[Sugar-devel] GSoC projects

[Gonzalo Odiard]

We can ask language and keyboard in the first boot as we do with age and
gender.
I think create and maintain a complete matrix of VMs will be more difficult.

Gonzalo

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Gonzalo Odiard

SugarLabs - Software for children learning
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