Re: XENified images for XO

2008-04-12 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2008, Marcus Leech wrote: > >> Has anyone done any work on building XENified images for XO? >> >> I'm interested in this for building a large-scale virtualized XO >> environment for testing purposes. >> >> The other option is to run the XO image in "H

Re: networking scenarios

2008-04-12 Thread Sameer Verma
Dafydd Harries wrote: > This is something which was not completely clear to me until I talked to Wad > about it the other day, and I think other people might find it useful. It > should probably go on the wiki (assuming it isn't already there somewhere). > I'd > like some feedback about where it b

New faster build 1858

2008-04-12 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1858 Changes in build 1858 from build: 1852 Size delta: 0.00M -libertas-usb8388-firmware 2:5.110.22.p1-1.fc7 +libertas-usb8388-firmware 2:5.110.22.p6-1.fc7 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/annou

Pen Tablet support and a usability study

2008-04-12 Thread Patrick Dubroy
For the last couple months, I've been working on the higher-level support for the XO Pen Tablet (for more information, see here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pen_Tablet_Support). If anyone's interested, I've got a couple of activities available which will let you play with the tablet on an XO: - Tab

New joyride build 1858

2008-04-12 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1858 Changes in build 1858 from build: 1852 Size delta: 0.00M -libertas-usb8388-firmware 2:5.110.22.p1-1.fc7 +libertas-usb8388-firmware 2:5.110.22.p6-1.fc7 -- This mail was automatically generated See http://dev.laptop.org/~rwh/anno

Re: Usability testing

2008-04-12 Thread Patrick Dubroy
(CC'ed to the sugar ml. For context, see http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/012674.html) Like Carol, when I first got involved with OLPC, I was surprised to find that so little user testing had been done. I was told by someone that to their knowledge, no formal user testing had bee

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-12 Thread Joshua N Pritikin
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:34:26PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > However, i am yet to find any implementation of scrabble in Hindi. I think > > Hindi would be a too complicated to implement but would ask some hindi > > professors i know for confirmations. > > Google finds nothing. I lived in

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Aditya Vishwakarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scrabble implementation in arabic > http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/details/arabic/ > > other foreign language tilesets > http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/index.html#foreignscrab Just the thing. This list comes down to

Re: dropbox mechanism

2008-04-12 Thread Ricardo Carrano
> > I will put the new firmware in if im notified of it. > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware_release_procedures > > File a trac bug assign it to me user dgilmore and I will build it in koji. > and get it pushed into joyride as well as updated in fedora. > Thank you, Dennis. That would be http://d

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-12 Thread Aditya Vishwakarma
Scrabble implementation in arabic http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/details/arabic/ other foreign language tilesets http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/index.html#foreignscrab However, i am yet to find any implementation of scrabble in Hindi. I think Hindi would be a too complicated to implement but wou

Re: XENified images for XO

2008-04-12 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Marcus Leech wrote: > Has anyone done any work on building XENified images for XO? > > I'm interested in this for building a large-scale virtualized XO > environment for testing purposes. > > The other option is to run the XO image in "HVM" mode, but that limits > which p

OLPC News (2008-04-12) - Addendum

2008-04-12 Thread Kim Quirk
Additional community news that didn't make it into Walter's email: * Software Development:* Guillaume Desmottes reports that this Salut branch http://monkey.collabora.co.uk/telepathy-salut-cerebro2/ now abstracts all the Avahi code. So we could have a Cerebro backend re-implementing the needed bits

Re: Jobs (was Re: "Chilling Effects" paper at USENIX UPSEC)

2008-04-12 Thread Charles Merriam
Sorry, that was meant to be a "reply" not "reply to all". mea culpa On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Charles Merriam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Weren't you just posting bitter rantings how OLPC was all lost yesterday? > > > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Jobs (was Re: "Chilling Effects" paper at USENIX UPSEC)

2008-04-12 Thread Charles Merriam
Weren't you just posting bitter rantings how OLPC was all lost yesterday? On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:16 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...OLPC is hiring again, which means that hopefully > > soon w

OLPC News (2008-04-12)

2008-04-12 Thread Walter Bender
1. Marvin Minksy has been writing a series of essays on learning. The first three essays are available on the wiki (See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Marvin_Minsky_essays). The themes to date include "What makes Mathematics hard to learn?", "Drawbacks of Age-Based Segregation", "What's wrong with the 5

Jobs (was Re: "Chilling Effects" paper at USENIX UPSEC)

2008-04-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:16 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...OLPC is hiring again, which means that hopefully > soon we will only be underappreciated, not quite so much overworked. > We're more than doubling our devel team, hiring QA folk (finally!), > and I'm excited. If

UNICEF school in a box (was Re: networking scenarios)

2008-04-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
2008/4/11 Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Javier, > > The humble towns are most important. > > An aside : when I was last in New York (for the story jam a couple weekends > ago) I saw a UNICEF poster display of a disaster-area "school in a box" -- http://www.unicef.org/supply/index_40377.html

Re: [OLPC-Games] Wordsmith ( Scrabble ) :GSoC application

2008-04-12 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:36:14PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Aditya Vishwakarma > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am Aditya Vishwakarma. An Information Technology studen