[Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

[Sean DALY]

No the license was fine last time i checked - look at the section
concerning nonprofit/educational use. Our plan had been to bundle Sugar
prebuilt images with the Virtualbox installer.

The real issue is the extensions which are separate from the installer for
licensing reasons and must be loaded separately. The extensions may be
vital for connectivity.

My idea at the time was to approach Oracle for corporate sponsorship of
Virtualbox images, in particular hosting a workflow to automate prebuilt
images by host language/keyboard, however some community members were
aghast at the idea.

I myself have used Sugar in VirtualBox at presentations and conferences,
hassle free screen/sound/internet connectivity and full screen (Macbook),
while I hold/pass around an XO.

Sean


On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>
wrote:

>  I was under the impression that the only viable option for that purpose
> was Virtualbox, but it's license is pretty dubious (GPLv2 + some useful
> parts proprietary). Oracle has a history of bad behaviour with regard to
> licenses, so I would not put all of our eggs in this basket.
>
> Still, with 3 months time, a student should be able to pull off making it
> as friendly as possible, but it would have to be repeatable, like you say,
> "almost automatic".
>
> It would be even better if it was "fully automatic" that way we could have
> regular builds.
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian
>
> El 20/03/15 a las 08:38, Gonzalo Odiard escibió:
>
> I didn't have idea that there are so many virtualization options:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtualization_software
>
>  If we could have a "almost automatic" way to create a vm,
> and share to users in windows or mac, could solve a lot of problems,
> and help us reach a bigger user base.
>
>  Gonzalo
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Sebastian Silva <
> sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
>
>>  El 20/03/15 a las 06:58, Gonzalo Odiard escibió:
>>
>>   |> A different approach would be to provide a virtual machine _and_
>>> > virtualisation software _and_ all the necessary configuration files so
>>> > that the user is not exposed to the virtualisation.
>>
>>
>>  Yes. This would be great.
>>
>>     This would also be a nice GSOC project.
>>
>
>
>
>  --
>  Gonzalo Odiard
>
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>
>
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