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Reflashing the XO-1 from Tim McNamara on Vimeo.

This is a tutorial on how to reflash an XO-1.0. The XO-1.0 is distributed by One Laptop Per Child to provide quality education. You can learn more about the programme by visiting laptop.org/.

This video was produced by OLPC Aotearoa, a group of volunteers that supports the work of the global programme with testing, software development and advocacy. Our local site is laptop.org.nz/. The video is made with free software: Ubuntu, OpenShot & Inkscape.

Hi NZ volunteers

If you are looking for something to test this week, how about testing Mirabelle. This is a good opportunity to test Sugar on hardware other than the XO which helps get Sugar into the hands of more children. :-)

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

Thanks
Tabitha

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Walter Bender
Date: 26 May 2010 11:00

9. Mirabelle has landed. The Fedora Sugar-on-a-Stick (SoaS) team,
which includes Sebastian Dziallas, Peter Robinson, and Mel Chua, has
released a new version based on Fedora 13 and Sugar 0.88. The goal of
this release was to integrate SoaS more completely into the Fedora
"Spin" process, provide a structure for longer-term maintenance and
stability. While there are only ten Sugar activities bundled with
Mirabelle, Tom Gilliard has put together a collection of activities
that can be loaded onto a separate USB key from which they can be
installed locally. For information about further customizations,
please contact the SoaS team at soas AT sugarlabs.org.

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)

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

An 8.3 earthquake caused a tsunami in Samoa today.

We have confirmed that Ian Thomson, RICS and Oceania OLPC Coordinator, is safe in Noumea.

There is an OLPC project deployment in Samoa and there has been some equipment destroyed. We are not aware of any volunteers being hurt or killed in the tsunami.

We will keep in contact with Ian and others in the area to find out what we can do to help during this time.

Our thoughts are with the survivors and their families.