etoys-dev August 2008

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[Etoys] screen sharing with Etoys on the XO
by Timothy Falconer 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Hi everyone, I've been doing some experimenting with screen sharing to help our pilots in Nicaragua and Haiti. They're having problems with twenty kids seeing the teachers laptop screen. Here's what I've found ... FOR THE TEACHER XO: 1) open up etoys on one XO, with the project you want to share 2) pause any scripts to make your life easier 3) click the white circle with the black dot in the toolbar 4) choose "make a badge" 5) when all other XOs have joined, you can safely delete the "buddy" holder FOR EACH OTHER XO: 1) click the neighborhood key (third from top-left) 2) find the shooting star and choose "join" from it 3) etoys should open, then show a "badge" with the teachers XO name 4) click the "S" button and a a little copy of the teacher screen should appear 5) click "1x1" to make the teacher screen bigger 6) move the pointer to the upper right corner and tell them not to move it (too confusing) You should now be able to use the teacher XO and have it replicated on the other XOs. In testing, I've found it can take about 15 to 20 seconds for the other XOs to catch up, though this varies based upon how much activity is happening from the teacher XO. Sometimes its instantaneous. In general, pause scripts when you can and plan your movements ... it'll speed things up. You can either broadcast from one mentor's XO to the other mentors, and assemble the kids around each, or you can try full broadcast. I tested with ten XOs sharing and there was no noticeable slowdown. You might experiment with one XO sharing to four XOs, then those four sharing to five XOs. Might speed things up. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. -- Timothy Falconer http://bigfractaltangle.com 610-393-1889 mobile Immuexa Corporation http://immuexa.com 610-797-3100

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[Etoys] Please test 8.2-754
by Bert Freudenberg 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

If you have an XO, please help test Etoys in build "8.2-754". Upgrading should be as simple as typing this in a root terminal: olpc-update -fr 8.2-754 This will download the build, install it, reboot, automatically launch the Sugar software update panel, and load activity updates (including Etoys-87). The build fixes all known major bugs (including the gribblies under the mouse pointer). We're interested in any oddities, this will become the major OLPC release for this year. Please report your findings here or on the bug tracker. Thanks! - Bert -

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[Etoys] Turkish Etoys?
by Bert Freudenberg 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

In Pootle, I see a Turkish Etoys translation: https://dev.laptop.org/translate/tr/etoys/ but it is not visible in git: https://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/etoys;a=tree;f=po;hb=HEAD How come? - Bert -

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[Etoys] etoys graphical artifacts in joyride-2303
by Ties Stuij 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

He list, We discovered some weird behaviour when running the latest etoys on the latest joyride (2303), prolly related to http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7830, so we filed it there. When running the cursor over for example the top icon bar, or when moving a tile, squares on the screen that just have been changed will not be updated. See the ticket page for two Etoys screenies. This is prolly an X.org bug btw. A workaround might be (the bug might not get fixed any time soon; a related ticket has not been fixed in half a year, and we don't want to disable hardware acceleration just for etoys I can imagine) to not pass -xshm to the -vm-display-x11 option when firing up squeak, which restores etoys behaviour to normal (just concerning this bug of course ;oP). Note that this doesn't happen on our 703 build. /Ties

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[Etoys] {waveplace} field notes are now public
by Timothy Falconer 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

Hi everyone, Inspired by the wonderful posts by Mary Scotti from our pilot in Nicaragua, I've upgraded the Waveplace blog with categories, feeds, etc. Especially cool is that our field notes are now public, which really give a feel for what it's like to be there: http://waveplace.com/news/blog/ To read some great older posts, click "Location - Virgin Islands". One snippet from the St John pilot, written by Bill Stelzer: --- One thing I also quickly discovered was where fourth graders go when they get internet access. YouTube. Specifically, Soulja Boy as interpreted by Alvin and the Chipmunks. Sadly they learned that the XO doesn't play flash videos, so after much experimentation, much of the class migrated to the school computer where they staged an impromptu hip hop concert. One exception though was Tracy, who was just staring at the Google home page on her XO. As I walked over to her, she said to me, "I want to see it." "What do you mean?" I asked. "The whole world, I want to see it." I told her she was already looking at it. That all she had to do was type it in. She didn't really believe me, so I asked her what she wanted to know about. She said New Jersey, so I said okay just type it in. Thought it was a bit strange as she entered it, but I didn't say anything. When the results for New Jersey came up, I showed her how to work Google images, to see pictures of New Jersey. With that she was off and exploring. -- Take care, Tim -- Timothy Falconer Waveplace Foundation http://waveplace.com 610-797-3100

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Re: [Etoys] (no subject)
by Samuel Klein 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

That's fantastic :-) The etoys team will be delighted... Sayamindu, is there anything else you need to add these to pootle? SJ On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Enkhmunkh Zurgaanjin <enky(a)mit.edu> wrote: > Hi Elana, > > I have just finished translating E-Toys (around 27'000 words) into > Mongolian. I > spent most of my time in finding right words in Mongolian. I attached the > translation with this email. > > Best, > Enky

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[Etoys] {waveplace} florida pilot finish & nicaragua pilot begins
by Timothy Falconer 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Last week, Waveplace finished our pilot in Immokalee, Florida. We'll be posting student storybooks soon, but for now you can watch our first Florida video, which gives a taste of our "improv theater" teaching style: http://waveplace.com/locations/florida/movie.jsp?id=79 There are also several newspaper and radio reports on our press page: http://waveplace.com/news/press/ as well as a few articles in our latest newsletter: http://waveplace.com/news/newsletter/web.jsp?id=8 Today we start our pilot near Rivas, Nicaragua. We're using Spanish- keyboard XOs and solar panels this time, since the school has no electricity. Our three Waveplace mentors flew in last night and will begin teaching the teachers today. The kids get their laptops tomorrow. We've also created a Waveplace channel on YouTube, where you can find all of our videos: http://www.youtube.com/waveplace Please leave comments and rank us, as we can use all the publicity we can get. Take care, Tim -- Timothy Falconer Waveplace Foundation http://waveplace.com 610-797-3100

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[Etoys] Squeak and EToys packages for Fedora and OLPC
by Gavin Romig-Koch 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

(If this message is inappropriate for this list - I apologies, and please let me know this.) My name is Gavin Romig-Koch, I've been working on creating Squeak and EToys RPMs that are (hopefully will be) usable and acceptable to both the Fedora and OLPC distributions. I have posted my first draft of these packages and would appreciate a review by anyone who is interested in such things. http://code.google.com/p/squeak-fedora/ This consists of .spec files, .patch files, and a Makefile to download upstream "sources" and build packages from them. There is also a TODO file listing the things I think/know need to work on before these are ready for Fedora or OLPC. If you find issues contact me. -gavin...

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[Etoys] Updated DrGeo page at OLPC wiki
by Hilaire Fernandes 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

I have updated a lot of information regarding DrGeo recent development and improvements. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DrGeo I strongly suggest to interested people to review it as there are many updated information and links. Among the things still to be done, a new package for XO laptop, I am not sure however I want to do it as it seems there is low interest on that. However, anyone is welcome to work on such package. Also please feel free to share your user experience in the section http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DrGeo#DrGeoII_happy_users your experience -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire

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[Etoys] More fun with DrGeo smalltalk script
by Hilaire Fernandes 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

More about DrGeo smalltalk script, explained in a recent article I wrote a few days ago: http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire/index.php?post/2008/08/05/More-fun-with-Small… -- http://blog.ofset.org/hilaire

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