pin in turtleart-extras.po
Hi, The activity TurtleArt ([1]) has a plugin named Turtleblock, adding an extra palette, aimed to control the Butia robot ([2] and [3]). The corresponding localizable strings are located in turtleart-extras.po ([4], and [5] for the French strings). This file turtleart-extras.po has various occurrences of the pin term. msgid ERROR: The pin must be between 1 and 8 msgid hack pin mode msgid pin msgid Select the pin function (INPUT, OUTPUT). msgid write hack pin Butia msgid set a hack pin to 0 or 1 msgid read hack pin Butia msgid read the value of a hack pin msgid ERROR: The pin %s must be in OUTPUT mode. msgid ERROR: The pin %s must be in INPUT mode. msgid pin mode msgid Select the pin function (INPUT, OUTPUT, PWM, SERVO). I want to translate this pin term and need to understand what it is used for. Is my assumption that the hack pins are readable/writable/settable points with possible values/modes, correct? Regards, Samy [1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4027 [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art#Butia [3] http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/P%C3%A1gina_principal [4] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/en/fructose/turtleart-extras.po?view_mode=translate [5] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/fr/fructose/turtleart-extras.po?view_mode=translate ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
RE: pin in turtleart-extras.po
Hi Alan, Quoting Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn alan...@hotmail.com: Hi, Yes. In the attached picture you can see 16 pins in the red square.In our USB4Butia board, we can set each pin as input or output.In input: if you connect 5volts to it, in the Turtle program the value of it will be 1.If you connect the pin to ground (0 volts) in the Turtle it returns 0.In the output mode, you gives the voltaje: if you put 1 in the Turtle program,the pin will have 5volts. If you put 0, it will have 0 volts (ground). Here there are some videos with the pins in use: http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/HackPoints Thanks for your work of translate it to french!Regards! Alan Great, Now, thanks to your explanation, those 16 pins look like real pins. It makes sense, in any case, more that the hack points represented in http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/images/c/cd/Hackp5.png Thanks again for your useful explanation! Regards Samy Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:34:37 +0100 From: s.bouta...@free.fr To: localizat...@lists.laptop.org Subject: pin in turtleart-extras.po CC: olpc-fra...@lists.laptop.org; devel@lists.laptop.org Hi, The activity TurtleArt ([1]) has a plugin named Turtleblock, adding an extra palette, aimed to control the Butia robot ([2] and [3]). The corresponding localizable strings are located in turtleart-extras.po ([4], and [5] for the French strings). This file turtleart-extras.po has various occurrences of the pin term. msgid ERROR: The pin must be between 1 and 8 msgid hack pin mode msgid pin msgid Select the pin function (INPUT, OUTPUT). msgid write hack pin Butia msgid set a hack pin to 0 or 1 msgid read hack pin Butia msgid read the value of a hack pin msgid ERROR: The pin %s must be in OUTPUT mode. msgid ERROR: The pin %s must be in INPUT mode. msgid pin mode msgid Select the pin function (INPUT, OUTPUT, PWM, SERVO). I want to translate this pin term and need to understand what it is used for. Is my assumption that the hack pins are readable/writable/settable points with possible values/modes, correct? Regards, Samy [1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4027 [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Turtle_Art#Butia [3] http://www.fing.edu.uy/inco/proyectos/butia/mediawiki/index.php/P%C3%A1gina_principal [4] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/en/fructose/turtleart-extras.po?view_mode=translate [5] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/fr/fructose/turtleart-extras.po?view_mode=translate ___ 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: [Sugar-devel] The ARM is near
Selon Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org: Also, Sugar has been reported to run on the Gdium which uses a MIPS Loongson CPU. If someone on this list has access to one of those, we could check that activities with binaries are made to run there as well. Sugar does run on the Yeeloong netbook, which uses the same CPU as the gdium and runs Debian, Gentoo, and pdaxrom (http://www.pdaxrom.org/). As for the porting to the gdium, this is a work in progress. Kind regards Samy Regards, Tomeu - Fedora has a 'secondary arch' ARM port for F11 -- probably interesting to SoaS people. hth, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Meshnode product...
Selon Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de: On 06/15/2009 10:15 AM, Sean DALY wrote: Thanks for that Sameer I'm sure that color scheme isn't accidental :-) They say it's Debian-based Simon - Do you think it would be useful or interesting to borrow one of these for LinuxTag? Could you or someone on the sugar-devel team possibly contact them and see if they are coming, if so (and maybe even if not) would they be willing to loan us one? Contact info is here: http://saxnet.de/index.php/deutsch/kontakt/buero.html Hi all, OLPC France had a connection with Steffen Dreise from Saxnet? They wanted to buy approx. 100 XO for their projects (one in Senegal, I think). They were also in contact with OLPC Germany and OLPC Austria. They offered us to borrow one unit for testing purposes. Samy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Meshnode product...
Selon Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de: On 06/15/2009 10:15 AM, Sean DALY wrote: Thanks for that Sameer I'm sure that color scheme isn't accidental :-) They say it's Debian-based Simon - Do you think it would be useful or interesting to borrow one of these for LinuxTag? Could you or someone on the sugar-devel team possibly contact them and see if they are coming, if so (and maybe even if not) would they be willing to loan us one? Contact info is here: http://saxnet.de/index.php/deutsch/kontakt/buero.html Hi all, OLPC France had a connection with Steffen Dreise from Saxnet? They wanted to buy approx. 100 XO for their projects (one in Senegal, I think). They were also in contact with OLPC Germany and OLPC Austria. They offered us to borrow one unit for testing purposes. Samy ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Experimental XS-on-XO image
Quoting Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: Yipeee! We have an experimental ext3 image that boots and seems to work correctly as an XS would, on XO hardware. Congratulations! The sha1 of the uncompressed file is b34227d6c635d270eceeff7e3107cffa4c08e55c Not sure what command I should use to verify the sha1, but sha1sum returned a different value. =To install= # grab a fast SD card, at least 4GB (though smaller cards may work in some cases, see below) I used a 4GB SanDisk UltraII SD card 1) XOonXO #1 + XO with Sugar 8.2 - The association with the schoolserver's icon suceeded - The registration of the XO succeeded - I tried successfully a wii usb-lan adapter. - I was unable to access to the moodle server (http://schoolserver.myhostname.org:5280/admin/, or http://172.18.0.1:5280/admin/) from the XO or from another laptop. Neither wired (with a direct cable connection and throuhg a switch, possibly a faulty connection here) nor wirelessly. The laptop saw the schoolserver and tried to connect to it wirelessly. However, the route -n command returned nothing even if the iwconfig said the connection to the XS was ok. 2) XOonXO #2 + XO with SOAS f11-beta (20090403), no icon from schoolserver Anyway, bravo again Best regards Samy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] small form factor XS options?
Hi Bryan, That's exactly what we are looking for, here at OLPC France: that is compact, rugged and low power hardware platforms! Note that it's a work in progress! So far, we experimented bit 3 targets: * the Bubba Two server: powered by a PowerPC/Freescale processor, from Excito (Sverige) (http://www.excito.com) * the Fuloong Mini box, powered by a Mips processor, from Lemote Tech (China) (http://www.lemote.com) * the EEEPC 1000H netbook, powered by an Atom (Intel) processor, from ASUSTek (Taïwan) (http://www.asus.com) We had tested those platforms on ou last CodeCamp. The report (in French) is available here: http://www.olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Compte-rendu_CodeCamp Best regards, Samy Quoting Bryan Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am shopping for some XS options to test out ahead of our spring deployment. I have looked at the MSI Wind PC, Eee Box, and the Shuttle X2700N. All have nice small form factors, low prices, and Atom chips. I am focused on Intel Atom-based PC's because they seem to be dropping in price the fastest and there are a number of different vendors selling atom-based pc's. Also, they are low-power. MSI Wind PC - cheap at roughly $350 w/ 1.6 Ghz processor and 1 GB RAM CON: looks like it has poor cooling and some customers complain it gets quite hot. Eee Box - more expensive but doesn't seem to have the same cooling problem Shuttle X2700N - slightly more expensive than the MSI at $200 but looks to have much better cooling. I can't find any customer reviews on it. Unfortunately, none of these have a spare PCI slot that I can use for the XS's 2nd NIC card. We are considering using a USB NIC for the eth1. Does anyone know of similar small form factor PC's that do have an extra PCI slot? Or other good XS choices? -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [IAEP] OLPC France CodeCamp in Paris
Hi Tomeu, Great! I can handle the translation between the spanish teachers and the french developers if the need arises. Podré apoyar las comunicaciones entre los profesores de Uruguay, Panama y Peru por una parte, y los desarroladores en Paris, por si alguien necesita. Bests, saludos Samy Quoting Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Lionel and all OLPC France, excuse me if this comes too late or isn't to the point, but would like to propose to hack on a mind mapping activity during the CodeCamp in Paris. I think this project has the appeal of being in direct connection to the needs in the field. Teachers from Uruguay, Peru and Panama have asked for such a tool, and have been exploring alternatives that may not be the best: drawing in Paint, using the connectors in Etoys, executing a java app (CMaps) inside the X Activity or using web apps. Happens that a pygtk application for mind mapping already exists and its architecture makes for an easy port to sugar. It's called Labyrinth [0] and was proposed more than one year ago by Jim Gettys [1] though no resources were allocated. Recently, teachers in the olpc-sur mailing lists asked again for it [2] and I gave a quick (2 hours) try to sugarize it with some success [3]. In [3] you can find links to the activity bundle, a screenshot and a patch to the code in the svn repository. [0] http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/labyrinth.html [1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4577 [2] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001168.html [3] http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001173.html My proposal is for the CodeCamp participants to divide in pairs and each pair to choose one feature to add or bug to fix. At the end of the session, everybody would integrate all the changes and produce a single bundle. Most of the functionality is already in the original pygtk app, it's just a matter of exposing that functionality through the Sugar UI. I will try to be in #sugar at FreeNode during the CodeCamp to answer questions. After the CodeCamp, we could send the bundle to teachers in olpc-sur and ask them to try it and give feedback. Also, at some point whoever is interested in following up could contact the authors of Labyrinth and see the best way to upstream the changes. What do you say, looks like a challenge? Regards, Tomeu 2008/11/1 LASKE, Lionel (C2S) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, OLPC France is proud to announce its OLPC CodeCamp in Paris on November 15th. Five workshops are planned: · Sugar: development and experimentation on Sugar/python, · School Server: setting up and test of school server on multiple platform (standard PC, Booba server, CherryPal, ), · Mono: development of new activities using Mono, · Pedagogic usage: Feedbacks from Haïti, Ethiopia and Palestine deployment. Brainstorming with French teachers to find usage and class activity for the XO. · French localization: French translators will work all the days to translate in French, sugar, activities and FLOSS manual. If you're interested to meet the French OLPC community and to have a nice trip to Paris: you're welcome ! More information on: http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=OLPC_France_CodeCamp_15_november Best regards from France. Lionel Laské ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Error with SanDisk Ultra II
thank you Mitch for your help! I managed to boot the SD card! Best regards Samy s.boutayeb at free.fr wrote: When booting the XO (i tested 2 XO's) with build Q2E19 and Q2E20, I have following message: Boot device: /sd/disk:\boot\olpc.fth Arguments: buffer at ffb68ec0:2: Can't find word to replace BTW, the SD card is fully functional with Qemu and the fedora distro is working! My guess is that this error has to do with the storage media. Does anyone had this error? That message is coming from a patch that works around a bug in Q2E18. The bug was fixed in Q2E19, and as a result, the patch no longer applies. You can just remove the patch code from /boot/olpc.fth . The complete patch code is as follows; you can remove it all: patch 2drop erase claim-params : high-ramdisk ( -- ) cv-load-ramdisk h# 22c +lp l@ 1+ memory-limit umin /ramdisk - ( new-ramdisk-adr ) ramdisk-adr over /ramdisk move( new-ramdisk-adr ) to ramdisk-adr ; ' high-ramdisk to load-ramdisk ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Error with SanDisk Ultra II
Hi all, I have missed the October Fedora 10 XO test call, so I am a freelance tester ;-). BTW, this is part of my job as grassrootler working at OLPC France! I have a problem with my the snapshot#3: I copied it to a 4 GB SanDisk Ultra II SDHC card (in the stores here in France, the recommended Extreme III have no more than 2 GB). When booting the XO (i tested 2 XO's) with build Q2E19 and Q2E20, I have following message: Boot device: /sd/disk:\boot\olpc.fth Arguments: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2: Can't find word to replace BTW, the SD card is fully functional with Qemu and the fedora distro is working! My guess is that this error has to do with the storage media. Does anyone had this error? FWIW, here what 'dmesg' says: [30762.012243] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=13fe, idProduct=1f00 [30762.012243] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [30762.012243] usb 1-3: Product: USB DISK 2.0 [30762.012243] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: [30762.012243] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 0784166005ED [30767.042130] usb-storage: device scan complete [30767.045522] scsi 18:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB DISK 2.0 PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS [30767.285025] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdb] 3858432 512-byte hardware sectors (1976 MB) [30767.285569] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [30767.285578] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 [30767.285582] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [30767.288188] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdb] 3858432 512-byte hardware sectors (1976 MB) [30767.288706] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [30767.288706] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 [30767.288706] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [30767.288706] sdb: sdb1 [30767.292337] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [30767.292337] sd 18:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [30982.242513] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 22 [73068.514073] mmc0: new SDHC card at address ba89 [73068.514073] mmcblk0: mmc0:ba89 SD04G 3979776KiB [73068.514073] mmcblk0: p1 [73068.816435] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [73068.821781] EXT3 FS on mmcblk0p1, internal journal [73068.821781] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [73161.316536] mmc0: card ba89 removed [74802.185944] mmc0: new SDHC card at address ba89 [74802.186297] mmcblk0: mmc0:ba89 SD04G 3979776KiB [74802.186297] mmcblk0: p1 [74802.471266] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [74802.477286] EXT3 FS on mmcblk0p1, internal journal Thanks for your comments Samy OLPC France ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: gcompris activities regression
Bonjour Bruno, I have just installed the last release on a xo. The installation procesure with xoget failed, an I used the alternative with wget. The gcompris-activity runs well. However, if I try to launch an activity in the letter-group of activities, I get following error message: Error: the activity requires that you first install the packages with GCompris voices for the locale 'fr' or 'en'. This error occurs again on the LiveCD (for example in the version from ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_080919.iso ), which are an important promotion tool, especially in France, where the liveCD is the unique possibility to explore GCompris in the sugar environment. Bravo encore for the impressive work Bien cordialement Bests Samy Re: gcompris activities regression I just completed the step 2. The new release is uploaded, each activities and the full bundle. They should work as before now. -- Bruno Coudoin http://gcompris.net Free educational software for kids http://toulibre.org Logiciel Libre ? Toulouse -- ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel End of Devel Digest, Vol 31, Issue 129 ** ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
debxo 0.1 release
Hi Andres, Congratulation for your work! I have reloaded the install procedure of the debxo image. So far, the image is installed and working out of the box. I have detailed a few steps of the procedure on the Wiki at olpc-france.org. See below: http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=Explorations#Debian_sur_OLPC Bests Samy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Server-devel] Ubuntu XS
Hi all, One more argument for a debian based XS: Debian supports various non-x86 architectures, which are good candidates for a compact, affordable, and low power XS server: - The mipsel based fuloong mini ( http://www.lemote.com/english/fuloong.html ) engineered by the chinese Jiangsu Lemote Technology Corporation limited ( www.lemote.com ). Debian is fully supported. The installed distribution (rays, http://openrays.org/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunwah_Linux_(rays_Linux_Distribution) ) is debian based. The people at lemote are very supportive. The fuloong units I have received have a 120GB hard drive and 512 MB memory. - The powerpc based Bubba 2 ( http://excito.com/bubba/technical-specifications.html ) engineered by Excito in Sweden ( www.excito.com ). They are very supportive too and are ready to assist us. The distribution is debian too. - etc. Best regards Samy Quoting Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I have a few projects I am helping support and was thinking about doing an Ubuntu based XS option. I wanted to find out whether anyone else was interested in this, and whether any work has been done. My reason for wanting to do an Ubuntu version is purely because it is a more familiar platform for me, and I though having easy to roll out XS deb packages might be useful to others. I'll also be doing a bunch of testing of the ds-backup packages and some additional functionality we need for some Australian/Pacific rollouts. I'll keep the list updated on our progress. Martin mentioned that there are apparently 6 packages for the Fedora based XS project, so I need to find those out to port to Ubuntu please :) Thanks all! Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ Open Source Industry Australia http://osia.net.au/ Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/ There is no darkness but ignorance. - William Shakespeare ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
gnash improvements on F9
Hi Daniel You might try www.caillou.com or www.moncailletdeurope.education.fr The animations of these sites were not playable at all on the last joyride builds with the most recent Browse versions. Bests Samy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
gnash improvements on F9 (correct URL)
Sorry, the correct URL is: http://www/moncahierdeurope.education.fr Bests Samy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: gnash improvements on F9
Quoting Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But was that because the codecs weren't loaded? Hi, Not sure, but I have the build joyride-2158 + Browse version 91 (according to the file activity.info. Libgnash is version 0.8.3 (according to /usr/lib/gnash/libgnash) HTH Bests Samy -walter On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Daniel You might try www.caillou.com or www.moncailletdeurope.education.fr The animations of these sites were not playable at all on the last joyride builds with the most recent Browse versions. Bests Samy ___ 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: [Server-devel] VPN server for our project
Selon Marten Vijn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 16:16 +0200, Marten Vijn wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 15:40 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question: has anyone experimented the fonction of a VPN network involving remote XS servers ? I use openvpn, works well over nat! (pptp does not) and ssh can do also wonderfull tricks!! check 'man ssh' for -R and -L Thanks for the tips Samy Marten -- Marten Vijn linux 2.0.18 OpenBSD 3.6 FreeBSD 4.6 http://martenvijn.nl http://opencommunitycamp.org http://wifisoft.org ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] VPN server for our project
Hi, OLPC France is plannig a project Windrose (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/WindroseOLPC ) consisting for the schools among the world participating in the project to share and publish their contents (text, images, videos, etc.) in a semi-private BLOG (likely EduBlogger). My question: has anyone experimented the fonction of a VPN network involving remote XS servers ? Our concern is to protect the privacy of the kids, allowing private areas and public areas and making the login process easier for the kids/teachers. The communication/authentification to the VNP server will possibly be organised via a local XS server. Thank you for your comments Best regards Samy ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Ultra Mobile XO Server
Hi John, Thank you for your comments. The helped me to formalize further the analyse of the usage cases and the options to be considered. Glad to see that there is a need for this experiment. We want to offer an option in the deployments where the energy and the cost are impeding factors for the schools. Our first step is to analyse the situation and to benefit from your experience and your caveats. Second, to receive XOs for our project (we are waiting approval for it via the developers program). We could have 2 options: a/ a dedicated XO based XS server, to be used during classtime, serving eventually a few ( 40-50) XOs, for example in a class) as well as the teachers monitoring XO. b/ a multipurpose XO with an alternate boot options, to be used by the teachers: - with the kids, during classtime, for monitoring purposes, - outside of the class, in order to prepare/evaluate the class activities. In case a, booting from an external storage may be an option, especially if additional storage is needed. The installation of the XS on the internal disk is another option, eventually with additional storage for the user data. In case b, the multibooting function will make the XO a versatile machine. Bests, Samy Selon John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is a regular project around OLPC. Nobody has found time to finish it, but a new person regularly takes it on... Tyler was the latest to try, Scott had worked on it some as well. The simple part everybody is working on is building an external disk that is basically XS (F7) plus the OLPC kernel, and getting OFW to boot it. You have our encouragement, how can we help ? John On Jun 22, 2008, at 5:53 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, OLPC France is plannig different deployments for which an ultra mobile Server based on a XO could be an option. My question: has anyone experimented the installation of a XS server on a XO? Our project Ultra Mobile XO Server is located here http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/UltraMobileXOServer and here http://llaske.free.fr/olpcfrance/index.php?title=UltraMobileXOServer Thank you for your comments Best regards Samy ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] Ultra Mobile XO Server
Hi Martin, Thank you for your useful comments! On the software side, we will certainly integrate in this project important components such as the Moodle server, thus allowing the teachers/administrators to monitor and manage the whole class easier. Best regards Samy Selon Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We could have 2 options: a/ a dedicated XO based XS server, to be used during classtime, serving eventually a few ( 40-50) XOs, for example in a class) as well as the teachers monitoring XO. Hi Samy! Excellent project! I think this (a) is the most viable option. What we mainly need at the moment is work in fixing any bugs in the LiveCD install we have that are preventing installation on an XO, and ensuring we can support an external HD for storage easily. There is also work to be done in shrinking the memory footprint of the current XS software, and we can work together on that. The XS software should be the same regardless of HW. With a bit of tuning (and perhaps alternative config files) the software can definitely run on an XO. And once we have achieved that goal, you might want to tackle the multi-boot option, but the XO does not have enough storage to handle the XS role, and much less a multi-boot XO/XS. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
[Server-devel] VPN server for our project
Hi, OLPC France is plannig a project Windrose (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/WindroseOLPC ) consisting for the schools among the world participating in the project to share and publish their contents (text, images, videos, etc.) in a semi-private BLOG (likely EduBlogger). My question: has anyone experimented the fonction of a VPN network involving remote XS servers ? Our concern is to protect the privacy of the kids, allowing private areas and public areas and making the login process easier for the kids/teachers. The communication/authentification to the VNP server will possibly be organised via a local XS server. Thank you for your comments Best regards Samy ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Re: [Server-devel] VPN server for our project
Selon James Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've tested PPTP and OpenVPN on XO. Works fine. The PPP MPPE module is already present (drivers/net/ppp_mppe.ko). Using a VPN adds overhead to the network communication. Isn't as secure as you might think. Yes, we should find out the right balance between opposite concerns. I'm the release engineer for PPTP on Linux, and C. Scott Ananian in OLPC is the author. I've not tried it on XS. PPTP project did some load calculations a year or two ago, and found that a 500Mhz 64Mb server could handle several hundred users so long as they did not try to do something all at the same time. It would be practical to test on XS, but it is a zero sum game, you'd lose capacity. ok In my opinion, avoid creating a false sense of security ... the kids should be taught personal information privacy very early, and the best way to do that is for them to make small mistakes and learn from them. I imagine, that the kids will be monitored by their teachers, who will eventually direct the reporting and publishing activities so that they are acceptable depending of the privacy policy of the schools. France. Are you sure you can use strong cryptographic encryption? I seem to remember some hindrance at law. I haven't kept up to date with that. The length of the encryption keys may be limited. Not sure how long. Another dimension is that the VPN server, if any, can be hosted here in France or in another country where our future partners are be located. Thank you for your usefull comments Bests Samy -- James Cameronmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://quozl.netrek.org/ ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
Idea Contest/OLPC France: Consolidating ongoing development projects
OLPC France is planning an Idea Contest: http://llaske.free.fr/olpcfrance/index.php?title=Concours_d'idées_OLPC_France to be announced at the 9th Libre Software Meeting, in Mont-de-Marsan from 1 to 5 july 2008 ( http://2008.rmll.info/ ). In order to enhance existing development OLPC projects, we want to list the projects for which additional contributors were appreciated. The OLPC developers of ongoing projects are invited to add here: http://llaske.free.fr/olpcfranc/index.php?title=Renforcement_de_projets_en_cours their project with the following informations : Project name * name of the developer(s) * contact information * link to the project * description of the project * brief summary of the help needed Thank you for your help Best regards Samy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Idea Contest/OLPC France: correct link
The correct link for your submissions/propositions is: http://llaske.free.fr/olpcfrance/index.php?title=Renforcement_de_projets_en_cours Best regards, Samy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Usage monitoring: any experience?
Thank you Pia for your comments. We will examine further if the applications Moodle, which seems to be bundled with the XS-server, or ClaSS and Openadmin could address the issue of the usage monitoring. Best regards, Samy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Usage monitoring: any experience?
Hi, Our grassroot at OLPC France made a small deployment lately in a school (so far with one XO, no more) and we would like to monitor the activity of the users (activities, connections, load, etc.) as per day, week, etc. Of course, such monitoring activity will be more useful for our next projects in the following weeks or months (we hope to get some XOs soon via the developer's program) and we are planning to realize this monitoring activity both during and after the deployments. Do you have any experience in the matter? OLPC France may contribute to such an activity if there is sufficient interest among the other developers. Thank you for your comments Best regards, Samy ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
