From gabriel.burt at gmail.com  Thu Dec  4 03:04:42 2008
From: gabriel.burt at gmail.com (Gabriel Burt)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 02:04:42 -0600
Subject: [Activities] New activity: Retroscope
Message-ID: <24348e0812040004j6dd9d517x94ec9820c3789882@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I've created a new activity called Retroscope.  It's really simple -
it shows you live video, but delayed 0 to 10 seconds.  I've attached
it (all 4.8K) and would love to hear feedback.

Thanks,

Gabriel
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From wadetb at gmail.com  Thu Dec  4 10:51:40 2008
From: wadetb at gmail.com (Wade Brainerd)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 07:51:40 -0800
Subject: [Activities] New activity: Retroscope
In-Reply-To: <24348e0812040004j6dd9d517x94ec9820c3789882@mail.gmail.com>
References: <24348e0812040004j6dd9d517x94ec9820c3789882@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <7087c32a0812040751w34cf5e20h3ffbe8db17a4f8ae@mail.gmail.com>

Cool activity!  Might be neat to add some video effects support too
like inversion, mirror, colorize, etc. if it can be done with
GStreamer.

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Gabriel Burt <gabriel.burt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've created a new activity called Retroscope.  It's really simple -
> it shows you live video, but delayed 0 to 10 seconds.  I've attached
> it (all 4.8K) and would love to hear feedback.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gabriel
>
> _______________________________________________
> Activities mailing list
> Activities at lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/activities
>
>

From wadetb at gmail.com  Mon Dec  8 13:38:51 2008
From: wadetb at gmail.com (Wade Brainerd)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:38:51 -0800
Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
Message-ID: <7087c32a0812081038x416ef14fqff8d85444d20b84@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all, finally getting around to announcing one of my weekend projects.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Finance


From bogus@does.not.exist.com  Mon Dec  8 07:01:43 2008
From: bogus@does.not.exist.com ()
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:01:43 -0000
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <mailman.0.1228761538.5212.activities@lists.laptop.org>

*Finance is a simple financial planning activity. It can be integrated into
classroom assignments, or else used to track finances for a school club. It
might also be useful for students who wish to help their parents with home
finances. *

*The register view allows students to enter income and expenses, assign
categories, and review past transactions. The chart view shows students a
visual breakdown of their expenses by category. The budget view allows users
to assign a monthly budget to each category, and to see how each month's
expenses compare to the budget. *

*Finance is designed to be extensively localized. The user interface is
translatable, and local conventions are used to display monetary values. *
If any educators or deployments are interested in this using activity, let
me know!

-Wade

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Hi all, finally getting around to announcing one of my weekend projects.<br><br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Finance">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Finance</a><br><br>From the wiki page:<br><p><i>Finance is a simple financial planning activity. It can be
integrated into classroom assignments, or else used to track finances
for a school club. It might also be useful for students who wish to
help their parents with home finances.
</i></p><p><i>The register view allows students to enter income and expenses,
assign categories, and review past transactions. The chart view shows
students a visual breakdown of their expenses by category. The budget
view allows users to assign a monthly budget to each category, and to
see how each month&#39;s expenses compare to the budget.
</i></p><p><i>Finance is designed to be extensively localized. The user
interface is translatable, and local conventions are used to display
monetary values.
</i></p>If any educators or deployments are interested in this using activity, let me know!<br><br>-Wade<br><br>

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From dfarning at sugarlabs.org  Mon Dec  8 13:43:45 2008
From: dfarning at sugarlabs.org (David Farning)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 12:43:45 +1800
Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
In-Reply-To: <7087c32a0812081038x416ef14fqff8d85444d20b84@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7087c32a0812081038x416ef14fqff8d85444d20b84@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <b6625b990812081043q2aedea93gad232d2bc8af5a65@mail.gmail.com>

Wade,

I haven't forgotten your offer to work on AMO.   I just haven't been
able to bring it back up on my devel machine:(

I specifically did not include some of the config files in the git
tree because the contained passwords.  Now, I can't seem to figure out
how to reconfigure things.

david

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, finally getting around to announcing one of my weekend projects.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Finance
>
> From the wiki page:
>
> Finance is a simple financial planning activity. It can be integrated into
> classroom assignments, or else used to track finances for a school club. It
> might also be useful for students who wish to help their parents with home
> finances.
>
> The register view allows students to enter income and expenses, assign
> categories, and review past transactions. The chart view shows students a
> visual breakdown of their expenses by category. The budget view allows users
> to assign a monthly budget to each category, and to see how each month's
> expenses compare to the budget.
>
> Finance is designed to be extensively localized. The user interface is
> translatable, and local conventions are used to display monetary values.
>
> If any educators or deployments are interested in this using activity, let
> me know!
>
> -Wade
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Activities mailing list
> Activities at lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/activities
>
>

From gregsmitholpc at gmail.com  Tue Dec  9 13:52:00 2008
From: gregsmitholpc at gmail.com (Greg Smith)
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:52:00 -0500
Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
In-Reply-To: <mailman.19.1228842001.31139.activities@lists.laptop.org>
References: <mailman.19.1228842001.31139.activities@lists.laptop.org>
Message-ID: <493EBE50.7090601@laptop.org>

Hi Wade,

It looks great! Thanks.

If you can work with Sayamindu to get it in Pootle we can try to 
translate it (Spanish is top priority) and make it available to our 
deployments.

Thanks,

Greg S

> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:38:51 -0800
> From: "Wade Brainerd" <wadetb at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
> To: activities at lists.laptop.org
> Message-ID:
> 	<7087c32a0812081038x416ef14fqff8d85444d20b84 at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> Hi all, finally getting around to announcing one of my weekend projects.
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Finance
> 
>>From the wiki page:
> 
> *Finance is a simple financial planning activity. It can be integrated into
> classroom assignments, or else used to track finances for a school club. It
> might also be useful for students who wish to help their parents with home
> finances. *
> 
> *The register view allows students to enter income and expenses, assign
> categories, and review past transactions. The chart view shows students a
> visual breakdown of their expenses by category. The budget view allows users
> to assign a monthly budget to each category, and to see how each month's
> expenses compare to the budget. *
> 
> *Finance is designed to be extensively localized. The user interface is
> translatable, and local conventions are used to display monetary values. *
> If any educators or deployments are interested in this using activity, let
> me know!
> 
> -Wade
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From wadetb at gmail.com  Tue Dec  9 13:59:59 2008
From: wadetb at gmail.com (Wade Brainerd)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 10:59:59 -0800
Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
In-Reply-To: <493EBE50.7090601@laptop.org>
References: <mailman.19.1228842001.31139.activities@lists.laptop.org>
	<493EBE50.7090601@laptop.org>
Message-ID: <7087c32a0812091059n654630e7v1789a6a6508729cb@mail.gmail.com>

Cool!  It's got a .pot file in the bundle already.  Let me know what else I
need to do to help get it translated.

Cheers,
Wade

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Wade,
>
> It looks great! Thanks.
>
> If you can work with Sayamindu to get it in Pootle we can try to
> translate it (Spanish is top priority) and make it available to our
> deployments.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg S
>
> > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:38:51 -0800
> > From: "Wade Brainerd" <wadetb at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
> > To: activities at lists.laptop.org
> > Message-ID:
> >       <7087c32a0812081038x416ef14fqff8d85444d20b84 at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > Hi all, finally getting around to announcing one of my weekend projects.
> >
> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Finance
> >
> >>From the wiki page:
> >
> > *Finance is a simple financial planning activity. It can be integrated
> into
> > classroom assignments, or else used to track finances for a school club.
> It
> > might also be useful for students who wish to help their parents with
> home
> > finances. *
> >
> > *The register view allows students to enter income and expenses, assign
> > categories, and review past transactions. The chart view shows students a
> > visual breakdown of their expenses by category. The budget view allows
> users
> > to assign a monthly budget to each category, and to see how each month's
> > expenses compare to the budget. *
> >
> > *Finance is designed to be extensively localized. The user interface is
> > translatable, and local conventions are used to display monetary values.
> *
> > If any educators or deployments are interested in this using activity,
> let
> > me know!
> >
> > -Wade
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> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/activities
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From gregsmitholpc at gmail.com  Tue Dec  9 14:23:32 2008
From: gregsmitholpc at gmail.com (Greg Smith)
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:23:32 -0500
Subject: [Activities] Activity Set for 9.1.0
Message-ID: <493EC5B4.7010409@laptop.org>

Hi All,

Learning from the last release, I want to start activity selection early 
for 9.1.0.

I created a section on the 9.1.0 planning page for activities: 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0_requirements#Activities

I want to get all potential activities listed there. An activity will 
need to be tested with the release and have a maintainer to have a 
chance for inclusion. Like last time, we will gather input from everyone 
then make a decision on the final set. OLPC management gets the final 
say but I will make sure they hear the voice of the community, 
preferably consensus.

You can help by updating that Wiki page with the details of the 
activities you think should be included.

Personally, I would like to see a few fun (but not violent) activities. 
Something colorful, exciting and fun for kids. My kids recently started 
playing with Spore demos. I'm not asking for something that pretty, but 
a few really fun looking and addictive applications for kids would be great!

Morgan,

What can we do to fire up the activity community (and list) again?

Can you make sure we have the full list of contacts you gathered from 
the last round? We can also cook up an invite e-mail to get people 
thinking about 9.1.0 once we have a contact list.

Target is to have tested, working activities to choose from by the end 
of February.

Any comments or questions welcome.

Thanks,

Greg S




From gregsmitholpc at gmail.com  Tue Dec  9 14:57:14 2008
From: gregsmitholpc at gmail.com (Greg Smith)
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:57:14 -0500
Subject: [Activities] [Testing] Activity Set for 9.1.0
In-Reply-To: <m3abb5f828.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org>
References: <493EC5B4.7010409@laptop.org> <m3abb5f828.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org>
Message-ID: <493ECD9A.5070900@laptop.org>

Hi Chris,

When this release is done we will update the default image used in 
manufacturing.

All of our deployments except one currently take the default image. Many 
change it (usually adding more than subtracting) after they get the XOs 
in country but they start with our "factory" image.

We will also offer people an option to clean install with a set of 
activities like we did in 8.2.

Let me know if that's not clear or you need more info.

Thanks,

Greg S

Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
>    > Hi All, Learning from the last release, I want to start activity
>    > selection early for 9.1.0.
> 
> Our software releases don't ship with activities, so I don't understand
> what's being selected here.  We didn't choose a set of activities to
> ship with 8.2.0; we chose a set of activities to ship on a G1G1 image.
> Each deployment creates its own conjunction of {XO release+Activities},
> with G1G1 being one such deployment when it's running.
> 
> Could you elaborate on what the list of chosen activities would mean
> this time around?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Chris.

From cjb at laptop.org  Tue Dec  9 14:43:43 2008
From: cjb at laptop.org (Chris Ball)
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:43:43 -0500
Subject: [Activities] [Testing] Activity Set for 9.1.0
In-Reply-To: <493EC5B4.7010409@laptop.org> (Greg Smith's message of "Tue, 09
	Dec 2008 14:23:32 -0500")
References: <493EC5B4.7010409@laptop.org>
Message-ID: <m3abb5f828.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org>

Hi Greg,

   > Hi All, Learning from the last release, I want to start activity
   > selection early for 9.1.0.

Our software releases don't ship with activities, so I don't understand
what's being selected here.  We didn't choose a set of activities to
ship with 8.2.0; we chose a set of activities to ship on a G1G1 image.
Each deployment creates its own conjunction of {XO release+Activities},
with G1G1 being one such deployment when it's running.

Could you elaborate on what the list of chosen activities would mean
this time around?

Thanks,

- Chris.
-- 
Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>

From gregsmitholpc at gmail.com  Wed Dec 10 09:29:02 2008
From: gregsmitholpc at gmail.com (Greg Smith)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:29:02 -0500
Subject: [Activities] [Testing] Activity Set for 9.1.0
In-Reply-To: <818423da0812100434h26cdf377m7a813cab9474c966@mail.gmail.com>
References: <493EC5B4.7010409@laptop.org> <m3abb5f828.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org>	
	<493ECD9A.5070900@laptop.org>
	<818423da0812100434h26cdf377m7a813cab9474c966@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <493FD22E.4080903@laptop.org>

Hi Dan,

RTFM :-)
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/8.2.0#If_your_XO_is_not_connected_to_the_internet

Thanks,

Greg S

Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> All of our deployments except one currently take the default image. Many
>> change it (usually adding more than subtracting) after they get the XOs
>> in country but they start with our "factory" image.
> 
> Where can this image be found? I'm curious as to what it contains.
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> 

From mel at laptop.org  Wed Dec 10 03:34:28 2008
From: mel at laptop.org (Mel Chua)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:34:28 -0500
Subject: [Activities] [Wiki-gang] [Testing] Activity Set for 9.1.0
In-Reply-To: <493ECD9A.5070900@laptop.org>
References: <493EC5B4.7010409@laptop.org> <m3abb5f828.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org>
	<493ECD9A.5070900@laptop.org>
Message-ID: <493F7F14.8010006@laptop.org>

To clarify - the default image used in manufacturing contains Activities 
(the same ones shipped with G1G1 this year), right?

My understanding is that (the image we ship) = (software release) + 
(customization key), so Chris's statement that "our software releases 
don't ship with Activities" is correct, but Greg's statement about 
"starting Activity selection early for 9.1.0" makes perfect sense.

-Mel

Greg Smith wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> When this release is done we will update the default image used in 
> manufacturing.
>
> All of our deployments except one currently take the default image. Many 
> change it (usually adding more than subtracting) after they get the XOs 
> in country but they start with our "factory" image.
>
> We will also offer people an option to clean install with a set of 
> activities like we did in 8.2.
>
> Let me know if that's not clear or you need more info.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg S
>
> Chris Ball wrote:
>   
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>>    > Hi All, Learning from the last release, I want to start activity
>>    > selection early for 9.1.0.
>>
>> Our software releases don't ship with activities, so I don't understand
>> what's being selected here.  We didn't choose a set of activities to
>> ship with 8.2.0; we chose a set of activities to ship on a G1G1 image.
>> Each deployment creates its own conjunction of {XO release+Activities},
>> with G1G1 being one such deployment when it's running.
>>
>> Could you elaborate on what the list of chosen activities would mean
>> this time around?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Chris.
>>     
> _______________________________________________
> Wiki-gang mailing list
> Wiki-gang at lists.laptop.org
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wiki-gang
> (_internal_name)s
>   


From dsd at laptop.org  Wed Dec 10 07:34:23 2008
From: dsd at laptop.org (Daniel Drake)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:34:23 +0000
Subject: [Activities] [Testing] Activity Set for 9.1.0
In-Reply-To: <493ECD9A.5070900@laptop.org>
References: <493EC5B4.7010409@laptop.org> <m3abb5f828.fsf@pullcord.laptop.org>
	<493ECD9A.5070900@laptop.org>
Message-ID: <818423da0812100434h26cdf377m7a813cab9474c966@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:
> All of our deployments except one currently take the default image. Many
> change it (usually adding more than subtracting) after they get the XOs
> in country but they start with our "factory" image.

Where can this image be found? I'm curious as to what it contains.

Thanks,
Daniel

From sayamindu at gmail.com  Wed Dec 10 16:55:15 2008
From: sayamindu at gmail.com (Sayamindu Dasgupta)
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:25:15 +0530
Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
In-Reply-To: <7087c32a0812091059n654630e7v1789a6a6508729cb@mail.gmail.com>
References: <mailman.19.1228842001.31139.activities@lists.laptop.org>
	<493EBE50.7090601@laptop.org>
	<7087c32a0812091059n654630e7v1789a6a6508729cb@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <a1314bfe0812101355v518c1987sce80918697df2408@mail.gmail.com>

Done. I also added colours to Pootle. Please make the repos group
writeable and owned by group sugar if possible.
Thanks,
Sayamindu


On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool!  It's got a .pot file in the bundle already.  Let me know what else I
> need to do to help get it translated.
>
> Cheers,
> Wade
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Wade,
>>
>> It looks great! Thanks.
>>
>> If you can work with Sayamindu to get it in Pootle we can try to
>> translate it (Spanish is top priority) and make it available to our
>> deployments.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Greg S
>>
>> > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:38:51 -0800
>> > From: "Wade Brainerd" <wadetb at gmail.com>
>> > Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
>> > To: activities at lists.laptop.org
>> > Message-ID:
>> >       <7087c32a0812081038x416ef14fqff8d85444d20b84 at mail.gmail.com>
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> >
>> > Hi all, finally getting around to announcing one of my weekend projects.
>> >
>> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Finance
>> >
>> >>From the wiki page:
>> >
>> > *Finance is a simple financial planning activity. It can be integrated
>> > into
>> > classroom assignments, or else used to track finances for a school club.
>> > It
>> > might also be useful for students who wish to help their parents with
>> > home
>> > finances. *
>> >
>> > *The register view allows students to enter income and expenses, assign
>> > categories, and review past transactions. The chart view shows students
>> > a
>> > visual breakdown of their expenses by category. The budget view allows
>> > users
>> > to assign a monthly budget to each category, and to see how each month's
>> > expenses compare to the budget. *
>> >
>> > *Finance is designed to be extensively localized. The user interface is
>> > translatable, and local conventions are used to display monetary values.
>> > *
>> > If any educators or deployments are interested in this using activity,
>> > let
>> > me know!
>> >
>> > -Wade
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>> > An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
>> > URL:
>> > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/activities/attachments/20081208/5fdfc109/attachment.htm
>> >
>> _______________________________________________
>> Activities mailing list
>> Activities at lists.laptop.org
>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/activities
>
>



-- 
Sayamindu Dasgupta
[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]

From wadetb at gmail.com  Wed Dec 10 18:49:44 2008
From: wadetb at gmail.com (Wade Brainerd)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:49:44 -0800
Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
In-Reply-To: <a1314bfe0812101355v518c1987sce80918697df2408@mail.gmail.com>
References: <mailman.19.1228842001.31139.activities@lists.laptop.org>
	<493EBE50.7090601@laptop.org>
	<7087c32a0812091059n654630e7v1789a6a6508729cb@mail.gmail.com>
	<a1314bfe0812101355v518c1987sce80918697df2408@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <7087c32a0812101549m248d714eq79e20962b730c612@mail.gmail.com>

The repos are now group writable.  I don't have permission to change the
group to 'sugar' though.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com>wrote:

> Done. I also added colours to Pootle. Please make the repos group
> writeable and owned by group sugar if possible.
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Cool!  It's got a .pot file in the bundle already.  Let me know what else
> I
> > need to do to help get it translated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Wade
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Wade,
> >>
> >> It looks great! Thanks.
> >>
> >> If you can work with Sayamindu to get it in Pootle we can try to
> >> translate it (Spanish is top priority) and make it available to our
> >> deployments.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Greg S
> >>
> >> > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:38:51 -0800
> >> > From: "Wade Brainerd" <wadetb at gmail.com>
> >> > Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
> >> > To: activities at lists.laptop.org
> >> > Message-ID:
> >> >       <7087c32a0812081038x416ef14fqff8d85444d20b84 at mail.gmail.com>
> >> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >> >
> >> > Hi all, finally getting around to announcing one of my weekend
> projects.
> >> >
> >> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Finance
> >> >
> >> >>From the wiki page:
> >> >
> >> > *Finance is a simple financial planning activity. It can be integrated
> >> > into
> >> > classroom assignments, or else used to track finances for a school
> club.
> >> > It
> >> > might also be useful for students who wish to help their parents with
> >> > home
> >> > finances. *
> >> >
> >> > *The register view allows students to enter income and expenses,
> assign
> >> > categories, and review past transactions. The chart view shows
> students
> >> > a
> >> > visual breakdown of their expenses by category. The budget view allows
> >> > users
> >> > to assign a monthly budget to each category, and to see how each
> month's
> >> > expenses compare to the budget. *
> >> >
> >> > *Finance is designed to be extensively localized. The user interface
> is
> >> > translatable, and local conventions are used to display monetary
> values.
> >> > *
> >> > If any educators or deployments are interested in this using activity,
> >> > let
> >> > me know!
> >> >
> >> > -Wade
> >> > -------------- next part --------------
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> >> >
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/activities/attachments/20081208/5fdfc109/attachment.htm
> >> >
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Activities mailing list
> >> Activities at lists.laptop.org
> >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/activities
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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From dfarning at sugarlabs.org  Thu Dec 11 12:09:49 2008
From: dfarning at sugarlabs.org (David Farning)
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:09:49 +1800
Subject: [Activities] activities.sugarlabs.org
Message-ID: <b6625b990812110909j1846f1aekcdf67e428c3cf63f@mail.gmail.com>

I have finally, gotten back to working on activities.sugarlabs.org.

There is a web page for aso development at
http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/a.s.o .

There is a request in at dev.sl.org for a development server.

david

From meta.sj at gmail.com  Sat Dec 13 15:41:00 2008
From: meta.sj at gmail.com (Samuel Klein)
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:41:00 -0500
Subject: [Activities] [Sugar-devel] Fwd:  New activity: Retroscope
In-Reply-To: <49439F8F.7080909@schampijer.de>
References: <24348e0812040004j6dd9d517x94ec9820c3789882@mail.gmail.com>
	<e01c24400812120740p48bd2f48ga666b5f304e99e0a@mail.gmail.com>
	<5396c0d10812121356m1f99b5f0q7f3d0e9261a46d85@mail.gmail.com>
	<49439F8F.7080909@schampijer.de>
Message-ID: <5396c0d10812131241r45e3da57ref2d44cdcc95a2fd@mail.gmail.com>

That's not what the activity list is for - it's for discussing how to
make activities, what make good activities, where to promote and talk
about them, how to create your own pool of testers.   In addition,
it's great that they can get only announcements from sugar and dev
mailing lists...  SJ

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> Samuel Klein wrote:
>>
>> I'd use both, until there are other suggestions about how to handle
>> email overload for people who are working on activities but not sugar
>> (save to package the result).  The activities list is pretty specific,
>> and was started because of people who couldn't read all of the traffic
>> on sugar but wanted to stay in touch with other activity develoeprs
>> (many of whom have no idea about sugar internals).  as long as
>> activity devs are getting the feedback they need somewhere...  SJ
>
> We use the ANNOUNCE tag to keep activity authors updated, they only have to
> filter for that tag, more info at
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>
> Best,
>   Simon
>
>
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Morgan Collett
>> <morgan.collett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Forwarding to sugar-devel...
>>>
>>> Gabriel, the activities list isn't really used - sugar-devel is a
>>> better place to announce :)
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Morgan
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Gabriel Burt <gabriel.burt at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:04
>>> Subject: [Activities] New activity: Retroscope
>>> To: activities at lists.laptop.org
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've created a new activity called Retroscope.  It's really simple -
>>> it shows you live video, but delayed 0 to 10 seconds.  I've attached
>>> it (all 4.8K) and would love to hear feedback.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Gabriel
>

From gregsmitholpc at gmail.com  Tue Dec 16 10:37:33 2008
From: gregsmitholpc at gmail.com (Greg Smith)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:37:33 -0500
Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
In-Reply-To: <7087c32a0812101549m248d714eq79e20962b730c612@mail.gmail.com>
References: <mailman.19.1228842001.31139.activities@lists.laptop.org>	
	<493EBE50.7090601@laptop.org>	
	<7087c32a0812091059n654630e7v1789a6a6508729cb@mail.gmail.com>	
	<a1314bfe0812101355v518c1987sce80918697df2408@mail.gmail.com>
	<7087c32a0812101549m248d714eq79e20962b730c612@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4947CB3D.2090206@laptop.org>

Hi Sayamindu,

Is this ready for translation?

Sorry if I missed a later e-mail. If someone can send me the URL to 
where people can enter Spanish translations that would be great.

I want to run this by the Spanish users list 
(http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur) for comment.

Thanks,

Greg S

Wade Brainerd wrote:
> The repos are now group writable.  I don't have permission to change the
> group to 'sugar' though.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Done. I also added colours to Pootle. Please make the repos group
>> writeable and owned by group sugar if possible.
>> Thanks,
>> Sayamindu
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Cool!  It's got a .pot file in the bundle already.  Let me know what else
>> I
>>> need to do to help get it translated.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Wade
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> Hi Wade,
>>>>
>>>> It looks great! Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> If you can work with Sayamindu to get it in Pootle we can try to
>>>> translate it (Spanish is top priority) and make it available to our
>>>> deployments.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Greg S
>>>>
>>>>> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:38:51 -0800
>>>>> From: "Wade Brainerd" <wadetb at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
>>>>> To: activities at lists.laptop.org
>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>>       <7087c32a0812081038x416ef14fqff8d85444d20b84 at mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi all, finally getting around to announcing one of my weekend
>> projects.
>>>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Finance
>>>>>
>>>>> >From the wiki page:
>>>>>
>>>>> *Finance is a simple financial planning activity. It can be integrated
>>>>> into
>>>>> classroom assignments, or else used to track finances for a school
>> club.
>>>>> It
>>>>> might also be useful for students who wish to help their parents with
>>>>> home
>>>>> finances. *
>>>>>
>>>>> *The register view allows students to enter income and expenses,
>> assign
>>>>> categories, and review past transactions. The chart view shows
>> students
>>>>> a
>>>>> visual breakdown of their expenses by category. The budget view allows
>>>>> users
>>>>> to assign a monthly budget to each category, and to see how each
>> month's
>>>>> expenses compare to the budget. *
>>>>>
>>>>> *Finance is designed to be extensively localized. The user interface
>> is
>>>>> translatable, and local conventions are used to display monetary
>> values.
>>>>> *
>>>>> If any educators or deployments are interested in this using activity,
>>>>> let
>>>>> me know!
>>>>>
>>>>> -Wade
>>>>> -------------- next part --------------
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>>>>> URL:
>>>>>
>> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/activities/attachments/20081208/5fdfc109/attachment.htm
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Activities mailing list
>>>> Activities at lists.laptop.org
>>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/activities
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>>
> 

From sayamindu at gmail.com  Tue Dec 16 10:46:27 2008
From: sayamindu at gmail.com (Sayamindu Dasgupta)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:16:27 +0530
Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
In-Reply-To: <4947CB3D.2090206@laptop.org>
References: <mailman.19.1228842001.31139.activities@lists.laptop.org>
	<493EBE50.7090601@laptop.org>
	<7087c32a0812091059n654630e7v1789a6a6508729cb@mail.gmail.com>
	<a1314bfe0812101355v518c1987sce80918697df2408@mail.gmail.com>
	<7087c32a0812101549m248d714eq79e20962b730c612@mail.gmail.com>
	<4947CB3D.2090206@laptop.org>
Message-ID: <a1314bfe0812160746re867d7fhd00d219adec343b4@mail.gmail.com>

Yep, it is, and someone has already started working on the
translations :-) The link to start translating Finance and the other
"Honey" activities into Spanish are at
https://dev.laptop.org/translate/es/honey

You may also want to pass along the link to the Pootle primer at
http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pootleforxo2.pdf along with your mail
to the list.
Thanks,
Sayamindu


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sayamindu,
>
> Is this ready for translation?
>
> Sorry if I missed a later e-mail. If someone can send me the URL to where
> people can enter Spanish translations that would be great.
>
> I want to run this by the Spanish users list
> (http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur) for comment.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg S
>
> Wade Brainerd wrote:
>>
>> The repos are now group writable.  I don't have permission to change the
>> group to 'sugar' though.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta
>> <sayamindu at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Done. I also added colours to Pootle. Please make the repos group
>>> writeable and owned by group sugar if possible.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sayamindu
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Cool!  It's got a .pot file in the bundle already.  Let me know what
>>>> else
>>>
>>> I
>>>>
>>>> need to do to help get it translated.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Wade
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Wade,
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks great! Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you can work with Sayamindu to get it in Pootle we can try to
>>>>> translate it (Spanish is top priority) and make it available to our
>>>>> deployments.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Greg S
>>>>>
>>>>>> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 10:38:51 -0800
>>>>>> From: "Wade Brainerd" <wadetb at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Subject: [Activities] Announce: Finance
>>>>>> To: activities at lists.laptop.org
>>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>>>      <7087c32a0812081038x416ef14fqff8d85444d20b84 at mail.gmail.com>
>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all, finally getting around to announcing one of my weekend
>>>
>>> projects.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Finance
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >From the wiki page:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Finance is a simple financial planning activity. It can be integrated
>>>>>> into
>>>>>> classroom assignments, or else used to track finances for a school
>>>
>>> club.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It
>>>>>> might also be useful for students who wish to help their parents with
>>>>>> home
>>>>>> finances. *
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *The register view allows students to enter income and expenses,
>>>
>>> assign
>>>>>>
>>>>>> categories, and review past transactions. The chart view shows
>>>
>>> students
>>>>>>
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> visual breakdown of their expenses by category. The budget view allows
>>>>>> users
>>>>>> to assign a monthly budget to each category, and to see how each
>>>
>>> month's
>>>>>>
>>>>>> expenses compare to the budget. *
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Finance is designed to be extensively localized. The user interface
>>>
>>> is
>>>>>>
>>>>>> translatable, and local conventions are used to display monetary
>>>
>>> values.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *
>>>>>> If any educators or deployments are interested in this using activity,
>>>>>> let
>>>>>> me know!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Wade
>>>>>> -------------- next part --------------
>>>>>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
>>>>>> URL:
>>>>>>
>>>
>>> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/activities/attachments/20081208/5fdfc109/attachment.htm
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Activities mailing list
>>>>> Activities at lists.laptop.org
>>>>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/activities
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
>>>
>>
>



-- 
Sayamindu Dasgupta
[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]

From gregsmitholpc at gmail.com  Thu Dec 18 11:15:18 2008
From: gregsmitholpc at gmail.com (Greg Smith)
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:15:18 -0500
Subject: [Activities] SimCity and Micropolis Testing
Message-ID: <494A7716.3060605@laptop.org>

Hi Testing team,

Below is a thread I had about including SimCity in the factory image for
9.1.0. I included the full thread for background.

In order to do better this time around, I want to get some SimCity and
Micropolis testing done early.

Can I ask the activity test teams to write test cases and do some
testing on SimCity and Micropolis?

Find the latest versions here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/All#Games

Let me know where to track the results. There will still be a question
of space available on the XO so its not sure we can get them in, but we
need them tested and ready to have a chance.

Thanks,

Greg S

***************

Hi John,

Looking back at 8.2, I went back found the ticket (at least we have a
ticket :-) where we removed simcity and I see your comment asking for a
reason.

I also see you didn't get an answer. I think the reason was that it
wasn't well tested or possibly that there was a problem found (maybe it
didn't launch right from the journal). I think it came down to someone
opening it up here in the office, seeing something they didn't like and
then deciding that we didn't have time to test it more.

I know that's not a good answer. There should be a bug filed if there
was a specific problem. I plan to make sure we do better this time
around. That's why I'm trying to start early.

There is also a question of how much available space we have. We may be
much more squeezed this time if we also include a standard Fedora desktop.

Anyway, its obviously a great activity which meets my request for fun,
entertaining and interesting to look at.

I'll put it on the list and make you the contact (using wiki name) if
that's OK.

Can you help test it and write a simple test case for it?

Is there a Spanish translation for it or is it in Pootle?

I don't know what the implications are of the Micropolis vs. SimCity.
Tell me which one will be available for test and better supported by
January/February and we'll focus on that.

HTHs.

Thanks,

Greg S


John Gilmore wrote:
>> I want to get all potential activities listed there. An activity 
will need to be tested with the release and have a maintainer to have a
chance for inclusion. Like last time, we will gather input from everyone
then make a decision on the final set. OLPC management gets the final
say but I will make sure they hear the voice of the community,
preferably consensus.
>
> SimCity was in the almost-final set for G1G1, and was then excluded at
> the last minute.  In OLPC's usual transparent process, I never found
> out why, or who made the decision.  If there's something we can do to
> SimCity that would give it a better chance for 9.1.0, please let us
> (me and Don Hopkins <dhopkins at donhopkins.com>) know, and we'll see what
> we can do.
>
> Don has recently gotten a small European grant to work on improving
> Micropolis (the same game without EA branding, which avoids trying to
> get EA to QA it before we can ship it).  He has it limping as a Flash
> client/server web application.  He's refactored much of the code to
> make it modular, which will help to make it easier to port.
> Personally, since I think Sugar is a dead-end, I hope his non-web
> efforts go into making it a great game on any Linux machine.  The OLPC
> should be able to run that version, via 9.1.0's support for running
> the thousands of ordinary Linux GUI applications.
>
>     John
>



From wadetb at gmail.com  Sun Dec 21 15:13:57 2008
From: wadetb at gmail.com (Wade Brainerd)
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:13:57 -0500
Subject: [Activities] Colors!-v13 released
Message-ID: <7087c32a0812211213m1a8dbf6dt3852a40d9ad42b9a@mail.gmail.com>

Hey all,

I have released Colors! version 13 with improved Wacom tablet support.
Painting has been optimized, refresh bugs have been fixed, a color pickup
feature has been added, and numerous polishing tweaks have been made to the
UI.

http://dev.laptop.org/~wadeb/Colors!-13.xo

Testing and feedback are welcome, as always.

The wiki page will be updated once the server comes back up!

Best,
Wade

Note: There are still some minor known bugs in collaboration.  I'm having a
hard time getting my XO VM and my real XO to see each other.  But I hope to
make another release which resolves these issues before long.
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From pgf at laptop.org  Sun Dec 21 17:39:55 2008
From: pgf at laptop.org (pgf at laptop.org)
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:39:55 -0500
Subject: [Activities] Colors!-v13 released
In-Reply-To: <7087c32a0812211213m1a8dbf6dt3852a40d9ad42b9a@mail.gmail.com> 
References: <7087c32a0812211213m1a8dbf6dt3852a40d9ad42b9a@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <14030.1229899195@foxharp.boston.ma.us>

hi wade -- how does colors deal with the lack of wacom support in
the kernel?  do you bundle a driver module?

paul

wade wrote:
 > Hey all,
 > 
 > I have released Colors! version 13 with improved Wacom tablet support.
 > Painting has been optimized, refresh bugs have been fixed, a color pickup
 > feature has been added, and numerous polishing tweaks have been made to the
 > UI.
 > 
 > http://dev.laptop.org/~wadeb/Colors!-13.xo
 > 
 > Testing and feedback are welcome, as always.
 > 
 > The wiki page will be updated once the server comes back up!
 > 
 > Best,
 > Wade
 > 
 > Note: There are still some minor known bugs in collaboration.  I'm having a
 > hard time getting my XO VM and my real XO to see each other.  But I hope to
 > make another release which resolves these issues before long.

=---------------------
 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
 give one laptop, get one laptop --- http://www.laptop.com/xo

From wadetb at gmail.com  Sun Dec 21 18:19:13 2008
From: wadetb at gmail.com (Wade Brainerd)
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:19:13 -0500
Subject: [Activities] Colors!-v13 released
In-Reply-To: <14030.1229899195@foxharp.boston.ma.us>
References: <7087c32a0812211213m1a8dbf6dt3852a40d9ad42b9a@mail.gmail.com>
	<14030.1229899195@foxharp.boston.ma.us>
Message-ID: <7087c32a0812211519m1c4e5f41n237b13f175a724e7@mail.gmail.com>

Hey,
The activity itself merely accepts Wacom tablet input from XInput via the
standard GDK events.  With your kernel module and with X properly
configured, supporting Wacom tablets in activities requires no code at all,
and accessing pressure information is a one line addition.
However, since the OLPC builds do not have the kernel module, and do not
have X configured to support Wacom tablets, I provide a script on the
Colors! wiki page which will set your computer up.  The script downloads and
installs your wacom.ko file from d.l.o, and replaces xorg-dcon.conf with one
that has the needed devices.

Cheers,
-Wade

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:39 PM, <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:

> hi wade -- how does colors deal with the lack of wacom support in
> the kernel?  do you bundle a driver module?
>
> paul
>
> wade wrote:
>  > Hey all,
>  >
>  > I have released Colors! version 13 with improved Wacom tablet support.
>  > Painting has been optimized, refresh bugs have been fixed, a color
> pickup
>  > feature has been added, and numerous polishing tweaks have been made to
> the
>  > UI.
>  >
>  > http://dev.laptop.org/~wadeb/Colors!-13.xo
>  >
>  > Testing and feedback are welcome, as always.
>  >
>  > The wiki page will be updated once the server comes back up!
>  >
>  > Best,
>  > Wade
>  >
>  > Note: There are still some minor known bugs in collaboration.  I'm
> having a
>  > hard time getting my XO VM and my real XO to see each other.  But I hope
> to
>  > make another release which resolves these issues before long.
>
> =---------------------
>  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
>  give one laptop, get one laptop --- http://www.laptop.com/xo
>
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