<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpgritti@gmail.com">mpgritti@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Caroline Meeks<br> <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> wrote:<br> > :)  I made a new one, but then left it in my computer at home! I did bring<br> <div class="Ih2E3d">> my XO and everyone liked it of course.<br> ><br> > I posted my notes from the visit to Fenway today:<br> > <a href="http://schoolkey.net/blog/2008/10/08/first-meeting-with-future-engineers-at-fenway-high-school" target="_blank">http://schoolkey.net/blog/2008/10/08/first-meeting-with-future-engineers-at-fenway-high-school</a><br> <br> </div>Very exciting, thanks for posting it! We should get your blog on<br> <a href="http://planet.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">planet.sugarlabs.org</a>.</blockquote><div><br>That would be cool <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> > Note that the Fenway has pretty  new computers so I'm not as worried about<br> > Fedora not booting or running out of RAM.<br> ><br> > I have a few of the kids from the "Future Engineers" club set up with a SLAX<br> > USB.  I'd like to go back in 2 or 3 weeks with a Sugar USB for them to play<br> > with.  Do you think that is a feasible time table?<br> <br> </div>Yeah, I hope so.</blockquote><div><br>Great <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> > Here is my wish list:<br> ><br> > Bootable Sugar USB<br> <br> </div>I made another iteration on it. This one seem to work pretty well on a<br> 256M box. Memory usage is similar to Sugar on the XO.<br> <br> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/%7Emarco/sugar-livecd-1marco.iso" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/~marco/sugar-livecd-1marco.iso</a></blockquote><div><br>Just downloaded. Will burn a CD shortly and test on the machines I have here before I leave for the weekend. I'll be back Tuesday. <br> <br>What is the process of going from a CD to a USB?<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> <br> There are only a few activities on it, but I'd appreciate testing.<br> Making sure the system works properly would be a big step forward.<br> <br> Do you have access to a Fedora linux box to be able to create the liveusb?<br> <br> > Boot Helper CD<br> <br> Do you have any pointer about this? I can look at it and see what it<br> would take to make it work with Fedora liveusb.</blockquote><div><br><a href="ftp://ftp.slax.org/SLAX-6.x/slax-boot-usb-from-cd-6.0.7.iso">ftp://ftp.slax.org/SLAX-6.x/slax-boot-usb-from-cd-6.0.7.iso</a><br>  <br>and our discussion on it: <a href="http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=21028">http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=21028</a><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> > Instructions on how to add an Apps such as GIMP<br> <br> </div>Sugar support for normal desktop applications is suboptimal at the<br> moment. We are working to address it properly in this release cycle.<br> Admittedly GIMP is probably the hardest application to handle, because<br> of his unusual windows model.<br> <br> In the meantime it's possible to use the X activity to run gimp:<br> <br> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X_Activity" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X_Activity</a><br> <br> And yeah writing instructions of how to get gimp to work using this<br> approach should not be hard.</blockquote><div><br>Cool, should be good enough for now.  I was impressed at the "iphone app store" mentality.  They all immediately wanted to install apps on it.  I think this is a great thing and a great path towards getting students to create apps.  But this is a long term issue, not something to be solved this month.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> > A Jabber Server for them to collaborate (nice to have)<br> <br> </div>David might have better insight than me on this one, since he is<br> working on sorting out Sugar Labs infrastructure. OLPC is also working<br> on setting up a server I think, so using that one is another<br> possibility.</blockquote><div><br>I may have the resources to do this, I'll talk to the sysadmin I work with. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> > A plan for how they can give feedback to the Sugar community in a useful,<br> > nonintrusive way.<br> <br> </div>I'd like to hear everyone thoughts about this but personally I<br> wouldn't mind at all to have them open tickets about the problems they<br> find with the software. Less specific feedback like impressions or<br> feature requests could go in the wiki:<br> <br> <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/Request_New_Features" target="_blank">http://sugarlabs.org/go/Request_New_Features</a></blockquote><div><br>This sounds good for now. We will need to write up clear instructions. I can do that and submit them to you guys for feedback. <br> </div><div><br>Longer term, I have a vision of having hundreds of middle and high school developed country service+technology oriented kids with Sugar.  Someone comes out with a new app or a new release and they want it tested they put it out to this list and get quick feedback.  These kids are also a potential grassroots marketing arm into the elementary schools as we encourage them to demo to their old teachers.<br> <br>Ok off to test the CD<br><br>Thanks!<br>Caroline<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> <font color="#888888"><br> Marco<br> </font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br> </div>