[OLPC-SF] June meeting items...

[Sameer Verma]

steve camuti wrote:
> Good day fellow OLPC newgroup members, short time lurker, first time 
> poster here,
>
> I would be more than excited to attend... but sadly I am going to be 
> visiting friends in Boulder, CO when you all are meeting.
>
> I would be highly interested in some compilation of the info 
> discussed, especially the man pages (I know I could google it, but I 
> would prefer to chat with someone about it).
>
I hope we can document what robert will be showing us. We should 
probably throw it up on the wiki at http://wiki.laptop.org/ and have a 
reference to it from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea

> I also noticed that there isn't a formal structure to the meetings, 
> but I would rather ask and have it be redundant than to not ask, so if 
> we could set aside some time at a future meeting (July?) to discuss 
> successful hacks people have done (such as installing the Quake 
> terminal or re-mapping the gaming buttons for tablet-mode browsing in 
> Opera), or maybe just a forum to get some help, that would be great. 
> (In the cases mentioned above, remapping the keys went grand, but I 
> couldn't get Sugar to fully load once I attempted to add Quake 
> terminal. Reverting to backup and giving up is all I tried.)
>

Excellent suggestion!!! We should have a catch-all slot on the agenda 
for such hacks or "Fun with XO" type items. Maybe we should have a note 
taker at the meetings. I tend to forget every detail :-)

> Look forward to the meeting following June's and jealous of all who 
> can attend.
> -Steve C

We'll try to schedule the July meeting for July 12 or 19, depending on 
space availability.

Sameer

-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/

>
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Robert Howard <rihoward at rawbw.com 
> <mailto:rihoward at rawbw.com>> wrote:
>
>     1. I would like to demonstrate using the XO for VOIP. ( A number of
>     people using attended, this weekend, the OLPC conference in New York
>     via VOIP).  This will take coordination with people on Anna's  server
>     that are using here VOIP server.  We have been experimenting with
>     teamspeak for proof of concept.  We are planning on moving to an open
>     source VOIP server soon, now that we have a baseline set of data to
>     compare to and  understand some of the issues involved..
>
>     2. Using XO as a light weight WEB server.
>
>     3. Man pages for the XO using elinks.
>
>
>     Robert H.
>
>     On Jun 14, 2008, at 10:54 PM, Sameer Verma wrote:
>
>     > Hi,
>     > Usually we have freeform meetings, but if anyone is interested in
>     > presenting some of their work or talking about interesting ideas,
>     > let me
>     > know and I'll put you up on the agenda. Additionally, announcing
>     > specific topics in advance might bring in people who are
>     interested in
>     > what you are doing with your XO or OLPC in general. I hope we
>     can get
>     > some folks from Google at the meeting and hear from them if they
>     have
>     > any OLPC-related projects to share.
>     >
>     > Sameer
>     >
>     > --
>     > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>     > Associate Professor of Information Systems
>     > San Francisco State University
>     > San Francisco CA 94132 USA
>     > http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>     > http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
>     >
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