The premise behind Dextrose is that OLPC is a NGO based on economies of scale and Sugar Labs is a community project building a common platform. As such, there is a niche for a team of experts to distribute and support software stacks which meet specific deployment needs.
As with any hard project, we have had our share of false starts and dead ends:) As such, communication has not been as clear as it could be. In order to make it easier for upstream projects and deployments to work with Dextrose, I would like to send meeting summaries to sugar-devel, please let me know if it creates too much noise. For Dextrose specific issues there is a mailing list at http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/dextrose . I have attached a project diagram. Flow: 'Feedback' will flow up the stack. Developers will will implement a 'Fix' based on feedback. AC will distribute and support a 'Finished Product' back down the stack. Personnel: AC has hired several full time developers to help facilitate this process. These developers will be augmented by contractors hired for specific tasks. Sugar-Upstream -- Alsroot and Silbe -- As two of the most senior Sugar developers. Alsroot and Silbe focus on upstream development. Dextrose Development -- Martin(tch) is the lead dextrose developer. Martin is responsible for overall dextrose development. Product Manager -- Steven(smparrish) Steven is the product manager. Steven is responsible for coordinating the needs and requests of deployment with available developer resources. Onsite developer -- Anish will be working onsite at ParaguayEduca to ensure that the needs and requests of the deployment are met. AC will spend the next 5 months proving that we can add value to the ecosystem. After we prove value we will implement a business model for sustainability. In general I encourage developers and deployments to interact with AC on the level which is most comfortable. Free end-user download will always be available at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose . We had our first Dextrose Roadmap meeting this morning. Logs are available at http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/2010-11-12 . I hope that AC can become a valuable member of the OLPC/Sugar ecosystem. david
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