We can run an anti-blanking bot to avoid the most obvious spam. Requiring
logins makes tracking casual vandals harder without making it harder for any
dedicated vandal such as this one from doing their devious deeds.
Of course, if you want to restrict viral communication on our wiki by
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Joseph A. Feinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had the same instance today, with a community testing page. Spoke
with Kim... she said it's a wiki's feature, not a bug! ;-(
That's a fact. Anyone can revert spammers by visiting their edit history
and rolling
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Joseph A. Feinstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had the same instance today, with a community testing page. Spoke
with Kim... she said it's a wiki's feature, not a bug! ;-(
If you admit it's a wiki feature (which I
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Bastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PS: what are the currently installed software-based anti-spam tools on
the wiki?
: default mediawiki block tools for admins
: semiprotection for spam magnets
: a captcha required for anonymous or new editors that add external
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
C. Scott Ananian wrote:
Last I checked, Poly wasn't an employee of OLPC.
I don't think this is a valid argument either:
Not being an employee of OLPC does not mean I 'm willing to waste my
time on something
I continue to be uncomfortable that we are sending out restricted /
locked-down machines without a clear need. The arguments made so far for
this are
1. Getting G1G1 people to test security steps
2. Protecting G1G1 donors from installing anything but signed builds
3. Showing a pretty boot
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Watlington wrote:
| On May 22, 2008, at 11:01 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
| GPS enables a lot of mapping and geography-related educational
| activities, which is why it was originally considered for the
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Stephen John Smoogen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:23 PM, K. K. Subramaniam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Friday 09 May 2008 9:33:26 pm Eben Eliason wrote:
Even if you were to provide an computer exclusively to each child,
they
are
Dear devel-list,
I just forwarded a bunch of mail from non-subscribers from the past few
weeks. I am looking for 2 people to help moderate this list -- this
involves filtering spam, forwarding messages from non-list members, keeping
heated discussions on-topic, and moderating the rare
Developers should eat their own dogfood, AND this doesn't seem like the
right process. A one-click install latest activities link would work just
fine, and be a way to test activity updating. It shouldn't be possible to
ship without browse. I find shipping a more reasonable set of priority
Advice from the field : try dusting a jumpy touchpad with chalkdust. --SJ,
who is looking for a cite...
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Day 3 of the pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki and couple of issues have
come up
1. We are having a lot of trouble
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, C. Scott Ananian
ps. SJ, there are no 'core activities' that we ship. There is only
one security-privileged activity (Journal), which we currently ship in the
core build because (a) Sugar breaks otherwise, and (b) Rainbow's
activity-signing stuff is
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:11 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 07.05.2008, at 19:54, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Bert Freudenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, my
2008/5/7 Steve Holton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Case in point, it bugs me when the wiki documents features of versions which
haven't been released yet, or declares a problem fixed because some later,
as yet unreleased version no longer shows the problem.
Well, it's correct to document features of
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/5/7 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It never hurts to be paranoid, but the educational priorities of our
tool
and software development are not changing. There are priorities that
have
not been effectively
An aside to all about mailing list usage : please stay on-topic.
Community-news is for announcements only (despite having a brief discussion
earlier this week), and devel is for code and development. I'm bcc:ing
devel and copying olpc-open and grassroots lists, in the hopes that this is
taken up
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our pilots at Bishwamitra and Bashuki schools start this Friday and I
couldn't be more excited.
Fantastic. Please keep up a steady photo stream!
The rest of your email is perfectly put. --SJ
I find this discussion
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OLPC's focus is on development, funding and delivery of laptops to the
least
developed countries. The expectations for features, testing, support,
Good afternoon,
You may also find bert's script a handy way to install the base activity
pack:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bert's_script
cheers,
SJ
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
You may want to build a customization key as described in the wiki:
Javier,
The humble towns are most important.
An aside : when I was last in New York (for the story jam a couple weekends
ago) I saw a UNICEF poster display of a disaster-area school in a box --
two suitcase-sized containers with all of the materials and power-generators
needed to run a single
Agreed. The date doesn't need to be in the build #, and only makes it
longer.
And I don't know how meaningful it is to have a build named OLPC -- as
noted a few times, we are building more than one thing. If anything, that
should be a clarifier at the end noting that OLPC was the 'customizer' of
It's nice to see a python toolchain for this (though I don't see any code at
that url?) They exist in other languages as well. We've been working with
Linterweb's Kiwix (kiwix.org) and the Schools-Wikipedia, which use their own
toolchains.
Alecu, take a look at the [[wikislice]] project on the
Hello Patrick, thank you for your interest. The applications will be
stronger with good feedback, not proportionally to whether or not you are
approved by then. You should be able to access the applications through the
mentor interface; please comment on their applications (and on any others
Thank you to all who have helped out with our Summer of Code process so
far. We now have 30 mentors from the community, and 150 applications from
30 countries. Students have put a good deal of thought into these
applications, and I hope that most of them can lead to community discussion
even if
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:04 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/4/4 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
present it yourself via the dialin number, that would be ideal;
otherwise
someone else will present for you (though perhaps not as passionately)
and
You haven't been sitting
Hello Yama, please see [EMAIL PROTECTED] for content discussions and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] for aspects of
usability (discussions about interface design are usually directed to
sugar). There is no list about teacher training, though there is an
educators list that was initially
Thank you, Charles.
Bryan, to your original point:
There are a lot of great education activities done in Flash and
their # will only increase simply because it is very easy to
develop animations using flash. Check out
www.eshikshaindia.in for more great learning
animations. Those did not
by the OLPC association. Please find below a link to my
introductory post:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-March/011978.html
Best,
Alex Escalona
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all,
We are participating in Google Summer of Code
Hello,
We have a new mailing list set up for summer of code participants. Please
join if you are interested in applying to be a mentor, contributing or
reviewing project ideas, applying as a student, or otherwise contributing to
the process.
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/gsoc
Mentor
Dear all,
We are participating in Google Summer of Code again this year, and now
accepting applications from mentors. We are holding the first of a series
of quick discussions about SoC tomorrow (saturday) at 2100 UTC / 1700 EST in
#olpc. Please join us to share advice to share from SoC's past,
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Dynamic_library --SJ
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Ivan Krstić
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 13, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
I helped SJ draft a document rationalizing the need for a dynamic
solution
Where is this document? It was
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 6:22 PM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why would we burn up Flash space for activities that are not accessible
to the user?* And if the user installs them, then they burn up twice as
much flash space?
Taking up twice as much flash space is painful. Having a
to add Brad Neuberg to this conversation. He is a colleague
of mine on the Google Gears project and he has been looking for a
contact at OLPC.
-Ben
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:12 PM, ffm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 16, 2008 6:21 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The core use
Derw,
Having a way to generate an aggregate table of contents for a set of
pages without transcluding the text of those pages could be useful. I
don't believe it has been written; as far as I know this would be the
first magic word[1] in MediaWiki that parses the text of another
wikipage and
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Drew,
Note that a common workaround is to make such a table of contents by
hand, not to make it too finely grained, and to update it by hand when
subpages change. See for instance the [[HIG]] header.
The easiest way
How about making hacking sugar a chapter or two in the developers
manual? Eduardo: you can 'transclude' pages on the wiki if you want
to share content across pages (something like {{:Developers Manual}}
inside a page will include all of the text from [[Developers Manual]]
at that point in the
Hemant and James,
Can you write something about this at a [[spoken texts]] page on the
wiki ('hear and read'? some other more creative name... )? The
Google Literacy Project is highlighting a number of literacy efforts
for the upcoming World Book Day, and your work would be fine
suggestions for
On Feb 19, 2008 7:55 AM, James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The issue that I'll have with this is making
it degrade gracefully. Since text to speech looks like it will be
shipped with the OS, I have to figure out a way to make this feature
only be visible on laptops that can support
Hello Ricardo,
I agree with both of your points. The best network applications will
work peer to peer, and not depend on (but will be enhanced by) the
presence of servers. And I would add that where automation is
implemented, it should be clear how to turn (every aspect of) it off.
SJ
Moving this thread to devel. SJ
On Feb 16, 2008 11:54 AM, edward baafi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Luke,
It appears from your code snippet that you have a browse activity build
which has pyxpcom enabled.. Is this built by default on Joyride? If not,
how can you best get me access to your
head, MediaWiki, MindMeister, I copy Ben
Lisbakken, a gears maintainer, who reports that there is a Gears patch
to make it work without extension support... Ben, I'll also introduce
you to marcopg separately.
SJ
On Feb 16, 2008 12:36 PM, Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Moving this thread
Simon,
This happens. Please merge them yourself where possible -- or add
{{merge}} to the top of the pages to help others find and merge them.
I redirected the newer page to the older and copied its contents onto
the old talk page.
SJ
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Simon Schampijer [EMAIL
We can certinly store this -- we do encourage people to put their
content, including webpages and collections, into source control. If
our current hosting process stops scaling to include all of these
projects, we can find another solution.
SJ
On Feb 12, 2008 11:23 AM, Mel Chua [EMAIL
Hello, and thanks for your interest!
On Feb 5, 2008 4:53 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Copied to OLPC mailing lists and Librarian Chick, cataloguer of free
textbooks.
On Feb 5, 2008 7:36 AM, Joshua Waitzkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Edward, Many thanks for following up.
Yes, that's it. You can see a couple of books displayed with it here
: http://ejohn.org/apps/ebook/
SJ
On Jan 27, 2008 10:41 AM, Chas. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 27, 2008 8:37 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We had a real ebook reader written by John Resig in the days
Thanks, Chris.
And thanks to Ties, Bryan, Noah, and all for sharing their coments --
please use this effort to build a great set of guidelines for what
makes a good activity. This is as good a place as any to reiterate
the need for overall guidelines for what makes for a good or even a
great
Benjamin M. Schwartz writes:
Samuel Klein wrote:
Yes, it would help to have distributed network services such as ones
that let you say join the next available connect/pong game
This is easy to implement within the current sharing framework. It just
requires each game to pair off users
I've added a feature request for simple level editing without dropping
to the terminal and hacking the source. What I like best about 3dpong
is how easy it is to experiment with new levels.
Also: please /substitute/ the game template when you use it; it is
only a guide to contribution. leaving
a turn waiting abstraction available for 2
player activities, i.e. something that represents a line of players with
simple rules like winner stays, loser goes to the back of the line. I
know Connect could also use something like that.
Best,
Wade
2008/1/11 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED
yes, deletions are recoverable.
I didn't see the additions; were they just spam? Did someone talk to Star? SJ
On Jan 6, 2008 12:36 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 5, 2008 5:39 PM, Bernardo Innocenti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ffm wrote:
User blocked, all articles
Jake, the behavior you see is as expected from recent builds. That
feature is planned for implementation in the future (currently
update.2). SJ
On Dec 28, 2007 9:48 AM, Jake Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This looks like the most likely candidate:
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2249
Ben, that's neat. Speaking of fractals: Bernie has been working on
sugarizing Gnu Xaos, and we were just tweaking an icon. It has a
lovely tutorial about what fractals are that could serve as a model
for other tutorials.
SJ
On Dec 30, 2007 12:58 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's funny. support.laptop.org resolves for me just fine.(it's
pointing to wiki.laptop.org/go/Support )
SJ
On Dec 27, 2007 10:37 AM, Gerard J. Cerchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Burns wrote:
feel free to use the forum forum, web chat or the email list as a
resource: [EMAIL
Nice. The world's greatest word game. You might consider a handicap
system where players can be restricted from playing short or common
words.
And of course in digital boggle one isn't limiited to 6-sided cubes...
SJ
On Dec 4, 2007 12:31 AM, Andrew Tamoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1.
On Nov 19, 2007 12:31 PM, Gerard J. Cerchio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am just beginning to get involved with the OLPC so please forgive me
if this topic is already covered. I am also new to python so my learning
curve is somewhat steep. I am attempting to build a go game activity
Ivo, perhaps we could come up wit ha set of compliance elements that
typical users of OLPC laptops will need, as a case study for what free
formats should be supported for other users to be considered
'complete'.
Aaron, it would be tremendous to have speex working cleanly on the XOs,
since a
1. Project name : wikibrowser
2. Existing website, if any :
3. One-line description : browser and synch tool for wikipedia and
other online wikis
4. Longer description : an activity that uses the web activity to
:
We are reviewing the various manuals and how-tos about using the XO and
its interfaces tomorrow from 11:00 to 17:00 EST, in the Cambridge office
for the hardy souls who are here or have trekked out, and in #olpc-content
on freenode, for people online.
If you have any documentation,
There's a lovely, simple t-shirt design that has been used to date
[care of pentagram?], just a large XO on an orange or green
background. Perhaps we can find a way to have those made on a more
continuous basis and made available publicly. I don't think the
square OLPC logo makes an ideal shirt
Who was doing that earlier work? I would specifically like to find a
way to get google gears to work under these circumstances, as a
broadly useful open source project that has been well received and
that is being used for many new applications online to make them fast
offline...
SJ
On 8/17/07,
what was the reason not to support firefox addons again?
firefox runs smoothly on my B4... and it's pretty great to have access
to Google Gears, for instance.
SJ
On 8/14/07, Noah Kantrowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you mean normal Firefox add-ons. It does not. We use a simpler
core called
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