Greg Smith Weekly Report Week Ending November 14

[meticulo]

Hello my name is Zeke Dean, I have been developing a bloging client for the
past couple of months for the olpc based on the write activity.  It is a
solid bloging client that supports many different blogs and I believe it has
a decent user interface. I would like to discuss if we can work together as
we are both trying to promote the benefits of bloging for educational
purposes.

Greg Smith-18 wrote:
> 
> Overview:
> 
> Work on XO Software Release 9.1.0 is underway. The release is planned 
> for March, 2009. Goals, strategy, and target features should be defined 
> by the first week of December. Detailed bug tracking conventions, branch 
> strategy and release management tactics should be defined before the end 
> of December, 2008.
> 
> Greg is collecting all well motivated feature suggestions here: 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap
> Please add your feature requests to this page (or e-mail them to 
> greg at laptop.org).
> 
> User link of the week (Spanish): http://sextosdela37.blogspot.com/
> Blog from 6th grade class in Uruguay. Built with XOs, it includes eToys 
> projects, Google doc graphs, poems, slide shows, pictures and technical 
> tips for optimizing XO performance!
> 
> User link of the week (English): 
> http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/10/ethiopias-second-olpc-deployment/
> Blog post about roll out of XOs in Ethiopia.
> 
> **********************
> Status of progress towards last week's goals.
> 
> 1 - Finish first review of January mini-conference proposals. Transition
> conference work to follow up and status only. Add agenda items to weekly
> Future Feature planning meeting (Wed. at 2PM US ET on IRC freenode.net
> #olpc-meeting) to prioritize full feature roadmap and decide how we will
> pick 9.1.0 target features.
> 
> GS - Done. Completed review of January conference proposals, grouped in 
> to subjects and set approximate times. See: 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2
> Added 9.1 prioritization item to Future Feature roadmap meeting (Wed. 
> 11/19 at 2PM US ET on IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting). The Sugar camp 
> (http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp/Schedule) will happen at the same 
> time and a 9.1 session is planned for Thursday with Ed. So significant 
> work on prioritizing XO Software Release 9.1.0 prioritizing may have to 
> wait until after that.
> 
> 2 -  Update roadmap page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap
> Follow up with deployments to verify priorities. Get a second level of
> detail from deployments on what they need.
> 
> GS - Partially done. Met and exchanged e-mails with Uruguay, Peru and 
> Ethiopia. Got confirmation of requirements definition from Peru and 
> Ethiopia on their top priority: 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Activation_lease_security
> 
> I still need to formalize and order the list of all requests from each 
> deployment.
> 
> 3 - Start writing detailed use cases, complete ideas for using XO/XS
> (probably a requirements definition for supporting "learning projects"),
> and presentations for mini-conference.
> 
> GS - Mostly not done. Followed up on thread re: asynchronous 
> collaboration tools on Sur list. See: 
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001257.html 
> Still need to write some detailed examples of XO use in class.
> 
> ********************
> Goals for next week:
> 
> 1 - Update roadmap page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap
> Follow up with deployments to verify priorities. Get a second level of
> detail from deployments on what they need.
> 
> 2 - Listen to ideas and plans from Sugar camp and integrate them in the 
> Feature roadmap page as needed. Aside from standing and in person 
> meetings, I plan to sit in on as many Sugar camp meetings as I can next 
> week.
> 
> 3 - Start process and operations page for 9.1 release. Come up with Trac 
> conventions and other tracking systems for execution of a quality release.
> 
> 4 - Update school server wiki pages and documentation. Add links to 
> Readme files to 0.5 release notes. Mark older pages obsolete and try to 
> make it crystal clear what the server supports now.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg S
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