[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

[Daniel Narvaez]

Are classmates somehow available to developers? It sounds like making
images (or whatever) for them might be a pretty good idea.


On 6 November 2013 16:25, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

> Yes, but we never provided a easy way to install in classmates,
> or tried to approach hardware manufactures to propose them to invest on
> that.
>
> Gonzalo
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
> > 2013/11/6 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>:
> >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> I think Sugar Labs needs to express a clear, realistic technology
> roadmap.
> >>>> For example, we have been talking a lot about Sugar on Android,
> mixing a lot
> >>>> of different things under that name. We need to clarify what that
> really is.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here are my thoughts, inspired by the oversight board meeting thread.
> >>>>
> >>>> * Wait and see what happens with the XO. Support existing deployments
> by
> >>>> producing images with the most recent Sugar release. Stick to a
> Fedora 18
> >>>> base system, the work to upgrade is highly non trivial. Provide
> custom rpms
> >>>> for the sugar modules and a few dependencies, most importantly
> Webkit, which
> >>>> is required by web activities.
> >>>
> >>> In the short term, we don't need backport Webkit2 to F18. In the long
> term,
> >>> we need find a solution to move to a newer Fedora in the XOs, maybe 20
> or 21.
> >>>
> >>>> * Ensure web activities run well in web browsers. This will cover
> Android
> >>>> and other non-Linux systems.
> >>>> * Reuse the work done by OLPC on Fedora to get Sugar running nicely
> on one
> >>>> or two ARM boards (Beagle board black and Cubox-i seems to be the
> best we
> >>>> could pick at the moment). Talk to the manufacturers to get publicity
> on the
> >>>> images we produce and devices for the developers.
> >>>
> >>> Maybe not only ARM hardware. At least in South America, many places
> >>> are using Classmates in educative projects. I know talks between OLPC
> >>> and Intel were difficult in the past, but is a different world now.
> >>
> >> Classmates are basically just x86 netbooks, I've not tried it as I
> >> don't have HW but I don't see any reason they shouldn't work OOTB.
> >
> > Yep. Sugar is running in classmates out of the box.  In Uruguay for
> example.
> >
> > --
> > .. manuq ..
>



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Daniel Narvaez
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