Re: Leaving

2009-01-09 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:50 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote: Like many others, Friday will be my last day employed by OLPC. I've enjoyed working on the project a lot, and hope to find some way to continue the work that has been begun. I'm very sorry to hear that. Will you be

Re: Leaving

2009-01-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 09:07, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:50 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote: Like many others, Friday will be my last day employed by OLPC. I've enjoyed working on the project a lot, and hope to find some way to continue the

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:00 AM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: I'm very interested on this, as it would give us also for free a FUSE interface. Why I haven't pursued it yet is because the API for developing new gio backends is still private and our new backend would then need to live

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-09 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 09:21, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:00 AM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: I'm very interested on this, as it would give us also for free a FUSE interface. Why I haven't pursued it yet is because the API for developing new gio

New joyride build 2621

2009-01-09 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2621 Changes in build 2621 from build: 2620 Size delta: 0.00M -cerebro 3.0.2-1.olpc3 +cerebro 3.0.3-1.olpc3 --- Changes for cerebro 3.0.3-1.olpc3 from 3.0.2-1.olpc3 --- + 3.0.3: Minor fixes and cleanup in interface.py -- This

New joyride build 2622

2009-01-09 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2622 Changes in build 2622 from build: 2621 Size delta: 0.00M -bootfw q2e25-1.olpc2.unsigned +bootfw q2e27-1.olpc2.unsigned --- Changes for bootfw q2e27-1.olpc2.unsigned from q2e25-1.olpc2.unsigned --- + Fixed problems with lid

status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Victor Lazzarini
Hi everyone, I have not been able to work on anything new for OLPC for the past four months, given my heavy teaching schedule. However, now I am just about to go on research leave and one of my goals was to do some work on the music/sound side of things for the XO. So I am now wondering whether

Re: [Sugar-devel] Cerebro v3.0: File sharing and buddy management made easy!

2009-01-09 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos ypo...@gmail.com wrote: Want to exchange files between your desktop and your XO laptop? It can't get any easier! In the latest version of Cerebro (currently 3.0.3) you will find simplified file sharing and buddy management. Just

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: For the evince vs sugar-evince I suspect we need to try and get the mainline evince split out into evince and evince-libs so that we can build sugar-evince against it similar to what we do with abiword and

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Victor Lazzarini wrote: Hi everyone, I have not been able to work on anything new for OLPC for the past four months, given my heavy teaching schedule. However, now I am just about to go on research leave and one of my goals was to do some

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Victor Lazzarini
Thanks. Walter has kindly replied to me already, so it looks like sugar labs is my destination. Hope to be able to clear up all my marking by the end of next week and by then I think will also know where I actually fit into this new scheme of things. I'm happy to be back. Regards Victor At

Re: [Sugar-devel] Leaving

2009-01-09 Thread pgf
tomeu wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 09:07, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:50 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@cscott.net wrote: Like many others, Friday will be my last day employed by OLPC. I've enjoyed working on the project a lot, and hope to find

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Ed McNierney
Victor - Thanks! I agree with Ben that connecting with the Sugar Labs community is the right start and an excellent focus. If you do need to have XO-specific conversations as well, I would be happy to be the contact person to do that. - Ed On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Benjamin

Re: Fedora Desktop on XO

2009-01-09 Thread Eben Eliason
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 09:21, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:00 AM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote: I'm very interested on this, as it would give us also for free a FUSE interface.

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Bastien
Victor Lazzarini victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie writes: [...] In other words, it would be useful to get a who's who for the project. +1 -- Bastien ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: revisiting the 9.1 planning meeting : Friday, 3pm?

2009-01-09 Thread Samuel Klein
OK, we are on for 1500 Eastern today / 2000 UTC in #olpc-meeting for the weekly 9.1 roadmap discussion. For those on devel, sorry for the short notice; I mistakenly sent this only to tech-team yesterday. Please bring agenda points you want to raise about 9.1 planning (including a maximum of 3

OLPC Downsizing on Slashdot

2009-01-09 Thread Carlos Nazareno
Hi guys. Thought you guys might want to give this a read. Given OLPC's politics and history, there's a lot of harsh words being thrown around and quite a number of stuff need to be taken with a grain of salt, but there are many insightful comments and some very good ideas on how to drive the

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Bastien bastiengue...@googlemail.com wrote: Victor Lazzarini victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie writes: [...] In other words, it would be useful to get a who's who for the project. +1 Please have some consideration for the recently unemployed. Not everyone wants this

Henry Edward Hardy sysadmin final report

2009-01-09 Thread Henry Edward Hardy
*This will be my final weekly report as OLPC sysadmin, at least for now.* Total OLPC RT sysadmin tickets for all time: 1850 current status: new: 13 open: 155 rejected: 181 resolved: 1501 stalled: 0 RT sysadmin tickets resolved by HH since Feb 1, 2008: 1186 Not owned by, but resolved by

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Ed McNierney
Victor Scott - Sorry - I made a comment about this on an earlier email, but I just realized that that message wasn't sent to the devel list. Scott's quite right. I firmly believe that whenever possible a layoff is handled with a face-to-face conversation with your manager. It isn't fun

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread victor
Well, I am sorry I did not know the situation, so that is why I asked. However, I did not ask about who was laid off, but just wanted to know who is taking care of what now. At some point, this will need to be divulged, I expect? Victor - Original Message - From: C. Scott Ananian

Re: status of OLPC project

2009-01-09 Thread Martin Langhoff
just wanted to know who is taking care of what now. that's fair enough, but it'll take some time to settle. Maybe post to de...@l.o and the sugar devel list and hope whomever is looking after component X to answer? cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server

see ya'

2009-01-09 Thread pgf
like many others, today is my last day at OLPC. my short tenure here has been loads of fun, and it's been an honor to be close to the center of such a great project. i'll be around -- please stay in touch. to the extent i can, i'll be following the lists, and dropping in on irc once in a while.

Re: see ya'

2009-01-09 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:04 PM, p...@laptop.org wrote: like many others, today is my last day at OLPC. my short tenure here has been loads of fun, and it's been an honor to be close to the center of such a great project. i'll be around -- please stay in touch. to the extent i can, i'll

Re: see ya'

2009-01-09 Thread pgf
oops jameson wrote: my home address is p...@laptop.org, but pgf (or paul) @laptop will continue to work for some time, i believe. I believe your fingers didn't type what your brain was thinking. yes, i meant to type p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us paul =- paul

Re: see ya'

2009-01-09 Thread Carlos Nazareno
my home address is p...@laptop.org, I believe you meant to say something different here. Freudian slip? ;) we all know where our hearts are at :) -Naz -- Carlos Nazareno http://twitter.com/naz404 http://www.object404.com -- interactive media specialist zen graffiti studios

Re: status of forks

2009-01-09 Thread S Page
Peter Robinson wrote: with the layoffs happening would it make sense to get a document listing what patches/forks are being maintained by OLPC. The best page is probably http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Distro_version_migration_nastiness any other pages should be in [[Category:Build system]] and

Cerebro v3.0: File sharing and buddy management made easy!

2009-01-09 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
Want to exchange files between your desktop and your XO laptop? It can't get any easier! In the latest version of Cerebro (currently 3.0.3) you will find simplified file sharing and buddy management. Just click on the buddy you want to send a file to and select a file to send! Screenshots are

goodbye olpc

2009-01-09 Thread Erik Garrison
Like many who have been involved in software and support, my contract with OLPC terminates this afternoon. My tenure as a software engineer was relatively short, but wonderful. To all at OLPC: it has been a pleasure working with you. I have learned much. I have had wonderful experiences and

Re: status of forks

2009-01-09 Thread Samuel Klein
There's a discussion going on right now at FUDCon with gregdek and cjb running down the 20 or so forked packages and smoothing out how to merge them back in. So there should be helpful updates soon. SJ ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org

Subscribe to the OLPC NZ testing distribution list

2009-01-09 Thread Tabitha Roder
Hello To keep up to date with what the New Zealand OLPC volunteers are doing, subscribe to olpc...@lists.laptop.org by going to http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz Now this list is set up I will drop the previous method of emailing out to individuals for these mass updates. Have a great

Re: status of forks

2009-01-09 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Samuel Klein s...@laptop.org wrote: There's a discussion going on right now at FUDCon with gregdek and cjb running down the 20 or so forked packages and smoothing out how to merge them back in. So there should be helpful updates soon. Don't forget that we have

Farewell.

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Stone
Like many of my esteemed colleagues, I am parting ways with OLPC. I will treasure the memory of our collective adventure... ...while naturally looking forward to new opportunities: professional, educational, and otherwise. Michael P.S. - (Anyone else wondering what happened to their social life

Leaving soon

2009-01-09 Thread Ricardo Carrano
Dear all, I am also sad to be leaving the project. It's been a true honor to work in such a great project and with such a great team. For those who are leaving I reinforce the best of luck votes. For those who are staying I say the same and also ask that you don't be disheartened. We're all sad

Testing summary - 10 January 2009

2009-01-09 Thread Tabitha Roder
Hello Thanks to Ian Thomson for coming along and talking to everyone about Oceania deployments. There were lots of fantastic talks today with a diverse group of people present. We are hoping to hear some kiwi's could be volunteering in the Pacific Islands over the next few months - fingers

So long and thanks for all the fish

2009-01-09 Thread Mel Chua
Folks, I'm psyched to be (re)joining the community as a volunteer once more - after all, I've been an employee for 3.8 months and a community member for... running over 2 years now. This isn't an ending, just another step - and I for one welcome our new overlor^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H I mean, I'm

Re: Cerebro v3.0: File sharing and buddy management made easy!

2009-01-09 Thread Bobby Powers
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos y...@mit.edu wrote: Want to exchange files between your desktop and your XO laptop? It can't get any easier! In the latest version of Cerebro (currently 3.0.3) you will find simplified file sharing and buddy management. Just click on

Re: automatic reminder of 'software update' when installing a new build

2009-01-09 Thread S Page
Mikus Grinbergs wrote: I have seen the wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/8.2 page list Activity versions that were *older* than those listed for plain G1G1. That's exactly as it is supposed to work. G1G1 lists dev versions, G1G1/8.2 the stable versions tested with 8.2.

New joyride build 2623

2009-01-09 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2623 Changes in build 2623 from build: 2622 Size delta: 0.00M -cerebro 3.0.3-1.olpc3 +cerebro 3.0.4-1.olpc3 --- Changes for cerebro 3.0.4-1.olpc3 from 3.0.3-1.olpc3 --- + 3.0.4: Fixed missing net_engine module, fixed command-line