[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] SugarPlatform-0.84.0 on Caixa Mágica the Magellan project

[Pedro Pessoa]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 02:01:43PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:38:46AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:31:28AM +0000, Paulo Trezentos wrote:
> > > Hi Aleksey and all,
> > >
> > > We have tested with success the new version of the packages.
> > > In this moment, we are focused in get Sugar to work as a collaborative  
> > > tool for the classroom.
> > > I believe this would turn Sugar in a "killer application" for Magallaen  
> > > in Linux Caixa Mágica Mag and people would start to install it in large  
> > > scale.
> > >
> > > The idea is to put Sugar to communicate with WiFi (ad-hoc) and Telepathy.
> > > If I remember correctly, it is needed DBUS 1.1. Any other hint?
> > > Pedro Pessoa is the person responsible for this task.
> > is it ok for Mag to start NetworkMangaer at startup
> 
> Well, at the end NetworkManager absence won't be a problem for sugar on Mag
> (if something provides connection to APs of course).

Nevertheless some sort of connection manager is needed to switch between
AP access, school server, and ad-hoc, under the tree, mode. Could we
launch the existing connection manager from within Sugar?

> It means there is only one task - make sure that activities don't have bugs in
> theirs collaborative code :)

Not quite :-)
The conectivity management is realy a must.

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