[ANNOUNCE] Harmonic Distribution 0.1 development release
Aleksey Lim <alsroot <at> sugarlabs.org>
2012-04-01 15:47:31 GMT
Hi all!
This is the first, at least in such composition, public development
release of projects that are being developed within the Harmonic
Distribution effort, initially started to support Hexoquinasa
(Peru, Puno) pilot[6]. This release should be treated as a kind of
preview of some basic ideas behind Harmonic Distribution and its
components.
More information about Harmonic Distribution might be found on Wiki [1].
In short, it is a system approach to provide a basis to support activity
of Sugar Learning Platform participants. It consist of two major parts:
* Basic software
Accessible from common packages repository on all supported platforms[2]
from Sweets Distribution[3]. There are/will-be two meta components[4]:
* Sweets Desktop
General purpose desktop of Sucrose and instruments to integrate it
with the rest of the system
* Sweets Server
General purpose school server that consists of Server Kit components
(that might be used on its own).
This software exist in form of short-term support (mostly for
individual usage) and long-term support (mostly for deployments)
forms.
* Basic services
These services will be provided via Sugar Network[5]:
* Sharing Community software, i.e., the rest of software on top of
Basic one
* Sharing different kinds of content, e.g., artifacts created
by Sugar Activities, books, etc.
* Collaborative work between Sugar Network participants to improve
Software, Content and learning process in general
Sugar Network will be served from central [master] server and
arbitrary amount of distributed [node] servers (when connectivity is a
problem). For example, within Hexoquinasa pilot, XO-1.5 laptops will be
used for that purpose.
== In this release ==
This release is about:
* SweetsDistribution:Factory repository with Glucose-0.94 and
Sugar Network client, that will be used in Puno pilot,
development version
* Sugar Network server (http://18.85.44.120:8000) that contains
activities mirrored from Activities Library
To install Factory repository on all supported platforms[2], type the
following commands in terminal:
wget http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/sweets-distribution.sh
sudo sh sweets-distribution.sh select Factory
This command will attach Sweets Distribution repository (Factory) to the
system (technically skilled people can do the same by attaching
repositories[7] directly). Then, install "sweets-desktop" package using
native packaging management system.
To launch newly installed Sugar Shell, click "Sugar" item in Education
menu or type in terminal:
sweets-sugar-emulator
Installed packages, most of them, will not interfere with the current
system. For example, it will be possible to run new Shell on XO laptop
(with OS based on Fedora-14) even from native Sugar (but will be better
to start sweets-sugar-emulator from Gnome session because there will be
glitches between two Sugars).
To enable Sugar Network integration in Sugar Shell,
* in Sweets Control Panel component,
* enable "Integrate Sweets Distribution features" checkbox
* restart Sugar Shell
After restart,
* Home view will be empty - internal process of Sugar Network
integration is in intermediate stage
* use F8 or activities bar to open Sugar Network client (icon with
three dots in a circle)
In F8 view,
* browse activities on the server
* full-featured text searching
* launch activities (only pure Python and without dependencies)
* in detailed view of activity, there is an initial implementation of
new support resource form (question, idea, problem)
* support resources can be browsed in detailed view
* it is also possible to browse system wide support resources and
users
== v0.2 plan ==
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Harmonic_Distribution/1.0/Todo#0.2
* continue working on Sugar Network client application
* support basic deployment procedures that need to be implemented
for Hexoquinasa pilot.
[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Harmonic_Distribution
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Harmonic_Distribution/Supported_platforms
[3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sweets_Distribution
[4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Harmonic_Distribution/Software
[5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network
[6] http://pe.sugarlabs.org/go/Proyecto_Piloto_Hexoquinasa
[7] http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution/
http://download.sugarlabs.org/packages/SweetsDistribution:/Factory/
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Aleksey
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