Re: G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

2008-09-19 Thread jean piche
On 08-09-19, at 18:27, Greg Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > Thanks a lot for the input on which activities to ship! > > Here is the list of activities I will to management as my suggestion > on what we ship. > > Please help test these! See the end of the e-mail for instructions. > > The list I recom

Why we are about to not bother upkeeping TamTam.

2008-08-05 Thread jean piche
TamTamJam v50 TamTamEdit v49 TamTamSynthLab v50 TamTamMin v48 I dont know why we even bother making new bundles with bug fixes that never get included into the builds. I mean the TamTam you are using is like 8 months old... Anyone care? On 08-08-05, at 15:56, Christoph Derndorfer wro

Re: New bible reading activity

2008-03-15 Thread Jean Piche
I wish to state my profound disagreement with the inclusion of this activity on the XO. It goes counter to the essential cultural neutrality of OLPC. If countries wish to put this activity on the XO, so be it, but IMO, OLPC should not in any way be associated with this endeavour. jp O

Re: New update.1 build 697

2008-03-07 Thread Jean Piche
mmm... After a couple of flags raised and an approval from Jim from a couple of weeks ago (http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6521), the old TamTam versions are still being used in the builds. Any explanation? jp On 5-Mar-08, at 12:01 AM, Build Announcer v2 wrote: > http://pilgrim.laptop.org

Re: New update.1 build 694 (TamTam?)

2008-02-27 Thread Jean Piche
Hello, Why are old TamTam builds still being used for update.1 builds, thereby not including current .po files? uptodate versions (and in curent joyride) are: TamTamEdit = 47 TamTamMini = 46 TamTamSynthLab = 48 TamTamJam = 48 according build.log, versions in last build (694) are: TamTam

Re: Items for update.1 RC3

2008-02-14 Thread Jean Piche
New TamTam bundle will be uploaded sometime this morning. jp On 13-Feb-08, at 6:43 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 11:12 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: >> Hi, >> I have information about the releases of new packages (to pickup >> translations) for the following modules: >> >

MIDI does NOT support non-Western music (or anything else)

2008-01-23 Thread Jean Piche
Albert, The reason MIDI is a standard is because it was the first inter- synthesizer communication protocol out of the gates in 1983. It is not a good standard because MIDI was specified to convey the minimum amount of data over a bit less 32 kbps to be musically useful. Thus the restrict