[Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

[Sean DALY]

We need to do everything possible to reduce Sugar's installation and
unfamiliarity barriers. Not everyone speaks English and can find and
configure the Sugar control panel on their first encounter with Sugar. A
keyboard mismatched with what appears on the screen merely gives the
impression it doesn't work right. VM hosts could have a number of different
keyboards - for example I have a Macbook with French locale Azerty layout
 (flipped numbers row, common accents) and a Dell education netbook with
Belgium locale keyboard. Look at the Firefox "Systems & Languages" download
matrix (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/), for a Sugar VM with
bundled installer an interested teacher or journalist would just need to
choose the appropriate download.

I feel the huge sizes of these images would be more of a problem, but not
much we can do there.

Sean


On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> > 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.
>
> Is still needed have a vm by host language/keyboard?
> Or we can ask to the user using the same code from the Sugar control panel?
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:18 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 06:26:34PM +0100, Sean DALY wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Maybe now is a better time.  Maybe those aghast at the idea haven't
>> noticed yet.  ;-)
>>
>> --
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Gonzalo Odiard
>
> SugarLabs - Software for children learning
>
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