OLPC:News/2008/Week 28

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the week in review: Week 28, 2008* feel free to comment and update with footnotes and links to the talk page.

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x Connections

opportunities, people, engagements

Calendar:

• GrassCon 2008
• OLPC community mini-conference, August 2008

· Artifacts

projects, events, news, materials

• Creating an activity now works with the inline forms extension, providing a template for new activities and activity summaries.
• After months of discussion, Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Forms are now installed on the wiki.

= Fundament

status, deadlines, assumptions, processes

Summer intern projects:

• Improved database. Words categorized w.r.t to context. Assim Deodia
• Vision Processing - Massive performance improvements, an average_color function, and example scripts to show how to tie all the functions together. Nirav Patel
• Integration of speech synthesis - Python parser library for the dot.conf configuration file. Code hosted at googlecode now! Hemant Goyal

Other mentored summer projects/internships :

• Rajan Vaish - v1.0 uploaded of Atlas America.

  Email activity - progress is slow but happening. Shikhar Bhushan

• Daniel Drake's weekly update
• Tarun Pondicherry's Weekly Update: Educational Blogger Project
  • Server running with all core features

+ Priorities

milestones, sequences, first and next

o Reflection

review, updates, analysis, feedback