olpc October 2008

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SanDisk Extreme III Test Cards
by Karlie Robinson 12 Nov '08

12 Nov '08

Good morning everyone. I have been working with SanDisk and Arrow Electronics to source the SD Cards you've spec'd for the Fedora on OLPC project. If anyone would like to test on the OEM version[1] of the cards, I can mail them to you at cost. So $30US. I'll pay the postage. ~Karlie [1] - Why is OEM important? When any sort of flash memory is produced there are minute differences with the internal structure. For this project we'll need to use an OEM part which ensures that we have the same card structure with every SD we send through the duplicator. Retail packaged cards do not have a consistent internal structure which can cause quality issues with a duplication run. It's not that retail is inferior quality, but for day to day use (in a camera, phone or other application) write tolerances don't need to be as precise.

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SD card instructions
by Karlie Robinson 06 Nov '08

06 Nov '08

I realize we won't have formal instructions for users until much closer to the release, but I've asked the artwork team to create an image illustrating how to insert the F10 SD card into the XO. I'll update this list with any progress reports. ~Karlie https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/DocIllustrationService#Request_list

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Fedora XO Network Test - meeting recap
by James Laska 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Fedora XO Network Test Meeting Date: 2008-10-24 Time: 9AM EDT (13:00 UTC) == Attendees == * jlaska * _drj2_ * atodorov * rvokal * qark * chao5 * xyziemba * thatneat == General Status == * All XO's have arrive > atodorov expecting delivery on Mon/Tue next week * chao5 having difficulty booting snap#2. Possibly due to using different SD media? Will confirm with qark and rvokal who have the same media == Team Links == * Team Roster - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/XO_Test_Roll_Call#Networking:_Two_Cups_and_a… * Test Plan - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestPlans/Networking == Test Plan Discussion == * The discussion of what applications to test wrt to networking came up > command-line tools (iwconfig iwlist, etc...) > NetworkManager > system-config-network ? * chao5 recommended focusing on the software integration with the hardware, and less on testing the hardware or software directly * atodorov suggested tracking+testing USB wire{d,less} devices == IRC Transcript == * See attached == Action Items == * chao5 - flesh outline of proposed tactics to wiki * atodorov/rvokal - post their USB wire{d,less} devices to the test plan * jlaska - follow-up with status of mesh networking in fedora10

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Announcing Fedora Sugar Spin!
by Sebastian Dziallas 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

Hi everybody, I'm proud to be announce the availability of our Fedora Sugar Spin, which incorporates the Sugar Desktop Environment on a Fedora Live CD. So, what is this in specific? With this spin, you'll be able to run Sugar, which is developed by Sugarlabs and the desktop environment used on the OLPC, directly from a Live CD! You'll find several activities on the image including most notably... * sugar-browse - a web browsing activity based on xulrunner * sugar-write - a word processor based on abiword ...among with several other applications introducing e.g. chat support. We, the OLPC SIG, will be importing further activities into Fedora, which might be installed using 'yum install sugar-*' at a later time. Where can you get it? Easily, here: http://sdz.fedorapeople.org/olpc/sugar-spin.iso Here's the SHA1 checksum, just if you're interested: f032ab45aa116c2728dcd2d676e29a5ee114fd1d sugar-spin.iso And what if you wanted to put it quickly onto your USB Key? Even easier! You'll just need to grab Luke Macken's liveusb-creator, which already includes support for the Sugar Spin. Here's the link: https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liveusb-creator/liveusb-creator-3.0.z… Thank you everybody, who made this possible! --Sebastian

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Activities packaging
by Marco Pesenti Gritti 03 Nov '08

03 Nov '08

A general note about activities packaging... It seem like some of the packages submitted for review uses git snapshots. I would prefer to get releases from upstream for various reasons. I wrote a script to make it trivial to make a source release and I'm figuring out the best way to solicit activity authors to get in the habit. Marco

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Reminder: meeting 1pm today Eastern US time
by Greg DeKoenigsberg 30 Oct '08

30 Oct '08

#fedora-olpc on freenode. I know that for this week in particular, there's a change in the TZ difference between the US and Europe, since we are still on daylight savings time and Europe is not. So I leave it to you guys to figure out when to be there. :) See you soon. --g

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Status of Joyride
by Chris Ball 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Hi, > is there a plan to start up joyride again so we can (somewhat more > easily) test this stuff out? Or is that waiting till after > XOcamp2? Did I maybe miss the email thread about this? I looked at this today. Builds are failing because numpy grew a dependency on python-nose; we could pin numpy back to the old version, accept the new dependency on python-nose (200KB compressed), or fork the package. I commented on a bug asking if there's a way to lose the dependency in the main numpy package: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465999 - Chris. -- Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org>

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Fedora XO Camera Test - meeting recap
by Brian Pepple 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Fedora XO Camera Test Meeting Date: 2008-10-24 Time: 1pM EDT (17:00 UTC) == Attendees == * bpepple * bryan_kearney * tyf1 == Team Name == * Decided to use 'Paparazzi!' for the team name. == Test Plan Discussion == * Discussed what applications to use for testing of the camera functionality. Some possibilities were: 1. Cheese 2. Facebook (use Adobe Flash) 3. Ekiga 4. Skype 5. Tokbox * bpepple will check with the sound team to see if they are testing the built-in mic in their test plans. == Future Meetings == * Will plan on meeting at the same day & time for future meetings. Later, /B -- Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bpepple gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E BD5E 6F9E 8688 E668 8F5B CBDE 326A E936 810C C15E

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[Fwd: Fedora 10 Snapshot 3]
by James Laska 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

FYI XO Testers, Snap#3 is out. I've managed to write and boot this on my XO with no major test blockers as of yet. Thanks, James -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> > Reply-to: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com > To: fedora-announce-list(a)redhat.com, fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com > Subject: Fedora 10 Snapshot 3 > Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:23:41 -0700 > > This is the final snapshot before our final devel freeze and subsequent > preview release. On the torrent site you'll find install images and > live images for testing. http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ > > The i686 Live is just over 700M in size, so you /may/ have trouble > burning it if your media is very strict about it's size. > > Of important note, these images do have a bug in them, > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468360 where some realtek > network cards will not initialize properly. This bug has been fixed in > today's rawhide, which was too late for the snapshot. If you use the > snapshot and fail to have networking, you'll need to update the kernel. > > Thanks for the testing! > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-devel-announce mailing list > Fedora-devel-announce(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-announce -- ========================================== James Laska -- jlaska(a)redhat.com Quality Engineering -- Red Hat, Inc. ==========================================

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Fedora 10 on SD Card for the XO
by Karlie Robinson 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

Here's the URL for the pre-order SD cards for the XO. http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/595 This comes about 3 weeks before the One Laptop Per Child Give One Get One promotion starts and exactly 4 weeks until the release of F10. Use this time to encourage people to visit http://laptop.org and talk up just how spectacular the XO is. Remember, there are lots of people out there who will stand in line for days waiting to buy electronics and this is their chance to have something 'exclusive' since the XO isn't something you can buy at your local electronics store. With the F10 option for the XO, adults who may not find the child focused graphical interface called Sugar practical for daily use, Fedora allows the XO to behave in a more familiar way. In this sense, the XO is on-par with any small form factor laptop except your purchase of an XO during the Give One Get One promotion directly effects the lives of children. Again, thinking about all those people who don't think twice about buying smart phones, game systems, and the like - there's no corporate profit with the XO, just a chance to better the lives of children all over the world. ~Karlie Robinson

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