[Marketing] [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] New Fedora Spins Site

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Iain Brown Douglas
<iain at browndouglas.plus.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 11:39 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>> Iain, Sean, Sam,
>>
>>
>> _Please_consolidate_the_changes_before_send_to_Peter_.
>>
> Thanks, Gonzalo, is good advice.
>

I've just spent two hours manually providing updates. It will be live
on staging shortly.

Please provide any further updates against that.

> My apologies to the other contributors, Sam, Walter and Sean for
> clouding their perfectly useful work.
>
> The text that I have called the "Walter/Sam contribution" is on this
> thread.
>
> Sean's "improved" text reads:
>
> #-#
>
> Sugar on a Stick is a Fedora-based operating system featuring the
> award-winning Sugar Learning Platform and designed to fit on an ordinary
> USB thumbdrive ("stick").
>
> Sugar sets aside the traditional "office-desktop" metaphor, presenting a
> child-friendly simple graphical environment. Sugar automatically saves
> the child's progress to a "Journal" on your stick, so teachers and
> parents can easily pull up "all collaborative web browsing sessions done
> in the past week" or "papers written with Daniel and Sarah in the last
> 24 hours" with a simple query rather than memorizing complex file/folder
> structures. Applications in Sugar are known as Activities, some of which
> are described below.
>
> It is now deployable for the cost of a stick rather than a laptop;
> students can take their Sugar on a Stick thumbdrive to any machine - at
> school, at home, at a library or community center - and boot their
> customized computing environment without touching the host machine's
> hard disk or existing system at all.
>
> #-#
>
> I feel that this is the limit of my ability to achieve consensus.
>
> I have a plain text copy of the above two elements plus Sean's
> proof_reading_corrections, if it is required.
>
> Iain
>
>> Peter,
>> when need this be finished?
>>
>>
>> Gonzalo
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Peter Robinson
>> <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>         On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Iain Brown Douglas
>>         <iain at browndouglas.plus.com> wrote:
>>         > On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 15:00 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>         >> >> > Hi Peter,
>>         >> >> >
>>         >> >> > On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 9:01 PM Peter Robinson
>>         <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>         >> >> >>
>>         >> >> >> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Iain Brown Douglas
>>         >> >> >> <iain at browndouglas.plus.com> wrote:
>>         >> >> >> > Thanks, Sean, for the careful proof reading.
>>         >> >> >> >
>>         >> >> >> > Fair copy attached.
>>         >> >> >> >
>>         >> >> >> > I originally included the section "Multimedia", as
>>         it is the set of
>>         >> >> >> > Activities in
>>         http://spins.stg.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/
>>         >> >> >> > but not in the Walter/Sam contribution.
>>         >> >> >> >
>>         >> >> >> > I think it is the weakest section. Chat jars a bit
>>         on the page, as
>>         >> >> >> > "Chat" is used in the "Spins page template" to
>>         refer to IRC.
>>         >> >> >> >
>>         >> >> >> > My memory is that Jukebox is not part of the core
>>         set (due to non-free
>>         >> >> >> > components?).
>>         >> >> >>
>>         >> >> >> You're memory is wrong! It uses gstreamer and there a
>>         number of free
>>         >> >> >> codecs that come as standard.
>>         >> > Thanks, Peter, for the correction.
>>         >> >
>>         >> > So as a heading, ==Multimedia== containing Jukebox,
>>         Record, Imageviewer
>>         >> > you feel should remain?
>>         >>
>>         >> I really don't care what it's called but those three are
>>         staying,
>>         >> right where they are. A lot of people want to view photos,
>>         listen to
>>         >> music etc. As to what it's called, I'm not particularly
>>         bothered.
>>         >>
>>         >> >> Maybe you could download SoaS 22 and
>>         >> >> >> actually test it and see what's there!
>>         >> >> >>
>>         >> >> >> > Perhaps the section Multimedia as it stands should
>>         be deleted.
>>         >> >> >>
>>         >> >> >> Not going to happen. This isn't time for
>>         bikeshedding, it's time for
>>         >> >> >> tweaking the content as it stands.
>>         >> >> >
>>         >> >> >
>>         >> >> > Talking about the headers is not bikeshedding.  The
>>         headers on the page are
>>         >> >> > not very relevant to an education focused desktop
>>         environment - they are
>>         >> >> > headers for a traditional dekstop environment.
>>         >> >>
>>         >> >> I was talking about "Multimedia as it stands should be
>>         deleted" so I
>>         >> >> have no idea why you're talking about the header names.
>>         I have stated
>>         >> >> before the header names need to be updated. I'm still
>>         awaiting what
>>         >> >> they should be updated to.
>>         >> >
>>         >> > ... awaiting?
>>         >> >
>>         >> >         Understanding and creating content
>>         >> >         Learning by doing
>>         >> >         Getting technical
>>         >> >         Exploring the wider world
>>         >> >         Multimedia
>>         >> >         Reflection on what you've learned
>>         >> >
>>         >> > is from earlier contributions and both my attachments to
>>         this thread.
>>         >>
>>         >> As I've said to Sean before, I don't have the time to
>>         reconcile
>>         >> opinions coming in from a number of locations.
>>         > Peter, that is why I have tried to help by drawing the
>>         contributions
>>         > onto one attachment, are you receiving your email without
>>         attachments?
>>
>>
>>         No, I drop all attachments from mailing lists unless they are
>>         text
>>         patches, they're generally just spam or viruses.
>>
>>         In plain text inline emails please.
>>
>>         I want ONE update. I don't have the time to merge them. I've
>>         already
>>         wasted a lot of time I really don't have on this!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>
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