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Testing summary - Auckland New Zealand, 29 May 2010

Who: Tabitha, Tom, Fabiana, Leslie, Nevyn, John, Abhishek, Liz and her family

Tested Bernie's 0.88 build 240py on 8 XO-1.0s (apha quality as per the test request) for Paraguay

Looks prettier, nicer activity ring view
All XOs were on MESH 11. Could not see any activities shared in the neighbourhood view so not able to do any collaborative tests. Invite to also fails.

Write 67 - menus and buttons all changed - where is share with neighbourhood?
Record 67 fail - could not see camera image, could not save picture. We got logs and will raise ticket.
XaoS 4 - cannot access Sugar frame from with XaoS. We got weird quit message about cannot start. Got logs and will raise ticket.
Tamtam Mini 52 - sound got stuck on bubbles - got logs and will raise ticket.
Tamtam Jam 54 - worked
Memorize 34 - addition worked first time but after changing game now all addition, letters and sounds games freeze after first pair. Restarted and had no issues. Got logs from the freezing attempt anyway and will raise ticket.
Finance 3 - worked
Measure 29 - worked
Stopwatch 4 - worked
Physics 4 - worked
Calculator 30 - worked
Scratch worked. Sorry didnt get version number.

Note that settings are different - we have lots more options, yeah :-)
Successfully changed time to Pacific Auckland.
Tried translating to Spanish Paraguay - some activities are still in English - such as Analyze, Get IA books, in Write activity some words translated but not the word "search".
Enabled automatic power management - didn't kill the machine.
Tried switching to Gnome - seemed to operate okay but switching back appeared to run out of memory but not sure - have to test more, sorry
Touch pad - changing to resistive mode fixed our temperamental laptop! This feature should be pushed into all the builds destined for XO-1.0. Unfortunately, the change didn't persist accross a reboot. See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Touchpad_control_panel_section We didn't need to use a stylus, a finger seemed to work.

Several XOs started to display erractic behaviour and would not shut down after much play

We switched most XOs back to 802b6 as a working build for presentations and workshops we are doing this week

Sugar on a Stick Mirabelle:
The torrent download was very very slow so I gave up and used the regular download from Fedora Spins. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick directs you to http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ for installation instructions, however that page does not explain how to write the .iso file to a usb stick. I did find http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo but the recommended http://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator didn't work on ubuntu (I tried compiling the source but it complained about dbus not being connected to the main thread when I tried to run it after running make). A kind soul on irc directed me to a utility on sugarlabs.com which worked with a very long command line, but I have forgotten it's name and location. This utility was much slower than the previous image-writer tool used with blueberry (which doesn't produce working usb sticks but claims success when used with the mirabelle iso).

Spoke to Wellington crew and hear that their testing report is on its way too. They also tested Bernie's build. Thanks testers for another awesome Saturday testing event.

Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry Released

Sugar Labs has released Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry - the platform agnostic version of the Sugar Learning Platform.

Sugar is the educational software used on One Laptop PEer Child XO laptops. It's an entire operating system, and there are zillions of educational activities for Sugar.

"Sugar On a Stick" is the same educational environment, bundled up onto a bootable USB memory stick. Simply plug in the "Sugar on a Stick" to almost any PC's usb port, and reboot. Children's files and lesson progress is saved to the same usb memory stick so it's all kept for next time, and the USB memory stick can be used at home and at school.

This latest version of Sugar offers simpler navigation, improved wireless networking, streamlined updating of Activities for children, easier keyboard configuration, better Gnash support for Adobe Flash content, and more. New Activities such as Physics and OOo4Kids join updated favorites such as Browse and Read, suitable for reading e-books.

So what are you waiting for? Download Sugar today!

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry