<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Mel; Just got back to Bend.(7:15PM) Thank you for a great meeting! Cordially; Tom Gilliard satellit I will cogitate on our discussion and try write a list of "ideas" Here are a few that pop to mind: * 1-)I think that I will detail the steps I use to make a remix and maybe put it on the wiki. ( know sdz has his version already and do not want to interfere with it, but I personally found it hard to use/understand.) * 2-)Your ideas on remix submissions from users as an extension of Soas V4 are great. - Letting a teacher submit a list of applications and have the .ks file be returned to him/her by e-mail after check out is a great Idea *3-) Hosting Remixes: how about sourceforge? ( I could not remember its name) - here are listings hosted for OpenSuse-edu: (Cyberorg set this up) -- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuse-edu/files/Sugar/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuse-edu/files/Sugar/</a> -- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuse-edu/files/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensuse-edu/files/</a> *4-) Maybe have a listing on the wiki of the "Best 10 Remixes" and maybe a a fixed set similar to: >prebuilt remix images with keyboard and languages set for most used languages >plus spins directed (for example) towards: +young kid to 6 th grade +6-12th grade  Socialcalc-5 Physics 4 Oo4Kids words-4 +e-books  Get I A Books-6 (Firefox-6 ?) +Games +Revive the EDU spin Gnome/sugar +a version with a flash (Gnash?) for social exchanges on web (Firefox-6 ?) * 5-)Generating an .img or .raw file of a non compressed version of Soas as part of the Nightly-Composes: - 1. for dd to USB in terminal (because of the ext3 file system there would be persistence by default) - 2. Develop a graphical liveusb-creator to write a ext3 structured USB which expands to fit the USB size: ie: 4/8/16 GB (or a USB Hard Drive of 250-or 500GB size) --This can be done with gparted resize/move function on a unmounted USB Stick I used it with Bernie's Direct-Blueberry: ---http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry-direct-cleared-3GB.img.xz ---http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry-direct-cleared-3GB.txt *6-)Here is the link I said I would send that I use to install livecd-tools:   <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_a_Live_CD">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_a_Live_CD</a> Clipped from page: ...................................... "To create a live image, the livecd-creator tool is used. Super user privileges are needed. The tool is more or less self-documenting, use the --help option to see options. The livecd-creator tool is part of the <code>livecd-tools</code> package. If it is not installed on your system, add it with: <pre>su -c 'yum install livecd-tools spin-kickstarts' </pre> If you are interested in localized live cd files, install also l10n-kickstarts." .................... Unfortunately this installs files in /usr/share/spin-kickstarts which requires root access to edit. Not easy for a Teacher to re-spin her own .iso one has to open gedit from root terminal to edit and save the .ks files I use this entry in terminal to build in a booted USB 500GB HD with f14(rawhide) installed. ........... livecd-creator \ --config=/usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-livecd-soas.ks \ --fslabel=Soas-v4-07142010--LiveCD --cache=/var/cache/live <h3> ........ </h3> </body> </html>