[SoaS] SoaS Fedora Spin webpage

Mel Chua mel at melchua.com
Wed May 5 00:15:00 EDT 2010


Since SoaS is now a Fedora Spin, we also get a shiny Fedora Spin 
webpage, courtesy of the Fedora Marketing, Design, and Websites teams: 
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/

Not all the wiki/other links pointed-to from this spin page are fully 
built up (for instance, our openhatch link needs more work), but there's 
time to do that before the release date of 5/18, and we needed to get 
this specific website itself up today (Fedora's freeze date).

Thanks to Sean Daly for graciously stepping in with last-minute patches 
to the content on very short notice! You can see Sean's changes here: 
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=fedora-web.git;a=commitdiff;h=5812da649b6c132b43b51b72f09c56dff236076b

There were two changes requested that I did /not/ make, and wanted to 
note here for transparency (and also pushback, so that people can tell 
me if they think I'm wrong in doing so. :)

* I left the age range from grades K-8 (requested: K-6) because of 
positive feedback from middle school teachers, and also because of the 
project's history of targeting a broader range 
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Our_market#Child_is_a_nebulous_term.3B_what_is_the_exact_age_range_you_are_targeting.3F).

* I love this paragraph, but I haven't seen tests run with Sugar on a 
Stick and the XS - and until we have that, I'm hesitant to put that in: 
"In a classroom setting, this automatic saving to each pupil's stick can 
also be backed up to a school server, solving any lost stick problems. 
The XS School Server (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server), also 
based on Fedora, can provide content distribution, homework collection, 
Moodle integration (http://docs.moodle.org/en/OLPC_XS_installation), and 
filtered access to the Internet."

You may also notice that the webpage does not contain the SL logo, 
because we generally do not use trademarks in our Fedora Spin webpages, 
since everything we put out needs to be freely redistributable and we 
don't want to dilute anyone's mark. Instead, it features a banner 
created by Melanie Kim, adapted from a banner by Mo Duffy made with 
artwork by Maria Leandro, all contributors from Fedora Design.

In general, enjoy the shiny and please shoot comments and feedback and 
such this-a-way. ;)

--Mel (wearing my Fedora Marketing hat in this email as well as my Sugar 
Labs one)


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