to access stuff in English is one of the > biggest calls for Sugar > > use, especially maybe in non-English places. > > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Carlo Falciola <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Sebastian, > >> really have absolutely no issue > regarding the provider. > >> Once I realized that in that site there weren't > non EN titles you I just > >> made a quick Google-search for multilingual > ebooks sites. > >> > >> My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate > the opportunity to put a > >> little sample in more that one language. > >> > >> ciao carlo > >> > >> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas <[email protected]> > ha scritto: > >> > >> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas <[email protected]> > >> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a > Stick (Blueberry) > >> > A: "Carlo Falciola" <[email protected]> > >> > Cc: "iaep" <[email protected]> > >> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22 > >> > Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too > >> > quick with this. :) > >> > > >> > This e-mail was supposed to be about > discussing good sample > >> > titles, not > >> > about announcing anything with regard to the > book provider > >> > we were > >> > using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look > into it... > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> > --Sebastian > >> > > >> > Carlo Falciola wrote: > >> > > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about > quality of > >> > ePub version, but (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have > >> > books from several different > languages... > >> > > Maybe one out of a > selection of > >> > languages would make sense... > >> > > > >> > > ciao carlo > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian > Dziallas<[email protected]> > >> > ha scritto: > >> > > > >> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas<[email protected]> > >> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on > a Stick > >> > (Blueberry) > >> > >> A: "SoaS"<[email protected]>, > >> > "iaep"<[email protected]> > >> > >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, > 15:36 > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> > >> > >> as you may know, we're going to ship > some selected > >> > e-books > >> > >> in the > >> > >> Journal of the Blueberry release. > For providing > >> > >> high-quality e-books > >> > >> instead of simple texts (as well as > fo technical > >> > >> simplicity), we're > >> > >> going to use e-books from epubBooks > >> > (www.epubbooks.com)! > >> > >> > >> > >> Right now, I've just included Alice > in Wonderland > >> > (which > >> > >> comes with nice > >> > >> images in this edition), but I > encourage everybody > >> > to go > >> > >> through the > >> > >> catalog on that website and to point > out > >> > favorites. > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to > that site! :) > >> > >> > >> > >> --Sebastian > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > >> SoaS mailing list > >> > >> [email protected] > >> > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop > project!) > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop > project!) > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > >
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