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This is a place to discuss and organize a community newsletter. <br/>
See [[Talk:Xoxo]] for ideas on things you can add; or see the [[/Archive 1|archives]]
See [[OLPC talk:Xoxo]] for ideas on things you can add; or see the [[/Archive 1|archives]].
You may also find [[user:Xavi|Xavi]]'s [[Xoxo/Statistics|weekly statistics]] useful (or interesting).

See also [[Weekly_zine]] and [[daily mail]].


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== xoxo #0 ==
{{xoxo-head
|date=18:22, 30 June 2007 (EDT)
|tags=
|}}

=== Ideas ===
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_ads <tt><nowiki>{{Wikipedia ads}}</nowiki></tt>-like] wanted!

=== [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent Changes]] ===
This is an '''experimental''' report on the [[Special:Recentchanges]]. Suggestions are welcome.
# Several [[:Category:Test Plans|Test Plans]] have been added to several [[:Category:Activity|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]]
==== [{{fullurl:Special:Log|type=upload}} 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]]
==== [[Special:Log|Maintenance]] ====
3 pages were [{{fullurl:Special:Log|type=move}} moved]: [[Kuku Activity Test Plan]], [[Gnu General Public License]] & [[OLPC wikis]]
8 pages were [{{fullurl:Special:Log|type=delete}} deleted], mostly containing friendly (but out of place) messages.
9 IPs were [{{fullurl:Special:Log|type=block}} 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 ==
{{xoxo-head
|date=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 {{tl|ticket}} allowing a short way to reference tickets: {{ticket|1}}.

=== game and curriculum jams ===
[[User:mchua|mchua]] has been working on plans for [[Game Jams|game]] and other [[Curriculum Jams|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'' &mdash; 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.

=== [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent Changes]] ===
This is an experimental report on the [[Special:Recentchanges]] for the week ending July 8.
Suggestions (and scripting help) are welcome: contact [[User:Xavi|Xavi]].
==== Editions ====
Almost 2200 editions this week (1670 actual editions)
* 580 minor edits (37 user space; 30 templates; 26 talk pages)
* Various edits <span style="font-size:80%">
[[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)</span>
* 522 new pages
** 376 in the [[XO Korea]] branch.
** 30 new categories (mostly dealing with language fluency levels) <span style="font-size:80%">
[[: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]].</span>
** 40+ new templates; mainly dealing with [[Olpcboxes]] and [[:Category:OBX templates]]
==== [{{fullurl:Special:Log|type=upload}} Uploaded] ====
We have 68 new files in the wiki.
66 images:
* 9 .gif <span style="font-size:80%">[[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]].</span>
* 28 .jpg <span style="font-size:80%">[[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]].</span>
* 26 .png <span style="font-size:80%">[[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]].</span>
* 3 .svg <span style="font-size:80%">[[Media:Cc.logo.circle.svg]], [[Media:Heckert GNU white.svg]], and [[Media:PD-icon.svg]].</span>
2 files:
* 1 .bin <span style="font-size:80%">[[Media:Usb8388-5.110.7.p0.bin]].</span>
* 1 .pdf <span style="font-size:80%">[[Media:OLPC Mesh Test Cases Marvell.pdf]].</span>
==== [[Special:Log|Maintenance]] ====
19 pages were [{{fullurl:Special:Log|type=move}} moved]: <span style="font-size:80%">[[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]].</span>
11 pages were [{{fullurl:Special:Log|type=delete}} deleted], mostly containing spam.
37 IPs were [{{fullurl:Special:Log|type=block}} 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 [{{fullurl:Special:Log|type=protected}} protected] &mdash; 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 ==
{{xoxo-head
|date=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 [http://www.ketzle.com/frost/snowyeve.htm 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 [[User:MitchellNCharity|mitchellncharity]], [[User:mchua|mchua]], [[User:xavi|xavi]], and [[User:sj|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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_IP_addresses Wikipedia's approach] to understand the [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6224677.stm 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.


== Invitation to participate ==
A first round of templating and clarifying content sources for regular content
Those of you who are already forming your own groups, please feel free to
releases produced a page of notes on [[content packages]]. this will be
write about what you are doing on the current talk page there:
revisited next week.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:xoxo
We could use interested people who have time to summarize what's going on
in the world of OLPC each week
- irc chans*,
- mailing lists*,
- the blogosphere and media**,
- updates from trial schools via their own blogs**


* mainly english so far, but other languages are growing
the startpage on the XO browser now has [[Localization/Library|a spanish interface]] and
** in various languages
loads a main page that can search Google and links directly to the [[Activity Grid]] for
downloading new activities.


== Participants==
There is a new [[Stopwatch]] activity. Hopefully I'll have a chance to tubify it before T-2 freeze.
Please add your name here if you are interested in editing, translating, illustrating, or otherwise contributing to the news.
If anyone needs (poorly working) drag-around-able pygtk widgets, it has one. Help welcome. :)


* --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9" style="font-size:70%">leave me a message</font>]] 18:12, 4 January 2008 (EST)
* [[User:Sethwoodworth|is for Insects]] 18:18, 4 January 2008 (EST)
* [[User:AaronKaplan|AaronKaplan]] 18:26, 4 January 2008 (EST)
* [[User:ChristophD|ChristophD]] 11:05, 5 January 2008 (EST)
* ...


== Tasks ==
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Some of the outstanding tasks include:


== xoxo #3 ==
{{xoxo-head
|date=18:22, 30 July 2007 (EDT)
|tags=
|}}


[[category:community]]
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[[category:news]]

Latest revision as of 03:27, 26 November 2008

XOXO : regular love and community updates

This is a place to discuss and organize a community newsletter.
See OLPC talk:Xoxo for ideas on things you can add; or see the archives. You may also find Xavi's weekly statistics useful (or interesting).

See also Weekly_zine and daily mail.


Invitation to participate

Those of you who are already forming your own groups, please feel free to write about what you are doing on the current talk page there: 

    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:xoxo

We could use interested people who have time to summarize what's going on in the world of OLPC each week 

-  irc chans*,
-  mailing lists*,
-  the blogosphere and media**,
-  updates from trial schools via their own blogs**
  • mainly english so far, but other languages are growing
    • in various languages

Participants

Please add your name here if you are interested in editing, translating, illustrating, or otherwise contributing to the news.

Tasks

Some of the outstanding tasks include:

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