Holger, Release- Is the version lag going to be a continuing issue? Sugar Labs has a established a time based, six month, release cycle. The main reason we decided to do time based release is downstream predictability. We have decided that Sugar Labs is in the business of developing the Sugar Learning Platform. Consequently, we will depend on our downstream partners to distribute and put Sugar in classrooms. Much of my effort over the last several months has been developing communities within the distributions to package Sugar. Our next phase is establishing relationships with existing 'Open Source Education' projects. Our goal is to develop, with your help, a standard education platform that is completely distribution and hardware independent. Manuals- Glad you like Floss Manuals! Again, going with our theme of focusing on platform development, we are partnering with FLOSS Manuals to produce our user documentation. Rather then try to recreate a documentation team within Sugar Labs, we are leveraging the exist FLOSS Manual infrastructure and community. The manuals you referred to were jointly written by FM, OLPC, and SL during a book sprint in Austin TX last August. Luke Faraone, an Ubuntu SugarTeam member, recently started a thread[1] on the FLOSS Manuals mailing list about creating .debs of the manuals. Another project at FLOSS Manuals is their translation zone. FLOSS Manuals has a process for create language based communities to translate and maintain manuals. This week there is a translation sprint going on in Brazil. OLPC France is planning a translation event in the next couple of weeks. I have CC the FM List
thanks david 1. http://lists.flossmanuals.net/pipermail/discuss-flossmanuals.net/2008-October/000597.html On 10/19/2008, 04:05, Holger Levsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:Hi David, On Saturday 18 October 2008 20:34, David Farning wrote: > I should have phrased the question better. > What do you see as obstacles that we, Sugar Labs, should work on before > you, SkoleLinux, will feel comfortable recommending Sugar as a desktop > within SkoleLinux? Currently sugar in lenny is 0.81, thats the biggest obstacle IMO. And there is not much you can do about it, the 0.82 release cycle didnt fit the lenny release cycle. We already took measures so that sugar is a desktop choice like the others, so once sugar in Debian is in a good state, there is basically not much to do. That said, there are two things I think which could be improved (but those are not Debian specific at all): - include a manual (and its translations) in the release. Currently the best manual I know about is at http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar - which is ok if you have net access, but not if you dont. - currently sugar (not fully sure if its sugars "fault") reinvents user accounts. (The first time you start sugar you are asked your username and to choose a color of your xo icon.) That doesnt match well with the existing user system. regards, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
