Hi Yoshiki -

This list looks like a great start. I agree with all of these topics as they correspond to issues that we need to address for one reason or another. The two extra issues I'd put on this list are:

* Generic "sensor support" (along the lines of world stethoscope) if that makes any sense at all (e.g., if OLPC will have the means to plug in cheap sensible sensors)

* OLPC-centric interface, meaning that we need to spend some time integrating the OLPC-specific means for opening projects, sharing them (both locally and remotely) providing means for data exchange between activities etc.

Cheers, - Andreas

Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

Hello,

Now seems to be a good time (even though the B-Test1 schedule seems to be pushing back) to think about the next major items to be addressed for B-Test2 (and later) milestones. Here is rough summary:

• Upto one VM instance per machine. Right now, you can create more than one VMs just by clicking the shooting star icon. It has some implication in the tactics of "background activity", which Bert asked but I think we didn't get definitive answer.

• Address the tickets on the dev.laptop.org. Some short-term items are listed on the trac system. Takashi says he is looking at the gettext. (I'll list some items from Jerome Peace.)

• Look and feel adjustment. OLPC's look is changing. We need to find a good timing to do it so that we don't end up with doing the same thing not too many times. This includes, perhaps, move some menu items to OLPC's chrome, change the way that halos work, etc.

• Authoring tool for mentoring. Upon EventPlaybackSpace (or something), a tool that a designer and developers can use should be built.

• Contents. Working with designers to make different tutorial contents built upon the above item.

• Voice over machinary. Hooking a better sound codec than GSMCodec with Squeak. Ogg Vorbis comes to my mind, but we need to check again with OLPC folks.

• Video. Diego says he updated the V4L2 binding. We will test it and make sure it works with the camera.

• Script shaping. A reasonable way is to write a text renderer that uses Pango primitives.

There can be more... Some might think that there are items we can do for B-Test1, but I think we are now safe to start concentrating on the B-Test2.

Any suggestions and feedback is welcome.

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Yoshiki Ohshima wrote on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:08:45 -0800

Now seems to be a good time (even though the B-Test1 schedule seems to be pushing back) to think about the next major items to be addressed for B-Test2 (and later) milestones.

It seems to me that the two largest issues to be addressed before the final release (middle of next year?) are IPv6 support and dealing with Arabic and Thai scripts. Neither is very easy.

-- Jecel