On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Caroline Meeks > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > :) I made a new one, but then left it in my computer at home! I did > bring > > my XO and everyone liked it of course. > > > > I posted my notes from the visit to Fenway today: > > > http://schoolkey.net/blog/2008/10/08/first-meeting-with-future-engineers-at-fenway-high-school > > Very exciting, thanks for posting it! We should get your blog on > planet.sugarlabs.org. That would be cool > > > > Note that the Fenway has pretty new computers so I'm not as worried > about > > Fedora not booting or running out of RAM. > > > > I have a few of the kids from the "Future Engineers" club set up with a > SLAX > > USB. I'd like to go back in 2 or 3 weeks with a Sugar USB for them to > play > > with. Do you think that is a feasible time table? > > Yeah, I hope so. Great > > > > Here is my wish list: > > > > Bootable Sugar USB > > I made another iteration on it. This one seem to work pretty well on a > 256M box. Memory usage is similar to Sugar on the XO. > > http://www.sugarlabs.org/~marco/sugar-livecd-1marco.iso<http://www.sugarlabs.org/%7Emarco/sugar-livecd-1marco.iso> Just downloaded. Will burn a CD shortly and test on the machines I have here before I leave for the weekend. I'll be back Tuesday. What is the process of going from a CD to a USB? > > There are only a few activities on it, but I'd appreciate testing. > Making sure the system works properly would be a big step forward. > > Do you have access to a Fedora linux box to be able to create the liveusb? > > > Boot Helper CD > > Do you have any pointer about this? I can look at it and see what it > would take to make it work with Fedora liveusb. ftp://ftp.slax.org/SLAX-6.x/slax-boot-usb-from-cd-6.0.7.iso and our discussion on it: http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=21028 > > > > Instructions on how to add an Apps such as GIMP > > Sugar support for normal desktop applications is suboptimal at the > moment. We are working to address it properly in this release cycle. > Admittedly GIMP is probably the hardest application to handle, because > of his unusual windows model. > > In the meantime it's possible to use the X activity to run gimp: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X_Activity > > And yeah writing instructions of how to get gimp to work using this > approach should not be hard. Cool, should be good enough for now. I was impressed at the "iphone app store" mentality. They all immediately wanted to install apps on it. I think this is a great thing and a great path towards getting students to create apps. But this is a long term issue, not something to be solved this month. > > > > A Jabber Server for them to collaborate (nice to have) > > David might have better insight than me on this one, since he is > working on sorting out Sugar Labs infrastructure. OLPC is also working > on setting up a server I think, so using that one is another > possibility. I may have the resources to do this, I'll talk to the sysadmin I work with. > > > > A plan for how they can give feedback to the Sugar community in a useful, > > nonintrusive way. > > I'd like to hear everyone thoughts about this but personally I > wouldn't mind at all to have them open tickets about the problems they > find with the software. Less specific feedback like impressions or > feature requests could go in the wiki: > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/Request_New_Features This sounds good for now. We will need to write up clear instructions. I can do that and submit them to you guys for feedback. Longer term, I have a vision of having hundreds of middle and high school developed country service+technology oriented kids with Sugar. Someone comes out with a new app or a new release and they want it tested they put it out to this list and get quick feedback. These kids are also a potential grassroots marketing arm into the elementary schools as we encourage them to demo to their old teachers. Ok off to test the CD Thanks! Caroline > > > Marco > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
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