[Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar?

David Van Assche dvanassche at gmail.com
Tue May 26 12:36:51 EDT 2009


Where is the source? I dont see anything since march in git.sugarlabs.org

David (nubae)

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:32 PM, James Simmons <jim.simmons at walgreens.com>wrote:

> Sean,
>
> I'm blowing my own horn here, but I just finished a new version of Read
> Etexts that might be worth a look.  The new version has a "Books" tab
> that lets you search the Project Gutenberg offline catalog and download
> titles to the Journal.  Gutenberg has lots of Juvenile books as well as
> well known books by European authors in their original languages.  I
> posted it on ASLO yesterday, with new screenshots.
>
> In addition to the catalog search, if you run it on SoaS you can use the
> Speech tab to read the book aloud with word highlighting.  Many
> different voices are available, so for instance you could use a French
> voice for the works of Dumas and Verne.
>
> The books are plain text, no pictures, but if I say so myself Read
> Etexts has become impressive in a way it never has been before.
>
> For books with pictures you could suggest a visit to the Internet
> Archive website to get books in PDF format that Read could use.  There
> are some remarkable PDFs of scanned in book pages there.
>
> James Simmons
>
> > Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 20:03:40 +0200
> > From: Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Sugar-devel] Usage scenarios for Sugar?
> > To: Sugar Labs Marketing <marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org>,     iaep
> >       <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>,     Sugar Devel
> >       <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
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> > Hi everyone, we have been contacted by a monthly tech publication in
> > Europe willing to devote several pages to Sugar in their summer issue!
> >
> > More specifically, advising parents how to download & run SoaS and do
> > educational stuff with their kids during the summer holidays.
> >
> >
> > Off the top of my head I suggested a scenario where Memorize is
> > customized with family photos, a Turtle Art lesson, ...
> >
> > Suggestions please!
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Sean
>
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