[Sugar-devel] Regarding GSoC 2013

[Sebastian Silva]

Dear Amit,
I'm sorry that I took so long to reply.

I'm excited that you are interested in the Platform team's project to 
support a distribution which
the Peru community/local lab is proposing as basis for deployment in Peru.

Currently we're about to reach 1.0 for Deployment Platform for XO 
laptops - the Ministry has aquired
some Classmates and we as a local group would like to insure that they 
won't put Windows on them.

So, for the Classmates we need to take the work done for Deployment 
Platform XO and integrate it for regular
PCs. This means using the Sweets Distribution infrastructure to build 
one system based on any of the supported
platforms [1]. I personally am inclined for Debian but I'm not attached, 
Ubuntu would work for us just as well,
most likely it might be easier to start from work done in Trisquel TOAST.

Most likely the project involves lots of testing, integration work, 
fiddling with virtual build environments, lots of
communication on IRC and likely some coding in order to produce the most 
polished version possible.

I'm cc'ing the sugar-devel mailing list which I encourage you to join 
and also find us on IRC Freenode in #sugar
channel (you can use http://chat.sugarlabs.org/ for that). You can find 
me as "icarito" and also Aleksey Lim is the
Platform Team leader his nick is "alsroot".

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution/Supported_platforms

Good luck in your GSoC application!
Sebastian

El 12/04/13 17:44, Amit Jamadagni escribió:
> Respected Sir,
> I am Amit a student of BITS Pilani doing my Masters in
> Mathematics along with Bachelors in Electronics and Electrical
> Engineering.I have gone through the ideas page and have found building 
> the deployment platform interesting.Coming to my experience regarding
> this topic I have successfully compiled the kernel by using LFS (Linux
> from Scratch) as reference and have learnt a lot about the libraries
> used in the same.I hope this would help me in some way.I have made
> some .deb packaging using the wiki available.I also have participated
> in testing cycles of Ubuntu and have reported few bugs (but could not
> solve them). Coming to my contributions to Open source community I
> have contributed to sympy (Mathematical and Physics Python libraries)
> in Quantum Module in the spin libraries and other small contributions.
>
> It would be great if I can get some lead on how to proceed
> on the above topic and if there is some work that can be done in the
> some way before drafting a proposal so that it can be effective.Thanks.

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