[IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)

[Carlo Falciola]

I made a (very) little survey:
- the Alice in wonderland (with Illustrations) is 1.7 MB in size
- other epub books  I found, probably text only, lies in between 100 to 300 K
- Sdenka_Salas_-_The_XO_Laptop_in_the_Classroom.pdf  is 5.6 MB

- I added a spreadsheet made out of pootle latest statistics of today

Question 1: what could be a reasonable size to add  to journal <= 50 MB?
Question 2: one book for a selection of languages (<10) and few more in english? Does make sense?
 
ciao carlo 

--- Mar 17/11/09, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Da: Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>
> Oggetto: Re: [IAEP] R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)
> A: "Yama Ploskonka" <yamaplos at gmail.com>, "Carlo Falciola" <cfalciola at yahoo.it>, iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org, "Sugar-Labs Mailing lists" <soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 17:48
> It's an excellent point; after all,
> Mingoville
> http://www.mingoville.com/ based in Denmark I believe
> claims over 1
> million users, 100+ activities for children to practice
> English.
> 
> But there's another facet: dominant languages such as
> English,
> Spanish, French, put pressure on minority languages. Sugar
> has a role
> to play supporting many languages, not just in the
> interface, but in
> content. There have been suggestions in the past that we
> position
> Sugar as a great way to learn English, and indeed it can
> be
> (especially in a connected environment), but I feel English
> should not
> be privileged over local languages.
> 
> My concern is the timing... Sebastian is under pressure for
> a December
> 8th launch and will need help collating books.
> 
> The Blueberry launch is also threatened by
> sugaronastick.com, which as
> long as it is up will create confusion.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Yama Ploskonka <yamaplos at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > sorry to keep the off-topic on topic, :-), but in my
> experience the
> > possibility to access stuff in English is one of the
> biggest calls for Sugar
> > use, especially maybe in non-English places.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Carlo Falciola <cfalciola at yahoo.it>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Sebastian,
> >> really  have absolutely no issue
> regarding  the provider.
> >> Once I realized that in that site there weren't
> non EN titles  you I just
> >> made a  quick Google-search for multilingual
> ebooks sites.
> >>
> >> My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate
> the opportunity to put a
> >> little sample in more that one language.
> >>
> >> ciao carlo
> >>
> >> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>
> ha scritto:
> >>
> >> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>
> >> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a
> Stick (Blueberry)
> >> > A: "Carlo Falciola" <cfalciola at yahoo.it>
> >> > Cc: "iaep" <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> >> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22
> >> > Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too
> >> > quick with this. :)
> >> >
> >> > This e-mail was supposed to be about
> discussing good sample
> >> > titles, not
> >> > about announcing anything with regard to the
> book provider
> >> > we were
> >> > using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look
> into it...
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > --Sebastian
> >> >
> >> > Carlo Falciola wrote:
> >> > > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about
> quality of
> >> > ePub version, but (http://manybooks.net/) seems to have
> >> > books from  several different
> languages...
> >> > >   Maybe one out of a
> selection of
> >> > languages would make sense...
> >> > >
> >> > > ciao carlo
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian
> Dziallas<sebastian at when.com>
> >> > ha scritto:
> >> > >
> >> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas<sebastian at when.com>
> >> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on
> a Stick
> >> > (Blueberry)
> >> > >> A: "SoaS"<soas at lists.sugarlabs.org>,
> >> > "iaep"<iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> >> > >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009,
> 15:36
> >> > >> Hi all,
> >> > >>
> >> > >> as you may know, we're going to ship
> some selected
> >> > e-books
> >> > >> in the
> >> > >> Journal of the Blueberry release.
> For providing
> >> > >> high-quality e-books
> >> > >> instead of simple texts (as well as
> fo technical
> >> > >> simplicity), we're
> >> > >> going to use e-books from epubBooks
> >> > (www.epubbooks.com)!
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Right now, I've just included Alice
> in Wonderland
> >> > (which
> >> > >> comes with nice
> >> > >> images in this edition), but I
> encourage everybody
> >> > to go
> >> > >> through the
> >> > >> catalog on that website and to point
> out
> >> > favorites.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to
> that site! :)
> >> > >>
> >> > >> --Sebastian
> >> > >>
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