[SoaS] [IAEP][DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I'm trying to point out that SL had better have an idea of what it
>>>>>> wants out of SoaS if it wants to invest time in it.  So far it seems
>>>>>> like SL wants to put in (great) marketing and get out a linux distro
>>>>>> that beats Fedora in hardware and community support.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't understand this point, which seems to be the crux of the issue...
>>>>> SoaS *is* Fedora.  Are there any circumstances where Fedora would work
>>>>> better than SoaS on target hardware?
>>>>
>>>> Further, the work we have been doing at GPA and with other SoaS
>>>> efforts has provided feedback from real-world situations that will
>>>> hopefully impact (in a positive way) the efforts at Fedora, Suse,
>>>> Trisquel and others. It is not so much the size of the deployment as
>>>> how much we learn from it that matters.
>>>
>>> How is that being fed back upstream to Fedora and the other distros. I
>>> must admit due to lack of time I've been mostly ignoring the GPA
>>> emails but I do have other feedback loops and I've not heard how these
>>> 'real-world situations' are improving Fedora. Is there a concise wiki
>>> page I can reference to ensure I can assist in getting these suggested
>>> improvements upstream.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>
>> I cannot say for sure that Fedora's Live USB efforts are being
>> influenced by our feedback. Most feedback is getting back to Fedora
>> through Sebastian. Alas, there is not a concise wiki page and there is
>> still a lot of noise in the feedback--something we are working to
>> improve. But what we do have is about 50 kids and teachers using
>> SoaS--mostly with few problems--which is pretty good news.
>
> I was desperate to use the latest sugar via strawberry for the 50 XO
> pilot we're doing in London but unfortunately I couldn't make it
> stable enough (with mtd's help) for a deployment so in the end had to
> go with the XO 802 release. Which is pretty bad news! I'm hoping that
> will change for the second phase of the pilot.

Is there a description of the problems you encountered with Strawberry
kicking around anywhere?

regards.

-walter

> On the other hand I've been working very closely with Sebastian and
> the two of us with both be present at FUDCon Toronto in December.
>
> Peter
>



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Walter Bender
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