<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <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>>: <div class="im">> It's an excellent point; after all, Mingoville > <a href="http://www.mingoville.com/" target="_blank">http://www.mingoville.com/</a> 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. </div>Can we make Sugar a good platform for publishing e-books? Anybody has already thought of what it would take? </blockquote><div> </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> </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRcKP1MJQs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TRcKP1MJQs</a></div><div> </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> <div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Regards, Tomeu <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > 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 <a href="http://sugaronastick.com" target="_blank">sugaronastick.com</a>, which as > long as it is up will create confusion. > > Sean > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Yama Ploskonka <<a href="mailto:yamaplos@gmail.com">yamaplos@gmail.com</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:cfalciola@yahoo.it">cfalciola@yahoo.it</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:sebastian@when.com">sebastian@when.com</a>> ha scritto: >>> >>> > Da: Sebastian Dziallas <<a href="mailto:sebastian@when.com">sebastian@when.com</a>> >>> > Oggetto: Re: R: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) >>> > A: "Carlo Falciola" <<a href="mailto:cfalciola@yahoo.it">cfalciola@yahoo.it</a>> >>> > Cc: "iaep" <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>> >>> > Data: Martedė 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 (<a href="http://manybooks.net/" target="_blank">http://manybooks.net/</a>) 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<<a href="mailto:sebastian@when.com">sebastian@when.com</a>> >>> > ha scritto: >>> > > >>> > >> Da: Sebastian Dziallas<<a href="mailto:sebastian@when.com">sebastian@when.com</a>> >>> > >> Oggetto: [SoaS] E-Books for Sugar on a Stick >>> > (Blueberry) >>> > >> A: "SoaS"<<a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>, >>> > "iaep"<<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>> >>> > >> Data: Martedė 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 >>> > (<a href="http://www.epubbooks.com" target="_blank">www.epubbooks.com</a>)! >>> > >> >>> > >> 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 >>> > >> _______________________________________________ >>> > >> SoaS mailing list >>> > >> <a href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >>> > >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas</a> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >>> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > </div></div>-- ĢSugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. 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