This week Barry Vercoe, Nicoletta Rata-Skudder and I had the pleasure of
spending three days with the first New Zealand school to purchase XO
laptops for their students. This school is also the first XO-4 touchscreen
deployment (I think in the world??).
I wanted to publicly thank all the people
Hi
We are swapping out a classroom of XO-1.75s to XO-4s (known as XO-Duos in
Australia I think). Is there a way of taking the majority of the contents
of the Journal from XO-1.75 onto USB and then putting it into the Journal
of the XO-4s?
I am not too concerned with getting all the data, but
paint- can’t choose font when using text boxes with trackpad or
touchscreen maybe due to wear the menu drops down, bold and italic works
Can you explain a little more what the problem is?
Gonzalo
In Paint activity there is a text box tool. You use it to add text to your
picture. You
Auckland Testing Summary 13 October 2012
Who: Alana, Fabiana, John, Oliver, Tabitha and Tom
Rosella: XO-1.5 One Education OS 1.2 (build au248), Firmware Q3C09
with first language Maori and second language English (Great Britain)
Moon failed to start, but works if you change the language back to
On 8 February 2012 11:58, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
Moodle - seemed to fail on first boot, worked on second. Using
moodle-xs-1.9.5.xs2-1.xs11.noarch. Need to dig further.
Which moodle branch should I be working with?
Hi Martin
I have likely missed some previous discussions, but
On 20 January 2012 00:49, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
I will certainly be using the i18n / L10n information to investigate
the possibility of soliciting more PO files for the Honey project by
pestering developers about i18n.
I hope someone has posted about this to the
On 20 October 2011 11:21, Christoph Derndorfer
christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote:
not sure what the exact time difference is between San Francisco and NZ but
maybe we could set up a Skype call between Rachel, you, and us in SF to
coordinate our documentation efforts?
Cheers,
Christoph
On 4 October 2011 16:18, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
And the FLOSS Manuals feed into the Help Activity, so work there pays
of many times over...
So how do we feed the FLOSS manual into the Help activity? Rachel is keen to
help, but keen to see her work on the XO.
Is the
We have been seeing lots of changes to Memorize and some things are a bit
confusing. I was thinking that it might help to write some scenarios for how
you might use Memorize. So here goes...
In class on Monday the teacher says each student is to make a Memorize game
to help learn the elements of
Testing Summary: 27 August 2011 - Auckland, New Zealand
We have two new XOs! These need names as we're currently referring to them
by the unwieldy membrane keyboard XO-1.75 and clicky keyboard XO-1.75
which are also only unique within our group. They arrived earlier this week
and we've fooled
We have just today received 2 of the XO-1.75 prototype B1 without touch
screen. They arrived with a serial adaptor for updating the firmware.
The documentation is a bit chaotic so it's hard to work out what build and
firmware should be on it. We spent the first few hours testing on an old
build
.
Anyone else doing anything?
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On 20 July 2011 15:07, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1342192419/pulse-sensor-an-open-source-heart-rate-sensor-that
Can't see where they publish their code so asked them on their blog.
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On 8 July 2011 11:25, Andrew van der Stock vande...@gmail.com wrote:
Are you going to have a test day for this image? I'm working in Melbourne
CBD now, and although I have XO-1's, I'd be happy to help test the image
Sorry we could not test this as it wasn't available in time this morning.
Tabitha
On Jul 2, 2011 7:53 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote:
Hi all:
Please do not use RC1, there was a typo that broke some the
customizations in the build. If you downloaded it I'm sorry for wasting
your
2011/3/9 Yader Velásquez yajo...@gmail.com
My problem is: How to allow only the teachers to customize the list words,
and deny this feature to the regulars students?
I use the FileChooserWidget for select a file with the new list, but is not
a good idea that a child can do it.
I don't
Hi Tim
Reposting to the olpc devel list who might be better positioned to answer
your question.
Good luck!
Tabitha
On 29 January 2011 04:36, Timothy Falconer tee...@waveplace.org wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm done in Haiti, about to prep 120 laptops. Normally we use our
handy-dandy prep script.
Do u mean as student, teacher or admin?
Connect to the XS network via wifi or LAN. It should give u an IP address
and route your traffic.
Type schoolserver into browser URL. You are now connected.
If you want non XOs to have accounts you have to create them using the admin
login (refer wiki for
From: Chris Ball c...@laptop.org
Subject: XO-1.75 progress
That's going to take several months, but
we wanted you to know that it will be coming.
Thanks!
- Chris, on behalf of the OLPC Engineering team.
Thanks Chris for giving us an update on XO-1.75 progress and keeping us in
the loop;
http://tabitharoder.wordpress.com/
No, but an XO-1.75 that uses half the power and therefore provides twice
the battery life is an XO that is now available to many children who don't
have the electrons to use XO-1.5 machines, or for whom a 4-hour battery life
is inadequate but an 8-hour
create a login if you are using XS as there are great forums
on moodle.org that you can ask questions in.
Moodle.org ran cool courses competition to gather courses for people to use
- http://coolcourses.moodle.org/ - so this is also a good resource
Tabitha
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On 22 October 2010 05:06, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
we are getting interesting news of not-quite-good content in Wikipedia
content included in the Wikipedia activities.
Schools wiki is quite good as it has images as well as text on 5000 pages of
curriculum (British)
Hello world
It is late Thursday night here in NZ so it is the time of the week I start
looking for what we should download Friday and test in NZ on Saturday
morning. Are there any test requests from anyone out there?
I am assuming we are starting with a Sugar 0.90 test of some sort...
I see
Just sharing this pdf file of Dissecting an XO 1.5 created by Peter
Domanski
who just been introduced to XO.
I put the links on disassembly page of wiki.
Tabitha
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On 12/08/2010, S Page skierp...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting! I think Journal backup to the school server has been a
feature since XS 0.4 and Release 8.2, see
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Blueprints:Datastore_Simple_Backup_and_Restore
, and that's what your picture shows. I assume you're
we confirm that it really will take 24 hours. There is the
potential for a 4 hour round trip to deliver the collection stick data
and again to check for the result. The wiki said it could take a
couple of days.
Thanks for the help. Hopefully access is better than we fear.
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Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:45:59AM +, Tabitha Roder wrote:
On 02/08/2010, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
Tabitha, check to see if the deployment can use unlocked laptops;
and if the policy is acceptable, we can assist with use of
Collection stick
We are in Samoa helping out at two small deployments. We are
installing a school server and wifi at each school. They are running
8.2.1 on XO-1 hardware (G1G1 donation). We have been running this
build on our laptops and it feels like a big step down from the sugar
0.84 and bernies's 0.88 builds
state (where
it turns on if it was on when power was lost). Then you can use your
timer to automatically turn it on.
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We are in Samoa helping out at two small deployments. We are
installing a school server and wifi at each school. They are running
8.2.1 on XO-1 hardware (G1G1 donation). We have been running this
build on our laptops and it feels like a big step down from the sugar
0.84 and bernies's 0.88 builds
From: David Leeming da...@leeming-consulting.com
To: 'XS Devel' server-devel@lists.laptop.org
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:52:08 +1000
Subject: [Server-devel] Turn Editing On missing and joining multiple
courses
In our PNG deployment and elsewhere I am finding with Moodle that when the
posting on behalf
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From: Jan Zawadzki jan.zawad...@hapara.com
Date: Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:15 AM
Subject: [Server-devel] Journal and Google
To: server-devel@lists.laptop.org
There are API's for working with Google Docs, that's not the problem.
We can do
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Useful website: http://inventwithpython.com/
It was recommended by Nat Torkington so worthy of sharing the link.
It has links for downloading Python installer for multiple operating systems
as well as the book as .pdf or web page.
Tabitha
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Testing summary - 12 December 2009 Wellington, NZ
Who: Tabitha, Alastair, Grant
Updated 5 XO 1.5 machines and 4 XO 1.0 machines.
On XO 1.5s the open firmware help is unhelpful. The new fs-update command
for reflashing the XO is not described in the help and the old flash-nand
command which no
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 08:36 +, Peter Robinson wrote:
You could use the current Fedora 11 Gnome LiveCD to install that and
sugar is only around 20-30 meg on top of the standard gnome desktop
and it will give you the same version of sugar but you'll probably get
better hardware support for
Hi Paul
many keys only work intermittently on some of these XOs. particularly
- frame key and the key next to it, search key, function key, hand
keys, divide/multiply key.
is this reproducible in the OFW diagnostics? (test /keyboard)
we did diagnostics check, they intermittently
2009/10/21 Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org:
/boot/olpc_version usually contains the right number.
no such file or directory
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No mesh:
Just checking this scenario I am a teacher and have just been handed 5
XOs for my students. I am told you can have a child start writing a story
and then have the other children join in to write together.
How does the teacher do this - in less than 100 words and not one word
Testing 5 of the new XO 1.5 machines - our first experiences...
hardware seems more responsive
great touch pad - can feel edges and has tap click on touch pad so you
dont have to push the button, we like it
video card issues with on screen animations - e.g. frame gives flickers
on boot the
tested install activity from browse - installed geoquiz-4 successfully
from wiki.laptop and started game successfully
tried installing foodforce2-beta.xo from code.google.com - failed,
gave file in journal but not activity
can download foodforce2-1.xo from activities.sugarlabs.org and does
Thanks James
Boot animation corruption I also observed on os30, but not on os32. You
didn't mention which build you were using.
OLPC release 11 Leonidas
Sugar 0.84.2
Firmware Q3A11
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At long last I have code to
Barcamp will be there. Opportunity to involve them (and drink free
coffee).
Thanks for coming team!
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Testing summary - 18 July 2009, Wellington, NZ
Who: Tim, Tabitha, Grant, Uli, Stella, Leah, Becs, Brenda, Callum, Dave, Sigi
Putting dev keys in the last XOs to be updated.
Updating builds from 767 to 802 on all XOs
Trying soas-strawberry in virtual machines on other laptops.
tested out chat
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XOlympics-1 seems to work without any problems, but doen't seem to do much.
Cellgame-1 works well, but couldn't figure out the rules.
Looked at Map-2, but doesn't seem to do anything without a connection to map
server.
Kind regards
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tabi
, so testing could end with a bit
of sight seeing in Cuba St!
See you there!
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Hi
Join us in welcoming back Martin Langhoff this Saturday after his XS work in
Boston.
The community is ready for testing 8.2.1 staging 25 so we can upgrade the
XOs this weekend.
Usual: 10.30am at The Cross, 35 Abel Smith St.
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on
Mac iChat window unless you close it First), instead just got errors every
time attempted to send messages from iChat to XO. Will do further debugging
at home with packet sniffer.
Thanks everyone!
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venue and
refreshments, thanks Computer Clubhouse for paying for Walters flights)
about Sugarlabs and has helped us to see different places Sugar can be used
around NZ and the Pacific region.
So usual story:
10.30am kick off at The Cross, 35 Abel Smith Street, see you there!
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five XOs today. Great
learning for us so we can refurbish and replace bits. Great for non hardware
people in the group to fill in some gaps in our knowledge. We were all happy
when we put them back together with no left over screws!
Another successful day.
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to seeing you on Saturday.
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at the
conference too. Andrew McMillan is attending so those who can't make I
suggest you gleen insights from Andrew on his return.
See you at the Cross 10.30am (ish). If you can't make it, have a great
holiday break and see you 12 January.
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Tabitha's notes:
XO Build 8.2-759
Mini vMac-1 - ctrl F for full screen is great! played with excalibur, note
pad, calculator, puzzle, all good, but it is hard to shut down Mini vMac -
seems you have to stop in the frame?
Bridge-1 good
Stopwatch-1 good
Poll-17 - create own poll good, voted
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