[IAEP] Sugar on a Stick / Kids on Computers

[Dave Bauer]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:38 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> Can some one with Mac knowledge point Ragavan in the correct direction.
>
> thanks
> david
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Ragavan S<ragavan.srinivasan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Sean, David,
> >
> > I am trying to set up SoaS on a mac. The download link to the iso on
> > this page -> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mac is
> > broken.


I fixed that link.
The link just contains the boot helper CD, you'll also need the SoaS code
itself.

Try the instructions with the new release of SoaS.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Strawberry#Mac_Users

Dave

>
> >
> > Can one of you point me to the correct link?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ragavan
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Ragavan S<ragavan.srinivasan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Sean, David,
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for the detailed responses. I look forward to
> >> trying Sugar on a Stick.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Ragavan
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Sean Daly<sdaly at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> >>> Greetings Ragavan,
> >>>
> >>> 26 interface languages are supported in the current downloadable
> >>> version; dozens of others are underway.
> >>>
> >>> I myself switch my Sugar on a Stick netbooks between English and
> >>> French all the time, a simple reboot is sufficient.
> >>>
> >>> Sugar is ideal for smaller children and the "low floor, no ceiling"
> >>> philiosophy means even teenagers can learn to reprogram Activities or
> >>> code their own.
> >>>
> >>> There are flexible scenarios for computer labs; Sugar can be run
> >>> booting off a hard disk, CD-ROM, or USB stick; in a session in popular
> >>> GNU/Linux distros, or in a virtual machine under any OS.
> >>>
> >>> Note that keyboard map switching requires a manual parameter at the
> >>> command line in our current versions; we hope to offer the keyboard
> >>> list in a graphical control panel in the year to come. I set this when
> >>> I boot azerty netbooks (French locale), it's not a big deal.
> >>>
> >>> I invite you to download Sugar on a Stick at
> >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick, load a USB stick and
> >>> boot a computer with it. The Control Panel, accessible on rollover of
> >>> the central Xo avatar representing yourself, has a keyboard icon which
> >>> wil show you the list; choose a language that interests you and
> >>> restart to evaluate the current state of localization.
> >>>
> >>> Note however that Sugar's Activities may or may not have the
> >>> appropriate translations available. Translations, like code
> >>> development, packaging, and interface features, are under continuous
> >>> development in the Sugar Labs community.
> >>>
> >>> I hope this will answer your questions, feel free to browse our
> >>> mailing list archives or join a list to see ongoing work firsthand at
> >>> lists.sugarlabs.org.
> >>>
> >>> thanks
> >>>
> >>> Sean Daly
> >>> Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:21 PM, David Farning<dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
> >>>> OLPC uses the sugar labs translation server at
> translate.sugarlabs.org
> >>>> as their translation server.
> >>>>
> >>>> Please take a look at the languages available.
> >>>>
> >>>> thanks
> >>>> david
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Ragavan S<
> ragavan.srinivasan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Glyn Moody pointed me at this email address as a potential way to
> >>>>> reach Sean Daly with regards to a question I had.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Stormy & I are co-founders of a non profit, Kids on Computers
> >>>>> (http://www.kidsoncomputers.org). Our mission is to help set up free
> >>>>> software powered computer labs for schools in developing countries.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For our recent project, we used Edubuntu and have been pretty happy
> >>>>> with the results. That said, I just recently started looking at other
> >>>>> technologies and Sugar on a Stick sounds very promising for a variety
> >>>>> of reasons.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I hope to be able to evaluate it more thoroughly in the next few
> >>>>> weeks, but I would like to understand the current state of
> >>>>> localization of the project. A lot of the schools we work with tend
> to
> >>>>> be in non-English speaking regions, so support for native languages
> is
> >>>>> very important for us.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can you provide more insight on both current state as well as future
> >>>>> plans especially with regards to l10n?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>> Ragavan
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
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