OLPC:Journal/2008-10-12/Single
Lists in review : devel@ (Oct. 1-10)
Mel Chua and Michael Stone
Email list summaries have been discussed for months, without success to date. Mel Chua and Michael Stone tried out a new method of summarizing mailing list traffic. The results were organized for 10 days of mail to devel and posted online.
OLPC's total list volume and number of distinct lists continues to grow, with over a thousand new messages this month on almost 100 different mailing lists.
G1G1 series : G1G1 2008 Announced
SJ Klein
The long-awaited 2008 G1G1 program was announced last week. It will launch on November 17th in the United States, to be followed by similar launches in other countries early next year. A steady stream of new photos, videos, and other media have been published to the OLPC Flickr and wiki media portals since then.
The main site for G1G1 will be hosted at Amazon (http://amazon.com/xo), who is providing fulfillment this year to US recipients. Other materials planned to be available for purchase and download during the campaign include an updated manual, which Anne Gentle is revising this week. A print-on-demand version of the manual version from the August book sprint is available from Lulu now<ref>Currently $13 for a 240-pg book</ref>.
Web developers are still needed to help with layout and design of certain public facing webpages.<ref>Contact : wiki-gang@lists.laptop.org</ref>
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Tips and Tricks : A Clock for Sugar
Martin Dengler
The long-awaited 2008 G1G1 program was announced last week. It will launch on November 17th in the United States, to be followed by similar launches in other countries early next year. A steady stream of new photos, videos, and other media have been published to the OLPC Flickr and wiki media portals since then.
The main site for G1G1 will be hosted at Amazon (http://amazon.com/xo), who is providing fulfillment this year to US recipients. Other materials planned to be available for purchase and download during the campaign include an updated manual, which Anne Gentle is revising this week. A print-on-demand version of the manual version from the August book sprint is available from Lulu now<ref>Currently $13 for a 240-pg book</ref>.
Web developers are still needed to help with layout and design of certain public facing webpages.<ref>Contact : wiki-gang@lists.laptop.org</ref>
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Demo scene : Journal2 Preview
C. Scott Ananian
The long-awaited 2008 G1G1 program was announced last week. It will launch on November 17th in the United States, to be followed by similar launches in other countries early next year. A steady stream of new photos, videos, and other media have been published to the OLPC Flickr and wiki media portals since then.
The main site for G1G1 will be hosted at Amazon (http://amazon.com/xo), who is providing fulfillment this year to US recipients. Other materials planned to be available for purchase and download during the campaign include an updated manual, which Anne Gentle is revising this week. A print-on-demand version of the manual version from the August book sprint is available from Lulu now<ref>Currently $13 for a 240-pg book</ref>.
Web developers are still needed to help with layout and design of certain public facing webpages.<ref>Contact : wiki-gang@lists.laptop.org</ref>
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== Calendar and Events : XOcamp 2
Greg Smith
The long-awaited 2008 G1G1 program was announced last week. It will launch on November 17th in the United States, to be followed by similar launches in other countries early next year. A steady stream of new photos, videos, and other media have been published to the OLPC Flickr and wiki media portals since then.
The main site for G1G1 will be hosted at Amazon (http://amazon.com/xo), who is providing fulfillment this year to US recipients. Other materials planned to be available for purchase and download during the campaign include an updated manual, which Anne Gentle is revising this week. A print-on-demand version of the manual version from the August book sprint is available from Lulu now<ref>Currently $13 for a 240-pg book</ref>.
Web developers are still needed to help with layout and design of certain public facing webpages.<ref>Contact : wiki-gang@lists.laptop.org</ref>
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