From cbigenho at hotmail.com Fri Jan 1 16:45:06 2021 From: cbigenho at hotmail.com (Caryl Bigenho) Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 21:45:06 +0000 Subject: [IAEP] Recover Email? Message-ID: Hi folks... Now that the old @laptop.org email addresses have been retired, I am running into a snag when I try to log into sites where I originally registered with that email. I can't get verified and access my previous accounts. Is there a way I can temporarily re-activate that email address to log into these sites and then make changes when I am there? Thanks in advance and stay safe... wear a mask! Caryl aka GrannieB -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From quozl at laptop.org Fri Jan 1 18:40:05 2021 From: quozl at laptop.org (James Cameron) Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2021 10:40:05 +1100 Subject: [IAEP] Recover Email? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20210101234005.GA25533@laptop.org> Alias caryl has been temporarily re-activated. Let me know when you are done with it, please. On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 09:45:06PM +0000, Caryl Bigenho wrote: > Hi folks... > > Now that the old @laptop.org email addresses have been retired, I am running > into a snag when I try to log into sites where I originally registered with > that email. I can't get verified and access my previous accounts. Is there a > way I can temporarily re-activate that email address to log into these sites > and then make changes when I am there? > > Thanks in advance and stay safe... wear a mask! > > Caryl aka GrannieB > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- James Cameron https://quozl.linux.org.au/ From walter.bender at gmail.com Tue Jan 5 08:47:13 2021 From: walter.bender at gmail.com (Walter Bender) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 08:47:13 -0500 Subject: [IAEP] meeting reminder Message-ID: The next Sugar Labs oversight board meeting is Wednesday, 2021-01-06 at 19:30 UTC (2:30 PM on the US East Coast). There will be a finance report and we will be discussing Claudia's idea of monthly virtual workshops. Please join us on Jitsi [1]. regards. -walter [1] https://meet.jit.si/sugarlabs -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org From juipradhan2k at gmail.com Tue Jan 5 09:03:03 2021 From: juipradhan2k at gmail.com (Jui Pradhan) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 19:33:03 +0530 Subject: [IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting reminder In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi everyone, We might as well discuss Sugarlabs participation in GSoC 2021. The period to apply for mentoring organizations is January 29 - February 19, 2021 (GSoC 2021 Timeline ). Regards, Jui On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 7:17 PM Walter Bender wrote: > The next Sugar Labs oversight board meeting is Wednesday, 2021-01-06 > at 19:30 UTC (2:30 PM on the US East Coast). > > There will be a finance report and we will be discussing Claudia's > idea of monthly virtual workshops. > > Please join us on Jitsi [1]. > > regards. > > -walter > > [1] https://meet.jit.si/sugarlabs > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > SLOBs mailing list > SLOBs at lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs > -- Jui Pradhan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From walter.bender at gmail.com Tue Jan 5 09:22:56 2021 From: walter.bender at gmail.com (Walter Bender) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 09:22:56 -0500 Subject: [IAEP] [SLOBS] meeting reminder In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Noted. thx On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:03 AM Jui Pradhan wrote: > > Hi everyone, > We might as well discuss Sugarlabs participation in GSoC 2021. The period to apply for mentoring organizations is January 29 - February 19, 2021 (GSoC 2021 Timeline). > > Regards, > Jui > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 7:17 PM Walter Bender wrote: >> >> The next Sugar Labs oversight board meeting is Wednesday, 2021-01-06 >> at 19:30 UTC (2:30 PM on the US East Coast). >> >> There will be a finance report and we will be discussing Claudia's >> idea of monthly virtual workshops. >> >> Please join us on Jitsi [1]. >> >> regards. >> >> -walter >> >> [1] https://meet.jit.si/sugarlabs >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> _______________________________________________ >> SLOBs mailing list >> SLOBs at lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs > > > > -- > Jui Pradhan -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org From callaurrea at gmail.com Tue Jan 5 20:18:07 2021 From: callaurrea at gmail.com (Claudia Urrea) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 20:18:07 -0500 Subject: [IAEP] [Sur] [SLOBS] meeting reminder In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Walter and all, I just received confirmation about a meeting with the new minister of education in Belize. I am in the PI of a three year project with the government and I need to be there to present. The meeting is scheduled for 2:30 pm for 30 min. I will do my best to come back, but I can't miss this meeting. I apologize for the last minute change, but this is a significant 3 year long project with a team of over 15 people from MIT. I will keep you all posted. Claudia On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:23 AM Walter Bender wrote: > Noted. > > thx > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:03 AM Jui Pradhan wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > We might as well discuss Sugarlabs participation in GSoC 2021. The > period to apply for mentoring organizations is January 29 - February 19, > 2021 (GSoC 2021 Timeline). > > > > Regards, > > Jui > > > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 7:17 PM Walter Bender > wrote: > >> > >> The next Sugar Labs oversight board meeting is Wednesday, 2021-01-06 > >> at 19:30 UTC (2:30 PM on the US East Coast). > >> > >> There will be a finance report and we will be discussing Claudia's > >> idea of monthly virtual workshops. > >> > >> Please join us on Jitsi [1]. > >> > >> regards. > >> > >> -walter > >> > >> [1] https://meet.jit.si/sugarlabs > >> -- > >> Walter Bender > >> Sugar Labs > >> http://www.sugarlabs.org > >> _______________________________________________ > >> SLOBs mailing list > >> SLOBs at lists.sugarlabs.org > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs > > > > > > > > -- > > Jui Pradhan > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > Lista olpc-Sur > olpc-Sur at lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From sumitsrisumit at gmail.com Thu Jan 21 10:53:18 2021 From: sumitsrisumit at gmail.com (Sumit Srivastava) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 21:23:18 +0530 Subject: [IAEP] A show of excitement and source of motivation for everyone here Message-ID: Just came across this one-year-old comment of mine on a YouTube video titled "The Coolest Netbook You?ve Forgotten About: The OLPC XO-1" when someone commented on my comment about 2 hours ago. [Link to the video: https://youtu.be/UPP4ClRmVik] I thought that I'd share it all of you on the mailing list since it shows that people are still excited to hear about the cool stuff that the people here have built and the impact you're delivering each and every day. All of you are awesome! Sharing the whole YouTube comment transcript here, without any editing: Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago Hi, I'm from SugarLabs, the organisation that makes the software that OLPC laptops (and a lot more devices) run on. Happy to answer any questions. Please ask. Likes: 132 generic Josh number 96 generic Josh number 96 1 year ago Do you know if the display is switching modes with the greyscale thing? Very curious how the screen works Likes: 9 Alex Alex 1 year ago Have the laptops been upgraded over the years or have they stayed with the same exact hardware as initially? Eg bigger storage, Ram, a touchscreen, etc? Likes: 3 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @generic Josh number 96 I have a better resource for you to read up on this display: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Display It serves a good intro to the OLPC display. Likes: 11 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @generic Josh number 96 Thanks for asking. A kernel configuration file is used to select colour or grayscale mode in the driver, and thus the display controller ASIC. This is in the kernel sources. The keyboard shim detects brightness control keys and manages the backlight power. When the backlight is turned off, the grayscale mode is enabled. When the backlight is turned on, the grayscale mode is disabled. This is in the keyboard shim sources. On the XO-1.75 and XO-4 models, a reverse biased red LED in the same SMT package as the green storage LED is used as an ambient light sensor. The power management daemon (powerd) detects high ambient light and turns off the backlight and turns on the grayscale mode. The backlight is turned off to save power, and increase running time on battery. This is in the powerd sources. However, without any change to backlight brightness or mode switching, full sunlight does appear as greyscale, because the human eye can't discern the small amount of colour emitted by the backlight compared to the large amount of white light reflected from the sun. Likes: 26 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @Alex The hardware has been regularly updated with release of newer models. For example, XO-4 (the latest one) has a touchscreen variant and improved hardware. Likes: 10 Alex Alex 1 year ago What engine is the SugarXO browser based on? Likes: 1 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @Alex The simple browser also called browse activity is implemented using HulaHop library and uses Gecko rendering engine(same as Firefox). Other browsers available for XO laptops are Opera and Firefox. :) Likes: 6 Alex Alex 1 year ago @Sumit Srivastava Really??? Opera and Firefox can run on these laptops??? I'm impressed! Likes: 1 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @Alex these laptops are not underpowered, they're just aimed at children who want to learn, and appropriately capable to do so. :) Likes: 7 velleda velleda 1 year ago Exactly why do you need a developer key to boot things other than official OS builds, and why does it take 24 hours to get one? Likes: 3 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @velleda because this was designed with security and antitheft in mind, and it's pretty secure, along with being fun to play with. Likes: 4 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @velleda also, thank you for asking. Here's a link to your question, if you want to read a long explanation: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developer_key_philosophy Likes: 4 TheSola10 TheSola10 1 year ago Would it be interesting to switch OLPC to Silverblue/OSTree for increased reliability and less required maintenance? Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @TheSola10 Sugar OS is designed specifically with young children in mind. All our decisions, designs, usability considerations are made with that thing in mind. I don't think any other organisation would want to do that with OS. Likes: Likes: 5 James Livesey James Livesey 1 year ago @NiggaNig420 TOONZ They're giving their best efforts to help. They may or may not be part of Sugar Labs (and in their defence it's hard to verify), but they are providing people with helpful answers, so please don't be so rude! Likes: 13 Kintaro oe Kintaro oe 1 year ago any way to unlock the bios? me and my father tried to install xp countless times but the bios didnt allow us to, it would make my childhood dream finally complete Likes: 2 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @Kintaro oe yes, you can install other operating systems using developer key. Instructions to request a developer key are at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys#Getting_a_developer_key Likes: 2 James Livesey James Livesey 1 year ago (edited) @NiggaNig420 TOONZ It appears to me that you are racist; however I do respect that people can have their own opinions in certain situations. Your 'evidence' that you have provided may be falsely representing the groups in question, and they may only be a minority. They may not be the representatives of their race, religion or nationality, and in fact it appears that there are so many Indians, Pakistanis and Asians that are brilliant, valued and talented individuals that we should be glad to have on Earth. Please don't prejudice, it's a bad quality to have! Life lesson over! ? Likes: 9 Kintaro oe Kintaro oe 1 year ago @Sumit Srivastava thanks Likes: Likes: 1 BitterJames BitterJames 1 year ago @James Livesey literally nobody cares. James Livesey James Livesey 1 year ago @BitterJames Except for the other 7 likers Hi another person called James Likes: 5 RiotOne RiotOne 1 year ago Sumit Im not sure that I know you... What is your IRC name and development branch? Peachy?s Here! Peachy?s Here! 1 year ago Sumit Srivastava! How do Transreflective Displays work? Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @RiotOne IRC: sum2it Development branch: SugarLabs- musicblocks Likes: 1 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @Peachy?s Here! transreflective displays can be imagined as an e ink display with a backlight. Not really an accurate description but would be easier to grasp the concept. Likes: 1 anonfilly anonfilly 1 year ago Is the project still alive? Likes: 2 Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @anonfilly Yes, SugarLabs is still alive and growing. Impacts over 3 million kids in the world. KOTYAR0 KOTYAR0 1 year ago You do a great help to the world. How are you getting paid for your work, who makes your budget? Sumit Srivastava Sumit Srivastava 1 year ago @KOTYAR0 Thank you! We don't get paid. It's all volunteers who want to provide the best educational tools to children, for free. Likes: 1 Linuxuser95 Highlighted reply Linuxuser95 2 hours ago Id like to know how Windows XP or 7 Worked with the OLPC ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From quozl at laptop.org Thu Jan 21 14:45:38 2021 From: quozl at laptop.org (James Cameron) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 06:45:38 +1100 Subject: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] A show of excitement and source of motivation for everyone here In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20210121194538.GA30976@laptop.org> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 09:23:18PM +0530, Sumit Srivastava wrote: > Just came across this one-year-old comment of mine on a YouTube > video titled "The Coolest Netbook You?ve Forgotten About: The OLPC > XO-1" when someone commented on my comment about 2 hours ago. [Link > to the video: [1]https:// youtu.be/UPP4ClRmVik] > > I thought that I'd share it all of you on the mailing list since it > shows that people are still excited to hear about the cool stuff > that the people here have built and the impact you're delivering > each and every day. All of you are awesome! > > Sharing the whole YouTube comment transcript here, without any > editing: Thanks. Reviewed. Your answer about Browse is out of date. You probably used Wiki pages that have not been updated for over a decade. Browse uses WebKit now. When you copy text written by someone else, please do credit them appropriately. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2019-June/056969.html https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md#be-considerate -- James Cameron https://quozl.linux.org.au/ From sumitsrisumit at gmail.com Thu Jan 21 15:00:45 2021 From: sumitsrisumit at gmail.com (Sumit Srivastava) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 01:30:45 +0530 Subject: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] A show of excitement and source of motivation for everyone here In-Reply-To: <20210121194538.GA30976@laptop.org> References: <20210121194538.GA30976@laptop.org> Message-ID: Hi, I agree that I should have credited you for that answer. Will credit you appropriately in the answer about Grayscale. Let me know if you've any updates that I could make in any other comments (like browse comment). I'll happily do so with credit. Thanks, Sumit On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 1:15 AM James Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 09:23:18PM +0530, Sumit Srivastava wrote: > > Just came across this one-year-old comment of mine on a YouTube > > video titled "The Coolest Netbook You?ve Forgotten About: The OLPC > > XO-1" when someone commented on my comment about 2 hours ago. [Link > > to the video: [1]https:// youtu.be/UPP4ClRmVik] > > > > I thought that I'd share it all of you on the mailing list since it > > shows that people are still excited to hear about the cool stuff > > that the people here have built and the impact you're delivering > > each and every day. All of you are awesome! > > > > Sharing the whole YouTube comment transcript here, without any > > editing: > > Thanks. Reviewed. > > Your answer about Browse is out of date. You probably used Wiki pages > that have not been updated for over a decade. Browse uses WebKit now. > > When you copy text written by someone else, please do credit them > appropriately. > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2019-June/056969.html > > https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md#be-considerate > > -- > James Cameron > https://quozl.linux.org.au/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: