Of the 12 servers sent to Sugar Labs, 6 arrived at the Arlington Career Center. Three of them stayed there, whereas I brought three home to attempt to salvage what I could from them. The three that arrived are described below. wmf-01 “le premier” 2x Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 285 @ 2606.342 MHz 2x [...]
After reading several articles about the alleged spying that was enabled by a Pennsylvania school district via its one-to-one MacBook, and seeing discussion on a variety of mailing lists, I’ve decided to implement my own zero-cost, no-hassle solution to the problem for the OLPC XO-1‘s camera. This should be able to be adopted in deployments [...]
Apologies for not posting recently, but I’ve been really busy with various events and tasks for the summer. I just got back from NECC09, where ISTE had been nice enough to give Sugar and other FLOSS projects their own presentation room, gratis. While assisting with the various presentations at the Open Source Center and staffing [...]
Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) is a great product in development at Sugar Labs which enables children to take the Sugar Learning Environment with them wherever they go. SoaS suffers from deployment issues in some use cases, namely that it can be difficult to manage a school full of them; the maintenance from having to [...]
For those of you who missed the announcement a few weeks ago, the DC LoCo will be hosting an Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” bug jam at Gallaudet University in the Student Union Building. The meeting will immediately follow that of the OLPC Learning Club, and we’re expecting some spillover. In addition to packaging mentoring offered [...]
It’s done: Sugar packages for Ubuntu Jaunty are no longer maintained in Git at Alioth. Usually we maintain Sugar packages in Debian’s Git services at Alioth. Ideally, every Ubuntu SugarTeam member is also a Debian OLPC maintainer on Alioth, who have the rights to push Debian/Ubuntu-spesific fixes upstream. When we are close to a freeze [...]
Turns out that there isn’t one command to revert all local changes in git, nor are the docs very helpful in that regard. The magical alchemy you need to know is git reset –hard HEAD Don’t do the following, (which is what you’d think to do if you were familiar with SVN), because it’ll undo [...]