Thank you and an update on the New Zealand XO-4 deployment

This week Barry Vercoe, Nicoletta Rata-Skudder and I had the pleasure of spending three days with the first New Zealand school to purchase XO laptops for their students. This school is also the first XO-4 touchscreen deployment (I think in the world??). I wanted to publicly thank all the people wh

Copying contents of Journal to transfer from XO-1.75 to XO-4

Hi We are swapping out a classroom of XO-1.75s to XO-4s (known as XO-Duos in Australia I think). Is there a way of taking the majority of the contents of the Journal from XO-1.75 onto USB and then putting it into the Journal of the XO-4s? I am not too concerned with getting all the data, but would

Re: [OLPC New Zealand] Auckland Testing Summary 18 May 2013

> >> paint- can’t choose font when using text boxes with trackpad or >> touchscreen maybe due to wear the menu drops down, bold and italic works >> >> > Can you explain a little more what the problem is? > > Gonzalo > > In Paint activity there is a text box tool. You use it to add text to your pict

Testing Summary - Auckland 13 October 2012

Auckland Testing Summary 13 October 2012 Who: Alana, Fabiana, John, Oliver, Tabitha and Tom Rosella: XO-1.5 One Education OS 1.2 (build au248), Firmware Q3C09 with first language Maori and second language English (Great Britain) Moon failed to start, but works if you change the language back to E

Re: [Sugar-devel] Result of test activities on Sugar 0.94.1

On 20 January 2012 00:49, Chris Leonard wrote: > > I will certainly be using the i18n / L10n information to investigate > the possibility of soliciting more PO files for the Honey project by > pestering developers about i18n. > > I hope someone has posted about this to the testing list as I suspe

Re: Potential volunteer offering technical writing

On 20 October 2011 11:21, Christoph Derndorfer < christoph.derndor...@gmail.com> wrote: > not sure what the exact time difference is between San Francisco and NZ but > maybe we could set up a Skype call between Rachel, you, and us in SF to > coordinate our documentation efforts? > > Cheers, > Chri

Re: Potential volunteer offering technical writing

On 4 October 2011 16:18, Martin Langhoff wrote: > And the FLOSS Manuals feed into the Help Activity, so work there pays > of many times over... > So how do we feed the FLOSS manual into the Help activity? Rachel is keen to help, but keen to see her work on the XO. Is the FLOSS -> help activity

Memorize - use scenario

We have been seeing lots of changes to Memorize and some things are a bit confusing. I was thinking that it might help to write some scenarios for how you might use Memorize. So here goes... In class on Monday the teacher says each student is to make a Memorize game to help learn the elements of t

Potential volunteer offering technical writing

Hi If we had a volunteer (English Native language) professional technical writer, what writing would be of most use to OLPC or Sugar that we can point her in the direction of? She currently works with developers to write end user documentation. Thanks Tabitha - NZ volunteers _

Testing Summary: 27 August 2011 - Auckland, New Zealand

Testing Summary: 27 August 2011 - Auckland, New Zealand We have two new XOs! These need names as we're currently referring to them by the unwieldy "membrane keyboard XO-1.75" and "clicky keyboard XO-1.75" which are also only unique within our group. They arrived earlier this week and we've fooled

New prototype XO-1.75s in Auckland, New Zealand

We have just today received 2 of the XO-1.75 prototype B1 without touch screen. They arrived with a serial adaptor for updating the firmware. The documentation is a bit chaotic so it's hard to work out what build and firmware should be on it. We spent the first few hours testing on an old build wit

Software Freedom Day 17 September 2011

. Anyone else doing anything? Kind regards Tabitha Roder eLearning specialist and olpc volunteer Cell +64 21 482229 tabi...@tabitha.net.nz http://tabitharoder.wordpress.com/ Winner: NZ Open Source Contributor Award 2010 ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Pulse Sensor: an Open Source Heart-rate Sensor that Rocks by Yury Gitman — Kickstarter

On 20 July 2011 15:07, Sameer Verma wrote: > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1342192419/pulse-sensor-an-open-source-heart-rate-sensor-that > > > Can't see where they publish their code so asked them on their blog. Tabitha ___ Devel mailing list De

Re: [Testing] OLPC-AU release candidate RC3 (au867)

. Kind regards Tabitha Roder Cell +64 21 482229 On 8 July 2011 11:25, Andrew van der Stock wrote: > Are you going to have a test day for this image? I'm working in Melbourne > CBD now, and although I have XO-1's, I'd be happy to help test the image if > you're goin

Re: [OLPC-AU] OLPC-AU revised release candidate

Sorry we could not test this as it wasn't available in time this morning. Tabitha On Jul 2, 2011 7:53 AM, "Jerry Vonau" wrote: > Hi all: > > Please do not use RC1, there was a typo that broke some the > customizations in the build. If you downloaded it I'm sorry for wasting > your bandwidth, ther

Re: [Sugar-devel] Suggestion about feature in "sin-dientes" activity

2011/3/9 Yader Velásquez > My problem is: How to allow only the teachers to customize the list words, > and deny this feature to the regulars students? > I use the FileChooserWidget for select a file with the new list, but is not > a good idea that a child can do it. > > I don't understand why th

Re: [IAEP] !! in 10.1.3, setting "languages" property clears all activities

Hi Tim Reposting to the olpc devel list who might be better positioned to answer your question. Good luck! Tabitha On 29 January 2011 04:36, Timothy Falconer wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm done in Haiti, about to prep 120 laptops. Normally we use our > handy-dandy prep script. One line is now giv

Re: Contents of Devel Digest, Vol 57, Issue 14

> No, but an XO-1.75 that uses half the power and therefore provides twice > the battery life is an XO that is now available to many children who don't > have the electrons to use XO-1.5 machines, or for whom a 4-hour battery life > is inadequate but an 8-hour

Re: Contents of Devel Digest, Vol 57, Issue 12

> > From: Chris Ball > Subject: XO-1.75 progress > > That's going to take several months, but > we wanted you to know that it will be coming. > > Thanks! > - Chris, on behalf of the OLPC Engineering team. > > Thanks Chris for giving us an update on XO-1.75 progress and keeping us in the loop; very

Re: [Sugar-devel] Edit/audit wikipedia activity

On 22 October 2010 05:06, Martin Langhoff wrote: > we are getting interesting news of not-quite-good content in Wikipedia > content included in the Wikipedia activities. > > Schools wiki is quite good as it has images as well as text on 5000 pages of curriculum (British) appropriate content. This

Test request time

Hello world It is late Thursday night here in NZ so it is the time of the week I start looking for what we should download Friday and test in NZ on Saturday morning. Are there any test requests from anyone out there? I am assuming we are starting with a Sugar 0.90 test of some sort... I see some

Re: [support-gang] spectacular new XO-1.5 disassembly guides

> > > Just sharing this pdf file of Dissecting an XO 1.5 created by Peter > Domanski > > who just been introduced to XO. > > I put the links on disassembly page of wiki. Tabitha ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/list

Re: [Sugar-devel] Joining the QA Teams

to getting to know you. Kind regards Tabitha Roder NZ based volunteer ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] backups

On 12/08/2010, S Page wrote: > Interesting! I think Journal backup to the school server has been a > feature since XS 0.4 and Release 8.2, see > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Blueprints:Datastore_Simple_Backup_and_Restore > , and that's what your picture shows. I assume you're referring to > the

Re: [IAEP] Recommend build for XO-1.0 deployment

James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:45:59AM +, Tabitha Roder wrote: >> On 02/08/2010, James Cameron wrote: >> > Tabitha, check to see if the deployment can use unlocked laptops; >> > and if the policy is acceptable, we can assist with use of >> > Coll

Re: [IAEP] Recommend build for XO-1.0 deployment

Can we confirm that it really will take 24 hours. There is the potential for a 4 hour round trip to deliver the collection stick data and again to check for the result. The wiki said it could take a couple of days. Thanks for the help. Hopefully access is better than we fear. -- Kind regard

Recommend build for XO-1.0 deployment

We are in Samoa helping out at two small deployments. We are installing a school server and wifi at each school. They are running 8.2.1 on XO-1 hardware (G1G1 donation). We have been running this build on our laptops and it feels like a big step down from the sugar 0.84 and bernies's 0.88 builds w

Battery LED flashing

to talk to the cell monitors over the 1 wire bus. Kind regards Tabitha Roder ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Inventing games in python

Useful website: http://inventwithpython.com/ It was recommended by Nat Torkington so worthy of sharing the link. It has links for downloading Python installer for multiple operating systems as well as the book as .pdf or web page. Tabitha ___ Devel maili

Testing summary - 12 December 2009 Wellington, NZ

Testing summary - 12 December 2009 Wellington, NZ Who: Tabitha, Alastair, Grant Updated 5 XO 1.5 machines and 4 XO 1.0 machines. On XO 1.5s the open firmware help is unhelpful. The new fs-update command for reflashing the XO is not described in the help and the old flash-nand command which no lo

Testing summary - 21 November 2009 Wellington, NZ

Testing summary - 21 November 2009 Wellington, NZ Who: Tabitha, Fabiana, Joel, Grant, Tim, Brenda, Callum, David SOAS-1 had no wireless driver for HP, Ticket #1570 SOAS-1 was able to connect to wireless access point on Dell XPS M1530 - but cant see other XOs even using jabber.sugarlabs.org see

Re: Sugar on the Asus Eee 701

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 08:36 +, Peter Robinson wrote: > You could use the current Fedora 11 Gnome LiveCD to install that and > sugar is only around 20-30 meg on top of the standard gnome desktop > and it will give you the same version of sugar but you'll probably get > better hardware support fo

Sugar on the Asus Eee 701

Copy of my blog post on the experience of installing Sugar on Asus Eee 701 Sugar on the Eee I wanted to put Sugar on an Asus Eee 701 for my niece. Thanks to Trademe I could pick one up at a reasonable price. For those that know me well, yes I had

Re: [Testing] first play with new XO 1.5 machines

No mesh: Just checking this scenario I am a teacher and have just been handed 5 XOs for my students. I am told you can have a child start writing a story and then have the other children join in to write together. How does the teacher do this - in less than 100 words and not one word technical

Re: [Testing] first play with new XO 1.5 machines

2009/10/21 Mitch Bradley : > /boot/olpc_version usually contains the right number. > no such file or directory ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: first play with new XO 1.5 machines

Hi Paul >  > > many keys only work intermittently on some of these XOs. particularly >  > > - frame key and the key next to it, search key, function key, hand >  > > keys, divide/multiply key. > > is this reproducible in the OFW diagnostics?   ("test /keyboard") > we did diagnostics check, they i

Re: [Testing] first play with new XO 1.5 machines

Thanks Ed, putting things in trac now we are "testing" with these XO 1.5 machines ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: first play with new XO 1.5 machines

Thanks James > Boot animation corruption I also observed on os30, but not on os32.  You > didn't mention which build you were using. > OLPC release 11 Leonidas Sugar 0.84.2 Firmware Q3A11 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.

Continuation of testing XO 1.5 machine

tested install activity from browse - installed geoquiz-4 successfully from wiki.laptop and started game successfully tried installing foodforce2-beta.xo from code.google.com - failed, gave file in journal but not activity can download foodforce2-1.xo from activities.sugarlabs.org and does succesf

first play with new XO 1.5 machines

Testing 5 of the new XO 1.5 machines - our first experiences... hardware seems more responsive great touch pad - can feel edges and has tap click on touch pad so you dont have to push the button, we like it video card issues with on screen animations - e.g. frame gives flickers on boot the disp

Fwd: olpc-nz Digest, Vol 9, Issue 4

Forwarding message: Message: 1 Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:03:50 +1200 From: Vik Olliver Subject: [olpc-nz] OLPC Drives RepRap now To: olpc...@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: <4aa6c6b6.6050...@catalyst.net.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 At long last I have code to drive a RepRap usi

Fwd: Testing summary - 22 August 2009 Wellington, NZ

Barcamp will be there. Opportunity to involve them (and drink free coffee). Thanks for coming team! Kind regards Tabitha Roder eLearning Consultant HRDNZ (Moodle Partner) tabi...@hrdnz.com www.hrdnz.com Cell +64 21 482229 ___ Devel mailing list Devel

Testing summary - 18 July 2009 Wellington, NZ

Testing summary - 18 July 2009, Wellington, NZ Who: Tim, Tabitha, Grant, Uli, Stella, Leah, Becs, Brenda, Callum, Dave, Sigi Putting dev keys in the last XOs to be updated. Updating builds from 767 to 802 on all XOs Trying soas-strawberry in virtual machines on other laptops. tested out chat w

Testing summary - Saturday 4 April 2009

regards Tabitha Roder eLearning Consultant HRDNZ (Moodle Partner) tabi...@hrdnz.com www.hrdnz.com Cell +64 21 482229 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Testing Summary - Saturday 28 March 2009

XOlympics-1 seems to work without any problems, but doen't seem to do much. Cellgame-1 works well, but couldn't figure out the rules. Looked at Map-2, but doesn't seem to do anything without a connection to map server. Kind regards Tabitha Roder eLearning Consultant HRDNZ (Moodl

Wellington OLPC/Sugar volunteers group - meeting this Saturday 10.30am, Southern Cross

, so testing could end with a bit of sight seeing in Cuba St! See you there! Tabitha Roder (64)21482229 Support OLPC G1G1 - laptop.org/xo ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

OLPC volunteers this Saturday Wellington - Upgrading

Hi Join us in welcoming back Martin Langhoff this Saturday after his XS work in Boston. The community is ready for testing 8.2.1 staging 25 so we can upgrade the XOs this weekend. Usual: 10.30am at The Cross, 35 Abel Smith St. Kind regards Tabitha Roder (64)21482229 Support OLPC G1G1

Testing summary - 31 January 2009

n't appear on Mac iChat window unless you close it First), instead just got errors every time attempted to send messages from iChat to XO. Will do further debugging at home with packet sniffer. Thanks everyone! Kind regards Tabitha Roder (64)21482229 Support OLPC G1G1

Wellington OLPC/Sugar volunteer group - meeting this Saturday 10.30am, Southern Cross

venue and refreshments, thanks Computer Clubhouse for paying for Walters flights) about Sugarlabs and has helped us to see different places Sugar can be used around NZ and the Pacific region. So usual story: 10.30am kick off at The Cross, 35 Abel Smith Street, see you there! Kind regards Tabitha

Testing summary - 17 January 2009

l apart and put back together five XOs today. Great learning for us so we can refurbish and replace bits. Great for non hardware people in the group to fill in some gaps in our knowledge. We were all happy when we put them back together with no left over screws! Another successful day. Kind regard

OLPC volunteers this Saturday Wellington - How to pull apart and rebuild your XO

Look forward to seeing you on Saturday. Kind regards Tabitha Roder (64)21482229 Support OLPC G1G1 - laptop.org/xo ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

OLPC and Catalyst invitation to meet Walter Bender - sugarlabs founder

ry by emailing Looking forward to seeing you there. Tabitha Roder (64)21482229 Support OLPC G1G1 - laptop.org/xo ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Testing summary - 10 January 2009

nteers are doing, subscribe to olpc...@lists.laptop.org by going to http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz Have a fantastic week! Kind regards Tabitha Roder (64)21482229 Support OLPC G1G1 - laptop.org/xo ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Subscribe to the OLPC NZ testing distribution list

weekend. Kind regards Tabitha Roder (64)21482229 Support OLPC G1G1 - laptop.org/xo ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

OLPC testers getting together this Saturday

forward to seeing you on Saturday. Happy new year. -- Kind regards Tabitha Roder (64)21482229 Support OLPC G1G1 - laptop.org/xo ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Last XO test day of the year

t the conference too. Andrew McMillan is attending so those who can't make I suggest you gleen insights from Andrew on his return. See you at the Cross 10.30am (ish). If you can't make it, have a great holiday break and see you 12 January. Kind regards Tabitha Roder (64)21482229 Su

Re: Wellington test team vs Activities - 2008-09-13

Tabitha's notes: XO Build 8.2-759 Mini vMac-1 - ctrl F for full screen is great! played with excalibur, note pad, calculator, puzzle, all good, but it is hard to shut down Mini vMac - seems you have to "stop" in the frame? Bridge-1 good Stopwatch-1 good Poll-17 - create own poll good, voted goo