Wikimania

Things to demo

Please help us figure out what to demo on the laptops during Wikimania, and how. We will have a number of them around, so mesh network stuff would be excellent to show off.

Questions

• How do I associate two activities in my Journal with each other?
• How do I change the name/color of my XO avatar?

Overall notes

• Hand + alt + = -> developers' console
• Ctrl + alt + erase -> restart sugar
• alt + c -> force quit (yes, it works here too)
• "su -" gets you into root, no password needed

To install a new activity

• put it on a thumb drive
• mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
• cp -r /mnt/Whatever.activity/ /usr/share/activities
• umount /dev/sda1
• restart sugar

Measure (ready)

• logs stored as flat text files
• whistling a good demo for fft
• no mesh

Write (ready?)

• functional test passes
• collaboration via mesh works! but all text shows up in b&w, times new roman, 12pt in the other person's screen, even if you change size/color/font.

Chat (ready)

• Is there a way to encourage meshing between two computers? Not all computers seem to see all others.

Journal (ready, Mel not)

• Functional test passes
• can't figure out how to associate activities to same project, another XO

Connect4 (ready)

• had to restart a few times, trial & error, to get a working game. but cool.

Library

• Mini-wikipedia
• How to make a package
• Chinese-language packages

Mesh networking

As of build 536, laptops should automatically join a MESH network (without internet connectivity, however). Once the laptop is powered up, it takes a few minutes to configure itself, but eventually olpcA and olpcB should be able to see eachother.

Generic MESH application sharing instructions: Have two laptops connected to MESH. Start the application on olpcA, and share it by changing the "share with:" drop down in the top right corner from private to my neighborhood. Shortly after, olpcB should be able to see the write application shared from the neighborhood view.

• Connect4 - This game works over MESH, however scores aren't recorded or kept.
• Write - This application works over MESH. Users can simultaneously edit the same document.
• Chat - Works over MESH.

• what games can we play to demo this? memorize?
• Lincoln's docs on tubes in pygame

Games

• 3d pong, if I can get it working
• Kuku
• Rule?
• Connect4

Hardware coolness

• display
• ruggedness
• lightweight
• pressure/capac. touchpads
• tablet mode
• wifi antennas/locks/dust covers