Wellington

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)

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.

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

They've cleared customs, and arrived in Wellington: Grant unpacking 5 of the new XO1.5 Laptops

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).

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.

The NZ OLPC "Friends in Testing" meets every saturday in Wellington. This saturday will be the first meeting after a very successful Software Freedom Day here.
http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/wellington

This saturday is also the first ever meeting of the Auckland group.

What's involved is: brunch, coffee, conversation, intro to the green XO laptops, how the OS works, how to install an activity, and then you test your chosen activity, try to find some bugs. If we find bugs we send a test report back to the project.

If we don't find any bugs we also send a report saying how awesome the project is. Those that know python may wish to track down and destroy the bug, but for the most part we don't.

We've been ask to test the list of activities that are being deployed to kids in Peru soon

We're meeting at 10:30am, and tying the two locations together via irc (we're a bit bandwidth constrained in cafes.

Wellington is at the southern Cross http://thecross.co.nz
Auckland group is at Ironique, 448 Mt Eden Rd, Mt Eden.

Please join us - there will be many newcomers at both events.

p.s. People hacking on other projects are also welcome - we like "cross pollination". I know there are some koha, statusnet and drupal hackers coming.
p.p.s. If you have your own laptop, whatever flavour, bring that along too. The "sugar" software project that powers the OLPC laptops should run on most anything, and if it doesn't work on yours, we'd like to know that too.

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Aucklanders are meeting this Saturday, to have the first OLPC test fest in the city.

There will be spare XO laptops, so if you're interested come along and join us. The coffee is good and there is wifi.

Location: Ironique, 448 Mt Eden Rd, Mt Eden, Auckland. 10:30am on Saturday.

There will be a simultaneous OLPC testfest in Wellington

OLPC & Sugar has now been deployed to EVERY SINGLE CHILD in Uruguay, Peru and Niue!!

In total 1,374,500 XOs have been shipped to the children of the world in Uruguay, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Ghana, India, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Haiti, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Mongolia, Kiribati, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Papua, New Guinea, Solomons, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

That doesn't even include all the unofficial pilot programmes, the gifting of XOs to test groups (such as Wellington friends in testing), nor all the software only deployments of sugar and sugar on a stick.

We're proud to be part of a project that is creating educational opportunities for the world's poorest children.

Software freedom day is almost open us:
http://softwarefreedomday.org.nz/

We have put OLPC and Sugar on the agenda for Kids programme, Students programme and for hackerfest.

We are very excited to have the sponsorship of Sun Microsystems who have donated 150 USB keys to the event and have given us permission to put Sugar on a Stick on some of these to give away at Software Freedom Day.

With well over two hundred registrations for this years event we are looking forward to sharing OLPC and Sugar with attendees.