re: XO Gen 1.5

2009-04-23 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Ed, Wad, Chris et al, Awesome new hardware! That's one thing I loved about working at HW companies, the longer you survive the more hurdles you cross. IMHO 3D/2D is better than 2D only, if you can get it to work. I see bigger value in the video acceleration and input. The video capture is

Greg Smith Over and Out

2009-01-08 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, My time on this project is over for now! I was laid off yesterday and tomorrow is my last day at OLPC. So many things to follow up on, its hard to know where to begin handing off. I can say that XO Camp is on for next week as planned. SJ is now coordinating it. Aside from that, contac

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-06 Thread Greg Smith
I don't mean to be nasty, but I do feel the need to be blunt: > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:28:36PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: >> Hi Michael, >> >> We are definitely behind where I would like to be at this stage. > > How far behind? > >> However, we'll

Re: 9.1.0 Meeting Wed. 2PM US ET (date corrected)

2009-01-06 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Sorry the date listed was wrong. The meeting is January 7th. Thanks, Greg S Greg Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > We are on for the weekly 9.1.0 meeting tomorrow Wed, January 7 at 2PM > US ET on IRC (freenode.net #olpc-meeting). > > Here's the agenda. Let me know

9.1.0 Meeting Wed. 2PM US ET

2009-01-06 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We are on for the weekly 9.1.0 meeting tomorrow Wed, January 16 at 2PM US ET on IRC (freenode.net #olpc-meeting). Here's the agenda. Let me know if you have any chances or additions. 10 minutes - XO Camp status. Assign more people to help present. 25 minutes - 9.1.0 feature status. Bri

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-06 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Michael, We are definitely behind where I would like to be at this stage. However, we'll only move the date when we must and we'll only do it to improve quality or possibly to include a customer critical feature. We wont move the date to allow in major new features (e.g. new file system) so

XO Camp on next week

2009-01-06 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Just a reminder that the XO Camp conference is on for next week, January 12 - 16 at OLPC head quarters in Cambridge. Its an open meeting technical meeting and you are all invited. See the agenda here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2 Please put your name on the attendee list if you a

Re: performance work

2008-12-31 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Answering two e-mails on one pass. I agree, its hard work. Wade, I believe this thread is about optimizing the XO OS and GUI. That's why I call the requirement General_UI_sluggishness. Optimizing applications is yet another challenge. I'm all for people doing that hard work and docum

Re: performance work

2008-12-31 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Great thread. I don't know the history but I completely agree with Jordan. A dedicated team of engineers takes at least two years of software to optimize available resources. The main memory - video memory debate is age old. Until someone builds a better programming language and archit

9.1.0 meeting - 2PM US ET Today 12/31

2008-12-31 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, I'll be on IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting at 2PM US ET today. Minutes of last weeks meeting and this weeks agenda are here: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-December/022085.html We can table the agenda and call it a year unless there are updates or other comments. Happy New

Re: Auto-suspend and Presence Service

2008-12-30 Thread Greg Smith
Hi John, Thanks for the comments and early catch on this. Robert and wireless/collaboration experts, Can you comment on this? There are a couple of relevant requirements and known issues documented here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Improved_battery_life It sounds like we need a

Fedora Desktop on XO

2008-12-30 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Peter et al, I'm still looking for help resolving the dependencies Chris found when he tried to install Gnome. The issue and thread are documented in the specifications section here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Run_Fedora_applications_on_XO What do we do next when we get a list

Re: XOs with no sound

2008-12-30 Thread Greg Smith
Hi James et al, That's great debugging and repair info. I especially like the use of the stack trace command! That's a great trick for hunting down which process is calling what files. Do we know how this gets in a failed state to begin with? I read the headlines of them most recent 100 bugs w

re: anonymous gray activity circles

2008-12-30 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Chris, Unless someone else has seen this, I think we need more detail on how to reproduce it. Can you write down the steps it takes to get a "gray activity circle"? Include the version of XO software you are running: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/What_release_am_I_running%3F It may be that you

Re: Touchpad/tablet problem

2008-12-29 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Guoling, Unfortunately we do not support Tablet mode and it is not planned for the near future either. Hopefully one of the touchpad/firmware experts can give you a link to how you can capture and use raw data generated by the touchpad. Thanks, Greg s. * Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008

9.1.0 meeting minutes

2008-12-24 Thread Greg Smith
Sayamindu, Michael, Paul, Brian, CJL and maybe others met on Xmas eve! We scrapped the agenda and did Q&A with Michael doing the Q. Concerns that people aren't working on the release. Review power and languages and they are both doing well. Sayamindu said he will update localization feature pag

Weekly report and meeting reminder

2008-12-24 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, I am on for a 9.1.0 meeting at 2PM US ET today (wed. 12/24). IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting. Minutes from last week and agenda for today are here: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-December/021947.html Here's my weekly report for week ending 12/19 is below. Merry Christmas a

Re: Scratch on XO is frozen after standby

2008-12-24 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Chris et al, I added this bug ID to the specification for power saving in 9.1 at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Improved_battery_life Can you make sure to address that in the work on power save modes? I also updated the ticket with John's steps to reproduce. Thanks, Greg S > Da

Re: Cmap tools (with image customization cross over)

2008-12-23 Thread Greg Smith
denberg wrote: > The better approach would be to install everything into the bundle > directory itself. Then simply zip it and you should have a working xo > bundle. A custom build should not be necessary for this. > > - Bert - > > On 23.12.2008, at 21:35, Greg Smith w

Re: Cmap tools (with image customization cross over)

2008-12-23 Thread Greg Smith
rted ("xterm &" is a common choice) before > executing the window manager. This is also how you would bundle and > launch a regular X app like cmap. > > - Bert - > > On 23.12.2008, at 16:34, Greg Smith wrote: > >> Hi Michael and Bert, >> >> It go

Re: Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Greg Smith
l the points (section 2 here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0#Top_Priority) would be great! Thanks, Greg S Daniel Drake wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Greg Smith wrote: >> Your suggestion that we allow >> addition of RPMs and get those built into a signed image via &quo

Re: Cmap tools

2008-12-23 Thread Greg Smith
I didn't see any place to enter text (e.g. a window). Am I missing something? I was hoping to get an X window with a prompt so I could install CMap tools from there. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Greg S Greg Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > Picking up this old thread > (ht

New Browse ready for Emilianio?

2008-12-23 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Sayamindu, Do you think the new browse version (101?) has been shown to solve the problem Emliano raised here? http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.laptop.org/msg14839.html Has it been tested with build 656 or only 767 (8.2)? If we have verified that it solves the issue raised, let's ask

Re: performance work

2008-12-23 Thread Greg Smith
o move on... Thanks, Greg S Jordan Crouse wrote: > Greg Smith wrote: >> Hi Jordan, >> >> Looks like we made a little more progress on graphics benchmarking. >> See Neil's results below. >> >> I updated the feature page with the test result

Cairo and X optimization (was Re: performance work)

2008-12-23 Thread Greg Smith
ested in getting in to this X windows code? We have some momentum now including a test bed and baseline results so it may be the right time to work on everybody's favorite bugaboo: performance. Thanks, Greg S Jordan Crouse wrote: > Greg Smith wrote: >> Hi Jordan, >> >&

Deployment image customization

2008-12-23 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Dan, Thanks for the comments on the image customization feature: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Image_customization I moved them from the requirements to the specification section because I think you are proposing a possible solution. Your suggestion that we allow addition of RPMs

Re: performance work

2008-12-22 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Jordan, Looks like we made a little more progress on graphics benchmarking. See Neil's results below. I updated the feature page with the test results so far: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/General_UI_sluggishness What's next? Do we know enough now to target a particular section

XOCamp January 12 - 16, 2009

2008-12-19 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, The XOCamp schedule and plan is coming together. See the updated schedule here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOCamp_2 Sign up if you are coming here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOCamp_2#Attendees I will keep refining the session details in the next week. Any questions or comments welcome.

Cmap tools

2008-12-18 Thread Greg Smith
04.09.2008 um 01:06 schrieb Michael Stone: > >> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: >>> Has anyone tried making the activity which is X-windows and inside >>> which >>> other activities can run? >> >> [1] and [2] seem ap

Re: Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

2008-12-18 Thread Greg Smith
Thanks Chris! Could you also mention any planned GUI changes in the specification section? Name changes to the modes and moving the "radio off" to Network control panel only are two that come to mind. If you can define what it will look like and help close the loop with Sugar or whoever is need

9.1.0 Meeting Minutes

2008-12-17 Thread Greg Smith
Greg, Ed, Simon, Chris, Deepak, Sayamindu, Dan, cjl, Ben, Morgan, Marco, SJ and possibly others met on IRC on Wed. 12/17. Minutes: - XO Camp - Page (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOCamp_2) needs updating. See Greg's action item below. Focus on design and requirements review of 9.1.0 target feature

9.1 Planning Meeting Today (Wed.) 2PM US ET #olpc-meeting

2008-12-17 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We are on for the weekly 9.1 planning meeting today (Wed. 12/17) at 2PM US East Coast Time. Its an IRC meeting on freenode.net #olpc-meeting. Here are the minutes from last week: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-December/021740.html Per Michael's request, I blocked two hours

Re: performance work

2008-12-16 Thread Greg Smith
Forwarding this to devel. Any comments or suggestions on how we can start to optimize graphics performance is appreciated. It looks like we have a good test bed in place which should help us focus on the right bottlenecks. Thanks, Greg S Greg Smith wrote: > Hi Neil, > > That

Re: Slimmed Down Fedora 10 on XO (was Fedora 10 on XO)

2008-12-16 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Paul, I mean slimmed down Fedora (probably shouldn't even call it Fedora at that point) plus Gnome, KDE of XFCE window manager. Is that precise enough? If its as easy as yum install gnome on top of 8.2.0 image, that would be great! Thanks, Greg S p...@laptop.org wrote: > greg wrote: > >

Slimmed Down Fedora 10 on XO (was Fedora 10 on XO)

2008-12-15 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Thanks for all the feedback on my questions about what it would take to run a slimmed down Fedora 10 on the XO NAND. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-olpc-list/2008-December/msg00022.html To reiterate, the goal is one distribution with two Desktop Environments (Sugar and one "stan

Re: Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

2008-12-12 Thread Greg Smith
" to see the must have list. Send me a note if you think anything else needs to be on that must build in 9.1.0 list. Other edits and added detail on any feature, welcome anytime. Thanks, Greg S Greg Smith wrote: > Greg, Chris, Joe, Erik, Mitch and Deepak met on Thursday 12/4. > >

Re: 2588 - Journal unusable

2008-12-12 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, This is a great thread! Very respectful but on point and addressing a core concern which needs to become a core competency. Mikus, James, Gary and the other lead developers who pull down joyride regularly are critical to the success of the next release. They proved it in the last relea

Re: Wireless activation improvements.

2008-12-11 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Guys, Lease management/renewal is a different feaure which I call Activation lease security. The requirements are written: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Activation_lease_security Ethiopia and Peru have signed off that those requirements meet their needs and I am tracking it as a

Re: Wireless activation improvements.

2008-12-11 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Michael, This is definitely a must have/must fix item for 9.1.0. It is needed by Ethiopia and other deployments. It may be used in a "warehouse" where the XOs are prepared as opposed to in a school where we assume there is less ability to change/tweak the AP ESSID. I'll try to get more feedb

9.1.0 Weekly Meeting minutes

2008-12-10 Thread Greg Smith
Ed, Michael, Marco, Chris, Paul, Joe, Greg and possible others met on IRC December 10th for 9.1 weekly meeting (formerly called roadmap meeting). - XO Camp We updated the goals for the camp. See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2 We discussed the need to focus on 9.1.0 features. Action item: G

9.1 Weekly Meeting on IRC at 2PM US ET Today

2008-12-10 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Our weekly 9.1 meeting (was called feature roadmap) is today, Wed. 12/10 at 2PM US East Time on IRC Freenode.net #olpc-meeting channel. Agenda for this week is: 20 minutes - XO Camp update 20 minutes roadmap update and 9.1.0 page edits (especially schedule) 10 minutes finalize and approv

Re: [Testing] Activity Set for 9.1.0

2008-12-10 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Dan, RTFM :-) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/8.2.0#If_your_XO_is_not_connected_to_the_internet Thanks, Greg S Daniel Drake wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> All of our deployments except one currently take the defa

performance work (was re: Re: Sugar & XFCE)

2008-12-09 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Neil, I couldn't resist replying after I saw your reference to Geoworks. I've never seen any other references to that elegant "shell"! In terms of performance, unfortunately its not one of the top four items for release 9.1.0. That said it is a pet peeve of mine and a serious concern for de

Re: [Testing] Activity Set for 9.1.0

2008-12-09 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Chris, When this release is done we will update the default image used in manufacturing. All of our deployments except one currently take the default image. Many change it (usually adding more than subtracting) after they get the XOs in country but they start with our "factory" image. We w

Activity Set for 9.1.0

2008-12-09 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Learning from the last release, I want to start activity selection early for 9.1.0. I created a section on the 9.1.0 planning page for activities: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0_requirements#Activities I want to get all potential activities listed there. An activity will need to be t

Greg S work report for 2 Weeks ending 12/5

2008-12-08 Thread Greg Smith
General status: Uruguay is starting an in-school pilot of 800 XOs running version 8.2. After successful completion of that pilot they plan to upgrade all XOs to the new version. 9.1.0 planning is underway (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0). 90 days until the release! The focus is on deployment

Re: XO identity shared via Browse

2008-12-05 Thread Greg Smith
piece if there is no agreement on technical implementation. I want the "must have" piece by March, no matter what. I'll take both too but I wont settle for none of the above :-) Thanks, Greg S Luke Faraone wrote: > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 19:17, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-05 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Chris, That sounds good! Please call up Dr. Frankenstein and resurrect the beast for inspection :-) Can you also put a link to any description of it (or to the code, relevant e-mail threads or whatever is available) in the specifications section of the feature? Thanks, Greg S Chris Ball

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-05 Thread Greg Smith
not needed by the time an image is qualified for deployment in the schools... Thanks, Greg S Erik Garrison wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:36:53PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: >> * Will it stop us from being able to hold two SugarOS builds on the NAND >> at the same time after

Re: [Sugar-devel] File transfer in Telepathy

2008-12-05 Thread Greg Smith
ed a link to your GIT sample script already. More comments inline below. Thanks, Greg S Guillaume Desmottes wrote: > Le jeudi 04 décembre 2008 à 13:42 -0500, Greg Smith a écrit : >> Hi Guillaume, >> >> Thanks for following up on this! >> >> I collected a

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-04 Thread Greg Smith
nd comments. You can even edit the requirement to make it more crystal clear if you think my wording there is confusing. I'll see the edits and roll back anything which I think changes the fundamental requirement. Thanks, Greg S Martin Dengler wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:36:

Re: [sugar] XO identity shared via Browse

2008-12-04 Thread Greg Smith
for that, I'm not partial to the technology and if there's no consensus we can live without it. I'm OK with the debate but if we release 9.1.0 without making it easy to get your files off the XS and to automaticaly associate with the right Moodle identity, then we will miss

Re: Fedora 10 on XO

2008-12-04 Thread Greg Smith
rioritized roadmap http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap. Thanks, Greg Smith OLPC Product Manager Erik Garrison wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:01:31PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Linux_and_OS >&

Minutes of Power in 9.1.0 meeting

2008-12-04 Thread Greg Smith
Greg, Chris, Joe, Erik, Mitch and Deepak met on Thursday 12/4. Minutes: Will use the feature roadmap for tracking: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Power_management We need to address the three separate high level areas on that page. We rewrote the requirement and listed all bugs and ar

Re: xo activity idea

2008-12-04 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Yifan, Sounds like a good idea! I made a feature for you to track this work on our roadmap at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Spell_checker_in_write Fill in more details as you have them and other people can sign up to help there too. FYI all, I'm making a last push to get every

Power Management plan for December - Meeting 2PM US ET 12/4 (today)

2008-12-04 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Chris et al, We will have a one hour meeting from 2 - 3 PM US ET today (Thursday 12/4) to talk about power work for 9.1. Everyone who wants to contribute is welcome. We will use this dial in: From the United States 866-213-2185 From Outside the United States 1-609-454-99

9.1.0 Weekly Meeting Minutes (formerly called the feature roadmap meeting)

2008-12-04 Thread Greg Smith
Caryl, Chris, Scott, Ed, CJL, Greg, Marco and possibly others met on IRC, Wed. December 3. Next meeting December 10 2PM US ET. See agenda below. Notes: - XO camp update. See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2 Comment that travel budget is not final but Ed is working on it. Discussion about the

Roadmap Meeting today at 2PM US ET IRC Freenode.net #olpc-meeting

2008-12-03 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We are on again for the weekly XO Roadmap meeting today. Its 2PM US New York City time on IRC: freenode.net #olpc-meeting channel. Agenda for this week is: 10 minutes - XO camp update 10 minutes - Status and action items for Feature roadmap page updates. 30 minutes - Agree on Trac conven

Re: will there be an 8.2 update ?

2008-12-01 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Mikus, I need to take that page down! I am remiss in doing that. Its a page which is automatically generated by Trac. Since Trac items and associated tags are not up to date, its not a useful page. I keep hoping I can fix it but since it hasn't happened, its time to take it down. Michael o

Re: XO Feature Roadmap Meeting Minutes from November 26

2008-11-26 Thread Greg Smith
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> Ed, Gary, Deepak, Ben, Caryl and possibly other met on IRC on Wed. >> November 25. >> > > Sorry to not have made this, still fighting with the j

XO Feature Roadmap Meeting Minutes from November 26

2008-11-26 Thread Greg Smith
Ed, Gary, Deepak, Ben, Caryl and possibly other met on IRC on Wed. November 25. Minutes: - XO Camp miniconference dates are set for January 12 - 16 in Cambridge! * Greg, Ed and others to update XO camp agenda to refine it and follow up with presenters to get more detailed agendas and presentat

Re: XO Feature Roadmap meeting on today at 2PM US ET IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting To: OLPC Development

2008-11-26 Thread Greg Smith
RC freenode.net #olpc-meeting To: OLPC Development Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On 26.11.2008, at 15:27, Greg Smith wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > The weekly XO Feature Roadmap meeting is on today at:

Re: [Server-devel] small form factor XS options?

2008-11-26 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Bryan et al, This probably goes without saying, but make sure that all your hardware is supported by Fedora 9 and know to run well on that distribution. Also FYI, here's the list of recommended HW: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Recommended_Hardware Update and correct as needed but please do

XO Feature Roadmap meeting on today at 2PM US ET IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting

2008-11-26 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, The weekly XO Feature Roadmap meeting is on today at: 2PM US ET IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting Minutes from the last meeting and agenda for todays meeting are here: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-November/021252.html The count down to release 9.1 has begun! Target release

Re: Write Plug in posts to Blogs (was Re: Greg Smith Weekly Report Week Ending November 14 )

2008-11-25 Thread Greg Smith
g per Child! 500K kids writing Blogs / 1K developers reading blogs and writing code with those kids = one turbo charged project :-) Thanks, Greg S *** From: meticulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Greg Smith Weekly Report Week Ending November 14 To: devel@lists.laptop.org Me

Greg S Weekly Report Week Ending November 21

2008-11-24 Thread Greg Smith
Weekly report for Greg Smith. *** User link of the week (English): http://blog.stone-head.org/olpc-peru-a-silent-revolution/ Includes a review of XOs in rural Peru with insightful comment on the cultural context. On the technical side, the teacher and kids completely missed the

Future Feature Roadmap Meeting Minutes from 11/19

2008-11-19 Thread Greg Smith
Ed, CJL, Mel, Greg, and CJB (and maybe others) met on IRC On Wed. 11/19 Minutes: - Update on January camp and reminder to fill in details on proposals. GS - January camp proposals update Exact meeting dates to be set ASAP, target Monday. The conference will be held either week before or after

Greg Smith Weekly Report Week Ending November 14

2008-11-18 Thread Greg Smith
Overview: Work on XO Software Release 9.1.0 is underway. The release is planned for March, 2009. Goals, strategy, and target features should be defined by the first week of December. Detailed bug tracking conventions, branch strategy and release management tactics should be defined before the e

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5 upgrade notes

2008-11-12 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Douglas and Martin, Good info! As Martin says, can we put that in the release notes? Also on release notes, I was poking around in GIT and came across a bunch of very useful looking Readme files. Can we copy those in to the release notes (or maybe link to them in GIT if they will stay the s

XO Feature Roadmap Meeting - Wed Nov. 12, 2PM US ET

2008-11-11 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, The next XO Feature Roadmap meeting is Wed November 12 at 2PM US ET on IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting channel. Agenda is the following: - 5 minutes - Review edits and action items. - 40 minutes - Review proposals (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2) starting at Fedora 10. - 10 minutes

Greg Smith's Weekly Report

2008-11-10 Thread Greg Smith
Overview: We are collecting all well formed ideas for future development at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap Add your suggestions to that page. In the near future we will start prioritizing them and choosing the target set for inclusion in the next release, 9.1.0. Product management

XO Future Feature Meeting Minutes - 11/5

2008-11-05 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Several engineers and others met on IRC on Wed. November, 5 to discuss Future Feature planning for the XO. * Agenda: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-November/020918.html This meeting is currently focused on setting the agenda and preparing material for an XO and XS

Feature Roadmap Meeting

2008-11-04 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We have our next Feature Roadmap planning meeting tomorrow, Wed. 11/5 at 2PM US ET on IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting channel. Agenda is: 10 minutes: Follow up on action items from last week. 45 minutes: Continue reviewing miniconference proposals (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2#Pro

Greg Smith Weekly Report, Week Ending 10/31

2008-11-03 Thread Greg Smith
The technical miniconference (AKA XO Camp) has been rescheduled from November, 2008 to early January, 2009. The agenda and exact dates are under construction at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2 Future feature requests and roadmap goals are being collected at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_r

[Server-devel] XO Miniconference (aka XO Camp) postponed

2008-10-30 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We are re-scheduling the miniconference from November 17 to early January. The new dates will be posted as soon as they are available at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2 See the announcement below and let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Greg S ** Folks - Th

Future Features Planning Meeting: Minutes from 10/29

2008-10-30 Thread Greg Smith
We met on IRC on Wed October 30. **Important note: The miniconference has been postponed to early January. ** Minutes from the meeting: 1 - Follow up on open action items from last week. AI: Greg to resend request for proposals and include deadline of Monday October 27. Will send to devel, sugar

Mini-conference Proposals and Feature Requests

2008-10-29 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Thanks for all the good discussions on proposed topics for discussion during the XO miniconference. In addition to e-mailing them to the list, please put any specific proposals for sessions during the conference on the wiki page, proposals section: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2#Pr

Future feature planning meeting Wed. 1PM US ET

2008-10-28 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We are on for our weekly Future Features planning meeting tomorrow Wed. 10/9 at 1PM US ET. The public meeting will be held on IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting channel. Notes from last week are at: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/020565.html The agenda for this week

Re: Sugar unusable as an e-book reader

2008-10-28 Thread Greg Smith
Hi James and David, I want to track additions and improvements to the XOs eBook Reader on our Feature roadmap page. I created a requirement called Better eBook Reader at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Better_eBook_reader Can you update that with any additions or work we need to do?

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 32, Issue 113

2008-10-27 Thread Greg Smith
Hi David, Thanks for the detailed write up. I created a Feature request for better eBook reader on the feature roadmap page at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Better_eBook_reader For requirements, I included a link to this thread and a few specific items which came to mind. If you

Thread on a new model for collaboration

2008-10-23 Thread Greg Smith
me information about amadis in: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/AMADIS And in Portuguese in: http://amadis.lec.ufrgs.br Maybe google translator can give you some help. Write more soon. Thanks again, Juliano On 24/09/2008, at 21:15, Greg Smith wrote: > Hi Juliano, > > Thanks a lot for r

MD5 Sum for 767 images

2008-10-23 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, Can someone post the MD5 Sum details for the 8.2 images linked from the release notes? See the request at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Release_notes/8.2.0 Thanks, Greg S ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.o

Re: Feature Roadmap and Miniconference Meeting Notes

2008-10-23 Thread Greg Smith
agenda. I apologize for the change. A conflict came up that I couldn't move. We will go back to the regular 2PM US ET time after next week. Thanks, Greg S Greg Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > We met on IRC on Wed. October 22 to talk about the XO feature roadmap > and plans for the

[Server-devel] Proposals for XO Mini-conference Due by Monday October 27

2008-10-23 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We are planning a mini-conference at OLPC headquarters November 17 - 21. For more information, see the conference wiki page at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2 Please post any proposals for talks directly on the wiki page at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2#Proposals Starting at

Proposals for XO Mini-conference Due by Monday October 27

2008-10-23 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We are planning a mini-conference at OLPC headquarters November 17 - 21. For more information, see the conference wiki page at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2 Please post any proposals for talks directly on the wiki page at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2#Proposals Starting at

Feature Roadmap and Miniconference Meeting Notes

2008-10-22 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We met on IRC on Wed. October 22 to talk about the XO feature roadmap and plans for the mini-conference November 17 - 21. Brief minutes: Talked about getting more feature requests in feature roadmap page. Talked about getting sugar list on feature roadmap page. Debated 1-1 and onto, an

Re: Feature roadmap and Miniconference Meeting Today at 2PM US ET

2008-10-22 Thread Greg Smith
hese features as well as possible. HTHs. I'll send notes from the meeting too. Thanks, Greg S C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We have a feature roadmap and miniconference planning meet set for today &g

Feature roadmap and Miniconference Meeting Today at 2PM US ET

2008-10-22 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We have a feature roadmap and miniconference planning meet set for today from 2 - 3 PM US ET. Meeting is on IRC, freednode.net #olpc-meeting channel. FYI I moved most content on the 9.1.0 page to: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap I am now restructuring that. The goal is to

Re: [Server-devel] 9.1 Proposal: Printing support

2008-10-21 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Jeff, If you will help develop with us, you can sign up here for a free XO: http://projectdb.olpc.at/ BTW I'm a comic book fan myself. I give out Gyro Gearloose comic books whenever a kid comes by the office :-) Thanks, Greg S Jeff wrote: > > On 21 Oct 2008, at 4:15 PM, Martin Langhoff w

Re: Future Feature Weekly Planning Meeting

2008-10-20 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Michael, Thanks for the questions and input. Some replies: > How, in your opinion, did the private setting improve the meeting? GS - I find it helpful to talk to people face to face on occasion. We interrupt each other a little more than I would like but I found it to be very helpful to k

Greg Smith's Weekly Report, week ending 10/17

2008-10-20 Thread Greg Smith
Greg's User Feedback URL of the Week (English): 8.2.0 question, posted and resolved by the community in the same day! http://en.forum.laptop.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=160964&sid=775110c2027abed37bc769241c829a08 Greg's User Feedback URL of the Week (Spanish): Public Moodle with Forums created and use

[Server-devel] Call for Proposals for OLPC miniconference November 17-21, 2008

2008-10-16 Thread Greg Smith
ent page [2] or by emailing your ideas to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks, Greg Smith OLPC Product Manager on behalf of the OLPC development team [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2#Sessions ___ Server-devel mailing l

Call for Proposals for OLPC miniconference November 17-21, 2008

2008-10-16 Thread Greg Smith
ent page [2] or by emailing your ideas to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks, Greg Smith OLPC Product Manager on behalf of the OLPC development team [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2#Sessions ___ Devel mailing list De

Future Feature Weekly Planning Meeting

2008-10-16 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, We had an internal kick off meeting for next release planning on Wed. October 15. Starting next week, this will become a public Future Features planning meeting every Wed at 2PM US ET on IRC channel #olpc-meeting freenode.net I call it Future Feature planning instead of 9.1.0 and plan

[Server-devel] Announcing the General Availability of XO Software Release 8.2.0

2008-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0 Thanks to the many people who gave their time and energy to make this release a reality. Thanks, Greg Smith OLPC Product Manager ___ Server-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Greg Smith Weekly Report for Week Ending 10/10

2008-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
Greg's User Feedback URLs of the Week (Spanish): http://ceibalpuertosauce.blogspot.com/ and http://www.ceibalbellaunion.blogspot.com/ Two great teacher generated blogs out of Uruguay showing how XOs and activities are used in real schools. Greg's User Feedback URLs of the Week (English): http:/

Re: journal is hard + sugar and the digital age

2008-10-10 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Carol, Re your comment: > In response to Scott's mail, if you look at the roadmaps linked to there is nothing approaching a feature oriented roadmap there, though a lot of good input is gathered in the mails captured at the end of his w.l.o/9.1 link, and of course there is no clue in this p

Re: [Server-devel] XS testing (Tony Anderson)

2008-10-10 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Tony, I don't fully understand all the vagaries of access to root, but I do want to warn you about having any open ports or users with password authentication only. Be really careful about dictionary style attacks. I have seen an XS broken in to via dictionary attack, even when the password

Read bug hit in Rwanda

2008-10-08 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Sayamindu, Are you maintaining Read now or is Morgan? I got a ping from Brian who is in Rwanda and he confirmed that this bug: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7090 was actually seen by kids there. Just as cjl predicted in Trac, it was hit by kids on first exposure to the XO. Can we get some at

Re: OLPC Sugar-Fedora OS name (Carlos Nazareno)

2008-10-08 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Naz, I'm going with XO Software Release 8.2.0 as the name of the next major release. Not sure how official that is but I hope I can make it stick. So its "XO Software" and for a specific release, add "Release n.n" Thanks, Greg S * From: "Carlos Nazareno" <[EMAIL PROT

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