CHAT WITH VIOLET !

Hey you worldwide bunnies...

We organize a chat with Olivier Mevel, creator of the Nabaztag. This very special event will happen in september.

I will give you the exact day as soon as we decide it.

This will happen on this forum's chat, so i guess there will be a lot of people. So in order to get each question an answer, people in the room will be devoiced during the 'questions session'. Then we'll voice everyone so you can directly get in touch with Olivier Mével.

If you want a question to be asked, use this thread and post it, i will represent you during the chat.

Waiting for you guys.

This is now September. Has a date been chosed yet?

Please ask if the v3 API will allow LEDs to be programmed so that the pattern is constantly looped (like the weather service). This is important so we can use the rabbit as a passive (or ambient) information device.

Thanks!

/\dam

Is there a link to the forum chat for those of us that can't read french yet?

Google translation of the Grand Chat 1/2
* Topic is '\\ \\ Tonite 8PM: Meet O.mevel from Purple, the creator //


Toucool > First of all thank you to have once more answered present at our invitation. Since March it did without not badly things and everyone here raised questions and/or is still posed some. This evening together we will approach still a multitude of points then breathe prodondément and fix well you in the jacuzzi which returned to you famous. Let us start with the painful questions and which relate to obviously the waiters.
nabaztag > ok yes let us start with there!

Toucool > Marfab asks for the “Number of rabbits per waiter. (There are still QQ oranges whereas others are quite purple. It is not normal)”
nabaztag > Bon thus there are approximately 5000 rabbits per waiter
nabaztag > It is the maximum
nabaztag > Donc sometimes certain rabbits has Q orange if their waiter is overloaded
nabaztag > One does not cease giving from the waiters but that takes time each time
nabaztag > We are also changing the way in which the rabbits communicate with the waiter

Toucool > ok Ca it, can you is interesting say some to us more as for the communication of rabbits with the waiter?
nabaztag > thus makes some in new architecture instead of functioning out of sweater (the rabbits require all the 30sec of the waiter…) one will function in push (the rabbit will be prevented by the waiter)
nabaztag > that will reduce the waiters and the rabbits should react more quickly.
nabaztag > It should be also said that all that arrives to us because we are with an architecture which goes back to a time when one did not have the least idea if somebody were going to buy our rabbits to us

Toucool > a small technical remark which still comes us from marfab and which relates to the architecture of the waiters: Why not pass in cluster and dissociate what touches certain redundant functions of API like the hour, alarms emails, the weather… and the sending of Nabcast and other uses? If not a waiter with a counterpart the API one so that the external services do not touch the frontals "
nabaztag > it is already dissociated
nabaztag > on p.nabaztag.com it does not have the crawlers there…

Does Toucool > Tabatha wonder on what you base itself to allot rabbits has such waiters? Why not allot them according to their activity or not activity to balance?
nabaztag > yes one could do that it is true, it is not idiotic, by analyzing the use over the last days…

nabaztag > the trick it is that one has today an architecture which is not viable and which was not considered to hold the load
nabaztag > and that new architecture took into account the fact that Ben makes some one had bcp users!
nabaztag > thus for the news archi that will be less worse
nabaztag > and also…
nabaztag > it should be said that one has a little more money to buy these machines
nabaztag > Ben yes, it is idiotic, but that counts

Does Toucool > MaitrePo ask whether one should not make modif conf network in the users to pass in push?
nabaztag > unfortunately… only famous Nab V2 will function in push
nabaztag > sorry
nabaztag > Nab V1 will continue in polling
nabaztag > it is not possible to make differently

Does Toucool > MaitrePo say that “failing to have QoS of 100%, is what it would be possible to announce on your site the possible dysfunctions as soon as you are well-informed? That would avoid with people of rebooter their rabbit and of flasher their router wifi Surtout, one is inevitably more patient when it is known that you work on the problem.”
nabaztag > yes that it is true
Landry > with a means of retorting information…. ?
nabaztag > the idea is rather to make a species of blog which would give the problems in progress, of the nabaztag.info kind when that is badly

nabaztag > there is also a trick which one made: we made less sensitive the fact of passing has orange
nabaztag > you will say to me that it is not a way of regulating Pb
nabaztag > it is true but it was so sensitive that only from downloader the hour sometimes it passed out of orange
nabaztag > good, but it is an anecdote
nabaztag > thus today we add machines to isolate the treatments
nabaztag > today there is 2 news of them but one will put it in line Monday
nabaztag > our concern it is the www now Are Toucool > and quelquechose designed to surmount this Pb?
nabaztag > yes a frontal should be added
nabaztag > one will put it in line Monday
nabaztag > and also one recruits a admin system
nabaztag > thus if you know some…

Toucool > Marfab noticed that the waiters were not synchronized any more. There had been this problem in December, then the clocks had been readjusted, and the problem is since income
nabaztag > i.e.?
nabaztag > they divide all the same data base
Toucool > cad of the nabz which do not say the hour to the same moment… And of the shifts of several minutes for most recent arrived
nabaztag > makes the nab of them cannot say the hour to the same moment bus to -5 the waiter starts to distribute the sounds
nabaztag > I do not know with what it starts but it east can be by id
nabaztag > the pioneers are in advance!!!
nabaztag > normal

Toucool > to finish on the waiters… We all are pilot problems which occurred these last months. Witnesses also that you solved the problems, each thing in its time; and that the “funny” hours and so much appreciated moods returned. Is Tabatha made the spokesman of butt end of community by requiring “Quid of the commercial gesture for the damage undergone by the owners of subscription considering the many moments of instability of the waiters?” nabaztag > Oui thus I had spoken about it. Thus what one will do is to offer one month free for all those which were registered since say yesterday
nabaztag > Donc the idea is that one will not output the chart the next month

Toucool > I return on the waiters bus MaitrePo have just sent a relevant remark to me which relates to V1… Here the noises explaining the problems of V1 were time spent to develop V2 to stick to the calendar… Once V2 will be finalized, will continue itself to buy sweater for V1 instead of buying only push?
nabaztag > Alors does it of it is rather V2 which takes delay because of the new functionalities and the problems of V1
nabaztag > It will have there waiters dedicated to V1 and others in V2
nabaztag > but all the objects will dialogue together obviously
nabaztag > If one did not manage well the growth and worst it was April/May it was also because we were raising funds
Toucool > famous Banexi Ventures ^^
nabaztag > here
Toucool > you have the clim' then now ^^
nabaztag > it is worse than front bus where one was tight to 7 one is now 15
nabaztag > but one will move
nabaztag > in 3 weeks one should be in new buildings provisional of 180 m2

Toucool > ah Ca belonged to a future question then one will be delayed to it above 2 minutes…
Toucool > can you say to us a little how is divided staff between the technique and the remainder?
nabaztag > for the moment one is not yet well balanced
nabaztag > one is to 40% sales&marketing (I speak English because one is worldwide: -) 30% development 20% services and support and 10% of people like me
nabaztag > it is necessary that one still engages under development
nabaztag > it is not easy to find people
nabaztag > of the developers java that does not exist any more
nabaztag > they work all for banks: -)
nabaztag > but you all there which are there… you do not seek work under development????

Toucool > let us return in our dear V2…. You are where?
nabaztag > ah v2
nabaztag > thus initially I want to say that I will not be able to give precise specs
nabaztag > because it is secret
nabaztag > it is idiotic
nabaztag > but that is due also to the fact that one is not on capacity to offir them
nabaztag > Donc one works above
nabaztag > especially on the WPA

Toucool > Good… Thus I will have to torture you… Precisely, Vargave wishes to know if V2 will support the WPA? the WPA2?
nabaztag > one has whole to change
nabaztag > for moment WPA it is on
nabaztag > WPA2 one is above

Toucool > Always for the end of the year? A date? A price?
nabaztag > probably fine D the year but tjrs not on
nabaztag > the price probably a little dearer bus all that coute expensive nabaztag > besides I would like to also say why one passed to 115 euros
nabaztag > since it is asked to me: -)
Toucool > indeed…
nabaztag > one has bcp said that it was because of RoHS (finally let us say that I have statement that)
nabaztag > it is true that RoHS adds a overcost of a few %
nabaztag > but it is especially that we had a blaze of the prices on the Wifi chart
nabaztag > bought we it initially with 18 dollars
nabaztag > and it A finishes by couter 29 dollars
nabaztag > because it was not done any more but for us

Toucool > whereas you do buy more volume? O_o
nabaztag > thus does that of it became quite simply impossible to keep 95 euros
nabaztag > the problem it is that before our lifting of funds we did not have at all the means of buying in volume
nabaztag > and Taiwanese they you forcémment do not believe on word if you them known as which you will buy 100.000 over the year but that you begin with 5000
nabaztag > there one made economies on the chart wifi but it is necessary to put more electronics to control it
nabaztag > it is very very painful
nabaztag > what one gains on a side one loses it other
nabaztag > thus for this reason that increased

Toucool > Thank you for the explanation… On the level of rabbit… New functionalities appeared?
Toucool > question which pricks ^^
nabaztag > I can nothing say
nabaztag > can be
nabaztag > can be not…
nabaztag > in any case the really brilliant trick
nabaztag > it is that one finally will set up about mid-October the communion at several!
nabaztag > and the communion with several recursive!
nabaztag > one will be able to choose to be limited to its circle of friends
nabaztag > or to let be propagated the souk!
Landry > and to check the theory of the 5 levels of separation…
nabaztag > exactly!
nabaztag > the true problem it is that the rabbit will not cease turning its ears!
nabaztag > and also one has good hope to bind Nab with MSN
nabaztag > I have Nab in my list and he says what I type
nabaztag > and also if I sendings a wizz it plays it!

Toucool > On the level of the communicating objects, you opened the way. You look at a little what is done with with dimensions? (tux droide, chumby, and others which I do not know) Ca stimulates your creativity or you still do not smell yourselves in competition?
nabaztag > Tux droide it is a little different bus it is more one peripheral
nabaztag > Chumby that has the air straightforwardly well
nabaztag > It is very very well the way in which they approach the trick
nabaztag > Donc that stimulates us
Toucool > a little same philosophy jointly not?
nabaztag > Oui it is same philosophy
nabaztag > Aussi what one is doing is to try to connect these objects
nabaztag > One probably will start with our friends of Ambient Devices who make also communicating objects in the United States
nabaztag > One will change the color of his Orb lamp by moving the ears of rabbit: -)
nabaztag > This known as for the moment it does not have there that us has to wipe the platres finally Wifi objects… say you and us: -)))

Toucool > Tabatha which militates for the wallet raises another question of money: The “reduction” for is V2 concedee with the happy owners of V1 concretisee in your spirits?
nabaztag > Not still but one imagines well a reduction according to the seniority.
nabaztag > is to reward what really galéré with us. You do not find that well?
Toucool > if if, one galéré promised well!

Toucool > Lunem also wonders whether V2 will bring a significant change level “hardware” (I speak about an asset which would make all the difference: a microphone for example…) or if it will be characterized just by an addition of services and compatibility…
nabaztag > for the moment one is right A an addition of services and compatibility
nabaztag > it is necessary that it quickly was left because we cannot produce any more of V1
nabaztag > thus it is critical for us
Toucool > ah straightforwardly…
nabaztag > nevertheless let us have we still in the course of production but the next batches of production will have to be based on V2 architecture nabaztag > but it is rather in good way
nabaztag > thus if one manages to add things in why not but it is not the priority

Toucool > thus not of modified hardware as we did hear it… same step a catch minijack to benefit from the good sound?
nabaztag > yes why not a minijack: -)
Toucool >… or more memory that for our skinny persons 45 seconds…?
nabaztag > one will see whether one cannot double that while knowing only about V1 which is produced since the beginning of the year one has already a doubled memory but that one did not modify the software
nabaztag > thus one could double a priori for everyone
nabaztag > I say a priori
Landry > remains the problem retro compatibility
Toucool > fatally…
nabaztag > yes here
nabaztag > it is that the problem
nabaztag > it is simpler to live in a world where everyone is to 45 dryness

Toucool > to pack the thing, Tabatha raises questions about the appearance or not of peripherals for the nabaztag.
nabaztag > One has Nabaztag HiFi at the head
nabaztag > (i.e. a high speaker: -)
nabaztag > in the carrot shape!
nabaztag > does that of it appears a little naif but it one is really crowned to know to let know to make (: -) of the high speakers

Google translation of the Grand Chat 2/2

Toucool > ah not that does not appear naive a whole…
Landry > from where the minJack…
nabaztag > yes
nabaztag > one wanted to re-examine all the position of the HP and one had made best than one could and while going to see specialists in a manufacturer of electronic tricks which I would not say his name
nabaztag > they said to us that one had any forgery
nabaztag > zero
nabaztag > on 20
nabaztag > or on 10
nabaztag > it is similar… zero
Toucool > a problem with the magnet which generates interferences?
nabaztag > makes some for well making one would need a “grid” behind Nab and that one finds that atrocious
Landry > similar!
nabaztag > thus one is condemned has to make leave the sound by the lower part and in fact there is not bcp places and that obliges has to put the HP horizontally
nabaztag > and it is not practical whole
nabaztag > makes some one would have to make a HP Wifi
nabaztag > but that would be nevertheless less funny
Toucool > Re from where the promised minijack… I stopped
nabaztag > yes

Toucool > one will pass to questions a little in disorder which I too much did not make a success of with linker O_o
nabaztag > yes yes!

Toucool > Marfab would wish that it be possible to recover its password and its login on the www.nabaztag.com site
nabaztag > does it of it is possible it is necessary to be mistaken at least once
nabaztag > it is weak I know
nabaztag > one thus will put a bond “logguez with anything to recover your word of pass”

Would Toucool > Bruce wish to know “if there is a little brother on the way?”
Toucool > I imagine that it does not speak about nabaztag but about future object of on your premise…
nabaztag > there is 1 older sister and a big brother
nabaztag > for mid 2007
nabaztag > one starts only now
nabaztag > for the moment our priority it is that all functions correctly

Toucool > It would like “to also speak about Zoreilles! Are other models to come? (kind an ear in the carrot shape?)”
Famous Toucool > and our Glow in the Dark???
Landry >
nabaztag > Ah yes! For the moment one of planned nothing
nabaztag > does simplest it of Them would be that you do them same!
nabaztag > would be necessary that one is a nabazstore where each one could run out its small production!

Toucool > it is provided that the rabbit left (finally!) in other colors?
> it that you is true would like nabaztag that?
nabaztag > why not indeed
nabaztag > I will say that to Jean Luc who joined us 2 weeks ago and which tans me with that
nabaztag > which color?
Toucool > highly the first nabz #FF017D!
nabaztag > and if one made randomly
nabaztag > you do not know which color you will buy
nabaztag > it is well that or it is just very irritating? nabaztag > everyone will open limp them and then there will be the impression to have bought a trick on ebay?
Toucool > veiled: D

Toucool > one sets out again worldwide Olivier…
Toucool > Guizmo would like to know if “With launching in the United States, will you have a cell dedicated to the support there low? or will you all manage of Paris?”
nabaztag > Non all will be managed in Quebec
nabaztag > finally for the support
nabaztag > It was most practical

Toucool > Vargave him, wonders whether the version marketed with US is V1 or if you send V2 directly to them…
nabaztag > not not one them envoit V1 not RoHS: -)
nabaztag > everyone will have V2 at the same time

Is Toucool > In how much country Nabaztag in on sale now?
nabaztag > Physically: France, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, England, the USA (1 physical store) and HongKong
nabaztag > Online: almost everywhere with pixmania, firebox and thinkgeek amongst other things…

Are Toucool > How much owners recencés?
nabaztag > approximately 35 000

Toucool > You spoke at the time of the last cat, of a recasting of the site! There was some modifs since, and notament the Nabcast heading which is very owl, but y' has T it other changes envisaged?
nabaztag > yes there are many of other changes
nabaztag > makes some one will change ergonomics to pass in a trick more modern netvibes kind

Toucool > then the attention, brilliant idea, but which will not like ZeVoice inevitably, especially since it has a whip… Still a remark of Guizmo (which made burn its neuron after so many efforts, I have a thought moved for it): My nab can it develop moods with topics on which one could incrire according to our desires!!! I am explained… - my Nab likes me and it will help me to stop smoking! would be it welcome => moods of the kind “Ca feels smoke did not crack you nevertheless?” - or My Nab is my friend and encourages me when I put myself at the diet " => “Stops eating all the chocolate will be necessary that you run one hour if Ca continues” - My Nab I comfort to me am in full depression in love, - My Nab encourages me to find a new job!!! - for the children: My Nab encourages me with well working at the school
Landry > (NabCoaching… The occasion to make cobranding)
nabaztag > good yes makes the true problem of that of it it is that that takes a time nutcase to write texts and to say them
nabaztag > thus what one rather will do is to make it possible to the users to create nabcasts with random diffusion
nabaztag > a little their channels of moods
nabaztag > thus you create a nabcast child and it is diffused into random

Toucool > Psychocat would like to know butt how to communicate with the nabz when one does not have oneself of it… Always the same system of recording/subscription? Or you think of changing things?
nabaztag > One finds in fact that it is weak to prohibit the nonfull from sending MP3 or TTS
nabaztag > thus one rather will try to make a trick of the kind if you are not Full you can send some but not into unlimited
nabaztag > perso I find that simplest to send a message it is the email
nabaztag > you think what of it you?
nabaztag > a daily quota?
nabaztag > yes or monthly magazine…

Toucool > On the level of the voice, we announced here-same any March beginning that you had bought the license Bruno in Acapella. All was to be in place but pile 6 months afterwards, still not of male-intonated voice in French module TTS. Landry thus wonders if it will be dispo soon… A deadline?
nabaztag > pfffffffffffffffffffffff
nabaztag > the problem of this voice
nabaztag > it is that it obliges us to change distribution linux
nabaztag > thus it is necessary that a waiter redhat is installed
nabaztag > whereas the notres are debian
nabaztag > and that considering all that one has to do eh well that traine
nabaztag > that advances 5mn per week
Toucool > an idea of delivery?
nabaztag > at the end of October

Toucool > Let us continue on the voices… Moods speak now with several voices, Landry finds that Ca made lose its identity with Rabbit. It would be possible that The Voice is the single voice of our rabbits?!
nabaztag > Oui I agree. BUT! nabaztag > BUT it should be known that in the beginning the idea was that this voice is that of Nabaztag when it was small
nabaztag > And…
nabaztag > this voice is that of my daughter…
nabaztag > Violet!
nabaztag > thus one does not say too much evil but I agrees it is odd
nabaztag > (notice, less than the text2Speech!)

Toucool > Parallel to that, Guizmo on the contrary, would like to know if there will be male moods for our Nabz, with possibly the means of choosing the sex of it so that it is expressed with the choice by moods of ZeVoice or a male to the voice suave.
nabaztag > I see you coming…
Landry > (me also) * Toucool coughs
nabaztag > with our systems of nabcast random you them men you will be able to make your moods!
nabaztag > you will say that one never goes nothing foutre at purple
nabaztag > that one lets to you do everything
nabaztag > the support
nabaztag > contents
nabaztag > services
nabaztag >…
nabaztag > that must be that Web 2.0

Toucool > good a small complaint of yahoo
nabaztag > South?
Toucool > NOT
Toucool > NEVER OF MIDDAY to the secouuuuuurs!
nabaztag > one wonders whether they should not be removed
Toucool > IF IF
Toucool > it should be released it is infernal…

Toucool > But quid of the nabshare?
nabaztag > the nabshare will return
nabaztag > I do not know who decided to remove it
nabaztag >: -)
Toucool > everyone regrets them sincerely
nabaztag > yes that will return
nabaztag > at the end of October with the new interface

Toucool > Yahoo says to us “I gave up my subscription because I pay a service which functions badly. I do not ask for refunding but I want right knowledge that is what will be fact which will give me the desire for taking again my subscription?”
Toucool > I believe that you answered but I was to put his question
nabaztag > Ben already makes some make function all that without problem

Toucool > Guizmo wonders “why isn't there “official” Nabcast which would announce the new services and the topicality of Nab to us directly via this pretty rabbit?”
nabaztag > yes one put the RSS of the blog
Toucool > yes but the blog is hagyographic….
nabaztag > the problem it is that Zevoice has bcp job
nabaztag > it is true a little
Toucool > it would be necessary to especially put the rss on the future blog;) your window allures especially your prospective customers or they can be able to find the topicality, which is not that that we seek ourselves;)

Toucool > Lunem notices that “many people, subscribed or not raise questions about the utility of a subscription, it would be can be time to add services which are worth really the blow and not modules which can be largely compensated thanks to the API one. For example to restore a catalogue mp3 (not starzik) for the subscribers.” What think about it?
Toucool > there too for the nabshare, we have the answer
nabaztag > yes finally you know our prospective customers they go especially on forumactif and there are all the time emails which say “I adore your rabbit but I saw on Internet (i.e. forumactif: -)) that there were pbs…
nabaztag > pffffff
nabaztag > now one can hide his defects even more Toucool > MaitrePo wrote with the support in connection with concern that his/her friends meet (it is in full friend rabbit): they cannot uploader of mp3 on the waiter, and by email that does not go always either. You have tracks? Pb does not go back to yesterday, and not making a nabcast, its subscription loses much of its interest…
nabaztag > then on that one diagnoses on a case-by-case basis
nabaztag > one requires of people to send the MP3 to us
nabaztag > bus frankly it goes in 99% of the cases

Would Toucool > Be possible when one recoit a message of somebody to consult his card even if it is not in the green pages? Idem when it is registered in Nabcast (me I like to know with whom I speak! and which speaks to me!)
nabaztag > it is génant to publish the card if the person does not wish it not?
Landry > except if it sent a message to us
nabaztag > yes it is true nabaztag > I note to see whether it is in the new version

Toucool > Michrone stresses that it only pays its subscription to be able to diffuse its two nabcasts. “I pay to give contents has your customers. One could not imagine a system of compensation? Ca would motivate people has to create nabcasts. (for example: receive ears free if you have more than 1000 subscribers for 6 months. Or isn't a trick of the kind)” And it only since the same things are said on the other side of the channel at the time of a conversation between sheik and Dean “I understand that bandwidth and servers need to Be paid for, goal amndt I the only one that feels it is to unfair to load content providers (Nabcasters) to publish to their content? They are already working for free after all. Also, to their work means more people are likely to buy Nabaztags in the future (because it would Be has more gravitational product with batches of Nabcasts to choose from). Content providers should At the very least not Be charged for to their efforts
nabaztag > yes yes it is completely true
nabaztag > makes some one is re-examining the subscriptions
nabaztag > and to better develop people who make services

Toucool > do you Envisage a possibility of nabcaster choreographies of ears, which one could create then to store?
nabaztag > not that one does not envisage
nabaztag > that can be done in external service via the api one

Toucool > Ok, Olivier having a requirement and as the walkabout became a tradition, one finishes quickly by questions weak and thus vital:
Toucool > MBF is tjrs taken? (question of tabatha…)
nabaztag > the answer is yes
Does Toucool > Y' have men at Violet with whom us also the girls have can make demands for marriage? (question of guizmo)
nabaztag > full!
Did Toucool > ZeVoice develop its talents of dompteuse, if so, the blows of whip, that hurt? (question of. euh Ben of me inevitably…)
nabaztag > that made very badly
Toucool > super, Ca pleases to me that it of serf at the office: D
nabaztag > besides it is it which will whip American for the nabmob
Toucool > Thank you Olivier:)
Landry > Thank you Olivier for this good moment
Toucool > It is the rising of rabbits then…
Toucool > I release the deer
nabaztag > nooooooooooooooooooon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Citation :

Toucool > Michrone stresses that it only pays its subscription to be able to diffuse its two nabcasts. “I pay to give contents has your customers. One could not imagine a system of compensation? Ca would motivate people has to create nabcasts. (for example: receive ears free if you have more than 1000 subscribers for 6 months. Or isn't a trick of the kind)” And it only since the same things are said on the other side of the channel at the time of a conversation between sheik and Dean “I understand that bandwidth and servers need to Be paid for, goal amndt I the only one that feels it is to unfair to load content providers (Nabcasters) to publish to their content? They are already working for free after all. Also, to their work means more people are likely to buy Nabaztags in the future (because it would Be has more gravitational product with batches of Nabcasts to choose from). Content providers should At the very least not Be charged for to their efforts

Hey, I got quoted!
It is nice to know our French friends are reading the English forum!

/\dam

PS : sorry for this poor translation... Google translator goes on delivering weird translations, and the conversation was way too long to get traduced by me. At least you guys have the ideas of the questions asked and their answers. hinhin

I'll try to have a human translation tomorow...

I worked out that waiter = (web)server

/\dam