13.1.0 schedule: 1 week extension
Hi, The final 2 dates in the 13.1.0 schedule has been modified. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/13.1.0/Release_plan The move to regression-fixes-only is now November 15th, and the final release is now scheduled for December 13th. Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
q7b04
Hi, I just flashed my 4B1 to q7b04 (from q7b01), it seemed to finish normally, rebooted, now it's bricked - Invalid Firmware image, powering off in 30 secs. Any idea what could be wrong? The machine seemed to work fine before. Also, I gave away my serial adapter, can only get it back after the weekend, is there another way to get it working again? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: q7b04
there's another copy of the firmware in the root filesystem that's being checked for auto-updating, and it's out-of-date, and we changed the format. at the ok prompt, run: ok delete int:\boot\bootfw.zip ok delete int:\boot\bootfw4.zip only one of those two commands will be successful -- i believe the second one. (but since i can't remember for sure the name of the offending file, i'm suggesting you run both. :-) paul bert wrote: Hi, I just flashed my 4B1 to q7b04 (from q7b01), it seemed to finish normally, rebooted, now it's bricked - Invalid Firmware image, powering off in 30 secs. Any idea what could be wrong? The machine seemed to work fine before. Also, I gave away my serial adapter, can only get it back after the weekend, is there another way to get it working again? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: q7b04
That worked, thanks! I hadn't noticed the OFW prompt still worked. And it's the second command (I 'dir'ed before). - Bert - On 2012-11-02, at 16:32, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: there's another copy of the firmware in the root filesystem that's being checked for auto-updating, and it's out-of-date, and we changed the format. at the ok prompt, run: ok delete int:\boot\bootfw.zip ok delete int:\boot\bootfw4.zip only one of those two commands will be successful -- i believe the second one. (but since i can't remember for sure the name of the offending file, i'm suggesting you run both. :-) paul bert wrote: Hi, I just flashed my 4B1 to q7b04 (from q7b01), it seemed to finish normally, rebooted, now it's bricked - Invalid Firmware image, powering off in 30 secs. Any idea what could be wrong? The machine seemed to work fine before. Also, I gave away my serial adapter, can only get it back after the weekend, is there another way to get it working again? - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =- paul fox, p...@laptop.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
OwNet
Hi everyone, We are a group of students from the Slovak University of Technology. Last year we took part in an international competition called Imagine Cup. We created an application, called OwNet, that enables users with poor Internet connection browse the Web more effectively and even offline by providing a local proxy that intelligently caches and prefetches Web pages. It also contains some educational features, as it is intended for schools in Africa. OwNet is currently being deployed in Kenya, at schools in Nanyuki and Voi. Because of the rules of the Imagine Cup competition, our application is implemented using Microsoft technologies. However, this year we are going to reimplement it using cross-platform technologies so that it can also be used under Linux. Recently we came across the project OLPC. We find it very interesting and, if possible, we would like to contribute to the project. Could our application be somehow useful to OLPC? Possibly some parts could be integrated into the Sugar interface (e.g. intelligent caching, prefetching or educational features). Since we intend a full reimplementation, we could choose features based on your preference or suggestions. We would really appreciate your feedback, questions or ideas. You can also find more information about the project on our website: http://ownet.fiit.stuba.sk/?l=uk Thank you very much. Cheers, the OwNet team ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
gathering use cases
There are several use cases that may or may not get addressed when designing a particular software stack to address a requirement. The XS 0.7 is designed to be a single image install and comes with Moodle. Given that I work with Moodle everyday, I see the pros and cons of it being central on the XS. I am in fact fairly happy with its current design, but also realize that it was built for a specific use case or three that OLPC needed at the time. There is also an effort (currently dubbed XS Community Edition) that is attempting to address certain other use cases where Moodle and other services could possibly become optional. We saw this at the OLPC SF Community Summit. I hope it will grow up to be the next XS (but that's another thread). My concern is that perhaps, if we don't do our homework right, we will once again build something that will fail to address a use case or two. Can one design address all use cases? Maybe not. But it's good to know what those use cases are. To this end, I would like to collect data on different possible use cases from all kinds of deployments. I have a student (cc'd) who is working on this project currently. She will gather data from various deployments (suitcase, boutique, MoE etc) as much as possible (with the cooperation of projects, of course) and write a report on what we see out there. We'll gladly make the report available once it is done. Is this useful? What should the scope be? Initially I had thought of the server side, but that may be limiting. What should we gather? Location, school, size, personnel, skills, electricity, Internet access, language, sugar version, ... Feedback? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: gathering use cases
Thanks much Sameer. Am including support-g...@laptop.org to make sure we gather microdeployment and support volunteer feedback too. While our XS Community Edition experiment ain't quite ready for showtime/download yet, its white paper code repository are here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Holt/XS_Community_Edition Feedback will be especially interesting this week as many of us will reconvene outside Toronto Nov 10-18 to advance this work, with nightly Skype calls then for those with a strong interest in contributing. Daniel Drake helped George a lot in SF, but note SF Summit presenter (one of XSCE's lead developers, George Hunt) is part of the 3 million households / 6-10 million people lacking electricity around NY/NJ due to the Hurricane Sandy, so he won't be able to respond immediately -- please don't let that stop you from carefully reviewing his/our work -- responses will certainly be forthcoming later in the week! On 11/2/2012 4:15 PM, Sameer Verma wrote: There are several use cases that may or may not get addressed when designing a particular software stack to address a requirement. The XS 0.7 is designed to be a single image install and comes with Moodle. Given that I work with Moodle everyday, I see the pros and cons of it being central on the XS. I am in fact fairly happy with its current design, but also realize that it was built for a specific use case or three that OLPC needed at the time. There is also an effort (currently dubbed XS Community Edition) that is attempting to address certain other use cases where Moodle and other services could possibly become optional. We saw this at the OLPC SF Community Summit. I hope it will grow up to be the next XS (but that's another thread). My concern is that perhaps, if we don't do our homework right, we will once again build something that will fail to address a use case or two. Can one design address all use cases? Maybe not. But it's good to know what those use cases are. To this end, I would like to collect data on different possible use cases from all kinds of deployments. I have a student (cc'd) who is working on this project currently. She will gather data from various deployments (suitcase, boutique, MoE etc) as much as possible (with the cooperation of projects, of course) and write a report on what we see out there. We'll gladly make the report available once it is done. Is this useful? What should the scope be? Initially I had thought of the server side, but that may be limiting. What should we gather? Location, school, size, personnel, skills, electricity, Internet access, language, sugar version, ... Feedback? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ -- Help kids everywhere map their world, at http://olpcMAP.net ! ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
RE: OwNet
Sounds good.. From: mlip...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 19:50:20 +0100 Subject: OwNet To: devel@lists.laptop.org Hi everyone,We are a group of students from the Slovak University of Technology. Last year we took part in an international competition called Imagine Cup. We created an application, called OwNet, that enables users with poor Internet connection browse the Web more effectively and even offline by providing a local proxy that intelligently caches and prefetches Web pages. It also contains some educational features, as it is intended for schools in Africa. OwNet is currently being deployed in Kenya, at schools in Nanyuki and Voi. Because of the rules of the Imagine Cup competition, our application is implemented using Microsoft technologies. However, this year we are going to reimplement it using cross-platform technologies so that it can also be used under Linux. Recently we came across the project OLPC. We find it very interesting and, if possible, we would like to contribute to the project. Could our application be somehow useful to OLPC? Possibly some parts could be integrated into the Sugar interface (e.g. intelligent caching, prefetching or educational features). Since we intend a full reimplementation, we could choose features based on your preference or suggestions. We would really appreciate your feedback, questions or ideas. You can also find more information about the project on our website: http://ownet.fiit.stuba.sk/?l=uk Thank you very much. Cheers,the OwNet team ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: OwNet
implemented using Microsoft technologies. However=2C this year we are goin= g to reimplement it using cross-platform technologies so that it can also b= e used under Linux. Have you heard of the Squid caching proxy for the Web? Lots of people at the slow end of an Internet connection use it, including major ISPs. It's already written, portable, and debugged. See: http://www.squid-cache.org/ I also see a Sri Lankan effort called Dalesa, that works in both Windows and Linux: http://www.opensource.lk/projects-Dalesa John ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: OwNet
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Martin Lipták mlip...@gmail.com wrote: We are a group of students from the Slovak University of Technology. Last year we took part in an international competition called Imagine Cup. We created an application, called OwNet, that enables users with poor Internet connection browse the Web more effectively and even offline by providing a local proxy that intelligently caches and prefetches Web pages. It also contains some educational features, as it is intended for schools in Africa. Very interesting. How does that compare, include or interact with ... ? - crcsync project - wwwoffle cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: gathering use cases
Sameer, You should talk to SomosAzucar and Aleksey Lim about the use case for Sugar Network being developed for a pilot in LimaNorte. cjl On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: There are several use cases that may or may not get addressed when designing a particular software stack to address a requirement. The XS 0.7 is designed to be a single image install and comes with Moodle. Given that I work with Moodle everyday, I see the pros and cons of it being central on the XS. I am in fact fairly happy with its current design, but also realize that it was built for a specific use case or three that OLPC needed at the time. There is also an effort (currently dubbed XS Community Edition) that is attempting to address certain other use cases where Moodle and other services could possibly become optional. We saw this at the OLPC SF Community Summit. I hope it will grow up to be the next XS (but that's another thread). My concern is that perhaps, if we don't do our homework right, we will once again build something that will fail to address a use case or two. Can one design address all use cases? Maybe not. But it's good to know what those use cases are. To this end, I would like to collect data on different possible use cases from all kinds of deployments. I have a student (cc'd) who is working on this project currently. She will gather data from various deployments (suitcase, boutique, MoE etc) as much as possible (with the cooperation of projects, of course) and write a report on what we see out there. We'll gladly make the report available once it is done. Is this useful? What should the scope be? Initially I had thought of the server side, but that may be limiting. What should we gather? Location, school, size, personnel, skills, electricity, Internet access, language, sugar version, ... Feedback? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
[Server-devel] gathering use cases
There are several use cases that may or may not get addressed when designing a particular software stack to address a requirement. The XS 0.7 is designed to be a single image install and comes with Moodle. Given that I work with Moodle everyday, I see the pros and cons of it being central on the XS. I am in fact fairly happy with its current design, but also realize that it was built for a specific use case or three that OLPC needed at the time. There is also an effort (currently dubbed XS Community Edition) that is attempting to address certain other use cases where Moodle and other services could possibly become optional. We saw this at the OLPC SF Community Summit. I hope it will grow up to be the next XS (but that's another thread). My concern is that perhaps, if we don't do our homework right, we will once again build something that will fail to address a use case or two. Can one design address all use cases? Maybe not. But it's good to know what those use cases are. To this end, I would like to collect data on different possible use cases from all kinds of deployments. I have a student (cc'd) who is working on this project currently. She will gather data from various deployments (suitcase, boutique, MoE etc) as much as possible (with the cooperation of projects, of course) and write a report on what we see out there. We'll gladly make the report available once it is done. Is this useful? What should the scope be? Initially I had thought of the server side, but that may be limiting. What should we gather? Location, school, size, personnel, skills, electricity, Internet access, language, sugar version, ... Feedback? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] gathering use cases
Sameer, You should talk to SomosAzucar and Aleksey Lim about the use case for Sugar Network being developed for a pilot in LimaNorte. cjl On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: There are several use cases that may or may not get addressed when designing a particular software stack to address a requirement. The XS 0.7 is designed to be a single image install and comes with Moodle. Given that I work with Moodle everyday, I see the pros and cons of it being central on the XS. I am in fact fairly happy with its current design, but also realize that it was built for a specific use case or three that OLPC needed at the time. There is also an effort (currently dubbed XS Community Edition) that is attempting to address certain other use cases where Moodle and other services could possibly become optional. We saw this at the OLPC SF Community Summit. I hope it will grow up to be the next XS (but that's another thread). My concern is that perhaps, if we don't do our homework right, we will once again build something that will fail to address a use case or two. Can one design address all use cases? Maybe not. But it's good to know what those use cases are. To this end, I would like to collect data on different possible use cases from all kinds of deployments. I have a student (cc'd) who is working on this project currently. She will gather data from various deployments (suitcase, boutique, MoE etc) as much as possible (with the cooperation of projects, of course) and write a report on what we see out there. We'll gladly make the report available once it is done. Is this useful? What should the scope be? Initially I had thought of the server side, but that may be limiting. What should we gather? Location, school, size, personnel, skills, electricity, Internet access, language, sugar version, ... Feedback? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://commons.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/ ___ Devel mailing list de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
