[IAEP] Wiki Gardening Weekend (May 14-15, Boston, USA)

[Iain Brown Douglas]

On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 10:34 +1000, James Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 04:20:49PM +0100, Iain Brown Douglas wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > It seems this conversation has gone a long way from wiki gardening :)
> > 
> > My feeling is that the wiki does not serve _New_to_Sugar_ users
> > well.
> 
> +1
> 
> > Moreover as there is a lack of reliable first steps information, new
> > content cannot be written referring back to such.
> > 
> > In general, I believe we need more content with screen shots aimed at
> > _New_to_Sugar_ users, but they would be better delivered via slide show
> > than scrolling pages.
> > 
> > New to Jekyll, I did not work out how to do a slide show in Jekyll and
> > Markdown. Can anyone point to a site that does this successfully?
> > 
> > So I just ploughed on and generated content using Remark[1].
> > 
> > An alternative Sphinx-based, slide show effort is used in SoaS
> > Loader[2], but the product became over-weight in detail. [...]
> 
> Programmers among us have let you down there; you've had to devote
> many slides to a very complex install process.
> 
> 	http://soas-loader.readthedocs.org
> 
> Now, install for Fedora 23 SoaS is just type "sudo liveinst" in
> Terminal activity.
> 
I believe 8 GB sticks made by this method are more stable than
compressed ones.

> Future, Sugar could have a My Settings control panel which starts
> "sudo liveinst" on demand.

What would be the protection against wiping the host hard drive? :)

It was this concern that has stopped me writing up the liveinst method.

Liveinst to a Windows XP PC from the junk yard, is a simple way of
introducing Sugar to home or classroom.

I am indulging in this conversation a little, thinking / dreaming of a
non-technical "How to get Sugar 2016" ... :)

Iain
> 
> That way your SoaS Loader would reduce to "click here, click there,
> answer questions".
> 
> (Development of this feature would be made faster by respinning SoaS with
> updated Sugar packages.  +CC linuxmodder from #sugar.)
> 
> > I am submitting, again, my concept of a gallery[3] by way of
> > conversation.
> > 
> > Apropos wiki gardening, are there any views on what else is wrong with
> > the wiki?
> > 
> > One serious problem is that using "Search" button indicates material
> > which may be obsolete but unmarked as such.
> > [3] http://inkyfingers.github.io/gallery/
> > 
> > 
> > > Once https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/pull/19 is merged,
> > > I'll ask systems@ to create two A records that point the sugarlabs.org
> > > domain to 192.30.252.153 and 192.30.252.154, per
> > > https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-an-apex-domain/
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Cheers
> > > Dave
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