OK great Sebastian! in fact I do like "E-Books" better (and the teleread.org people think so as well)
thanks Sean On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
