OLPC:Xoxo

XOXO : regular love and community updates

xoxo #-5

14:00, 1 June 2007 (EDT), tags: 1CC, music

=== xoxo ===
this is v -5 of the daily xoxo textfile; to soon become a daily occurrence.  
please leave your own contributions on the talk page, or leave me a message

=== 1CC ===
There are many new faces in Cambridge, and now a pretty steady off-hours crew which includes Bernie
(who is addicted to videogame music remixes), Joshua Gay (FSF campaign manager, textbook activist, stet demon)
Bernie has recently come to Cambridge to work from the office, and has introduced video game music 
remixes to our jukebox queue.

=== free texts ===
Joel Thierstein from Connexions and Jessamyn West visited on Friday; good conversations were had 
around texts and modular materials.  CNX has some interesting new Physics modules - checking to
see if FHSST has time to integrate with their own work; they've gotten involved with 
Curriki, so the project is certainly alive.  Ben Crowell has an excellent set of
"light and matter" physics texts up as well, which mesh nicely 
with the wikieducator philosophy.

We are talking about a space to list status and qualities of existing free and collaborative
text projects - perhaps a rebirth of freetextbookproject itself.  Advocates needed for travel
in publishing and creative circles.

=== free culture ===
a Free Culture Cambridge is starting an open space for collaboration, creation, and contribution to open
content projects.  We're starting weekly gatherings Mondays, at a place to be determined soon; if you
are interested in joining, send a note to sj@laptop.  Early initiatives will include getting OurStories
off the ground, developing swag and materials about free culture spaces and OLPC, and launching searches
for suitable spaces in 6 countries.

xoxo #-4

16:52, 2 June 2007 (EDT), tags: day-to-day, lists, wiki

== Saturday ==
is extremely cloudy!  Ryan Trinkle is working on a reference implementation of message passing that 
could serve as support for a distributed filestore, or a way to exchange queues of requests and
responses (for searches for texts, posts to offline fora or wikis, or apps such as meshboard)

== todos ==
Starting a generic community todo list.  Please contribute community efforts that you do
each day, or would see done; or things that need doing (like welcoming new users, reviewing RC, blogging).
In the spirit of the OLPC planet, there are some blogs starting on this wiki.

== wiki and activities ==
Wiki gardening: Lauren has been adding metadata on the wiki about activities and 
other projects.  If you maintain a project or package, or are working on interface or other designs, 
please add a page about your work, and a small infobox with source and author information.  

Userpages: It is also good to set up a userpage describing who you are and what you do.  If you have 
an XO, you might take a photo with your camera and upload it.  Example wikipages: User:Xavi, 
User:Php5, User:Lauren

xoxo #-3

19:25, 4 June 2007 (EDT), tags: systems, games

=== Game Jam ===
Games : the Olin Game Jam is coming up.  A parallel Jam is planned for Brazil in a few months.

=== xo thoughts ===
Format: future editions encoded as outlines?  Hat tip to Tantek.

=== International ===
The Korean pages on the wiki continue to grow, many of need translation into other languages.
(see Special:Newpages for more.)  OLPC Nepal is still looking for summer volunteers...
XOs are being used by the youth delegation at the J8 Summit.

=== Library ===
People working on development projects working on works, activities, and media for the laptops - most people
with XOs and others - should register.  We're working on providing better community support
for these efforts.

=== notifications ===
Are there parts of the project you'd like to be notified about?  Specific applications or events you are 
following?  Suggest a topic to cover, and we will include regular notifications as updates come in.  Not
quite the same as automatic rss-feed alerts, but close.

=== summer blog ===
We're setting up a summer blog for the interns and other new faces around the office this summer; also
for others working on and with OLPC around the world.  keep your eyes peeled for an update soon.

xoxo #-2

16:19, 6 June 2007 (EDT), tags:

Commencement

Message passing, distributed filestore

=== wiki updates ===
MediaWiki updated; extensions - the wiki has been updated to MediaWiki 1.10.  Most modern extensions will
now work with just a little effort; leave extension requests on Talk:Wiki.  If you have an OLPC portal
or intro page on your site, or want to set one up, leave a link or note on [[

=== volunteer projects ===
Volunteers are wanted for OLPC-related projects in Cambridge, in Nepal (see OLPC Nepal), and elsewhere.
If you have tasks that need to be done for your OLPC-related project, are interested in mentoring someone
for such a project, or are interested in volunteering yourself, see the request board and add yourself
or the project or other offer.

=== wiki community links ===
Links to related wiki communities, and pages about OLPC there / linked to from here are welcome.
Please write in about links you want to see in our interwiki map.

xoxo #-1

18:22, 24 June 2007 (EDT), tags:

=== wiki ===
You can now upload .svg files.  And there's a new empty OLPC Art Gallery.  So you can share your icons
and other work.
Extensions: the Parser Functions have been enabled. Please, handle with care.

=== development tools ===
Display: 1200x900 isn't currently supported by non-cvs QEMU.  Emulating the XO/Help and tips has a recipe to
get it using Xephyr.
Wondering what your activity looks like under different lighting conditions?  There's a new python script
which takes screenshots and shows you, sort of.  But you usually don't need to worry about it.

=== art ===
Just a reminder: the Munsell page has a palette with colors of common luminance.  
But it's small, so we are looking for a better palette.

=== sugar ===
Things can now be saved to the journal.  And activities downloaded to the journal and run.  Try it out...
 
=== collage ===
There is a new Sophie activity to test out - a collage activity based on a sibling of Squeak.
This is a port of a long-standing project from the Institute of the Future of the Book - please explore 
and test; also the new EduKT activity, newly minted with rough edges.  A related thread touches on Etoys.

=== cartoon building ===
Avallain is halfway done with a cartoon builder, that lets you load a library of comic assets 
and put together a strip with balloon text.  The comic developer Teshkeel is donating some
character art to the project.

xoxo #0

18:22, 30 June 2007 (EDT), tags:

=== Ideas ===
{{Wikipedia ads}}-like wanted!

=== Recent Changes ===

This is an experimental report on the Special:Recentchanges. Suggestions are welcome.

# Several Test Plans have been added to several activities.

==== Editions ====
Almost 1100 editions this week.
* 300 minor edits (37 user space; 30 templates; 26 talk pages)
* Various edits Activity template (17), Adapt this story (9), Educational organization template (14),
  MaMaMedia activity template (9), MMM lesson plan translations (10), Talk:OLPC Spanish America (9),
  Template:Pending (8), Template:Sandbox (12), User:Lauren (15), Ask OLPC a Question/New (15),
  Ask OLPC a Question/New/lang-es (10), Display (21), Editor Musical (8), FACIL (7),
  Jogo do Piano (8), Kuku Activity Test Plan (23), LSI (9), Manutencao (7),
  Oficina de Desenho (11), OLPC Colombia/Community (7), Paint Activity Test Plan (18),
  Quebra-Cabeca Musical (9), Request board (10), Sugar on Ubuntu Linux (7),
  Test Group Release Notes (16), User:MitchellNCharity (13), User:Sj/xoxo (7),
  World Wide Workshop Foundation (13), Write Activity Test Plan (7).
* 83 new pages
** 11 user pages User:Alexandremartinazzo, User:Crazybus, User:Dany seiji, User:Hazelmaeranollo,
   User:Jgay/Thoughts/NewBlogEntry, User:Marc van Woerkom, User:Oswaldopoli, User:Pedro Kayatt,
   User:Placa1783, User:Rowen Remis R. Iral, & User:Sj/mirror
** 10 talk pages Talk:Activity Translations, Talk:Ben-design, Talk:Curators and coordinators,
   Talk:Educational activity ideas, Talk:Kuku Anakula, Talk:Manutencao, Talk:Memonumbers,
   Talk:OLPC Argentina/Languages, Talk:PO-laptop.org-vision-en-US, & Talk:Tux Paint

==== Uploaded ====

We have 37 new files in the wiki.
31 images: 
*  6 .gif Image:Olpc badge black.gif, Image:OLPC badge quad black.gif,
          Image:Olpc badge quad white.gif,  Image:OLPC badge quad wiki black.gif,
          Image:OLPC badge quad wiki white.gif, & Image:Olpc badge white.gif.
*  7 .jpg Image:Foto1.jpg, Image:Foto1.jpg, Image:Mama4OLPClogo(40%).jpg,
          Image:Mubbles for OLPC 0002.jpg, Image:Piano-tela.jpg, Image:Piano-tela.jpg, &
          Image:Wwwlogo.jpg
* 13 .png Image:2b8.png, Image:Board1.png, Image:Colombia.png, Image:ExhibicionFlisol1.png,
          Image:Flisol2.png, Image:Flisol3.png, Image:Flisol4.png, Image:Flisol5.png,
          Image:LCD-olpc.png, Image:Manizales2.png, Image:Pek.png, Image:Xo B2.png, &
          Image:Xo detalle.png
*  5 .svg Image:IconRuler.svg, Image:Spoon-Sugar.svg, Image:Spoon-Sugar.svg,
          Image:Spoon-Sugar.svg, & Image:Spoon-Sugar.svg
6 files:
* 3 .pdf Media:FOXNews.com - Uruguay Children Try Low-Cost Laptops - Technol...pdf,
         Media:Http webmail.aol.com 28363 aol en-us Mail get-attachment.pdf, &
         Media:Negroponte-interview-1-.pdf
* 2 .txt Media:BumbleBee.txt, & Media:Mubbles.txt
* 1 .xls Media:B3-B4 OLPC Test Plan.xls

==== Maintenance  ====

3 pages were moved: Kuku Activity Test Plan, Gnu General Public License & OLPC wikis
8 pages were deleted, mostly containing friendly (but out of place) messages.
9 IPs were blocked during the past week. All indicates that they are bots. We should expect a new
round of these kind of editions after the previous 2 week banning period is ending, so we should consider
an upgrading the blocking period to 3 months (hopefully after that time some of the zombie machines
will have been reformatted).

xoxo #1

12 July 2007, tags: wiki, maps, curriculum, rc

=== xoxo #1 ===
Welcome to the first edition of xoxo, a regular textfile of exciting things happening around the OLPC
projects, with summaries of the various community fora.  We are currently looking for editors and 
summarizers (specifically for mailing lists and blogs).  Anyone is welcome to contribute by posting
new items to these talk pages. 

=== bug tracking and fixing ===
Please note any bugs or enhancements or feature requests in trac: dev.laptop.org .   Anyone is welcome to 
make an account there and file bugs or ideas.
New wiki template {{ticket}} allowing a short way to reference tickets: #1.

=== game and curriculum jams  ===
mchua has been working on plans for game and other content jams 
this fall in a number of cities.  Current jams being planned based on where there are interested organizers 
(Manila, New York, Sao Paulo), feedback or new cities welcome.  

=== laptop map ===
name.com has been thinking about how to visualize OLPC data and machines, and how to help laptop communities.
they've made a google mashup, which can be installed on this wiki via a mediawiki extension : laptop.name.org

=== OBX proposals ===
After an IRC chat, some proposals were added. The idea is that each box categorizes on orthogonal 
axis, on one side users can tag themselves as Artists (a category) with a specialty (say Artists
icons — another category) and then on the 'consumer' side, activities (or whatever) could tag as
Needing/Wanting icon. The categories would have cross-links allowing us to better match things.
The idea is to expand to other domains.

=== Recent Changes ===

This is an experimental report on the Special:Recentchanges for the week ending July 8.
Suggestions (and scripting help) are welcome: contact Xavi.

==== Editions ====
Almost 2200 editions this week (1670 actual editions)
* 580 minor edits (37 user space; 30 templates; 26 talk pages)
* Various edits 
   Ask OLPC a Question/New (33), Educational activity guidelines (26), Educators (74), Emulating the XO (16),
   Emulating the XO/lang-ko (55), Learning activities/Class Orchestra (15), Learning activities/School Census (11),
   OBX proposals (9), OLPC myths/lang-ko (9), PO-laptop.org-auxiliary-el (7), PO-laptop.org-children-el (11),
   PO-laptop.org-el (7), PO-laptop.org-top-level-el (16), PO-laptop.org-vision-el (44), Pulseaudio (10),
   Sample learning activities (14), Template:Sandbox (11), Test Group Release Notes (55), Tradução de Atividades (18),
   User talk:MitchellNCharity (16), User:Crazybus (26), User:Lauren (11), User:Xavi/Test (8), and XO updater/lang-es (11)
* 522 new pages
** 376 in the XO Korea branch.
** 30 new categories (mostly dealing with language fluency levels) 
        Category:Constructionist learning activity template, Category:Earth Treasury, Category:Galadima,
        Category:Learning Activities, Category:Learning activity template, Category:MaMaMedia learning activity template,
        Category:Notes, Category:OBX templates, Category:Userbox templates, and Category:Wikipedia Template.
** 40+ new templates; mainly dealing with Olpcboxes and Category:OBX templates

==== Uploaded ====

We have 68 new files in the wiki.

66 images: 
*  9 .gif Media:WiXiADDLANGRUFF.gif, Media:WixiJump.gif, Media:WiXiLuchaLibreWixiJump.gif, Media:WiXiMethodOnXO.gif,
            Media:WiXiPO1.gif, Media:WiXIPO1.gif, Media:WiXiPublishingPlatforms.gif, Media:WiXiScratchVenAca.gif, and
            Media:WiXiTwexterXcrollPreviewFast.gif.
* 28 .jpg Media:2535093875.jpg, Media:Cardal2.JPG, Media:Foto costas.jpg, Media:Foto01.jpg, Media:Foto01thumb.JPG,
            Media:Foto1.jpg, Media:Foto1.jpg, Media:Foto2.jpg, Media:Foto2.jpg, Media:Foto2pqna.jpg, Media:Foto3.jpg,
            Media:Imagem1.jpg, Media:Imagem2.jpg, Media:Imagem3.jpg, Media:Imagem4.jpg, Media:Imagem5.jpg,
            Media:Imagem6.jpg, Media:Imagem7.jpg, Media:Imagem8.jpg, Media:Imagem9.jpg, Media:Porto alegre.jpg,
            Media:Ruler yellow horizontal.jpg, Media:Ruler yellow horizontal.jpg, Media:Villa cardal.jpg,
            Media:Wall clock.jpg, Media:Windup alarm clock.jpg, Media:WiXiDelyricSampleSurvive.jpg, and Media:XOHeadGaladima.jpg.
* 26 .png Media:Activity Rule screenshot 1.png, Media:Activity Rule screenshot 2.png, Media:Activity Rule screenshot 3.png,
            Media:Activity Rule screenshot 4.png, Media:Cc-by-80x15.png, Media:Cc-by-nc-80x15.png, Media:Cc-by-nc-nd-80x15.png,
            Media:Cc-by-nc-sa-80x15.png, Media:Cc-by-nd-80x15.png, Media:Cc-by-sa-80x15.png, Media:Crystal 128 fonts.png,
            Media:Git-logo transparent.png, Media:Noia 64 apps clock.png, Media:Nuvola apps edu miscellaneous.png,
            Media:Nuvola apps kworldclock.png, Media:OLPC+cymacyma+realchild.png, Media:Teste.png, Media:Teste2432.png,
            Media:Wikiversity-logo.png, Media:WiXi2500.png, Media:WiXi30K.png, Media:WiXiInterTwext333.png,
            Media:WixiMenu.png, Media:WiXiTwextDataBig.png, Media:WiXiXcrollNarrow.png, and Media:WiXIXcrollNarrow.png.
*  3 .svg Media:Cc.logo.circle.svg, Media:Heckert GNU white.svg, and Media:PD-icon.svg.

2 files:
*  1 .bin Media:Usb8388-5.110.7.p0.bin.
*  1 .pdf Media:OLPC Mesh Test Cases Marvell.pdf.

==== Maintenance  ====

19 pages were moved: 100 Laptop TestPlan, Actualizador del XO, Chinese, Setup and Supplies, Talk:100 Laptop TestPlan,
    Talk:WWWorkshop Shannon, Template talk:XO box, Template:Userboxbottom, Template:Userboxbreak, Template:Userboxtop,
    Template:XO box, Template:XO box2, Template:XO source, Tests - Connectivity and Collaboration, Tests/Setup and Supplies,
    Tradução de Atividades, User talk:Sj/xoxo, User:Sj/xoxo, and WWWorkshop Shannon.
11 pages were deleted, mostly containing spam.
37 IPs were blocked during the past week. All indicates that they are bots. We should expect a
   new round of these kind of editions after the previous 2 week banning period is ending, so we
   should consider an upgrading the blocking period to 3 months (hopefully after that time some of
   the zombie machines will have been reformatted).
   We did have some patterns that may allow some kind of smarter blocking:
       200.83.4.3 / 200.83.4.4 / 200.83.4.5 / 200.83.4.6
       203.162.27.90 / 203.162.27.93
 3 pages were protected — basically dealing with Point-of-view gun used to try to stop editions in
   pages not supposed to exist in the wiki but are frequently created for spamming purposes.

xoxo #2

18:22, 13 July 2007 (EDT), tags: cbc, java, intel, col, SoCon, php

there are opportunities to help clean up the wiki!  beefing up the style guide,
improving special:recentchanges and other system messages (eg MediaWiki:Noarticletext),
revisiting categorization, and integrating sister wikis (olpcaustria, wikieducator).
come by #olpc-content and talk with mitchellncharity, mchua, xavi, and sj. 
advice, and comments in general, are welcome.

wiki blocking: you can block IP ranges with, e.g., 
  200.83.4.6/28 (to mask the last 32-28 = 4 bits, so you block 16 addresses) or 
  203.162.27.90/30 (to mask 32-30=2 bits, blocking 2 addresses)
please be very careful blocking ranges or IPs for that matter, particularly given 
nature of dynamic IPs; don't block ranges for nearly as long as you would a single user,
and try to avoid any blocks of longer than a week.  [That said, blocked users can see
the email of the blocking admin, so you may get email from people unfairly blocked]
See Wikipedia's approach to understand the possible results of blocking.

Content jams : user:mackiwg & the commonwealth of learning agreed to co-run a pilot 
Summer of Content 2007 season with OLPC.  final comments welcome on the proposed process

Cambridge Brewing Company : groups from OLPC regularly close them out; festivities followed by 
wine & dancing earlier this wek.  who knew there were so many dancers in the office?  
Bernie managed to demo screencaps while dancing.

A first round of templating and clarifying content sources for regular content 
releases produced a page of notes on content packages.  this will be 
revisited next week.

the startpage on the XO browser now has a spanish interface and 
loads a main page that can search Google and links directly to the Activity Grid for 
downloading new activities.