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=Laptop News 2008-04-26=


For coverage of recent OLPC updates, see our [[twitter]] feed and [http://blog.laptop.org OLPC blog].
==Tech Team in Deployments==
In Montevideo two weeks ago, team Ceibal and Martin Langhoff worked together for two days. Focus was on mapping a road to convergence with the NOC that looks after School servers, and better communication with 1CC. The Ceibal team has significant depth of experience with XOs in the field, their lessons learned and effective scripts are gold.


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.
In Lima more than a week ago, Martin worked with the local team, fleshing out AP testing strategies, XS roadmap, and XS administration infrastructure.


== Upcoming pieces ==
John Watlington, in Peru this week, has been in discussion about school server specifications. It became clear once again that cheap, and environmentally robust school server hardware is a missing part of the OLPC system. Peru's previous experience with using traditional PC hardware in the jungle and the Andes was that the machines failed frequently, due to the heat. Listing the required environmental
; Claudia
requirements in the specifications results in a multiplication of the price. Complicating the process is the fact that most bidders are assembling the units from whatever components they have on hand, resulting in varying quality across the entire lot.
: 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 ==
==School Server==
Martin Langhoff reports lots of hacking around xs-config. He shaved all the yaks necessary to get portable xs-build actually building live CDs
successfully. PyAr programmers Alejandro Cura, Lucio Torre and Ricardo Quesada worked with Martin and held 2 XS-focused Sprints, working on idmgr (security and registration lag) and CDpedia (yet another wikipedia slicer). (2 weeks ago, catching up on weekend reports)


'''[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.
With Tomeu Visozo's help, XO-to-XS backups are finally moving forward. The XS image is seeing some progress in minor installation bugs.


Archives: [[OLPC:News/Archive 1|2005-2006]]
==Power==
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 2|2007]]
A build of the Multi-Battery Charger of 50 units is in the planning stages. The final few tweaks to the tooling are happening this week. It currently looks like this will happen the 2nd or 3 week in May.
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 3|2008]]
| [[OLPC:News/Archive 4|2009-10]]


=== Translations ===
Richard Smith, Scott Ananian, Andres Salomon, & Chris Ball discussed some possibilities for enhanced power management. Ideas are brewing, more structured planning should occur soon. Andres and Richard began to lay out the plan of attack for achieving the sub-200ms resume goal. Work will begin as soon as Andres is finished with his upstream kernel merge.
Sporadic translations of news archives from 2008 and earlier can be found here:
: [[OLPC:News/lang-de|German]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-es|Spanish]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ja|Japanese]] | [[OLPC:News/lang-ko|Korean]]


== [[OLPC:Videos|OLPC videos]] ==
Chris Ball began thinking about a user-selected low-power mode for the XO, to showcase our power management work, Trac #6935. This would be an "under the covers" mode where we prolong your battery life by any means necessary, including disabling networking (which is currently the major obstacle to pervasive power management all the time).
For a history of videos about OLPC and the XO, see [http://olpc.tv olpc.tv] and [[OLPC:Videos]].


==Software Development==
== Sugar news ==
Walter continues to post summaries of Sugar development '''[http://walterbender.org/?cat=3 on his blog]'''.
Eben Eliason cleaned up and pushed Journal redesigns, now in joyride, and worked with Martin Dengler on improving/adding devices to the Frame.


== Press ==
Scott Ananian spent some time this week assessing the technical viability of Sugar on Windows. Please look for his Mini-conference video postings at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Apr_3-4_Mini-conference. Also, he started gathering useful content from his FISL trip at
For an archive of OLPC media coverage, see the [[OLPC:Press/2005-2008|2005-2008 press archives]].
http://download.laptop.org/content/conf/20080417-fisl08/


== Past announcements ==
Chris Ball resurrected our Tinderbox tool, and told it all about the joyride, faster and update.1 build streams as well as how to build sugar-jhbuild regularly. Michael Stone began to outline some documentation for how volunteers can help us by running and improving it themselves at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tinderbox.
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
Michael Stone prepared rainbow patches allowing faster activity launching and sugarization. He submitted them for review to code review. He also reviewed backup bugs, then organized a software status meeting on datastore and backup bugs.
* 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]


There was much discussion this week on the mailing lists and in forums regarding OLPC's commitment to open source, transparency, and how to improve communications. Most of the team spent time working with the community, in discussion and in writing their own thoughts on how to move forward. There will be more discussions and a meeting with Nicholas next week when he is back in town.


Sayamindu Dasgupta took the existing Pootle user's Guide presentation created by Sameer Verma and updated it to reflect the new look and feel of our Pootle installation. He also added a few more slides, highlighting some of the special cases one might encounter while working on the translations, as well as some tricks that might make the translation easier. The slides are available at https://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pootleforxo2.odp and https://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pootleforxo2.pdf.


Simon Schampijer has been doing stabilizing work by cleaning the sugar code using pylint.

==Network/Collaboration--
Guillaume Desmottes ressurected the video-chat-activity and packaged the needed bits to make it work with current Joyride. It's far from
being perfect but it should be usable for simple tests (he successfully established audio/video calls between 2 XO's and between 1 XO and
Empathy). See http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/013227.html for details.

It appeared than some collaboration problems are due to ejabberd bugs. Need to contact Process-1 guys. Maybe we could add a "ejabberd" component to trac assigned to them?

Morgan Collett tested ejabberd installation instructions (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd) with Ubuntu 8.04. He also worked on Sugar in Ubuntu 8.04. He extended the HelloMesh collaboration example to send a simple text control over the Tube, with alerts to show what is happening. He fixed a bundlebuilder problem in Sugar introduced by the pylint patches and worked on Chat UI. Please send Morgan any collaboration-related news, or add it to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collaboration_Central.

Dafydd Harries worked on introductory documentation to Telepathy framework, helped Guillaume get started on working on Gadget, and began mentoring Assim in his Summer of Code project.

Dennis Gilmore reports that we can now submit activities for review. Fedora 9 has working support in GDM/KDM to log into sugar. Draft guidelines can be found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DennisGilmore/SugarActivityGuidelines. They will be moved to the final location very soon. This will offer a great platform for developing activities. it will also help sugar be more accessible to people. Please package and submit your activity. Please ask Dennis if you have questions.

==Testing==
John Watlington, in Peru this week, performed tests against different access points, while the Collaboration and Mesh Testbed in Peabody was dismantled and is in search for its new home. Two more low-cost access points (one from Linksys and one from DLink) have been tested against a classroom of fifty XOs, and seemed to perform fine.

Ricardo Carrano reports that tests with firmware 22.p10 during the week revealed that we seen to be free of #6589, but we still have issues with the multicast filter (new issues were found in the proposed path and addressed during the week). With a test kernel, we can now run firmware 22.p10 without problems in nodes were idle suspend is not active, but a suspended node still does not react as expected (it is incapable of detecting a new neighbor or shared activity). The next step is determining if there are issues in the firmware or if the driver patch is still not satisfactory.

He is attempting to build a clear view of current wireless issues and started a wiki page which focus on problems to be addressed in the libertas firmware or driver but which also lists other network-related issues like middleware, hardware, school server or applications (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Wireless_Issues_Apr08) On the same note, I am trying to update the open tickets and close the fixed ones. Contributions to the page and to the tickets are more than welcome.

==Support==
Richard Smith helped out with the OLPC manufacturing server some more this week. Turns out some of the issues were not as bad as originally thought and we were able to work out most of the issues with the erroneous data we got from Quanta. They claim to have added some checks that will help prevent future occurrences.

Richard Smith wrote to the community to address issues with keyboard failures due to sticky keys. The manufacturers of the keyboard have worked with OLPC to make changes to the internal construction of the keyboard. We strongly believe that these changes should fix the sticky keys issue. These changes have been rolled in over the last few weeks of production.

If indeed the problem is much more widespread then OLPC needs more accurate data on the failure rate. OLPC invites the community to help.
If you currently have an XO with a sticky key then please add your serial number to the following wiki page and what key(s) appear to be
sticking. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Stuck_keys_SN

Emily Smith reports that she and Adam Holt have successfully created a shipping order to Brightstar for 122 replacement laptops, and for spare parts for our first potential repair centers. No replacements had been going out in the last several weeks due to problems ranging from oversight of the RMA program to detailed format problems with our ship orders. Communicating shipping orders with BStar has been a problem for weeks and donors continue to be frustrated with these delays. We hope we have the ship order detail figured out by early next week with much help from Christine Myrick and Gustavo Mariotto.

Emily spoke with about 5 donors on the phone regarding G1G1 refunds and Getting Started questions. The majority of her time is spent answering emails regarding G1G1 questions ("where's my laptop?" is most common, followed by "how do I use this thing?" and "It's too difficult to use, I want my money back!"). She also sends out tax receipts for people who have re-donated their laptops back to us (about 70 in that queue).

Adam Holt reports that he continues to work on tons of escalated shipping and billing tickets. He is very hopeful that the deluge will ease by around May 1, *IF* Patriot's Donor Services continues helping. He and Sandy Culver have been surveying Donor Services g1g1service@yahoo.com and xogiving@gmail.com and believe that these are getting about 15 times more mail than our RT site.
Adam is working with 15 worldwide community repair centers' and sent out the first broken laptops to them to seed their centers. He is also collecting updates from the Support Gang for next week's G1G1 PostMortem, lessons learned, so that the extensive experience can be used in future programs. Adam and Kim Quirk discussed a 'Saner Future', so that truly progressive groundwork can be laid out in the Support group starting in May and June.

==SysAdmin==
Henry Edward Hardy placed the order for three new servers to replace pedal,crank and xs-dev. We expect to receive these within a few weeks and start configuring them. Thanks to everyone who helped with the specification and ordering process!

We experienced significant downtime at 1cc this week due to an unscheduled electric power interruption. Everything at 1cc was down for several hours. Public facing services on crank and pedal such as git repositories, mailing lists and mail aliases, OLPC website and wikis, were apparently unaffected.

We are done with testing and pre-configuring the Big Sister monitoring service. This will assist in monitoring the health of our systems and give us some metrics for uptime and service accessibility and response times. We plan to deploy the Big Sister server on the xs-dev replacement.

There has been a power-related crash which has damaged the filestructure on the Chinese-deployed OLPC manufacturing data server. Richard Smith and Henry are assisting in the recovery efforts.

==Other==
Charles Kane has produced a wonderful Internet slideshow which is posted on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ojFcZIqRU. He was assisted by Michail Bletsas, Darah Tappitake, Jennifer Amaya, Henry Edward Hardy and Bernie Innocenti of OLPC-Europe.

=More News=
Laptop News is archived [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 Frappr Map of G1G1 recipients can be found at [http://www.frappr.com/?a=constellation_map&mapid=137440255169&src=flash_map&sig=visitor_map&src_mvid=137440332484&origin=unknown&ct=seemore]
* 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: Ins/ide 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]
*Portuguese lecture "Perspectivas do uso de laptops pelas crianças (e nas escolas)". Video in [http://www.cameraweb.unicamp.br/acervo/acervo.html Cameraweb Unicamp]
* 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]

==[[Testimonials]] about my XO laptop==
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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:

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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

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