Thanks Tomeu,<div>I would definitely like to attend something like that.</div><div> </div><div>Regards,</div><div>Mohit Taneja <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 06:31, Mohit Taneja <<a href="mailto:mohitgenii@gmail.com">mohitgenii@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> Food Force II >> >> Tested on 5 XOS, concept awesome and appropriate for developing countries >> (keep working on it please), takes a long time to load - uses a lot of >> processing power so runs real slow, shares in neighbourbood view but does >> not collaborate. Usability - ignoring slowness, the edges of the screen are >> designed to move the user view of the village but the selection buttons at >> the bottom of the screen are within the scroll trigger zone so when trying >> to select it is scrolling. Would be good if there was a "where you are now" >> indicator on the map (for when you have scrolled away from the village). >> Query - would speed increase if run from school server rather than local? We >> are extremely excited about this activity and look forward to seeing this >> improve. > > Hi, > I would firstly like to thank you guys for your comments. > Well definitely, I accept that moving the screen by making the mouse go > towards the edges is a problem, one reaason being that the control buttons > are within their range also in some cases it leads to the frame being showed > when one takes the mouse pointer to a particular edge. We would work on > making the requisite changes. > Also, it would be great to show the exact location of the player on the mini > map (right hand side - middle ). > And surely working on efficiency is always a priority. </div>If the SugarLabs's activity team would like to schedule an irc session about performance, I'd be glad to share the tricks I have learnt during the last two years. Regards, Tomeu <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> > Regards, > Mohit Taneja > Developer > Food Force II > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Tabitha Roder <<a href="mailto:tabitha.roder@gmail.com">tabitha.roder@gmail.com</a>> > wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> Thanks to Ian Thomson for coming along and talking to everyone about >> Oceania deployments. There were lots of fantastic talks today with a diverse >> group of people present. We are hoping to hear some kiwi's could be >> volunteering in the Pacific Islands over the next few months - fingers >> crossed funds can be found. >> >> Who came: Carl, Ian, Edward, Murray, Brenda, Callum, Uli, Jonathan, Kaleb, >> Joshhua, Aida, Tabitha, Aaron, Douglas, Queenie >> >> Food Force II >> Tested on 5 XOS, concept awesome and appropriate for developing countries >> (keep working on it please), takes a long time to load - uses a lot of >> processing power so runs real slow, shares in neighbourbood view but does >> not collaborate. Usability - ignoring slowness, the edges of the screen are >> designed to move the user view of the village but the selection buttons at >> the bottom of the screen are within the scroll trigger zone so when trying >> to select it is scrolling. Would be good if there was a "where you are now" >> indicator on the map (for when you have scrolled away from the village). >> Query - would speed increase if run from school server rather than local? We >> are extremely excited about this activity and look forward to seeing this >> improve. >> >> Chat >> Today we had bonjour chat on Ubuntu (pidgin on 8.10 and 8.4) talking to >> the XOs without issue. Intiating a chat from Ubuntu to the XOs would pop up >> a chat icon, which clicking on would start a Chat application. However, a OS >> X macbook with (using ichat bonjour) could see the XO's, but would return >> the error message "Instant Message connection failed. The other person's >> computer may not be reachable." Also, there is no way for an XO to initiate >> a chat, or see non-XO computers using the bonjour chat protocol. >> >> Plans for next couple of weeks - >> Next Saturday 17 January - learn how to pull apart your XO and put it back >> together (thanks Callum, our resident expert in XO repairs) - at The Cross >> Tuesday 27 January - meet Walter Bender, SugarLabs founder - further >> details to come but can say it will be at Catalyst offices in Willis Street >> One day soon - update from Andrew McMillan on OLPC presentations at Linux >> Conference (February?) >> One day soon - Martin Langhoff update on School server and python for >> sugar programming sessions (February?) >> >> Feel free to invite others. >> >> To keep up to date with what the New Zealand OLPC volunteers are doing, >> subscribe to <a href="mailto:olpc-nz@lists.laptop.org">olpc-nz@lists.laptop.org</a> by going to >> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz</a> >> >> Have a fantastic week! >> >> Kind regards >> Tabitha Roder >> >> (64)21482229 >> >> Support OLPC G1G1 - <a href="http://laptop.org/xo" target="_blank">laptop.org/xo</a> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Testing mailing list >> <a href="mailto:Testing@lists.laptop.org">Testing@lists.laptop.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing</a> >> > > > > -- > > Richard Dawkins  - "By all means let's be open-minded, but not so > open-minded that our brains drop out." > _______________________________________________ > Testing mailing list > <a href="mailto:Testing@lists.laptop.org">Testing@lists.laptop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing</a> > > </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Richard Dawkins  - "By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." </div>