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1. OLPC News (2008-08-05) (Kimberley Quirk)<br>
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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 00:12:45 -0400<br>
From: Kimberley Quirk <<a href="mailto:kim@laptop.org">kim@laptop.org</a>><br>
Subject: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-08-05)<br>
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Development:<br>
Paraguay: Antonio Battro and Cecilia Alacal? met with President-elect<br>
Fernando<br>
Lugo. He informed them that as part of his ?obligation" to provide the<br>
best<br>
possible education to Paraguayan schoolchildren, he intends to<br>
distribute one<br>
million XOs, enough for all elementary school children and teachers in<br>
Paraguay.<br>
In September, President Lugo plans to meet with Nicholas in New York,<br>
where<br>
he has been invited to attend the Clinton Global Initiative.<br>
<br>
Antonio, Cecilia, Raul Guti?rrez and Sebasti?n Codas gave several<br>
interviews to<br>
the media. Afterward, TV Canal 9 offered to buy 2,500 XOs for the<br>
national<br>
distribution.<br>
<br>
Thailand: Nicholas met individually with the Minister of Science &<br>
Technology, Minister of Information & Communications Technology, and<br>
the Minister of Education. We recommended 50,000 laptops, but they are<br>
likely to start with 15,000.<br>
<br>
Mongolia: Nicholas and Elana Langer completed a marathon round of<br>
individual<br>
meetings with the president, prime minister, minister of education and<br>
the former<br>
foreign minister - now head of the party. Two issues dominated<br>
discussions: Getting the 5000 XOs on hand into schools by September<br>
1st, and planning to equip all primary school children in two years.<br>
<br>
Mexico: Carla G?mez Monroy, Enrique Chavero, and Paola Rivera met with<br>
the<br>
education secretary?s representatives for primary education, content<br>
development, educational technology, and indigenous education (who was<br>
accompanied by a Nahuatl language expert) to demo the XO.<br>
<br>
Jorge Casta?eda, Manuel Rodriguez, Enrique, Paola, and Carla met with<br>
the<br>
representatives of the Iztapalapa delegation, the governor of the<br>
Rotary Club and<br>
some of its members, seeking partnerships and support.<br>
<br>
Belgium: Michael Lake, accompanied by Carla, met once again with Dilip<br>
Mehta,<br>
CEO of the Rosy Blue Group, along with Chikashi Miyamoto, an advisor<br>
to Mehta<br>
and Pranay Narvekar a vice president. Carla presented deployment<br>
highlights for<br>
the Rosy Blue executives. A proposal for fully supporting Botswana<br>
will be jointly<br>
developed. Dilip, Chikashi and Pranay were very enthusiastic about<br>
deploying<br>
OLPC at South Africa.<br>
<br>
Turkey: Political disruptions continue to complicate completion of the<br>
XO<br>
deployment budget. Multiple jurisdictions are involved, and timing is<br>
an obstacle.<br>
The team, however, remains quite enthusiastic and is eager to get<br>
things started.<br>
<br>
Learning Team:<br>
Thailand: OLPC held a five-day regional workshop in Bangkok, with more<br>
than<br>
50 participants from six countries.<br>
<br>
The workshop went extremely well. Special highlights included sharing<br>
of work in<br>
the rural areas in Thailand as exemplars of high-quality work, and<br>
integration of<br>
school and community; storytelling with the XO by Barbara Barry;<br>
computational<br>
uses of the XO by Roger Sipitakiat; Nicholas?s talk on Thursday<br>
evening; and the<br>
Ban Samkha children?s orchestra using their XOs to play traditional<br>
Thai music in<br>
TamTam.<br>
<br>
Mongolia: The team returned on Monday afternoon from a two-week tour in<br>
northern Mongolia, where they ran workshops for local teachers, kids and<br>
parents. Together with the Mongolian core team, we worked in one city<br>
center<br>
and two small villages, introducing the XO and constructionist learning<br>
methodologies. The core team teachers designed and ran the last<br>
workshop on<br>
their own. They came up with some wonderful and surprising ideas,<br>
including a<br>
physical activity to teach angles and degrees to students, which they<br>
then try in<br>
turtle art and etoys.<br>
<br>
The new head of ICTA was inspired by the XO?s open source environment.<br>
He wants the students in Mongolia to learn Linux and is working to get<br>
all government agencies and higher institutes to cross over to a Linux<br>
platform.<br>
<br>
Rwanda: The 20-member core team is ready to initiate teacher<br>
development.<br>
The team discussed ways of introducing generative themes for children<br>
to use for<br>
developing projects. There also was considerable discussion on the<br>
issues of<br>
working with schools and communities.<br>
<br>
Haiti: The team is currently wrapping up the pre-pilot Camp XO 2008 at<br>
Ecole<br>
Nationale Republique du Chili. As we entered this final full week we<br>
began to<br>
look at E-toys.<br>
<br>
<br>
Tech Team:<br>
<br>
Testing:<br>
Greg Smith provided the instructions for downloading and testing pre-<br>
release 8.2.0 images at:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing</a>. Help test the pre-<br>
release candidate builds! We need >50 people to briefly test and<br>
report any issues with the latest image, every week for the next 3 - 6<br>
weeks. If the community steps up to do that, we will have a rock solid<br>
release.<br>
<br>
Greg also wrote collaboration requirements for 9.1.0 priorities page: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0</a><br>
<br>
The QA Team worked on the first 8.2.0 builds (2200, 2230) and 8.1.1<br>
(708, in Chicago) builds. Early test results on a build are posted at<br>
the Test Group Release Notes page: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes</a><br>
. More detailed test results are now being posted here: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TestResults_8.2.0" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TestResults_8.2.0</a><br>
.<br>
<br>
Francesca Slade, Seth Woodworth, and Charlie Murphy have created a<br>
test case framework allowing test cases to be posted directly into the<br>
wiki, and some summary reporting is available at the TestResults page.<br>
<br>
Joe Feinstein organized the 8.2.0 Release Criteria meeting and<br>
creating a first pass of the 8.2.0 test areas and features (based on<br>
work of Michael Stone and Greg Smith) which will be translated into<br>
the set of test cases. Joe also started working with Sayamindu<br>
Dasgupta on helping with Russian translations.<br>
<br>
Software/Firmware:<br>
Mitch Bradley made further progress on the Windows dual-boot, resolving<br>
issues with ACPI support for lid switch handling and battery/AC status<br>
reporting. The only remaining issue at this point is chopped-up text<br>
during<br>
pre-OS chkdsk and blue screen of death displays.<br>
<br>
Deepak Saxena worked with Luis Cabo Cobo at Cozybit to find a way to<br>
get the Libertas thinmac/host mode driver packaged and built it into<br>
our released kernel RPMs. The driver is now working with our joyride<br>
kernels. He has also reimplemented the lid-detect logic in the kernel<br>
and added proper handling of the lid when we are suspended.<br>
<br>
Ricardo Carrano worked on active antenna repogramming documentation,<br>
and Bill<br>
McCormick from Nortel looked into one of the most persistent UI/Network<br>
Manager bugs, which often prevents XOs from re-associating with<br>
encrypted<br>
wireless networks.<br>
<br>
Chris Ball finalized the "failsafe" code for booting with a full NAND.<br>
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<br>
user that they will lose data and should first back up their laptop,<br>
and will<br>
(after confirmation) free up enough space to boot by deleting large<br>
datastore objects or activities.<br>
<br>
Sayamindu Dasgupta worked on the keyboard issues, fixing the Mongolian<br>
keyboard layout problems, and made some progress on the Dari keyboard<br>
issue, and the Amharic Compose key problems. In order to handle<br>
complex scripts like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, he has started to<br>
evaluate a possible switch to SCIM (Smart Common Input Method: <a href="http://www.scim-im.org/" target="_blank">http://www.scim-im.org/</a>)<br>
for the next major OLPC release.<br>
<br>
Sayamindu created a new getting started page for Pootle<br>
administrators: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pootle/AdministrationQuickStart" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pootle/AdministrationQuickStart</a><br>
. He also released new versions of Terminal activity and Read activity<br>
for the latest Sucrose release.<br>
<br>
Morgan Collett fixed some Chat bugs in release Chat-44. He assisted<br>
with the Sucrose 0.81.6 release and packaging. He proposed a separate<br>
mailing list for activity authors, and volunteered to improve<br>
communication with them about current and upcoming process changes.<br>
<br>
Faisal Anwar added new sections to the Sugar Almanac about the<br>
clipboard, and is engaging the community to finalize new sections on<br>
the presence service. We encourage you to peruse and contribute to<br>
the almanac, available at <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Almanac" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Almanac</a><br>
<br>
Guillaume Desmottes tracked memory leaks and corruptions bugs in the<br>
Gadget Gabble branches. He found and fixed some nasty ones making the<br>
gadget branch more robust. He also improved gadget integration in<br>
sugar by implementing a simple wrapper around views objects making<br>
them easier to use by sugar and he improved presence management in<br>
Gabble and Gadget aiming to handle more gracefully Gadget component<br>
restarts.<br>
<br>
Daniel Drake fixed the Read activity, worked with Victor Lazzarini to<br>
fix a csound bug that was breaking TamTam, and worked with TamTam<br>
developers to produce new releases. Daniel also worked with QA to test<br>
installation of the latest school server build XS164.<br>
<br>
Erik Garrison worked with David Woodhouse to verify that test failures<br>
encountered while LZO-compressing partition images were spurious and<br>
non-fatal, and conversed with Mitch Bradley about the process of<br>
building and installing a partitioned OS image on the XO.<br>
Additionally, he assisted in communication with deployments in Uruguay<br>
and Per?.<br>
<br>
Bobby Powers got rainbow to start after X, so that it could properly<br>
preload GTK again. He is looking into getting a more standard Linux<br>
distribution on an SD card as an alternative to Windows.<br>
<br>
Sucrose 0.81.6, Release Candidate 2 was released this week. This cycle<br>
was again about stabilizing the release. Thanks to all the translators<br>
we were able to get many new translations in. All the Fructose modules<br>
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" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.81.6</a><br>
<br>
School server:<br>
Martin Langhoff released build OLPC_XS_165, which is our xs-0.3<br>
"release candidate". Thanks to Bryan Berry and David van Assche, who<br>
have been providing excellent notes on installation steps and<br>
shortcomings. The livecd approach we use on the XS images is brittle<br>
and not suitable for upgrades; we need to move to traditional<br>
installer CDs using either pungi or revisor.<br>
<br>
Martin also started putting together an "xs-rsync" package to publish<br>
content via rsync on the XS, with utilities that allow it to serve XO<br>
builds mimicking update-server's behaviour.<br>
<br>
Community:<br>
Wikimania 2008: The event was held at the [new] Library of<br>
Alexandria. SJ presented recent offline wiki efforts on the XO,<br>
including an offline version of the Arabic Wikipedia which was being<br>
finished that week with help from Bassem Jarkas and <a href="http://moulin.org" target="_blank">moulin.org</a> . Many<br>
groups in attendance wanted to start OLPC-related projects,<br>
particularly to extend access to wiki-repositories to offline<br>
communities.<br>
Bibalex : Sohair Wastawy, chief librarian of Alexandria, and Lamia<br>
Fattah, head of their children's library, proposed a small<br>
installation for the children's section -- a set of 5 rooms that are<br>
restricted to children under 12 (there is a small waiting area for<br>
parents) and library staff. They have 60 to 100 children in the<br>
library during most days in summertime, for eight hours each day.<br>
WikiBrowse : Tim Starling, a core MediaWiki developer, has offered<br>
to generate regular static snapshots of all language wikipedias in a<br>
format suitable for our WikiBrowse activity. These snapshots are<br>
produced for Wikipedia every other month; a dedicated machine is<br>
available mose weeks to make further snapshots.<br>
Semantic MediaWiki : Francesca Slade is helping organize<br>
structured information on our wiki with this extension, particularly<br>
relating to countries and test reports. The creators of the extension<br>
at Wikimania offered to help implement some of our recent feature<br>
requests.<br>
<br>
Community<br>
At Wikimania 2008 SJ Klein presented recent offline wiki efforts on<br>
the XO, including a version of the Arabic Wikipedia which was being<br>
finished that week with help from Bassem Jarkas and <a href="http://moulin.org" target="_blank">moulin.org</a>. Many<br>
groups in attendance wanted to start OLPC-related projects,<br>
particularly to extend access to wiki-repositories to offline<br>
communities.<br>
<br>
Adam Hyde and Anne Gentle are organizing a Sugar documentation sprint<br>
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><br>
<br>
Activities<br>
Mohit Taneja and Deepank Gupta now have a working game for Food Force<br>
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>
<br>
Juliana Lipkov?, working with Thomas Breuel,has mockups and code for<br>
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><br>
<br>
Geography: Rajan Vaish finished v2 of his Atlas America activity,<br>
working with Nestor Guerrero in Monterrey, and is back in school. The<br>
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<br>
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>
<br>
Support<br>
Adam Holt reports that the 100th volunteer for the Support-gang joined<br>
this week! The tickets associated with last year's Give One Get One<br>
are tailing off as we begin planning for the 2009 G1G1. Going forward,<br>
the focus for the support-gang is on technical issues and helping<br>
people use their laptops rather than fulfillment questions.<br>
<br>
Some of the support gang are helping out with the upcoming<br>
documentation sprint. Adam has identified wifi access points that have<br>
been reported as problems. We will purchase these to add to our test<br>
environment. He and Kim are working on the details and systems to put<br>
in place to help repair centers get spare parts and track their<br>
problem reports.<br>
<br>
OLPC France hosted a Paris repair jam a week ago, where 6 people<br>
practiced repairing XOs and they worked on 8 broken machines.<br>
<br>
SJ Klein and Henry Edward Hardy have updated teamwiki to v. 1.13 and<br>
enabled semantic mediawiki. This will facilitate tagging and other<br>
"Web 2.0" features.<br>
<br>
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