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Toaster for OLPC

  • Q: I'd like to participate. How do I begin?

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      Join our mail list. Download http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry write it to a USB stick and boot your computer with it. This is the sugar environment in which Toaster is being written. An XO-1 or XO-1.5 laptop hardware is not required. Contributions of all kinds are encouraged.


         — Grant Bowman (grantbow) · 7 years ago
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        Talk about diverse kinds of contributions. Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

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        Here's how to download and patch our codes…

        Read about our death-defying mailing list and momentous IRC channel at http://lobstermag.net.

  • Q: Other than writing code, how can I contribute?

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      Compatibility Testing

      There have been quite a few version of Sugar released to the 1.6 million kids using (mostly) XO-1s in many countries around the world. There are also quite a few versions of Fedora that could be tested. We intend for our application to run well on them all. Hardware testing with USB implementations and external USB or other CD burning drives is also needed.


         — Grant Bowman (grantbow) · 7 years ago
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        Discuss documentation, testing, webmastering, and/or publicity.

        Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

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        We need people to download version 0.4.5 and make sure the frobulator still frobulates correctly.

  • Q: What's a good bug for a newcomer to tackle?

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        Many projects have good small tasks that can teach newcomers how the project works. Now's your chance to share one of them!

        Include URLs if relevant (we'll automatically linkify them).

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        Someone could improve the photo upload dialog box so that it lets you resize the photo before sending it to the web.

  • Q: What is a bug or issue with Toaster for OLPC that you've been putting off, neglecting, or just plain avoiding?

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      • Examples:

        I don't know how to get started with internationalizing my app.

        Bug 392 about printing was filed five years ago, and I don't even know if printing still works.

        I want help from a C coder writing a Maildir patch for Alpine.

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        If this issue was formally filed on the web, be sure to include the URL.

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About Toaster for OLPC

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Sugar activity for creating USB sticks and burning CDs on OLPC XO hardware for a kiosk or "simple user" written in Python. We were accepted into the OLPC Contributor Program.

from the profile of Grant Bowman (grantbow)

The code is mostly written in shell.

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