[OLPC-SF] June meeting items...

[Robert Howard]

On Jun 18, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:

> 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
What I plan on showing you has been documented by members of the
Anna's server jabber group and is either hosted on Anna's server or  
elsewhere.
I will try and get the original authors to post some of these tips on  
the wiki.

>
>> 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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