Kathy, this should get you started: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software
Do note though that me and David spent 3 hours on Friday afternoon just to get ejabberd running on a vanilla Ubuntu installation. Your millage may vary but just be aware that it's definitely not a 1-click installation process. Hope that helps, Christoph Kathy Pusztavari schrieb: > Walter, is there a link on how to set up a school server? > > -Kathy > > -----Original Message----- > From: iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org > [mailto:iaep-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Walter Bender > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:45 AM > To: community-n...@lists.sugarlabs.org > Cc: IAEP SugarLabs; Sugar Devel > Subject: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2009-04-21 > > ===Sugar Digest === > > 1. Five Google Summer of Code projects have been selected for 2009. We are > excited about all five proposals; our only regret is that we were unable to > accept any more of the promising proposals we received. > Thank you to everyone who participated in the selection process-the feedback > on the proposals from the community has been especially of great value. > > To all of those who were not selected this year, we appreciate your efforts > and hope that you will be able to find time to participate in the Sugar Labs > community in some fashion this summer. We hope you'll reapply next year. > > To those of you who were selected this year, both mentors and students, > let's converge on a regular weekly meeting time in IRC to exchange notes on > progress and problems. Individual teams should, of course, make arrangements > for regular meeting times as well. In general, let's continue to hang out on > #sugar, so that the developer community can stay abreast of what is > happening. > > Kudos to Jamison Quinn for organizing our GSoC efforts and seeing to all of > the details. Finally, thanks once again to Google for this opportunity. > > Student: Lucian Branescu Mihaila > Project: Webified > Mentor: Walter Bender > > Student: Sascha Silbe > Project: Version support for Sugar datastore and Journal > Mentor: Jameson Quinn > > Student: Felipe Lopez Toledo > Project: Karma + Activities > Mentor: Bryan Berry > > Student: Vamsi Krishna Davuluri > Project: Adding Print Support to the XOs > Mentor: Andres Ambrois > > Student: Benjamin Schwartz > Project: Decentralized Asynchronous Collision-free Editing with Groupthink > Mentor: Assim Deodia > > 2. Caroline Meeks and I spent last Saturday at the Waltham YMCA where we > exercised Sugar on a Stick with children and their parents visiting the Y > for Healthy Kids Day. (I had to leave early to meet to attend to some sewer > problems-don't ask.) All in all, it was a great day. > >>From the technical point of view, Sugar on a Stick lived up to its billing. > We were able to get all but one of the mismatched castaway PCs to boot, even > some of which would not boot into Windows XP. (The one machine that did not > boot would not power on at all-not something we could fix with software.) We > did have one machine with an invisible cursor, but otherwise it ran fine. > Sound worked on every machine that had speakers. We were able to assign > static IP addresses and every machine was able to connect to the Internet. > However something was preventing collaboration to work: we could see each > other, but not share activities or interact with other users connected to > jabber.sugarlabs.org. We have some debugging to do. Ideally, we would have > brought a school server in to assign IP addresses, which would have assured > that at least local collaboration worked. > > Caroline will be writing up detailed notes on the children's use of Sugar > throughout the day. The way things were organized, parents and children were > dropping in to the room at any time during the day. We had in the room > anywhere from two to six children, as young as two and as old as seven or > eight, while I was there. They went right to the machines without any > introduction to Sugar. Most of the machines were either already running an > activity or had the Home View visible. > Popular activities included Memorize, where some children went so far as to > design their own games, Jigsaw Puzzle, Turtle Art, Speak, Write, and Mini > Tam Tam. > > While hardly a typical classroom setting, things went quite well with this > somewhat haphazard introduction to Sugar: the children were engaged, as were > their parents. However there was not time enough for them to discover or > exploit features such as the Journal. And since collaboration was not > working, all of the interactions were solo. > Undoubtedly there is some more scaffolding we can provide children and > parents new to Sugar. (We've already had some follow-up discussions on how > to best integrate examples into activities and how to make the views and > frame more readily discoverable on non-OLPC-XO hardware.) > > ===In the community=== > > 3. Lionel Laske announced that OLPC France will organize with Sugar Labs the > first Sugar Camp in Europe in Paris on May 16. Sign up at > http://sugarcamp.eventbrite.com/. Several workshop will be organized all > around the day: technical, pedagogical and documentation. The full agenda is > not closed so do not hesitate to submit a workshop proposal. > These events are fully free, thanks to AFUL and GDium. > > There will also be a Sugar meeting on the 17th (See > [[Marketing_Team/Events/MiniCamp_Paris_2009]]) where we will be discussing > initial plans for Sucrose 0.86. > > ===Tech Talk=== > > 4. Christian Marc Schmidt led a discussion of potential 0.86 improvements to > the UI in a Design Team meeting this past weekend. > Together, we came up with a list of design goals to possibly include in our > development schedule for 0.86, with concrete tasks to be accomplished in > advance of SugarCamp. Christian added a meeting summary on the wiki, along > with a link to the transcript: > [[Design_Team/Meetings]] > > 5. Gary Martin and Aleksey Lim released a new version of > [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4078 Labyrinth] Paola > Bruccoleri, a teacher from Uruguay has already tried the new version and > written a small tutorial about how to create mind maps with it (See > http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Imagen:Labyrinth6-Tutorial.pdf). > Aleksey also released a new version of Record (See > http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4081). > > 6. In response to a discussion on IRC this week, we will experiment with > some mini Developer tutorials, with the goal of sharing techniques on > activity development. I'll launch the series with a brief session on > keyboard shortcuts this week on #sugar on irc.freenode.net following > Thursday's weekly developer meeting. > > ===Sugar Labs === > > 7. Gary Martin has generated a SOM from the past week of discussion on the > IAEP mailing list (Please see [[:Image:2009-April-11-17-som.jpg]]). > > -walter > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, olpcnews url: www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep