Re: [Testing] New OLPC Process and Rules for Builing Activities, Releases, and Firmware Builds

2008-04-04 Thread C. Scott Ananian
2008/4/4 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: present it yourself via the dialin number, that would be ideal; otherwise someone else will present for you (though perhaps not as passionately) and You haven't been sitting quite close enough to my corner of the office if you still think that I won't

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-04 Thread Ryan Crawford Comeaux
Just to address a few other issues/questions raised... If there is only one antenna on a server, then as long as 3 other nodes are considered relatively stationary, I think their 2D locations can be deduced from each node's measurements of the other 4. An easy to use interface can allow the user

Re: [Testing] New OLPC Process and Rules for Builing Activities, Releases, and Firmware Builds

2008-04-04 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:04 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/4/4 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: present it yourself via the dialin number, that would be ideal; otherwise someone else will present for you (though perhaps not as passionately) and You haven't been sitting

Re: Phone-in # for mini-conference; video chat info, too.

2008-04-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:15 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phone-in info: From the United States 866-213-2185 From Outside the United States 1-609-454-9914 accesscode: 8069698 I'll try to keep this open during all the talks. We may have to mute the

Re: Connecting a non python activity to sugar

2008-04-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Paul Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bert wrote: On 31.03.2008, at 14:52, Paul Fox wrote: bert wrote: Also, try the sugarize script and library: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-January/009387.html (maybe that should be

Re: Becoming involved in XO software development?

2008-04-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Janine, Coming at your question from the user requirements side, I have one request from the deployment in Uruguay. They want to make it easier for kids to blog. And people like me want to have easier ways

Re: 24 teachers start OLPC training

2008-04-04 Thread Bryan Berry
Ed, I will have to get back to you in a couple days, have to run off to the pilot site. Bipul Gautam on our team or Edith Ackermann of the OLPC Learning Team would be the right person to give the guided tour. On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 00:15 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: I wonder whether there is

Choosing defaults for the activity ring

2008-04-04 Thread Eben Eliason
The new Home design contains a ring of a child's favorite activities. It's a shocking experience to find oneself at a home screen with no activities at all in the ring, and ensuring that some proper subset of all the activities available are shown in the ring by default will aid in discoverability

Re: [Olpc-open] Games for XOs in Nepal

2008-04-04 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Rena Brar Prayaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bryan, Here are some of the games that I used with 8-12 year olds at a GlobalThink summer camp last year. They tend to focus on global issues (ecology, peace, etc.), and may be less action oriented, but the kids

Javascript not working right on Web activity

2008-04-04 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
Hi everyone! We're having problems here in Uruguay with Web activity. Kids can't upload images to their blogs at www.blogger.com or send mails using their accounts at www.adinet.com.uy. Both sites (and plenty more) use javascript for its user interface, but last versions of Web activity won't show

Re: [Olpc-open] Games for XOs in Nepal

2008-04-04 Thread Walter Bender
there is an ongoing FoodForce project for the XO already!! Please jump in to help. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force -walter On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Rena Brar Prayaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bryan,

Re: Javascript not working right on Web activity

2008-04-04 Thread Walter Bender
what build? what version of Web? -walter 2008/4/4 Emiliano Pastorino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everyone! We're having problems here in Uruguay with Web activity. Kids can't upload images to their blogs at www.blogger.com or send mails using their accounts at www.adinet.com.uy. Both sites (and

Re: Choosing defaults for the activity ring

2008-04-04 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Eben, On 4 Apr 2008, at 17:46, Eben Eliason wrote: We'd like some feedback on which perspective is the most rational so we can implement the solution as soon as possible to prevent the empty ring phenomenon. Another slightly different option for a 'fallback' mode – for when no

New Activity Proposal -- Your voice on XO

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Escalona
Hi Everyone, I just created a page on the OLPC wiki detailing my activity proposal--Your voice on XO http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Your_Voice_on_XO. I hope to develop this activity via GSoC 2008. A brief abstract of my proposal follows. This is a proposal for the creation of a new activity for the

XO experience in the classroom - Carol Lerche's daughter

2008-04-04 Thread Carol Lerche
Hello everyone, My name is Robin Lerche, and I am a kindergarten teacher at a charter school in the South Bronx (I'm using my mom's e-mail to be able to write to this list). This is my first year as a head teacher, so I am still getting a feel for things, but as of right now, things are going

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-04 Thread John Watlington
A guiding design principle for any XO activity is that it be designed to work without a school server. Learning doesn't stop at the school gate! The only thing special about an XS (or any access point) is that we can know (absolutely) where it is. Whatever system is designed should allow

Re: New Activity Proposal -- Your voice on XO

2008-04-04 Thread Joshua Minor
This is an awesome idea. A couple of people have contacted me to ask how to add new voices to Speak. It would be great to make this process easier. Have you actually tried the existing process for adding a voice? -josh On Apr 4, 2008, at 5:58 PM, Alex Escalona wrote: Hi Everyone, I

Re: XO experience in the classroom - Carol Lerche's daughter

2008-04-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 5 Apr 2008, at 03:18, Carol Lerche wrote: They were so excited when they went to use them, they couldn't wait until they started up to start pressing all the buttons. Each group had four kids at a time, and my mom was constantly supervising them so if they had any problems, she could

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-04 Thread david
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, John Watlington wrote: A guiding design principle for any XO activity is that it be designed to work without a school server. Learning doesn't stop at the school gate! The only thing special about an XS (or any access point) is that we can know (absolutely) where it is.

Re: [Server-devel] [OLPC Networking] RSSI value questions

2008-04-04 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:18 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...I still prefer the idea of using audio... The effective acoustic range is probably similar to the line of sight for XO users. Far more interesting, in my opinion, would be locating other users in radio or network