[Sugar-devel] SoaS at FOSDEM

[David Van Assche]

Yeah we are doing the same with edubuntu... which should include sugar
in Jaunty+1, when it is a little more mature (activity wise.) Kde-edu
has made massive advances in their edu tools and the kde team seems
very committed to getting the whole distro known as the 'edu' distro.
Part of the reason for this is that the Brazillian government made a
commitment to put 60 million users infront of kde 4... (not LTSP
sadly) but thats a pretty big market... so now they've decided to
really focus on edu... think of the possibilitiy of making learning
objects that are plasmoids... the sky is the limit... Anyway, edubuntu
is a mix of gnome and kde edu apps... and soon sugar edu stuff too....

kind Regards,
David Van Assche

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com> wrote:
> Simon Schampijer schrieb:
>>
>> David Van Assche wrote:
>>>
>>> What's wrong with offering kde, sugar, or gnome from the login manager
>>> (whatever that might be... that could be made as simple or complicated
>>> as one wanted.) Kde has an amazingly powerful group of edu apps, as
>>> does gnome, as does Sugar... all for different age groups... so it
>>> might make sense to make something all encompassing that is useful for
>>> all educational groups...
>>>
>>> David
>>
>> If that is the desire from whoever is using those Sticks - off he goes.
>> Caroline wants to offer GNOME as well - great. Those images are easily
>> customizable - so as marco said there could be different versions.
>
> I just created a very first draft of a slimmed-down version including Gnome
> and Sugar on the same spin. Though, I didn't get to testing it yet. You can
> just have a look at the GIT repo here: [1]
>
> The soas-*.ks files are the ones which should also work on other hardware
> than the XO.
>
> --Sebastian
>
> [1] http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/fedora-xo;a=tree
>
>> Subnote: There is a size limit as well to some sticks - for example 1 GB
>> sticks are quite common - not sure if you can fit all the desktops on that
>> and offer space for the user he can write to as well.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>    Simon
>