[IAEP] deployment meeting and how we can support through testing

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 15:32, Raul Gutierrez Segales <rgs at rieder.net.py> wrote:
> Tabitha,
>
> thanks for your excellent summary!
>
> IRC logs are here:
> http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.log.20100527_1409.html
>
> Big thanks to every deployment member that assisted.

Yes, thanks all and specially Raul and Tabitha. When is the next meeting?

Regards,

Tomeu

> Cheers,
> Raúl
>
> On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 07:30 +1200, Tabitha Roder wrote:
>
> This morning I joined in a deployment meeting on IRC. It's aim is to provide
> feedback, learn about deployment concerns, talk about migration to 0.88 and
> how to better integrate deployments and upstream work.
>
>
> First up was Anurag talking about Delhi, India, where he is going from June
> to August to work with 100 students in two schools. They plan to use Sugar
> on a Stick - 0.88 - and school server. Each student will be getting a thumb
> drive for use in the schools computer labs. Anurag will provide details of
> the hardware in the computer labs so we can test his planned install.
> More info http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India and http://www.seeta.in/j/
> They want to be sure the "send to" function works in the Journal so students
> can "send to" the teacher.  They are also struggling with the XS setup.
> We can see some of the planned activities on the Seeta website.
>
>
> Daniel_C, Esteban and Ebordon talked about Uruguay. With 360,000  XO-1.0
> laptops, 100 employees (teachers, sociologists, engineers). There are 5
> people working on software.
> They are currently on 0.82 but are making their first Fedora 11 image thanks
> to Paraguay. They will email the testing list with their test request when
> the image is ready. Plan for deploy around July / August.
>
>
> Tony Forster talked about multiple deployments - Timor Leste (East Timor)
> 25+25 laptops, Australia 1500 laptops and Oceania 3000 G1G1 laptops.
> The first 25 laptops for Timor Leste (East Timor) are about to arrive. The
> identified issues so far are lack of resources in Tetun, the national
> language and quality open source textbooks. Also the relationship between
> the constructionist self-directed learning Activities and the more
> conventional curriculum. That is, the expectation for the equivalent of
> textbooks, worksheets and lesson plans in electronic form. Resources for the
> Timor Leste deployment are at http://www.seaton-olpc-ug.org/?q=node/54
> OLPC Australia has been very active. For Australian indigenous communities,
> low English literacy coupled with a large number of indigenous languages
> each with a small number of speakers is an issue.  (Localization seems to
> have been effective for large deployments sharing a single language but less
> successful for smaller deployments and languages).
> oceania, each has a satellite station mainly solar, Timor Leste no net, one
> unreliable mains other solar, au will have net and quality solar/diesel
>
>
> Dirakx spoke from Colombia. http://co.sugarlabs.org/
> They have a mix of XOs with 0.82 and Sugar on a Stick blueberry already.
> There are 7 district schools at Bogota who will use Sugar installed on old
> computers. Most places have electricity and internet but not very good
> connectivity. We need more information to test for Colombia.
>
>
> Icarito and alfredogutierrez spoke from Lima, Peru.
> http://somosazucar.org/  and http://pe.sugarlabs.org/
> They are working with native Amazonian schools in Lima and going to Puno
> next. They have XOs and there is an etoys expert local (zdenka). They will
> get connectivity in the school from the education board. They plan to
> discuss with the board how to get schools collaborating. They use Sugar
> 0.82.
>
>
> tch (Martin) spoke from Paraguay where they have 4000 F11 Sugar 0.84 XO-1.0
> they want to update to 0.88 in August and want to deploy next 5000 XO-1.5
> with 0.88 in September. They are working on some sugar activities like poll
> and adding new features.
>
>
> I look forward to being able to test for these deployments and any other
> that requests testing - mail testing at lists.laptop.org your test request.
>
>
> There were two closing questions:
> 1) how do we (deployments) aggregate our feedback so developers can know
> better how to act upon problems
> 2) how do we (deployments) share our lessons learned to make it easier for
> new/others deployments
> I am hoping someone else can summarise this as I had to leave. :-(
>
>
> Tabitha
>
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