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Hi NZ testers

Just letting everyone know that we went to Auckland Linux User Group "install fest" today and showed off the XOs. I had some of them have a go at SoaS with some USB keys I took along, that was a great start and a few have downloaded Sugar for themselves while we were there. We had one SoaS fail - a Dell Inspiron 1270 I think it was called - but the other computers all were successful in running SoaS and starting some activities. We didn't go through full testing for wifi, camera and mic, etc but did test sound worked and a few activities started. This has a few interested in joining olpc testing group up here so good news. Again we are getting questions about buying XOs and I am considering taking orders this year to get 100 more in the country.

:-)

Join the first OLPC Friends BoF @ SLUG's monthly meeting for October 2009. Meetings are open to the general public, and are free of charge.

Acronym time:
* SLUG means Sydney Linux User Group
* BoF means Birds of a Feather

If you can't make it to the event (sorry I haven't got a plane) join online at #olpcfriends (IRC freenode).

Google Australia
48 Pirrama Road
Pyrmont NSW 2009
Australia

Friday, October 30 at 6:30 PM (EST) - that is 8:30pm for us in New Zealand

http://anyvite.com/zzrm86xe9b

We're still working through the Peru activities list, and the Australian activities list. We've been asked to test on sugar 0.82 - but if you have something a little later that's useful too. We'd like to report back on what versions an activity will happily run on.

The shiny new XO 1.5 laptops are in Wellington, waiting to clear customs. - maybe they'll be this saturday's meetup, maybe they won't.

Our "foodforce" testing from last week is recorded here:
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9490
and has been assigned to a developer. We'll put back on our testing list in the coming weeks.

Foodforce was developed with funding from the World Food Programme - it's also available for windows and mac (and brenda reports it works great in Linux undre wine).