etoys-dev January 2011

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Help needed - Chinese character support
by David T. Lewis 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

Hi, The following showed up on the Squeak Mantis bug tracker, and I am hoping that someone on etoys-dev may be able to help. http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7599 Reporter: ericgao Summary: 0007599: Could not type chinese in Squeak Description: "In Squeak 3.8, i could type chinese in Squeak WorkSpaces but in Squeak 4.1, I couldn't type any chinese character, only some confusing character showed to me? Could Squeak support the language type in with the character supported in system? " The problem report was auto-assigned to me, but unfortunately I have no background in Chinese language and Squeak internationalization, so I cannot help. I think that the person asking the question (ericgao) is not familiar with the Squeak and Etoys mailing lists, so I am asking the question here on his behalf. Can anyone provide a pointer that might help? Thanks, Dave

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Fwd: Calculus discovery by and for young people
by Edward Cherlin 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

We have the offer of a calculus book for elementary grades. Please take a look at Don's Web site, http://mathman.biz/ and let us discuss what it would take to get this done up in a series of Etoys projects. If others think it worthwhile, I will invite Don here. I am also proposing that FLOSS Manuals publish the book, and will ask on the Sugar list whether anybody would like to work on this as a regular Sugar activity in Python. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Don Cohen- The Mathman <doncohenmathman(a)gmail.com> > Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 16:33 > Subject: Re: ? > To: Edward Cherlin <echerlin(a)gmail.com> > > Hi Edward, > To begin with, I would like to contribute my book Calculus By and for > Young People-Worksheets (in ebook form, which is being done by a > former student, and will be ready by May). The book is in Socratic > format, asking questions leading to the different ideas, with an > answer section in each chapter. I have it on a CD now, in pdf form but > wanted to make minor changes-like my new email address, new website > address..Would anyone there like a copy of this CD? There is a list of > materials that would help, in the appendix. > > I'd be willing to talk to anyone interested in seeing what can come from this. > > Don -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/

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Kinect and Etoys
by Ricardo Moran 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Hi guys! I want to tell you some exciting news. Thanks to the ESUG Innovation Technology Awards we've been able to buy ourselves a Microsoft Kinect. We don't have a Xbox 360 yet, but that doesn't mean we can't have a little fun with it. Who needs and Xbox if you can use Kinect with Etoys? :) After seeing Stephen Howell's great work using Kinect with Scratch, we followed his steps and made it available for Etoys as well. See it for yourselves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnqqaHvbeqg You can find installation steps in our blog: http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira Cheers! Richo

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Re: [etoys-dev] [Newbies] Safe shut down
by David Corking 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Gary Dunn wrote[1] : > Interesting, I found this in a discussion on XSMP: > > Newer alternative sessions (GDM Greeter, OLPC Sugar) don't want to support > XSMP > > http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/GnomeSession > > In any case I am looking into it. Sounds great. This bug (linked from the above GNOME wiki page) looks particularly relevant: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535829 Hope that helps, David [1] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/beginners/2011-January/007497.h…

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Waveplace back to Haiti in 2 weeks, 2 days
by Timothy Falconer 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Hi everyone, Waveplace is headed back to Haiti to start 5 new XO pilots. Follow my daily blogging for the next month here: http://waveplace.org/news/ Subscribe to my twitter feed here: http://twitter.com/teefal/ Like us on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/waveplace Here's the first blog post: With flights just bought, we're off to Haiti once again. In two weeks, two days, we'll spend two weeks, two days, starting new pilots: two in Cite Soleil, two in tent camps, one with a youth choir, all of them exciting. As usual, there's a half dozen snags. We don't yet have the laptops out of customs, which makes me nervous as hell, though our chief partner said, "It'll be fine, book your flights", so we did. Even if we get the laptops out of customs, we won't know how many of them work until just before the pilots. Even if all are working, we still won't have enough, which means we'll bring twenty ourselves. Our chief contact at JP/HRO resigned over the holiday break. We'll be talking with her replacement on Thursday, who seems equally enthusiastic, though major changes so close to a pilot start are always fun. Yesterday an impartial commission announced that Celestin (the unpopular candidate) was actually behind Martelly (the popular one). Preval and Celestin will react to the news after tomorrow's anniversary, which could spark a new round of rioting. We're also hoping the runoff election will be scheduled after our trip. Pretty much the only certain thing is that we're on a very, very tight budget. We can't rent a car, we can't travel to Léogâne, we can't do much more than walk back and forth to the school. Every dollar counts. But we're going. Our work paid off. How to pay the bills in March is another question. In February, we'll make a difference. -- Timothy Falconer Waveplace Foundation http://waveplace.org + 1 610 797 3100 x33

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4.1.1 problems for older versions of Squeak and Etoys
by kharness＠illinois.edu 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

Hi, There are older projects made using Squeak that worked in 4.0 and do not in 4.1.1 Using Etoys 4.1.1 on a Toshiba laptop running Windows 7 Home premium and the Firefox browser to access projects in EtoysIllinois.org for example: http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=81 The bug report attachment is for this project.This project has a sound file, maybe that is the problem? As an experiment to see if I could salvage the project, I download and saved the file, opened it etoys4.0 saved it on my computer and then opened it etoys 4,1,1 and the sound worked as did the script.This is a lot of steps but would at least mean the student's projects would not be lost forever. another problem: Many projects made using Squeak (orange red flaps) show this kind of problem. http://etoysillinois.org/library?sl=165 The navigator bar shows briefly as the project is opening but then only the toggle icon remains. When the toggle is clicked, it relocates to the top left side of the window and no other icons show. I found I could get a halo, use its white menu select the green option and then the gray to make the NavBar icons appear. If I selected the gray option first the NavBar icons did not appear. Beginners will not know to do any of these steps and will just be lost. Do you plan to have a new version release in April? Will it be possible to fix the problems I have described in that release? The EtoysIllinois site has over1300 projects, some done as many as 5 years ago, what do you suggest I do about the older projects? Should I remove them or download them and upload again in the newest version? Projects from my computer folders (not from the internet) had the same problems. Any help or advice will be very welcome. Regards, Kathleen

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Rafael Ortiz te ha dejado un mensaje...
by Badoo 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

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