[IAEP] SugarCamp Lima 2011 tickets request

[Sebastian Silva]

Hi Walter
Thanks for sharing your concerns.
I'm cc'ing IAEP as there is no reason for confidentiality.

I hope I can convince you of the importance of supporting
the Local Lab in the articulation of an effort to involve the
wider society in the selection of software and content their
children get with their machines.

We have heard about lots of machine downtime related to the
activation / "security" system. Peru is in an offline context:
"activation lease" is distributed on USB keys for an entire year,
instead of the week they were designed to. This means in the
beginning of the year your computer does not work until
some USB key arrives to the most remote locations of Peru.

In these conditions the "security" system has basically become
DRM at the service of Education Ministries. For this reason our
group is going to recommend the disabling of the security system.

We believe each Local Lab should be in the technical
conditions to provide services to their deployments and find
sustainibility in this - so this is the ultimate strategic objective of
the event.

We will be holding a panel on the second day of the Sugar Camp
Lima 2011:
"10 recomendaciones para el proyecto Una Laptop Por Niño",
to which you are heartfully invited to participate.

I hope the information contained here and in the following
answers are enough for SLOBs to take a vote on the two
tickets requested.

Thanks,
Sebastian
PS: my answers below

2011/10/29, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Sebastian Silva
> <sebastian at somosazucar.org> wrote:
>> SLOBs,
>> Laura sent this email to SLOBs but it seems to not have passed moderation!
>> Maybe this will help clear out any doubts about our objectives and our
>> level of commitment.
>>
>> Walter, do not hesitate to direct any concerns to our public list or
>> the organization comittee at malla at somosazucar.org. Also detailed
>> information can be found at this working site:
>> https://sites.google.com/a/somosazucar.org/sucarcamplima2011/
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sebastian
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org>
>> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:50:53 -0500
>> Subject: SugarCamp Lima 2011 tickets request
>> To: slobs at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> Cc: juancamilo at somosazucar.org, Sebastian Silva
>> <sebastian at somosazucar.org>, koke at somosazucar.org, kikomayorga
>> <kiko at escuelab.org>
>>
>>
>> Hello dear SLOBs,
>>
>> Here in Perú, we are at full speed preparing Sugar Camp
>> Lima 2011. The deployment is on a very interesting turning
>> point:
>> - There is a new administration (yei!)
>> - There are over 500,000 locked machines on field O.O
>> - Less than 2% has connectivity..
>
> Is this accurate? From what I have heard, this number is off by an
> order of magnitude. Could you please check? In any case, what can
> Sugar Labs do to help improve the situation?

Yes this is accurate.
The latest IADB study of July 2010 reads exactly 1.4%:
http://tinyurl.com/4x9bcrw

>
>> - The image they are using today is not updated nor adapted
>> (ex. loss of WiFi on suspend, English language by default).
>> - It is also incompatible with newer Activities, because of lack
>> of support for new toolbars (Sugar 0.84 or even 0.82).
>
> As I understand it, they have a new image in the works. Is the plan to
> work with them on improving it or to replace it with something else?
> If the latter, what is the rationale?

Our plan is always to try to be helpful.
For this project the plan is to produce an image officially supported
by somosAZUCAR - Sugar Labs Peru. We are always open to collaborate
with them on improving their 2013 release.

>> - We, as a local lab, are looking forward to create a *sustainable
>> model* by formalizing our relationship with authorities in charge of
>> the deployment.
>
> Could you please elaborate a bit on what that means?

I'll leave that to Laura.  :o)

>>
>> SugarCamp Lima 2011 will showcase the best our community has to
>> offer both in software as in content customization. By collaboratively
>> producing an *updated image of sugar*, sugar camp Lima 2011,
>> promises to become a memorable experience for all of us.
>
> I appreciate wanting to bring in great people, but I don't understand
> what you mean when you refer to creating an updated image of sugar.
>
She means an updated operating system image with an updated version
of Sugar.

>From another thread:
>> We are preparing an image for a region of Peru, Puno. This image will
>> feature updated software, translations to Quechua and Aymara (Puno is
>> the stronghold of ancient Andean culture) as well as content specific
>> for their context (e.g. "Map My Lake Activity" in development for
>> measuring and monitoring water quality levels around Lake Titicaca).
>> So this is more than just internationalization.
>>
>> From the technical side I can add that:
>> We will be using Sugar 0.94 both on XO1 and regular computers
>> (Dextrose 3 for one, Trisquel for the others). By doing this we expect
>> to build on the integration work already done by others and contribute
>> to both projects.

Our focus will be on providing the users the best possible experience for
their context and culture, in a stable release.

>>
>> There is a lot of enthusiasm among local and global community members!
>
> Great.
>
>>
>> Technical team have requested the tickets of Aleksey [alsroot] who will
>> help with the integration work and Ruben Rodriguez [quidam] who is the
>> Trisquel project leader.
>
> Integration of what?

Integration of translations, of sugar versions/patches, content.
I will be preparing a "continuous integration" environment for the marathon.
Translator Team will be able to test drive their translations. Content Team
will be able to test user experience and content selection. We have
coordinators for each of those tasks.

>
>>
>> Any suggestion and/or additional support is welcome.
>
> My suggestion is a bit more clarity of the goals.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> laura
>>
>> cc local lab perú
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sebastian Silva
>> http://somosazucar.org/
>> "Te imaginas si te pudieran enseñar sólo a leer pero no a escribir??"
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>


2011/10/29, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Sebastian Silva
> <sebastian at somosazucar.org> wrote:
>> I've answered separately forwarding an email by Laura Vargas with our
>> strategic perspective and rationale for objectives. Also a link to a
>> detailed agenda of the event.
>>
>> We are preparing an image for a region of Peru, Puno. This image will
>> feature updated software, translations to Quechua and Aymara (Puno is
>> the stronghold of ancient Andean culture) as well as content specific
>> for their context (e.g. "Map My Lake Activity" in development for
>> measuring and monitoring water quality levels around Lake Titicaca).
>> So this is more than just internationalization.
>>
>> From the technical side I can add that:
>> We will be using Sugar 0.94 both on XO1 and regular computers
>> (Dextrose 3 for one, Trisquel for the others). By doing this we expect
>> to build on the integration work already done by others and contribute
>> to both projects.
>
> This makes it more clear at least why you want Reuben and Aleksey to
> come to Peru.
>
>>