Re: Lennon video and other vids
Sebastien - I think we may need another way to navigate (a set of numbers in addition to ) now that the group's broken 400 videos... ok, we have to think about easy ways to navigate through list of videos (by user might also be interesting). Sebastien On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote: If you still want the originals for download, you can find some at media.laptop.org, but that machine isn't designed to take much traffic. http://media.laptop.org/zimi/ http://media.laptop.org/brandvideos/ You can also see other videos uploaded to the olpc group at DM, which are automatically converted and moved there (once they are approved for group inclusion), so if you already have a vid you want others to be able to see on their XO, make a DM account and post it to http://www.dailymotion.com/olpc where it will join http://olpc.dailymotion.com/video/x7gne6_give-one-get-one-2007-thank-you_school http://olpc.dailymotion.com/video/x7f7jj_one-laptop-per-child-zimis-story-fu_school http://olpc.dailymotion.com/video/x7o505_skills-the-right-to-education_lifestyle http://olpc.dailymotion.com/video/x7ft2t_olpc-mission-video-part-1_tech http://olpc.dailymotion.com/video/x7ft5g_olpc-mission-video-part-2_tech along with a large collection of Plonsters claymations, a /huge/ collection of Cullen Wood kids' videos, and more. Sebastien - I think we may need another way to navigate (a set of numbers in addition to ) now that the group's broken 400 videos... SJ On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote: That is a fine point, Mikus. We are working with dailymotion to provide an archive of all olpc videos formatted cleanly for the XO. http://www.dailymotion.com/factory/olpc http://olpc.dailymotion.com/ for the time being, you can just write to web-t...@lists.laptop.org if there's a video you want to see that isn't up there. the message from Lennon already is. SJ On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote: There are those of us who have difficulty watching YouTube on our XOs. Is there somewhere to download this video with wget ? mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Write Plug in posts to Blogs (was Re: Greg Smith Weekly Report Week Ending November 14 )
Hi Greg and Zeke, I would be glad to help to see if there are ways to integrate videos in your blog posts, as I'm the developer of olpc.dailymotion.com, where all the videos are ogg, Theora + Vorbis encoded. Thanks. Sebastien On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Zeke, That's great! I think a lot of people will use it, if we can test it and make it available to XO users. As you may know we debated whether to implement the EduBlog tool (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Educational_Blogger_Project) as part of Write or as a server side implementation. I pushed for server side (as opposed to Sugar or Write) because it was faster to market and I didn't see a good answer for the Teacher - Student interaction requirements without it. Just FYI on the history. In short, many people would love to see Blogging directly from Write as an activity on the XO. Have you been able to make your customized Write w/blogging in to a .XO file? If so, post that somewhere (our wiki is OK) and I'll ask people to try it out ASAP. If you need help making a .XO file, let us know and we'll get you support on that. Also, you should synch up with the Write maintainers (Marc and Martin copied). Write is a derivative of AbiWord. If they can review the code and they like the idea, this could become part of the official AbiWord. They are about to release a new AbiWord so it may be too late for this round but get the details to the lead guys and we can go from there. I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any questions or need any more info, help or collaborators. Optionally, I'm interested to hear more about your experience with the XO or any more info you have on yourself, your skills and your work. One Blog per Child! 500K kids writing Blogs / 1K developers reading blogs and writing code with those kids = one turbo charged project :-) Thanks, Greg S *** From: meticulo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Greg Smith Weekly Report Week Ending November 14 To: devel@lists.laptop.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello my name is Zeke Dean, I have been developing a bloging client for the past couple of months for the olpc based on the write activity. It is a solid bloging client that supports many different blogs and I believe it has a decent user interface. I would like to discuss if we can work together as we are both trying to promote the benefits of bloging for educational purposes. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Yay!, Bee, See (ABC) software
In a same spirit, a friend of mine created jLearn: http://domosays.net/jlearn/. JLearn (JQuery learn) is a simple program that allows you to learn anything (if a quizz has been written of course!). From japanese alphabet to maths, passing by world capitals, anything can be learnt. JLearn interface is pretty simple: one box showing you the question, and one box to enter the answer. If you don't know the answer, just press the [space key] and it will be shown. Quizzes are submitted by the community, you can find some here or even write your own! He won a contest with OLPC France. Sebastien On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben, This is brilliant! Definitely brightened my day. I just converted it to an xol bundle which you can try downloading... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Yay-Bee-See-2.xol You should create a page about it (and tell this story!) on our wiki... http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Yay-bee-see (page not created yet :) --SJ On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Ben Wiley Sittler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have just joined this list and read through the archives, but could not find anything similar. I also didn't find mention of anything similar on the OLPC Wiki. I recently wrote some software for use by my daughter on her OLPC. It runs inside the Browse activity, either locally using a file: URI or over the network. I don't know whether it will be of interest to anyone else, but I have released the software to the public domain and packaged it along with scaled-down (1600x1200 or less) copies of some public-domain images and some copyrighted-but-free-to-redistribute images under GFDL, and various Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike, Attribution, and Share Alike licenses. Individual attribution for each image is included in the application source code. overview: I wrote some software using DHTML (JavaScript, HTML and CSS.) It's to help learn letters and numbers, and is intended to be used with adult supervision and involvement. It is fairly easy to customize it to use different images and support different alphabets simply by editing the contents of the style element in the HTML file. The software is very, very, very simple — it just echoes typed letters and numbers in a large, colorful font and shows a somewhat-relevant background image for each one. The images are various freely-usable ones I found on Wikipedia or in the Wikimedia Commons. View source code for full copyright information for the associated images. online version of the Yay!, Bee, See application: http://xent.com/~bsittler/yay-bee-see.htmlhttp://xent.com/%7Ebsittler/yay-bee-see.html an archive of the application (ZIP, ~15 MiB) including all images: http://xent.com/~bsittler/yay-bee-see.ziphttp://xent.com/%7Ebsittler/yay-bee-see.zip blog post about it: http://bsittler.livejournal.com/15244.html background: My daughter (who turns two this week) has been enjoying her OLPC from last year's G1G1 program much more than I expected she would (originally I intended to wait until she was older and literate to introduce her to the OLPC, but she seemed to treat it as a favorite toy starting around the age of 18 months.) She likes the Record activity (she calls it Waving hand and uses it like a mirror-image mirror,) Skype (not bundled, but she uses it to talk to and see far-away family,) and listening to music (theclassicalstation.org). She also likes pressing buttons, rotating the ears and screen, and opening and closing the laptop. However, she seems somewhat frustrated by not being able to do things on it for herself (or as she puts it, do it self!,) so I thought I might write a small program where her keypresses give some feedback, and help reinforce her interest in the digits and letters of the alphabet (she loves being read to and recognizes many letters and digits, but does not seem to understand reading yet.) -Ben ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Gnash/Flash video support - Philippine CyberEd program
Hi Carlos, For delivering video on the web, you can also create an account on http://www.dailymotion.com, a video sharing web site available in many languages, upload your videos, add them to the group OLPC and they will become available in .ogg, Theora + Vorbis, for the XO. You can already watch videos on http://olpc.dailymotion.com, using the default embedded video player Totem in the browser. If you're using the release 8.2-767, you will even be able to watch them in full screen, which is great! We are looking for educational videos for the kids, so if you need more information, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks. Sebastien On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Carlos Nazareno [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi guys. Can we try to get a little more support for Gnash + sound on the OLPC for the purpose of Flash Video? Flash video is now the de-facto platform for delivering video on the web, and the following piece of news from the Philippines might be of interest. It's about the Philippine Cyber Education program, and it also aims to deliver a lot of video lecture content to public schools via web. (UPDATE) Arroyo: CyberEd project to push through http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=93359 By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez INQUIRER.net First Posted 11:28am (Mla time) 10/09/2007 MANILA, Philippines -- Despite heavy criticism, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Tuesday that the government would push through with the $460-million Cyber Education project and was planning to tap the academe to ensure the project would suit the needs of the students. In her opening statement at the Cabinet meeting of the National Security Council and the National Economic Development Authority, Arroyo stressed that investments and infrastructure projects should not be hindered by controversies. Hindi dapat mahinto ang imprastraktura at investment dahil sa mga batikos [Infrastructure and investment should not stop because of criticisms], she said. On September 22, Arroyo suspended the implementation of the Cyber Education and the $329-million National Broadband Network projects, blaming the political noise for her decision. Last week, Trade Secretary Peter Favila said the broadband project with China's ZTE Corporation would no longer be implemented, but that the rest of the projects signed in China in April, including the Cyber Education project, were merely suspended. Asked to clarify if the President's statement's meant that she has lifted the suspension on the project, Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said Arroyo has given the go-signal for the review of the project. The review of the project could eventually lead to the project's implementation, Bunye added. Arroyo said she has ordered the China Projects Oversight Panel under Favila to ensure that the very important project of Cyber Education would push through for the benefit of the millions of students. Kokonsultahin nila rito ang Education Task Force sa ilalim ni Father Ben Nebres ng Ateneo, upang matiyak na sa alinsunod sa pangangailangan ng edukasyon ang proyekto [They will consult the Education Task Force under Father Ben Nebres of the Ateneo to ensure that the project will meet the students' needs], she said. Arroyo also tapped the Procurement Transparency Group together with the Civil Society for Procurement Reform to see to it that the processes in completing the project would be open and transparent. The Cyber Education project, to be undertaken in cooperation with a Chinese firm, aims to bridge the learning gap between urban and rural schools by using satellite technology to beam televised lectures to students and teachers in far-flung areas. The satellite-based distance learning program is capable of broadcasting lectures by the best teachers from DepEd model schools to other public schools nationwide. The program, which targets a total of 37,794 public schools in the next three years with an annual coverage of 13.6 million students, is the best thing to happen to Philippine education, according to Education Secretary Jesli Lapus. Originally posted at 11:29am -- Carlos Nazareno http://www.object404.com interactive media specialist zen graffiti studios [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [100%OT] Graphical challenge for the week-end
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Please someone... emulate this within Sugar! http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf That'd be the best ad campaign for the next G1G1! I agree and similar animations exist: http://www.nortellearnit.org/One_Laptop_Per_Child/OLPC_Networking_Tutorials/ . Enjoy, -- Bastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Fwd: Re: #7116 NORM Never A: Possible European G1G1 program needs appropriate keyboards]
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:07 PM, James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:28:34AM +0200, Sebastien Adgnot wrote: Do you have an idea of the minimum quantity required so the manufacturer could build laptops with localized keyboards? I'm sure they would. It wouldn't be a minimum quantity per se, it would be a set of quantities and how much they would cost in tooling, production, separate shipping, and integration. Then OLPC would have to choose which is economically sensible, including how long it would take. Kim's statement was simplifying the realities of production costing, and advising that it is already judged too expensive for a G1G1. I take it that the incremental cost of localised keyboard would increase the cost per unit to the point where it would not generate sufficient units sold by the G1G1, or the delay would be so considerable as to make the plan void. I understand. But something to keep in mind is 200$ is a little bit less than 130 euros which stay a very good price in Europe for a laptop. I was asking that question, just in case somebody in France would ask the same one. Because without an AZERTY keyboard, it will be hard to defend the project here. We are not the kings of cultural exception for nothing (that might be directly translated from french, sorry)! If a review of the decision is needed, better to focus instead on new information that can be integrated into the review ... such as whether a non-localised keyboard would be usable, and what quantity you think you will need. Maybe you already mentioned that though. I'm focusing on one reply out of many. I have no idea of the quantity we would need. I really understand the complexity of producing, maintaining, etc. multi-layout keyboards or any other parts of the laptop. p.s. I'm a volunteer, not an employee. -- James Cameronmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://quozl.netrek.org/ Thanks Sebastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Fwd: Re: #7116 NORM Never A: Possible European G1G1 program needs appropriate keyboards]
We have to forecast the parts many months ahead of when they can be built and shipped; and our manufacturer cannot build small quantities of anything Do you have an idea of the minimum quantity required so the manufacturer could build laptops with localized keyboards? Thanks Sebastien 2008/6/9 Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Holger, We are hoping that the company we partner with for the G1G1 program will bring some knowledge to us about what is needed for each country where we want to ship. We will start with that information and then figure out the things that aren't understood. For instance, for products shipping from the US to Germany, I'm sure there are some mandatory certifications required (the equivalent of UL or CE). Perhaps the certifications are for all of the EU countries. Also, some countries may require a minimum warranty or returns policy. There might be different rules for a non-profit company. As for keyboards, we will only be able to ship one keyboard - US/International. We have to forecast the parts many months ahead of when they can be built and shipped; and our manufacturer cannot build small quantities of anything. So we will have all the keyboards go out US/International; and the choice of power adapter will probably have to be limited as well to US or EU. Thanks, Kim On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kim, On Tuesday 03 June 2008 21:48, Kim Quirk wrote: Agreed, Ed. The legalities of each country need to be determined and met before we can include that country in a Give One Get One program. Some of the things we need to understand are: Certifications, language/keyboard requirements, messaging, non-profit status, shipping, customs, support and warranties. I believe these issues (and perhaps more) will be different for almost every country. What can we, as OLPC Germany association, do to help you to understand the legal situation (and anything else) in Germany? Also, what can we do, to make a german keyboard reality? We have keyboard layouts available on http://wiki.olpc-deutschland.de/organisation/beirat/hardware regards, Holger ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
browser activity + Totem plugin
Hi, I have a few questions about the browser activity first and then the Totem plugin. Would it be possible to add something like XO or OLPC in the user agent of the browser so the web server can recognize the browser and redirect the user to a different version of the web site, maybe more adapted to the XO? I have an XO laptop with the build 656. I got some problems with the Totem plugin when I've developed and watched videos online ( http://olpc.dailymotion.com). Do I report them on the OLPC trac web site or directly to the main developer of Totem? Here is the list of problems or questions: - I know that it's possible to control or set options to the player through javascript methods. However, I was able to stop the video but not to play it again. And others methods were not working (like hiding the progress bar because it doesn't work). - When I reload 2 or 3 times the web page with a video in it, the video player doesn't appear and it's not possible to watch a video anymore. - After a few minutes, (almost) all videos stop playing and get stuck. It seems the laptop is trying to get more data but nothing happen. - I saw that external subtitles are handled by Totem. Do you think it would be possible to do something like http://www.mywebsite.com/file.ogg#subtitle:http://www.mywebsite.com/subtitles/file.srtwith the plugin? Thanks for your help. Sebastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Dailymotion videos on the XO laptop
Hi all, I sent an email a few months ago to introduce you to Dailymotion and express our interest in making our videos available on the XO laptop as part of the OLPC effort. Through the efforts of the Dailymotion team, we have made great progress since my last email. I learned from the people on this mailing-list that the only / best way to display videos is with the patent-free ogg video container with Theora+Vorbis codecs. Today we are excited to present to you a web site as a proof of concept that we developed to show how we can best handle this format: http://olpc.dailymotion.com. It represents a very limited selection of videos just to test them encoded in ogg. In addition, the design of the web site represents an easy way to present the videos and might be not the final product. We at Dailymotion remain extremely excited about the OLPC project and the possibility of developing a long term partnership with the OLPC Foundation. I saw in a previous email that we should try contacting [EMAIL PROTECTED] - which is handled by Darah for partnerships, right? Thanks for your help Sebastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Fwd: Dailymotion for XO laptop
Hi all, Thanks a lot for your help and comments. However it seems quite difficult for us to encode our videos in Theora+Vorbis right now. I'm gonna talk to different people in the company to get their opinion and see what we can do. In the meantime, I've heard of the Helix Media Player http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_(project) for the OLPC project? It won't be of any help? Thanks again Sebastien Adgnot On Jan 9, 2008 5:25 PM, Bill Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jake Beard ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) said: Hopefully, later this year we'll see a completely open Java, and then see Java on the XO. Flash is terrible. If it were possible, I'd prefer to see an all-Java solution. That being said, in my experience both with closed and open Java implementations, I wouldn't expect a huge speed improvement on the OLPC from switching from Flash to Java. Bill ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Fwd: Dailymotion for XO laptop
Thanks for offering help. However, I was thinking more about ressources (time, people, storage, encoding, priorities, etc.). Anyway, I'm going to report what everybody wrote and see if we can make it soon ... or later. Thanks Sebastien On Jan 9, 2008 10:32 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 22:19 +0100, Sebastien Adgnot wrote: Hi all, Thanks a lot for your help and comments. However it seems quite difficult for us to encode our videos in Theora+Vorbis right now. I'm gonna talk to different people in the company to get their opinion and see what we can do. If your difficulty is technical, then there are dozens of multimedia and web software experts here who would love to step in and help you (at no charge). In the meantime, I've heard of the Helix Media Player http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_(project) for the OLPC project? It won't be of any help? The Helix Player is no longer included in the OLPC distribution, though it is available as an optional download. Helix Player only provides Theora video. The user can manually download additional binary-only codecs, but this is not supported by OLPC. This is no easier than having users manually install Adobe's binary Flash plugin, which OLPC also cannot distribute. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
