Just so I can get it into the wiki correctly, the primary release
steps you mention:
1. Check-in: Making sure all the relevant changes are checked into
GIT on proper branches, and that the result is only completed
functionality that seems to work together.
2. Testing: Building it, getting
(sorry for cross-postings)
The first release of Cerebro is out!
Cerebro basically offers scalable presence information and a simple
collaboration API. Features currently include:
- presence information (including distance and route) for all other
users in the network
- dynamic rate of updates
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Bernie Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Forth command dcon-freeze will freeze the screen immediately.
Either can be executed from inside olpc.fth
Putting dcon-freeze in olpc.fth works great on my B4.
This is of secondary importance to me, but I
Le samedi 19 avril 2008 à 22:18 +0300, Giannis Galanis a écrit :
In the testbed in peabody, the list of peers seen from the server is
usually a superset of what we see from each individual mesh view.
Could be related to: #6883 #6884 #6888
It would be very useful if we could get the list
On 21.04.2008, at 10:38, Ties Stuij wrote:
Well, it took us at OLE Nepal a whole lot of sweat and especially
tears, but finally, after half a year of hard work, we finished the
first build that is actually going to be used by actual Nepali kids,
in an actual classroom setting.
This build,
2008/4/20 Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Bernie,
I'd like to make two points regarding your notes:
1 - OLPC cannot be responsible for activities. So it is really much better
that the activities are now separate from the base code to help get this
point across to the country. As a 'sales' type
Interesting essay by Paul Graham on running a startup like a
non-profit - the power of benevolence: http://paulgraham.com/good.html
I found it inspiring in the context of OLPC, given that OLPC is a
non-profit, yet going through startup-style challenges.
Note his section on morale:
Morale is
Well, it took us at OLE Nepal a whole lot of sweat and especially
tears, but finally, after half a year of hard work, we finished the
first build that is actually going to be used by actual Nepali kids,
in an actual classroom setting.
This build, version 10, sports a whopping 47 activities, which
Hi,
Edward Cherlin wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Chris, Scott, and I are formulating a release strategy
for the next 8 or so months with detailed information about what we
hope to release in 4 months. It remains to be seen how the
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 10:04 +0200, Yuan Chao wrote:
If your XOs are B4 or prior, I've asked similar questions to OLPC
support and they said this is normal. B4 doesn't have the activate
entry in mfg-data as I check which might be the cause?
Yes, min was actually a B3.
You can list what
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Ties Stuij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
This build, version 10, sports a whopping 47 activities, which is why
it's 105 mb in size. The loading time of individual activities has
also diminished by quite a bit (sometimes loading is 3 to 4 times as
Ciao,
here in Turkey they asked me how two kids or a kid and a parent
may chat to each other between two households. Usually I get
quite the opposite question :-)
They understand there will also be privacy concerns to be addressed,
but for now they are more interested in how feasible it would
Hi,
sorry for the late reply, I've been laying in bed with quite heavy fever the
whole of last week. On the plus side I was fit again this (last) saturday, to
go to Berlin and found the olpc germany association. (More news on this will
follow..)
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 15:21, Holger Levsen
Michael,
I am customizing build 703 w/ a custom set of activities, rpms, and
other settings.
Currently, I am deleting
- rm ~/.sugar
- delete host name from /etc/hosts
- rm -r ~/isolation
- rm /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
Which machine-specific settings can I remove from /security/state ?
I
OLPC's focus is on development, funding and delivery of laptops to the least
developed countries. The expectations for features, testing, support,
logistics, delivery, IT and RF infrastructure (to name a few things) are
widely different between schools in Rwanda and those in NYC (for example).
We
Hemant,
Yesterday I finally got around to installing your ROMs on my XO. I was
able got configure speech-dispatcher and get spd-say to work correctly,
but when I tried to run my test python program it bailed out on the
import speechd statement, saying speechd could not be found.
This leads
Morgan,
I did some work on View Slides over the weekend and I got the document
sharing code to work OK. There are still some bugs, but they are not
related to sharing, at least not directly. However, in fixing the code
I discovered the following issues:
1). Unlike the core Read activity,
- for large schools of 1000 students, they ask how the mesh view UI
would scale. Are we switching to a search-based interface in when
there are so many kids clustered in the same LAN?
This is the intended design direction, but it hasn't been implemented
yet. We do have search, but we
Hi,
- They asked if video chat is possible. I recall someone was
working on it months ago. What is the current status?
We need two things: a codec that we can encode and decode in real-time
(the demo from 2006 used h.263) and a transport layer -- I think we have
a UDP transport for
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1889
Changes in build 1889 from build: 1870
Size delta: 17.57M
+kernel-PAE 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
-python-jinja 1.2-2.fc7
+python-jinja 1.2-1.fc7
-kernel 2.6.22-20080408.1.olpc.de2a86ff3b60edc
--- Included kernel-PAE version 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
Hi James,
3). Because downloading documents is so slow, I have modified my
Read toolbar to have a running count of bytes downloaded so the
user doesn't have to stare at an unchanging screen for several
minutes wondering if anything is going on. In the core Read code I
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- They asked if video chat is possible. I recall someone was
working on it months ago. What is the current status?
We need two things: a codec that we can encode and decode in real-time
(the demo from 2006
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1889
Changes in build 1889 from build: 1870
Size delta: 17.43M
+kernel-PAE 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
-python-jinja 1.2-2.fc7
+python-jinja 1.2-1.fc7
-kernel 2.6.22-20080408.1.olpc.de2a86ff3b60edc
--- Included kernel-PAE version 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
Please customize the pre-boot image, thanks. That will spare you
these problems.
--scott
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael,
I am customizing build 703 w/ a custom set of activities, rpms, and
other settings.
Currently, I am deleting
- rm
sounds great and perhaps easier said than done. Do you mean editing the
703...tar.bz2 package? Then I have to package it up into a nice jffs2
iso image, test it again to make sure everything works. Unfortunately, I
don't have time to try out something new, I have to complete the custom
image
On 21.04.2008 18:00, Build Announcer v2 wrote:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1889
Changes in build 1889 from build: 1870
Size delta: 17.57M
+kernel-PAE 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
-kernel 2.6.22-20080408.1.olpc.de2a86ff3b60edc
--- Included kernel-PAE version
Cannot boot this build, it hangs after saying it is loading the ramdisk.
Tomeu
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1889
Changes in build 1889 from build: 1870
Size delta: 17.57M
Hi,
+kernel-PAE 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
-kernel-2.6.22-20080408.1.olpc.de2a86ff3b60edc
WTF?!? Since when does the XO have 4GB of RAM? And since when can
the processor address more than 4G of RAM?
This is clearly a bug -- we've pulled in an updated Fedora kernel
instead of our OLPC
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 11:54 -0400, Chris Ball wrote:
- They asked if video chat is possible. I recall someone was
working on it months ago. What is the current status?
We need two things: a codec that we can encode and decode in real-time
(the demo from 2006 used h.263) and a
Olpc-update fails to load any updates for me in after Joyride-1872. It
says there is no such update in updates.laptop.org. Anybody else
experiencing this ?
Karl
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Hi,
Yesterday I finally got around to installing your ROMs on my XO. I was
able got configure speech-dispatcher and get spd-say to work correctly, but
when I tried to run my test python program it bailed out on the import
speechd statement, saying speechd could not be found.
Can I know
Morgan Collett wrote:
Interesting essay by Paul Graham on running a startup like a
non-profit - the power of benevolence: http://paulgraham.com/good.html
I found it inspiring in the context of OLPC, given that OLPC is a
non-profit, yet going through startup-style challenges.
Note his
Hi,
In continuation to my previous mail. I ve managed to upload the required RPM
packages online.
Please note they are still not *approved* packages.
http://www.nsitonline.in/hemant/stuff/speechd-rpm
The python package must be downloaded and installed separately.
Best,
Hemant
On Mon, Apr 21,
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:30:32PM -0400, Build Announcer v2 wrote:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1889
Changes in build 1889 from build: 1870
Size delta: 17.43M
+kernel-PAE 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
-python-jinja 1.2-2.fc7
+python-jinja 1.2-1.fc7
-kernel
Hemant,
I got the RPMs from this page:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Screen_Reader#Installing_speech-dispatcher_on_the_xo
I assumed they were the latest available. It will be awhile before I
can try anything else, so don't worry about being able to upload new
RPM's. I just wanted you to know
Also, was the fact that it bricks your machine design intent?
I'm sad now.
-Original Message-
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Stone
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 2:57 PM
To: Build Announcer v2
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: New faster build
On 21.04.2008 20:58, Marcus Leech wrote:
Also, was the fact that it bricks your machine design intent?
I'm sad now.
Wrong kernel. Didn't we have recovery mechanisms for such situations?
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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On 21.04.2008, at 21:02, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 21.04.2008 20:58, Marcus Leech wrote:
Also, was the fact that it bricks your machine design intent?
I'm sad now.
Wrong kernel. Didn't we have recovery mechanisms for such situations?
Certainly. Hold down the O-game-key while
On 21.04.2008, at 21:26, Chris Barrett wrote:
When I do this I am unable to use the terminal in the rollback to do
anything of value. It keeps returning permission denied errors when
I try to switch user. Makes using olpc-update again impossible. At
least if you rollback to stable
Hi,
We need two things: a codec that we can encode and decode in
real-time (the demo from 2006 used h.263) and a transport layer --
I think we have a UDP transport for Salut, but not for Gabble, so
video chat would be on the local mesh only.
So are we designing from scratch?
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1890
Changes in build 1890 from build: 1889
Size delta: -17.57M
+kernel 2.6.22-20080408.1.olpc.de2a86ff3b60edc
-python-jinja 1.2-1.fc7
+python-jinja 1.2-2.fc7
-kernel-PAE 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
--- Included kernel version
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1890
Changes in build 1890 from build: 1889
Size delta: -17.43M
+kernel 2.6.22-20080408.1.olpc.de2a86ff3b60edc
-python-jinja 1.2-1.fc7
+python-jinja 1.2-2.fc7
-kernel-PAE 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
--- Included kernel version
After more than two years without a break at One Laptop per Child, I
have decided to take some time to reflect on how I can best contribute
going forward to the goal of giving children around the world
opportunities for a quality learning experience. The OLPC Association
is making headway getting
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 18:22 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
Thank you for all of your support over the past two years and for all
the feedback and encouragement you have given me.
regards.
-walter
It really sucks to see OLPC shriveling up and dying.
--
Resistance is not futile,
Walter,
Can you provide the state of the keyboards that have no note in the table:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mfg-data
I have been assuming that this is the table that is most up to date. If
there is no note in saying 'not yet approved', does that mean they have been
through the entire approval
I guess I'd like to err on the side that people believe by default that 'no
activities are supported'. That way anything that works is a plus!
In reality there are going to be some important things that we want to
ensure are really working with every major build... so we will need to do
some
Actually, I don't recall ever approving a Turkish keyboard... The rest
of the table seems up to date as far as I know. I had been in close
contact with several groups in Turkey about 12 months ago and at the
time, they were advocating the F layout. It would certainly be easy
enough to do a Q
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:54:13PM -0500, Joe Barr wrote:
It really sucks to see OLPC shriveling up and dying.
Joe,
It's good for people who have been unable to reconcile their differences
with one another to separate themselves, to recuperate, and eventually,
to re-engage one another with
We are all grateful to have had Walter's leadership and inspiration to get
us to this point. It should be inspiring to see OLPC branching out,
expanding and increasing support for children in many different ways.
OLPC has increased funding and resources in 2008 toward a continued
commitment to
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OLPC has increased funding and resources in 2008 toward a continued
commitment to helping kids in the least developed countries through
deployment of XOs and Sugar. I don't think there is any shriveling or dying
going on here.
On 22.04.2008 02:13, Michael Stone wrote:
What in this description of events leads you to the conclusion that OLPC
is shriveling up and dying?
Perhaps not shriveling up, but quite a few contributors/participants
from the early days (pre-A-Test till B2-Test) have left and the
perceived goals
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22.04.2008 02:13, Michael Stone wrote:
What in this description of events leads you to the conclusion that OLPC
is shriveling up and dying?
Perhaps not shriveling up, but quite a few
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Currently, I use an extremeley inelegant method to create standard
images for Nepal's deployment and I would very much like assistance in
finding a more elegant method. Michael Stone has been helping me hack
jffs2 images
Thanks Walter,
Does this mean you have approved Uzbec, Pashto, French Canadian, and Kazakh?
I am aware of the need for final approval of Italian, Khmer, and Napali.
Quanta is sending these keyboards to OLPC this week.
In the past when Quanta sends a first article for approval, do we need to
match
What happens when you want to upgrade to the next OLPC build? Do you have to
do it all again?
Kim
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Currently, I use an extremeley inelegant method
Martin,
Based on feedback from Peru, Mexico, and Nepal, the restoration from
disaster-recovery backups XO/XS coordination feature has been steadily
rising in priority. I also notice that Backups is your first line-item
on the XS-0.3 roadmap.
My large question is: what changes need to be made to
yes :), I would have to do it all over again.
I don't expect to update the os image for at least 4 months. Given that
it would take me a week's worth of testing to verify a new OLPC build.
In that four month period, I hope to find a more elegant solution.
not very elegant. Would like a better
Bryan,
not very elegant. Would like a better solution but time is short.
I've already suggested three more elegant mechanisms:
* tarball - edit - mkfs.jffs2,
* bootUSB - edit - savenand, and
* puritan.
We don't expect the kids to run olpc-update do we? Running OLPC-Update
on 170
Hi Michael,
thanks for looking into this - I had the wikipage in my sight, but not
the bugs you listed. Excellent, reading up to fill the gaps.
Based on feedback from Peru, Mexico, and Nepal, the restoration from
disaster-recovery backups XO/XS coordination feature has been steadily
rising
FYI,
Awhile back ago, I developed a quick-n-dirty little *rsync* script which
can be ran on the XO Laptop at any time and regularly.
Here's the latest online version...
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ixo/Script/xo-backup-server
I've set it up on my XO. And run it when-ever and where-ever
Dear devel,
Our builds are nothing more than specially-formatted Unix filesystems.
Q: What useful purpose is served by regenerating these filesystems
from scratch every time we want to change them?
A: We maintain an explanation of where the filesystem came from
encoded in the
Thanks Michael, I was looking for a quick solution since time is
limited. I am wary of trying something very different but I will put two
hours to it this afternoon and see what I can accomplish.
I have added Anna Schoolfield from the Birmingham deployment and Stefan
Reitzis to this thread.
On
Hi,
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 16:47, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
Ion has the ability to launch different types of workspaces. There are
three by default (although we could add to that). One of these is a
floating workspace. It's rather bad, but it works, and I think it would
be pretty cool to
2008/4/22 Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ion also has an quite difficult upstream author.
I'd suggest you look into awesome, see http://awesome.naquadah.org/
Looks nice. Trade difficult author for bad-choice-of-name? ;-)
cheers,
m
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On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am just settling down in my temporary office in Buenos Aires.
And right now I am back in my actual office in Wellington, NZ. ;-)
Work in BA was interrupted by a visit to Montevideo and Lima to meet
the local teams
Martin,
Based on feedback from Peru, Mexico, and Nepal, the restoration from
disaster-recovery backups XO/XS coordination feature has been steadily
rising in priority. I also notice that Backups is your first line-item
on the XS-0.3 roadmap.
My large question is: what changes need to be made to
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