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Rowen Remis R. Iral

323 A. Luna Street, Concepcion Baliuag, Bulacan 3006 Philippines ~User:Wenmi01

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2007 September 11

• Sugar HackFest 2007 - http://trilug.org/wiki/Sugar_Hackfest_2007

~wenmi01

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OLPCPH SoCon & Status Reports

2007 September 07

Summer of Content in the OLPCPH has started as it was stated on the SoCon Schedule.

A lot of Content has been developed and deployed for integrating to a later schoolserver. XOL files or XO files will be created soon for these content.

Demo/presentation for OLPC Project to the Philippines has been created so that the XO machine can self run on its own demoing the XO machine.

Today I've seen how the popularity of the XO machine is moving onwards. I'm seeing more people are interested on the OLPC Project. Tim had showed the B4 machine and showed the applications on console he just ported to XO machine, by the end of the Sept 14, activities will be moved on to the next level. More XO Activities will be released and a possibility of a Sugar Build that will be targeted to complement and show some improvements that can be implemented on the XO machine. In OLPCPH we don't usually report on a website since Tim has limited access to internet, that's why most of the part on testing build was done by me. More often the internet connection even on DSL connection is somewhat not that good to do a quick download of builds. It took me a day or two to get a build to be able to test it. I test the build on a B2-1.

Tim's B4 has been loaded of different development stuff and in that we can share some task at some point of time. I usually meet Tim once a week and spend time about setting the project's direction in the OLPCPH.

September 07, 2007 - one B2-1 has been bricked, due to the lack of the debricking tool ( the serial adapter ) this XO machine will be sent back to 1CC.

Linux Porting has been an essential part of the SoCon activities, by next we should have released our improved version of sugar. For helping us please affix necessary links where we can gather necessary information on hardware. We're on improving Sugar and making cross compatibility across versions of XO machine including B2-1s.

~User:Wenmi01 / Rowen

The TRUTH Behind

2007, September 10

OLPC PH is a great project with a great purpose... educating our children to have a better future and economy, to give them better life - a meaningful life. But doing this task is so hard (I'm a hacker who loves overcoming limits and solve difficult problems but I still find it so difficult with our situation today)... The truth behind this project : "Only two people working full time... and we can't feel that other people is helping us." I don't believe that we lack Filipino hackers that have a noble heart that will help this project. We have enough content developers, but we don't have enough technical developers! Both of rowen and I are programmer and system analyst, but doing all the technical part, specially this project is just starting, is a big task for us... I don't want to be hypocrite to say that we don't feel over burn and sometimes feel discourage - thank God "quiting" is not in our database. Guys if you have a dream for better future for our country please help us. If you are a programmer, computer engineer, IT expert, GNU/Linux user group, teachers, students, parents... we need everyone's help! Lets show the true meaning of BAYANIHAN! If you want something, be part of that something! If you want to help, if you could help... But I know you can... please help us. Please feel free to email me at : timhack007 (at) gmail (dot) com .

-Tim