[IAEP] SoaS change of direction: heads-up on convos in other lists

[Sascha Silbe]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:06:53PM -0400, Gerald Ardito wrote:

> Speaking for teachers working with students, the extra work to 
> download the
> extra activities desired for over a hundred flash drives would be 
> daunting
> at best.
FWIW, I think downloading activities to each individual stick is an 
utter waste of time. There are better ways to do that; off the top of my 
head, you can:

a) Prepare / configure a single stick (the smallest one) and clone it by 

     removing ~/.sugar/default/owner.key* and using dd to do an exact 
copy of
     the stick or
b) create a custom SoaS image[2].


Yes, we could and should build tools that allow non-techies to do this 
easily. But anyone doing a deployment at this scale will need a system 
administrator anyway - even if just a teacher with a reasonable amount 
of Unix/Linux experience.


[1] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/74
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Customization

CU Sascha

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