Tue, 06 Nov 2007
New Job
For those that dont know yet. Im changing jobs. I accepted an offer from OLPC, I will be their build system and release engineer person. I will be working remotely however I will be spending time in Boston, so any fedora people that want to catch up drop me a line. This is an opportunity that came my way entirely because of my work with fedora. So to everyone that works on Fedora thank you. I officially start on Nov 12.
What does this mean for fedora? Well for one, I plan to do everything I can in fedora. I will be spending more time on fedora. I will also be trying to build a community around OLPC. Hopefully much like mmcgrath has done with Fedora Infrastructure. I would like to enable people to build their own custom firmware for the XO. Mainly enabling the countries to be self sufficient. Take the pieces that are of intrest to them and make it work. Right now im just barely getting my toes wet and have yet to work out everything that will be involved. I will be posting as often as I can, making sure that everyone knows whats going on. It really is intresting to see how OLPC has taken the fedora base and added sugar on top of it. It is not your fathers fedora :).
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Posted by Jeffrey Tadlock at Fri Jun 27 01:58:34 2008
Thanks for the update Dennis. I haven't seem to hear as much about the OLPC since the XP news and rumours started being tossed about.
Posted by Debarshi Ray at Fri Jun 27 09:05:39 2008
Do the XOs use Smolt to upload usage statistics? Would be nice if some fraction of those 390,000 got reflected in the Smolt database. :-)
Posted by Peter at Fri Jun 27 09:12:26 2008
Hi,
Great to see an update. I was looking around trying to find details of how to build the equivalent of the OLPC stuff from a Fedora 9 or rawhide repo but came up blank. I did find out that there were plans of moving to F-9 as a base but not a whole lot more. It would be very nice to have a fedora wiki page linking to some details like a .ks file to be able to build an livecd, installer or image of the OLPC or school server stuff from Fedora. Also links to various olpc base distro stuff on their wiki as when I looked I found little or no info on how to do it, found some random .ks files from people etc. I'd love to help out as I was thinking of using the small olpc distro base as part of another itch I was thinking of scratching. Feel free to drop me and email.
Posted by Luya Tshimbalanga at Fri Jun 27 17:41:29 2008
Following the OLPC for a while, I notice modules to translate inside transifex are gone. What needs to be done is to put them again so other translators can effectively make activities available in more languages.
Posted by Sayamindu at Fri Jun 27 21:49:02 2008
@Luya
We use a newer system for our translations - called Pootle. You can check out a description of our process at http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pootleforxo2.pdf