[sugar] [IAEP] Sugar on Ubuntu LiveUSB is ready

[David Van Assche]

The politics are far more complicated, edubuntu used to be a thriving
community, which prompted Canonical to market the Educational side
more and use the Ubuntu branding rather than edubuntu. It caused some
confusion and the community sort of migrated to various areas, the
most notable being LTSP. The main 'paid' edubuntu developer was moved
to edubuntu netbook remix (also an education project) but is still
quite active in upstream LTSP and edubuntu support. The
marketing/education contracts guy is still paid by canonical and
working on the educational side, so I wouldn't say they've given up,
they've just made some strange re-branding decisions. Anyway, there is
more info at the meeting next wednesday 18.00 UTC at #ubuntu-meeting
for those interested in hearing the future of edubuntu and ubuntu in
education, as well as how sugar can play a role there. I believe
Morgan Collet will be presenting Sugar there.

Kind Regards,
David Van Assche

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:51 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> There is a Edubuntu developer planning session on Nov 5th.  At that point,
> we will see about the process of making Subuntu an official release.  Ubuntu
> educational efforts have not seemed to pay off for them yet.  They have
> recently shifted their inhouse edubuntu developer to Ubuntu mobile.
>
> thanks
> david
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:19 AM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
>> wrote:
>> > It looks like our friends at Ubuntu have been hard at work building a
>> > Subuntu live usb.  Simon Peter, also know as probono, has posted
>> > information
>> > on downloading and building the usb at
>> >
>> > http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/
>> >
>> > Thanks to the Ubuntu SugarTeam for packaging Sugar on Ubuntu and to
>> > Probono
>> > for building the sugar.squashfs.
>>
>> Awesome! Congrats to all the Ubuntu Sugarteam.
>>
>> Have already been any discussions about adding Subuntu to the list of
>> official Ubuntu derivatives for the next release? Something similar to
>> the Fedora Sugar spin?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>
>
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