[OLPC-SF] OLPC-SF Digest, Vol 20, Issue 9

Fri Aug 14 19:53:56 EDT 2009

Sorry I will not be at Mtg on Sat. Carol Ruth Silver.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

-----Original Message-----
From: olpc-sf-request at lists.laptop.org

Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:00:10 
To: <olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org>
Subject: OLPC-SF Digest, Vol 20, Issue 9

Send OLPC-SF mailing list submissions to
	olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org

To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
	http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
	olpc-sf-request at lists.laptop.org

You can reach the person managing the list at
	olpc-sf-owner at lists.laptop.org

When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of OLPC-SF digest..."

Today's Topics:

   1. Re: this month's meeting... (Sameer Verma)
   2. Re: this month's meeting... (Sameer Verma)
   3. Re: this month's meeting... (Larry Cafiero)
   4. Re: this month's meeting... (Grant Bowman)
   5. Re: this month's meeting... (Sameer Verma)

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message: 1
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:22:53 -0700
From: Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: [OLPC-SF] this month's meeting...
To: Christoph Derndorfer <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: OLPC SF <olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org>
Message-ID:
	<5fb387c70908131922x337020b7pca852681b1c463af at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <
e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> Robert Howard schrieb:
>
>> Sounds like a good plan.
>> I hope to bring one or 2 ARM based systems to the meeting on the 22nd.
>>
>
> Out of curiosity: Which ARM systems are you using there?
>

http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp and
http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/openrd.jsp

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/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/attachments/20090813/82334d54/attachment-0001.htm 

------------------------------

Message: 2
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:28:42 -0700
From: Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: [OLPC-SF] this month's meeting...
To: Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
Cc: OLPC SF <olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org>
Message-ID:
	<5fb387c70908131928g988eb80t75cd566041b36f6a at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Sameer Verma<sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> > I've heard back from a few people about meeting down in Sunnyvale at the
> > 18th Picnix event (http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Picnix18/)
> on
> > the 15th. I have also heard back from the group that is doing a
> deployment
> > in South Africa. They will have updates for us and would like to come to
> a
> > meeting and do a presentation. There is some activity afoot with the
> Starr
> > King group. Maybe we'll get an update from them soon?
>
> We have a tentative arrangement with Kipp SF Academy, also for this fall.
>

Would like to hear more about this either on the 15th or the 22nd.

>
> > Here's what I propose: We meet on the 15th in Sunnyvale for OLPC-SF &
> > Picnix, and see if we can do a regular meeting on the 22nd in downtown
> SF.
> >
> > Ed (Cherlin), can you coordinate some of the things for the 15th @
> Picnix?
>
> Certainly. Please note that the event is from 11 am to 5 pm. This
> information is provided on the #linuxpicnic IRC channel, but not on
> the Web page.
>
> http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Picnix18/WebHome
>
> Volunteers are needed for setup beforehand, during the event, and for
> cleanup.
>
> Everybody, please let me know if you can bring XOs, Sugar on a Stick,
> or Sugar on any other kind of Linux. I will have all three, with some
> lesson demos.
>

I will bring my stash and possibly the solar panel(s). We could also run the
school server with some preloaded goodies, but each XO will have to register
to be able to use Moodle. Is it worth the effort?

> Does anybody have a child who can demonstrate Sugar to attendees?
>

Mine can't make it...something else planned a while ago. Christian (Nobs)
has a great team though. Larry (Cafiero), will you all be there?

>
> Does anybody have spare XO battery packs? Does anyone have a portable
> power source that we can use, either 12 V DC or standard AC? We would
> need extension cords to go with it. I can bring some, including power
> squids, and a DC-AC converter made for an auto lighter socket. I'll
> find out whether we can park a car nearby for recharging.
>

Evidently, power supply is available at the venue but I'll see if I can
arrange for a portable battery pack.

>
> What literature should we bring?
>

I have some cards and flyers left over from OSCON. I'll bring those. Should
we burn Sugar disks on demand?

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/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/attachments/20090813/01d6598b/attachment-0001.htm 

------------------------------

Message: 3
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:31:44 -0700
From: Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OLPC-SF] this month's meeting...
To: OLPC SF <olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org>
Message-ID:
	<7a0d56080908131931v4c1f8febuc35414cdc889dcb3 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>> Does anybody have a child who can demonstrate Sugar to attendees?
>>
>
> Mine can't make it...something else planned a while ago. Christian (Nobs)
> has a great team though. Larry (Cafiero), will you all be there?
>

I can't make the 15th. 22nd maybe.

Larry Cafiero
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/attachments/20090813/802e2d84/attachment-0001.htm 

------------------------------

Message: 4
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:38:11 -0700
From: Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [OLPC-SF] this month's meeting...
To: OLPC SF <olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org>
Message-ID:
	<317e39f0908131938k1b3ef76aqfb0cc02b17b35f25 at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

After it was back ordered for weeks I finally got a developer machine. I
sshed into it and thought all would be fine. I set it aside until yesterday
when I tried to get it running again. From the symptoms, some #openplug IRC
and some forum posts I read my guess is that the power supply failed. Global
Scale has responded quickly.  They are shipping me a new one with a return
shipping label. The unit has promise but it seems they are still working out
some issues. Not ready for any deployments yet, lol.

Grant Bowman
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam

On Aug 13, 2009 7:23 PM, "Sameer Verma" <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <
e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > > Rob...

http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp and
http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/openrd.jsp

Sameer

-- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San
Francisco State Universit...

_______________________________________________
OLPC-SF mailing list
OLPC-SF at lists.laptop.org
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/attachments/20090813/aa8c03a4/attachment-0001.htm 

------------------------------

Message: 5
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:50:21 -0700
From: Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: [OLPC-SF] this month's meeting...
To: Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com>
Cc: OLPC SF <olpc-sf at lists.laptop.org>
Message-ID:
	<5fb387c70908131950r35432c63xb005453c3c5651a at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Grant Bowman <grantbow at gmail.com> wrote:

> After it was back ordered for weeks I finally got a developer machine. I
> sshed into it and thought all would be fine. I set it aside until yesterday
> when I tried to get it running again. From the symptoms, some #openplug IRC
> and some forum posts I read my guess is that the power supply failed. Global
> Scale has responded quickly.  They are shipping me a new one with a return
> shipping label. The unit has promise but it seems they are still working out
> some issues. Not ready for any deployments yet, lol.
>
> Grant Bowman
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam
>

I would say, that once the glitches are ironed out, the SheevaPlug will make
one *very* good school server!

Sameer

>
>  On Aug 13, 2009 7:23 PM, "Sameer Verma" <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <
> e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > > Rob...
>
> http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp and
> http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/openrd.jsp
>
> Sameer
>
> -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San
> Francisco State Universit...
>
> _______________________________________________
> OLPC-SF mailing list
> OLPC-SF at lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> OLPC-SF mailing list
> OLPC-SF at lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sf/attachments/20090813/cfd142a7/attachment-0001.htm 

------------------------------

_______________________________________________
OLPC-SF mailing list
OLPC-SF at lists.laptop.org
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sf

End of OLPC-SF Digest, Vol 20, Issue 9
**************************************