2009/11/17 Sean DALY <[email protected]>: > 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.
Can we make Sugar a good platform for publishing e-books? Anybody has already thought of what it would take? Regards, Tomeu > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
