summarize
the background ideas and motivations for this proposal:
http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/the-four-letters-word-of-floss-docs.html
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directory would be nice.
Even for us, lucky connected chaps, most applications come
with offline documentation...
I'm done with my last 2cts :)
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within some core Activities
is worth the storage space.
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suposed to have them installed and working on the xo next week.
sorry for the inconvenience
thx, bye
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with the developer of Kiwix¹ to help have such a process.
It's still work in progress, but I hope we'll be able to release code
soon. Stay tuned.
¹ http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page
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on a kiwix.xo activity, and I agree your point is important.
I'll follow-up with answers, if any.
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How do I create the requested fs.zip?
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Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org writes:
On 28 April 2010 11:30, Bastien bastien.gue...@wikimedia.fr wrote:
The problem is that our 100 XOs (in Madagascar) are *not* connected to
the Internet.
Is there a way to get a developer key (or to disable security) for all
our 100 (soon 160) XO without
James Cameron qu...@laptop.org writes:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 05:19:39PM +0200, Bastien wrote:
2. I told build.py to run a script which removes the file I want to
get rid of (which is ${imgdir}/home/olpc/.sugar-update) - but the
script fails and complains this file is missing.
My apologies
Bastien b...@laptop.org writes:
How to build a modified os802_fr.img (and its friend fs.zip)?
Ok, I made some progress.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image_builder was helpful.
I managed to create my own images (fr802.crc, fr802.img, fr802.img.md5)
using build.py script.
But I still have two
this image.
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saturated: how to reduce the gain
of the camera? Ideally one would like to do this manually...
- is there a way to take pictures with a higher resolution? the
default compression level doesn't produce great pictures.
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the language from one single
bundle makes that bundle way too heavy.
For now the plan is to one version per language on ASLO.
Is that so inconvenient for massive deployments?
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and spanish languages in a unique
activity would make it too big I guess.
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Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com writes:
Thanks *very much* for these explanations.
I hope this kind of information can find its way through the OLPC blog,
maybe with a little more context. Then we can fight the FUD by linking
to these explanations.
I've just written an entry about
that prevents nerds from taking it in
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over.
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many advice to sort
out the relevant ones. Still, my point was not to criticise but to try
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Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com writes:
I'm more than happy to post stuff, having a Slashdot account. I just
don't know what to post exactly as stuff is not yet clarified.
Mitch just posted useful information. Still, having a link to a blog
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clarified.
Mitch just posted useful information. Still, having a link to a blog
post would help clarifying stuff.
Right! Do you have a blog? :-)
I meant: http://blog.laptop.org
PS: I might write a blog entry in french for OLPC France...
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CC'ing SJ this time...
Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com writes:
Thanks *very much* for these explanations.
I hope this kind of information can find its way through the OLPC blog,
maybe with a little more context. Then we can fight the FUD by linking
to these explanations.
Coyping sj
Christoph Derndorfer christoph.derndor...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote:
Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com writes:
I'm more than happy to post stuff, having a Slashdot account. I just
don't know what to post
James Cameron qu...@laptop.org writes:
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:50:33AM +0200, Bastien wrote:
Mitch just posted useful information. Still, having a link to a blog
post would help clarifying stuff.
Here you go ...
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-July/025132.html
an official blog entry would
help a lot.
The two things are not incompatible.
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When I saw this job announcement I thought it would actually be
something useful to have.
For example in this case, this director would be able to deliver
a strong message to the grassroots on how to deal with this FUD.
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Point taken.
Oh and please don't tell the Slashdot crowd that there is no trace of
Apollo 11 when looking at the moon from the Moon activity...
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Point taken.
Oh and please don't tell the Slashdot crowd that there is no trace of
Apollo 11 when looking at the moon from the Moon activity - otherwise
they will start looking for Obama-biography.xo.
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project.
OLPC now only sells machines and alternative ideas about education, but
the gap between these ideas and the machine is just huge enough so that
traditional habits about ICT in education can look more successful.
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this will be available
soon...
In the meantime, I've uploaded a tiny screencast here:
http://vimeo.com/5291250
It doesn't really explore SocialCalc, it just exposes it to the eyes.
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to get the
videos of XO 1.5 in Taipei, etc. posted in a linux friendly format? XO users
are excluded from viewing material about the XO. Where the FOSS are you!!
In other words FOSS you..tube, use Ogg Vorbis!!
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http://sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads/lang-fr
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wiki listing the pages
that need to be translated. Shall I open it?
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to host a
translation on the SugarLabs wiki? (Maybe something similar to
what wiki.laptop.org offered?)
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Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com writes:
Getting vim-enhanced takes 22MB more, which is a fair bit for
something 99.9% of our users won't want or need.
99.9%
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C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org writes:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote:
Victor Lazzarini victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie writes:
[...] In other words, it would be useful to get a who's who for the
project.
+1
Please have some consideration
that message.
Anyone volunteering to build such a who's who at OLPC HQ?
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[...] In other words, it would be useful to get a who's who for the
project.
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Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org writes:
Has that white-on-black version of the logo appeared anywhere else?
I don't know...
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, it's too short, what we see and
hear is nothing but a distraction from the core message. Looks like
people have been playing with a beautiful idea, but ended up with a
toy-movie.
My favorite so far is Waveplace's one:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=Py3wB-7JeOE
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Hi Jean,
Jean Piché j...@piche.com writes:
http://www2.infopresse.com/blogs/actualites/archive/2008/12/15/article-29417.aspx
This article is in french - maybe you better want to send this to the
french OLPC mailing list: olpc-fra...@lists.laptop.org
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Ties Stuij cjst...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi Jean,
Jean Piché j...@piche.com writes:
http://www2.infopresse.com/blogs/actualites/archive/2008/12/15/article-29417.aspx
This article is in french - maybe you better want
Hi all,
I've just updated http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:News
I'm not interested in maintaining this anymore.
Someone to take over?
PS: the page is way too big and the first job should be to split it and
to make it more readable...
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S Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bastien wrote:
When designing a spell-checker, we should keep in mind that the
spell-checker should always suggest correct spellings, and never
underline errors.
I disagree. I think the standard red dots spell checking that AbiWord
and Firefox do
by the correct spelling when the
replacement is 99% predictable. Or something along this idea.
(I'm not arguing on how writing should be taught...)
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spellings, and never
underline errors. In this respect MS Word spell-checker (and a
few others I tested) is just a disaster: it helps people remember
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A spinoff from the name Sugar? Before Sugar was spunoff to run on
other platforms, I think journalists kept calling the XO's OS Sugar.
Mmm. Sugar-XO?
Xugar?
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on the XO can be influence by such UI features - no?
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there's a better solution) would be
great as well.
Maybe something like Stack Overflow?
http://stackoverflow.com/
Or maybe tags could group XO|Sugar-related questions on Stack Overflow?
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Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/xo-1/streams/8.2/build764
Changes in build 764 from build: 763
To download and install it through USB:
http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/olpc_install_sugar_activities_usb.php
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Chris Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Also, what happened to the white circle around the network circle in
the Neighborhood to indicate which was connected? I liked that visual
confirmation.
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Well, even spelling it external power required is better than the
cryptic AC not present.
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pretty sure it's going to pass.)
Good hint! We'll use 759 then.
I've juste updated the easy-usb-install page:
current stable: os711
current testing: 8.2-759
current joyride: jr2388
http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/olpc_install_sugar_activities_usb.php
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http://www.thebrain.com/
All this being really too sparkling for my old-fashioned linear
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addons.mozilla.org, but that didn't get
far yet.
+1
We are holding a development week-end in mid-november in France, and if
there is no such portal we may as well develop our.
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hour of the day?
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help would be *much* appreciated as I promised to send this
computer to a professional translator for reviewing the kreyol
translation...
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Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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| AC not present
Plug it to power to complete the firmware upgrade step...
AArghh! Thanks. For me AC/DC has never meant anything else
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organization emerges from the use of simple
actions afforded by the UI, rather than having an UI that asks me to get
a bit more organized. Then I feel too guilty!
My 2cts
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a
picture which is really just a different perspective on the usual
trash can metaphor, rather than an abandonment of it.
Ok, great - things are very clear now.
Can't wait for it to be implemented :)
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it by trying to reopen it might be
tiring.
The whole idea of a trashbin has its limitation, but so does our brain!
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this page for, I
cannot check that all my instructions are perfectly appropriate.
If anyone could send me feedback on these two points, I'd be very
thankful!
I will update this zip archives every week.
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Sorry, but I couldn't make it. Meeting conflict on campus. Does anyone
have notes/irc logs?
Here is what I have:
[18:03]*** You have joined channel #olpc
*** Topic for #olpc: Web support: http://forum.laptop.org | IRC
support:
:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/joyride/latest/
2302 is not empty, but 2303 is since midday. Something wrong?
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? Is it safe to use the old (708) one?
(It would be great if you could add this to the place you think it
should be in the wiki, thanks!)
I will as soon as I'm sure where to put what...
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Shouldn't I use jffs2 instead?
If flashing to XO nand, yes.
If booting from USB/SD, no.
All right, thanks.
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/joyride/latest/devel_jffs2/
What is os2090
be very useful have a function to let A and B check for
diffs and merge their two versions - without doing manually.
There might be an easy-merge mode where conflicting changes are just
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of. We don't want to complicate
things until that works predictably.
Fair enough!
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Another simplement argument: this will be clearer for users to know
where to send feedback. If you have a question about a particular
activity, ask on the activity list. For other questions ask on the
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a list -- 'was just dropping a few opinions.)
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If the list were moderated, to be used ONLY for announcements
of things that break the API/ABI, then there could be some value.
In that case, you'd need to split up Python and non-Python.
Like this:
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There could also be a list to announce new activities.
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It's not that important anyway. It just occurred to me that the
dependancies management challenge could be somehow dealt with by
delivering a set of default activities. I'm not aware of any
to be defined: the default favorite activities. Each deb
package above should define the default set of favs. And maybe there
could be a way of importing someone's favs easily, whatever the extra
package people installed.
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(Activities) have really stagnated. At the moment we
lack maintainers for most of them. Browse, Pippy, Chat, Terminal and
Etoys are well covered because they are maintained by core people.
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lack maintainers for most of them. Browse, Pippy, Chat, Terminal and
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(Activities) have really stagnated. At the moment we
lack maintainers for most of them. Browse, Pippy, Chat, Terminal and
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Updates
3. The datastore
4. File Sharing
5. Bitfrost
6. Activity Modification
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occurred to me that the
dependancies management challenge could be somehow dealt with by
delivering a set of default activities. I'm not aware of any
software distribution drawing such a strong line between the
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: I have no idea how to print the screen.
Alt + F1 should do.
Then you can rename your screenshots from the journal.
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-get.py would
discourage installation of old bundles on newer builds.
And you guys could get rid of the scary red warning on the wiki :)
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is so much better.
The only thing I do know is that I agree that 'big meaningless
numbers' are bad. '26' is already pretty big. As you point out, the
2.4.x series has much bigger numbers yet.
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