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Drew: I am John Stout in Denver Colorado, email johnstout@aol.com. My questions may not be of interest to your chatroom, so it may be best to reply to this address.
== Wish list ==


Apparently you have several XO users in the Seattle area. Did they buy theirs through last year's G1G1 program as I did? I have heard there is now a "GiveSome/GetSome" program. Can we designate where these XOs will go? And can we order less than blocks of 100?
=== My Neighborhood restructuring ===
I don't know any XO users in Denver. I have two XOs, but I have a group of earth scientists who are interested to invest in a critical mass of a dozen more XOs for training K-12 kids in Colorado. Can you advise me or do you know of a contact in Denverwho will help us?


My Brother-in-law lived on Bainbridge Island for years until he passed away late last fall. We plan another trip out there sometime next fall.
Structure My Neighborhood into zones. Want to be able to easily see
things of interest. Not yet thought whether this needs tweaking to
harmonize it with the Human Interface Guidlines


John Stout
*'''Connection Zone'''
Adjunct Associate Professor of Geology
**Access points and mesh networks compactly displayed in a small corner of the display.
Colorado School of Mines, Golden

*'''Radio Zone'''
**Folks in the G1G1 community want to see strangers who appear in their physical neigborhood.

*'''Internet Community Zon'''e
**Students with a local mesh communities need to clearly see guests who are joining the from remote locations.

Hmm. Could create filters for all of the above.

*'''Filter Zone''' hides folks
**not participating in any activity
**not participating in an activity I'm sharing
**not a member of a group I belong to
**not a member of specific group
**etc.

Distinguish these zones using
*Shading of the background
*Spatial arrangement

=== Learning Communities ===

organized by:

*Geographic regions
*Age groups
*XO activity
*Language
*Curricular Topics
*Project
*Keyword
*etc.

==== Packages from jani's personal archive ====

I distilled the following '''Gutsy Gibbon 7.10: command line''' example
from his posts in a Dec 29 OLPC emulation NEED LINK thread on the sugar mail list.
We need similar incantations for other tools and operating systems.
Adding '''Gutsy Gibbon 7.10: Synaptic Package Manager'''

Add jani's "repository" to your list of package sources.

Using your favorite editor add two lines to the file /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jani/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jani/ubuntu gutsy main

you also need to be sure that gutsy-updates is enabled, so make sure this line
is uncommented in the file:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted universe

Hmm!! I have:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

not the same syntax and it enables the multiverse, too! I don't recall the provenance of my sources.list file, lots of things have been added for multimedia,
etc.

Gutsy: Command line

update the packages list:

sudo apt-get update

then install the whole environment with

sudo apt-get install sugar-emulator sugar-activities

Gutsy: Synaptic Package Manager

click the reload button

search for "sugar" (name and description) using Synaptic Package Manager,
check sugar-emulator and sugar-activities most everything else is selected to
satisfy dependencies. You may see other sugar activities you want to check.

note: In either case the update or reload takes a long time. Lots of failures NEED to understand and cleanup my sources.list.

look through the comments of jani's blog entries

http://janimo.blogspot.com/2007/11/try-sugar-xo-laptops-interface.html
https://edge.launchpad.net/~jani/+archive

remember there were some comments about additional packages that
needed to be installed for use on ubuntu. Maybe the ones indicated as prerequisites in the sugar-jhbuild instructions below.

== My School Server ==

my own school server
I have downloaded OLPC_XS_LATEST.iso

would be great if there were service providers for most of the below

=== Services ===

==== Presence ====
We want to be part of larger community.

Presence service doesn't scale well.
See OLPC News (Excerpts)

Will the scaling issues be solved, and
will there be large servers to support the entire G1G1 community?

Or, will smaller communities have to form to spread out the load?

If so individual laptops will need connect to multiple presence servers?

In the meantime we are getting presence service from [http://xochat.org xochat.org]

==== Backup ====

on local server for privacy?

==== Library/Publishing ====

hierarchy:
school, district, region, country, global.

community based:
different levels of peer and/or expert review.

what libraries will the G1G1 community have access to?

==== Cache ====

bandwidth:
*Have cable modem in MX,
*Qwest ISDN in New Mexico, US.
*cache might help even with only a couple users over a congested 128K link.
*probably put school server at friend's with cable modem.
*no bottleneck when all laptops are connecting via dsl or better.

Latest revision as of 18:29, 19 April 2008

Drew: I am John Stout in Denver Colorado, email johnstout@aol.com. My questions may not be of interest to your chatroom, so it may be best to reply to this address.

Apparently you have several XO users in the Seattle area. Did they buy theirs through last year's G1G1 program as I did? I have heard there is now a "GiveSome/GetSome" program. Can we designate where these XOs will go? And can we order less than blocks of 100?

I don't know any XO users in Denver. I have two XOs, but I have a group of earth scientists who are interested to invest in a critical mass of a dozen more XOs for training K-12 kids in Colorado. Can you advise me or do you know of a contact in Denverwho will help us?

My Brother-in-law lived on Bainbridge Island for years until he passed away late last fall. We plan another trip out there sometime next fall.

John Stout Adjunct Associate Professor of Geology Colorado School of Mines, Golden

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