These are all valid comments, but keep in mind the Sugar on a Stick team is quite small and needs help. Anyone who can help including with teacher-friendly documentation is invited to join the SoaS list. Thanks.
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas Sean On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka <[email protected]> wrote: > "Me too" postings are discouraged in good lists, but I myself feel so in > agreement by what Gregg is pointing out to that I cannot but say, hear > hear! > > What we have is too complicated, thus error prone and unfriendly, thus not > really *usable* > > For Sugar or anything to revolutionize education it has to be really, really > easy to get going > > > > On 04/08/2010 06:16 PM, Gregg Ambrosi wrote: > > This is just my opinion, but if the process cannot be performed reasonably > simply by a large number of folks, including teachers (we want their input > into the product no?), then it is too complicated. We need to offer simpler > ways for user to run Sugar. Yes, everyone will point to Sugar on a Stick, > however: > > 1. the documented CD creation process for Macs is not simple (use the > Terminal? Come now...) > 2. if someone only has one computer, this means they have ONLY sugar or ONLY > their main OS. How do you evaluate/work with Sugar and make notes, or > document something (egads - don't say write it on paper). > > Simple, easy to use VMs seem to me the way to go. However, those that are > referenced in the various places are certainly not just - copy and play. I > am running both VM player and Parallels and I have not found a download yet > that 'just works'. We have to remember that not everyone that wants to help > out (or would be great to have help out) are highly technical. That is > supposedly the point of Sugar no - you don't need any technical ability? > > Food for thought. > > g > > > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:09 PM, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:55:34AM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >> > Thanks for the info. I'm glad I asked. Now that leads to another >> > question. If I wanted to skip the redundant download and open the >> > image-writer-mac file in Terminal from the larger download Tom G. >> > posted (Sugar-Creation-Kit-ver05.iso) how would I do that? I have >> > copies of that download both on my desktop and burned on a DVD. >> >> Skipping it might not be worth the effort, since it is only a few >> kilobytes, and by downloading it again you'll get it placed in the >> folder that the instructions expect ... the folder called Downloads. >> >> However, to answer your question ... you would copy it to your Downloads >> directory, either by dragging it across between two Finder windows (one >> opened on the DVD, one opened on Downloads), or by figuring out the >> filesystem paths for each and typing a Terminal command similar to this: >> >> cp /Volumes/SugarDVD/image-writer-mac.py ~/Downloads/ >> >> (Since I don't have a copy of this DVD, and the method used to create it >> is manual and not automatically scripted, I can't determine what the >> filesystem path after the "cp" would be.) This command does the same as >> dragging the file between two Finder windows, but is more exact and >> reproducible. The end result should be that file image-writer-mac.py is >> in the Downloads folder. >> >> -- >> James Cameron >> http://quozl.linux.org.au/ >> _______________________________________________ >> support-gang mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > > > -- > Cheers, Gregg > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > > _______________________________________________ > support-gang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
