[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Proposal: Lease expiry information display in My Settings -> About My Computer

[Anish Mangal]

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On Thursday 19 July 2012 08:26 PM, Samuel Greenfeld wrote:
> Personally I think this would be a reasonable feature.  But prior
> to this discussion I have never heard of the word "expiry" before.
> 
> In US English the synonym "expiration" tends to be used much more 
> often.  I do not know what the preferred international form is.
> 

I don't really know what the correct English would be, but expiration
sounds okay to me too. In India, we often use the word expiry, but
could be a common mistake :-)

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Anish

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> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Rafael Ortiz 
> <rafael at activitycentral.com <mailto:rafael at activitycentral.com>>
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> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Anish Mangal 
> <anish at activitycentral.com <mailto:anish at activitycentral.com>>
> wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I would like to propose a feature for discussion and inclusion in
> the 0.98 cycle.
> 
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Lease_Information_Display
> 
> This feature, which has been tested to work on 0.94 based
> dextrose-3 builds, displays information relating to lease expiry in
> the about my computer section in the my settings menu.
> 
> This feature is valuable for support staff in deployments which
> use OLPC's security system built on the XO laptops, and was
> specifically requested by the OLPC deployment in Paraguay.
> 
> Please go through the feature page for a more in-depth explanation
> and a screenshot. Looking forward to discussion and answering
> queries.
> 
> 
>> +1 to me, it's been used in dextrose w/o problems.
> 
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