Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-26 Thread DancesWithCars
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Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-22 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 05:54, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/9/21 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org: The project is starting with work flow focused goals. 1. Create a team. 2. Create a release cycle. 3. Start cranking out releases each one better than the last. The missing gap

Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-21 Thread Martin Dengler
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 02:49:41PM -0500, David Farning wrote: In some of the other threads we have been seeing an interest in the Sugar Labs Community improving the Sugar experience on the XO. As such, I would like to create a XO SIG within Sugar Labs. I have filed an initial draft

Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: Seems completely redundant with F11-on-XO and SoaS-on-XO (not to mention debxo and probably others).  I don't see how this is going to do anything but cause fragmentation and confusion. Maybe it is just a new name

Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/9/21 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org: My idea is to start by getting a working version of the current versions of Sugar and Fedora running on an XO.  The SIG might lose some of the specific hardware benefits and

Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:06 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: The goal is to provide a place where the various people working But there _are_ people working on this already, and they probably have plans, priorities, etc. Why don't we just let them do their thing? Are they asking

Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: For the past several months the OLPC/Sugar Labs ecosystem has been getting requests to provide releases of more recent versions of

Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-21 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/21 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org: The project is starting with work flow focused goals. 1. Create a team. 2. Create a release cycle. 3. Start cranking out releases each one better than the last. The missing gap in the current Sugar- distro- XO workflow is that CJB is working

Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-21 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/22 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org: Because of time restrictions, the F11 on XO effort seems to be reactive.  They take the output from cjb and the fedora packages and create builds. Is this a criticism? Are you proposing changing this?  I believe that the XO SIG could help

[IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-20 Thread David Farning
In some of the other threads we have been seeing an interest in the Sugar Labs Community improving the Sugar experience on the XO. As such, I would like to create a XO SIG within Sugar Labs. I have filed an initial draft application with the OLPC Contributors program for 5 loaner machines for

Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-20 Thread Ian Thomson
To: iaep Subject: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs In some of the other threads we have been seeing an interest in the Sugar Labs Community improving the Sugar experience on the XO. As such, I would like to create a XO SIG within Sugar Labs. I have filed an initial draft

Re: [IAEP] XO Special interest group at Sugar Labs

2009-09-20 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/9/21 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org: My idea is to start by getting a working version of the current versions of Sugar and Fedora running on an XO.  The SIG might lose some of the specific hardware benefits and mass deployment features on the first couple of iterations.  But, it can