On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > == Sugar Digest == > > 1. Daniel Drake has announced the second release candidate of the new OLPC > software release [0], which incorporates the latest Sugar bits. You can > download 'signed' images for testing from: [1-3]. The final release is > scheduled for 1 November. > > 2. OLPC OZ runs a discussion website on yammer.com for teachers working with > XOs in Australia. It is a nice source of feedback about Sugar and 1-to-1 > laptop deployments in general. Recently, there was a posting that referenced > an OLPC News article about a lemon-battery project [4] by Sameer Verma. > There was also a tip of the hat to Guzman Trindad, a teacher in Uruguay, who > built a pulse meter [5]. I am not sure how OLPC News missed all of the other > great work that Guzman has been doing [6] with Turtle Art and sensors [7] > and also the work of Tony Forster [8], who blogs [9] regularly about various > ways to engage children with simple sensor. His most recent posting is about > using the accelerometer on the XO 1.75 as a seismograph. Check it out. > > 3. While Guzman and Tony have been using the built-in sensors and simple > sensors plugged into the microphone port of the XO laptop, the Butia team in > Uruguay has been augmenting the XO with an Arduino board. The latest video > of their work is on YouTube [10]. Be sure to watch past the 'Schwarzenegger' > robot to see the XO robot programmed in Turtle Art. > > 4. A few weeks ago, Team Sugarlabs participated in the Boston Hub on Wheels > bicycle tour (See Team Sugarlabs [11]). Dogi road with an XO attached to his > handlebars, but he wasn't running the Turtle Art odometer program. > > 5. We've passed six-million downloads on ASLO [12]. > > === In the community === > > 6. The SF Summit [13] is this coming weekend, 21-23 October. > > 7. The Prague Sugar Camp (Gtk3 Hackfest 2011 [14]) is next weekend, 28-30 > October. > > 8. Reminder: As a community member, it is important that your voice be > heard. One mechanism is for you to participate in our upcoming election: We > will be holding an election for three Sugar Labs oversight board (SLOB) > positions at the end of next month. If you are not already a ''member'' [15] > of Sugar Labs, please send your name and an explanation of your contribution > to Sugar Labs in an email to '''members at sugarlabs dot org'''. If you are > a member, please consider being a candidate [16] for one of the SLOB > positions. > > === Tech Talk === > > 9. Rob Savoye has managed to build Gnash for ARM. He has made RPMs for the > XO 1.75 machine. To install his RPMs, add this .repo file to your XO:
We do actually already have gnash on ARM, it ships with the signed release above :-) Peter _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel