OLPC:Xoxo

XOXO : regular love and community updates

See Talk:Xoxo for ideas on things you can add; or see the archives

xoxo #0

18:22, 30 June 2007 (EDT), tags:

=== Ideas ===
{{Wikipedia ads}}-like wanted!

=== Recent Changes ===

This is an experimental report on the Special:Recentchanges. Suggestions are welcome.

# Several Test Plans have been added to several activities.

==== Editions ====
Almost 1100 editions this week.
* 300 minor edits (37 user space; 30 templates; 26 talk pages)
* Various edits Activity template (17), Adapt this story (9), Educational organization template (14),
  MaMaMedia activity template (9), MMM lesson plan translations (10), Talk:OLPC Spanish America (9),
  Template:Pending (8), Template:Sandbox (12), User:Lauren (15), Ask OLPC a Question/New (15),
  Ask OLPC a Question/New/lang-es (10), Display (21), Editor Musical (8), FACIL (7),
  Jogo do Piano (8), Kuku Activity Test Plan (23), LSI (9), Manutencao (7),
  Oficina de Desenho (11), OLPC Colombia/Community (7), Paint Activity Test Plan (18),
  Quebra-Cabeca Musical (9), Request board (10), Sugar on Ubuntu Linux (7),
  Test Group Release Notes (16), User:MitchellNCharity (13), User:Sj/xoxo (7),
  World Wide Workshop Foundation (13), Write Activity Test Plan (7).
* 83 new pages
** 11 user pages User:Alexandremartinazzo, User:Crazybus, User:Dany seiji, User:Hazelmaeranollo,
   User:Jgay/Thoughts/NewBlogEntry, User:Marc van Woerkom, User:Oswaldopoli, User:Pedro Kayatt,
   User:Placa1783, User:Rowen Remis R. Iral, & User:Sj/mirror
** 10 talk pages Talk:Activity Translations, Talk:Ben-design, Talk:Curators and coordinators,
   Talk:Educational activity ideas, Talk:Kuku Anakula, Talk:Manutencao, Talk:Memonumbers,
   Talk:OLPC Argentina/Languages, Talk:PO-laptop.org-vision-en-US, & Talk:Tux Paint

==== Uploaded ====

We have 37 new files in the wiki.
31 images: 
*  6 .gif Image:Olpc badge black.gif, Image:OLPC badge quad black.gif,
          Image:Olpc badge quad white.gif,  Image:OLPC badge quad wiki black.gif,
          Image:OLPC badge quad wiki white.gif, & Image:Olpc badge white.gif.
*  7 .jpg Image:Foto1.jpg, Image:Foto1.jpg, Image:Mama4OLPClogo(40%).jpg,
          Image:Mubbles for OLPC 0002.jpg, Image:Piano-tela.jpg, Image:Piano-tela.jpg, &
          Image:Wwwlogo.jpg
* 13 .png Image:2b8.png, Image:Board1.png, Image:Colombia.png, Image:ExhibicionFlisol1.png,
          Image:Flisol2.png, Image:Flisol3.png, Image:Flisol4.png, Image:Flisol5.png,
          Image:LCD-olpc.png, Image:Manizales2.png, Image:Pek.png, Image:Xo B2.png, &
          Image:Xo detalle.png
*  5 .svg Image:IconRuler.svg, Image:Spoon-Sugar.svg, Image:Spoon-Sugar.svg,
          Image:Spoon-Sugar.svg, & Image:Spoon-Sugar.svg
6 files:
* 3 .pdf Media:FOXNews.com - Uruguay Children Try Low-Cost Laptops - Technol...pdf,
         Media:Http webmail.aol.com 28363 aol en-us Mail get-attachment.pdf, &
         Media:Negroponte-interview-1-.pdf
* 2 .txt Media:BumbleBee.txt, & Media:Mubbles.txt
* 1 .xls Media:B3-B4 OLPC Test Plan.xls

==== Maintenance  ====

3 pages were moved: Kuku Activity Test Plan, Gnu General Public License & OLPC wikis
8 pages were deleted, mostly containing friendly (but out of place) messages.
9 IPs were blocked during the past week. All indicates that they are bots. We should expect a new
round of these kind of editions after the previous 2 week banning period is ending, so we should consider
an upgrading the blocking period to 3 months (hopefully after that time some of the zombie machines
will have been reformatted).

xoxo #1

12 July 2007, tags: wiki, maps, curriculum, rc

=== xoxo #1 ===
Welcome to the first edition of xoxo, a regular textfile of exciting things happening around the OLPC
projects, with summaries of the various community fora.  We are currently looking for editors and 
summarizers (specifically for mailing lists and blogs).  Anyone is welcome to contribute by posting
new items to these talk pages. 

=== bug tracking and fixing ===
Please note any bugs or enhancements or feature requests in trac: dev.laptop.org .   Anyone is welcome to 
make an account there and file bugs or ideas.
New wiki template {{ticket}} allowing a short way to reference tickets: #1.

=== game and curriculum jams  ===
mchua has been working on plans for game and other content jams 
this fall in a number of cities.  Current jams being planned based on where there are interested organizers 
(Manila, New York, Sao Paulo), feedback or new cities welcome.  

=== laptop map ===
name.com has been thinking about how to visualize OLPC data and machines, and how to help laptop communities.
they've made a google mashup, which can be installed on this wiki via a mediawiki extension : laptop.name.org

=== OBX proposals ===
After an IRC chat, some proposals were added. The idea is that each box categorizes on orthogonal 
axis, on one side users can tag themselves as Artists (a category) with a specialty (say Artists
icons — another category) and then on the 'consumer' side, activities (or whatever) could tag as
Needing/Wanting icon. The categories would have cross-links allowing us to better match things.
The idea is to expand to other domains.

=== Recent Changes ===

This is an experimental report on the Special:Recentchanges for the week ending July 8.
Suggestions (and scripting help) are welcome: contact Xavi.

==== Editions ====
Almost 2200 editions this week (1670 actual editions)
* 580 minor edits (37 user space; 30 templates; 26 talk pages)
* Various edits 
   Ask OLPC a Question/New (33), Educational activity guidelines (26), Educators (74), Emulating the XO (16),
   Emulating the XO/lang-ko (55), Learning activities/Class Orchestra (15), Learning activities/School Census (11),
   OBX proposals (9), OLPC myths/lang-ko (9), PO-laptop.org-auxiliary-el (7), PO-laptop.org-children-el (11),
   PO-laptop.org-el (7), PO-laptop.org-top-level-el (16), PO-laptop.org-vision-el (44), Pulseaudio (10),
   Sample learning activities (14), Template:Sandbox (11), Test Group Release Notes (55), Tradução de Atividades (18),
   User talk:MitchellNCharity (16), User:Crazybus (26), User:Lauren (11), User:Xavi/Test (8), and XO updater/lang-es (11)
* 522 new pages
** 376 in the XO Korea branch.
** 30 new categories (mostly dealing with language fluency levels) 
        Category:Constructionist learning activity template, Category:Earth Treasury, Category:Galadima,
        Category:Learning Activities, Category:Learning activity template, Category:MaMaMedia learning activity template,
        Category:Notes, Category:OBX templates, Category:Userbox templates, and Category:Wikipedia Template.
** 40+ new templates; mainly dealing with Olpcboxes and Category:OBX templates

==== Uploaded ====

We have 68 new files in the wiki.

66 images: 
*  9 .gif Media:WiXiADDLANGRUFF.gif, Media:WixiJump.gif, Media:WiXiLuchaLibreWixiJump.gif, Media:WiXiMethodOnXO.gif,
            Media:WiXiPO1.gif, Media:WiXIPO1.gif, Media:WiXiPublishingPlatforms.gif, Media:WiXiScratchVenAca.gif, and
            Media:WiXiTwexterXcrollPreviewFast.gif.
* 28 .jpg Media:2535093875.jpg, Media:Cardal2.JPG, Media:Foto costas.jpg, Media:Foto01.jpg, Media:Foto01thumb.JPG,
            Media:Foto1.jpg, Media:Foto1.jpg, Media:Foto2.jpg, Media:Foto2.jpg, Media:Foto2pqna.jpg, Media:Foto3.jpg,
            Media:Imagem1.jpg, Media:Imagem2.jpg, Media:Imagem3.jpg, Media:Imagem4.jpg, Media:Imagem5.jpg,
            Media:Imagem6.jpg, Media:Imagem7.jpg, Media:Imagem8.jpg, Media:Imagem9.jpg, Media:Porto alegre.jpg,
            Media:Ruler yellow horizontal.jpg, Media:Ruler yellow horizontal.jpg, Media:Villa cardal.jpg,
            Media:Wall clock.jpg, Media:Windup alarm clock.jpg, Media:WiXiDelyricSampleSurvive.jpg, and Media:XOHeadGaladima.jpg.
* 26 .png Media:Activity Rule screenshot 1.png, Media:Activity Rule screenshot 2.png, Media:Activity Rule screenshot 3.png,
            Media:Activity Rule screenshot 4.png, Media:Cc-by-80x15.png, Media:Cc-by-nc-80x15.png, Media:Cc-by-nc-nd-80x15.png,
            Media:Cc-by-nc-sa-80x15.png, Media:Cc-by-nd-80x15.png, Media:Cc-by-sa-80x15.png, Media:Crystal 128 fonts.png,
            Media:Git-logo transparent.png, Media:Noia 64 apps clock.png, Media:Nuvola apps edu miscellaneous.png,
            Media:Nuvola apps kworldclock.png, Media:OLPC+cymacyma+realchild.png, Media:Teste.png, Media:Teste2432.png,
            Media:Wikiversity-logo.png, Media:WiXi2500.png, Media:WiXi30K.png, Media:WiXiInterTwext333.png,
            Media:WixiMenu.png, Media:WiXiTwextDataBig.png, Media:WiXiXcrollNarrow.png, and Media:WiXIXcrollNarrow.png.
*  3 .svg Media:Cc.logo.circle.svg, Media:Heckert GNU white.svg, and Media:PD-icon.svg.

2 files:
*  1 .bin Media:Usb8388-5.110.7.p0.bin.
*  1 .pdf Media:OLPC Mesh Test Cases Marvell.pdf.

==== Maintenance  ====

19 pages were moved: 100 Laptop TestPlan, Actualizador del XO, Chinese, Setup and Supplies, Talk:100 Laptop TestPlan,
    Talk:WWWorkshop Shannon, Template talk:XO box, Template:Userboxbottom, Template:Userboxbreak, Template:Userboxtop,
    Template:XO box, Template:XO box2, Template:XO source, Tests - Connectivity and Collaboration, Tests/Setup and Supplies,
    Tradução de Atividades, User talk:Sj/xoxo, User:Sj/xoxo, and WWWorkshop Shannon.
11 pages were deleted, mostly containing spam.
37 IPs were blocked during the past week. All indicates that they are bots. We should expect a
   new round of these kind of editions after the previous 2 week banning period is ending, so we
   should consider an upgrading the blocking period to 3 months (hopefully after that time some of
   the zombie machines will have been reformatted).
   We did have some patterns that may allow some kind of smarter blocking:
       200.83.4.3 / 200.83.4.4 / 200.83.4.5 / 200.83.4.6
       203.162.27.90 / 203.162.27.93
 3 pages were protected — basically dealing with Point-of-view gun used to try to stop editions in
   pages not supposed to exist in the wiki but are frequently created for spamming purposes.

xoxo #2

18:22, 13 July 2007 (EDT), tags: cbc, java, intel, col, SoCon, php

as the code freeze deadline draws near (it's now a few hours away),
developers break into spontaneous fits of poetry on #olpc-content (read the original poem first)
   The night is calling me to sleep,
   but gtk, it made me weep.
   I've files to code before I sleep.
   And tubes to code before they're neat.

there are opportunities to help clean up the wiki!  beefing up the style guide,
improving special:recentchanges and other system messages (eg MediaWiki:Noarticletext),
revisiting categorization, and integrating sister wikis (olpcaustria, wikieducator).
come by #olpc-content and talk with mitchellncharity, mchua, xavi, and sj. 
advice, and comments in general, are welcome.

wiki blocking: you can block IP ranges with, e.g., 
  200.83.4.6/28 (to mask the last 32-28 = 4 bits, so you block 16 addresses) or 
  203.162.27.90/30 (to mask 32-30=2 bits, blocking 2 addresses)
please be very careful blocking ranges or IPs for that matter, particularly given 
nature of dynamic IPs; don't block ranges for nearly as long as you would a single user,
and try to avoid any blocks of longer than a week.  [That said, blocked users can see
the email of the blocking admin, so you may get email from people unfairly blocked]
See Wikipedia's approach to understand the possible results of blocking.

Content jams : user:mackiwg & the commonwealth of learning agreed to co-run a pilot 
Summer of Content 2007 season with OLPC.  final comments welcome on the proposed process

Cambridge Brewing Company : groups from OLPC regularly close them out; festivities followed by 
wine & dancing earlier this wek.  who knew there were so many dancers in the office?  
Bernie managed to demo screencaps while dancing.

A first round of templating and clarifying content sources for regular content 
releases produced a page of notes on content packages.  this will be 
revisited next week.

the startpage on the XO browser now has a spanish interface and 
loads a main page that can search Google and links directly to the Activity Grid for 
downloading new activities.

There is a new Stopwatch activity.  Hopefully I'll have a chance to tubify it before T-2 freeze.
If anyone needs (poorly working) drag-around-able pygtk widgets, it has one.  Help welcome. :)

130ish million births per year, call it about the same entering primary school, fudge by spreading them uniformly across the year...
300 thousand kids entered primary school today.
bad primary schools
That's why we're here.