Re: Datastore/Journal + [IAEP] Coloring books on the XO?

2008-07-13 Thread Brian Jordan
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Seth Woodworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you feel about providing coloring books like activities in sugar? I've found material from the American Red Cross on Disaster Preparedness in around 20 languages[1]. I feel that it would be fairly trivial work to

Fwd: [Olpc-open] Video/audio from David Cavallo's Learning team talk, Friday 2:10pm-3:45pm.

2008-07-13 Thread Brian Jordan
Can anyone convert the .mov to flash video or a Windows Media Player acceptable format for Jane? ffmpeg or iMovie 08 could do the trick. I can't do any video conversion until I'm at the office on Monday, and even then I have an especially busy day. David -- can you put your slides up online

Geek Porn

2008-07-13 Thread John Watlington
I posted some annotated photos of the production XO motherboard on the wiki at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Motherboard http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Motherboard_Repair How many Graffle users out there ? I would post the originals if I thought anyone else used that wonderful program.

Re: State of 8.2.0, July 12, 2008

2008-07-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis recently made us an 8.2 release build stream. For the time being, you're all doing a great job providing good fixes, so Dennis will automatically merge changes from joyride into the 8.2 stream as soon as he sees a

Re: [Olpc-open] Video/audio from David Cavallo's Learning team talk, Friday 2:10pm-3:45pm.

2008-07-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
FWIW not even MPlayer did play the OGG video for me, I had to use VLC ... - Bert - Am 13.07.2008 um 09:37 schrieb Brian Jordan: Can anyone convert the .mov to flash video or a Windows Media Player acceptable format for Jane? ffmpeg or iMovie 08 could do the trick. I can't do any video

Project Hosting Application: SocialCalc

2008-07-13 Thread Manusheel Gupta
1. Project name : SocialCalc 2. Existing website, if any : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SocialCalc and http://www.socialtext.net/socialcalcxo/index.cgi?sweet_socialcalc 3. One-line description : The spreadsheet activity. 4. Longer description : SocialCalc is a

Re: Activity Backward Compatibility (was re: Re: joyride 2128 smoketest)

2008-07-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that we do not have backward compatibility in 8.2.0 as it currently stands. For Glucose we are supposed to be backward compatible with Update.1. ABI breaks should be reported as bugs. Can we bound the test

Re: State of 8.2.0, July 12, 2008

2008-07-13 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 13.07.2008 um 06:11 schrieb Michael Stone: http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/8.2-joyride.html - Bert, could you please make a version of your status pages which shows package changelog entries? Thanks in advance! Unfortunately not - at least the last time I tried I found it too

Re: Geek Porn

2008-07-13 Thread Brian Jordan
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:14 AM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted some annotated photos of the production XO motherboard on the wiki at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Motherboard http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Motherboard_Repair How many Graffle users out there ? I would post

Re: Geek Porn

2008-07-13 Thread Ian Daniher
If you are willing to export the Graffle documents to eps, svg, or to the format of any FOSS comparison software, I'll try and do some tweaking, perhaps make a few categorical images, one showing power rails, another showing connectors, and so on. Thanks so much for making these images! -- Ian

Re: Fwd: [Olpc-open] Video/audio from David Cavallo's Learning team talk, Friday 2:10pm-3:45pm.

2008-07-13 Thread bzg
Hi all. Can anyone convert the .mov to flash video or a Windows Media Player acceptable format for Jane? ffmpeg or iMovie 08 could do the trick. Sebastien Adgnot is currently converting the file and putting it on the OLPC dailymotion space. That will help overcome codecs issues or low

Re: State of 8.2.0, July 12, 2008

2008-07-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:22:50AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis recently made us an 8.2 release build stream. For the time being, you're all doing a great job providing good fixes, so Dennis will

Reactos.zip and motherboard question

2008-07-13 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello Today I had a little problem with my OLPC B4. Long story short - windows XP support announcement, although controversial, was good news for my project acceptance (and more importantly, financing)- which really did surprise me, but whatever. So I wanted to resume my development efforts,

Re: Activity Backward Compatibility (was re: Re: joyride 2128 smoketest)

2008-07-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 06:56:35PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: We should definitely have backward compatibility for activities! Your desire to maintain backwards compatibility for activities is a worthy goal but you need to be aware that there remain several areas in which we will likely break

Re: State of 8.2.0, July 12, 2008

2008-07-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you mean with positive report? The same statement that a tag like 'joyride-2153:+' means: someone specifically retested an issue on a build known to contain the package(s) you want to ship and could not reproduce

B4 motherboard question

2008-07-13 Thread Guylhem Aznar
Hello I was wondering if I could return my motherboard to get a current mass-production one without the documented hardware bugs : I fear I may not be able to perform all the fixes required (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/B4_Suspend_ECR), while I would need suspend support. I guess the current

Re: State of 8.2.0, July 12, 2008

2008-07-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sugar slowness redraws - Sugar feels really slow both because it is and because we're seeing lots of intermediate states (redraws, overlapping icons, ...) I assume you mean this regressed compared to Update.1. Can it

Re: [Localization] How do we manage translation effort in Release, process/roadmap?

2008-07-13 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I answered this. * sugar-base * sugar-toolkit * sugar * chat-activity * web-activity * read-activity * log-activity * write-activity * calculate-activity * terminal-activity * pippy-activity *

Re: Activity Backward Compatibility (was re: Re: joyride 2128 smoketest)

2008-07-13 Thread C. Scott Ananian
The general solution to this problem is trac #4951, the activity updater, which I've landed recently. Trac #7495 says that the first boot after an upgrade should open the activity updater, so that a version of the activity compatible with the new OS can be installed if necessary. The activity

Re: ssl authentication [was (another) WebKit port of Browse]

2008-07-13 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jul 12, 2008, at 11:59 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: Which IDMR - the sun one with all the usual/heavily standardized industry protocols - or something OLPC specific ? It's not a protocol, just a small Python script that does some XML-RPC nonsense from what I recall. -- Ivan Krstić

Re: ssl authentication [was (another) WebKit port of Browse]

2008-07-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Ivan Krstić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 12, 2008, at 11:59 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: Which IDMR - the sun one with all the usual/heavily standardized industry protocols - or something OLPC specific ? It's not a protocol, just a small Python script

Re: Geek Porn

2008-07-13 Thread John Watlington
On Jul 13, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Ian Daniher wrote: If you are willing to export the Graffle documents to eps, svg, or to the format of any FOSS comparison software, I'll try and do some tweaking, perhaps make a few categorical images, one showing power rails, another showing connectors,

POT inconsistent against code for Record activity

2008-07-13 Thread Korakurider
Hello. I noticed right now record-activity.po is based on old POT. Here is a record in the PO: #: constants.py:106 #, python-format msgid %(1)s hours, %(2)s minutes, %(1)s seconds remaining Apparently one of placeholders is incorrect, but this has been fixed in repo at the commit of

Journal metadata - buddies as a string?

2008-07-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
Looking at the .metadata files that the Journal now maintains, I find that the buddies field is a string that stores a multidimensional array... is this a bug? Or perhaps Xapian cannot sture md arrays? Either way, looks like either a big or an artifact from the '90s to me :-) All I care to know

Re: POT inconsistent against code for Record activity

2008-07-13 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, The main issue here seems to be the fact that the location of the Record repository has changed (earlier, the Record POT was fetched from a SVN repository). Is this going the repository from where further Record development will be happening in the future ? In that case, I'll switch over

Re: [Server-devel] volunteer for offline Moodle

2008-07-13 Thread David Van Assche
So the Google Gears rpm is finished (good lesson for me on how to package for Fedora) and we are working on the final obstacle for Browse, which is finding where in God's name the chrome subdirs are supposed to go... when thats done, we can create the browse rpm too... So I have a slightly

Re: [Server-devel] volunteer for offline Moodle

2008-07-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 5:53 PM, David Van Assche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the Google Gears rpm is finished (good lesson for me on how to package for Fedora) and we are working on the final obstacle for Browse, which is finding where in God's name the chrome subdirs are supposed to go...

Re: [Server-devel] Moodle: File upload question

2008-07-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Tarun Pondicherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I posted this question on the Moodle forums a while ago, but got no response. I was thinking you might know the answer. http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=100822#p445265 I replied right there. if you mention

Re: [Server-devel] Puppet -- looks like a neat tool for managing school servers

2008-07-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetIntroduction I will probably play w/ it tomorrow. could be a neat tool for keeping xs's up-to-date I am familiar with Puppet. We might steal a few ideas and tools from it, but

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Question

2008-07-13 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Walter, I lost the context of your comment. I assume you are talking about the request for a workflow that passes the edit focus from one kid to the next to the teacher. Let me know if this doesn't answer your question. We did evaluate the Journalism activity. You can see early Edublog

[Server-devel] OLPC/Sugar related MIME Types...

2008-07-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
I am going to add some MIME types for Apache on the XO - application/vnd.olpc-sugar xo - application/vnd.olpc-content xol - application/vnd.olpc-journal-entry xoj The above list comes from a bit of Googling about. Are there any other mime types that we care about? cheers, m -- [EMAIL

[Server-devel] Missing theme for Moodle

2008-07-13 Thread Tony Pearson
From: Myles Carrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony, re item 2: the Moodle site is not set up correctly - and it's not a Postgres issue. Viewing the source you'll see that you're not displaying valid html... in fact the header and footer files (displayed from the chosen theme) aren't present... and

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Beta Server

2008-07-13 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Tony, You are King (or Raja :-) Thanks a lot! BTW a teacher in Uruguay created some art work for us. I attached them here (let me know if they don't come through). You can put them on the home page or where ever they seem to fit, if you have time. I can't wait to try out the new

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Beta Server

2008-07-13 Thread Tony Pearson
BTW a teacher in Uruguay created some art work for us. I attached them here (let me know if they don't come through). You can put them on the home page or where ever they seem to fit, if you have time. Greg, Teacher artwork incorporated into the home page. Tony Pearson