Re: [support-gang] Postponement of XOCamp Event to January

2008-10-30 Thread Morgan Collett
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:52, Deepak Saxena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 29 2008, at 21:52, Ed McNierney was caught saying: Folks - The OLPC XOCamp event being planned for November 17 ­ 21 is being postponed until January, 2009. The Fedora FUDCON conference is in Boston on January 9 -

Re: Allowing an activity to be launched multiple times in parallel

2008-10-30 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Please use 8.2.0. This problem has been resolved in 8.2.0, by making each Activity launch take over the screen immediately. In 8.2.0, users can see immediately that their click was registered, and cannot easily launch another instance until the current one finishes loading. Implementation

Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Files

2008-10-30 Thread Morgan Collett
2008/10/30 Luke Faraone [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 20:50, Bill Bogstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the fact that they will quickly disappear off the screen, and may be auto-deleted by the system greatly limits their value. Only if they don't get used. In which case, those

Re: [sugar] Postponement of XOCamp Event to January

2008-10-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Ed McNierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OLPC XOCamp event being planned for November 17 – 21 is being postponed until January, 2009. The Fedora FUDCON conference is in Boston on January 9 Oops. I kind of saw that coming when fudcon was postponed. I'll sort my

Project name : BundleActivity has been set up

2008-10-30 Thread Henry Edward Hardy
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:14:38 -0400, Lewis Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Project name : BundleActivity Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/activities/bundleactivity Please follow instructions here for importing your project: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Importing_your_project

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,

[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 -

setup for XO development

2008-10-30 Thread Paolo
Hello, I would like to try out the XO software and get started with doing some development. As I am a security guy, I am mostly interested in core development, especially bitfrost/rainbow, and the document store. I expect an emulated environment would be a good choice for this type of

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: Language learning on the XO.

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
nbsp;FWIW.nbsp; I have had a number of high school teacher and university instructors ask about using the xo as a language learning appliance.nbsp; The two reoccurring themes have been:XO as a portable language lab.Ability to develop a language learning activity which could tailor itself to the

Re: [sugar] Postponement of XOCamp Event to January

2008-10-30 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:06 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Ed McNierney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The OLPC XOCamp event being planned for November 17 – 21 is being postponed until January, 2009. The Fedora FUDCON conference is in Boston on

Re: Allowing an activity to be launched multiple times in parallel

2008-10-30 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Gary C Martin wrote: I had the same mental hoop to jump through with my Moon activity, it's just a viewer of data, however after a version or so I soon has some useful state worth keeping (which viewing options a kid may have selected), and I do have more states to add in

Re: Data Storage and User-facing System Requirements [was Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Files]

2008-10-30 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Garrison wrote: It seems from my reading of mailing lists, IRC logs, and listening to conversations with people that we are trying to resolve all of these issues by implementing more code to get around difficulties imposed by our current data

Re: idea for running out of RAM

2008-10-30 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Oct 30 2008, at 10:05, Erik Garrison was caught saying: Deepak, Did you continue down this path (auto-saving application state to NAND when we run out of memory)? How tenable is the idea of saving application state to NAND on our system? No I haven't. :( Could the oom-killer have a

Re: Data Storage and User-facing System Requirements [was Re: [sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Files]

2008-10-30 Thread david
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Garrison wrote: It seems from my reading of mailing lists, IRC logs, and listening to conversations with people that we are trying to resolve all of these issues by implementing more code to

Re: setup for XO development

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:55:00PM +0100, Paolo wrote: Hello, I would like to try out the XO software and get started with doing some development. As I am a security guy, I am mostly interested in core development, especially bitfrost/rainbow, and the document store. Music to my ears! If you

Re: setup for XO development

2008-10-30 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 02:55:00PM +0100, Paolo wrote: Hello, I would like to try out the XO software and get started with doing some development. As I am a security guy, I am mostly interested in core development,

Re: [Localization] [sugar] 9.1 proposal: Language learning on the XO.

2008-10-30 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Yamandu Ploskonka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please be _very_ careful on any thought about teaching English with the XO. It is a requirement in many countries. We don't have a choice. Enemies of the project everywhere are just waiting for a chance, any chance,

Re: [sugar] [Localization] 9.1 proposal: Language learning on the XO.

2008-10-30 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
Please be _very_ careful on any thought about teaching English with the XO. Enemies of the project everywhere are just waiting for a chance, any chance, to call us yokels of the imperialist empire, and they would have a field day if the XO delivered EFL. Of course we know that many locally

Re: [Olpc-open] The 40th Anniversary of the Dynabook event at Computer History Museum

2008-10-30 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
At Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:12:46 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:24:09 -0400, Brian Jordan wrote: Cool! (bump) Yes and thanks. The third panelist has been announced and it is none other

Re: setup for XO development

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:35:30PM -0500, David Farning wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, for a variety of reasons, I'm working quite hard to make rainbow usable on stock linux machines like those represented by Debian and Fedora chroots.