<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
2009/11/17 Sean DALY <<a href="http://sdaly.be" target="_blank">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> It's an excellent point; after all, Mingoville<br>
> <a href="http://www.mingoville.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mingoville.com/</a> based in Denmark I believe claims over 1<br>
> million users, 100+ activities for children to practice English.<br>
><br>
> But there's another facet: dominant languages such as English,<br>
> Spanish, French, put pressure on minority languages. Sugar has a role<br>
> to play supporting many languages, not just in the interface, but in<br>
> content. There have been suggestions in the past that we position<br>
> Sugar as a great way to learn English, and indeed it can be<br>
> (especially in a connected environment), but I feel English should not<br>
> be privileged over local languages.<br>
<br>
</div>Can we make Sugar a good platform for publishing e-books? Anybody has<br>
already thought of what it would take?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Going along the same lines but in a different direction then Tomeu....This teacher asked for a simple book creation tool for kids.</div><div><br>
</div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRcKP1MJQs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRcKP1MJQs</a></div><div><br></div><div>Might not be hard to create a Turtle Art Template that prints in a way that lets you fold the printed page to create a book. </div>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Tomeu<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
> My concern is the timing... Sebastian is under pressure for a December<br>
> 8th launch and will need help collating books.<br>
><br>
> The Blueberry launch is also threatened by <a href="http://sugaronastick.com" target="_blank">sugaronastick.com</a>, which as<br>
> long as it is up will create confusion.<br>
><br>
> Sean<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Yama Ploskonka <<a href="mailto:yamaplos@gmail.com">yamaplos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> sorry to keep the off-topic on topic, :-), but in my experience the<br>
>> possibility to access stuff in English is one of the biggest calls for Sugar<br>
>> use, especially maybe in non-English places.<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Carlo Falciola <<a href="mailto:cfalciola@yahoo.it">cfalciola@yahoo.it</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Sebastian,<br>
>>> really have absolutely no issue regarding the provider.<br>
>>> Once I realized that in that site there weren't non EN titles you I just<br>
>>> made a quick Google-search for multilingual ebooks sites.<br>
>>><br>
>>> My point is limitated to suggesting to evaluate the opportunity to put a<br>
>>> little sample in more that one language.<br>
>>><br>
>>> ciao carlo<br>
>>><br>
>>> --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas <<a href="mailto:sebastian@when.com">sebastian@when.com</a>> ha scritto:<br>
>>><br>
>>> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas <<a href="mailto:sebastian@when.com">sebastian@when.com</a>><br>
>>> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry)<br>
>>> > A: "Carlo Falciola" <<a href="mailto:cfalciola@yahoo.it">cfalciola@yahoo.it</a>><br>
>>> > Cc: "iaep" <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br>
>>> > Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 16:22<br>
>>> > Yes, actually, I was maybe a bit too<br>
>>> > quick with this. :)<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > This e-mail was supposed to be about discussing good sample<br>
>>> > titles, not<br>
>>> > about announcing anything with regard to the book provider<br>
>>> > we were<br>
>>> > using. Anyway, thanks for the link! I'll look into it...<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Cheers,<br>
>>> > --Sebastian<br>
>>> ><br>
>>> > Carlo Falciola wrote:<br>
>>> > > I dont know (yet, Ill check soon) about quality of<br>
>>> > ePub version, but (<a href="http://manybooks.net/" target="_blank">http://manybooks.net/</a>) seems to have<br>
>>> > books from several different languages...<br>
>>> > > Maybe one out of a selection of<br>
>>> > languages would make sense...<br>
>>> > ><br>
>>> > > ciao carlo<br>
>>> > ><br>
>>> > ><br>
>>> > > --- Mar 17/11/09, Sebastian Dziallas<<a href="mailto:sebastian@when.com">sebastian@when.com</a>><br>
>>> > ha scritto:<br>
>>> > ><br>
>>> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas<<a href="mailto:sebastian@when.com">sebastian@when.com</a>><br>
>>> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick<br>
>>> > (Blueberry)<br>
>>> > >> A: "SoaS"<<a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>,<br>
>>> > "iaep"<<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br>
>>> > >> Data: Martedì 17 novembre 2009, 15:36<br>
>>> > >> Hi all,<br>
>>> > >><br>
>>> > >> as you may know, we're going to ship some selected<br>
>>> > e-books<br>
>>> > >> in the<br>
>>> > >> Journal of the Blueberry release. For providing<br>
>>> > >> high-quality e-books<br>
>>> > >> instead of simple texts (as well as fo technical<br>
>>> > >> simplicity), we're<br>
>>> > >> going to use e-books from epubBooks<br>
>>> > (<a href="http://www.epubbooks.com" target="_blank">www.epubbooks.com</a>)!<br>
>>> > >><br>
>>> > >> Right now, I've just included Alice in Wonderland<br>
>>> > (which<br>
>>> > >> comes with nice<br>
>>> > >> images in this edition), but I encourage everybody<br>
>>> > to go<br>
>>> > >> through the<br>
>>> > >> catalog on that website and to point out<br>
>>> > favorites.<br>
>>> > >><br>
>>> > >> Thanks to Sayamindu for pointing to that site! :)<br>
>>> > >><br>
>>> > >> --Sebastian<br>
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