MelbourneXOClub
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 5.30pm at Lentil as Anything at the Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne, 1 St Heliers St Abbotsford Vic 3067. This is conveniently near to the venue of the Open Source Developers Conference.
Also in attendance will be Sridhar Dhanapalan, Technical Manager at OLPC Australia.
RSVP please to Tony Forster forster at ozonline dot com dot au 03 9796 8161
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
Bring your laptop below 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.