<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello,<br><br></div>I think Sugar Labs needs to express a clear, realistic technology roadmap. For example, we have been talking a lot about Sugar on Android, mixing a lot of different things under that name. We need to clarify what that really is.<br>
<br></div>Here are my thoughts, inspired by the oversight board meeting thread.<br><br></div>* Wait and see what happens with the XO. Support existing deployments by producing images with the most recent Sugar release. Stick to a Fedora 18 base system, the work to upgrade is highly non trivial. Provide custom rpms for the sugar modules and a few dependencies, most importantly Webkit, which is required by web activities.<br clear="all">
<div><div><div><div>* Ensure web activities run well in web browsers. This will cover Android and other non-Linux systems.<br></div><div>* Reuse the work done by OLPC on Fedora to get Sugar running nicely on one or two ARM boards (Beagle board black and Cubox-i seems to be the best we could pick at the moment). Talk to the manufacturers to get publicity on the images we produce and devices for the developers.<br>
</div><div><div>* Work with deployments to see if there are "complete" hardware
solutions (Chromebooks for example) they could use. In the case of
locked devices they might have the where-with-all to load custom
software.<br></div>* Migrate from X to Wayland or support it in parallel (depending on the performance of non accellerated Wayland). GNOME is doing most of the work, but we will need the rework the window management bits. This will allow us to run on Android drivers with libhybris, which should help with hardware support.<br>
</div><br><div>As you might have noticed there is no Sugar on Android, other than for drivers support and web activities running in a web browser. I don't think going beyhond those gives us any real advantage.<br></div>
<div><br></div><div>Just my $0.02<br></div><div><br>-- <br>Daniel Narvaez<br>
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