[olpc-nz] XO laptop

[Mitchell Seaton]

Hi Tim,

The volunteer/tech community around OLPC in Australia is developing, and
Adam correct is not yet as established as OLPC NZ. I would recommend being
in contact with the NZ community as they do great testing work for XO and
SoaS builds and Sugar activities through their Auckland/Wellington groups.

We have a developing tech community in Australia being coordinated through
OLPC Friends (http://www.olpcfriends.org/) with support of OLPC Australia (
http://laptop.org.au/). We join with the SLUG (http://www.slug.org.au/)
community on the last Friday of the month with a OLPC BoF, if you could make
it to Sydney it would be great to meet you. The next meeting should be on
28th May, 6pm at Google Sydney.

I have a spare XO-1 that I could lend you so you can become familiar. If you
wish to request to borrow one please send your full contact and address
details to myself and Sridhar (cc'd). I could most likely post the XO or you
could pick up one in Sydney.

In regards to the SoaS V2 stick, how did you create the USB drive?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo#Graphical_Method_-_Windows_or_Fedora
http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator

Regards,
Mitchell Seaton
OLPC Friends

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Tim Gilbert 3 <bluemaster at bigpond.com>wrote:

>  Morning
> I live in Albury Australia, and have had contact with Adam Holt, about
> becoming an OLPC tech support Volunteer, he suggested that the NZ community
> was better established than here in Oz, so suggested I make contact, Vie
> resurrected and older IBM think pad, and downloaded blackberry V2 from
> Fedora, but I'm unable to get the memory stick to boot, Ive searched the web
> for forum links that might help, but it seems that getting older laptops to
> boot has been put on the back burner.
> Adam suggested that there might be a used XO around that I might be able to
> borrow or buy, so that I can get up to speed with the OS, any feed back is
> welcome.
> Regards
> Tim Gilbert
>
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