[IAEP] Sugar oversight board meeting

[Daniel Narvaez]

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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