TechTeam Mtgs

Attending: Simon, Tomeu, Marco, Ivan, Adam, Michailis, Dilinger, Dennis, Kim, Richard, Scott, Chris, Michael, Wad, Henry, Mako, Kim

Kim gave an overview of the meeting last week which described a new organizational structure for OLPC. Now that we are moving from R&D to real deployments, the priorities will change to emphasize the requirements of the children and teachers in these deployments.

There are 4 groups: Technology (current HW, SW, Support, IT, and QA), Learning/Deployment, Business Development, and Finance/HR

Resource Needs

There was some discussion around planning ahead, roadmaps, and resource requirements. Kim has asked that everyone send 'project' info with description and resource needs to her (and Michael Stone) so we can review and create a wiki page for further brainstorming and discussion. Please use a simple format like:

• Project name (could be a large bug, a feature, or a real project)
• Brief description
• Priority - why it is important
• Resources needed (best guess)

Some immediate needs, testing, debugging

• 25+ laptops in a a school server mesh scenario
• 25+ laptops in an infrastructure AP scenario
• Re-registration with jabber
• Library content - how it gets to laptops
• Backup XOs to school server
• Upgrade XOs from School server
• Options for auto-update

Michail suggested that he do a "Save my hair" talk -- since there are a lot of new people, he can give us a presentation with Q&A on network/mesh. We'll try to set that up as a lunch time talk.

We discussed the need for more resources and process around testing and release. We should roll out the trac updates that have been on the plate.

We need to encourage/help Uruguay and others to feed back into the development process with their ideas and changes.

Update1 thoughts

• need translations
• library content; css, spelling errors
• fontconfig slowness
• sudo changes (utils)
• gabble registration

Other items that need resolution; probably Update 1.1

• avahi issues
• ejabberd

Longer term items that are worrying

• olpc-update might never get call home on suspend-resume
• WLAN wakeup on ARP
• Can't collaborate with suspend/resume
• new ohm (less than 1 minute to go into suspend)
• phone home diagnostics from laptops
• should firmware update require AC