[OLPC library] Apologies, and an opportunity.

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

So.  As it happens, I'm caught in a budget jam -- I'm out of travel money 
for the rest of the month.  Bummer.

But!  I've already set aside the time for the sprint, so I'm planning to 
participate remotely.  This is an opportunity to discover whether or not 
such a thing is actually useful.  :)

Which leads me to a question:

Is there a mailing list where this stuff is being discussed for the 
benefit of other potential remote contributors?

--g

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Anne Gentle wrote:

> Hi everyone -
> A couple of thoughts about setup before the sprint...
>
> I'd love to have someone set up a screenshot collection server like
> Christoph and Seth have described using:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar/Quick_screenshot_hack. David, is that
> the sort of thing you could set up before end-of-August?
>
> I plan to have at least four XOs there, maybe more, hopefully prepped
> ahead of time. I need specifics on what build to install and I'll need
> to request developer keys for each of those machines. Right now I've
> got joyride-2253, but any news about the best candidate build would be
> extremely helpful. Mikus Grinbergs is helping by prepping machines and
> learning which build will be best to install. It sounds like it's 8.2,
> right?
>
> Thanks SJ for offering XO machines. Can someone get an XO count from
> the participants to see if we need to prep more physical XOs for use
> in Austin? David, that might be another good advance non-writing
> activity if you're willing.
>
> Also knowledge of the core activity set would be useful so we can
> install it ahead of time - my current plan is to stick with the G1G1
> set, keeping an eye on testing. Any help with a final decision there
> will be appreciated.
>
> Fundraising is working from the link to
> http://flossmanuals.net/donate, which is great but not huge numbers
> (anyone on the Library list is welcome to donate there if interested).
> :)
>
> I plan to talk to The Content Wrangler this week who sounds like he
> can donate, but I'm not sure what level he's considering. I've emailed
> absolutely all my contacts in the tech comm world, including IBMers
> who are fond of the project. I got positive responses from all over
> tech comm, including Freescale, so I hope to get a couple hundred here
> and there.
>
> I'd love to hear others chime in on why it's a good thing to pay money
> to get people together in real-space to churn out doc. :)
> http://justwriteclick.com/2008/07/26/booksprint-for-floss-manuals-writing-for-the-xo-and-sugar/
>
> David Strauss will be at Drupalcon that week but wishes us the best.
> :) There were other Austinites at the XO Austin user group last Friday
> who will be helping out, including Yama Ploskonka and Mikus Grinbergs.
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:48 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 19:00 -0400, Samuel Klein wrote:
>>> We could use a collector page for cool media that hasn't found ahome
>>> yet -- including images from deployments, kids using laptops with
>>> specific programs, videos, &c?
>>
>> I am not sure if it is exactly what you mean....  One of the main ways I am
>> want to help at the sprint is by doing the scut work like preparing screen
>> shots, preparing icons for use as graphics....
>>
>> Whatever I can do to help the writer focus on writing.
>>
>> If there is stuff like that I can prepare ahead of time, let me know.
>>
>> dfarning
>>
>>
>>
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