Re: [Server-devel] stability of XS 0.5

2008-12-19 Thread Greg Smith
Hi All, I agree with Sameer that people should be informed in advance if there are known issues. I put a note on the release notes page and a link to this list at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Release_Notes#XS_0.5 When the documented features are working as designed we can remove it. Until

[Server-devel] XO Future Feature Planning Minutes

2008-11-12 Thread Greg Smith
Several engineers and others met on IRC on Wed. November 12 Minutes - We finished the review of proposals for XO Miniconference planned for January. Edits and updates made directly on the page. After the meeting I made some major updates to the page, combining items, reorganizing them and

Re: [Server-devel] What's cooking in the XS pot this week (2008-10--01)

2008-10-01 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Martin, Thanks for the update! Its great to see all the items planned for or in 0.5: http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assignedstatus=closedstatus=newstatus=reopenedorder=prioritycol=idcol=summarycol=statuscol=typecol=prioritycol=componentmilestone=xs-0.5 On your question of who is waiting

Re: [Server-devel] new package: xs-activation

2008-09-05 Thread Greg Smith
at 12:56 AM, Greg Smith - On Can you put this feature on the roadmap: I see that it has Trac #1504 but I don't see this very useful Readme (or Specification) that Douglas wrote linked anywhere. Can we include that somewhere off the roadmap? No. We are working towards a release so we

Re: [Server-devel] new package: xs-activation

2008-09-04 Thread Greg Smith
, Greg S Erik Garrison wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 11:18:31AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: A couple of notes related to it. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Greg Smith Can you put this feature on the roadmap: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Roadmap It's already there - we're using Trac's

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: possible issues with WriteNew

2008-08-11 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Tarun, Not sure I fully understand that but it doesn't seem like a critical issue to me. The workflow I think we should support if we can is: - Open write - Add text and images - Exit write (Keep first or just exit) - Open Browse - Click insert image link in EduBlog - Pick Write document off

Re: [Server-devel] not up for Friday meeting about the XS

2008-08-07 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Guys, I'm OK with reschedule. How about next week at the same time? Hope you feel better soon. Thanks, Greg S Bryan Berry wrote: Hey guys, I am still not feeling well and not sure I can make tomorrow's meeting. Can we postpone it until next week?

Re: [Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

2008-08-01 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Tarun, Thanks. I think Pablo is the primary driver of requirements and priorities now. As long as he appreciates that we only have one more week of coding time, we should try to do whatever he needs to get us to Beta and real blog posts from real schools. You have done a super job! Way

Re: [Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

2008-08-01 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Tarun et al, The presentation went well and there were applause when I posted some pictures and text to blogger.com! Scott and Michael raised the question of why we didn't build it as a .xo only project with no need for server. I explained the constraints of time and image in Uruguay and

Re: [Server-devel] reinstall to 164 or possible to upgrade 163? (Bryan Berry)

2008-07-29 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Bryan, How did we miss the timing on this? Did you know that 164 was about to go out for testing? Let us know how we can communicate better to stay in synch with you. Martin, Can you add the upgrade instructions from this exchange to the 164 release notes? Thanks, Greg S

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Looking for comments/bugs

2008-07-23 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Tarun, Thanks for the status and hard work. I believe that you can put something on the journal from write in two ways: - just close write - choose Keep then one of RTF, TXT or HTML are you saying that neither of those types of journal entries can be inserted in to the EduBlog GUI? Sounds

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Question

2008-07-13 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Walter, I lost the context of your comment. I assume you are talking about the request for a workflow that passes the edit focus from one kid to the next to the teacher. Let me know if this doesn't answer your question. We did evaluate the Journalism activity. You can see early Edublog

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Beta Server

2008-07-13 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Tony, You are King (or Raja :-) Thanks a lot! BTW a teacher in Uruguay created some art work for us. I attached them here (let me know if they don't come through). You can put them on the home page or where ever they seem to fit, if you have time. I can't wait to try out the new

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Teacher Review Options

2008-07-12 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Tarun, Great progress! On this: In that case I'm confused why there needed to be two options for the student post to local blog and post to internet blog when we did the mockups. I thought those were just two different blog choices. Since we didn't have the local blog at that time I

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Teacher Review Options

2008-07-11 Thread Greg Smith
that information? Thanks, Tarun Greg Smith wrote: Hi Tarun, That sounds OK in general but I have a few comments and clarifications. Make sure the kids know if their post is going to the teacher or directly to the blog. I think the internal vs. external or local vs. remote designations were meant

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Teacher Review Options

2008-07-10 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Tarun, That sounds OK in general but I have a few comments and clarifications. Make sure the kids know if their post is going to the teacher or directly to the blog. I think the internal vs. external or local vs. remote designations were meant to separate blogs which are on the local

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog: Requesting input on design of Preview and Remote Blog Admin Pages

2008-07-07 Thread Greg Smith
Hi Tarun, I'm OK with client side in this pass. The only concerns are that the teacher and potentially other students should have the chance to edit the post. As long as the teacher can pick it up and review it too, doing the preview off a local file on XO is OK. We need to nail down the work

[Server-devel] EDuBlog XS Beta/Development Server

2008-06-13 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
reach via server-devel too. Thanks, Greg Smith ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog v0.1 Available for Comment!

2008-06-12 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
the way Moodle does it and no kids or teachers complain its OK with me. Let me get the hosted XS online ASAP so we can see that and try it out. Thanks, Greg S -Original Message- From: Tarun Pondicherry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:46 AM To: Greg Smith

Re: [Server-devel] EduBlog Revised Project Plan (Tarun Pondicherry)

2008-06-10 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi All, Thanks for the comments and great progress! I'll try to respond to all open items in one pass. - On group edit. Thanks to Alex for the link and sanity check on collaboration support in Browse. I think we should let it go for this first implementation. When Browse does collaborate at

Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for

2008-06-05 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi All, We have a disconnect about the target OS! Its my fault for not having tighter synch with tech leads in Uruguay. Sorry. I'm forking a private thread and I'll get it ironed out ASAP. Please hold the XS bring up until I can nail down the correct target XS. If Uruguay is on a non-standard

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-04 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Martin, You're right we are closer than I thought on first read. Thanks for the added comments. I want to minimize the scope but I see feature creep coming so we better plan for it in advance. Here are some comments on these: - understand a simple level of identity roles (provided by XS

Re: [Server-devel] Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update)

2008-06-02 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:04 PM To: Greg Smith (gregmsmi) Cc: server-devel@lists.laptop.org Subject: Edublog notes (was: Re: The road towards xs-0.3 - update) On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the school server plan, keep us

Re: [Server-devel] Collaboration between schools

2008-04-30 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi John et al, One minor clarification. I think you mean L3 (IP) VPN (virtual private network) not VLAN (virtual LAN). Let me know if that is not right as you can send an IP packet from one VLAN to another but not from one VPN to another (except in special cases). BTW sounds like people have

Re: [Server-devel] Mesh connectivity from regular WiFi gear (Martin Langhoff)

2008-04-17 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi All, FYI I don't know what is supposed to work but they have tested a bunch in Nepal. I believe that a DLINK DWL2100AP was the first choice in Nepal. Looks like they last tested Lantech WL54G BR with pretty good results. See: http://blog.olenepal.org/ latest post. You may want to check

Re: [Server-devel] Drupal on OLPC? (Martin Langhoff)

2008-03-20 Thread Greg Smith (gregmsmi)
Hi Martin et al, Thanks for the comments and direction. I'm still working on options for the Uruguay requirement (BTW now rewritten, verified with tech lead in Montevideo and posted in wiki at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Requiremientos_Para_XO). We want any new work to be available in all