MelbourneXOClub
The Melbourne XO Club will meet monthly to do testing, hacking and general activities around the OLPC. Announcements are made through the OLPC Friends mailing list.
Many thanks to the Welly NZ Testers who have created such a great model for OLPC testing.
Plans for this week
First Meeting
When: 1-5pm - Saturday 20 December
Where: Sharwood Room, Trinity College, Parkville (Royal Parade, University of Melbourne)
Map: [coming - in the meantime see http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map/maincampus]
How: Enter Via pedestrian Gate B - head left towards the College Oak Tree, turn right in the Clarke's cloister, head past the Junior Common Room to The Sharwood Room, which looks like a little chapel.
Transport: Trams on Royal Parade and Swanston Street, Busses on Grattan Street. Train to North Melbourne Station and take the 401 Bus to Grattan St or Train to Melbourne Central and Trams on Swanston and Elizabeth go to the University.
Parking: Limited on Royal Parade.
RSVP
Please list your name and contact here and email donna [at] cc.com.au
What to do
- Testing Activities for G1G1; use (and edit!) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_test_an_Activity and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Reporting_test_results.
- Testing Image 8.2.1 - has new patches to deal with network issues discussed here.
- Contribution to NZ based testing form - http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pyBIsSK_3IlsHBpwk1EFNcQ. This presents a form that fills in: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pyBIsSK_3IlsHBpwk1EFNcQ
- Keep working on our testing strategy to ensure we are getting it right.
- Keep having fun!
Who's got what
Add your laptop below to the testing group. Donna will try to bring along a few extra laptops.
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://sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_systems#Updating_Sugar_to_the_Latest_Version
- Laptop Name - Who's bringing it - Project
- Kattekrab - Donna Benjamin - Testing 8.2-767
- Stewart - Donna Benjamin - Testing 8.2-767
- Laptop 3 - Tony Forster - Testing 8.2-767
Log of things done
We'll list our achievements as we go.
Next Meetings
- January 10 - Penguin Picnic - Docklands (across the road from the Hub Community Centre)
- January linux.conf.au 2009 Super BOF
http://linux.conf.au/wiki/index.php?n=Main.OLPCBOF
Who are we
Please contact Donna at donna@cc.com.au for information and to let her know you are coming.