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Understanding 9/11OLPC Learning Club August Meeting at Nortel Networks
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This is the August 23, 2008 meeting of the OLPC Learning Club.
http://www.olpclearningclub.org
The slides presented in the meeting are posted here:
http://www.slideshare.net/fotogeek/1ccmedia-lab-aug-2008-presentation/
Timestamped notes for this audio recording follow below. Use the timestamps to advance the playback slider to points of interest in the recording.
0:00 Mike Lee and Rob Long intro at start
4:30 Rob Long greetings from Ottawa.
Two Nortel Ottawa staffers there. Patrick, and second person whose name I couldn't decipher.
10:58 Ottawa intros done.
11:30 Rob Long talking about 50 XOs in their network lab.
D.C. members introduce themselves.
12:20 Frank Lipton on audio sampling of bee sounds - 15 seconds of sound every hour for 24 hours for last four days. Uses cron to schedule.
13:30 Claire. 13 years-old.
14:00 Enterprise architect. interested in e-education, usability for children.
14:30 Paula, and son Sam.
15:00 Sean
15:10 Cricket Moore, grandmother. Told story of her grandchildren playing with Speak for four hours on a recent car trip.
15:50 Jim
16:10 Pete, grandfather
16:20 Ton Van Overbeek, grandfather, running latest joyride builds
16:50 Patricia Wood, librarian
17:20 Kevin Cole, Gallaudet U. open source advocate.
18:00 Mother of two. Daughter 3 & three-month-old.
18:40 Jim, grandfather
19:10 Chris. Whole family has XOs. Here with his friend. Eager to hear about Birmingham.
20:30 An XO speaks ...
21:20 Anna starts her talk calling in from Birmingham.
22:20 Anna: Everyone hates the built-in browser. Installing Firefox.
24:50 Anna: Mentions Barney build, a highly customized version of the XO operating system with many enhancements useful to beginner adult users.
26:10 Anna: Barney build needs dev key. Would like to get help packaging Barney and documenting it.
27:20 Anna: News media are going to be at today's Birmingham OLPC expo
28:05 Anna signs off
29:10 Mike: Club business. We'll have a table at the Takoma Park Folk Festival, September 14, 2008. Club meetings are going to be standardized on the third Sunday of every month from now on.
31:55 Mike starts his trip report. Runs through slides posted on Slideshare. Slides have some notes.
1:22:30 Mike finishes trip report, no questions from Ottawa.
1:22:50 Conversation with Patrick on snag with loading Activities. Suggestions for further help? Using build 703.
1:24:20 Kevin tells Patrick about Bert's scripts.
1:25:20 Ton suggests trying a different brand of USB stick.
1:26:30 Patrick asks about how to connect to internet if Browse activity isn't present.
1:27:30 Tip: Control-Alt-F2 , keycap with three dots (group) will open another terminal if the Terminal activity has disappeared.
Singed off conference call. Meeting continued another hour with folks meshing and exchanging tips and help.
http://www.olpclearningclub.org
The slides presented in the meeting are posted here:
http://www.slideshare.net/fotogeek/1ccmedia-lab-aug-2008-presentation/
Timestamped notes for this audio recording follow below. Use the timestamps to advance the playback slider to points of interest in the recording.
0:00 Mike Lee and Rob Long intro at start
4:30 Rob Long greetings from Ottawa.
Two Nortel Ottawa staffers there. Patrick, and second person whose name I couldn't decipher.
10:58 Ottawa intros done.
11:30 Rob Long talking about 50 XOs in their network lab.
D.C. members introduce themselves.
12:20 Frank Lipton on audio sampling of bee sounds - 15 seconds of sound every hour for 24 hours for last four days. Uses cron to schedule.
13:30 Claire. 13 years-old.
14:00 Enterprise architect. interested in e-education, usability for children.
14:30 Paula, and son Sam.
15:00 Sean
15:10 Cricket Moore, grandmother. Told story of her grandchildren playing with Speak for four hours on a recent car trip.
15:50 Jim
16:10 Pete, grandfather
16:20 Ton Van Overbeek, grandfather, running latest joyride builds
16:50 Patricia Wood, librarian
17:20 Kevin Cole, Gallaudet U. open source advocate.
18:00 Mother of two. Daughter 3 & three-month-old.
18:40 Jim, grandfather
19:10 Chris. Whole family has XOs. Here with his friend. Eager to hear about Birmingham.
20:30 An XO speaks ...
21:20 Anna starts her talk calling in from Birmingham.
22:20 Anna: Everyone hates the built-in browser. Installing Firefox.
24:50 Anna: Mentions Barney build, a highly customized version of the XO operating system with many enhancements useful to beginner adult users.
26:10 Anna: Barney build needs dev key. Would like to get help packaging Barney and documenting it.
27:20 Anna: News media are going to be at today's Birmingham OLPC expo
28:05 Anna signs off
29:10 Mike: Club business. We'll have a table at the Takoma Park Folk Festival, September 14, 2008. Club meetings are going to be standardized on the third Sunday of every month from now on.
31:55 Mike starts his trip report. Runs through slides posted on Slideshare. Slides have some notes.
1:22:30 Mike finishes trip report, no questions from Ottawa.
1:22:50 Conversation with Patrick on snag with loading Activities. Suggestions for further help? Using build 703.
1:24:20 Kevin tells Patrick about Bert's scripts.
1:25:20 Ton suggests trying a different brand of USB stick.
1:26:30 Patrick asks about how to connect to internet if Browse activity isn't present.
1:27:30 Tip: Control-Alt-F2 , keycap with three dots (group) will open another terminal if the Terminal activity has disappeared.
Singed off conference call. Meeting continued another hour with folks meshing and exchanging tips and help.
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