General status: Uruguay is starting an in-school pilot of 800 XOs running version 8.2. After successful completion of that pilot they plan to upgrade all XOs to the new version.
9.1.0 planning is underway (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0). 90 days until the release! The focus is on deployment and maintenance. The four main areas of work are: 1 - Rebase release on Fedora 10 and make it easy to run standard Fedora Desktop and applications. 2 - Easier installation of secure, customized XO software images, focusing on activation, lease management, image customization and signing. 3 - Improved power management for longer battery life. 4 - New translations and better support for Nepali, Amharic and Chinese. In addition, the release will include many other bug fixes and features. *************** User links of the week (Spanish) Jorge Drexler (http://www.jorgedrexler.com/), an Uruguayan music star, wrote a song about Plan Ceibal (XO project in Uruguay) http://www.pilas.net/20081201/drexler-le-canta-al-plan-ceibal/ Here's a brief, informal translation of the song: A little square of heaven (or sky) a window on the river. A river made of light a river made of light and of birds in flight. I want to be a navigator by the austral heavens I want to be a navigator by the austral heavens without leaving my eddy in the shade of the Ceibal tree Welcome fantasy to this transparent course. As a boat in the current I also want to leave my wake of poetry. Then Drexler met with RAP Ceibal volunteers and asked parents to get involved in the project. See: http://www.fedaro.info/2008/12/04/drexler-convoca-a-integrarse-a-rap-ceibal/ Also posted this week, another XO inspired song out of Peru: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQiA5F6AJcQ ************ Status of goals set on 11/21 1 - Build 9.1 project page and select top high level feature requests and layout rough schedule. GS - Done. See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0 Needs a lot more detail on features and schedule. 2 - Define Trac usage and Trac scrub plan for 9.1 GS - Partially done. Discussed Trac usage but we need a follow up meeting. Scrub plan is to do a two day historical triage 12/15 and 12/16. Details to follow. 3 - Fill in requirements definition for top 9.1 features and engage engineers. GS - Partially done. First pass at top four requirements written. Discussions with engineering underway. Still need a lead owner on top two items: - Run regular Fedora window managers and applications and - Activation/lease/signing/image customization 4 - Update School Server documentation. GS - Partially done. Updated main XS page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server so that everything above "slightly outdated" section refers to actual features currently available. *********** Goals for next week. 1 - Finish collection of all main features on Feature Roadmap page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap. Stretch goal to make that a Semantic query with each feature having its own page. 2 - Update 9.1.0 page with a detailed list of sub-requirements. Add detail to the schedule and get sign off on it from engineering and QA. Engage engineers to get specifications and plans documented for each feature. 3 - Start triage of full feature roadmap to flag 9.1.0 items and prioritize all items. 4 - Create basic presentation on plans for 9.1.0 and run it by main customers and other stakeholders. 5 - Update School Server documentation with links to Readme file for each main feature. Comment on XS roadmap and Moodle plan. Thanks, Greg S _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel