[Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

[Iain Brown Douglas]

On Thu, 2015-03-19 at 10:11 -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote:
> Hi Iain.
> 
> IMHO you'd need to flesh it out some more, the simple conditional you
> spec'd out should take an afternoon to code. You need to think of
> something that will fit a 5000 US$ developing stipend and/or if you
> prefer, a summer's work.
> 
> By the way, I am under the impression this is a problem with some GSOC
> ideas.
> 
> Not saying we should expect major move forward in Sugar from a 3 months
> internship. But perhaps you could envision a more complete solution
> related to Sugar on a Stick's need (Fedora / Trisquel / future variants).
> 
> I find that many people find it hard to burn a USB stick or CD, download
> the correct image (heck I don't know where to look).

Agreed - the point has been made before, but the download button on the
wiki does not point to a download!

> Perhaps a simple
> multiplatform disk burner based on unetbootin or suse's imagewriter, or
> written from scratch would be really cool, something that will look up
> and present the options in SOAS, etc.
> 
There is LiLi [3]
> This sounds to me like a more complete project but perhaps I'm too
> ambitious.
> 
That sounds really cool, I should like to see that.


> Regards,
> Sebastian
> 
> 
> El 19/03/15 a las 09:38, Iain Brown Douglas escibió:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I wonder if anyone would think it appropriate (or inappropriate) to add this idea to Google Summer of Code [1]?
> >

I take that as an `inappropriate`, then :)

Iain

[3] http://www.linuxliveusb.com/

> > To write a script for use with Sugar on a Stick, which would probe the capacity of an
> > inserted USB stick,and deliver the livecd-iso-to-disk command on
> > confirmation by the user. The command would suit the aspirations of SoaS Loader [2].
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Iain
> >
> > [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2015
> > [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/SoaS_Loader
> >
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