User talk:AuntiMame

Art and such

Hiya, your art looks fantastic! I'd love for you to get involved in Community:Art - there are a lot of open art projects at Art Wanted that could use a little love. Feel free to ping me if you have any questions or comments.

--Nikki 18:35, 10 February 2008 (EST)

Tue Feb 26

Hello Diane,

The group would be welcome at our offices Tuesday after hours, say some time after 5:30. How many people do you expect? It helps us to have names in advance that we can leave for the desk downstairs. --Sj talk 15:53, 18 February 2008 (EST)

sj, I don't know the total count and names yet, but last month there was about 15 people. I will get the info to you ASAP.--AuntiMame 15:54, 18 Feb 2008

Shirt screening

Depends on what we want to do - I've done events that involved silkscreening, and it's not generally a one day process. You have to prepare the screens ahead of time, get ahold of shirts, screen them, let them dry, and then distribute them. I'd also be careful with multicolored designs, since lining screens up can be tricky. However, if we get a small number of designs and people want to make shirts for themselves, that would be doable.

--Nikki 15:06, 19 February 2008 (EST)

"includeonly" categories in templates

So that the template does not get listed as a "boston area user", but everyone who includes that template on their userpage does, there is a category that is bracketed within "< includeonly >" tags. You left the Category: out of its title. here's the diff. --Sj talk 15:21, 27 February 2008 (EST)

Next Boston meetup?

Hi Diane, I'm talking to Rachel Hunt who is planning a service trip for her scohol to Costa Rica in mid-April and thinking about bringing some XOs along. She'd like to get input from the community and from people who have their own ideas, or have brought their XOs into local schools. If there's a boston meetup before April 12 or so that would be perfect; otherwise perhaps we could get a few interested people together... what do you think? --Sj talk 17:25, 23 March 2008 (EDT)

XO Repair Shops -- graphical guidelines / icons / templates

You are good at this! (Just from looking at your user page).
And in some email of yours to some mailing list I believe I saw you mention your affinity to hardware / repair / spare parts (you also mentioned a web shop).
Could you please click on Art_wanted and have a look at the new XO Repair Shop line item?
The Birmingham Shop will be opening for business on April 21st. The last conference call with Adam indicated that there will be more comming and all could benefit from some corporate design elements.

Stefan 13:30, 27 March 2008 (EDT)

Thank you, your work got incorporated. You may want to give

This user runs an XO Repair Shop.

a trial run in your olpc userbox section. Adapt as you like. Here you can find a sample flyer.
Stefan 22:54, 4 May 2008 (EDT)

ILXO

We're looking for space in the Chicagoland area - any ideas or tips on how to find/negotiate-for a great short-term (3 month) lease? I'm new to this... Mchua 21:46, 12 May 2008 (EDT)

thanks for cleaning up wad's speech!

I was way too tired of staring at my screen afterwards to go back and catch typos, so thanks for doing that. :) Mchua 22:23, 22 May 2008 (EDT)

interested in stocking parts?

Thanks for the offer, Diane! Can you put that info into the survey so we have it all in one place when Adam, Kim, and I go through things next week? Mchua 09:53, 23 May 2008 (EDT)

Getting a Boston Pilot Started

Hey Diane, I met you at the Cosi meet up tonight. Let me know when we can meet up towards the end of this week, or beginning of next week. Send me an email at firstname.lastname[at]yale.edu

francesca slade

dah! sorry for the typo.

Thanks for correcting the name. ;) It's been a long, long day... Mchua 10:03, 10 June 2008 (EDT)

One Velociraptor Per Child

Can you get shirts printed with the OVPC design on them? It's becoming quite popular, and a lot of people have shown interest (the ILXO office is pretty unanimously interested, for starters).

--Nikki 21:13, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

vandal-bot

Looks to me like a bot that looked at recent changes and hit the talk and user pages on any recent editor. In any event, that IP is blocked for now and all vandalism is un-done. Cjl 17:19, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Source?

What did you create those PDF's in? It would be nice to have your source doc's so they could be more easily edited. Inkscape? Seth 12:44, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

XFCE on XO

I saw that your friend that you're setting up dual boot with was looking for XFCE. (Keith?). The latest joyrides actually include XFCE as well as Sugar. This is really new as of something like 2230. Which is pretty exciting news IMO. Seth 07:21, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Actually it's the faster builds with XFCE, not joyride. --morgs 12:11, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

08/08/2008 - StarChart documentation page changes

I see you made some changes to the StarChart activity documentation page StarChart. It appears that the result didn't quite go as planned: in addition to a nicely-formatted form, there's a lot of "trash" just above it.

Is this supposed to be a new style for activiy documentation? Is there a "user guide" for this?

09/03/2008 - Solitare for the XO

I use PySol on my XO. It provides a number of games, but I find FreeCell the most addictive. It's not Sugar-coated, but it runs fine from Terminal. It's a little tricky to install because it needs a library. Instructions:

• drop to Terminal
• #su -l
• #yum install libtk8.4.so
• #yum install PySolFC

Then when you want to play,

• drop to Terminal
• #PySol

bot assisted categorization, 7c

you may want to use something like Twinkle to help you make bulk edits... and you may want to set up a bot account for doiong these sorts of updates if it becomes a habit. --Sj talk 02:30, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, you can install twinkle js libraries to help you edit... I don't think they are bots, that was just a misread. Getting an account marked as a bot just takes a request at OLPC:requests, at which point its edits are hidden by default from RC. --Sj talk

More on categorization: you should pop into wikimedia commons and see why they don't use their format categories like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Image_formats very much... also, you may want to unify naming conventions with them for ease of sharing. --Sj talk 17:23, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

janitorship approved

Dear Aunti, you are now a bonafide wikijannitor. Congrats; please keep an eye on the admins page and use your mop and bucket in good faith. --Sj talk 08:48, 14 September 2008 (UTC)