[IAEP] Sugar oversight board meeting

Daniel Narvaez dwnarvaez at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 08:51:45 EST 2013


Yeah, my target here is development and testing, not final users.
Basically I'm talking about what Gonzalo has been doing for 0.100. We could
automate that work, it just feels a bit wrong to me because it's not using
the normal Fedora infrastructure...

On Tuesday, 5 November 2013, Walter Bender wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > Going a bit off topic, but a pretty major issue I see in our workflow
> with
> > Fedora is that we don't have a good way to develop unstable Sugar on a
> > stable Fedora. Rawhide is, or at least is perceived as, unstable. And I'm
> > not sure what would be a good way to, for example, produce and distribute
> > 0.100 rpms for Fedora 19. We can setup our custom automated build system
> and
> > repository of course, but I'm not sure that's a good approach? Part of
> the
> > problem here is that upstream tends to depend strongly on very recent
> > libraries which are not yet available in the stable fedora, though maybe
> now
> > that the gi conversion is over we can avoid that.
>
> I think it is doable. The more difficult part is getting the Fedora
> bits to run properly on the XO hardware -- something OLPC had spent
> lots of time on. So while I think we can make Fedora releases -- and
> probably should -- they probably won't do much good directly for our
> major user community.
>
> -walter
>
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, 5 November 2013, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com<javascript:;>
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com<javascript:;>
> >
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> On 4 November 2013 22:53, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> * It's not clear to me where we are going. The OLPC/Sugar
> development
> >> >>> ecosystem seems to be at a crossroads. I am encouraged by the web
> >> >>> activity
> >> >>> work, but don't understand the path of transposing the value
> >> >>> proposition of
> >> >>> Sugar (interface, Journal, collaboration, Activities) to handheld
> >> >>> tactile
> >> >>> devices (tablets to smartphones). PCs (of any size) with keyboards
> are
> >> >>> no
> >> >>> longer competitive with tablets for grade-school classroom use.
> >> >>> Perhaps the
> >> >>> XO-4 could still be in the running; there is no clear message from
> >> >>> OLPC.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> I'll try to express briefly my feelings about the directions the
> >> >> project
> >> >> could take. Note that I might be missing a lot of what is going on
> >> >> above the
> >> >> technical level.
> >> >>
> >> >> * The XO is not a viable hardware platform other than for existing
> >> >> deployments. OLPC is pretty clearly going in a different direction.
> >> >
> >> > I may be alone in thinking that there will be some runway left with
> >> > the XO. But deployments need alternatives regardless.
> >> >
> >> >> * Sugar web activities on the top of a full Android loses too much of
> >> >> the
> >> >> Sugar value proposition. It's great to have it in addition to
> >> >> Sugar-the-OS,
> >> >> but it's not enough alone.
> >> >
> >> > I agree.
> >> >
> >> >> * From the technical point of view there are several ways to get
> >> >> Sugar-the-OS running on tactile devices. Unfortunately it's not clear
> >> >> to me
> >> >> that any of these devices is open enough to be viable for deployments
> >> >> or
> >> >> "ordinary" users.
> >> >
> >> > We looked at ChromeOS a few years back, but at the time it was too
> >> > heavy for our hardware. Today, it is a different story. Might be a
> >> > viable option. Certainly running GNU/Linux/Sugar on a ChromeBook is
> >> > not a bad starting point.
> >>
> >> Given that ChromeOS is locked down I don't believe it's viable to ask
> >> a School to have to break/hack the HW to get it working OOTB.
> >>
> >> Having been involved in the OLPC OS side of things I believe you would
> >> be much better taking the work done by OLPC with things like
> >> olpc-os-builder and the work upstream with Fedora to use it to build
> >> out OS images that will work in a similar way across both XOs and
> >> other HW be it x86 netbook or cheap ARM devices rather than
> >> reinventing the wheel!
> >>
> >> Peter
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Narvaez
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>


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Daniel Narvaez
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