On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > ===Sugar Digest === > > I have been buried in meetings over the past few days, so I am a bit > late in giving an update to the Sugar community. > > First, I want to wish Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero (dirakx) a rapid recovery. > > While I have been distracted, lots of great work has been happening: > the Sugar on a Stick team is making great progress on the Fedora-11 > port; the OLPC Learning Club held a pivotal meeting where they reached > consensus about forming a Sugar Labs DC; progress is also being made > in regard to a Sugar Lab in Peru; the Release Team has been cleaning a > few outstanding bugs in 0.84.1; the community has been busy helping > potential Google Summer of Code applicants refine their proposals; > Sascha Silbe has been setting up a build farm for Sugar Labs; the > Marketing Team has been reaching out to hundreds of more journalists > about our new release; the Localization Team has been migrating the > Pootle infrastructure to a new server; the Wiki Team has done a > reorganization of the wiki in concert with the move away from > CamelCase; and Sugar and Sugar Activities continue to be improved. A > busy week. > > The big news is that thanks to the efforts of Jameson Quinn and Mel > Chua, we have been accepted into Google Summer of Code 2009. We need > to solicit and encourage as many great project proposals as we can in > the next few days (applications are due April 3): the more students > who apply to our program, the better our chances of getting more slots > assigned. Please direct potential applicants to > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/Student_application_template > and http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development Team/Project Ideas. > > Thank you to everyone who has been answering student questions on IRC > and on the mailing list. > > Tomeu Vizoso beat me to the punch by blogged about the great > contributions being made by community members (See > http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2009/03/what-keeps-me-going-on.html). One > crude measure of the growing ranks of contributors is the steadily > increasing number of people on #sugar on irc.freenode.net. We have > been hovering around 100 lately. It is great to see both the > continuity of long-standing contributors and the newcomers. The extent > to which the veterans are being supportive of the newcomers (and my > own barrage of naive questions) is a nice reflection on the project as > a whole.
I would like to add Fred Grose to Tomeu's list. He has been doing great work cleaning up the wiki. > ===Tech Talk === > > We had in impromptu meeting on IRC to discuss the outstanding issues > in regard to future Fedora/Sugar support for the OLPC XO-1. The list > of work items is shorter than I would have thought and many of these > items already have teams of people working on them. We discussed as a > reasonable target being able to release these items in time for Fedora > 12. > # mesh > # activation security > # Rainbow (activity security) > # activity update control panel > # power management > # library for browsing content bundles > # automatic display/keyboard language setting > # special keys on the keyboard (brightness, audio, ..) > # using USB keys in the Journal > # olpc-update > # customization key > # lease security > # UL warning screen at shutdown Great News! OLPC made some fantastic innovations in these areas. I am glad to see that they are not lost. david > Tony Forster continues to work magic with Turtle Art (See > http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/2009/03/turtle-fileview.html). > > There is a new Sugar tutorial project (Please see > http://tutorius.org/blog/the-first-iteration/). > > Martin Langhoff announced the availability of XS-0.5.2 this week: > http://xs-dev.laptop.org/xs/ > "It fixes 3 bugs, the most notable one being the ejabberd @online@ > roster issue." > > Sebastian Dziallas has made a new Sugar on a Stick snapshot available at > > http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200903211320.iso > > and a virtual appliance image at > > http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas2-20090321.tar.gz > > Please test them. > > ===Sugar Labs === > > Gary Martin has generated a SOM from the past week of discussion on > the IAEP mailing list (Please see > http://wiki.suagrlabs.org/go/Image:2009-March-14-20-som.jpg). > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel