Re: Walter leaving and shift to XP.
In brief, As Peruvian collaborator and open source developer, the issue of the departure of Walter and rumors about Windows XP really worry me. In Peru there are those who have worked with politicians and authorities speaks about the freedoms that the OLPC / XO means, may lose that? We need someone to tell us-officially-the position of the foundation and thus be able to make our own decisions, but even if it comes FLISOL in Latin America. Thanks, On 4/22/08, Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OLPC Association has done amazing things with limited resources and deserves to take great pride in this. However, this Negroponte quotation from the article seems correct to me: He lamented that an overriding insistence on open-source had hampered the XOs, saying Sugar grew amorphously and didn't have a software architect who did it in a crisp way. For instance, the laptops do not support Flash animation, widely used on the Web. There are several examples like that, that we have to address without worrying about the fundamentalism in some of the open-source community, he said. One can be an open-source advocate without being an open-source fundamentalist. You have to prioritize your goals when they conflict. The question to consider -- is it really the case that having a 100% pure open source platform is more important IN THE SHORT TERM than making a type of content available that is ubiquitous as a format for delivering educational content. Gnash is simply not an equivalent product to the Adobe player IN THE SHORT TERM and it would have been a pragmatic choice to work hard to get Adobe to permit their flash player to be shipped with the XO. By making these tradeoffs of upholding purity of open source when teachers and school/ed ministry people obviously prioritize the content ahead of the purity of the implementation, one ends up in a place where time is short and an MS port may be catching up. Of course the target audience will prefer the solution on which they can deliver the content they want. Essentially the attempt at total purity may result in a much worse outcome with respect to the open source goal. Recriminations against Negroponte are less productive than learning from the consequences of trying to achieve an overly ambitious constellation of conflicting goals. Instead reach the goals in priority order through realistic, explicit, predictable and explainable phasing, as now seems to be the plan. Certainly, if Walter manages to get funding for a project to expand sugar for other platforms it will assist in reaching the final target. More resources will be available to attack the problems posed by adopting an entirely new user interface such as sugar, while being asked to deliver applications and content that are the most understandable part of the OLPC package to the adopters.. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Alfonso de la Guarda COS www.cos-la.org www.delaguarda.info Telef. 97550914 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Outsider Peruavian Chronicle
OLPC collaborators. Here I must add that just gave me pleasure to know that a few weeks ago Sebastian Silva would seek to form a group of volunteers to help with the case, the truth is that today I can say that despite their good intentions, a community leader must have skills . Not have-and that will certainly lead to more conflict-between groups or institutions that wish to collaborate. The issue may seem a personal vendetta, but honestly, goes far beyond that and who leads should seek conciliation agreement, the things that simply has rejected my duty and disapprove and avoid the spread of bad example. In a few days more comment on progress with the government of Junin (since I travel in a few days) and in general about the activities that have been working our collaborators. -- Alfonso de la Guarda COS www.cos-la.org ICTEC SAC www.ictechperu.net www.delaguarda.info Telef. 97550914 4726906 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Technical Event from COS
Hi, The June 30, we are making the course: Multiplatform Programming with Python+Gtk+Glade thinking in Sugar o Programación Multiplataforma con Python+Gtk+Glade pensando en Sugar with the help of Eduardo Silva from Chile (who arrives to Peru the June 28 for many events pro-OLPC). The course will be free, a duration of 4 hours, in Spanish and through real time video streaming for many countries (slots limited) -questions by chat-. The goal is give to the starter python programmers resources for develop activities/applications running on any OS incluging XO/Sugar. More information: http://www.cosperu.com Video Stream Server: http://cosperu.com:8000 (NSV streams with 24kbps audio) (Clients: VLC/mplayer/winamp) Thanks, Alfonso de la Guarda ICTEC SAC www.cosperu.com www.delaguarda.info Telef. 97550914 4726906 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: SW Dev meeting minutes, 6/26/07
On 6/26/07, Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SW meeting Minutes: We went through open issues that affect Trial-2 feature freeze; then discussed some blocking bugs * Ivan discussed the activation feature - it fell behind as we are trying to sort out the updates; but he believes he can still get a minimum activation feature into the release over the next few days. He will touch base with J5 and Blizzard on changes that are coming or might be done in userland init so that won't affect activation. He is also waiting on hardware to test crypto and keys. Hopefully he and Mitch will make progress on this next week when Mitch is at 1CC. * CJB provided an update on Suspend/Resume - the code that Marcelo and Marvell got working in CA last week hasn't been working at 1CC. Marvell and Cozybit are still working on this but it is difficult to get the systems that show the problem in the same room as the people trying to fix it. Mitch suggested trying to completely replicate the nand image from the one that shows the problem and send it out to Marvell. * J5 mentioned that he is getting ogg files and streaming video to work soon. FC7 is done and he is doing a build tonight with latest sugar, telepathy, and AMD driver for x server. ogg and streams through gst?... we need some options for recode ITv from vlc to anything.. and analyze the network performance since many concurrent users can degrade the network. * Bernie mentioned that there is a bug with x that looks pretty bad. It may be an upstream problem in which case we may want to revert the x server. * We agreed that gamepad buttons rotating with screen rotation can be a future feature - not necessary for Trial-2. It is important to 'stop' checking in code that belongs to a future release so we can stablize this code base. So please don't check in new features or big new chunks of code if we don't know it is coming. (Especially by the end of this week). * Ivan mentioned that we might want to pull master into the vserver branch and test out of that one (I'll try to follow up on this just so I understand it, since it might not have been jg's expectation - we don't need too many surprises for when he returns). Andres has been ill so there hasn't been much kernel work in the last few days. * Scott reported that he has been looking at IPv6 and DNS for the school server. We will need to reset expectations on what can be delivered as school server support for Trial-2 since I don't believe there has been any resources available for this. * We went through some blocking bugs owned by people on the call and they are moving along. * Mitch warned that the suspend resume issues may still require EC change. * Mitch and Ivan will be working on 'real' school server firmware and some of the related security issues next week. Thanks everyone! Kim ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Alfonso de la Guarda ICTEC SAC www.cosperu.com www.delaguarda.info Telef. 97550914 4726906 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Network Traffic and Multicast
Hi. After EduKT and AmiGO, we are working on ITv which has been develop for any OS except XO because the usage of 2 very dynamic libraries: tubes and gst (for regular linux/windows we are using vlc/twisted) the next week we will launch a video demo of ITv (Interactive Television), which allows 1 video channel and 3 real time data channel however i have to know about the performance of the network, bandwidth usage for multicast, dead times over a stream, coverage (ideal range) of the mesh... the goal is optimize the traffic consume and low latency issues. Thanks, -- Alfonso de la Guarda ICTEC SAC www.cosperu.com www.delaguarda.info Telef. 97550914 4726906 ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
