Holger, Also note the Sugar manual is available as printed form: http://www.lulu.com/content/3865497
and is on the laptop itself. adam On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 14:00 -0500, David Farning wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals http://www.flossmanuals.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
