On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 18:33, David Farning <dfarn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Martin Langhoff >> <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> [ Put aside the tinfoil hats (there's no Ubuntu conspiracy) and the >>> distro flames (no, I don't want to know which one is better). ] >>> >>> Curious minds want to know... >> >> At this point Sugar on Ubuntu is unusable broken. Activity Central >> has signed a 12 month contract with Seeta.in to create and maintain >> Ubuntu on Sugar. I hope that by Aug we will have a usable set of >> packages which can be test on the XO-1.5. >> >> As all ways, community support is appreciated. A working Sugar on >> Ubuntu is just one of several protects which I feel need to be nudged >> into moving forward.... and I am just 'putting my money where my mouth >> is' to make it happen. > > I know the work you are sponsoring must be costing you lots, but if > you could sponsor someone to attend the next UDS, I think it will pay > off greatly.
+1. Canonical has offer to sponsor two developer to the next UDS:) > I have to confess than in the Maverick UDS there was a blueprint about > Sugar but I messed the schedule up and attended something else instead > :( > > But once you get there, and if you can find the right person, you can > have a much better upstream-downstream conversation than most people > think. Phase one is improving the relationship with Debian and establishing credibility:) As a summer internship LukeF is acting as a tour guide to Debian and Ubuntu. For phase two, I hope that we can show up at the next UDS with a working product (show me the code) and a skill team for developers and maintainers. david > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-maverick-edubuntu-packages > > Regards, > > Tomeu > >> david >> >>> Have you installed, or tried to install vanilla(ish) Ubuntu on an >>> XO-1.5? If yes, which version? What install process? Did it work? >>> Drivers missing our outdated? Did you have to grab custom packages? >>> (which ones?) >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> >>> >>> m >>> -- >>> martin.langh...@gmail.com >>> mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect >>> - ask interesting questions >>> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first >>> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Devel mailing list >>> Devel@lists.laptop.org >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel