Demonstration build

Demo Laptop

There are many capabilities of the XO that aren't easy to demonstrate on a standard build.

0) dual-boot with a Fedora/Gnome or Edubuntu setup (via SD card) 0a) with any simple hacks to speed up launch -- perhaps a dual-boot OpenWRT? 1) full-screen full-motion video (ogg) 1o) video from m.youtube / an online source 1x) the best that can be done with mpeg & rm 2) multichannel audio 2o) streaming audio from an online source 3) bookreaders : pdf (evince), js (flipbook, ICDL, jresig) 4) smooth Flash animation (Gnash) 4x) the best that can be done with Adobe Flash 5) text-to-speech : Speak 6o) videochat or at least audiochat 7) drawing w/ stylus : phun / elements / crayon physics 8) Full-fledged firefox 8x) Opera 9) New Sugar UI and config screen 10) Faster load time (now in joyride)

Eben -- you worked on showing full-screen video for the MOMA exhibit, yes? What setup did you use?

Things I /want/ to show off but don't know how to

* a plot of battery strength/usage over time, however crude, like what the Prius offers for gas conservation
* a compressed view for the Journal (or a way to link directly to a compressed view)

There are also a number of activities whose demos should be focused down to a couple of minutes, whose components could all be set up in advance; I'm thinking about how to effectively walk through them, without waiting to long for each one to load and set up, but without having more than one in memory at a given time. Is there some way to launch an activity while simultaneously demanding/reserving a block of memory, potentially killing other processes when starting up to improve the repeatability of demo length?

What else should we be sure to show off? What other systems might we want to have available to dual-boot?