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== Product News Page ==
What was your reason for removing 'OLPC' from the Product News Page? This is still a page maintained by OLPC, but I cleaned it up today because we expect countries are going to start referring to the page for solid information in regards to peripherals. [[User:JoshSeal|JoshSeal]] 17:19, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
: I agree with your observations. Although I think its important to have a page that new countries interested in OLPC can refer to and gain at least an approximate understanding of what's available. Who has the Solar price list? Richard? Also, I think the Handcrank should be put in a new section such as 'past products' with a summary of why it didn't work rather than just removing it - otherwise people will always ask "what ever happened to the hand crank?". I'll make these changes.
: I consider this page more useful and relevant for countries rather than G1G1 - they can just go to XO Explosion. It should thus be designed that way. Each product does have its own pages I think, I'll add them. I speak to Richard often regarding tech power issues, but I was hoping someone was in charge of costs for all the products...

== Hey, Dinosaur book idea... ==
I was working on creating a program with dinosaur information and I tried making an eBook which would explain dinosaurs in a picture-book sort of way... I just wrote this up over the weekend so let me know what your input is:

http://creationpalooza.googlepages.com/TheDinosaurStory-English.doc

http://creationpalooza.googlepages.com/TheDinosaurStory-English.pdf

-[[User:Ndoiron]] 21 Apr 2008

== Howdy, fellow Weekly Zine contributor. ==

Howdy, fellow Weekly Zine contributor.

Just thought to give a shout-out to some our editorial board, to let them know of some recent updates I did for 'Issue 0 (pilot)'.

Took the day off from work (easy when one works for oneself, I just had to ask myself for a day off. :)... get a few items done...

I created am improved layout and structure to help seed ideas and encourage submissions. I went through all the notes and ideas, laid them out best i could in this structure. (and as always, open to feedback and opinions :).

Hopefully, this will make it easier, and encourage people to add more entries and submissions. *hint* *hint* *hint* *poke* *prod* "Say no more* *say no more* *wink* *wink*

[[Weekly zine/0]] --[[User:Ixo|ixo]] 21:26, 5 February 2008 (EST)
: And it's looking good! I've gotten pulled into pressing things this week, but am still thinking about projects otd to highlight. --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 13:10, 6 February 2008 (EST)

== Adminship tools ==

Dear Weth, you are now an [[administrators|admin]]. Use your tools with care and in good health. Be particularly careful about page protection -- avoid it wherever possible, and unprotect pages when the cause has passed. --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 02:13, 10 February 2008 (EST)

:w00t1 :) [[User:Sethwoodworth|is for Insects]] 12:26, 11 February 2008 (EST)

== Liva repos page ==
Hi Seth, thanks for writing. I understand your edit at the XMMS page and I'm glad to help with your other pages, but I must say that I don't know much about Fedora's repositories. I'll keep an eye out for a Livna page and I'll try to improve it where I can.

== ping? ==

Yo, Seth - are you still alive? Trying to sync up re [[Health Jam]] ping me sometime (any medium - call me, even, when you're free, my number's on my userpage). [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] 10:59, 1 April 2008 (EDT)
: reping? [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] 03:49, 8 April 2008 (EDT)

== Weather Stations ==

Seth,

I would love to explore the integration of the XO or XS with low cost weather observation equipment/stations. If this is something you would like to seriously consider, I might be able to bring together a team of Air Force Weather veterans and experts to work on this project. Let me know, and thanks again for the welcome.

Doug

== Adminship ==

Thanks for your support for my nomination to adminship, SJ (or rather what I believe to be his anon-IP avatar) completed the process today. [[User:Cjl|Cjl]] 20:47, 28 May 2008 (EDT)

== Academic Papers ==

Hi, you may want to take a look at [[Academic Papers]]. [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] 06:53, 22 June 2008 (EDT)

== source docs for flyers ==
I used Illustrator, and converted all the text to outlines... so their not editable any more. [[User:AuntiMame|AuntiMame]] 09:15, 2July2008

== [[Review squad recruitment letter]] ==

cleaned up and categorized. [[User:Mchua|Mchua]]

== re: cluttering on the wiki ==

Yep, you called [[Preinstalled XS]] out correctly. It's clutter that I don't have firm plans to get back to (although it's fresh in my mind and will likely be spinning around there in the next few days). I had approximately 5 minutes to type before running for the train, and (imo) poorly-discoverable clutter is better than nonexistence - you found the page and did something about it, did you not? ;)

I'm not a green volunteer, so I've seen the threshold above which activation energy will be too high for enough people to change their habits enough such that a meme takes hold - and I'm trying to find ways to lower these barriers as well.

If the desire is to have people put the things you listed in all their pages, here's one thing to do: make templates and make it insanely easy to use them - or better, make it require effort to ''not'' use them (that is, have them on by default - not sure if/how this is possible). See [[Template:Project]] and [[Template:Jam]] - though using those templates themselves requires effort, they fill stuff in with decent defaults.

Now if things could be scripted such that every new page created by link text in the [[Open projects]] list (or by clicking a button on that page) would start out as that template - actually, give me a second...

*tinkertinkertinker*

All right, look at [[Open projects]] and let me know what you think. Or better yet, improve.

[[User:Mchua|Mchua]]

== vandalism report ==
User:Fifty-eight has deleted content on a number of pages.
[[User:Davewa|Davewa]] 13:19, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

== Activity-summary update ==

Can you update the spans in the [[Template:Activity-summary|activity-summary]] template so that they match that used on the current [[activities]] page? then we can finally move over to the [[activities/tmp]] style before the onslaught of new activity devs & updates.
See also [[IRC:Main_page]]?

== urban postering campaigns? ==

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_urban_postering_campaign#Content

== Fab@home & appropedia ==

I've been somewhat active on the Fab@Home wiki... what's on your mind? I can be emailed from here now, too. [[User:Remi|Remi]] 18:10, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

== Add links to orgs and pages ==

* Add self/group as interested in curation: [[curators]]
* Add links to webpages and sites : [[Content_projects/examples/weblinks]]

== Old repository notes ==
[[User:Sj/R]]

== Developing countries... ==

The question arises (at least to me) - could useful implements be fabbed that would benefit people within developing countries? Or perhaps this sort of technology could be used as a means of learning. I'll have to think more about this, and if it is alright, I will definitely not hesitate to share thoughts if they happen upon me. Do possible answers to how Fab@Home technology could be used in developing countries occur to you? [[User:Remi|Remi]] 03:33, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

== reverts of annoying usernames ==

I recommend renames before mass reverts. Try pokingn a bureaucrat to rename vandals. --[[User:Sj|Sj]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]]

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