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=Laptop News 2007-11-24=
1. Testing: The latest wireless firmware and associated patches to fix the WLAN hang bug (Ticket #4470) were the focus of much of our testing efforts this week. We are also very busy testing the candidate for Ship.2, using a 1-hour “smoke test” with some additional concentration on the browser.


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
2. Schedules: We have slipped Update1, but only for stabilization purposes, not for new features.


This page historically hosted announcements and news about OLPC, along with the Sugar Labs [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Current_Events '''current events'''] page.
3. Sugar: Marco Pesenti Gritti fixed a few regressions: a memory leak when switching between activities (2 MB per switch), screen rotation, compatibility of the Sugar shell with “raw” X applications and a few other smaller bugs. He spent time reviewing patches and triaging tickets. Tomeu Vizoso also worked on bug fixing in Sugar, the Journal and the DataStore. Simon Schampijer spent the week testing and detecting regressions, mainly with the clipboard (Ticket #5089). Simon also worked on a schema for activities that process data that originates
in another activity (Ticket #4909).


== Upcoming pieces ==
Reinier Herres landed numerous bug fixes in Joyride. These are mostly bugs related to the palette (Tickets #4515 and #4887) and the search field in the Mesh View and Journal (Ticket #4311). The “unfull-screen” button that was implemented for the Browse activity is moving to sugar.graphics.Window, making this a standard behavior for all activities. Reinier made a temporary patch to remove activities from the donut again if they fail to launch (Ticket #4612); he is working on improving the feedback to the user while unmounting volumes (Ticket #2630). Reinier implemented support for rational numbers in Calculate.
; Claudia
: Learning Chat piece: 278 words, ready now. [[File:Learning Chat.docx]]
: Making Learning Visible: Claudia's (& Walter) original is 25 pages. Submitted to a journal. w/o OLPC Background it is down to 12-15 pages w/ screenshots.
: This can become a 4-part series.
; Antonio: Homo docens: 500+ words, Antonio approved my edits. [[File:Homo docens JLedits.docx]]
: Further work: we can definitely ask him to contribute on a quarterly basis but I've found that I have to be very specific as to what I am asking to do and he has to be comfortable that it is consistent with his academic work.
: Ask for a new piece on the epidemiology of learning
; Rodrigo:
: [[Ometepe]] - A beautiful piece with wonderful images. RAH posted a personal and lengthy version (1500+ words) that he shared with his private distribution list. I made an edited version (1200 words) that could be shared publicly. Must check with RAH on this. [[File:Ometepe articulo por Rodrigo Arboleda.pdf]] [[File:Ometepe by Rodrigo Arboleda (3).pdf]]
: I had hoped that we could do a video series with Rodrigo but the budget hasn't been approved. Giulia - can we get an answer on this?
; Rwanda:
: Rwanda case studies
: Ceri Whatley - summary of importance of headmasters - confirm subset to reuse
: Social mapping project - 1- or 2-part piece - check w/ Julia
: Grandmother project - 2- or 3-part piece - check w/ Julia (and is there more to that awesome series?)
; Other Africa
: So. Africa case studies
; Peru and Uruguay:
: ''Oscar B's piece on the IADB study?''
: You said that Uruguay and Peru produce a ton of content on a continuous basis. I'm struggling a bit with how we can easily get the content and translate it into English. Giulia - could Olga help? I don't want to burden her with more work. Maybe we do this every 2-3 months.
; Other LatAm:
: Colombia: Sandra's quarterly? newsletter and website could feed into this. Plus english translations.
: Nicaragua: Regular update, beyond Ometepe?
: Paraguay: Contact [[ParaguayEduca]]
: Mexico: Ask Mariana @ OLPCMexico
; OLPC Australia: Great text and videos.
; OLPC Europe: Quarterly update from them?
; OLPC Oceania: Quarterly updates from Mike Hutak
; OLPC Jamaica: Quarterly update from Sameer, good videos.
; North America
: Miami - David! and a story from Chester
: Canada - Jennifer Martino, Q


== News archives ==
4. Browse: Thanks to all the people who helped fix a bug in the browser that prevented access to T-Mobile hotspots (Ticket #4280): Marco Presenti Gritti, Simon Schampijer, Chris Ball, Jim Gettys, and the Firefox developer team at Mozilla, including Chris Blizzard, Mike
Schroepfer, Kai Engert, Mike Beltzner, Johnathan Nightingale, and Dave Camp. The Mozilla guys have been awesome; consequently we have an easy workaround for the issue.


'''[http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/ Weekly OLPC News postings]''' to the community-news mailing list give updates on recent work. Weekly summaries were also posted on-wiki during [[OLPC:News/2008|2008]]. Weekly postings to the list were put on hold at the start of 2009, and started again in 2010.
5. Translation: Sayamindu Dasgupta and Xavi Alvarez have Pootle fully open for translation and they have git integration almost working (translators will be able to directly commit their work to the master repository at http://dev.laptop.org). We have seen some intense activity for quite a few languages; for example, the Hindi team has completed nearly 100% of XO Core, Terminology, and Packaging in the past week. We also saw a number of new languages getting added, including Bengali, Dzongkha, and Persian.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
Sayamindu fixed a bug in Sugar that caused PO files to be merged when “setup.py genpot” is called (Ticket #4995). Separating the updating of the POT files from PO files will presumably cause less confusion among translators. Sayamindu helped setup support for localization for the Watch and Listen activity. Reinier tokenized internationalization of the help descriptions in Calculate.
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]


=== Translations ===
6. Updater: C. Scott Ananian continued work on making olpc-update more robust and user-friendly—the Libertas wireless improvements
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
integrating have helped in regard to robustness. A new wrapper around olpc-update, called olpc-update-query, asks a central server what build a laptop should be running, and runs an update if necessary (olpc-update-query is being run in a cron job in joyride builds; stay tuned to devel@ for instructions on how to subscribe to one of the streams at https://activation.laptop.org/streams/).
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
7. Scott also wrote a patch to olpc-utils to make requesting a developer key easy (Ticket #4271). This patch still requires some help from to make it into the builds in a useful fashion (Please see [http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/olpc-utils-tmp;a=commit;h=5377149e8a326d1120f36669697561ac47ef83b9]).
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].


== Sugar news ==
Marco wrote some scripts to automatically build git snapshots for Joyride (using mock). Tomeu Vizoso wrote test cases so we detect more easily when we break compatibility with the current release.
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.


== Press ==
8. X Window System: Bernardo Innocenti tried to improve upon his fix for the the “double mouse click” bug, but eventually gave up and rolled an updated kernel containing only the one liner workaround. He will investigate this further after the frenzy around Ship.2. Bernie made numerous improvements to olpc-utils, including support for determining the XKB settings from the new mfg-data tags. He migrated the xkeyboard-config RPM in Koji; Dennis Gilmore helped with the merging some more X11 packages. As a result, the number of rogue packages has been reduced considerably. Bernie iterated over his bug list and closed a number of internationalization- and keyboard-related tickets that he had been deferring because the higher priority bugs were always taking precedence.
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].


== Past announcements ==
9. Presence service: Guillaume Desmottes fixed a regression in the Presence Service (PS) involving a timeout waiting for the roster to be sent over the network (Ticket #4896); he fixed a bug in Salut regarding bad handles (Ticket #5015); he modified the PS to accept subscriptions coming only from trusted servers (Ticket #4993); and he checked the status of PS patches in Update.1, enabling him to close out a number of tickets. He implemented Activity.ListChannels in the PS and wrote a Sugar patch using this new API (Ticket #5079). Guillaume also began chasing down activities that still are using the old sharing API and that don't catch TypeError when calling get_preferred_connection; he is filling in more “could you use new sugar sharing API” tickets. Finally, he began an investigation into ejabberd's external component system.
Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's ''pro bono'' PR firm.


* 2008-08-06 : [[Media:OLPC-Asia.doc|One Laptop per Child expands its presence in Asia]] with project leads in India and China
Sjoerd Simons performed simulations and tests with Salut and worked on some fixes for problems that those turned up there.
* 2008-05-20 : [[Media:XO-2-preview.doc|One Laptop per Child frames the next generation of the revolutionary XO laptop]], with a lighter dual-touchscreen design.
* 2008-05-15 : [[Media:XP-on-XO.doc|Microsoft Windows XP is now available on the XO laptop]]
* 2008-05-03 : [[Media:Kane-appointment.doc|One Laptop per Child appoints Charles Kane as President and Chief Operating Officer]]
* 2008-01-07 : [[Media:G1G1-results.doc|One Laptop per Child Giving Campaign Raises $35 Million]] in 2007
* 2007-12-12 : [http://www.smartbrief.com/news/aaaa/industryPR-detail.jsp?id=2FDAB6BE-AE3B-482F-A7B0-6570C75397E4 ''The Kite Runner'' Inspires Gift Through One Laptop]
* 2007-12-05 : [[Media:Peru-OLPC.doc|Peru launches OLPC with 40,000 laptops]], starting with one-classroom schools across the country.
* 2007-12-04 : [[Media:Birmingham-OLPC.doc|Birmingham, Alabama commits to One Laptop per Child]], with a pilot of 15,000 laptops across the city.
* 2007-11-24 : [http://www.50x15.com/en-us/sol_results_xo.aspx The Holiday Season Starts with Giving One Laptop]
* 2007-10-29 : [[Media:Uruguay-launch.doc|OLPC wins a bid to provide 100,000 laptops to children in Uruguay]], to be overseen by the Uruguayan CEIBAL project
* 2007-10-22 : [http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20071022005302/en One Laptop per Child creates the world's "greenest" laptop computer]
* 2007-06-11 : [[Media:Mass-production.doc|Mass Production of XO's begins!]] at Quanta's Chinese facilities.
* 2007-01-03 : [http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20070103005194/en OLPC Announces First-of-Its-Kind User Interface for XO Laptop Computer]


Morgan Collett is testing sharing within Rainbow; he chased down issues with Buddy Handle tracking in the PS (Ticket #4920). He worked with Simon and Guillaume on Chat's handling of URLs (within Rainbow we cannot launch Browse directly—the workaround is to use the clipboard (Ticket #5080).


10. Power management: Chris Ball continued to improve our power manager: it now checks to see whether the Linux tty console is active before deciding to suspend; it turns off wake-on-wireless when in “sleep” mode; and has better alarm handling. Next up is inhibiting suspend-on-idle when the CPU is extremely busy.


[[Category:OLPC]]
=More News=
Laptop News is archived [http://laptop.media.mit.edu/laptopnews.nsf here] and [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/ here].

You can subscribe to the OLPC community-news mailing list by visiting the [http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/community-news laptop.org mailman site].

Press requests: please send email to press@racepointgroup.com

=[[Milestones]]=
Latest milestones:
{{:Milestones}} <!-- Translators, you can either include the english version or the translated version -- it does NOT work with redirects -->
All milestones can be found [[Milestones|here]].


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=[[PRESS|Press]]=
You can subscribe to the OLPC community-news mailing list by visiting the [http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/community-news laptop.org mailman site].
{{:Press}}
More articles can be found [[Press|here]].

=[[Video of the OLPC | Video]]=
Miscellaneous videos of the laptop can be found [[Video of the OLPC|here]].

* A collection of several videos can found at [http://www.olpc.tv OLPC.TV]
* IBM Podcast, Walter Bender on One Laptop per Child [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int042407.html]
* Ivan Krstić delivers a [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4285568518538296189 technical presentation of OLPC] at the Google TechTalk series
*60 Minutes, What if Every Child had a Laptop [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/20/60minutes/main2830058.shtml]
*CNN, Should Intel Fear $100 Laptop? [http://money.cnn.com/services/video/]
*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/07/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-04/ Episode Four]
*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/06/08/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-03/ Episode Three]
*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/04/25/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-02/ Episode Two]
*Red Hat Magazine: Inside One Laptop per Child, [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/03/23/inside-one-laptop-per-child-episode-one/ Episode One]
* OLPC [http://www.sf.tv/var/videoplayer.php?videourl=http%3A%2F%2Freal.xobix.ch%2Framgen%2Fsfdrs%2F10vor10%2F2007%2F10vor10_26012007.rm%3Fstart%3D0%3A05%3A20.498%26amp%3Bend%3D0%3A09%3A50.738 Video from Switzerland], 26.01.2007
*Interview with Nicholas Negroponte [http://www.acm.org/pubs/cie/jan2006/clips/nicholas_negroponte.mov on the &100 Laptop]
*Presentation by Jim Gettys at [http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/03/07/one-laptop-per-child/ FOSDEM 2007]
*GLOBO- BRASIL: Crianças testam computador portátil/ [http://video.globo.com/Videos/Player/Noticias/0,,GIM607884-7823-CRIANCAS+TESTAM+COMPUTADOR+PORTATIL,00.html Students test the laptop]
*Mark Foster delivers presentation to [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/061004-ee380-300.asx Stanford University]
* Technology Review [http://www.technologyreview.com/video/laptop Mini-Documentary]
* A Brief [http://www.radiofarda.com/Article/2007/01/04/f2_Interview-laptop.html Demo]

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Upcoming pieces

Claudia
Learning Chat piece: 278 words, ready now. File:Learning Chat.docx
Making Learning Visible: Claudia's (& Walter) original is 25 pages. Submitted to a journal. w/o OLPC Background it is down to 12-15 pages w/ screenshots.
This can become a 4-part series.
Antonio
Homo docens: 500+ words, Antonio approved my edits. File:Homo docens JLedits.docx
Further work: we can definitely ask him to contribute on a quarterly basis but I've found that I have to be very specific as to what I am asking to do and he has to be comfortable that it is consistent with his academic work.
Ask for a new piece on the epidemiology of learning
Rodrigo
Ometepe - A beautiful piece with wonderful images. RAH posted a personal and lengthy version (1500+ words) that he shared with his private distribution list. I made an edited version (1200 words) that could be shared publicly. Must check with RAH on this. File:Ometepe articulo por Rodrigo Arboleda.pdf File:Ometepe by Rodrigo Arboleda (3).pdf
I had hoped that we could do a video series with Rodrigo but the budget hasn't been approved. Giulia - can we get an answer on this?
Rwanda
Rwanda case studies
Ceri Whatley - summary of importance of headmasters - confirm subset to reuse
Social mapping project - 1- or 2-part piece - check w/ Julia
Grandmother project - 2- or 3-part piece - check w/ Julia (and is there more to that awesome series?)
Other Africa
So. Africa case studies
Peru and Uruguay
Oscar B's piece on the IADB study?
You said that Uruguay and Peru produce a ton of content on a continuous basis. I'm struggling a bit with how we can easily get the content and translate it into English. Giulia - could Olga help? I don't want to burden her with more work. Maybe we do this every 2-3 months.
Other LatAm
Colombia: Sandra's quarterly? newsletter and website could feed into this. Plus english translations.
Nicaragua: Regular update, beyond Ometepe?
Paraguay: Contact ParaguayEduca
Mexico: Ask Mariana @ OLPCMexico
OLPC Australia
Great text and videos.
OLPC Europe
Quarterly update from them?
OLPC Oceania
Quarterly updates from Mike Hutak
OLPC Jamaica
Quarterly update from Sameer, good videos.
North America
Miami - David! and a story from Chester
Canada - Jennifer Martino, Q

News archives

Weekly OLPC News postings to the community-news mailing list give updates on recent work. Weekly summaries were also posted on-wiki during 2008. Weekly postings to the list were put on hold at the start of 2009, and started again in 2010.

Archives: 2005-2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009-10

Translations

Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:

German | Spanish | Japanese | Korean

OLPC videos

For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see olpc.tv and OLPC:Videos.

Sugar news

Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development on his blog.

Press

For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the 2005-2008 press archives.

Past announcements

Developed through 2011 by the Racepoint Group, OLPC's pro bono PR firm.

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