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

2009-01-29 Thread Tabitha Roder
Hello Another Saturday is coming up fast and it has been an exciting week! With Mel Chua visiting us for a WEEK we have had some fantastic opportunities to tap into her expertise and she is excited about coming to testing this weekend to see how we roll, with the offer of showing us how to make

control panel

2009-01-29 Thread Ties Stuij
We'd like to have the controlpanel updater translated to Nepali, but it seems sugar-update-control.po isn't in glucose 8.2. It is in glucose though, we're translating it right now, but my guess is that the two of them have nothing to do with each other. Is it still possible to put the .po file in

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 35, Issue 85

2009-01-29 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Really? Have you done the math? you don't have to. oldest unbroken civilization with lineage already did. why reinvent the wheel? just research the meaning of the term tubong lugaw to understand. i seriously gotta get some sleep. I've been timetravelling all over the internet since moonday

Re: [Activities] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-29 Thread Morgan Collett
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:17, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Please join us for the first Sugar Labs ActivityTeam IRC meeting this Friday, 3PM EST in #sugar-meeting on FreeNode. http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Meetings All are encouraged to attend. I will be

Re: Soas snapshot

2009-01-29 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Cool. Any tips as to what to do with these 2 on an XO? The only thing I've done with .img and .crc before is copy-nand from firmware – is it possible to run them from a usb stick without wiping nand or effecting the

Re: Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-29 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/1/29 Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com: Remember - in addition to new function being tested, there ought to be regression testing (especially of vital things like wireless). I've been doing a lot of wireless testing with no problems. However, I only have one AP available to me. It would be

Re: control panel

2009-01-29 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Oh that one is a long-standing bug which got fixed recently, Just wait for 8.2.1 (should be out within a few weeks) If you want to test - try one of the staging builds. -sdg- On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Ties Stuij cjst...@gmail.com wrote: We'd like to have the controlpanel updater

New staging build 24

2009-01-29 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/staging/build24 Changes in build 24 from build: 23 Size delta: 0.00M -kernel 2.6.25-20081219.5.olpc.7e2ccbbc5144106 +kernel 2.6.25-20090129.1.olpc.a3e1b6fe884eb2d --- Changes for kernel 2.6.25-20090129.1.olpc.a3e1b6fe884eb2d from

Summary Minutes from olpc-friends' Tuesday Deployment Meeting

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Stone
Folks, We had an awesome deployment meeting this Tuesday at 2000 UTC on #olpc-deployment on irc.freenode.net. Almost 30 people came, with knowledge of 10 different deployments! Summary and minutes are now available at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_meetings/20090127#Summary

Re: Summary Minutes from olpc-friends' Tuesday Deployment Meeting

2009-01-29 Thread David Van Assche
Enjoy: hpachas _sj_, los temas de implementación pasan por 3 temas importantes the implementation themes are split into 3 important ones: hpachas _sj_, logistico, técnico y pedagógico logistics, technical and pedagogical hpachas pienso que se deben agendar reuniones en base a

New staging build 25

2009-01-29 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/staging/build25 Changes in build 25 from build: 24 Size delta: 0.00M -bootfw q2e28-1.olpc2.unsigned +bootfw q2e30-1.olpc2.unsigned --- Changes for bootfw q2e30-1.olpc2.unsigned from q2e28-1.olpc2.unsigned --- + Minor GUI icon layout fix. --

my 8.2.1 wireless testing results

2009-01-29 Thread Daniel Drake
I have tested 3 access points with staging-21 plus my fixed WEP kernel that got included in staging-24. I tested as many connectivity modes as I could and I repeated each connection 3 times. I also compared to 8.2.0. I detected and ignored occurances of bug #8104 by looking in /var/log/messages

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 06:10, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Jan 24, 2009, at 5:18 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:23 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: What can I call from an activity (in python) to indicate that the backlight should be

8.2.1 Release Status - Thursday, Jan. 29, 2008

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Stone
Folks, I just thought I'd offer some unofficial advice on the state of 8.2.1 for interested listeners: a) In the last several weeks, there has been significant package churn at all levels of the stack including: kernel bootanim bootfw olpc-utils libX11 xkeyboard-config

Re: [Activities] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-29 Thread Samuel Klein
I should add - with an in-person meeting in Cambridge http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-open/2009-January/001318.html People who will be focused on the activities chat but want to get together in person are welcome. SJ On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-29 Thread Samuel Klein
In that vein, I'd love for someone to document how to add new graph-reviewing, labelling, and import/export options to Measure. Using graphs one has made, or looking at a history of graphs made and data gathered, is hard -- not necc. easy enough to use in an ongoing science experiment. --SJ On

Re: Backlight control

2009-01-29 Thread John Watlington
On Jan 29, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 06:10, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: On Jan 24, 2009, at 5:18 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:23 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote: What can I call from an activity (in

Re: [Sugar-devel] ActivityTeam inaugural meeting

2009-01-29 Thread Andres Cabrera
Hi, On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: We do have a Nepali volunteer Vrishank Khanal who is trying to figure this out. Vrishank is brand-new to linux, programming, and open-source so adding instruments to TamTam may be beyond his current abilities if the

[Testing] 8.2.1 Release Status - Thursday, Jan. 29, 2008

2009-01-29 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
a new firmware, q2e30 On non-secure XOs (i.e., with developer key), q2e30 now by default shows pretty boot. I did not see this same need with every XO I tried, but to consistently be able to stop at the 'ok' prompt, I sometimes had to press 'check' (for non-pretty boot) when booting. mikus

Re: [Testing] 8.2.1 Release Status - Thursday, Jan. 29, 2008

2009-01-29 Thread Mitch Bradley
I've tried 7 different systems with q2e30 so far, of every flavor from B2 onwards. In every case, ESC has worked correctly if you press it when you hear the audio jingle. The only case I've seen where ESC didn't get you to the ok prompt was a secured system without a developer key - which is

FW: [Sur] videos de Rivera, Uruguay (Excellent!)

2009-01-29 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi... Someone in Uruguay has posted two videos showing how they are using the XOs in the classrooms. It is difficult to understand the children at times, but someone has put in sub-titles in English. So, for us, that is ok (some of the Spanish speakers are having trouble with it though).

Re: [Testing] Notes from an impromptu 8.2.1 Release Mtg.

2009-01-29 Thread Hal Murray
[Context is WAP connection not getting set via NetworkManager] I expected this to get fixed in build 24. I grabbed build 25 since that announcement came by before I started pulling things over. I expected it to fix the startup problem (#9222), but it doesn't seem to be working for me. I've