15 computer science collegians looking for a project

Mon May 5 11:36:18 EDT 2008

The keyboard does not matter since I will have to use an external 
keyboard anyway (I have big hands). What is important is that I have to 
be able to reflash the machine to use English and it has to be at least 
a B3 or B4 (or G1G1 or whatever with the Geode LX). Shall I apply again?

Jim Gettys wrote:
> I checked this morning now that I'm functioning again; the developer's
> program should be moving again, and volumes available should be much
> higher than before mass production (particularly if you can tolerate the
> Arabic keyboard, where we have stock that can be redirected right now).
>
> Sorry to be slow to respond; I came down sick with a nasty cold bug
> last week on top of recovering from surgery.  I'm only now wading
> through 1200 back unread mail messages.
>                            - Jim
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 07:04 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
>   
>> I was perhaps under the mistaken impression that OLPC was dumping
>> machines to developers like candy again after a hiatus due to a
>> logistical snafu. Hmm.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> 2008/4/29 NoiseEHC <NoiseEHC at freemail.hu>:
>>     
>>> Actually it is a funny proposal since without real XO machines it is a
>>>  little bit hard to profile programs and since it seems that it is quite
>>>  impossible nowadays to get a machine, they are out of luck. Exactly why
>>>  does not OLPC just dump machines to developers like candy? Even if only
>>>  1% of people do something about performance, it could be more cost
>>>  effective than hiring 1 man for it (and the XO badly needs this work).
>>>
>>>  BTW if you referring to this
>>>  http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-March/012033.html
>>>  or this
>>>  http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2006-September/000439.html
>>>  then these are not easy and fast things either.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Walter Bender wrote:
>>>  > Any interest in the themes/topics Tomeu outlined in his email about
>>>  > Sugar performance? Lots of interesting things to explore that would be
>>>  > of real value to the project.
>>>  >
>>>  > -walter
>>>  >
>>>  > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Patrick Jahenr
>>>  > <patrick.jahner at stud.fh-swf.de> wrote:
>>>  >
>>>  >> Hi there,
>>>  >>
>>>  >>  We are a group of 15 collegians, studying 'Applied Computer Science'
>>>  >>  at the University of Applied Sciences in Iserlohn (Germany) and we
>>>  >>  are looking for a project for the OLPC within the scope of our subject
>>>  >>  "Computer-Networks". Our professor (Prof. Martin Hühne) let us choose
>>>  >>  our own topic, leading us directly to our first problem: What can
>>>  >>  we do?
>>>  >>
>>>  >>  We have to find a project fitting to this demand. We read the wiki
>>>  >>  and realised, that most of our ideas we thought we could implement
>>>  >>  are either finished software projects or simply not good enough to
>>>  >>  keep on thinking about them, because they do not fit to the OLPC-
>>>  >>  ideas. The wiki pages for Project ideas are nice, but you do not
>>>  >>  know exactly whether there is already someone working on one of the
>>>  >>  projects, or not. The Pages for Current Projects are quite nice too,
>>>  >>  but there you do not know if the people working on it actually do
>>>  >>  need help.
>>>  >>
>>>  >>  That is why we post this little request to the readers of this mailing
>>>  >>  list.
>>>  >>
>>>  >>  We are looking for either a project we can take part on, or a not-
>>>  >>  yet-implemented idea. It should not bee too big for us in order to
>>>  >>  be finished within time; it should not be too small to have something
>>>  >>  to do for 15 students. (Anyway, don't forget we need to sleep)
>>>  >>  It would be nice, but not all necessary if the project could involve
>>>  >>  some of the networking technologies of the XO, I mean, the subject
>>>  >>  is "Computer-Networks"
>>>  >>
>>>  >>  Furthermore, there is a time limit: We will have to end the project
>>>  >>  until end of June, whereas there will be the same subject for another
>>>  >>  group of students after our free period, which will have the same,
>>>  >>  or a similar task. Probably, they will go on, on our project, if
>>>  >>  its not finished.
>>>  >>
>>>  >>  Our Knowledge Base:
>>>  >>  We have good basic knowledge in C/C++, Java, some basic knowledge
>>>  >>  in scripting languages (Perl, PHP and bash) and some of us have good
>>>  >>  knowledge of Linux. A further subject called "Software-Engineering"
>>>  >>  came along with us for one and a half year.
>>>  >>  We started reading and working in Python and GTK, and saw, we can
>>>  >>  cope that.
>>>  >>
>>>  >>  We are open for all your suggestions, you can email me directly if
>>>  >>  you have a project we can take part on, but you could also just answer
>>>  >>  here, if you have a good idea which of the project ideas we could
>>>  >>  implement.
>>>  >>
>>>  >>  Thank you in advance,
>>>  >>
>>>  >>
>>>  >>  Patrick
>>>  >>
>>>  >>
>>>  >>  P.S. Please forgive me my English skills
>>>  >>
>>>  >>
>>>  >>
>>>  >>
>>>  >>
>>>  >>
>>>  >>
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