[IAEP] Help Wanted: Keeper of the Hardware List

[Marten Vijn]

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 18:08 +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
> In my opinion, the simpler the feedback, the wider the cross-section
> of users will be from a technically-adept point of view. By that I
> mean we will garner feedback (valuable I think) from non computer
> whizzes. I'm more worried about them. Simplicity of use is I think
> vital to SoaS success.
> 
> I fear that many users will encounter difficulties 1) loading a USB
> stick, 2) setting BIOS to boot from it.
> 
We should have/collect:
- screen shots
- movie's (youtube?)

> As far as I know we don't have a method yet for testing if a newly
> loaded stick on a computer will be potentially bootable or not on
> another :-(

I use qemu for that

that is pretty reliable

qemu /dev/<usb-drive>

cheers,
Marten



> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Caroline Meeks <solutiongrove at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is all sounding great to me.
> >
> > Could someone link the wiki page to the FAQ:
> > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/FAQ
> >
> > People are sending me emails with hardware reports.  Should I forward them
> > to IAEP? Do we want a support-gang type mailing list?  We can hope to put up
> > instructions and get people to enter things themselves, but we should
> > prepare for the reality that just sending an email maybe asking a lot for
> > teachers.  Some of them will have never used a wiki before so it could be
> > too hard a first thing to ask of them.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Caroline
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Sascha Silbe
> > <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-iaep at silbe.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 02:51:21PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote:
> >>
> >>> We can also make use of Semantic Media Wiki to create forms that lead
> >>> into a
> >>> table.
> >>
> >> +1 for that as it's possible to do queries then (instead of manually
> >> scanning the table).
> >>
> >> CU Sascha
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://sascha.silbe.org/
> >> http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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> >
> > --
> > Caroline Meeks
> > Solution Grove
> > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
> >
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> > 505-213-3268 - Fax
> >
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