deployment

Three test requests for Saturday - Bernie's builds, James Cameron requesting feedback on release notes and test activity - Free from Malaria.

If you want to test Bernie's alpha release 2 builds (XO-1.0 and XO-1.5) for Paraguay go here - http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Sugar-0.88_Notes

Other XO-1.5 builds are here - http://build.laptop.org/

James Cameron request:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.1 has been drafted, Further edits are welcome. In particular:

0. are there any interesting new features or notable bugs that should be listed? (e.g. does my sense of interest and notability match yours?)

1. is the installation process correct in other circumstances? (it works for me, requires less keyboard use on the XO-1.5, and has less
risk of bad experience caused by issuing commands after fs-update),

2. will the build be on download.laptop.org or build.laptop.org? (presuming the latter for the time being),

3. are there any pictures available of holding down all four game keys?

4. has anyone recently tested olpc-update from os64 to os20x?

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James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/

(My first bit of feedback from me is there are two folders - 10.1.1 and 10.2.0 - the documentation confuses which is which)

I have just heard about an activity that teaches children about Malaria (Papa New Guinea and Solomon Islands are on the Malaria risk list) -
http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/search?q=malaria&cat=all

The Free From Malaria game tells the story of Paul, a boy who lives in a Malaria
endemic country. Paul learns how mosquitoes are responsible for spreading the
Plasmodium parasite which causes Malaria. He also learns how to recognize the
symptoms it causes and to seek medical help if someone thinks they have the
disease.

The content consists of a comic story with two games that teaches children the
importance of covering up at night-time and using bed nets. The goal is to help
children recognize their role in the prevention of the disease and to create a
future free from Malaria.

http://worldclassproject.org.uk

See you Saturday at 11am, online or in person :-)

Team One Beep, made up of fourth year undergraduates Vinny Jeet, Steve Ward, Kayo Lakadia and Chanyeol Yoo, worked through the summer break to prove their idea could work. Their proposal was to send streams of data across the readily available FM/AM frequencies to impoverished communities.

Their project addresses a common problem encountered by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) charity. The charity makes education more available to third world countries by delivering low cost laptops to remote and poor communities. They have distributed 1.2 million laptops already, and the number is growing. However a lack of infrastructure, such as broadband or even telephone lines, makes it nearly impossible to update the educational materials on the laptops.

Read the full article here.

Team One Beep intend running field trials in Australia and the Pacific Islands. Solomon Island OLPC deployment has made contact and is interested in collaborating with Team One Beep.

We're working our way through the list of activities for the Peru deployment.

We've also had a request from Australia to test their bundle of activities for their upcoming deployment in the Northern Territories (spreadsheet attached)

We also have a request to retest foodforce.

WellyNZTesters have issued a Call For Papers for the education miniconf we're running at the LCA2010 conference on mid January next year
http://laptop.org.nz/content/miniconf

If you want to come visit us in New Zealand, and can't afford it right now, please apply for funding http://www.lca2010.org.nz/media/news/89

We're testing the full activity bundle for the upcoming Peru deployment
http://laptop.org.nz/test-request

An Auckland group has started!

Some kind folks in Sydney are rounding up unused dust-gathering XOs from the LCA2007 giveaway, to ship to Wellington.

We've got a school server running.

OLPC official blog reports on the recent deployment of XO laptops with the sugar environment into schools in in Rwanda
.
They include the software that the Wellington team contributes to.