Schaltplan-Präsentation, Yocto/Debian Updates, Scratch

Yocto Projekt-Update

In den letzten Wochen haben wir ein benutzerdefiniertes Desktopdesign für LXQT erstellt und der aktuellen Version der Distribution mehr Stabilität verliehen. Gleichzeitig versuchen wir, weitere Produktivitätsanwendungen hinzuzufügen, stießen jedoch auf diverse Probleme. Eines davon wird wahrscheinlich vom Nvidia-Treiber verursacht, wenn Shotcuts gestartet werden. Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier. Kontaktieren Sie uns, wenn Sie der Meinung sind, dass Sie helfen können.

Yocto LXQT PowerPC Desktop
Yocto LXQT PowerPC Desktop

Wir haben die Distribution Yocto 2.4 “Rocko” auf Yocto 2.6 “Thud” upgedatet. Wir hoffen, bald eine stabile Version zu erreichen und denken darüber nach, einer begrenzten Gruppe Testzugang zu gewähren.

Präsentationen:

Linux Tag: Bergamo – Italy

Die lokale Linux-Gruppe „BGlug“ hat sich bereit erklärt, während des heurigen “Linux-Day”, welcher an der lokalen Universität von Bergamo veranstaltet wurde, in einer Rede über unsere Aktivitäten zu informieren (siehe Bild).

The building of the University of Bergamo, where we had the speech.
Universität von Bergamo

Neben anderen sehr interessanten Themen (vollständiges Programme hier) haben wir uns als Verein vorgestellt. Haben erklärt, wer wir sind und das Ziel des Laptopprojekts erläutert. Wir habe dargelegt, wie wir ein so ehrgeiziges Ziel erreichen wollen. Hier finden Sie das PDF mit den angegebenen Präsentationsfolien.

Viele Studenten der örtlichen Berufsschule für Informationstechnologie, Telekommunikation und Elektrotechnik besuchten die Präsentation zusammen mit anderen Interessierten. An dem von uns gewählten “Open Hardware”-Ansatz wurde reges Interesse bekundet. Die Schüler, welche angesichts deren jungen Alters scheinbar noch nie von der „Power“-Architektur gehört haben, stellten einige anregende Fragen.

The audience -mostly young students- attending the presentation.
Das Publikum -überwiegend junge Studenten- verfolgen die Präsentation

Das völlige Fehlen von Kenntnissen über Alternativen führte zu einer Diskussion, die sich in Richtung der Unterstützung von Nicht-Mainstream-Technologien, abseits von x86 / x64 und ARM, verlagerte. Der Ansatz von „Open Hardware“ und die damit verbundenen Freiheiten scheinen ebenfalls viel Aufmerksamkeit auf sich gezogen zu haben. Für die Studenten war sehr klar, dass der freie Zugang und, warum nicht, auf ein bereits bestehendes voll entwickeltes Projekt zurückzugreifen und dieses anpassen zu können, eine ideale Ausgangsbasis darstellt.

Linux-Tag: Bolzano – Italien

Die Erfahrungen am “LinuxDay” in Bolzano (Italien) waren durchwegs gut.

Linux Day 2018

An der Veranstaltung, die von der lokalen Linux User Group organisiert und an der lokalen Universität veranstaltet wurde, nahmen rund 50 Personen teil. Wir hatten ein Zeitfenster von 25 Minuten und unsere Präsentation war daher recht kurz. Trotzdem konnten wir einige Fragen und Antworten von Teilnehmern behandeln. Die meisten Zuschauer hatten keinen technischen Hintergrund, da sie nur FOSS-Fans waren.

LinuxDay 2018 Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

“LinuxDay 2018” Freie Universität von Bozen-Bolzano

Hauptthema war die Aktualität der PPC-Technologie und ihre Offenheit. Der Projektzeitplan und der finanzielle Ansatz stießen ebenfalls auf größere Aufmerksamkeit.

Linux-Tag: Milano – Italien

Es ist das fünfte Mal, dass der “LinuxDay” in Milan uns die Möglichkeit bietet, die Menschen über unser PowerPC Notebook-Projekt zu informieren. Wir sind sehr dankbar für den Raum und das erneuerte Vertrauen, das uns in den vergangenen Jahren immer wieder gegeben wurde. In diesem Jahr war der Veranstalter die UnixMIB, eine sehr aktive und freundliche Benutzergruppe. Die am 27. Oktober während des nationalen Linux-Tages in Italien durchgeführte Veranstaltung fand in den wunderschönen Räumen der Universität Bicocca statt. Wie einige andere Linux User Gruppen hatten auch wir einen Stand, an dem Riccardo, Luigi und ich die Gelegenheit hatten, mit den Teilnehmern der Veranstaltungen zu sprechen.

Linux Day 2018 Milano University Bicocca
“Linux Day 2018” Milano, Universität Bicocca

Während der Präsentation im Auditorium haben wir über unser Projekt informiert und dank der großzügigen Zeit (60 Minuten) hatten wir die Möglichkeit, viele interessante Fragen ausführlich zu beantworten

Presentation at Linux Day 2018 Milano
Präsentation am Linux Day 2018 Milano

Wie immer, haben wir die Präsentation aufgezeichnet. Siehe hierzu untenstehendes Video.

11. GNU/Linux Valencia Treffen.

“Freie Software, Demokratie und neue Geräte”: Valencia – Spanien

Die Erfahrungen beim 11. GNU/Linux-Treffen in Valencia waren sehr gut. Es nahmen 15 Personen an der Veranstaltung in einem netten kleinen Raum teil, da dies keine jährliche Veranstaltung, sondern ein monatliches Treffen war. Nach einer interessanten Erklärung zu Freier Software und Demokratie hatten wir ein Zeitfenster von 20 Minuten, um unser Projekt vorzustellen. Unsere Präsentation war für die Teilnehmer interessant. Danach beantworteten wir die Fragen für weitere 20 bis 25 Minuten.

11th GNU/Linux Valencia meeting. Software libre, democracia y nuevos dispositivos: Valencia - Spain
Präsentation am 11th GNU/Linux Valencia Treffen
“Software libre, democracia y nuevos dispositivos: Valencia – Spain”

“Freie Software, Demokratie und neue Geräte: Valencia – Spanien”

In Kürze stattfindende Präsentationen

Free Software Conference
“Free Software”-Konferenz

At Sfscon.it – Free Software Conference – our new presentation ” Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook disclose the motherboard design“, Bozen, South Tyrol – Italy 16th November Auf Sfscon.it – Free Software Konferenz – unsere neue Präsentation “Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook enthüllt das Motherboard-Design“, Bozen, Südtirol – Italien, 16. November

Revivo Scratch-Projekt

Revivo con Scratch

Das Projekt zielt auf den Bildungs- und Forschungsbereich ab, indem veraltete Notebooks wiederverwendet werden.

Ausgerüstet mit PowerPC (G3,G4,G5), Intel x86 (Pentium M, Celeron, Core duo) oder ARM Architektur.

Schulen, die nicht über ausreichend Hardware verfügen, um Computerprojekte durchzuführen, können diese Notebooks, die sonst als Elektro- und Elektronikaltgeräte entsorgt werden sollen wiederverwenden, um den Kindern die Grundlagen des Codierens durch SCRATCH (https://scratch.mit.edu/) lernen zu können.

Revivo con Scratch

Die Erfahrungen der am Projekt beteiligten Lehrer werden im Wiki des Vereins zusammengefasst, um es zu teilen und für andere zugänglich zu machen.

Repo.powerprogress.org Update

Debian ppc64

Die Wartung von DEBIAN-Paketen für die ppc64-Architektur läuft weiterhin. Wir arbeiten daran, die Erfahrung mit FireFox 52.9.0 zu optimieren und die bereits im TenFourFox-Projekt geleistete Arbeit zusammenzuführen. Andere wichtigen Pakete werden von unseren Mitarbeitern gepflegt und regelmäßig unserem Repository hinzugefügt. Schlagen Sie einige Pakete vor, die Sie in unserem Repository sehen möchten, und teilen Sie uns die Ergebnisse Ihrer Tests mit.

Debian ppc64

Apresentação do diagrama elétrico, notícias do Yocto/Debian, projeto Scratch

Notícias do projeto Yocto

Nas últimas semanas, criamos um tema personalizado para o desktop LXQT e continuamos trabalhando na estabilidade da versão atual da distro. Simultaneamente, estamos tentando adicionar mais programas de produtividade, mas estamos enfrentando vários problemas. Um deles é causado provavelmente pelo driver da NVIDIA quando o Shotcut é aberto. Consulte este link para maiores detalhes e contate-nos se você acha que pode ajudar.

Yocto LXQT PowerPC Desktop

Desktop LXQT do Yocto PowerPC

Estamos atualizando a nossa distro do Yocto 2.4 Rocko para o Yocto 2.6 Thud. Esperamos logo ter uma versão estável e estamos considerando distribuí-la a um grupo pequeno para testes.

Apresentações:

Dia do Linux: Bérgamo – Itália

O grupo “BGlug” de usuários Linux local gentilmente aceitou incluir um discurso sobre nossas atividades durante o LinuxDay deste ano, que aconteceu na Universidade de Bérgamo (veja foto).

The building of the University of Bergamo, where we had the speech.

A sede da Universidade de Bérgamo, onde discursamos

Estes, entre outros, foram os tópicos discutidos (veja aqui o programa completo). Nós apresentamos a associação, quem somos, qual é o objetivo do projeto do laptop, e explicamos como atingiremos meta de tamanha ambição. Para baixar o PDF com os slides da apresentação, clique aqui.

Muitos alunos da escola vocacional de TI, telecomunicações e engenharia eletrotécnica local compareceram, assim como pessoas interessadas na visão “Open Hardware” que adotamos. Os estudantes levantaram muitas questões interessantes e, considerando-se a idade jovem da audiência, parece que ninguém ouviu falar sobre a arquitetura Power.

The audience -mostly young students- attending the presentation.

A falta de conhecimento sobre alternativas levou a discussão à direção da importância de apoiar tecnologias não-convencionais fora do universo ARM e x86/x64. A abordagem de hardware livre e a liberdade que visamos atraiu muito interesse pois, para estudantes, é claro que estudar livremente e poder influenciar um projeto existente é uma situação ideal.

Dia do Linux: Bolzano – Itália

Tivemos uma boa experiência no Dia do Linux de Bolzano.

Linux Day 2018

O evento contou com cerca de 50 participantes, organizados pelo grupo local de usuários Linux com apoio da universidade local. Pudemos apresentar por apenas 25 minutos, mas houve tempo para algumas perguntas e respostas. A maior parte da audiência não tinha perfil técnico, mas eram fãs de FOSS.

LinuxDay 2018 Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Dia do Linux na Universidade Livre de Bolzano

Dia do Linux: Milão – Itália

É a quinta vez que o Dia do Linux de Milão nos dá a oportunidade de informar e atualizar a comunidade local sobre o nosso projeto do notebook PowerPC. Somos muito gratos pela oportunidade e pela confiança nos dada ao longo dos anos. Neste ano, a organização foi responsabilidade do UnixMIB, um grupo de usuários muito ativo e gentil. O evento aconteceu no dia 27 de outubro, dia nacional do Linux na Itália, na belíssima Universidade Bicocca. Nós tivemos nosso prório stand de exposição, onde Riccardo, Luigi e eu pudemos conversar com os participantes dos eventos.

Linux Day 2018 Milano University Bicocca

Dia do Linux de 2018 na Universidade Bicocca

Durante a apresentação no auditório, oferecemos notícias sobre o nosso projeto e agradecemos a janela de tempo generosa que nos foi disponibilizada (60 minutos). Pudemos responder detalhadamente a muitas das interessantes perguntas levantadas pela audiência.

Presentation at Linux Day 2018 Milano

Apresentação no dia do Linux de 2018 em Milão

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNqQRR-AYaM&feature=youtu.be

Décima primeira reunião GNU/Linux de Valência. Software libre, democracia y nuevos dispositivos: Valência – Espanha

Tivemos uma ótima experiência na 11a reunião GNU/Linux de Valência. A audiência foi só de 15 pessoas, pois é uma reunião mensal que ocorre em uma sala pequena. Depois de uma introdução interessante sobre software livre e democracia, tivemos 20 minutos para apresentar nosso projeto, mas mais cerca de 25 minutos para perguntas e respostas, tornando a apresentação muito interessante.

11th GNU/Linux Valencia meeting. Software libre, democracia y nuevos dispositivos: Valencia - Spain

Apresentação na 11a reunião GNU/Linux de Valência. Software libre, democracia y nuevos dispositivos

Próximas apresentações

Free Software Conference

Conferência do software livre

Na Sfscon.it – conferência do software livre – nossa nova apresentação “Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook discloses the motherboard design”

Bozen, Tirol do Sul, Itália, 16 de novembro

Projeto Revivo Scratch

Revivo con Scratch

Revivo Scratch

O projeto é direcionado aos campos educacionais e de pesquisa, pelo reuso de notebooks obsoletos equipados com processadores PowerPC (G3, G4, G5), Intel x86 (Pentium M, Celeron, Core Duo) ou ARM.

Escolas que não possuem hardware suficiente para projetos com computadores podem reusar esses notebooks, notebooks tais que de outra maneira seriam usados como WEEE, onde podem ajudar crianças a aprenderem teorias básicas de programação pelo SCRATCH (https://scratch.mit.edu/)

Revivo con Scratch

As experiências dos professores envolvidos no projeto serão divulgadas no wiki da associação para compartilhamento e propagação.

Notícias do repo.powerprogress.org

Debian ppc64

Debian ppc64

A manutenção dos pacotes Debian para ppc64 continua. Estamos trabalhando em otimizar o Firefox 52.9.0 usando o trabalho feito para o projeito TenFourFox. Outros pacotes essenciais estão sendo atualizados pelos nossos colaboradores e são periodicamente adicionados à nossa repo. Sugiram que pacotes vocês gostariam de ver na repo, e compartilhem os resultados de seus testes.

Electrical Schematics presentations, Yocto/Debian updates, Scratch

Yocto project update

In the last weeks we created a custom desktop theme for LXQT and continued giving more stability to the current version of the distribution. At the same time we are trying to add more productivity applications but we are finding several problems. One of them is caused probably by the nvidia driver when Shotcut is launched, see here for more details and contact us if you think you can help.

Yocto LXQT PowerPC Desktop

Yocto LXQT PowerPC Desktop

Finally, we are updating our distribution from Yocto 2.4 Rocko to Yocto 2.6 Thud. We hope to have an stable version soon and thinking about giving access to a reduced group of people to test it.

Presentations:

Linux Day: Bergamo – Italy

The local Linux user group “BGlug” kindly accepted to include a speech about our activities during the LinuxDay of this year that was hosted at the local university of Bergamo (see picture).

The building of the University of Bergamo, where we had the speech.

The building of the University of Bergamo, where we had the speech.

Among other very interesting topics (see the complete programme here), we introduced the association, who we are, the goal of the laptop project and we explain how we want to reach such an ambitious goal. You may find here the PDF with the given presentation slides.

Many students from the local vocational school on information technology, telecommunications and electrotechnical engineering attended the presentation, together with some other people interested on the “Open Hardware” approach that we adopted. Many interesting questions rise from the students, and given the young age of the guys, nobody seems to ever heard about the “Power” architecture.

The audience -mostly young students- attending the presentation.

The audience -mostly young students- attending the presentation.

The complete lack of knowledge about alternatives, led to a discussion that shifted towards the importance of supporting non-mainstream technologies other that x86/x64 and ARM. The “Open Hardware” approach, and the freedom to its outcome also seems to have drawn much attention, as for a student it is very clear that freely study and, why not, change an existing fully fledged project is an ideal situation.

Linux Day: Bolzano – Italy

The experience at the LinuxDay in Bolzano (Italy) was quite good.

https://www.lugbz.org/events/linux-day-2018/

There were about 50 people attending the event, organized from the local Linux User Group and hosted at the local University. We had a 25 minutes time slot, our presentation was therefore quite short but got some Q&A from the attenders. Most of the audience didn’t have a technical background being just FOSS fans.

LinuxDay 2018 Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

LinuxDay 2018 Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Main question subject was the actuality of the PPC technology and its openness. The project timetable and the financial approach also rised some attention.

 

Linux Day: Milano – Italy

It’s the fifth time that Linux Day Milan give us the possibility to inform and update peoples about our PowerPC Notebook project, we are very grateful for the space and renewed trust they have given us in the years. These year the organizer was the UnixMIB , very active and kindly user group, the event done on 27th OCtober, during the national day of Linux in Italy, was held inside the beautiful spaces of University Bicocca. We had our exhibition space, like some others Linux User Group, where Riccardo, Luigi and myself had the opportunity to talk with attenders of the events.

Linux Day 2018 Milano University Bicocca

Linux Day 2018 Milano University Bicocca

During the presentation in the auditorium we have updated about our project and thanks to the generous time available for our presentation (60 minutes) we have the opportunity to answer in details to many interesting questions.

Presentation at Linux Day 2018 Milano

Presentation at Linux Day 2018 Milano

As usual we have recorded the presentation, below.

 

11th GNU/Linux Valencia meeting.

Software libre, democracia y nuevos dispositivos: Valencia – Spain

The experience at the 11th GNU/Linux Valencia meeting was very good. There were only 15 people attending the event in a nice small room because this was not a yearly event but a monthly meetup. After an interesting explanation about Free Software and Democracy,  we had a 20 minutes time slot to introduce our project but our presentation was interesting for the attenders and then we were answering questions for another 20-25 minutes.

11th GNU/Linux Valencia meeting. Software libre, democracia y nuevos dispositivos: Valencia - Spain

Presention at 11th GNU/Linux Valencia meeting. Software libre, democracia y nuevos dispositivos: Valencia – Spain

Coming Soon Presentations

Free Software Conference

Free Software Conference

 

At Sfscon.it – Free Software Conference – our new presentation ” Open Hardware PowerPC Notebook disclose the motherboard design“, Bozen, South Tyrol – Italy 16th November

 

Revivo Scratch project

Revivo con Scratch

Revivo con Scratch

The project is targeted at the education and research field, through the reuse of obsolete notebooks

equipped with PowerPC (G3,G4,G5), Intel x86 (Pentium M, Celeron, Core duo) or ARM architecture.

Schools that do not have enough hardware to carry out computer projects, can reuse these notebooks, otherwise intended to be disposed of as WEEE on which they can teach children the basics of coding through SCRATCH (https://scratch.mit.edu/).

Revivo con Scratch

Revivo con Scratch

The experiences of the teachers involved in the project will be summarized on the wiki of the Association to be shared and repeated.

Repo.powerprogress.org update

Debian ppc64

Debian ppc64

Maintenance of DEBIAN packages for ppc64 architecture continues. We are working on optimizing the experience of using FireFox 52.9.0, merging the work already done on the TenFourFox project. Other essential packages are maintained by our collaborators and are regularly added to our repository. Suggest some packages that you would like to see in our repository, and provide the results of your tests.