[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] New Fedora Spins Site

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Iain Brown Douglas
<iain at browndouglas.plus.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Sean, for the careful proof reading.
>
> Fair copy attached.
>
> I originally included the section "Multimedia", as it is the set of
> Activities in http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/
> but not in the Walter/Sam contribution.
>
> I think it is the weakest section. Chat jars a bit on the page, as
> "Chat" is used in the "Spins page template" to refer to IRC.
>
> My memory is that Jukebox is not part of the core set (due to non-free
> components?).

You're memory is wrong! It uses gstreamer and there a number of free
codecs that come as standard. Maybe you could download SoaS 22 and
actually test it and see what's there!

> Perhaps the section Multimedia as it stands should be deleted.

Not going to happen. This isn't time for bikeshedding, it's time for
tweaking the content as it stands.

> Regards,
>
> Iain
>
>
> On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 09:29 +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
>> thanks Iain looks good
>>
>> some typos:
>> Wwork -> Work
>>
>> FotoToon -> OK is singular not plural
>> speech and though -> speech and thought
>> Paint provides to tools -> Paint provides tools
>> Make Sugar activities -> Make Sugar Activities / edit existing
>> activities -> edit existing Activities / Browse activity -> Browse
>> Activity (((Activities always init-capitalized in Sugar context when
>> describing applications)))
>>
>>
>> Also Pippy & Develop should be in a "Getting Technical" section not
>> regrouped under "Learning by doing" please
>>
>>
>> Tweaks:
>> * Get Books. Download electronic books from all over the web. Explore
>> with ease the
>>   classics and modern books from the Internet Archive, Feedbooks, etc.
>>
>>
>> Music - I think this refers to the Jukebox Activity, should be:
>>
>> * Jukebox. Media player to play different kinds of audio and video
>> files.
>>
>> However, I am not sure if this Activity is in the latest SoaS or not?
>>
>>
>> * Record is the basic rich-media capture Activity. It lets you capture
>> still images, video, and/or audio. (((remove "for the laptop" - we
>> can't assume SoaS will be running on a laptop)))
>>
>>
>> Finally, an HTML issue: the left/right curly quote marks (cf. "office
>> desktop") which probably came in from copy/pasted text should either
>> be replacd with simple double parentheses (" ") or the HTML
>> entities “ and ”
>>
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Iain Brown Douglas
>> <iain at browndouglas.plus.com> wrote:
>>         On Sun, 2015-05-17 at 15:14 +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
>>         > Peter - Walter's edits were for the Activities descriptions,
>>         mine were
>>         > for the introduction, no reconciliation necessary
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > Sean
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Peter Robinson
>>         > <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>         >         Walter sent some edits, I believe most of those have
>>         gone in,
>>         >         we need
>>         >         to update titles still I believe.
>>         >
>>         >         This is what we currently have, the Activities list
>>         and layout
>>         >         are now set.
>>         >
>>         >         http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/
>>         >
>>         >         We can tweak the text but I need to have the edits
>>         >         co-ordinated,
>>
>>         Hi all,
>>
>>         The attached text file starts from
>>         http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/, taken during
>>         Sunday,
>>         with contributions from Sean & Walter/Sam added.
>>
>>         There is still some work to do, additions, subtractions or
>>         comments
>>         please!
>>
>>         Regards,
>>
>>         Iain
>>
>>         >          I
>>         >         don't have time to to do that so please liaise with
>>         Walter to
>>         >         come up
>>         >         with the final edits so I can submit them early next
>>         week as a
>>         >         single
>>         >         final edit.
>>         >
>>         >         Peter
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >
>>         >         On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Sean DALY
>>         >         <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>         >         > Peter - are the intro edits I sent going in?
>>         >         > thanks
>>         >         > Sean
>>         >         >
>>         >         >
>>         >         > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Peter Robinson
>>         >         <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
>>         >         > wrote:
>>         >         >>
>>         >         >> It's already in process
>>         >         >>
>>         >         >> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Sam P.
>>         >         <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>         >         >> > Hi Peter,
>>         >         >> >
>>         >         >> > I think Walter send out a good copy [1] with
>>         headers -
>>         >         maybe we could
>>         >         >> > use
>>         >         >> > those headers?
>>         >         >> >
>>         >         >> > Thanks,
>>         >         >> > Sam
>>         >         >> >
>>         >         >> > [1]
>>         >
>>          http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2015-May/050190.html
>>         >         >> >
>>         >         >> > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:09 PM Peter Robinson
>>         >         <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
>>         >         >> > wrote:
>>         >         >> >>
>>         >         >> >> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Sam Parkinson
>>         >         >> >> <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
>>         >         >> >> wrote:
>>         >         >> >> > Hi Peter,
>>         >         >> >> >
>>         >         >> >> > Peter Robinson wrote:
>>         >         >> >> >> Hi Sam, Gonzalo et el,
>>         >         >> >> >>
>>         >         >> >> >> I've worked with the Fedora web team to
>>         update it
>>         >         some based
>>         >         >> >> >> partially
>>         >         >> >> >> on Sam's details below.
>>         >         >> >> >>
>>         >         >> >> >> Details are here:
>>         >         >> >> >> http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/
>>         >         >> >> >>
>>         >         >> >> >> Let me know of any feedback, I personally
>>         think it
>>         >         looks really fab!
>>         >         >> >> >
>>         >         >> >> > Yeah, it does.
>>         >         >> >> >
>>         >         >> >> > Is there a way to have different headers?
>>         Some of the
>>         >         headings (esp.
>>         >         >> >> > Education) are not aappropriate for Sugar.
>>         >         >> >>
>>         >         >> >> Yes, provide me details in concise details and
>>         we'll
>>         >         review them and
>>         >         >> >> get them integrated. I knew it wasn't perfect
>>         but we
>>         >         needed to get the
>>         >         >> >> majority of the bits in place.
>>         >         >> >>
>>         >         >> >> Peter
>>         >         >> _______________________________________________
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>>         project!)
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