[Testing] Opportunity: book reader testing [was: Re: Books for the OLPC Book Reader Demonstration]

[Mel Chua]

Thank you, Becky! I am ccing the testing list on this email, in case 
folks there are interested.

Rebecca Hargrave Malamud wrote:
> Hi, Mel -
> 
> Understood!
> 
> This is strictly a demo/portal page to highlight the public domain book 
> collection on Open Library and newly developed bookreader developed by 
> Raj Kumar, who is cc'd on this message. I created a wrapper around it to 
> make it easier to navigate collections of books.
> 
> The core GnuBook bookreader docs are here:
> 
> http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader
> 
> launchpad  --->  https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnubook/
> on github    --->   http://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader/tree/master
> 
> The demo has been tested on the XO - it is not fully functional in 
> tablet mode yet, although it does work with screen rotation. There is a 
> standalone version without the navigational wrapper here:
> 
> http://openlibrary.org/static/olpc_bookreader/
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Becky
> 
> 
> 
> At 3:50 PM -0500 11/16/08, Mel Chua wrote:
>> We have a testing community that hangs out on the testing mailing 
>> list, http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing - if there are specific 
>> test cases that you'd like people to take a look at, feel free to 
>> write up instructions on the kind of testing you'd like done and send 
>> them to the list - there may be volunteers there interested in picking 
>> up on it.
>>
>> If we want to push this through more formal channels (internal OLPC QA 
>> - relevant if this is something we would start officially recommending 
>> to large deployments to use, or the community testing group whose 
>> current project is testing G1G1-shipped Activities), then it would be 
>> good to have a pointer to a webpage with the project status, plans for 
>> development and deployment, how it's supported, use case scenarios, etc.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -Mel
>>
>> Samuel Klein wrote:
>>> Thanks -- Mel & frances, a link to test the new OL bookreader
>>> interface for kidsm fyi.
>>>
>>> SJ
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud
>>> <webchick at invisible.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, SJ -
>>>>
>>>> I should definitely move the bookreader demo to the Open Library 
>>>> site before
>>>> we start linking to it. I can do that today (there is a bit of 
>>>> coordination
>>>> with the code libraries and such) - plus write an overview page 
>>>> about how to
>>>> recommend books. I will send you the link when it is live -
>>>>
>>>> Feel free to send the 4 PM testers to the link I sent you yesterday:
>>>>
>>>> http://invisible.net/openlibrary/olpc/bookreader.html
>>>>
>>>> I will be adding the books today, as I mentioned.
>>>>
>>>> I have a 10 AM call with the Archive tomorrow which will be a good 
>>>> time to
>>>> bring everyone up to speed with where we are. I was also reviewing 
>>>> Aaron's
>>>> original marching orders <g>, and we still need to build the library 
>>>> bundle
>>>> so people can download the collection locally for use on the XO - I 
>>>> will
>>>> send the list to Anand and Aaron today so they can do that - that 
>>>> will also
>>>> be mentioned on of the overview page for this.
>>>>
>>>> So, there is a bit more work to be done - what time is the announcement
>>>> tomorrow?
>>>>
>>>> Becky
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At 12:17 PM -0500 11/16/08, Samuel Klein wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm writing a blog post about this now :-)   Thank you rebecca!  we
>>>>> have testers meeting again today at 4pm and I'll point them this way
>>>>> -- is there a specific way for people who want to help choose books to
>>>>> send them to you?  I can also add this as a way to participate from
>>>>> that section of our website.
>>>>>
>>>>> SJ
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Rebecca Hargrave Malamud
>>>>> <webchick at invisible.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  Good Morning -
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I am going to start populating the demo with content today - and 
>>>>>> I was
>>>>>> lucky
>>>>>>  enough to locate a bona fide authority on quality public domain 
>>>>>> material
>>>>>> for
>>>>>>  children:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  http://openlibrary.org/details/rightreadingforc00welsrich/leaf33
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I have already found about 70% of the books listed, so this will 
>>>>>> give us
>>>>>> a
>>>>>>  good starting point for content.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Viva la Internet!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Becky
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
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