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Drexler sings Plan Ceibal

Yamandu Ploskonka — 2008-12-02T01:17:25

Jorge Drexler, a noted Uruguayan singer/composer, released a song for "Plan Ceibal", the OLPC/Sugar deployment in Uruguay (a spot of free translation of part of the lyrics) ..."I'll go navigating by the Southern sky, without leaving my heart by the shade of the ceibo-tree..." ('ceibal' is the ceibo tree, the ceibo being the national flower of Uruguay) _of_course_ the link to a sound file is .ogg, playable on an XO! http://www.pilas.net/archivos/Drexler_Alasombradelceibal.ogg Thanks to Rodolfo Pilas for the announcement, Jorge Drexler creo e interpretó una hermosa canción (como no podía ser de otra manera) para el proyecto Ceibal en Uruguay. http://www.pilas.net/20081201/drexler-le-canta-al-plan-ceibal/ Saludos, Rodolfo Pilas _______________________________________________ Lista olpc-Sur olpc-Sur< at >lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur

Re: Sugar Labs introduction

Sebastian Silva — 2008-12-01T22:20:39

Oh, also found this to be relevant: http://www.creatinglearningcommunities.org/etcetera/selflearning.htm http://www.creatinglearningcommunities.org/book/internet/lamoreaux1.htm http://alcob.com/new/alcom_alcob/alcom_alcob_disp.html Cheers! Sebastian 2008/12/1 Sebastian Silva fuentelibre.org>:

Re: Sugar Labs introduction

Sebastian Silva — 2008-12-01T22:17:10

Hello, I realize I should have jumped into this discussion earlier. Please excuse me, I've just put myself thru an intense matrixesque self-learning weeks around learning communities, communities of practice, community learning, critical pedagogy, radical pedagogy, network logics (economies, brains, forests, evolution, the internet), network economics, ecology, emergent control, beekeeping, and de-centralized governance... it's been fascinating. My research question has been "¿how to jumpstart an ecosystem?" The reason for my research is because I've been looking for a sustainability model for our FuenteLibre.Org grassroots initiative. I'll briefly relate our story: Born peruvian, raised in Chile, came to Lima where I have familiy a year ago to volunteer for OLPC. Got into suport-gang, eek, support for G1G1? So Walter comes, brings me an XO laptop, I meet Hernan Pachas from the ministry, and I offer to organize volunteers for support and training, etc. At the time, they had their hands full (and their head

Sbuntu 8.10: Sugar for Ubuntu Live USB, updated

Simon Peter — 2008-12-01T16:48:21

I have updated sbuntu (Sugar for Ubuntu Live USB) to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). This solves many issues that were present in the earlier version. http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/ Basically, you just need to add one file to a stock Ubuntu Live USB system made from the official ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso and you will have a Ubuntu 8.10 Sugar Live USB system. Let me address some questions and concerns that came up on the Sugar mailing list earlier: Caroline Meeks asked: If you have more than one USB stick with the exact same size, you can clone the entire stick using the dd command. Boot a Linux distribution, attach the source and the target USB sticks. Find out their device names. In the following example I will assume that the source device is /dev/sdb and the target device is /dev/sdc. CAUTION! These names will likely be different on your system and using the following command is DANGEROUS as it will WIPE the target device. Unmount both sticks. Then as root, run: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc b

Re: OLPC Afghanistan

Greg Smith — 2008-12-01T16:28:50

Hi Ebtihaj, I came across two pages in our wiki which refer to OLPC Afghanistan: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/One_Laptop_Per_Child_Afghanistan and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Afghanistan They are very similar but not exactly the same. Can you collapse them both in to a single page? By tradition, we use the OLPC_Afghanistan naming convention. Whatever works for you as long as we have a main, single place to look. Thanks, Greg S *************** Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:50:19 -0800 (PST) From: Ebtihaj Obaidi yahoo.com> Subject: [sugar] OLPC Afghanistan To: Localization lists.laptop.org>, sugar< at >lists.laptop.org,grassroots< at >lists.laptop.org Message-ID: <228980.26323.qm< at >web58403.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi dears. finally OLPC Afghanistan started its official work from Afghanistan. For details just visit: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/One_Laptop_Per_Child_Afghanistan OR http://www.olpc.blogsky.com Sohaib Obaidi "Ebtihaj" BSc. (Hons.) Ec

Re: Sugar on Ubuntu Intrepid broken

Tomeu Vizoso — 2008-12-01T13:16:12

Yeah, that's an interesting subject. We have control on the sugar api, in other words, what activity authors can expect to find that is specific to sugar. But activities use lots of other, non-sugar, software like libraries, X, etc How can activity authors know what their activities can expect in the environments they are run in? One notable example: many activities developed for the XO depend on pygame, but I'm not sure it's properly packaged for all distros, and even then, activities installed as .xo won't be dragging it along. How can we give a better experience here? Regards, Tomeu

Re: [Sugar-devel] OLPC + Sugar

Jameson "Chema" Quinn — 2008-12-01T01:12:25

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Re: OLPC + Sugar

Edward Cherlin — 2008-11-30T20:51:01

I haven't found it to be that difficult. o Sugar Labs has defined itself fairly clearly. o The OLPC volunteers are out doing software development, localization, and other essential tasks with extensive public discussion. It seems likely that most of the software development will move over to Sugar Labs, leaving behind OFW, drivers, and such. People are working on transferring some of the servers. o OLPC management and staff have never communicated effectively with the outside world. Not with volunteers, not with partner organizations, not with the public. I am working on this problem, and have established a tenuous connection with Nicholas and some of management, but don't hold your breath. o It would make sense to have a mind map of partner organizations. In fact, SJ asked me to do something like this, and I have been thinking about how. I can do some of it, and will need help from others. I can get started at Mind42.com, which in our case will function as Mind4N. We can publish the results in the Wiki

Re: [Sugar-devel] OLPC + Sugar

Bernie Innocenti — 2008-11-30T17:13:02

Congratulations, Yama! The above deserves being part of my personal collection of quotes, side by side with Einstein, Gandhi, George Bernard Shaw, Linus Torvalds...

Canvas

Gloria Meneses — 2008-11-30T16:23:33

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Re: OLPC + Sugar

Yamandu Ploskonka — 2008-11-30T03:54:15

Would anyone care to start a mental map or some such easier to absorb medium that would make it clearer for the less illuminated the assorted elements of our Natural History? Ed mentions three legs. Then, in a Mandelbrothian nightmare each seems to grow quite a few more, and it's often hard to keep track and to know who actually, if any, has any decision-making power for any specific purpose, what are the teams, how do they connect, where do assorted flavors of community intersect... Yama Edward Cherlin wrote:

Re: Closing this list

Bernie Innocenti — 2008-11-29T22:12:18

+1 from me too. Next Monday I'll ask the admins at 1CC if we can move the existing subscribers and maybe add a redirect. Well the list of all public lists is here: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/ Each list already comes with its own description, but feel free to propose changes.

Re: notes on 8.2.0, specifically 767 (was 8.2.1)

Tomeu Vizoso — 2008-11-29T21:53:51

But you can bet it's fun to watch ;) Tomeu

Re: OLPC Afghanistan

Bernie Innocenti — 2008-11-29T21:49:29

Are any of you going to hack on the Sugar codebase? If so, let us know if there's anything we can do to assist.

Re: Installing sugar on Debian lenny

Sascha Silbe — 2008-11-23T22:19:15

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OLPC Afghanistan

Ebtihaj Obaidi — 2008-11-27T09:50:19

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Re: Fwd: Roadmap update

Bernie Innocenti — 2008-11-29T20:26:13

[cc += sugar-devel< at > -- when do we close the old list?] Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: +1. As usual, we need a *clear* public statement from OLPC management.

Re: notes on 8.2.0, specifically 767 (was 8.2.1)

Bernie Innocenti — 2008-11-29T20:11:01

We already have a Sugarized version of Firefox: Browse. But people complained the interface didn't look and behave like Firefox. So now we provide a Firefox activity, but people complain it's not sugarized enough!!! We can't win this game ;-)

Re: Sugar Labs introduction

Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero — 2008-11-28T22:51:51

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Re: Sugar Labs introduction

Yamandu Ploskonka — 2008-11-28T20:05:27

oh yes, totally. Neal Scoggin was all for a certification program. OLE had a similar view about local concerns doing local things. This is particularly liffe-and-death in places where American-organization presence is not wholly welcome, and where alternate sources of funding might favor local institutions. Moreover, this can open very interesting venues for places like Bolivia where the govenrment wants to favor Open Source providers, but there is none locally able to take part in project bids. Yama David Farning wrote:

Re: [Localization] [Grassroots-l] OLPC,Chile and Educalibre

Pilar Saenz — 2008-11-28T06:43:44

Hi I copy this email to William Nazareth. He works for brightstart as OLPC Sales & Distribution, Latin America & Caribbean. Maybe he can answer these questions. 2008/11/27 Edward Cherlin gmail.com>: _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar< at >lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar