Sean DALY wrote: > My call is we leave them out and concentrate on the wiki page. > (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/ebooks). We can't keep > slipping the master as I'm sure you'll agree Sebastian :-)
+1 - to both! :) That's really reasonable. > Ideally, the default Browse homepage could have a link under the Sugar > labs logo: "click here for sample eBooks for children". is that > doable? I wouldn't be able to do this by hacking in the kickstart file anymore, ideally, Simon would release a new Browse version with a modified index.html file. For now, I've replaced the "schools" tag on the top of the page with one saying "books". If somebody provided a patch for the main page and we'd get a new release, that would be probably better, though. > with a link to the wiki page which by Tuesday will have a simple > procedure for downloading and reading an eBook as well as links to > sources. I'm pleased that contributors have added links to that page. Yes, cool! :) > We'll put that link in the PR too. I've renamed the page to "E-Books" instead of "ebooks", but there's a redirect in place, so both will work. > What do you think? That sounds all cool to me! --Sebastian > Sean > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Sebastian Dziallas<[email protected]> > wrote: >> Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >>> >>> Please revert to the previous version of Read if possible (v77) and >>> check if it works. >>> I'm trying to reproduce this, but I'm at a conference at the moment >>> and can't download vm images. >>> Also, regarding Project Gutenberg EPUBs, they are quite shoddy, so we >>> should really consider whether including them is a nice idea (I can >>> figure out some of the legal issues, but in such a situation it may be >>> prudent not to include any EPUB at all) >> >> Yes, I'm not that confident with the Gutenberg ones, either. epubbooks.com >> had really high quality content, but the books are under a CC NC& ND >> license, which causes the issues. >> >> Not sure, maybe we should focus on the newly designed wiki page and leave >> them really out? Sean, what do you think? I'm just saying this because I >> don't have much time today and would either put effort in getting the wiki >> page or the book selection done. >> >> Thanks for the quick reply! >> --Sebastian >> >>> Thanks, >>> Sayamindu >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Sebastian Dziallas<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> this is a very quick update on the current state of SoaS v2. >>>> >>>> We discovered on Tuesday that we wouldn't be able to ship content due to >>>> legal concerns that was originally intended to be included and discussed >>>> how to proceed in the last two days. Specifically, we won't include >>>> anything that contains a CreativeCommons NC or ND clause, or any >>>> equivalent license. >>>> >>>> Hence, we're going to ship only books from Project Gutenberg. I've taken >>>> the task of replacing all books in question with adequate alternatives. >>>> Please speak up if you've any book suggestion that: >>>> >>>> * is illustrated >>>> * comes from Project Gutenberg >>>> * is preferably in a language other than English (not required) >>>> >>>> On the other hand, while testing another RC locally in a VM, I figured >>>> that Read crashed when attempting to *scroll* through an .epub file. >>>> Additionally, one isn't able to open the content afterwards. >>>> >>>> This is almost certainly a blocker, but we *will* need to create the >>>> master image this afternoon (Central European Time). If you've a spare >>>> minute, please help us out here! >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> --Sebastian >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
