Team One Beep, made up of fourth year undergraduates. Vinny Jeet, Steve Ward, Kayo Lakadia and Chanyeol Yoo, Their idea is to send streams of data across the readily available FM/AM frequencies to impoverished communities.
Team One Beep won the Imagine Cup 2010 in New Zealand and traveled to Poland for the world finals.
After many days of judging, they came THIRD.
Big massive congratulations to the team. Looking forward to seeing this idea deployed to the children of the world.
esting summary - Auckland New Zealand, 22 May 2010
Who: Tab, Tom, Fabiana, John, Vik, Suz, Tamara, Kate
Testing builds 802b6 on XO-1.0 and 125 on XO-1.5
build 802b6 tests on XO-1.0
* Found issues with Record version 64 where the first photo takes a long time to take the picture and save it. After the first photo it takes other photos fine. Also takes video fine. Tried restarting XOs to see if the same issue occurs.
* Also tried out Write version 60 and it started and could write. Could collaborate (mesh11) and both write fine. Managed to get 4 XO-1.0s using Write all by joining from the neighbourhood view. Sometimes the update of content was sluggish. They collaborated for a while but then some quit out of shared write no warning. Once the original XO is out of the document all XOs can no longer collaborate on the document even though they can keep editing their local copy. We are not sure if this is a bug - Should all contributors still be able to share without the original author? Is this a technically difficult problem that is just not tackled yet, should it be a goal to make this possible? Eventually the two XOs that were still in did start collaborating again without the original author. We see too many cursors and it is confusing to the user trying to ascertain which is you. Created ticket and attached log files. http://dev.laptop.org/attachment/ticket/10166/
* Tested Scratch version 12 and could not break it.
* Tested Maze version 6 and found no problems.
* New feature? In the left of the frame we now have what appears to be a clipboard. When you copy something, an icon appears in the bottom left of the screen and fades away. In the bottom left of the frame, a history of your copied items appears. It would be nice to get a preview of those items (say in the pop-up menu) without having to open them in write or browse or whatever.
build 125 on XO-1.5 tests (we only have 2 XO-1.5s so that is all we can test in collaboration - using local wifi to connect)
* Tested collaboration on local wifi in Write 63 with 2 XO-1.5s. Also tested Paint 27 - inserted paint image into our shared write activity.
* Tried collaboration in paint 27 - could start from neighbourhood view but could not see other XOs drawing. Like the rainbow brush effect.
* Tested collaboration in colors 15 - could collaborate but when one XO pressed clear the other did not get cleared. One XO chooses colour from the palette and the other XO colour changes too. Could not put colors file into the Write activity - maybe we need to find a way to save it as an image? When changing the name of the activity if you press space bar it opens the color palette, and it does not share the name across 2 XOs. Zoom works with menu options, and keyboard shortcuts (arrow up and down). Full screen works. Menu names disappear frequently but can bring them back by clicking on the blank boxes. Black and white works. Stop works. Resume from journal works.
* Tamtam Mini 52 - starts, sound works, tried different keys on keyboard to test pitch works. Tried all the different instruments and all worked. The rhythm worked and could change speed and pattern.
* No rotate in any activity still. Not sure if build issue (every build we have tested?) or hardware issue.
* Tested Speak 16 and found that we could get it to speak to us and could change the pitch and rate. Tried changing language to Catalan then switched to robot, found robot switched us to English. robot answered some questions.
* Tested Browse 108 and looked around olpc site. Opened all the olpc dictionaries from the English menu - could see Arabic glyphs. :-)
* Tested Stopwatch 4 - worked okay. Could start and stop, reset, mark.
* Tested Maze 6 - can use all 3 sets of controllers. Shared activity with neighbourhood and can collaborate. W00t! We love that this works now! So with 2 XOs you can have 6 players! Played a few rounds. Cannot see path of the other XO but can see 3 paths on your own XO. So you can use your own 3 players to mark which path is good or to put the other person off, we love the extra strategy and tactics that this can lend itself to.
* Tested Memorize 34 - can collaborate with 2 XO-1.5s. Tried a game with letters, addition and sounds. All worked and could take turns. It calculated scores correctly. On third game it crashed one XO completely - mouse stopped working, didnt change persons turn and has kept 2 incorrect cards open. Other player could keep going. Crashed laptop could not even ctrl alt F1 to get to a text console. Shutdown both computers and restarted to test again. Could not get a log file. Played four games of various types and sizes with no crash. Every game the first XO in the list got to start every game, so first XO left activity and rejoined from neighbourhood to go second. Re entered activity, started a new game and is now second player. Lost sync so each XO thinks it is the others turn, so could not play anymore. Tried the other XO exit and re enter activity but could not sync up. Both exited. Restarted activity and joined again fresh activity. This was successful.
Hooked up with Wellington volunteers on IRC to see how their testing was going :-)
Vinny and Team OneBeep have made the news again with their recent nationwide win of the Microsoft Imagine Cup New Zealand round. They are off to Poland for the internationals.
Project aimed at improving OLPC project wins Imagine Cup
Kiwi imagination yields winning solution
Kiwi Teams Creates Waves with Innovative Application
Congratulations on the win. We look forward to hearing more about the project as you progress and seeing it helping the olpc remote deployments.
Who: Alastair, Rebecca, Fabiana, Helen, Grant, Tim
Not much software testing this time around.
Had a quick look over the new XO 1.5 laptops one of which is going back to Auckland with Fabiana, Updated all the old XO-1.5s with build 116 and all the XO-1s with build os802b5.
We also updated the wiki page at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_New_Zealand with all the correct details of firmware, OS being tested and also who has the laptop for all the Wellington machines.
Tabitha and Fabiana were at Foo Camp in Warkworth on the weekend and took seven XOs between them - a mix of XO-1.0 and XO-1.5 machines - for attendees to try out and discuss where olpc is at in New Zealand and the world.
We can't say much more as what goes on at bar camp stays at bar camp. All we can really say is it was awesome and well worth going to.
Photo attribution: http://www.flickr.com/people/aur2899/
Thanks!
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
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.
This saturday's OLPC meeting will have a change of scenery - we're going to be at the National Library.
For catering purposes, they want us to RSVP - can you please reply to me if you're going to be there? Please reply ASAP
(Tuesday at latest).
details are
Saturday 29th August
National Library of New Zealand (70 Molesworth Street, Thorndon 6011, Wellington
Barcamp - registration 9:15am+
sessions 10am-5pm
