<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Tony Anderson </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Consider an potential adopter who wants to try out Sugar. As Caryl
knows from Scale, an adopter wants to know:<br>
<br>
1 - What are the capabilities of Sugar, what are its strengths, who
is using it, are there success stories, testimonials from users?<br>
2 - How is it supported? If I were to deploy it and needed help, is
it available?<br>
3 - How can I install it on my PC to try it out?<br>
<br>
Going to the Sugarlabs website, the first screen features:
Activities, Wiki, Social Help. The next statement describes Sugar as
a collection of tools.<br>
Being persistent, if you scroll down several screens, you get to a
block: Get Sugar featuring SOAS and Gnu/Linux.<br>
<br>
For Sugar on a Stick, I am directed to another page. It starts out
well - how to make a stick with Windows (but 7). The instructions
say to download 650MB and burn a CD. At this point the instructions
become incoherent. They say to mount a 2GB or more stick and then
boot from the CD and start running Sugar from it using the Terminal
activity and su.<br>
<br>
Then I am told that a change in Fedora 24 (the adopter is saying
'what's that?') requires the use of the command:<br>
<br>
<code>sudo dnf install livecd-tools<br>
</code><br>
No potential adopter would persist even to this point.<br>
<br>
The other panel claims Sugar is available on most Gnu/Linux
distributions. The accompanying instructions from the links on this
panel are even more intimidating and provide evidence of lack of
support for Sugar.<br>
<br>
In fact, I believe that Ubuntu 16.04 enables yum install of Sugar
0.110. This should be featured.<br>
<br>
Like Pixel, I would like to see a current Sugar image available for
download which can be transfered to a usb stick by a single dd
command. This stick would operate as SOAS but also support
installation in an available block of hard drive on any amd_64
machine. A second image ideally would be installable as a Window
application with a supported Windows installer (like wubi did).
Finally, there should be a Debian image which can be copied to an SD
card and booted by a Raspberry Pi 3 (and possibly 2). <br>
<br>
Finally, our hypothetical adopter should find this 'get Sugar'
information on the main screen, not down six screens. <br>
<br>
Tony<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_1955997269926955848moz-cite-prefix">On 02/15/2017 11:20 PM,
<a class="gmail-m_1955997269926955848moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:iaep-request@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep-request@lists.sugarlabs.<wbr>org</a> wrote:<br>
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<pre>Message: 3
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:15:05 +0000
From: Caryl Bigenho <a class="gmail-m_1955997269926955848moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank"><cbigenho@hotmail.com></a>
To: Bert Freudenberg <a class="gmail-m_1955997269926955848moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank"><bert@freudenbergs.de></a>
Cc: IAEP SugarLabs <a class="gmail-m_1955997269926955848moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org></a>
Subject: Re: [IAEP] pixel
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+1 for Tony's comment!
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 15, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Bert Freudenberg <<a class="gmail-m_1955997269926955848moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank">bert@freudenbergs.de</a><a class="gmail-m_1955997269926955848moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank"><mailto:<wbr>bert@freudenbergs.de></a>> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Tony Anderson <<a class="gmail-m_1955997269926955848moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a><a class="gmail-m_1955997269926955848moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank"><mailto:<wbr>tony_anderson@usa.net></a>> wrote:
This is what I hoped Sugarlabs would do:
<a class="gmail-m_1955997269926955848moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://opensource.com/article/17/1/try-raspberry-pis-pixel-os-your-pc" target="_blank">https://opensource.com/<wbr>article/17/1/try- IAEP Digest, Vol 107, Issue 15raspberry-<wbr>pis-pixel-os-your-pc</a>
Tony
Isn't that exactly what SoaS does?
<a class="gmail-m_1955997269926955848moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/<wbr>Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation</a>
- Bert -</pre>
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<a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/<wbr>listinfo/iaep</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(7,55,99)"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(7,55,99)">This discussion started with Tony's reference to <a href="https://opensource.com/article/17/1/try-raspberry-pis-pixel-os-your-pc">PIXEL</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD">live CD</a> of the Raspberry Pi OS. That led to a reference to <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick">Sugar on a Stick</a> and a discussion of its ease of installation. From there the discussion got split as I addressed some technical issues on the SoaS mailing list, followed by Caryl giving some insights on the suitability of SoaS in comparison to <a href="http://sugarizer.org/">Sugarizer</a>. Peter responded with more information on the breadth of technology currently served by <a href="https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/soas/">SoaS</a>, the Fedora-Sugar Labs spin of Sugar.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(7,55,99)">So I've brought both threads together here by cross posting a transcript.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><div class="gmail_default">Praise be, Sugarizer has made great steps toward Sugar Labs' <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs#Technical_Goals">technical goals</a> and deserves much greater investment as Caryl suggests.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Yet there remains considerable value in the SoaS variants of Sugar, so attention is still deserved there to support the needs of another class of users and learners.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">To that end, I notice that the Fedora 26 proposal submission deadline is fast approaching (21 Feb 2017) and so offer this thread and this <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/SoaS_next">feature page</a> for proposals.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Thanks be given for your insights and efforts!</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div><br></div></div><span style="font-size:large;font-weight:bold">Forwarded conversation</span><br>Subject: <b class="gmail_sendername">Fwd: [IAEP] SoaS installation frustrations</b><br>------------------------<br><br><span class="gmail_quote"><font color="#888">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Frederick Grose</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fgrose@sugarlabs.org">fgrose@sugarlabs.org</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 9:23 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>Cc: Peter Robinson <<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net">tony_anderson@usa.net</a><br></font><br></span><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">See the posting below with inline suggestions. The posting was to the IAEP mailing list for the general Sugar audience. I've copied the discussion here to the SoaS list for technical followup. Perhaps we could interest some Google Code-In or GSOC applicants to innovate on the installation issues.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tony Anderson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 12:18 AM<br>Subject: Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 107, Issue 15<br>To: <a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><br><br><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Consider an potential adopter who wants to try out Sugar. As Caryl knows from Scale, an adopter wants to know:<br><br>1 - What are the capabilities of Sugar, what are its strengths, who is using it, are there success stories, testimonials from users?<br>2 - How is it supported? If I were to deploy it and needed help, is it available?<br>3 - How can I install it on my PC to try it out?<br><br>Going to the Sugarlabs website, the first screen features: Activities, Wiki, Social Help. The next statement describes Sugar as a collection of tools.<br>Being persistent, if you scroll down several screens, you get to a block: Get Sugar featuring SOAS and Gnu/Linux.<br><br>For Sugar on a Stick, I am directed to another page. It starts out well - how to make a stick with Windows (but 7). The instructions say to download 650MB and burn a CD. At this point the instructions become incoherent. They say to mount a 2GB or more stick and then boot from the CD and start running Sugar from it using the Terminal activity and su.<br><br>Then I am told that a change in Fedora 24 (the adopter is saying 'what's that?') requires the use of the command:<br><br><code>sudo dnf install livecd-tools<br></code><br>No potential adopter would persist even to this point.</div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br></div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">>> We should go back to including the livecd-tools package in SoaS and we should also copy the livecd-iso-to-disk script to the /LiveOS/ folder as was previously standard in Fedora, because installing SoaS with persistent storage is essential for the project goal of having a resumable Sugar environment in your pocket.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">This is something Peter Robinson, our SoaS packager, can accomplish or advise us on.</div><br>The other panel claims Sugar is available on most Gnu/Linux distributions. The accompanying instructions from the links on this panel are even more intimidating and provide evidence of lack of support for Sugar.<br><br>In fact, I believe that Ubuntu 16.04 enables yum install of Sugar 0.110. This should be featured.<br><br>Like Pixel, I would like to see a current Sugar image available for download which can be transferred to a usb stick by a single dd command. This stick would operate as SOAS but also support installation in an available block of hard drive on any amd_64 machine. </div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br></div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99);display:inline">>> This is currently available, but not featured in our instructions as such an installation lacks persistence of user/learner Activities between boots. However, it is the easiest way to demonstrate a live SoaS system. Instructions should be updated.</div></div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br></div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">A second image ideally would be installable as a Window application with a supported Windows installer (like wubi did). Finally, there should be a Debian image which can be copied to an SD card and booted by a Raspberry Pi 3 (and possibly 2). <br><br>Finally, our hypothetical adopter should find this 'get Sugar' information on the main screen, not down six screens. <br><br>Tony<br><br><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-cite-prefix">On 02/15/2017 11:20 PM, <a class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:iaep-request@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep-request@lists.<wbr>sugarlabs.org</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">Message: 3
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:15:05 +0000
From: Caryl Bigenho <a class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank"><cbigenho@hotmail.com></a>
To: Bert Freudenberg <a class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank"><bert@freudenbergs.de></a>
Cc: IAEP SugarLabs <a class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org></a>
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+1 for Tony's comment!
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 15, 2017, at 12:51 PM, Bert Freudenberg <<a class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank">bert@freudenbergs.de</a><a class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank"><mailto:b<wbr>ert@freudenbergs.de></a>> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Tony Anderson <<a class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a><a class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank"><mailto:<wbr>tony_anderson@usa.net></a>> wrote:
This is what I hoped Sugarlabs would do:
<a class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://opensource.com/article/17/1/try-raspberry-pis-pixel-os-your-pc" target="_blank">https://opensource.com/article<wbr>/17/1/try-raspberry-pis-pixel-<wbr>os-your-pc</a>
Tony
Isn't that exactly what SoaS does?
<a class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/S<wbr>ugar_on_a_Stick/Installation</a>
- Bert -</pre></blockquote><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12.8px">_____________________________</span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:12.8px">_<wbr>________________</span><br></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-cite-prefix"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99);display:inline"><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/lis<wbr>tinfo/iaep</a></div></div><div class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-cite-prefix"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99);display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-cite-prefix"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-cite-prefix"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99);display:inline">For those interested alleviating these frustrations, the following links to previous efforts provide some background:</div></div><div class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-cite-prefix"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99);display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-cite-prefix"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99);display:inline"><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://goog_127419843/" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/<wbr>Sugar_on_a_Stick/Resources</a></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-cite-prefix"><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Goals" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/<wbr>Sugar_on_a_Stick/Goals</a></div><div class="gmail-m_-7302517052283369571gmail-m_-7014812632134641291moz-cite-prefix"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#073763" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/TODO" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/<wbr>Sugar_on_a_Stick/TODO</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"> --Fred</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><br></div></div></div></div><br>----------<br><span class="gmail_quote"><font color="#888">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Caryl Bigenho</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 12:30 PM<br>To: "<a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br>Cc: "<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>><br></font><br></span><br><div><div id="gmail-m_-1248932841430625323divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><p>Hi Guys...</p><p><br></p><p>I'm sorry to stick a pin in your balloon, but I really think it is time to (gasp) retire SOAS! If your target market is education, it is still far too complex for most educators to want to even try to install it, much less write lesson plans that will utilize Sugar's Activities to help their students learn. As Tony knows, teachers simply don't have the time to learn about things like Terminal commands, what Gnu and Linux are etc. Unfortunately this is why Apple has such a grip on technology in schools... in the words of Steve Jobs (I think he was the one who said it) "It just works!"</p><p><br></p><p>That is why I think our focus should shift to Sugarizer. It just works! Teachers, students, parents , and everyone else knows how to install an app on their device and Sugarizer is available to install on almost any device.</p><p><br></p><p>What it needs now to make it a viable option for schools and other educational projects is some great documentation with lesson suggestions for the various Activities that are relevant to the work the students are doing... learning language arts by reading and writing, learning math by doing math, music by making music etc. </p><p><br></p><p>This is one reason why I made a proposal last summer (that no one picked up on) that we begin with a special small edition, Sugarizer Primero or Sugarizer1° (1° is primero). It would have just those Activities that would be useful in the K-2 (Primary School). This small version would not include any war games so it could be used more universally. </p><p><br></p><p>We could find some willing educators to test it and help develop lesson plan suggestions. These teachers should be paid for their work (from SugarLabs funds). We would need someone very familiar with using Sugar with students and with access to a lot of teachers and classes to test it. It seems that the perfect person for this would be Rosamel Norma Ramirez in Uruguay.</p><p><br></p><p>So... as I said... sorry! But it is time to realistic about this and move on.</p><p><br></p><p>Caryl</p><p><br></p><p>P.S. For Tony... are you in the US? Are you coming to SCaLE March 3-5?</p><p><br></p><p><br></p></div><hr style="display:inline-block;width:531.156px"><div id="gmail-m_-1248932841430625323divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> SoaS <<a href="mailto:soas-bounces@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">soas-bounces@lists.sugarlabs.<wbr>org</a>> on behalf of Frederick Grose <<a href="mailto:fgrose@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">fgrose@sugarlabs.org</a>><br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 18, 2017 6:23:31 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [SoaS] Fwd: [IAEP] SoaS installation frustrations</font><div> </div></div><div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>SoaS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/<wbr>listinfo/soas</a><br><br><br>----------<br><span class="gmail_quote"><font color="#888">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Robinson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 12:41 PM<br>To: Frederick Grose <<a href="mailto:fgrose@sugarlabs.org">fgrose@sugarlabs.org</a>><br>Cc: Development of live Sugar distributions <<a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net">tony_anderson@usa.net</a><br></font><br></span><br><span class="gmail-">On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Frederick Grose <<a href="mailto:fgrose@sugarlabs.org">fgrose@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote:<br>> See the posting below with inline suggestions. The posting was to the IAEP<br>> mailing list for the general Sugar audience. I've copied the discussion<br>> here to the SoaS list for technical followup. Perhaps we could interest<br>> some Google Code-In or GSOC applicants to innovate on the installation<br>> issues.<br>><br>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>> From: Tony Anderson <<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>><br>> Date: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 12:18 AM<br>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 107, Issue 15<br>> To: <a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br>><br>><br>> Consider an potential adopter who wants to try out Sugar. As Caryl knows<br>> from Scale, an adopter wants to know:<br>><br>> 1 - What are the capabilities of Sugar, what are its strengths, who is using<br>> it, are there success stories, testimonials from users?<br>> 2 - How is it supported? If I were to deploy it and needed help, is it<br>> available?<br>> 3 - How can I install it on my PC to try it out?<br>><br>> Going to the Sugarlabs website, the first screen features: Activities, Wiki,<br>> Social Help. The next statement describes Sugar as a collection of tools.<br>> Being persistent, if you scroll down several screens, you get to a block:<br>> Get Sugar featuring SOAS and Gnu/Linux.<br><br></span>The SoaS site it much better:<br><a href="https://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://spins.fedoraproject.<wbr>org/soas/</a><br><span class="gmail-"><br>> For Sugar on a Stick, I am directed to another page. It starts out well -<br>> how to make a stick with Windows (but 7). The instructions say to download<br>> 650MB and burn a CD. At this point the instructions become incoherent. They<br>> say to mount a 2GB or more stick and then boot from the CD and start running<br>> Sugar from it using the Terminal activity and su.<br><br></span>Fedora has a Windows/MacOS/Linux graphical tool to write USB sticks<br>and that is what should be used IMO.<br><br><a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/<wbr>wiki/How_to_create_and_use_<wbr>Live_USB</a><br><span class="gmail-"><br>> Then I am told that a change in Fedora 24 (the adopter is saying 'what's<br>> that?') requires the use of the command:<br>><br>> sudo dnf install livecd-tools<br>><br>> No potential adopter would persist even to this point.<br>><br>>>> We should go back to including the livecd-tools package in SoaS and we<br>>>> should also copy the livecd-iso-to-disk script to the /LiveOS/ folder as was<br>>>> previously standard in Fedora, because installing SoaS with persistent<br>>>> storage is essential for the project goal of having a resumable Sugar<br>>>> environment in your pocket.<br>><br>> This is something Peter Robinson, our SoaS packager, can accomplish or<br>> advise us on.<br><br></span>I need help if SoaS is to survive. I really don't have the time to maintain it.<br><br>That said I think most of the instructions on the web site are garbage.<br><span class="gmail-"><br>> The other panel claims Sugar is available on most Gnu/Linux distributions.<br>> The accompanying instructions from the links on this panel are even more<br>> intimidating and provide evidence of lack of support for Sugar.<br>><br>> In fact, I believe that Ubuntu 16.04 enables yum install of Sugar 0.110.<br>> This should be featured.<br><br></span>Why confuse users with a plethora of distributions? You go on about<br>making it easier and less confusing where all that does it adds to the<br>confusion.<br><span class="gmail-"><br>> Like Pixel, I would like to see a current Sugar image available for download<br>> which can be transferred to a usb stick by a single dd command. This stick<br>> would operate as SOAS but also support installation in an available block of<br>> hard drive on any amd_64 machine.<br>><br>>>> This is currently available, but not featured in our instructions as such<br>>>> an installation lacks persistence of user/learner Activities between boots.<br>>>> However, it is the easiest way to demonstrate a live SoaS system.<br>>>> Instructions should be updated.<br>><br>> A second image ideally would be installable as a Window application with a<br>> supported Windows installer (like wubi did). Finally, there should be a<br>> Debian image which can be copied to an SD card and booted by a Raspberry Pi<br>> 3 (and possibly 2).<br><br></span>We product SoaS on Fedora for the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 already (plus<br>around 200 other cheap ARM devices). Why do you need a Debian image<br>where you could use the Fedora SoaS and ensure a consistent experience<br>across all platforms.<br><span class="gmail-"><br>> Finally, our hypothetical adopter should find this 'get Sugar' information<br>> on the main screen, not down six screens.<br><br></span>Get someone to actually write quality documentation for doing so.<br><div></div>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>SoaS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org">SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/<wbr>listinfo/soas</a></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(7,55,99)"></div></div><br></div></div>