New faster build 1807

2008-03-26 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1807 Changes in build 1807 from build: 1806 Size delta: -2.23M -olpc-library-core 1-23 +olpc-library-core 1-26 -kbd 1.12-24.olpc2 +kbd 1.12-25.olpc2 -olpc-library-common 1-23 +olpc-library-common 1-24 --- Changes for olpc-library-core 1-

New joyride build 1807

2008-03-26 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1807 Changes in build 1807 from build: 1806 Size delta: -2.36M -olpc-library-core 1-23 +olpc-library-core 1-26 -kbd 1.12-24.olpc2 +kbd 1.12-25.olpc2 -olpc-library-common 1-23 +olpc-library-common 1-24 --- Changes for olpc-library-core 1

Re: Monday's Testing

2008-03-26 Thread John Watlington
Some context, for the larger community: I've been using our new testbed http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collaboration_Network_Testbed to explore why we can't reliably DHCP from the school server over the mesh (#5963). The problem APPEARS to be that in the presence of congestion in the mesh, the cu

Re: Playing w/ Activity packs in build 702

2008-03-26 Thread Bryan Berry
Added and linked http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Update.1_Software_Release_Notes_Activity_Testing_Results Can anyone tell me how to install TamTam from scratch? Teacher Training for 24 Nepali teachers starts on Saturday and I am in charge of our custom build. Wish us luck! Bryan OLE Nepal Kathman

Re: Project submission: FiftyTwo

2008-03-26 Thread Charles Merriam
Hmm.. This should be in the list. Mike Fletcher used this as the subject of his PyCon Tutorial this year and has complete running code including mesh networking. It should be put in the current activities, and the wiki should be updated. Mike? You handle or make me handle? Charles On Wed, Ma

Project submission: FiftyTwo

2008-03-26 Thread kawk
1. Project name : Tic-Tac-Toe 2. Existing website, if any : 3. One-line description : Tic-Tac-Toe for the XO 4. Longer description : A Tic-Tac-Toe game for the XO, using the actual "X" : and "O" from the front of the XO.

Re: Methods for Improving Build Tools

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Stone
Joel, > What kind of improvement did you have in mind? Two things: * First, get software and instructions that allow one to get N images mounted simultaneously so that images can be more easily diffed. Or that allows one to change which image is mounted after copying it to a filesyst

Re: Methods for Improving Build Tools

2008-03-26 Thread Joel Stanley
Michael, On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > booting the image. Alternately, improve the "Mounting JFFS2 images" [4] > instructions to allow image rewriting on regular linux systems. > [4]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mounting_jffs2_images What kind of im

[Testing] Automated testing, OLPC, code+screencasts.

2008-03-26 Thread Titus Brown
Hi all, I'm delurking with a vengeance here, I think :). A few months ago I was invited to take an interest in the OLPC with specific regard to testing; I've been involved with Python and testing for a while, and someone asked Grig Gheorghiu and me to take a look at the OLPC work to see if we cou

Re: [PATCH] CLI Interface to the Sugar Datastore

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Vorburger
Hello, Attached a patch for copy-to-journal.py which adds auto-detection of the MIME type! Hope you find this useful. This has been suggested in the thread "How to create a new MIME type for a Sugar activity?", and may be elsewhere, and probably makes sense in order to make copy-to-journal more en

Re: [sugar] Testing Update.1-702

2008-03-26 Thread Simon Schampijer
Michael Stone wrote: > Dear everyone, > > At today's software status meeting, several individuals, including: > > dgilmore > erikos > bemasc > Blaketh > mstone > > volunteered [had their arms twisted] into running the > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/1_Hour_Smoke_Test > > on Updat

Re: New joyride build 1796

2008-03-26 Thread Ixo X oxI
FYI, Happened in several previous joyrides... But happened to me again today. Suddenly touch-pad 'oversensitivity' and 'absolute' mode in JoyRide 1796 ... while in Neighborhood view, after a sleep mode wake up after touching the touch pad to 'wake' it up. "Reboot"ing (while plugged into AC)

New faster build 1806

2008-03-26 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1806 Changes in build 1806 from build: 1805 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar-presence-service 0.75.4-1.olpc2 +sugar-presence-service 0.79.2-1.olpc2 --- Changes for sugar-presence-service 0.79.2-1.olpc2 from 0.75.4-1.olpc2 --- + dev.laptop.org

New joyride build 1806

2008-03-26 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1806 Changes in build 1806 from build: 1805 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar-presence-service 0.75.4-1.olpc2 +sugar-presence-service 0.79.2-1.olpc2 --- Changes for sugar-presence-service 0.79.2-1.olpc2 from 0.75.4-1.olpc2 --- + dev.laptop.org

Testing Update.1-702

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Stone
Dear everyone, At today's software status meeting, several individuals, including: dgilmore erikos bemasc Blaketh mstone volunteered [had their arms twisted] into running the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/1_Hour_Smoke_Test on Update.1 702 with Spanish-language laptops when availabl

Re: Playing w/ Activity packs in build 702

2008-03-26 Thread Bruno Coudoin
Le mercredi 26 mars 2008 à 14:32 -0400, Kim Quirk a écrit : > How do I install the locale for Gcompris? There is no easy way to do this. I currently build GCompris bundles only with Spanish translations as I understood the first deployments need this. I can easily create a bundle for each GCompr

Re: [Olpc-open] Nortel LearniT animations (Seth Woodworth)

2008-03-26 Thread Samuel Klein
Thank you, Charles. Bryan, to your original point: > There are a lot of great education activities done in Flash and > their # will only increase simply because it is very easy to > develop animations using flash. Check out > www.eshikshaindia.in for more great learning > animations. Those did not

mock.laptop.org server down

2008-03-26 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
For Update.1 build 702, the yum configuration files now point to mock.laptop.org as the server. But that server is currently not responding. mikus ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

New faster build 1805

2008-03-26 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1805 Changes in build 1805 from build: 1802 Size delta: -0.13M -vnc 4.1.2-19.fc7 +vnc 4.1.2-20.fc7 -coreutils 6.9-8.fc7 +coreutils 6.9-9.fc7 -tzdata 2007k-2.fc7 +tzdata 2008b-1.fc7 -vnc-libs 4.1.2-19.fc7 +vnc-libs 4.1.2-20.fc7 --- Change

New joyride build 1805

2008-03-26 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1805 Changes in build 1805 from build: 1801 Size delta: 0.00M -vnc 4.1.2-19.fc7 +vnc 4.1.2-20.fc7 -coreutils 6.9-8.fc7 +coreutils 6.9-9.fc7 -tzdata 2007k-2.fc7 +tzdata 2008b-1.fc7 -vnc-libs 4.1.2-19.fc7 +vnc-libs 4.1.2-20.fc7 --- Change

Re: Playing w/ Activity packs in build 702

2008-03-26 Thread Kim Quirk
Thanks Bryan! Can you add a link to activity testing results from the Release Notes page with this info? ( http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Update.1_Software_Release_Notes) It would be great for others to refer to this info when they download 702 and recent activities. Thanks, Kim On Wed, Mar 26,

Application for Typing Tutor

2008-03-26 Thread Prakhar Agarwal
Hello Everyone, I have finally submitted my application yesterday. I have put together all the details on wiki.laptop.org/go/LetsType Your feedback is valuable, please provide your comments/suggestions. It would be very useful for me. Also, please refer my homepage: prakhar.jiit.googlepages.com

Re: [sugar] XO-user's communications security needs

2008-03-26 Thread Jameson "Chema" Quinn
I see 3 meaningful possibilities: 1. P_IDENT activities can sign/unencrypt anything with users private key, with no user knowledge. Thus a signature means only that communication comes from a given laptop, and has no implication about the awareness or assent of the user of that laptop. 2. P_IDENT

Software status meeting on IRC (Wednesday, 14:00pm EDT)

2008-03-26 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, We'll be meeting in #olpc-meeting on Freenode in fifteen minutes from now. Agenda: * State of update.1. Report available at: http://dev.laptop.org/report/16?TIME=40 - Chris. -- Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Devel mailing list Deve

XO-user's communications security needs

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Stone
Folks, Pursuant to recent discussions about P_IDENT, I've begun drafting principles and use cases in order to discover some of the communications security needs of XO-users. My thoughts to date (with substantial input from both Daf and Polychronis) are recorded, haphazardly, at http://wiki.lap

Re: [sugar] Automatic transfer/update of activities on the mesh (Was: Sharing behavior in the core Read activity)

2008-03-26 Thread Jameson "Chema" Quinn
> > As I said in my previous email, Bitfrost clearly states (correctly, in > my mind) that even justified belief that code originates from some known > individual implies no trust relationship with that code. Period. Use > isolation to make it safer to play with code and use signing to help > reduc

Re: [sugar] Automatic transfer/update of activities on the mesh (Was: Sharing behavior in the core Read activity)

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:05:19AM -0600, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote: > I disagree with #2. I disagree with both #1 and #2 and, as the current maintainer of Rainbow, that should tell you something. More bluntly, please experiment and please publish your work with a public solicitation of criticism

Re: [sugar] Automatic transfer/update of activities on the mesh (Was: Sharing behavior in the core Read activity)

2008-03-26 Thread Jameson "Chema" Quinn
Develop clearly needs to be aware of whatever solution we come up with for activity updates. This means that Develop has to be able to do the signing. Right now, bitfrost does not give out the private key to activities (correctly) and does not allow activities to request a signature for something (

Playing w/ Activity packs in build 702

2008-03-26 Thread Bryan Berry
Hey guys, Today I tested out almost of all of the activities on wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities on build 702. I remember reading an e-mail from Kim Quirk asking folks to test installing the activities on build 702. I am posting my findings here in case it might be useful. You may already be aware

Re: [sugar] Automatic transfer/update of activities on the mesh (Was: Sharing behavior in the core Read activity)

2008-03-26 Thread Guillaume Desmottes
Le mardi 25 mars 2008 à 16:02 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz a écrit : > This works, and will work for the proposed case. For the future, I see > file transfer as precisely the sort of thing that should be handled > internally to Telepathy. Perhaps Telepathy should implement XEP-0234 > (file transfe

Re: How to add a new application

2008-03-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On Mar 26, 2008, at 12:29 , Aswathy Prasad wrote: > > Hi > > If a new application is developed, how will you made it run on the > OLPC? Or just for testing our module in OLPC, what should we do? Put it in /home/olpc/Activities/ - Bert - ___ Deve

How to add a new application

2008-03-26 Thread Aswathy Prasad
Hi If a new application is developed, how will you made it run on the OLPC? Or just for testing our module in OLPC, what should we do? aswathy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: PlayGo

2008-03-26 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Charles Merriam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Ed, > > The error message could be better. The project is "projects/PlayGo". > > I'll double check when I get back to my laptop, but try: > > git clone git://dev.laptop.org/projects/PlayGo > > It's a common pro

Re: Joyride is reopened for development.

2008-03-26 Thread Jon Phillips
So, would this be proper for the Creative Commons work to be pushed into joyride then? Our licensing activity and journal integration are ready for testing and usage and I have discussed with SJ and Walter, pushing it for update.2...but getting it integrated sooner and with more testing sounds good

Re: UI usability for 4 year old (was Re: Call for Papers/Talks/Ideas!)

2008-03-26 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Tuesday 25 Mar 2008 10:35:25 pm John R.Hogerhuis wrote: > > In any case, kids have a way of figuring out a way out of problems that > > adults would perplex an adult. Ever seen a kid succumb to > > analysis-paralysis ? In your place, I would just give her more time to > > find her own way out on