<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Development: </div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Paraguay: Antonio Battro and Cecilia Alacalá met with President-elect Fernando </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Lugo. He informed them that as part of his “obligation" to provide the best </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">possible education to Paraguayan schoolchildren, he intends to distribute one </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">million XOs, enough for all elementary school children and teachers in Paraguay. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">In September, President Lugo plans to meet with Nicholas in New York, where </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">he has been invited to attend the Clinton Global Initiative. </div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Antonio, Cecilia, Raul Gutiérrez and Sebastián Codas gave several interviews to </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">the media. Afterward, TV Canal 9 offered to buy 2,500 XOs for the national </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">distribution.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Thailand: Nicholas met individually with the Minister of Science & Technology, Minister of Information & Communications Technology, and the Minister of Education. We recommended 50,000 laptops, but they are likely to start with 15,000.</div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Mongolia: Nicholas and Elana Langer completed a marathon round of individual </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">meetings with the president, prime minister, minister of education and the former </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">foreign minister - now head of the party. Two issues dominated discussions: Getting the 5000 XOs on hand into schools by September 1st, and planning to equip all primary school children in two years.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Mexico: Carla Gómez Monroy, Enrique Chavero, and Paola Rivera met with the </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">education secretary’s representatives for primary education, content </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">development, educational technology, and indigenous education (who was </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">accompanied by a Nahuatl language expert) to demo the XO.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Jorge Castañeda, Manuel Rodriguez, Enrique, Paola, and Carla met with the </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">representatives of the Iztapalapa delegation, the governor of the Rotary Club and </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">some of its members, seeking partnerships and support.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Belgium: Michael Lake, accompanied by Carla, met once again with Dilip Mehta, </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">CEO of the Rosy Blue Group, along with Chikashi Miyamoto, an advisor to Mehta </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">and Pranay Narvekar a vice president. Carla presented deployment highlights for </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">the Rosy Blue executives. A proposal for fully supporting Botswana will be jointly </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">developed. Dilip, Chikashi and Pranay were very enthusiastic about deploying </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">OLPC at South Africa. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Turkey: Political disruptions continue to complicate completion of the XO </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">deployment budget. Multiple jurisdictions are involved, and timing is an obstacle. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">The team, however, remains quite enthusiastic and is eager to get things started. </div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Learning Team:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Thailand: OLPC held a five-day regional workshop in Bangkok, with more than </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">50 participants from six countries. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">The workshop went extremely well. Special highlights included sharing of work in </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">the rural areas in Thailand as exemplars of high-quality work, and integration of </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">school and community; storytelling with the XO by Barbara Barry; computational </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">uses of the XO by Roger Sipitakiat; Nicholas’s talk on Thursday evening; and the </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Ban Samkha children’s orchestra using their XOs to play traditional Thai music in </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">TamTam.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Mongolia: The team returned on Monday afternoon from a two-week tour in </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">northern Mongolia, where they ran workshops for local teachers, kids and </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">parents. Together with the Mongolian core team, we worked in one city center </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">and two small villages, introducing the XO and constructionist learning </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">methodologies. The core team teachers designed and ran the last workshop on </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">their own. They came up with some wonderful and surprising ideas, including a </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">physical activity to teach angles and degrees to students, which they then try in </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">turtle art and etoys.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">The new head of ICTA was inspired by the XO’s open source<span style="font: 12.0px Times New Roman"> </span>environment. He wants the students in Mongolia to learn Linux and is working to get all government agencies and higher institutes to cross over to a Linux platform.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Rwanda: The 20-member core team is ready to initiate teacher development. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">The team discussed ways of introducing generative themes for children to use for </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">developing projects. There also was considerable discussion on the issues of </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">working with schools and communities. </div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Haiti: The team is currently wrapping up the pre-pilot Camp XO 2008 at Ecole </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Nationale Republique du Chili. As we entered this final full week we began to </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">look at E-toys.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Tech Team:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div></div><div>Testing: </div><div>Greg Smith provided the instructions for downloading and testing pre-release 8.2.0 images at:</div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing</a>. Help test the pre-release candidate builds! We need >50 people to briefly test and report any issues with the latest image, every week for the next 3 - 6 weeks. If the community steps up to do that, we will have a rock solid release. </div><div><br></div><div>Greg also wrote collaboration requirements for 9.1.0 priorities page: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0</a></div><div><div><br></div><div>The QA Team worked on the first 8.2.0 builds (2200, 2230) and 8.1.1 (708, in Chicago) builds. Early test results on a build are posted at the Test Group Release Notes page: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes</a>. More detailed test results are now being posted here: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TestResults_8.2.0)">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TestResults_8.2.0</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Francesca Slade, Seth Woodworth, and Charlie Murphy have created a test case framework allowing test cases to be posted directly into the wiki, and some summary reporting is available at the TestResults page. </div><div><br></div><div>Joe Feinstein organized the 8.2.0 Release Criteria meeting and creating a first pass of the 8.2.0 test areas and features (based on work of Michael Stone and Greg Smith) which will be translated into the set of test cases. Joe also started working with Sayamindu Dasgupta on helping with Russian translations.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Software/Firmware:</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Mitch Bradley made further progress on the Windows dual-boot, resolving </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">issues with ACPI support for lid switch handling and battery/AC status </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">reporting. The only remaining issue at this point is chopped-up text during </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">pre-OS chkdsk and blue screen of death displays.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div></div><div><div>Deepak Saxena worked with Luis Cabo Cobo at Cozybit to find a way to get the Libertas thinmac/host mode driver packaged and built it into our released kernel RPMs. The driver is now working with our joyride kernels. He has also reimplemented the lid-detect logic in the kernel and added proper handling of the lid when we are suspended. </div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Ricardo Carrano worked on active antenna repogramming documentation, and Bill </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">McCormick from Nortel looked into one of the most persistent UI/Network </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">Manager bugs, which often prevents XOs from re-associating with encrypted </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; ">wireless networks.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div><div>Chris Ball finalized the "failsafe" code for booting with a full NAND. As of build update.1-709, the laptop will interrupt boot when the NAND<br>is full, will display a warning in English and Spanish telling the user that they will lose data and should first back up their laptop, and will<br>(after confirmation) free up enough space to boot by deleting large datastore objects or activities. </div><div><br></div></div></span></div></div><div><div>Sayamindu Dasgupta worked on the keyboard issues, fixing the Mongolian keyboard layout problems, and made some progress on the Dari keyboard issue, and the Amharic Compose key problems. In order to handle complex scripts like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, he has started to evaluate a possible switch to SCIM (Smart Common Input Method: <a href="http://www.scim-im.org/)">http://www.scim-im.org/)</a> for the next major OLPC release.</div><div><br></div><div>Sayamindu created a new getting started page for Pootle administrators: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pootle/AdministrationQuickStart">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pootle/AdministrationQuickStart</a>. He also released new versions of Terminal activity and Read activity for the latest Sucrose release.</div><div><br></div><div>Morgan Collett fixed some Chat bugs in release Chat-44. He assisted with the Sucrose 0.81.6 release and packaging. He proposed a separate<br>mailing list for activity authors, and volunteered to improve communication with them about current and upcoming process changes.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div>Faisal Anwar added new sections to the Sugar Almanac about the clipboard, and is engaging the community to finalize new sections on the presence service. We encourage you to peruse and contribute to the almanac, available at <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Almanac">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Almanac</a></div><div><br></div></div><div>Guillaume Desmottes tracked memory leaks and corruptions bugs in the Gadget Gabble branches. He found and fixed some nasty ones making the gadget branch more robust. He also improved gadget integration in sugar by implementing a simple wrapper around views objects making them easier to use by sugar and he improved presence management in Gabble and Gadget aiming to handle more gracefully Gadget component restarts.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Daniel Drake fixed the Read activity, worked with Victor Lazzarini to fix a csound bug that was breaking TamTam, and worked with TamTam developers to produce new releases. Daniel also worked with QA to test installation of the latest school server build XS164.</div><div><br></div><div>Erik Garrison worked with David Woodhouse to verify that test failures encountered while LZO-compressing partition images were spurious and<br>non-fatal, and conversed with Mitch Bradley about the process of building and installing a partitioned OS image on the XO. Additionally, he assisted in communication with deployments in Uruguay and Perú.</div><div><br></div><div>Bobby Powers got rainbow to start after X, so that it could properly preload GTK again. He is looking into getting a more standard Linux</div>distribution on an SD card as an alternative to Windows.<div><br></div><div><div>Sucrose 0.81.6, Release Candidate 2 was released this week. This cycle was again about stabilizing the release. Thanks to all the translators we were able to get many new translations in. All the Fructose modules have been released containing the new strings.<br><br>For more detailed release notes see:<br><a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.81.6">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.81.6</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><div>School server:</div><div>Martin Langhoff released build OLPC_XS_165, which is our xs-0.3 "release candidate". Thanks to Bryan Berry and David van Assche, who have been providing excellent notes on installation steps and shortcomings. The livecd approach we use on the XS images is brittle and not suitable for upgrades; we need to move to traditional installer CDs using either pungi or revisor. </div><div><br></div><div>Martin also started putting together an "xs-rsync" package to publish content via rsync on the XS, with utilities that allow it to serve XO builds mimicking update-server's behaviour.</div><div><br></div></div><div>Community:</div><div>Wikimania 2008: The event was held at the [new] Library of Alexandria. SJ presented recent offline wiki efforts on the XO, including an offline version of the Arabic Wikipedia which was being finished that week with help from Bassem Jarkas and <a href="http://moulin.org/" target="_blank">moulin.org</a> . Many groups in attendance wanted to start OLPC-related projects, particularly to extend access to wiki-repositories to offline communities. <br> Bibalex : Sohair Wastawy, chief librarian of Alexandria, and Lamia Fattah, head of their children's library, proposed a small installation for the children's section -- a set of 5 rooms that are restricted to children under 12 (there is a small waiting area for parents) and library staff. They have 60 to 100 children in the library during most days in summertime, for eight hours each day.<br> WikiBrowse : Tim Starling, a core MediaWiki developer, has offered to generate regular static snapshots of all language wikipedias in a format suitable for our WikiBrowse activity. These snapshots are produced for Wikipedia every other month; a dedicated machine is available mose weeks to make further snapshots. <br> Semantic MediaWiki : Francesca Slade is helping organize structured information on our wiki with this extension, particularly relating to countries and test reports. The creators of the extension at Wikimania offered to help implement some of our recent feature requests.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Community</div><div>At Wikimania 2008 SJ Klein presented recent offline wiki efforts on the XO, including a version of the Arabic Wikipedia which was being finished that week with help from Bassem Jarkas and <a href="http://moulin.org/" target="_blank">moulin.org</a>. Many groups in attendance wanted to start OLPC-related projects, particularly to extend access to wiki-repositories to offline communities. </div><div><br></div><div>Adam Hyde and Anne Gentle are organizing a Sugar documentation sprint for the last week in August, with details to be finalized soon.<br>Seth Woodworth wrote up an overview of the current docs projects. <br><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/library/2008-July/000655.html" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/library/2008-July/000655.html</a><br><a href="http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/library/2008-July/000660.html" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/library/2008-July/000660.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Activities<br>Mohit Taneja and Deepank Gupta now have a working game for Food Force 2, suitable for an alpha; it is being repackaged as an .xo bundle: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Juliana Lipková, working with Thomas Breuel,has mockups and code for her handwriting recognition activity.<br><a href="http://olpc-dhw.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://olpc-dhw.blogspot.com/</a><br><a href="http://code.google.com/p/olpc-dhw/" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/olpc-dhw/</a> </div><div><br>Geography: Rajan Vaish finished v2 of his Atlas America activity, working with Nestor Guerrero in Monterrey, and is back in school. The activity needs testing.<br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Vaish.rajan/Weekly_Updates" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Vaish.rajan/Weekly_Updates</a><br><br>VideoEdit: Michael Lew has taken an interest in the video project, and in helping the existing collaboration.<br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:VideoEdit" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:VideoEdit</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Support</div><div>Adam Holt reports that the 100th volunteer for the Support-gang joined this week! The tickets associated with last year's Give One Get One are tailing off as we begin planning for the 2009 G1G1. Going forward, the focus for the support-gang is on technical issues and helping people use their laptops rather than fulfillment questions. </div><div><br></div><div>Some of the support gang are helping out with the upcoming documentation sprint. Adam has identified wifi access points that have been reported as problems. We will purchase these to add to our test environment. He and Kim are working on the details and systems to put in place to help repair centers get spare parts and track their problem reports. </div><div><br></div><div>OLPC France hosted a Paris repair jam a week ago, where 6 people practiced repairing XOs and they worked on 8 broken machines. </div><div><br></div><div>SJ Klein and Henry Edward Hardy have updated teamwiki to v. 1.13 and enabled semantic mediawiki. This will facilitate tagging and other "Web 2.0" features.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>