Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?
Am 28.02.2011 22:59, schrieb John Watlington: On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: I'm still absolutely clueless about the total figures but what I do know is that Argentina's Conectar Igualdad program (http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/) will distribute 3 million Classmate PCs in part of its public secondary school system by the end of 2012. By late December approximately half a million of them had supposedly been distributed. According to the web site at the URL provided above, none have been delivered to children as of Feb. 28. When I was in Buenos Aires in mid-December for a 3-day workshop organized by the Argentinian MoE I also met my former Argentinian host brother and his cousin who had received their Classmate PCs in late November. So I know that at least two of them have actually been distributed (and no, this time not based on dubious information from Kigali;-) We continue to hear that Classmates are being deployed, but nobody can provide concrete information about where and how many. I'll get in touch with some people in Buenos Aires to try and figure out what the current figure there is. Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?
Am 01.03.2011 13:36, schrieb Christoph Derndorfer: Am 28.02.2011 22:59, schrieb John Watlington: On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: I'm still absolutely clueless about the total figures but what I do know is that Argentina's Conectar Igualdad program (http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/) will distribute 3 million Classmate PCs in part of its public secondary school system by the end of 2012. By late December approximately half a million of them had supposedly been distributed. According to the web site at the URL provided above, none have been delivered to children as of Feb. 28. When I was in Buenos Aires in mid-December for a 3-day workshop organized by the Argentinian MoE I also met my former Argentinian host brother and his cousin who had received their Classmate PCs in late November. So I know that at least two of them have actually been distributed (and no, this time not based on dubious information from Kigali;-) We continue to hear that Classmates are being deployed, but nobody can provide concrete information about where and how many. I'll get in touch with some people in Buenos Aires to try and figure out what the current figure there is. Okay, just found http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/sobre-el-programa/evaluacion-y-seguimiento/informe-de-avance-de-entregas/ which supposedly provides the number of distributed netbooks and is updated on a weekly basis. The count as of today is 358,227. And that half a million figure I had mentioned earlier in the thread is the goal of the first distribution phase not the number handed out by December. Mea culpa! :-/ Christoph -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Questions Re: Skype on XO
Hi Folks... Back with more techie questions. What can you tell me about Skype running on the XO? I would especially like to hear from folks who have recently done successful 2-way video chats themselves. I have read the instructions, and need to try but want to know the answers to a few questions first. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Skype I need to be able to do a 2-way video chat. I would like to know... 1) How much memory does Skype take up? 2) Do the instructions on the wiki at apply to 860? 3) What is the difference in performance between the XO-1 and the XO-1.5? 4) What is the reason for the difference, memory or speed or both? 5) Will I need to delete Activities before installing Skype? 6) Does it run just in Terminal in Sugar, or is there a way to use it in Gnome? 7) Can it run a video chat along with the text chat window for sending links etc? 8 Do I have to have a PC to set it up? I am a Mac person. 9) Can it run a video chat along with the text chat window for sending links etc? 10) What is gstfakevideo? Do I need it? Do I want it? 11) What other things should I know before installing an trying this? Thanks Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Questions Re: Skype on XO
I'm not sure this is an apt question for IAEP. On 03/01/2011 09:24 PM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: I need to be able to do a 2-way video chat. I would like to know... 1) How much memory does Skype take up? Disk space: the RPM page is 18.7MiB, so I'd imagine it takes up a little bit more than that on disk. RAM: depends. 2) Do the instructions on the wiki at apply to 860? I have not tested them, but they look like they should work. 3) What is the difference in performance between the XO-1 and the XO-1.5? 4) What is the reason for the difference, memory or speed or both? Probably proportional to the processors of each. Memory would only matter if Skype tried to use more than available. 5) Will I need to delete Activities before installing Skype? You need to have sufficient disk space. 6) Does it run just in Terminal in Sugar, or is there a way to use it in Gnome? It should be accessible from the Applications menu. 7) Can it run a video chat along with the text chat window for sending links etc? That's consistent with my experience of Skype on Linux, I'd imagine it would work similarly on the XO. 8 Do I have to have a PC to set it up? I am a Mac person. The instructions provided are run on your XO. 10) What is gstfakevideo? Do I need it? Do I want it? Hah, it has been ages since I wrote the video instructions. Those are *definitely* out of date, and I would be very surprised if they worked. -- \___/ |___| Luke Faraone, Web Infrastructure Intern \___\ One Laptop Per Child - http://laptop.org/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Tests of applications on booted Trisquel 4.1 sugar installed to a 8Gb USB (2nd version 02/18/2011)
Thomas C Gilliard wrote: Bernie Innocenti wrote: On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 15:16 -0500, Sean DALY wrote: Hi Bernie we are working on getting a French variant of Tom's image working for a charitable foundation project I am personally convinced VMs are the way forward for solving our ease-of-installation teacher demo problem, but not everyone is (cf last marketing meeting [1]). Oracle (ex-Sun) VirtualBox has perfect licensing for us - we can distribute installers for nonprofit educational uses, which means a single Zip file with VirtualBox installer, image, parameter file, and instructions PDF Sean; Here is a first cut at such a installer; http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/SugarVB_InstallDemo.iso This is a test DVD (1.2GB) which contains: 32bit-VirtualBox Installers (Directory with Install files for VirtualBox 4.0.4) Instructions.pdf (Instructions-How to install and import Appliance) trisquel-sugar-4.1-i686-feb18.ovf trisquel-sugar-4.1-i686-feb18-disk1.vmdk UserManual.pdf (VirtualBox 4.0.4 User Manual-269 pages) It is uploading now and will be available in about 3 hrs. Tom Gilliard satellit Updated: Trisquel-4.1-sugar-VB4_Installer.iso http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/tris-sugar-4.1-VB4_Installer.iso 32bit-VirtualBox Installers (OSE) (Directory with install files for VirtualBox 4.0.4) (Does not include Free for Personal Use licensed extension pack) - includes instructions on how to download for personal use. ReadMeFirst_Install_Instructions.pdf (Instructions-how to install VirtualBox and import appliance) trisquel-sugar-4.1-i686-feb18.ovf trisquel-sugar-4.1-i686-feb18-disk1.vmdk UserManual.pdf (VirtualBox 4.0.4 User Manual-269 pages) listed here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Creation_Kit#Trisquel-4.1-sugar-VB4_Installer.iso Tom Gilliard satellit_ This also means we can prepare versions already set up with es/fr/it/de languages/keyboards too, but that implies some organisation of course Priority right now is getting website revamp underway, then Uruguay Garmin-Cervelo race sponsorship, then product marketing later when we've had more time for QA and determine next steps for SoaS +1 on the above plan! Let me know if there's anything I can do to help on the infrastructure side. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?
On Mar 1, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: Am 01.03.2011 13:36, schrieb Christoph Derndorfer: Am 28.02.2011 22:59, schrieb John Watlington: On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: I'm still absolutely clueless about the total figures but what I do know is that Argentina's Conectar Igualdad program (http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/) will distribute 3 million Classmate PCs in part of its public secondary school system by the end of 2012. By late December approximately half a million of them had supposedly been distributed. According to the web site at the URL provided above, none have been delivered to children as of Feb. 28. When I was in Buenos Aires in mid-December for a 3-day workshop organized by the Argentinian MoE I also met my former Argentinian host brother and his cousin who had received their Classmate PCs in late November. So I know that at least two of them have actually been distributed (and no, this time not based on dubious information from Kigali;-) We continue to hear that Classmates are being deployed, but nobody can provide concrete information about where and how many. I'll get in touch with some people in Buenos Aires to try and figure out what the current figure there is. Okay, just found http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/sobre-el-programa/evaluacion-y-seguimiento/informe-de-avance-de-entregas/ which supposedly provides the number of distributed netbooks and is updated on a weekly basis. The count as of today is 358,227. Impressive number. What software are they running ? Cheers, wad ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Photos from SCaLE 9X
Hi All... See what you missed (or see yourself) at SCaLE 9X. I just posted a few photos we took there this past weekend. They are tagged with names and info. Enjoy! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?fbid=1583659477396id=1413015665aid=2073867 The album is marked for public viewing so you don't have to be a facebook member to view them. Caryl ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Photos from SCaLE 9X
Very nice.Congrats. So the infamous head antennas is just a pair of sunglasses!!! :-D I guess indoors UV is more dangerous than RF :-D --- On Wed, 3/2/11, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: [support-gang] Photos from SCaLE 9X To: OLPC SoCal olpc-so...@laptop.org, IAEP SugarLabs iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, support-g...@laptop.org Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011, 1:58 AM Hi All... See what you missed (or see yourself) at SCaLE 9X. I just posted a few photos we took there this past weekend. They are tagged with names and info. Enjoy! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?fbid=1583659477396id=1413015665aid=2073867 The album is marked for public viewing so you don't have to be a facebook member to view them. Caryl -Inline Attachment Follows- ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
