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Testing this Saturday

Hi volunteers

A reminder about testing this Saturday:

* Auckland - the Windsor, 144 Parnell Road
* Wellington - The Cross, 35 Abel Smith St

We have test requests for XO-1.0 and XO-1.5 laptops:

XO-1.0 - please test 802b6

* Martin thanks the NZ testers and advises these changes based on their feedback:

o Write has been fixed, by rolling back the libxml2 upgrade. This breaks "modern" versions of GCompris -- use only the GCompris version indicated for 802 builds...
o Chat is back to v9 - Behind the scenes -- signing kernels and initramfs works properly now. Some preexisting changes might be worth of additional testing...
o Colors 13 -> 15
o Record 59 -> 64

XO-1.5 - please test build 125

* Description of changes in this build:
o Record: Another attempt to fix Record sync, this time by writing intermediate files to a tmpfs, to avoid jitter due to slow SD writes.
o powerd: inhibit idle suspend for 1 min after waking from sleep
o usb_modeswitch, tcl: include for GSM modem support (#9684)
o Pull F11 updates.

I hope to start collating a repository of ideas for teaching using the XOs - if you know a teacher that might like to help, invite them along to a Saturday session.

Note that the Sugar translation pages are up on pootle for many Pacific languages. If you speak another language and want to help translate, it is easy using pootle, you just need to create yourself a login. Here is a link to Maori: http://translate.sugarlabs.org/mi/

See you at testing (or virtually for the other cities)

This Saturday testing and showing off the new XO 1.5 machine

We have the new XO 1.5 machines in NZ now and I am hoping to give all the volunteers here a chance to look and play with them. Exciting!

Auckland Saturday - 11:00 am @ The Windsor Castle 144 Parnell Road, Parnell - they have internet, I will bring one of the XO 1.5 machines

Wellington Saturday - 10:30 / 11:00am @ The Cross, 35 Abel Smtih St, Wellington - Tim will bring some of the XO 1.5 machines

Final pre-release Candidate Release 8.2.1 incl Activities

Testing requests coming out our ears! Isn't it fantastic to see
momentum in OLPC.
I hope lots of people can make it to the Southern Cross this weekend -
usual time 10.30am, 35 Abel Smith Street.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Holt
Date: 2009/5/13
Subject: [support-gang] "Final pre-release Candidate Release 8.2.1
incl Activities"
To: Support Gangsters , Testing
, Devel's in the Details

Please test this Give1Get1-suitable image, including Activities now.