On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 05:09, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 April 2010 08:42, Martin Sevior <[email protected]> wrote: >> I came across this article in the mainstream Australian National >> Newspaper, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. >> >> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/joy-as-computer-power-comes-to-yirrkala/story-e6frg6nf-1225848236378 >> >> A massive congratulations to OLPC Australia for this. Those are 3 very >> powerful heavy hitters you have in your corner! >> (And normally companies Australians are very cynical of.) >> >> Congratulations! >> >> Martin > > A belated thanks, Martin! > > Our deployments are really hotting up, and we could use some > assistance from the Sugar community. We are looking at better ways to > distribute Sugar, as a means of making people more comfortable with > the software found on the XOs. > > We have a two main use cases: > > 1. a teacher who is using or intends to use XOs in their classroom > 2. any random person who wants to try Sugar > > The version of Sugar used should reflect what is available on the > XO-1.5 units (we will no longer deploy XO-1s), to provide consistency. > This will mean that we will not be distributing the latest version of > Sugar. We want to be able to hand out media with Sugar already > installed, so that it can be easy to get involved. On top of that, we > want to provide: > > 1. documentation for using Sugar and XOs for educational purposes > 2. tools and files to create more of the media (e.g. ISO file and USB > creator)
I think the people at La Rioja were doing exactly that? Maybe it's a matter of a few adjustments and translations from Spanish. Regards, Tomeu > Some considerations: > > 1. it should be as easy to use as possible > 2. it should be cross-platform in terms of hardware and OS > > At the moment, I have three ideas in mind: > > 1. Sugar on a Stick, on a USB stick with some persistent storage > 2. a virtual machine image (e.g. for VirtualBox) > 3. a LiveCD > > The First idea is for the teachers we will be training to use XOs in > the classroom. This will allow them to use Sugar even before they have > an XO. It also lets them use the VGA port on their laptops to project > the Sugar UI so that they whole class can see. The Second idea lets > people test-drive Sugar without going through the trouble of > rebooting. The Third idea is useful simply because it is cheap: we can > press CDs in the hundreds and give them away whenever we want. > > We'll take care of the production of the media. The end result should > be a professionally-looking USB stick or CD. > > A challenge I have found is that there appear to be many ways to > acquire and use Sugar, scattered across multiple pages on > wiki.sugarlabs.org. I'm somewhat confused as to which are the best > paths to take. > > I'd appreciate the Sugar community's assistance with this. > > Thanks! > Sridhar > > > Sridhar Dhanapalan > Technical Co-ordinator > OLPC Australia > p: +61 425 239 701 > w: http://laptop.org.au > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
