Re: debxo ohmd testers wanted

2009-05-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi James,

is this still curent? I suffered some personal fubar, thus my late reply :(

Do you have a source package ready to look at? Is ohmd still the daemon to 
use?

On Montag, 9. März 2009, qu...@laptop.org wrote:
> > control:
> > Standards-Version should be upgraded to 3.8.0 (after checking)
> I don't know how to check.

see /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz

> > long description is too short (you wrote more in the mail I'm replying
> > to :)
> Fixed.  See patch attached.
> > misses homepage: and vcs-pseudoheaders
> Fixed homepage, don't understand vcs-pseudoheaders.

Thanks. Vcs-pseudoheaders are something like this:

Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/sugar-calculate-activity.git
Vcs-Browser: 
http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/sugar-calculate-activity.git;a=summary

Instead of Git you can use any other vcs...

> > copyright:
> > misses copyright owner
> > misses download location
> > misses short GPL blurbs
> > (see
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html)
> > mentions GPL but links to GPL-2
> Fixed.

Thanks.

> > README.Debian
> > unneeded with current content (see above)
> Replaced with different content.

Thanks.

> > changelog:
> > version number should rather be something like 0.1.1.git20090304-1
> Left as is, until you join in.

I'm still willing to help, and I should also be able to fullfil this promise 
now.

> > we should file an ITP bug, so we can close it here ;) (rather to tell
> > others about out intentions to put this software into Debian)
> Don't know how to do that.

Will do, if its still needed. (See the questions at the top of this mail :)

> > postrm+postinst:
> > unconditionally ending with "exit 0" looks wrong
> Okay.  107 of 1051 packages on my system
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst ended with "exit 0".  Should the package
> fail to install if update-rc.d fails?

Yes, i think so.

> > are those files needed at all? I mean, shouldnt debhelper/cdbs create
> > them, if they contain autogenerated code only?
> Don't know.

I guess they can go then.

> > rules:
> > simple-patchsys.mk is unused, and if, I'd prefer patchsys-quilt.mk
> Don't know.

Just remove that line.

> > Do you have a vcs where you maintain this?
> Created just now.
> git clone http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/ohm.git/

Ah, cool.


regards & sorry again,
Holger



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Re: FON supporting mesh ?

2009-04-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Dienstag, 21. April 2009, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Q: where can i find this marvell wifi dongle? I googled…but i only see
> it being mentioned on laptop.org
> A: laptop.org is the place, but maybe other manufacturer use that chip
> So the Active Antenna it is, apparently.

Yes, I gave them the active antenna I once got from Wad :-)


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Holger


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Re: debxo ohmd testers wanted

2009-03-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi James,

On Mittwoch, 4. März 2009, James Cameron wrote:
> I've packaged ohmd for debxo, and done some minimal testing.  I'd like
> other debxo users to have a go at it.

Cool. 

> Packaging improvements welcome.  I'm yet to learn some tricks.

Would you like to (co-)maintain the package in Debian? I'd be happy to sponsor 
uploads and/or co-maintain.

Comments on files I looked at so far:

control: 
Standards-Version should be upgraded to 3.8.0 (after checking)
long description is too short (you wrote more in the mail I'm replying 
to :)
misses homepage: and vcs-pseudoheaders

copyright:
misses copyright owner
misses download location
misses short GPL blurbs
(see 
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html)
mentions GPL but links to GPL-2

README.Debian
unneeded with current content (see above)

changelog:
version number should rather be something like 0.1.1.git20090304-1
we should file an ITP bug, so we can close it here ;) (rather to tell 
others about out intentions to put this software into Debian)

postrm+postinst:
unconditionally ending with "exit 0" looks wrong
are those files needed at all? I mean, shouldnt debhelper/cdbs create 
them,
if they contain autogenerated code only?

rules:
simple-patchsys.mk is unused, and if, I'd prefer patchsys-quilt.mk


Do you have a vcs where you maintain this?


regards,
Holger


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Re: [Sugar-devel] Future of Rainbow + Sugar?

2009-02-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Dienstag, 24. Februar 2009, Wade Brainerd wrote:
> > Many operating systems provide users with a set of powerful tools for
> > manipulating ideas and data.  Sugar's purpose is to add another
> > dimension: to encourage users to modify and share the tools themselves. 
> > To that end, if my friend sends me a modified copy of an activity, I must
> > be able to run it without fear of wrecking my system.
> On the contrary, learning to develop software is almost impossible without
> wrecking your system once or twice.

Ahem, sugar is aimed at kids, not at people developing software or learning 
how to do system administration.

> Backups are the correct solution to this problem, not some crazy security
> system.  When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

It seems to me your hammer is called "backup". ;-)


regards,
Holger, who thinks that rainbow is extremly needed


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Re: Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations

2008-12-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Saturday 13 December 2008 03:04, da...@lang.hm wrote:
> for the record I believe that the google G1 phone is open, the various
> other android based phones are locked down.

actually not true: 
http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/12/09#20081209-google_htc_android_g1

there seems to be a developer edition, which isnt locked down, but the default 
is locked.


regards,
Holger

btw: thanks to John for caring about complying with the licences.


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Re: debxo 0.3 release

2008-11-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Luke,

On Sunday 16 November 2008 04:14, Luke Faraone wrote:
> Something strange when installing/removing packages under the base
> installation:
> http://pastebin.ca/1254906
>
> This warning/error also occured when I was using the "olpc-update debian"
> installation.

you can "fix" this by running "export LANG=C" before you do so.


regards,
Holger


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Re: debxo 0.2 release

2008-10-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Saturday 25 October 2008 19:07, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > nice.  how does this interact with future "apt-get update"?  is
> > there anything to watch out for (e.g., kernel getting
> > overwritten, etc)?
> Ah, glad you brought that up.  Apt should Just Work for the majority
> of the distribution, but there are 3 custom packages; ofw-config (which
> manages /boot/olpc.fth), linux-2.6.25.15 (which manages the kernel), and
> initramfs-tools (which manages the initramfs/initrd). 

If you want to put those on hold, so that they wont be upgraded, run the 
following commands:

for pkg in ofw-config linux-2.6.25.15 initramfs-tools ; do 
  echo $pkg hold | dpkg --set-selections
done

To remove the hold: echo $pkg install | dpkg --set-selections


regards,
Holger


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Re: olpc-dm, olpc-utils, olpc-session, rainbow etc

2008-07-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Michael,

On Tuesday 24 June 2008 02:17, Michael Stone wrote:
> > Where is olpc-session kept? (Of course I can copy it from my XO, but...
> > :)
> On-XO,
>   rpm -qif `which olpc-session`

thanks for that rpm command! I've added it to my rpm-tips+tricks notes :)

> > Is this the latest olpc-util package:
> > http://people.redhat.com/sundaram/olpc-utils-0.15-1.fc7.src.rpm ?
>
> Nope. You'd want to run something like:
>   koji latest-pkg dist-olpc2 olpc-utils

Thanks, I now found git.laptop.org/projects (again ;)

> or, on a recent build,
>   rpm -qi olpc-utils
>
> (Also, if koji isn't available on your OS, then please consider
> packaging it; it's very handy for investigating the Fedora build
> system.)

Hm. koji is not available in Debian. Do you know where the upstream sources 
are kept?

> Let me know if you require any assistance with rainbow or olpc-utils.

olpc-utils is basically ready for upload, the debian package source is 
available at svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-olpc/olpc-utils (yeah, svn, 
we'll switch to git soonish..)

rainbow is next on my list, I guess I will ask you then.. :)

I haven't uploaded (and fully polished..) olpc-utils yet, as I'm busy bringing 
other packages in shape for lenny, as I dont see a realistic chance to 
support the XO in lenny with a sugar desktop experience like with fedora. 


Thanks,
Holger


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Re: reliably detecting if running on an XO

2008-06-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

(answering to myself, for the benefit of the archive.)

On Tuesday 24 June 2008 15:46, Holger Levsen wrote:
> can I reliably detect if my code is running on XO hardware?
> Is checking if /sys/power/olpc-pm exists enough? Is there a better way?

That's enough. /sys/power/olpc-pm is only created by the kernel, if such 
hardware is detected.


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reliably detecting if running on an XO

2008-06-24 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

can I reliably detect if my code is running on XO hardware?
Is checking if /sys/power/olpc-pm exists enough? Is there a better way?


regards,
Holger, currently offline and on battery, therefore not booting an XO 
kernel 
on my laptop :)


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Re: olpc-dm, olpc-utils, olpc-session, rainbow etc

2008-06-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Marco,

On Monday 23 June 2008 21:39, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Do you actually want to use a specific dm for Sugar? If you are
> supporting multiple desktops at the same time you would better off
> just using gdm.

For that specific profile, I just want to support the sugar desktop :)


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olpc-dm, olpc-utils, olpc-session, rainbow etc

2008-06-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

there is now a sugar desktop profile in Debian Edu, it doesnt really work yet, 
but its there :) 

(Debian Edu modifies the debian installer so that you can choose between 4 (or 
6, in expert mode) profiles which install specific sets of packages and apply 
certain preconfigurations.)

And now I'm wondering what is needed to make the install mimic the fedora 
install, besides the various sugar packages I for sure need matchbox and 
network-manager, anything else?

And I need the olpc-utils, /usr/sbin/olpc-dm and /usr/bin/olpc-session, at 
least, though there is more in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin starting with olpc* on 
a fedora install :)

I found some sources for olpc-dm on http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/olpc-utils/ 
but those are from 2007. Are those the latest? 

Where is olpc-session kept? (Of course I can copy it from my XO, but... :)

Is this the latest olpc-util package: 
http://people.redhat.com/sundaram/olpc-utils-0.15-1.fc7.src.rpm ?

Where do I find the sources for rainbow?



Thanks & regards,
Holger


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etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

etoys is now available in Debian's non-free repository, so it's not officially 
part of Debian (non-free isnt Debian), but technically can be installed with 
apt-get/aptitude easily.

The reason for having it in non-free is that the Debian ftpmasters don't think 
it passes the criteria for inclusion in main. The etoys maintainers disagree 
with that but have decided to upload it to non-free for the time being, for 
the benefit of the users, so they can install it easily. 

The reasons are described in more detail 
in /usr/share/doc/etoys/README.non-free - readable for the next 72h at 
http://paste.debian.net/6962/

The next step will be to file a bug against ftp.debian.org to (hopefully) get 
this resolved and etoys moved into main. Most probably this will take some 
time until I do that, to not distract us (Debian people) from releasing Lenny 
in time.

That's also why we gave up trying to convince the ftpmasters now (we tried..), 
time is running out to get new software into Lenny...


regards,
Holger


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Re: [Fwd: Re: #7116 NORM Never A: Possible European G1G1 program needs appropriate keyboards]

2008-06-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Kim,

On Tuesday 03 June 2008 21:48, Kim Quirk wrote:
> Agreed, Ed. The legalities of each country need to be determined and
> met before we can include that country in a Give One Get One program.
>
> Some of the things we need to understand are: Certifications,
> language/keyboard requirements, messaging, non-profit status,
> shipping, customs, support and warranties. I believe these issues (and
> perhaps more) will be different for almost every country.

What can we, as OLPC Germany association, do to help you to understand the 
legal situation (and anything else) in Germany?

Also, what can we do, to make a german keyboard reality? We have keyboard 
layouts available on 
http://wiki.olpc-deutschland.de/organisation/beirat/hardware


regards,
Holger


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Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 16:06, Chris Ball wrote:
> Yes.  We have the openssh-blacklist package installed, which contains
> keyhashes of all possible weak keys and disallows logins using them.

AFAIK not all possible weak keys, but only for the most popular arches and 
(definitly only) the popular key lengths.


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Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Tuesday 20 May 2008 15:50, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> I claim you didn't understand.

And you were right.

:)


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Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Tuesday 20 May 2008 14:13, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > Not by copying to, but by using with, yes, unfortunatly.
> Sorry, "using with" is very imprecise language and leads many people to
> the wrong conclusion.

If you think that "using" was confusing here, you should probably also remove 
the confusion by suggesting a better word. I still think "using" is correct 
here.

> > Read http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2008-05-14-17-21_some_maths.html -
> > in short, if the randomness is not really random, DSA can be attacked
> > rather easily. That's why debian.org and freedesktop.org don't allow DSA
> > keys at all anymore.
> Everybody points to the blog entry, but nobody seems to read it. The
> entry states that if you used the private DSA key on a Debian/Ubuntu
> machine for login to another machine, it might be compromised. 

You haven't understood the entry.

Let me quote the relevant bit:

"For instance, Applied Cryptography (Schneier) says (thanks to Peter Palfrader 
for digging up the quote): Each signature requires a new value of k, and that 
value most be chosen randomly. If Eve ever recovers a k that Alice used to 
sign a message, perhaps by exploiting some properties of the random number 
generator that generated k, she can recover Alice's private key, x. If Ever 
ever gets two messages signed using the same k, even if she doesn't know what 
it is, she can recover x. And with x, Eve can generate undetectable forgeries 
of Alice's signature. In any implementation of the DSA a good random-number 
generateor is essential to the system's security."

> Short version: The
> combination of bad random numbers and a private DSA key on the same
> machine is harmful.

Wrong, also the combination of a bad random numbers and a public DSA key has 
to be considered harmful. If someone sniffed your traffic (which you have to 
consider), you have to consider your DSA keys to be compromised.


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Re: SSH DSA logins on crank.

2008-05-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Tuesday 20 May 2008 04:08, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> Hopefully this doesn't mean that the _private_ DSA key can be
> compromised if the _public_ key was copied on a Debian/Ubuntu machine.

Not by copying to, but by using with, yes, unfortunatly.

Read http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2008-05-14-17-21_some_maths.html - in 
short, if the randomness is not really random, DSA can be attacked rather 
easily. That's why debian.org and freedesktop.org don't allow DSA keys at all 
anymore. 


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Re: ssh key update IMPORTANT security advisory please read

2008-05-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Thursday 15 May 2008 15:40, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> users only need to create new keys if you created your key using a debian
> based system.  keys generated on Fedora or other linux's or unix's are not
> susceptible and don't need replacing.

That's unfortunatly only true for RSA keys, not for DSA keys.

If you have used DSA keys with a broken openssl, consider your keys 
compromised. Read 
http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2008-05-14-17-21_some_maths.html for an 
explaination. 

As a result of this, debian.org and freedesktop.org dont allow DSA keys at all 
anymore.


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Re: Sugar in LinuxTag 2008

2008-05-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Tuesday 13 May 2008 11:57, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> some (most) members of the Sugar team is discussing having a meeting
> at LinuxTag in Berlin from 29th May - 1st June. For now, looks like
> Simon Schampijer, Jim Gettys, Marco, Bert, Bernie, Holger Levsen (from
> OLPC Deutschland) and me will be there. Holger will give a couple of
> talks about OLPC, Sugar and eToys.

Aeh, I'll only give one talk about olpc deutschland (germany) (wednesday, at 
10am) and then there is a workshop on friday morning (from 10-12), where i'm 
still looking for a volunteer to do the squeak part :) (sugar is covered by 
erikos.)

Do you have a sugar workshop / meeting planned at a specific date as well? Or 
do you plan to just meet for the whole 4 days? ;)

We'll also get 2m^2 space at the Debian Edu / Skolelinux.de booth.

> We'll be sharing impressions and discussing organizational and
> technical matters, and would be a pleasure if other members of the
> OLPC and Sugar communities would join us.
>
> Hope to see some of you soon,

Indeed!


regards,
Holger


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Re: Ad-hoc Networking

2008-04-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Thursday 24 April 2008 01:27, John Gilmore wrote:
> In ad-hoc mode, there is no forwarding of packets.  It isn't a mesh.
> It's just point-to-point communication between two radios, without any
> intermediaries. 

While this is true, it's also incomplete :-) Adhoc mode is not limited to two 
devices and olsr and b.a.t.m.a.n. are two layer-4 mesh routing protocols 
which (usually/often) both use 802.11 in adhoc mode. 

But unlike 802.11s as provided by the marvell chip in the XO this needs cpu...

> This mode works in every 802.11 chip set. 

In theory. In practice, many bugs where found in almost all chipsets and 
drivers in adhoc mode, simple because adhoc mode is not as widely used and 
thus tested as managed mode.


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Re: Mini-conference followup

2008-04-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

sorry for the late reply, I've been laying in bed with quite heavy fever the 
whole of last week. On the plus side I was fit again this (last) saturday, to 
go to Berlin and found the olpc germany association. (More news on this will 
follow..)

On Tuesday 08 April 2008 15:21, Holger Levsen wrote:
> I can give you a commandline to grab the tapes with dvgrab (you want raw dv
> as container..) and a little script to encode to theora with ffmpeg2theora.
> (I guess you dont care about mpeg ;-)

http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2008/fosdem/encode.sh 

I'll make sure this will end up linked at http://layer-acht.org/video - so 
that you'll only have to remember that URL in future :-)

> I would also love to see a (probably gstreamer based) script to encode to
> dirac (the new codec developed by the BBC aimed a high quality videos), so
> far I've only found "oggconvert", which supports a variaty of codecs but is
> only GUI based. I haven't looked into this myself, as the one time I tried
> to convert to dirac, I could only encode videos with it, but not decode aka
> view them...

decoding dirac now works (in Debian sid, thouugh backports to etch are 
trivial), but both the decoder and the encoder lack some serious 
optimisation, the performance is still quite poor.


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Re: Mini-conference followup

2008-04-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Scott,

On Monday 07 April 2008 22:14, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> I've got 11 DV tapes on my desk containing the mini-conference
> "proceedings".  We had to return the DV camera we were using to MIT,
> but hopefully we can borrow another one to get the bits off the tapes,
> and then I'll be transcoding and posting the talks as time permits.
> I'll let you know as I progress.  If anyone would like to volunteer to
> help, that would be appreciated!

I can give you a commandline to grab the tapes with dvgrab (you want raw dv as 
container..) and a little script to encode to theora with ffmpeg2theora. (I 
guess you dont care about mpeg ;-)

I _guess_ the first is mentioned on http://layer-acht.org/video - for the 
second I'll send a seperate mail when I'm online again. (It's really just 
ffmpeg2theora with some fancy options, but it takes some time to find those.)

I would also love to see a (probably gstreamer based) script to encode to 
dirac (the new codec developed by the BBC aimed a high quality videos), so 
far I've only found "oggconvert", which supports a variaty of codecs but is 
only GUI based. I haven't looked into this myself, as the one time I tried to 
convert to dirac, I could only encode videos with it, but not decode aka view 
them...


regards,
Holger


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Re: project application: OLPC Europe

2008-02-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Monday 21 January 2008 16:11, Holger Levsen wrote:
> we (a group of people starting OLPC Europe, website below) would like to
> apply for a project hosted on laptop.orgs infrastructure, currently mostly
> to have a central git repository to store the sources for the
> Documentation, Presentations, Information, Code and Press Material.
>
> 1. Project name : OLPC Europe

[...]

What's the status on this? There were no objections raised or any other reply 
whatsoever :)

I was about to mail the access request tracker, but according to the 
instructions this ain't neccessary anymore: 
http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Project_hosting&diff=100051&oldid=78657

So, what now? :)


regards,
Holger


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Re: "/etc/init.d/olpc_europe start" - OLPC Europe event at FOSDEM

2008-02-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

never post links without testing them... :/

On Thursday 07 February 2008 10:03, Holger Levsen wrote:
> If you intend to participate please enter yourself at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/Go/OLPC_Europe/Events/FOSDEM

It's http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe/Events/FOSDEM


sorry for the noise,
Holger


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"/etc/init.d/olpc_europe start" - OLPC Europe event at FOSDEM

2008-02-07 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

at FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting, a yearly 
gathering of about 4000 (mostly) developers and contributors in Brussels, I 
will be moderating an event called "/etc/init.d/olpc_europe start", which is 
described in more detail below (which is just copied and pasted from the 
event description on our wiki and soon (todayish) also on the fosdem website.

If you're attending FOSDEM, I'd love to meet you there! Please enter your name 
on the wiki page too :-)

quote:
 
During the last 12 months many OLPC grassroots initiatives in Europe and 
elsewhere in the world popped up, to promote the OLPC idea locally in their 
communities, to help children locally and globaly. 

OLPC Europe aims to be a focus point to share experiences, ideas and work 
between those local groups and towards the global OLPC project. Like the 
global project we aim to be an education project and use that laptop as a 
means. 

This meeting aims to get the different people from any OLPC related initiative 
together, to get us know each other and to discuss the feature of the young 
OLPC Europe project. 

If you intend to participate please enter yourself at 
http://wiki.laptop.org/Go/OLPC_Europe/Events/FOSDEM 

When:  Saturday, 23. February, 15:00 to 17:00 
Where: http://fosdem.org/2008 - thats Brussels in Europe :)


regards,
Holger

P.S.: we will have an IRC meeting today at 17 UTC on #olpc-europe on freenode.


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project application: OLPC Europe

2008-01-21 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

we (a group of people starting OLPC Europe, website below) would like to apply 
for a project hosted on laptop.orgs infrastructure, currently mostly to have 
a central git repository to store the sources for the Documentation,  
Presentations, Information, Code and Press Material. 

1. Project name : OLPC Europe
2. Existing website, if any : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe
3. One-line description : OLPC Europe is a OLPC grassroots organisation in 
Europe

4. Longer description   : quoted from 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Europe/Vision

  1 OLPC Europe

  We recognize, that under certain situations an european 
  platform can make life easier for local OLPC 
  grassroots, also for the newly starting ones, and for 
  the people at the MIT. This platform shall under no 
  circumstances be meddling with the local grassroots but 
  instead help them to grow and flourish.

  We propose the following very simple and basic common 
  guidelines which shall help in forming this platform:

  1.1 OLPC Europe IS

1. a Forum / Platform for exchange between local 
2. groups, towards MIT and back, European institutions 
   and with other groups worldwide
3. helping in organizing XOs for the local groups
4. supporting and cherishing the autonomy of local groups
5. focusing on rough consensus and running code

  1.2 OLPC Europe IS NOT
1. going to do a local pilot in your country
2. going to tell you what you are allowed to do


5. URLs of similar projects : I dunno ;)

6. Committer list 

  Username   Full name SSH2 key URLE-mail
     - --
   #1  holgerHolger Levsen  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   #2  crazy-chris Chris Hager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   #3  bastiaan  Bastiaan Bakker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   If any developers don't have their SSH2 keys on the web, please attach them 
   to the application e-mail. 

   -> Chris and me already have a ssh2 key on laptop.org, I'll send Bastiaans 
key when I resend the application to [EMAIL PROTECTED] tomorrow - as 
described in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_hosting

7. Preferred development model

   [X] Central tree. Every developer can push his changes directly to the 
   project's git tree. This is the standard model that will be familiar to 
   CVS and Subversion users, and that tends to work well for most 
projects.

8. Set up a project mailing list:

   [ ] Yes, named after our project name
   [ ] Yes, named __
   [X] No, not yet. For now we will use 
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots 
  
9. Commit notifications

   [x] A separate mailing list, -git, should be created for 
commit
   notifications

12. Notes/comments:

Shell accounts and translation infrastructure are not needed.


regards,
Holger


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Re: non-Sugar but core software?

2008-01-17 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

for Debian I've started http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/OLPC/ToDo yesterday, 
to document what is working and whats not and what work needs to be done.

In general, a document describing how the XO-1-fedora installation differs 
from a plain fedora would be very much appreciated, also by the OpenWRT 
developers.


regards,
Holger


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Re: fedora.laptop.org

2007-06-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Thursday 07 June 2007 22:01, you wrote:
> >  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/
> We're still missing the "updates" hierarchy.

Fixed, thanks for noting. (Mirror update now in progress...)

> And timestamps are incorrect.  Could we add the "-a" flag
> to the rsync command line?

Hmm. Strange, the script used "--times" already, but I added "-a" now 
nonetheless.


regards,
Holger




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Re: Using --excludedocs and --excludepath with yum

2007-06-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 01:24, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> And, by the way, couldn't Fedora save space by just shipping
> a single copy of each licens, say, in basesystem?  You can
> easily tell how they map to specific packages with rpm -qi.

On a Debian system there are copies of the common licences  
in /usr/share/common-licenses/ and /usr/share/doc/$package/copyright usually 
refers to those files. 


regards,
Holger


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Re: fedora.laptop.org

2007-06-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

On Sunday 03 June 2007 03:34, you wrote:
> I think we need to update our mirror scripts
> for the unified Fedora hierarchy.
>
> And, as we're there, could we also start
> mirroring F7?

I added http://mirrors2.kernel.org/fedora/releases/ to the mirror now, is 
there anything else whats needed for f7?


regards,
Holger


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