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- Now talking on #sugar-meeting
- Topic for #sugar-meeting is: The meeting channel for the sugar developers (sugarlabs.org) | see also #sugar | meeting time: thursdays 14.00 UTC
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- <walter> 'morning greg
- <_bernie> morning
- <walter> ciao Bernardo
- <tomeu> hi all!
- jkridner|work (n=a0321898@nat/ti/x-63592e753150a336) has joined #sugar-meeting
- <jkridner|work> hi _bernie
- gregdek hullos.
- <walter> hi. Marco won't be joining us, but I think David is going to be here.
- <walter> Any word from Chris?
- <_bernie> cjb: ping
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- <dfarning_> Good morning all
- <walter> I think we have a quorum. Let's get started, as I have a hard 15UTC deadline today.
- <walter> I posted a few items on the wiki...
- <walter> I think everyone saw the email from Karen re SFC?
- <walter> We still are not listed on their site, but we are officially official now.
- <tomeu> yup, was nice to read
- <dfarning_> Yes! that is good news
- <gregdek> Sorry for the delay getting us there. :/
- <walter> I set up a stub for donation on the wiki... We have a few other odds and ends to take care of...
- <walter> @gregdek: NP
- <walter> Bernie, how do we set up new aliases on sugarlabs?
- <walter> We need to set up an alias for our correspondence with the SFC.
- <dfarning_> walter, you have admin rights for setting up email at start.sugarlabs.org
- <erikos> walter: for people like me - it would be good to send a reminder to the list - i would have forgotten :)
- <walter> @erikos: did you subscribe to the calendar...
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- <_bernie> walter: go to mail.sugarlabs.org, you should have an account
- <erikos> walter: oh i don't use gmail :/
- <walter> there is an ical version too
- <walter> shall the sfc email go to slobs?
- <_bernie> erikos: I think you don't need gmail... it's a caldav thing that works with any calendar app
- <erikos> walter: ok i guess i will just add it to my old-school calendar then - don't worry
- <dfarning_> That sounds reasonable
- <tomeu> yeah, sending to slobs sounds good
- <erikos> _bernie: i don't use any digital one :)
- <erikos> tomeu: me not on slobs
- <walter> david, have you heard back from karen re your list?
- <dfarning_> walter no not yet.
- <tomeu> erikos: no, we are talking about an address to where SFC will send email when need anything from sugarlabs
- <erikos> tomeu: oh sorry :p
- <_bernie> erikos: (me neither)
- <walter> I think there is no harm in everyone on the oversight board getting that email.
- <tomeu> as long as it's not totally public, I think we are good
- <walter> David: maybe we should plan to call Karen next week?
- <walter> Let me know what works for you.
- <dfarning_> That sounds good. Any time you set up should be good for me
- <walter> Bernie, Seth and I were discussing membership.
- <walter> I think the threshold for membership should be to ask a question...
- <walter> even "how do I become a member?"
- <walter> I don't think this would be an issue.
- <_bernie> walter: I agree to a low barrier membership policy
- <tomeu> me too
- <dfarning_> At this point I was waiting for feedback from SFC about the ICA before raising the issue
- <_bernie> some FOSS projects require the applicants to go on "trial" and show their past contribution as evidence
- <walter> Yeah. But we should go into the conversation with the SFC with a position we are targeting.
- <_bernie> to become a fedora sponsor, I had to say what packages and reviews I made
- <dfarning_> Ok
- <walter> There was an interesting PHD thesis I read about the other types of contributions, e.g., documentation, testing, support, that are vital parts of the community in FLOSS
- <dfarning_> I restart working on guidelines this week
- <walter> OK.
- <dfarning_> Yes the non-traditional nature of Sugar Labs will be interesting
- <walter> Anything else re SFC? I am waiting to hear back re Google Checkout and Paypal.
- <dfarning_> just the pending trademark discussion
- <walter> Yeah. Now that we have a logo.
- <dfarning_> also we need to start looking into partner organization and local support organizations
- <dfarning_> a discussion with SFC on these issues would be helpful
- <walter> Yes. Colombia is not the only instance.
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- <walter> Peru is interested. Pakistan is interested.
- <dfarning_> very nice
- <tomeu> in establishing local partners of sugarlabs?
- <walter> yes.
- <_bernie> seth seems to be willing to fill the gap for the learning^2 foundation
- <dfarning_> we are interested in formally partnering with organization like solutions grove and resara
- <_bernie> he wants to develop content
- <walter> I am working on this with USMP in Peru and with a team in Pakistan
- <tomeu> walter: sounds good, those local organizations would also take care of local deployments?
- <walter> @dfarning_: yes... a different sort of partnership.
- <walter> @tomeu: exactly the point
- <tomeu> walter: have you already prospected linux user groups, etc?
- <walter> and developing new features driven by local needs.
- <walter> I met with the Ubuntu group in Lima. There will be lots of Ubuntu folks in Boston in the coming weeks... we should plan to connect with them during SugarCamp
- <walter> I don't know the Pakistan community very well yet.
- <walter> But Rafael is driving the Colombia effort...
- <dfarning_> Structurally, the local support will be likely be organized as 'Sugar Labs - Region'
- <erikos> walter: which SugarCamp - in Paris ?
- <walter> erikos: SugarCamp in Boston__what was to have been XOCamp.
- <dfarning_> this will allow them to leverage the Sugar Labs name and avoid the headaches of setting up their own foundations
- <walter> Yes
- <tomeu> erikos: scott proposed this: http://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugarcamp_proposal
- <erikos> walter: ok so you guys will meet with tomeu and marco basically
- _bernie thinks that rafael rocks
- <tomeu> erikos: well, sugarcamp is a set of technical talks
- <walter> I think people like Michael and Scott and others will be there too.
- <tomeu> yeah, dirakx++
- <erikos> tomeu: ok i see now
- <tomeu> I personally think we'll have enough non-technical stuff to do at boston, but well...
- <walter> I will be in Europe from the 12th to the 19th, so I'll only partial overlap.
- <walter> And I will probably be back in Europe again around the 1st of December.
- <erikos> walter: right i remembered that - we should coordinate maybe i can join at some place
- <walter> I have interest from Telecom Italia, BT, and a new Nokia lead all to follow up on as well.
- <walter> @erikos: I'll be in Dusseldorf, Balzano, and Tampere.
- <tomeu> walter: oh, so you are going to paris on the 15th?
- <walter> I cannot get to Paris on the 15th. I will try to get there on the 1st
- <tomeu> I see
- <walter> Maybe Simon can go?
- <tomeu> was interesting to hear about mandriva in the codecamp
- <erikos> i will check a bit dates and see what makes sense
- <walter> There has been great movement in all the distros... Fedora leading the way for Ubuntu, Gentoo, Debian, etc.
- <_bernie> tomeu, erikos: someone should make proposals of simple tasks for the upcoming codecamp in Paris
- <dfarning_> There is also a netbook conference in paris that mandriva has invited us to
- <_bernie> tomeu, erikos: anything that a team of novices could complete in one day
- <walter> Yes. That is on the 1st, I believe.
- <_bernie> janitorial tasks are ok if not too boring
- <erikos> _bernie: yup - on my list of tasks
- <walter> Maybe we should segway to events?
- <tomeu> yeah, the sugar fedora spin rocks
- <_bernie> Bastien expects to have 5 developers willing and capable to contribute to sugar.
- <tomeu> segway?
- <tomeu> _bernie: a pity 0.83 is unstable, we added some new hooks to sugar that makes easier to write extensions
- <dfarning_> tomeu, smart person talk for 'goto'
- <tomeu> aha ;)
- <walter> I though it was a two-wheel electronic scooter...
- <walter> http://www.segway.com/
- <tomeu> would be very good to establish some presence between paris and belgium, there's a lot of FOSS movement there
- <tomeu> yeah, the prague center is full of tourists killing pidgeons on that
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- _bernie doesn't have the latest adobe flash player
- _bernie is a fundamentalist
- <_bernie> tomeu: one important point when we approach new FOSS groups is to have a TODO list of tasks we'd like to get done
- <tomeu> what's about trac?
- <erikos> _bernie: me the same :)
- <_bernie> tomeu: and a simple procedure to get started
- <walter> Anything we need to discuss re SugarCamp? Does everyone have a place to stay who is coming?
- <tomeu> _bernie: agreed, we have done some, but didn't had much luck
- <_bernie> tomeu: mentoring is very important I think
- <tomeu> _bernie: but we should keep trying
- <erikos> tomeu: jumped over ?
- <_bernie> tomeu: yeah even if only 1 out of 10 becomes a regular contributor, it might be worth the effort.
- <walter> Bernie and I pledged to deal with the outstanding infrastructure issues by the end of next week.
- <dfarning_> I do not yet have a place to stay
- <tomeu> walter: marco and me are still undecided where to stay, would be good if a local said which of the available options makes more sense
- <erikos> about trac - i heard from marco that there are efforts for the trac and git hosting - what is the status here?
- <tomeu> _bernie: totally, 1 of 10 would be very good
- <dfarning_> OSL has our vm up and running
- <walter> @dfarning: You can stay at my place for the later have of the week...
- <dfarning_> git should come online today or monday
- <erikos> dfarning_: yeah!!!
- <tomeu> nice ;)
- <erikos> dfarning_: thanks so much for these efforts - this will be a huge step!
- <_bernie> dfarning_: cool! I've been falling behind on my email yesterday but I've seen there was some activity
- <walter> @tomeu: my house is a bit of a hike: about an hour by public transportation... 45 minutes by bicycle...
- <walter> Did you guys see the GCompris email today from Bruno?
- <dfarning_> trac a few day later - there are some version issues between cenos5.2 and recent trac packages
- <walter> We need to host activities...
- <tomeu> walter: yeah, what can SL do about it? do we have enough bw?
- <_bernie> as for our second server, olpc might have hardware to offer, according to hhardy.
- <walter> We have the same b'width as OLPC--we are on the MIT network.
- <_bernie> dfarning_: do you think we can reach the SFC admins on irc or jabber?
- <tomeu> walter: so would be easier to host the gcompris activities?
- <_bernie> communication between me and them has been a bit sloppy
- <_bernie> dfarning_: they keep replying only to you! ;-)
- <dfarning_> walter: what would be involved in hosting activities
- <walter> I don't see why we don't offer to host activities, once we have the server set up.
- <dfarning_> _bernie: you are now on the osl RT
- <walter> It is really just the git tree and a web page...
- <_bernie> walter: no, what gcompris email?
- <tomeu> ok, so if 3TB is not too much, let's do it
- <tomeu> _bernie: bruno had to pull down the activities because too many kids were downloading them
- <walter> Bruno turned off downloads from Gcompris because he couldn't handle the load. He had requested OLPC hosting and never heard back.
- <_bernie> we need to host them
- <tomeu> yup
- <erikos> i think hosting activities would be very important
- <walter> +1.
- <_bernie> erikos: me too
- <tomeu> so if we all agree, can someone create an user for bruno and make some place for him to upload the activities?
- <dfarning_> Could we host them from downloads.sugarlabs.org I think that is on the sun machine ivan has access to
- <_bernie> being an activity author is a natural first step to becoming a sugar contributor
- <_bernie> dfarning_: yes
- <tomeu> and activities are what users really care about
- <_bernie> dfarning_: only problem is that we don't have much space
- <walter> I suppose we can host the downloads without hosting the source (until we get git)
- <_bernie> but it's ok for activities
- <dfarning_> ok good, I promised OSL we would self host our resource hogs for now
- <dfarning_> walter: git is coming very soon
- <dfarning_> _bernie: do we need more hard drives for the sun machine?
- <_bernie> dfarning_: not unless we want to host big downloads (such as isos)
- <walter> I think we want to the distros to host the ISOs.
- <_bernie> ivan proposed to buy a usb disk enclosure and hook it to solarsail. crude, but cheap.
- <walter> @bernie: we have to go shopping next week...
- <_bernie> gregdek: do you think we could get an account on people.redhat.com or similar to host large downloads?
- <dfarning_> who would like to like handle the move to our own get server?
- <_bernie> walter: lol
- <dfarning_> s/get/git/
- <_bernie> dfarning_: me... should be rather easy
- <gregdek> people.rh.c is already complaining about hosting the Fedora Sugar ISO. :/
- <_bernie> dfarning_: but for now, let's just _add_ not move
- <walter> yes.
- <tomeu> dfarning_: think as _bernie
- <tomeu> dfarning_: we have some new stuff to host there
- <tomeu> moving will be very easy technically, as it's git
- <dfarning_> tomeu: I will try to become one with bernie:)
- <_bernie> and even when we move a project, git makes it easy to maintain two independent trees synchronized
- <tomeu> dfarning_: sorry, I meant I thought the same as _bernie ;)
- <_bernie> "easy" is a relative term of course
- <_bernie> nothing is easy in git ;-)
- <tomeu> _bernie: I think it's the only thing that git makes easy ;)
- <walter> I need to take off soon...
- <walter> Can I give a quick update re fundrasing?
- <dfarning_> yes!
- <_bernie> "git, designed to make forking easy -- and nothing else"
- <walter> We still have no money :)
- <erikos> if our own git is up - i write a new activity only to have something new to host :)
- <tomeu> no money, no problems
- <_bernie> I will move xaos
- <tomeu> erikos: write an activity day ;)
- <walter> But we have a modest travel budget from Pininfarina beginning next year.
- <_bernie> we are poor but honest
- <walter> And I have submitted three more grant proposal yesterday (to the Knight Foundation)
- <tomeu> walter: nice, in what else are we partnering with pininfarina?
- <erikos> walter: what company/org is this ?
- <walter> and one more going in today.
- <_bernie> walter: wow
- <_bernie> walter: do we get ferraris?
- <_bernie> walter: Make sure I get a Testarossa
- <erikos> _bernie: yeah saw the page and was wondering as well ;p
- <walter> Pininfarina designs jets too. And speed boats, so our travel woes are over!!
- <dfarning_> I have also advocated the position that it is hard to make spending mistakes when one has no money
- <walter> but they also design toothbrushes...
- <walter> And maybe Sugar-enabled devices...
- <_bernie> "meanwhile, the SLOBs are riding on their invisible jet to a their secret headquarters..."
- <walter> We just use our "transporter". Beam me up, Bernie.
- <_bernie> "oops, I had the wrong version of libcompress.so... you're screwed"
- <tomeu> ok, we are going to be rich and famous soon, what else?
- <walter> Anyway, I'll be talking to several more funding agencies in the coming weeks. And I am starting to push on industry--for in kind support, i.e., engineers. Some interest from BT just yesterday.
- <tomeu> oh, nice
- <walter> I didn't write up much of a trip report yet from Peru--but lots of great stuff happening there.
- <walter> I'll try to get something written up this weekend: I have some data on how children are learning with Sugar
- <walter> dramatic numbers!
- <_bernie> nice
- <dfarning_> walter: in kind support will be very helpful - dependable engineering support - without us allowing ourselves to close ranks
- <erikos> walter: looking forward to that
- <gregdek> In kind as important or more important than cash, in many cases.
- <gregdek> imho.
- <walter> Yeah. Bernie and I go to Resara on Monday...
- <_bernie> When we have a moment, I'd like to introduce jkridner and aleph. They have been lurking on the channel for a while.
- <walter> @gregdek: the RH example being one :)
- <tomeu> wonder if we could get some of the .uy teachers in translating, aggreggating lesson plans, etc
- <walter> Where would we be without RH?
- <tomeu> sure, for manning, in kind is best
- <gregdek> :)
- <_bernie> Jason Kridner is the FOSS lead at Texsas Instruments. They hosted our talk at ESC Boston
- <erikos> _bernie: did you make new friends in the embedded world ? ;p
- <walter> The Peru team is doing great material too.
- <walter> And there is a translation project at IBM I am tapping into.
- <walter> Engish/Arabic only to start...
- <_bernie> Stefano "aleph" Fedrigo has been helping out with the Sugar -> BB port, and before that he helped me with my X11 work at 1cc
- <tomeu> walter: any progress in getting more teachers from peru in olpc-sur?
- <walter> Well. I need to go. Can someone transcribe the notes after this point in the wiki?
- <walter> @tomeu: yes. More Peru engagement for one...
- <tomeu> hi jkridner|work, aleph_6510
- <walter> Sugar_Labs/OversightBoard/Minutes/Log-2008-10-31
- <erikos> welcome jkridner|work, aleph_6510
- <tomeu> walter: I can take care of that, will be around for at least one more half an hour
- <_bernie> Walter and Jason had incompatible schedules this week so they couldn't meet in person
- <walter> @tomeu: I'll take care of the formating later...
- <tomeu> TI/BB may be interesting for deployers of Sugar interested in crafting their own devices
- <walter> ciao
- <tomeu> fine, see you
- <_bernie> (jason was on a phone call a few minutes ago... might still be busy)
- <_bernie> uh, are we finished already?
- <_bernie> ;-)
- <tomeu> well, I wanted to hear about the BugSquad
- <dfarning_> tomeu: yes the TI relationship is premised on embedded developers and designers building embedded devices running sugar
- <tomeu> as it's in the agenda...
- <_bernie> I have time
- <_bernie> dfarning_: that's my expectation too.
- <tomeu> the XO hardware is very sweet, but there must be ways of improving it ;)
- <_bernie> dfarning_: the chip maker reference designs often turn into dozens of products from different companies in the same industry.
- <erikos> tomeu: i have not kept up with the bugsquad lately
- <aleph_6510> hello all! Nice to meet you :-)
- <_bernie> and clearly soon or later we'll see a generation of non-x86 ultraportables
- <erikos> tomeu: maybe with the new development release we have something to test and i can coordinate and update a bit
- <tomeu> erikos: maybe later in the cycle, and once we have trac
- <dfarning_> hey aleph_6510 thanks for helping _bernie on the beagle board
- <_bernie> aleph_6510: thanks for all your help
- <tomeu> erikos: wonder if there are people interested in packaging 0.83.1 in distros
- <tomeu> _bernie, aleph_6510: how well does sugar run on it?
- <_bernie> tomeu: we already have that in fedora right? I'm just a fedora developer...
- <tomeu> _bernie: no 0.83 packages yet in fedora, but we could do
- <_bernie> perhaps I should find the time and use this opportunity to learn packaging for debian/ubuntu
- <tomeu> _bernie: would be nice to update sugar on joyride
- <tomeu> _bernie: the problem is that this requires NM 0.7
- <erikos> tomeu: yeah was just thinking about the packing issue as well
- <tomeu> _bernie: and joyride is now F9+NM 0.6
- <_bernie> tomeu: ok I'll talk with cscott about it
- <erikos> tomeu: NM is ready soon
- <_bernie> tomeu: I'm sure we can coordinate this
- <tomeu> _bernie: nice, I can help with sugar rpms
- <_bernie> F9 normally would come with NM 0.7... we downgraded it because sugar was not yet ready
- <tomeu> oh, ok
- <dfarning_> _bernie: Jonas is keeping up with the debian packages he is smart but quirky
- <tomeu> _bernie: I actually tried to install NM 0.7 in joyride, but didn't managed to get it to work
- <dfarning_> The SugarTeam at ubuntu has recently gotten up to spead
- <aleph_6510> dfarning_: I think Sugar is a wonderful project... I look forward contribute someway
- <_bernie> aleph_6510: when you have time, we have bugs
- <dfarning_> aleph_6510: we also look forward to your help:)
- <_bernie> or missing features
- <aleph_6510> Nice, I'm good at debugging ;-)
- <tomeu> aleph_6510: what are your interests? we can think something fun and useful
- <jkridner|work> hi tomeu, erikos
- <jkridner|work> nice to meet you all.
- * jkridner|work was on a phone call earlier.
- <dfarning_> jkridner|work: how did you feel that the sugar on beagleboard talk went?
- <jkridner|work> I think it was quite interesting, but needed more activities loaded on the card to get people familiar with Sugar.
- <jkridner|work> It was certainly able to reach a few people in the audience who had a lot of interest and cornered Bernie after the talk.
- <aleph_6510> tomeu: low level and system stuff. I'm very proficient with C/C++, but a beginner in python. Anyway I could take the chance to learn something of it
- <jkridner|work> others were confused how education and embedded systems overlapped.
- <dfarning_> I have jumped on a education thread on the beagleboard to try gathering support
- <jkridner|work> most people were very interested in playing with the interface, but were stymied by not having activities installed and no net/serial connection as the lab was setup.
- <tomeu> jkridner|work: was mentioned the possibility of doing custom UIs similar to Sugar for non-educational stuff?
- <jkridner|work> that is a very interesting area to me.
- <jkridner|work> of course, non-educational stuff is still educational stuff too. :)
- <tomeu> aleph_6510: from the links in Goals, you can see what we are up to in this release: http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap/0.84#Goals
- <tomeu> everything is educational! :p
- <erikos> jkridner|work: yeah - people should not separate these things too much
- <jkridner|work> things like block diagram building are very interesting for embedded systems...
- <dfarning_> There is a team at the uw madison that is working on using sugar as the interface for medical devices
- <jkridner|work> and makes a nice UI for connecting digital signal processing blocks.
- <jkridner|work> embedded devices should be more programmable and I think sugar can help with that.
- <jkridner|work> some people made the connection, so I see that as a success.
- <jkridner|work> most didn't, so I see that as room for improvement.
- <tomeu> dfarning_: wow
- <erikos> yeah the seed is spread - now we wait to let it grow
- <erikos> dfarning_: what would they want to use it for exactly - is there a page or something?
- <tomeu> when universities in peru, uruguay, etc start to get involved in sugar development because their kids are using it, sugar may catch interest in the robotics department, etc
- <dfarning_> tomeu: It is still in the proposal phase but the have the guy who invented the algorithm for the EKG machine in their corner
- <aleph_6510> tomeu: there is a lot of interesting stuff to work on
- <erikos> dfarning_: sounds promising
- <tomeu> aleph_6510: we are few people, even if there's a name attached to it, you can probably take it up
- <tomeu> aleph_6510: do you have an XO?
- <jkridner|work> eToys is my favorite Sugar application and seems perfect for robotics and many signal processing apps.
- * jkridner|work has an XO, but broke it somehow and now needs to learn to fix it.
- <aleph_6510> tomeu: yes, I do, a B4
- <tomeu> aleph_6510: if so, you could work in performance and memory usage, for example
- <erikos> aleph_6510: for direct coordination - you can jump into #sugar, use the ml - or we have as well a weekly developers meeting http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Meetings
- <tomeu> jkridner|work: a kid could do fix it for you ;)
- <tomeu> jkridner|work: yeah, watched some video about how graphical objects where hooked up to some source event from hw
- <tomeu> quite cool
- <jkridner|work> tomeu: don't have any of those handy. :)
- <tomeu> jkridner|work: bertf is our etoys hacker, he uses to be in #sugar
- <dfarning_> jkridner|work: I still have the personal goal of seeing sugar on TI server as a controller for lego mindstorms
- <jkridner|work> dfarning_: that is a shared goal then. :)
- <jkridner|work> dfarning_: have you looked much at the NI tools/UI?
- <dfarning_> jkridner|work: any chance that you will be in the boston some time from Nov 15-23? we are having a physical meeting
- <jkridner|work> almost no chance. my office is cutting back on travel thanks to the current US economic state.
- <aleph_6510> tomeu: I could look into it... are there performance problems that are not strictly python dependent?
- <aleph_6510> tomeu: I have a beagleboard too... very useful to check for memory usage :-)
- <tomeu> aleph_6510: how much it has? 128?
- <aleph_6510> tomeu: yes, 128
- <tomeu> aleph_6510: we suspect graphics performance is not as nice as it could be
- <dfarning_> jkridner|work: as to Ni tools/UI, no I am mostly working on foundation administartive stuff so the developer can focus on developing
- <tomeu> aleph_6510: you can see for example when scrolling in Browse
- <tomeu> dfarning_: and that's very reassuring!
- <aleph_6510> tomeu: I somewhat looked into Xorg graphics performance on XO months ago, with Bernie
- <jkridner|work> well, I think that Lego is doing quite a bit with NI (http://www.ni.com/academic/mindstorms/story.htm).
- <aleph_6510> tomeu: but I'm not up to date with latest developments
- <tomeu> aleph_6510: _bernie talked about last X.org updates being even slower than the older ones
- <tomeu> might be worth looking at that
- <dfarning_> jkridner|work: thanks for that
- <_bernie> tomeu: when is the sugarlabs meeting in boston?
- <_bernie> do we have exact dates?
- <aleph_6510> tomeu: so we haven't a specific culprit for bad graphics performance yet?
- <dfarning_> but I still have an emotional attachment to TI based on the speak and spell:)
- <jkridner|work> Lego seems to be very interested in graphical programming, but I'm sure there are problems that NI solves for Lego that Sugar Labs might struggle with being a non-profit based on open source software.
- <tomeu> _bernie: not yet, but we should start planning
- <_bernie> aleph_6510: nobody measured
- <_bernie> we really should
- <_bernie> with oprofile possibly
- <tomeu> aleph_6510: not that I know of
- <_bernie> possibly comparing the previous build with the current one
- <tomeu> aleph_6510: probably some interaction between the driver and something up in the stack like cairo?
- <aleph_6510> _bernie: yes! I'm starting to remember :-) I was commited to fix oprofile to have callbacks reports
- <dfarning_> Well, thanks for everythink. I've got to go poke at OSL about git and trac.