Hi! I was in Game Jam Brasil, and posted some photos in my blog<http://vainalousachefe.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/olpc-gamejam-brasil-como-foi/>.
Anyone who can read in portuguese will also know what happened with some details ;-) []'s On Nov 10, 2007 5:57 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Cambridge: The first of the monthly learning workshops was held at > OLPC this week. More than 60 people from 14 countries (and one US > city) attended. The focus of this workshop was to build a stronger > understanding of laptops and learning; to make plans for deployment in > the countries; and to build a strong community among the participants > for ongoing support and collaboration. The energy, ideas, and > excitement among the group was fantastic and gave everyone more hope > about the learning potential about to be unleashed as laptops begin > arriving in large numbers in countries shortly. Many thanks to David > Cavallo, Lindsay Petrillose, and the OLPC learning team for all of > their efforts. > > 2. Cyberspace: Larry Weber's dream of a digital PSA has been realized: > Hilary Meserole reports that our first Give One Get One public service > announcement, which features Heroes star Masi Oka, is online (See > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQbtebeftyA). The team is working with > YouTube on ways to feature this on their home page during the > fortnight that the campaign is running. We will be adding more content > next week—outtakes from the PSA shoot, etc. > > Masi has joined OLPC as our media spokesperson, however, an ill-timed > writers' strike precludes Nicholas and Masi doing some of the > talk-show appearances that had been envisioned. > > 3. Give One Get One launches at 6AM EST on Monday (See > laptopgiving.org). While we have no idea what the response will be, > Hilary and the "volunteer army" that includes Pentagram, Nurun, W2, > Racepoint, Digital Influence Group, Eleven, Inc., and Len Fink did a > fantastic job raising the public awareness of the campaign. Examples > include the beautiful full-page ad that was donated by the Economist > (See http://wiki.laptop.org/images/a/ab/GiveOneGetOne.pdf). We will be > able to reach many more children due to their efforts. > > 4. Mass production started this week this week in Quanta's new factory > in Changshu. We would like to take this time to thank the team at > Quanta for there support over the last two years. Major contributors > to the effort include: Victor Chao, Gary Chiang, Arnold Kao, Matt > Huang, Dandy Hsu, Agnes Huang, Johnson Huang, Frank Lee, Roger Huang, > Elvis Wu, S.F. Chen, Ken Lin, Jacky Mu, Paying Liu, Terry Su, Alfred > Lin, Gary Chiang, Alice Wang, Alan Lio, Jeff Tarng, Tim Huang, Jeffrey > Huang, Rita Chen, Joe Lin, Jeff Yu, Ben Chuang, Sam Yeh, Johnnie Lui, > Eric Tasi, Bruce Lu, Jeff Huang, Mikko Hsu, Vance Ke, Luna Huang, > David Lin, Bryan Ma, Devin Lui, Arvin Lui, John Lin, Tess Yu, Chia > Ying Lin, Gary Su, C.H. Yang, Ray Tseng, Sam Chang, Gary Liu, Lori > Yang, Frank Feng, Cooper Zhou, Kaiser Feng, Neptune Zhan, Xiang Wei, > Zihaw Zhang, Min Xia, Eagle Liang, Peter Huang, Pillar Hou, Yaya > Zhang, Crystal Sun, Nana Pei, Bob Zhang, Yengeng Cen, Ian Huang, > Chie-Hung Li, Sunny Cheng, Cancer Zha, Fly Chen, Javin Hu, Grubby Wei, > Polin Chang, Anna Zhou, Tim Huang, Jim Chang, Eric Wang, Kenny Chung, > Zenith Zhu, Rock Chien, Sunny Hsiung, Kiki Peng, Sunny Huang, Barry > Lam, Michael Wang, Morse Chen, and Eddy Chao. > > There are many other people—from companies such as Marvel, ChiLin, > Himax, CMO, AMD, ENE, QMI, Fuse Project, Gecko, Pentagram, Design > Continuum, Foxconn, ALPS, and MIT, and many individuals as well—who > have contributed to the hardware and mechanicals over the past three > years. (Mary Lou Jepsen is pulling together a list of everyone to > thank.) Collectively we have achieved something that just three years > ago many believed that was an impossible dream. > > 5. Safety Certification: Behind the scenes another team (from UL, > Quanta, and OLPC) has been quietly working for nearly two years on XO > safety certification. The XO laptop is now fully compliant with UL > safety requirements and has been thus certified. We have also been > awarded radio, power, and system certification at national levels in > several countries. We can now legally ship in US, Canada, Uruguay, and > Peru, as well as many other countries. EU-wide approval is due in > approximately a week. We are still in the process of applying for > certification in countries on each continent with the most stringent > safety standards. > > Among many tests, we have passed Ul/IEC 60950-1 (notebook computer), > ASTM F693 (electronic toys for children), UL 1301 (mechanical assembly > requirements, including larger face dimension requirements for child > safety) and UL 2054 (batteries), as well as a passing UL on-site > inspection of the Quanta's factory. We have formal RoHS (low toxicity) > certification from Quanta, and independent testing of RoHS compliance > by UL. Also, we have been safety approved for lap use—XO is the first > "laptop" approved for usage on one's lap in many years. (The reason > that most laptops are now called "notebook computers" is that they run > too hot for safe lap use.) > > Many thanks to the core XO safety teams from UL, Quanta, and OLPC: > Katherine Sims, Bob Delisi, Nicole Tatum, Kevin Ravi, Stacy Yu, Tom > Burke, Derek Chen, Edgar Wolff-klammer, Tammi Gengegbacher, Greg > Monty, Alfred Fung, Nicholas Boten, Seth Carlton, Bruce Lu, Kenny > Chung, Victor Chao, Rita Chen, Arnold Kao, Mary Lou Jepsen, and > Lindsay Petrillose. > > 6. Richard Smith has been setting up a suspend/resume manufacturing > test and getting the process flow set up so that Quanta can do final > quality analysis (FQA). Activation of laptops (part of the anti-theft > system) presented a problem since the FQA process pulls laptops after > the final shipping image has been installed and security has been > enabled. We decided that the best way to deal with FQA is to pull FQA > machines prior to enabling security and then enable it as the final > part of FQA. > > 7. Firmware: Mitch Bradley released firmware Q2D04 as a candidate for > Update.1. It has wireless-networking improvements and bug fixes and > can be used to update the NAND Flash ROM over the wireless network > (from the school server). > > Working with Javier Cardona, Mitch discovered the root cause on a > wireless firmware problem that was breaking wireless support in Q2D03. > There was a time window during which the module reported the wrong MAC > address. This was not affecting the Linux driver because it had an > arbitrary delay to block access during that gap. Marvell promises a > proper fix in the next few days. > > 8. Wireless: Javier Cardona and Ricardo Carrano's efforts in debugging > the open issues with the wireless subsystem are producing results. We > now know the mechanism by which the driver fails (mishandling of a > BUSY result returned from the firmware to a scan request); efforts are > now focusing on finding the reason as to why that mishandling has such > severe impact in the overall subsystem operation. > > Marvell released wireless firmware version 5.110.20.p0 which > incorporates many enhancements requested by OLPC, including mesh > running-state control, mesh beacon control, and throughput > optimizations. After resolving the existing issues, the Marvell team > is going to mainly focus on power optimization for the firmware. > > James Cameron tested the developer version of the active antennae (See > http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/2007-11-10-active-antenna/<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Equozl/2007-11-10-active-antenna/>). > The antennae > performed easily over the range, no doubt aided by being > held at between 3m and 4m above ground. James reports that they hit > the length limit of the test range before any significant bandwidth > reduction was felt. We received the first 30 active antennae > preproduction boards from QMI in Cambridge this week and completed a > first round of testing without any issues. > > 9. Schedule update: There are only three weeks left to get the > Update.1 release out the door. This week we focused on testing and > some bug fixing; but not as many "Joyride" builds as lately—C. Scott > Ananian has been concentrating on assembling the pieces for the first > Update.1 builds. He expects that we will have this done over the > weekend. The overarching goal for the Update.1 release is stability of > the Trial-3 functionality; we are also folding in many new > frameworks—such as security and the new tubes system; the goal is to > have these frameworks in place without their causing regressions. One > new feature we are are adding is robust upgrades, preferably via > wireless network. > > 10. Testing: Ricardo has been detailing Ticket #4470—infrastructure > mode failing over time—and assembling meaningful logs for the team to > work with. Javier is going through these logs. Ricardo also finished > installing network "sniffing" devices for our network testbed as part > of the debug process. Ricardo and Yani Galanis tested the range of two > laptops that were brought back from field-testing at the Khairat > school in Munbai, India. Their tests revealed normal behavior. (In the > field, they exhibited unusually poor WiFi range.) Ricardo and Yani > have also been testing different antenna designs to establish > long-distance wireless links. > > Alex Latham has been testing Joyride, filing bug reports and > uncovering the many regressions expected as we pull so many new bits > together. He hasn't yet completed a full "1-hour smoke test" with an > of the Joyride builds—Scott's Update.1 build series is expected to be > more stable. Alex has also begun testing with security enabled. He > also helped John Watlington set up a testbed for our mass-production > hardware. > > Manny Castillo has been testing the Browser activity with specific > URLs chosen to exercise various plugins—such as Gnash—on Build 623; he > will be testing with Joyride next week. > > 11. Sugar: Marco Gritti, Michael Stone, and Tomeu Vizoso worked on the > integration of the Rainbow security system with Sugar and the > DataStore (and Journal). They enabled activity isolation on Tuesday > and solved all the known road blockers in the following days: access > to > audio and video resources; communication with the DataStore; > activity-space directories and their permission; and out-of-container > activities. Next week we will need a new round of testing; Marco is > confident that we will be able to solve the remaining problems > quickly. > > Marco rewrote the preview code to be much more efficient; it blocks > for only the minimal required time. Switching between views and > closing > activities is now much faster and the previews are saved reliably. > Marco temporarily disabled the startup sound in sugar to avoid > blocking the sound device and tracked down the problem with muted > audio at startup. Sound is expected to be finally back working fully > in the next build. > > Tomeu implement a basic search in the mesh view, which greatly > facilitates finding people on a crowded network; he exposed files from > the DataStore to activities using hard links instead of doing a copy; > and he made the DataStore's use of the temporary file space more > efficient. > > Reinier Heeres added a way to switch between activities using ALT-Tab; > fixed some issues with left-right inversion for Arabic; disabled > closing the Journal with CTRL-Q; and implemented a short-term > solution to the problem of the "donut" on the home page not accurately > reflecting activity memory usage. Reinier is working currently fixing > some palette issues. > > 12. Activities: The Etoys team continues to make adjustments to the > Sugar and Rainbow (security) system changes being introduced for > Update.1; Bert Freudenberg is leading this effort. Yoshiki Ohshima and > Bert have provided an improved version of Sugar menu bar; Yoshiki, > Bert, and Scott Wallace put together the necessary bits to provide > better "view source" experience—all of the code for Etoys can now be > viewed without any degradation. Ted Kaehler and Kathleen Harness have > been improving the help system for Etoys. Takashi Yamamiya and > korakurider have stabilized the localization mechanism. Takashi also > experimented a different UI for controlling choices in tiles. > > Simon Schampijer and Mark Maurer collaborated on getting "view source" > working fluidly between the Browse and Write activities. By typing > FN-Space (or CTRL+U) in Browse, the HTML source of the current page is > opened in Write. The HTML can be edited in Write and when resumed from > the Journal the modified page gets interpreted and displayed. While > doing this work, they tracked down and fixed a new issue with the > DataStore: it had been losing metadata between reboots. > > 13. Builds: C. Scott Ananian continued to work on forking the new > stable Update.1 branch and stabilizing our build process. He setup > download.laptop.org, mock.laptop.org, and pilgrim.laptop.org, which > you should see being pressed into use in the next week. Scott also > updated the Libertas firmware in the builds and refreshed the mesh > testbed, with an eye towards testing the new firmware in a realistic > network upgrade scenario. He should be able to run that test on > Monday. > > This week Andres Salomon cleaned up the kernel build scripts, made > them auto-generate change logs, and dealt with getting updated kernels > into joyride. Joyride builds now include sane kernels. Andres also did > minor Libertas testing, and is in the process of debugging USB issues. > > 14. Power management: James Cameron and Chris Ball worked on some OHM > (power manager) bugs. Once those were out of the way, Chris went on to > implement some of our power management features: "suspend on idle" is > in place; there is now a distinction between "suspend" (screen and > wireless still on, wake up on network traffic or key press) and > "sleep" (screen off, only wake up on a power-button press). There are > a few more OHM bugs to fight before this is ready to land in > Joyride/Update.1, which should happen sometime early next week. > > 15. Localization: Sayamindu Dasgupta and Xavier Alvarez have > successfully completed the first phase of the Pootle installation. All > of the translation files are in place. A number of users have signed > up and have already started to submit translations in the form of > suggestions. A discussion in the #olpc-pootle channel on how to best > integrate an external project's translation-related files into our > Pootle setup has let to an improved workflow for external projects > that want to take > advantage of our translation infrastructure. > > Currently, we have translators for the following languages signed up: > Amharic, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (traditional), French, > German, Greek, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish. Additional > translators and languages are needed, particularly for the Indic > languages, Quechua, and Aymara. > > The next stage of the Pootle deployment will consist of making the GIT > integration work—we are waiting for GIT write access to dev.laptop.org > to go forward on that. A set of frequently asked questions (FAQ) has > been created in the wiki (See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pootle/FAQ). > > Sayamindu has been looking at an issue where fontconfig seems to treat > the font cache invalid if the mtime of the cache is greater than the > system time. This is documented in Ticket #1525 (and in upstream > Freedesktop bug #12107). Sayamindu had backported the relevant changes > to the fontconfig used in Fedora 7; he will be testing out the package > in the XO over the weekend. > > 16. Security: Michael Stone announced a new release of Rainbow (See > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=234221) to the > devel and sugar lists today. The release incorporates a number of > resolutions to the current crop of 'rainbow-integration' bugs that the > community has worked so hard over the last three days to document for > us. > > Changes include: > • relaxed multimedia-device permissions that should make it possible > for activities to use the camera, microphone, and speakers; > • availability of the user's public key; > • activities are now started in $SUGAR_BUNDLE_PATH instead of > $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT; > • activities can run under "strace" by defining the environment > variable RAINBOW_STRACE_LOG (in the dictionary passed to Rainbow in > /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/sugar/activity/activityfactory.py); > • tracebacks of your activity's log file can be viewed with "less -R" > (e.g., less -R /home/olpc/.sugar/default/logs/org.laptop.Record-1.log); > > Special thanks Marco, Tomeu, and Alex L. for their extraordinary efforts. > > 17. Community reporting: Dan Sutera and the team working on the Report > activity made it to the next round of the Knight News Challenge. > Pablo Flores is working on something similar in Uruguay, and has found > some federal support to develop local blogs from children, stored at > the local schools. We discussed how the projects could work together; > Pablo is focusing on the web activity that would help editors arrange > blog feeds into beautiful editions, and the Report team is working on > an XO activity that would let children read and write blog and news > feeds. Meanwhile, Jack Driscoll, former editor of the Boston Globe—who > has been leading community journalism projects around the world for > over ten years—has put some journalism guidelines in the wiki (See > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Learning_activities/Journalism). > > 18. SimCity: SimCity is now available under the GPL, thanks to the > generosity of EA and the hard work of Steve Seabolt and Chuck Normann, > John Gilmore, and Don Hopkins (See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SimCity). > The game is in the process of being "sugarized", but is already > playable on the XO. This is the first time that a major publisher has > open sourced the original of a popular title. EA should be > congratulated. > > 19. Game Jams: A competitive game jam is under way this weekend in São > Carlos, Brazil, with the support of a number of local universities and > sponsors. Any who are interested in their progress are welcome to > follow along in #olpc-content on IRC; they are looking for outside > help with art and music for the developed games (See > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_Jam_Brazil). In advance of the CMU > game jam next weekend, the ETC team at Carnegie Mellon university has > finished a draft of its first game, a peg solitaire affair (See > http://www.olpcgames.org/). > > 20. Community: A discussion with Greg DeKoenigsberg about how to > involve more Fedora developers in OLPC work led to some work on > improving test and review processes for activities and bundles (See > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_Testing_Project). > > -walter > -- > Walter Bender > One Laptop per Child > http://laptop.org > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gabriel Marcondes Engenharia de Computação Universidade Federal de São Carlos
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