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General notes, more ranging and less blog-like than a log. Needs slimming into xoxo editions.

14 Sep 2007

NextVista.org : Rushton Hurley, Todd Seal (rh, ts at nextvista). Via Mitch. Video learning.

10 Sep 2007

containers - a/v, fs, network

firmware

installation - ? activities need to be signed by us in the short-term, and by countries?? in the longer term. both are totally unacceptable as hard security. how can we allow installing unsigned activities without a developer key?

what is the disaster scenario of a stubborn person who insists on installing a dangerous-looking activity?

upgrades - dualboot is an aside

tracking - comm problem with quanta?

anti-theft - client, server

questions

how can we set up dual-boot separate from the 'save last stable os' for upgrade stability?

what are the use cases where you want to run 'web 2.0' apps that will ship your docs to china?

why is it so difficult to imagine a world in which a community of children and teachers want to actively share many of the documents they are creating over time with everyone {on their local network, with the whole world}, not simply when they are actively sharing with a small handful of people?

why should it be difficult to create an activity whose sole purpose is to make things meant to be universally shared? to clarify, aop.

4 Sep 2007

ISIS and game jam brasil

Roberto is finishing work on Isis, which he predicts will be available as a game engine soon. He is also working on a Game Jam for Brasil (still needs a crew, afaik).

WorldWideWorkshop

WorldWideWorkshop has much more active updates on their own wiki than filter up to this one; look there for the latest and for activity. They are eager to have official design tests from eben and others, which are pending.

OmegaT and TM

Sabine Cretella and Kim Bruning are working on a wiki-enabled version of OmegaT for translation efforts. The latest 1.7.1 release supports wiki-reading, but not wiki-writing (waiting on Ilya to finalize a proper MediaWiki API.

WikiCurriculum

Martin Weissman is working on a WikiCurriculum idea; which might need merging with Wikiversity or Wikibooks.

Local updates

see also Xavi's regular statistical updates

• OLPC Ethiopia

Electricity Activity

Bruno Coudoin has built an Electric.activity.xo bundle for the GCompris "electricity" activity. Download it and test it out! (see also their todo on the gcompris wiki).

wiki-todo, Sep 4 2007

• Set up the local Interwiki map
• Install the top few pending Extensions, including Semantic MediaWiki
• Fix old broken wiki accounts (via renaming and the db)
• Add individual templates for Activity overviews, for inclusion in Activity Grid, individual activity pages, and other references to them on-wiki.

tech-todo, Sep 4 2007

• Run sound-format tests as part of smoke testing. What formats work a) via browser, embedded; b) via browser & separate-launch; c) anyway under some activity
• Run video tests for same.
• Add the library mainpage as the new library in latest builds
• Doublecheck .xol installation scripting
• Get activities into Fedora as projects. Kuku was done by Marco.

security-todo, Sep 10 2007

Installation:

• open something in the browser; make sure it installs.
• journal is supposed to install from a USB key, or any other way. magical install on download should be the same way...

  uncertainties here: ik doesn't know how this happens

• the only thing that should be allowed to kick of installations is the datastore. the browser shovesw bundles into the datastore; it should note this and run the install script.

  check with rainbow, say please install this for me

• cs: use journal as defaul twya to download/update activities. befriend chris; you see new versions in his journal; instlaling the latest one means installing that file chris is sharing.

  we haven't cemented activity updates - right now, updates are new activities

  special friends with pre-installed bundles on xo-flash