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=== Tech Talk ===

=== Tech Talk ===

6. Sugar labs: David Van Assche reports that he has managed to get Sugar and collaboration via eJabbers working on a Linux terminal server (LTSP) using Ubuntu (a tip of the hat to those who offered their help on the #sugar channel). This means that you can now convert an existing networked lab to Sugar without installing any software on the client terminals. See http://www.nubae.com/sugar-on-ltsp-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex for a step-by-step guide. It should be easily replicated on other

6. Sugar labs: David Van Assche reports that he has managed to get Sugar and collaboration via eJabbers working on a Linux terminal server (LTSP) using Ubuntu (a tip of the hat to those who offered their help on the #sugar channel). This means that you can now convert an existing networked lab to Sugar without installing any software on the client terminals. See [http://www.nubae.com/sugar-on-ltsp-ubuntu-intrepid-ibex LTSP Sugar on Ubuntu Intrepid] for a step-by-step guide. It should be easily replicated on other distributions by using a distro-specific package manager.

distrobutions by using a distro-specific package manager.

7. Journal: C. Scott has been working on a new design for the Journal (See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal_reloaded). Lots of good ideas about making the Journal generally more friendly to users, developers, and to legacy applications.

7. Journal: C. Scott has been working on a new design for the Journal (See [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Journal_reloaded Journal Reloaded]). Lots of good ideas about making the Journal generally more friendly to users, developers, and to legacy applications.

8. GConf: Simon Schampijer has been landing the use of GConf for the profile in sugar-jhbuild to store preferences (See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/). The old API in Sugar/profile has been kept around so as not to break older Activities—for example to request the nickname or the icon colors of the user. An advantage of the new scheme is that you can run multiple instances of the emulator by repeated issuing of the 'SUGAR_PROFILE=username sugar-emulator' command. This works because we use gconf-dbus in sugar-jhbuild and therefore run one gconf daemon per instance.

8. GConf: Simon Schampijer has been landing the use of GConf for the profile in sugar-jhbuild to store preferences (See [http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ GConf]). The old API in Sugar/profile has been kept around so as not to break older Activities—for example to request the nickname or the icon colors of the user. An advantage of the new scheme is that you can run multiple instances of the emulator by repeated issuing of the 'SUGAR_PROFILE=username sugar-emulator' command. This works because we use gconf-dbus in sugar-jhbuild and therefore run one gconf daemon per instance.

9. NetworkManager: Simon is working on adopting the Sugar shell to use NetworkManager 0.7 during the next week (See Dan William's blog http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2007/10/15/networkmanager-07-is-the-new-chuck-norris/).

9. NetworkManager: Simon is working on adopting the Sugar shell to use NetworkManager 0.7 during the next week (See [http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2007/10/15/networkmanager-07-is-the-new-chuck-norris/ Dan William's blog]).

10. Potpourri: As usual, Marco Pesenti Gritti has been busy; he:

10. Potpourri: As usual, Marco Pesenti Gritti has been busy; he:

* reviewing and posting the API policy on the wiki.

* reviewing and posting the API policy on the wiki.

11. Sceencast: Chris Ball has revisited the question of how to do a Screencast in Sugar. He has written a new version of the Screencast Activity (http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/screencast/Screencast-1.xo). An old version, built by MediaMods, is here (http://mediamods.com/public-svn/camera-activity/tags/xo/Screencast-2.xo).

11. Sceencast: Chris Ball has revisited the question of how to do a Screencast in Sugar. He has written a new version of the Screencast Activity ([http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/screencast/Screencast-1.xo Screencast-1.xo]). An old version, built by MediaMods, is here ([http://mediamods.com/public-svn/camera-activity/tags/xo/Screencast-2.xo Screencast-2.xo]).

12: Other software releases this week include:

12: Other software releases this week include: