[Marketing] [Server-devel] [SoaS] The next Step: v2 Roadmap

[Rodolfo D. Arce S.]

Hello all:

I'm actually not working solely with Sugar, but with the OLPC
deployment and the XS..

The feature that i found to be more important is the re-installing of
the operative systrem, beacuse the whole platform is still a little
unstable, the OS reinstall is very usefull.. but the restore of the
journal is very VERY complicated

Daniel Drake made a couple of scripts that were very usefull, which
restores a journal to a temp folder.. and when booting looks for that
temp folder in order to restore

If i tryed to do it manually.. is very long and complicated process..
do-able, but if i think of a 9 year old doing it.. well.. it could be
to hard

So I think that is someting that we shloud be aiming at.. simple
journal backup and restore.. and not only in an OLPC, or XS
envoiroment for that matter.. so even in places without XS (for
backup) or where reinstall is a fast and easy way to get a system up
again.. the journal is the only place where all things are stored

cheers.. R

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Caroline Meeks<solutiongrove at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am going to try to answer this, or actually I hope start a brainstorming
> session that will get us towards a feature list.
> I am going to try to use the Customer Role of an Agile process.  That means
> I'm going to try to talk as much about the result I want to see as I can and
> as little as I can about how to get to it.  I do know that some of this is
> in the works. I also know that some of it will require the heavens to
> deliver us yet another genius programmer with a new skill set to accomplish
> by September.   But the job of the role of Customer is my mind is to talk
> about what I'd like to see, what the business case for it is and what the
> priority is.  I hope other people will join me in this role as i think its
> crucial information for the technical team to have.
> Solid Collaboration - Priority A for GPA Project. - Defining what this looks
> like and how we get there is an important discussion and i don't have all
> those answers.  This encompasses local and jabber collaboration.
> Straightforward Teacher "Assignment" -> Student -> Teacher
> workflow.  Priority B for GPA For example. Teacher creates a template
> to scaffold student writing.  Students do the writing assignment and the
> teacher "collects" them.  Maybe this happens with Moodle or maybe its done
> all in Sugar?
> Straightforward Sugarization - By this I mean that a programmer who has
> created a game for linux or the web could look at our documentation and
> examples and tell his/her boss, "yes I see how we can make this available
> for Sugar and it will be a better experience for kids in a classroom through
> Sugar."  Sugarizing should not mean giving up aggregating data for the
> teacher.  It should be a better user experience because: automatic saving,
> cooler collaboration, easier installation and more consistent performance,
> easier for teachers to find, available to the million kids with XOs.
>  .Priority A for Sugar.
> Sugar on SoaS and Netbooks backs up and restores with XS - Priority A for
> GPA,
> Sugar Live CD - Boothelper - USB Creator all in one - Priority B for SoaS
> Sugar on a Stick works with a VM - Priority B for GPA  - it still has to
> boot on its own also.
> A Sugar machine can also run a SoaS - Priority C - Use case. Say you are in
> a 1-1 Netbook deployment.  Your netbook breaks and it'll be a week till its
> repaired. It would be cool to burn a Stick for that kid from the XS backup
> and they could then use a teacher's netbook or some kid who is in Gym that
> period's netbook and still get to participate in the lesson.
> Sugar works on preIntel Macs - Priority C for GPA, Priority B for Sugar.
> Sugar works on lesser hardware, say Pentium III 256M. - Priority C for SoaS
> Don't let the user keep opening activities until the machine crashes or is
> driven to its knees - Priority C for GPA
> Less cluttered, more consistent neighborhood view - Priority C for Sugar
> I am copying the Server list because I think many of the things I think are
> the most important next steps for Sugar require interfacing with, and
> improvements in the XS.
> Priorities are my current opinions and I tried to not bias them with how
> hard I think the tasks are.  They are about how important I think they are,
> in my opinion, with my customer hat on, to either the GPA pilot, Sugar and
> its marketing, and partnerships and adoption, or the Sugar on a Stick
> project.  I don't think for a second that things should be done in priority
> order.
> So I hope everyone else sticks their necks out and says what features they
> want, what the use cases are and  what they think their relative importance
> are.  Then we can narrow our focus back down to what we can do for
> September.
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> 2009/7/4 Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>
>>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> so here it is, the Sugar on a Stick v2 Roadmap:
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap#Roadmap
>>
>> Feedback is appreciated, and as we've just entered brainstorming phase,
>> please go ahead and shoot your ideas! :) More to come...
>>
>> --Sebastian
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