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directory would be nice.
Even for us, lucky connected chaps, most applications come
with offline documentation...
I'm done with my last 2cts :)
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the FLOSS/DOCS presentation in which I summarize
the background ideas and motivations for this proposal:
http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/the-four-letters-word-of-floss-docs.html
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o compile and install a
> modified GCompris activity in this xo?, really need help plz, im
> suposed to have them installed and working on the xo next week.
> sorry for the inconvenience
> thx, bye
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ing with the developer of Kiwix¹ to help have such a process.
It's still work in progress, but I hope we'll be able to release code
soon. Stay tuned.
¹ http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page
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ttp://www.kiwix.org/) - he is currently actively working
on a kiwix.xo activity, and I agree your point is important.
I'll follow-up with answers, if any.
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Daniel Drake writes:
> On 28 April 2010 11:30, Bastien wrote:
>> The problem is that our 100 XOs (in Madagascar) are *not* connected to
>> the Internet.
>>
>> Is there a way to get a developer key (or to disable security) for all
>> our 100 (soon 160) XO witho
e machines are connected to the Internet...
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How do I create the requested fs.zip?
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James Cameron writes:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 05:19:39PM +0200, Bastien wrote:
>> 2. I told build.py to run a script which removes the file I want to
>> get rid of (which is ${imgdir}/home/olpc/.sugar-update) - but the
>> script fails and complains this file is miss
Bastien writes:
> How to build a modified os802_fr.img (and its friend fs.zip)?
Ok, I made some progress.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image_builder was helpful.
I managed to create my own images (fr802.crc, fr802.img, fr802.img.md5)
using build.py script.
But I still have two problems:
#x27;t
plan to distribute this image.
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Martin Langhoff writes:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Carlos Nazareno wrote:
>> (she had previous iPhone experience)
>
> That's called cheating! ;-)
Especially now that the iPad secret has been revealed:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0bixcHAZo1qz8wm5o1_5
Trying to put both english and spanish languages in a unique
activity would make it too big I guess.
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bundle makes that bundle way too heavy.
For now the plan is to one version per language on ASLO.
Is that so inconvenient for massive deployments?
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often saturated: how to reduce the gain
of the camera? Ideally one would like to do this manually...
- is there a way to take pictures with a higher resolution? the
default compression level doesn't produce great pictures.
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> Thanks *very much* for these explanations.
>
> I hope this kind of information can find its way through the OLPC blog,
> maybe with a little more context. Then we can fight the FUD by linking
> to these explanations.
I've just written an entry about this o
ted alone.
Point taken.
Oh and please don't tell the Slashdot crowd that there is no trace of
Apollo 11 when looking at the moon from the Moon activity - otherwise
they will start looking for Obama-biography.xo.
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Point taken.
Oh and please don't tell the Slashdot crowd that there is no trace of
Apollo 11 when looking at the moon from the Moon activity...
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grassroots?
When I saw this job announcement I thought it would actually be
something useful to have.
For example in this case, this director would be able to deliver
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> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Bastien wrote:
>> Thanks. But a blog entry would still look more official, and would have
>> more context explaining why those explanations are necessary.
>
> If you are going to wait or an official Linus Torvalds
James Cameron writes:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:50:33AM +0200, Bastien wrote:
>> Mitch just posted useful information. Still, having a link to a blog
>> post would help clarifying stuff.
>
> Here you go ...
>
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-July/
Christoph Derndorfer writes:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Bastien wrote:
>
> Carlos Nazareno writes:
>
> > I'm more than happy to post stuff, having a Slashdot account. I just
> > don't know what to post exactly as stuff is not yet clarif
CC'ing SJ this time...
Bastien writes:
> Thanks *very much* for these explanations.
>
> I hope this kind of information can find its way through the OLPC blog,
> maybe with a little more context. Then we can fight the FUD by linking
> to these explanations.
>
> C
Martin Langhoff writes:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Bastien wrote:
>> Carlos Nazareno writes:
>>
>>> I'm more than happy to post stuff, having a Slashdot account. I just
>>> don't know what to post exactly as stuff is not yet clarified.
>>
Carlos Nazareno writes:
> I'm more than happy to post stuff, having a Slashdot account. I just
> don't know what to post exactly as stuff is not yet clarified.
Mitch just posted useful information. Still, having a link to a blog
post would help clarifying stuf
Martin Langhoff writes:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Bastien wrote:
>> That's my point. We can fix this issue by raising an army of small
>> hands that will vote on your (correct) slashdot comment, spread the
>> correct vision, etc. Or we can hope that O
tel has near-total control over the evolution of the system architecture.
>
> It's possible - even likely - that I will have to spend some time in the
> next few months to make Windows boot on XO-1.5. I expect that will go
> quite quickly compared to the last effort, as the XO-1 work s
wares on its
hardware."
Nothing really new, and nothing that prevents nerds from taking it in
the wrong sense.
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software it must run and the
content it must have to truly become an education project.
OLPC now only sells machines and alternative ideas about education, but
the gap between these ideas and the machine is just huge enough so that
traditional habits about ICT in education can look more successful.
-
ilable
soon...
In the meantime, I've uploaded a tiny screencast here:
http://vimeo.com/5291250
It doesn't really explore SocialCalc, it just exposes it to the eyes.
But still, some eyes can't *believe* things until they are shown them.
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> videos of XO 1.5 in Taipei, etc. posted in a linux friendly format? XO users
> are excluded from viewing material about the XO. Where the FOSS are you!!
>
> In other words FOSS you..tube, use Ogg Vorbis!!
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>
> Ultimately, I intend to port the OLPC kernel changes into a Fedora
> kernel. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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http://sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads/lang-fr
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into french - any way to host a
translation on the SugarLabs wiki? (Maybe something similar to
what wiki.laptop.org offered?)
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> Getting vim-enhanced takes 22MB more, which is a fair bit for
> something 99.9% of our users won't want or need.
99.99999%
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It's now two weeks since that message.
Anyone volunteering to build such a who's who at OLPC HQ?
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"C. Scott Ananian" writes:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Bastien wrote:
>> Victor Lazzarini writes:
>>
>>> [...] In other words, it would be useful to get a who's who for the
>>> project.
>>
>> +1
>
> Please have some consi
Victor Lazzarini writes:
> [...] In other words, it would be useful to get a who's who for the
> project.
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> Has that white-on-black version of the logo appeared anywhere else?
I don't know...
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rest of it, it sounds fake, it's too short, what we see and
hear is nothing but a distraction from the core message. Looks like
people have been playing with a beautiful idea, but ended up with a
toy-movie.
My favorite so far is Waveplace's one:
http://fr
"Martin Langhoff" writes:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Bastien wrote:
>> I just assumed the OP did a mistake.
>
> And it's fun to try to read articles in foreign languages. I tried,
> and half-understood :-)
Well, I think there is already enough miscom
"Ties Stuij" writes:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Bastien wrote:
>> Hi Jean,
>>
>> Jean Piché writes:
>>
>>> http://www2.infopresse.com/blogs/actualites/archive/2008/12/15/article-29417.aspx
>>
>> This article is in french
Hi Jean,
Jean Piché writes:
> http://www2.infopresse.com/blogs/actualites/archive/2008/12/15/article-29417.aspx
This article is in french - maybe you better want to send this to the
french OLPC mailing list: olpc-fra...@lists.laptop.org
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I've just updated http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:News
I'm not interested in maintaining this anymore.
Someone to take over?
PS: the page is way too big and the first job should be to split it and
to make it more readable...
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is there a way to clone a whole directory from git? E.g. I would like
to clone everything in the /activities/ directory. How do I do that?
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which will automatically replace typos by the correct spelling when the
replacement is 99% predictable. Or something along this idea.
(I'm not arguing on how writing should be taught...)
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>> When designing a spell-checker, we should keep in mind that the
>> spell-checker should always suggest correct spellings, and never
>> underline errors.
>
> I disagree. I think the standard "red do
always suggest correct spellings, and never
underline errors. In this respect MS Word spell-checker (and a
few others I tested) is just a disaster: it helps people remember
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Please someone... emulate this within Sugar!
http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf
That'd be the best ad campaign for the next G1G1!
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"Carlos Nazareno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A spinoff from the name Sugar? Before Sugar was spunoff to run on
> other platforms, I think journalists kept calling the XO's OS Sugar.
>
> Mmm. Sugar-XO?
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for the name of the screenshot.
Whether users are encouraged or not to actually name and tags things
on the XO can be influence by such UI features - no?
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Did anyone take this route? Or can someone give me some more hints on
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But it appears that the Help activity (for example) is not listed in
these pages. What URL should I use?
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.0 could be improved (and whether such a thing would
> actually be most useful - maybe there's a better solution) would be
> great as well.
Maybe something like Stack Overflow?
http://stackoverflow.com/
Or maybe tags could group XO|Sugar-related questions on Stack Overflow?
-
ptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/8.2
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Build Announcer v2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/xo-1/streams/8.2/build764
>
> Changes in build 764 from build: 763
To download and install it through USB:
http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/olpc_install_sugar_activities_usb.p
Chris Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, what happened to the white circle around the network circle in
> the Neighborhood to indicate which was connected? I liked that visual
> confirmation.
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> Well, even spelling it "external power required" is better than the
> cryptic "AC not present".
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'm not ready to
>> send it out to the wide world, but I'm pretty sure it's going to pass.)
>
> Good hint! We'll use 759 then.
I've juste updated the easy-usb-install page:
current stable: os711
current testing: 8.2-759
current joyride: jr2388
h
http://www.spinscape.com/
http://www.mindmeister.com/
http://www.mindjet.com/
http://www.thebrain.com/
All this being really too sparkling for my old-fashioned linear
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"Martin Langhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> n Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> | AC not present
>
> Plug it to power to complete the firmware upgrade step...
AArghh! Thanks. For me "AC/DC" has never meant a
Any help would be *much* appreciated as I promised to send this
computer to a professional translator for reviewing the kreyol
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visualize earth enlightenment depending on the position and the
hour of the day?
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a decent activity portal. I know a couple of people have
> looked at the codebase behind addons.mozilla.org, but that didn't get
> far yet.
+1
We are holding a development week-end in mid-november in France, and if
there is no such portal we may as well develop our.
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latest: Joyride 2364
*test*: 8.2-757
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#x27;s becomes more
important to encourage them to be selective about what they keep,
encouraging regular cleaning up.
> I hope this clarifies my position on this subject a bit, and paints a
> picture which is really just a different perspective on
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nt", and "don't really need it, but i won't
> throw it away until necessary".
That makes a lot of choices.
At least for me, I like when organization emerges from the use of simple
actions afforded by the UI, rather than having an UI that asks me to get
a bit more
#x27;m curious whether someone did this job of being prompted.
How long does it take? If you can't remember what a file contains,
checking if it's safe to delete it by trying to reopen it might be
tiring.
The whole idea of a trashbin has its limitation, but so does our brain!
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ve been setting this page for, I
cannot check that all my instructions are perfectly appropriate.
If anyone could send me feedback on these two points, I'd be very
thankful!
I will update this zip archives every week.
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> Sorry, but I couldn't make it. Meeting conflict on campus. Does anyone
> have notes/irc logs?
Here is what I have:
[18:03]*** You have joined channel #olpc
*** Topic for #olpc: Web support: http://forum.laptop.org | IRC
support: #olpc
ything under this directory is now emtpy:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1/streams/joyride/latest/
2302 is not empty, but 2303 is since midday. Something wrong?
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Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 16:31 -0500, Bastien wrote:
>> Shouldn't I use jffs2 instead?
>
> If flashing to XO nand, yes.
> If booting from USB/SD, no.
All right, thanks.
>> http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/xo-1
2090.img -- fine.
But what about fs.zip? Is it safe to use the old (708) one?
> (It would be great if you could add this to the place you think it
> should be in the wiki, thanks!)
I will as soon as I'm sure where to put what...
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> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 15:59 -0500, Bastien wrote:
>> I've been visiting these pages without luck:
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Joyride
>
> Follow the 'Build downloads' link
>
> This also h
laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/
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tually have the rest of
> the collaboration details taken care of. We don't want to complicate
> things until that works predictably.
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aring A's version with it's own?
When the activities will re-open in the same shared-state they were when
closed, it might be very useful have a function to let A and B check for
diffs and merge their two versions - without doing manually.
There might be an "easy-merge" mode
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> needed.
Yeah. Adults won't do it neither, unless they get paid for that :)
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structure looks pretty neat, and maybe something like that could be
useful on top of the git page for the activities.
FWIW.
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development is not strong enough to dispute about the relevance of such
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Another simplement argument: this will be clearer for users to know
where to send feedback. If you have a question about a particular
activity, ask on the activity list. For other questions ask on the
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> and not the XO in particular.
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ll a specific bundle with extra activities
If Sugar installation takes this route, then there is something else
that has to be defined: the default "favorite" activities. Each deb
package above should define the default set of favs. And maybe there
could be a way
Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>> It's not that important anyway. It just occurred to me that the
>> dependancies management challenge could be somehow dealt with by
>> delivering a set of defau
27;d reorder this into:
1. Power management
2. OS Updates
3. The datastore
4. File Sharing
5. Bitfrost
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uite easy to do (Activities) have really stagnated. At the moment we
> lack maintainers for most of them. Browse, Pippy, Chat, Terminal and
> Etoys are well covered because they are maintained by core people.
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