OLPC Mumbai volunteers wake up

Hello, All mumbai volunteers if we could meet once and start working together it would be great .There must be a lot of work going allround but if it goes synchronised results would be far better. So i would request all volunteers from Mumbai to mail back to me in this excel sheet attached I woul

Re: [Sugar-devel] XOIRC migrated to Sugar Labs (as IRC Activity)

Mel Chua wrote: > The IRC activity (XoIRC) has been moved to the Sugar Labs > infrastructure. If Eduardo is ok with it, I'll be maintaining it here > unless someone else would like to pick it up. Awesome, thanks Mel. > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/irc > http://addons.sugarlabs.org/en-US/su

Re: [Server-devel] [xs-activity-server] Support .xol library bundles

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Generalize into a a bundle superclass and create a Content subclass for > content bundles. Thanks for the patches! Reviewed them a bit and merged. Built RPM, pushed it out to the testing repo. On an XS, yum --enable=olpcxs-testing install xs

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I would be thrilled to edit and develop educational tools - outside the bos - in exchange for an XO. S. Rivka Levy-Barbero, MSW another, BETTER  E address is:  srivkal...@comcast.net ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.

Re: XOIRC migrated to Sugar Labs (as IRC Activity)

Thanks, S Page and SJ! For the record, I was following the instructions on http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/How_to_migrate_from_OLPC, so feel free to edit that with whatever additional instructions you think are needed to take care of the "from OLPC" side. I added a link to the new templat

Re: Favorite Projects for XO Development?

support-g...@laptop.org and its archives are open to everyone who volunteers with OLPC, Sugar or Deployments. Since Community is our #1 value, we do not permit Corporate search engines. Instead, we exchange very personal info (phone numbers, photos) to build the most solid community/learning

Re: Favorite Projects for XO Development?

None of these lists are closed, AFAIK. -walter On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:06 PM, wrote: > this brings up another point, it would be really good if one or more > people who are at SCALE are able to access these closed lists, even if > only for the week/weekend. > > David Lang > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2

Re: Favorite Projects for XO Development?

this brings up another point, it would be really good if one or more people who are at SCALE are able to access these closed lists, even if only for the week/weekend. David Lang On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, support-gang-ow...@lists.laptop.org wrote: > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:03:10 -0500 > From: supp

Re: Favorite Projects for XO Development?

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Walter Bender wrote: > There is nothing ambiguous about the Sugar Labs plans: thank you for this statement, Sugar Labs has been very consistant and straightforward with their plans. it's the OLPC side of the house that has been shifting. David Lang > In Sugar, have in han

Re: Favorite Projects for XO Development?

There is nothing ambiguous about the Sugar Labs plans: In Sugar, have in hand the tools to reinvent how computers are used for education. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are readily integrated directly into the learning experience. Children and teachers have the opportunity to use compute

Re: Favorite Projects for XO Development?

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hello Friends, OLPC will have a booth this weekend (2/20-2/22) at the Southern California Area LInux Expo (SCaLE). This is a large conference (up to 1000) of open-source aficionados including programmers. It is a great chance to recruit folks for o

8.2.1 candidate-800 giving incorrect keyboard language maps?

Just wanted to post incase anyone can easily confirm/deny; but after clean flashing a Spanish language XO to 8.2.1 candidate-800, the language correctly defaults to Spanish, but the keyboard is responding only as a US-English keyboard. http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9262 Hopefully jus

[Server-devel] mkusbinstall enhancements

Martin: Can you apply and test: xo.patch from: http://members.shaw.ca/jvonau/pub/0216 Now sets the filesystem label to be XSRepo, used with the sed's line to set the ks= directive to be that of the usbdrive's label. That should fix the need to edit the bootloader's config file. I need to append

Re: XOIRC migrated to Sugar Labs (as IRC Activity)

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:12 PM, S Page wrote: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XoIRC still points to laptop.org for bundle, > source, POT. Several other migrated activities likewise have incorrect > wiki.laptop.org pages. Indeed. Please tag those at the top with {{Migrated to sl.o}} but don't blan

Re: XOIRC migrated to Sugar Labs (as IRC Activity)

Mel Chua wrote: > The IRC activity (XoIRC) has been moved to the Sugar Labs > infrastructure. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XoIRC still points to laptop.org for bundle, source, POT. Several other migrated activities likewise have incorrect wiki.laptop.org pages. You *could* follow http://wiki.l

Favorite Projects for XO Development?

Hello Friends, OLPC will have a booth this weekend (2/20-2/22) at the Southern California Area LInux Expo (SCaLE). This is a large conference (up to 1000) of open-source aficionados including programmers. It is a great chance to recruit folks for our team of volunteer developers of Activitie

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration problem again 0.5.1

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:20 AM, David Leeming wrote: > Good Martin, how many with 0.6 cater for? When is the anticipated release > date/month/quarter? With 0.6 you can separate the groups that see each other, so the "network view" on the XO doesn't get overwhelmed. Reuben wants it to work for 3

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration problem again 0.5.1

Good Martin, how many with 0.6 cater for? When is the anticipated release date/month/quarter? David > EVEN WITH MULTIPLE APs, THE LIMIT IS 60? WE HAVE THREE SCHOOLS WITH 100 > PUPILS AND TEACHERS EACH. THEY WOULD BE UNLIKLEY TO HAVE ALL 100 CONNECTED > 100% OF THE TIME. DO YOU THINK WITH MULTIPL

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84 Release Candidate 1 (0.83.5)

(Oops, I left OLPC devel off the recipients. There's a similar thread on IAEP, "How to upgrade XOs to Sugar 0.84?", http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-February/004063.html . So many mailing lists!) Simon Schampijer wrote: > Dear Sugar Community, > > This is Release Candidate 1 for

Reminder: Deployment Support Mtg @ UTC 2000; 3:00 PM Boston

Hi folks, Daniel Drake (dsd) asked me to send out an reminder to people who might be interested in asking and answering questions relevant to XO deployments. If you'd like to partake, please join us in #olpc-deployment on irc.freenode.net at UTC 2000 (3:00 PM Boston), which is in about 35 minutes

XOIRC migrated to Sugar Labs (as IRC Activity)

The IRC activity (XoIRC) has been moved to the Sugar Labs infrastructure. If Eduardo is ok with it, I'll be maintaining it here unless someone else would like to pick it up. http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/irc http://addons.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4029 Wade, as the ActivityTeam coordi

Application crashing with Bad Window error only on OLPC 767 build

Hi , I am trying to port an application to OLPC. It has a xulrunner based browser which draws into a gtk window. It runs perfectly on OLPC builds 708 and 711 , but when I try to run it on 767 build it crashes with an error in a X window system error with error code 3( Bad Window).

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

Samuel -- I'd like to call your attention again to SynPhony. We are close to a base release (probably this week) of a 44,000 word English word database that has a very rich array of information helpful to the teaching of English, especially reading. A 10,000

New joyride build 2655

http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2655 Changes in build 2655 from build: 2654 Size delta: 1.44M -elfutils-libelf 0.139-1.fc10 +elfutils-libelf 0.140-1.fc10 +libcdio 0.80-5.fc10 -libgnome 2.24.1-7.fc10 +libgnome 2.24.1-9.fc10 +gvfs 1.0.3-4.fc10 -perl 4:5.10.0-53.fc10 +per

Re: Unshare an Activity

2009/2/17 Jorge Saldivar : > Thanks all for the answers. > > All ideas are good but for blind childrens are not so convenient. For that > kind of people you have to make your life easier, that's why I automated all > the procedures to share and join the activity. When you enter in room, the > activ

Py XO/infrastructure testing results 17/02/09

We have run some medium-scale tests here in the office in paraguay in order to test the process flow (warehouse setup through distribution to children) and to test our planned activation setup for the schools. Yesterday, we: - ran the collection stick on 85 XOs - generated leases using Paraguay'

Re: Pilgrim pilgrim weary after long walk; seeking answers

Hi Ties, > We built our latest builds from packages to be found in the xs-dev > staging repo, combined with the mock.laptop.org 8.2 repo and the > koji olpc-3 repo. Except for our custom changes, we assume that the > pilgrim setup hasn't changed, except for adding the extra staging

Re: Unshare an Activity

Thanks all for the answers. All ideas are good but for blind childrens are not so convenient. For that kind of people you have to make your life easier, that's why I automated all the procedures to share and join the activity. When you enter in room, the activity call the share() method from the a

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration problem again 0.5.1

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Morgan Collett wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 13:44, Martin Langhoff > wrote: >> In other words: @all@ is a valid workaround in all the scenarios I can >> think of. > > @all@ should have the same effect in the UI as @online@, but with a > potential difference i

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration problem again 0.5.1

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 13:44, Martin Langhoff wrote: > In other words: @all@ is a valid workaround in all the scenarios I can > think of. @all@ should have the same effect in the UI as @online@, but with a potential difference in the performance: @all@ is the conventional shared roster and would

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration problem again 0.5.1

I'm re-CC'ing server-devel. On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:04 PM, David Leeming wrote: > Initial results using @all@ ... starting from scratch, deleting the ejabberd > data, recreating the account with ejabberdctl etc and deregistering and > re-regsitering XOs etc With which rpm? > Seems to have so

Re: [IAEP] What's going on with Text To Speech on the XO?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:03, Samuel Klein wrote: > Hemant, Tomeu, Assim and all, > > Has there been any progress on TTS since last summer? I'd love to see > this project move forward. Prabhas has also indicated some interest > in working on language-learning support, which is directly related.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Little bits of atomicity...

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 06:35, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Hacking on bits of Browse is taking me down the path of reading > various random bits of Sugar. And I wanted to drop a quick note... > > Modern POSIX systems give us a cheap safe atomic way of dealing with > updates to small files: write to a

Pilgrim pilgrim weary after long walk; seeking answers

Ok, let me yet again rephrase the question of what pilgrim setup OLPC is using for the current staging builds aka build 800, with the hope that a knowledgeable person will grace me with an answer, which, when positive, does not have to contain more than three letters. One is even enough, if it's th

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration problem again 0.5.1

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:08 PM, David Leeming > wrote: >> 9-0.5.1 >> ejabberd-xs-2.0.1-12.fc9.olpc.i386 > > Hmmm, the versions are correct -- I can't test this right now in a > clean environment, as I have bits and pieces of different ver

Re: Unshare an Activity

Groupthink project: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/dobject;a=summary Benjamin Schwartz wrote: > > > Personally, I've been working on writing a communications library called > Groupthink that ensures that all state is correctly replicated across all > activity instances. Any Activity tha

Re: Unshare an Activity

On 17.02.2009, at 01:06, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/2/16 Jorge Saldivar : >> Just to undestand. >> >> Once you share an activity, in sugar you do not have a way to stop >> it, >> unless stop the activity?. > > You could look at other games (e.g. connect 4) which face similar > scenarios (only us