<div dir="ltr"><div>In Haiti XO-1s will be dominant across many schools for years and year to come. Similar to Tony's description, but these typically will be using 32GB SD cards -- thankfully these are incredibly affordable.<br></div><div><br><div><div class="gmail_extra">The resilience/repairability of the XO-1 laptops is the absolutely fascinating part. Regardless if historians of technology will look down their noses from the Rich West's / Rich East's de facto preference for one-upmanship (throwaway cute gadgets). Or conversely if they will look back from Poor/Southern Nations' de facto environmentalism/repair principles -- purposefully appropriating and re-appropriating a technologies beyond their intended use.<br><br>Generally if the mouse issue is solved on early XO-1 laptops (where early 2007/2008 touchpads were overly annoyingly erratic) then these laptops continue to long outlast their projected 5-year-lifespan -- if the culture of learning & electricity are real -- not just adding a USB mouse! I was one of several who did not believe in 2007 that a 5-year-lifespan was at all feasible. But I turned out to be completely wrong. And then some~<br><br>As usual the real challenges are far more social than technical: deliberate right-sizing of content/activity planning for the community in question (we are building a more content-rich version of HaitiOS from Sugar 0.108 and OLPC OS 13.2.7) while aligning peer-mentoring with adult-mentoring, and of course pressure from national testing around Grade 6-or-so in almost every country. These mammoths-in-the-room epic challenges keep eternally popping up for a reason (and sometimes even getting answered!!) Human Patterns across most all developing world communities, on all continents. Repair of keyboards/ears and occasional screens is of course also an issue when usage is very physical among those who won't give kin(esth)etic learning a break, as every librarian for the last hundred years has known ;-)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">PS Dave, read through <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Reuse_checklist">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Reuse_checklist</a> if you want to do a time-lapse overhaul refurb like <a href="http://youtu.be/daVDrGsaDME">http://youtu.be/daVDrGsaDME</a> -- we even got the security guards involved in helping us out in such physical repair/upgrades in a restaurant in Haiti less than 2 week ago -- works far better than Miss/Mister Universe posters I guarantee it :}<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Tony Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hi, Dave<br>
<br>
My vague recollection is that over 80% of all XOs built are XO-1
models. I have one with 0.82 installed and somehow have become
reluctant <br>
to upgrade. It is often valuable to compare how we are doing things
now with the status then. In addition, an overwhelming number of
deployed XO-1s are still using that release.<br>
<br>
One valuable option is to install Sugar on an SD card
(<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.7" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/13.2.7</a>). This gives the
best of both worlds. You <br>
can boot 0.82 or install the sd card and boot 13.2.7. The sd card
should provide 4-8GB (compared with the base 1GB). I use 8GB because
the price <br>
per GB is favorable to the 4GB cards.<br>
<br>
Tony<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 04/01/2016 11:30 AM, Dave Crossland
wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Hi</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">In the thread '[Sugar-devel] Wanted:
Record activity port to GStreamer 0.10' today James Cameron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span>
wrote:</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
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<div style="overflow:hidden">for the
future of Sugar Labs, they should be concentrating on<br>
later designs than one from 2007 that is no longer
available and<br>
rapidly dying from old age.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">I just got a XO-1, so I wonder
about this :)</div>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
Does anyone know (roughly) how many active XO-1 users there
are in the world today? </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">And how many
Sugar-on-a-regular-desktop-or-laptop (via SOAS or distros)
users there are? </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">I guess Sugar has been developed to
always run on XO-1s up to the present date - is this true?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">What do people think about sunset
planning for Sugar on XO-1s? <br>
</div>
<br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://goo.gl/photos/2T4Z3wq3oSuyF9Ns5" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/photos/2T4Z3wq3oSuyF9Ns5</a><br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">(I got my XO-1 from eBay, fully
working, no dead pixels - will run a battery life test on it
tonight :) The previous owner had installed 0.82.1
(released 2008-09-30) so I'll try upgrading it to the latest
Fedora XO distro and Sugar 0.108.0 (the last stable release
from last month) over this weekend.)</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">Cheers</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">Dave</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
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