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== Dinner meeting == |
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We are meeting on Thursday 25 November at 5pm at [http://www.abbotsfordconvent.com.au/whats-on/lentil-anything|Lentil as Anything] at the Abbotsford Convent. |
We are meeting on Thursday 25 November at 5pm at [http://www.abbotsfordconvent.com.au/whats-on/lentil-anything | Lentil as Anything] at the Abbotsford Convent. |
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== What we do == |
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Revision as of 09:16, 18 November 2010
The Melbourne XO Club meets monthly to do testing, hacking and general activities around the OLPC.
Many thanks to the Welly NZ Testers who have created such a great model for OLPC testing.
Plans for this month
Next Testing Session
When: 12-4pm - Saturday 20 November 2010
Where: The Hub, 17 Waterview Walk, Docklands Melbourne
Map: see http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map#hub
Transport: For those coming via Public Transport, the City Circle, number 48 (North Balwyn - Docklands) number 86 (Bundoora - Docklands) and number 70 (Wattle Park - Docklands) all stop on the corner of Bourke Street and Harbour Esplanade. Southern Cross Station is just across the overpass over Wurundjeri Road.
Parking: There is plenty of paid parking nearby.
We'll be testing the latest software build... come along, and help out. If you have an XO - please let us know, and we'll be happy to help you flash it to the latest version. If you don't have an XO bring a laptop and a USB key and we'll have a go at testing sugar on a stick.
Contact: Tony Forster: forster at ozonline dot com dot au - 03 9796 8161
Dinner meeting
We are meeting on Thursday 25 November at 5pm at | Lentil as Anything at the Abbotsford Convent.
What we do
- User testing - if its not easily discoverable it needs fixing
- Bug testing - Activities and operating system
- Testing on XO hardware, we have some spare XO units
- Testing Sugar on a Stick / live CD - bring your laptop
- Keep having fun!
We plan to coordinate with NZ on testing http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_New_Zealand/Test_Requests
Who's got what
Add your laptop below to the testing group. If you don't have an XO laptop, you can emulate the current build of the OLPC environment — Fedora 9 + Sugar + core activities — on your existing computer by running a Live CD or running one of our OS images under emulation.
Further Details here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads/Landing_page
Log of things done
Past achievements .
Past activity test notes here:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pyBIsSK_3IlsHBpwk1EFNcQ
Next Meetings
- monthly, third Saturday of the month
Who are we
Hosted by Linux Users of Victoria is one of Australia's largest Linux User Groups Please contact Jiri at sabik@baum.com.au for information on LUV.