The politics are far more complicated, edubuntu used to be a thriving
community, which prompted Canonical to market the Educational side
more and use the Ubuntu branding rather than edubuntu. It caused some
confusion and the community sort of migrated to various areas, the
most notable being LTSP. The main 'paid' edubuntu developer was moved
to edubuntu netbook remix (also an education project) but is still
quite active in upstream LTSP and edubuntu support. The
marketing/education contracts guy is still paid by canonical and
working on the educational side, so I wouldn't say they've given up,
they've just made some strange re-branding decisions. Anyway, there is
more info at the meeting next wednesday 18.00 UTC at #ubuntu-meeting
for those interested in hearing the future of edubuntu and ubuntu in
education, as well as how sugar can play a role there. I believe
Morgan Collet will be presenting Sugar there.

Kind Regards,
David Van Assche

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 6:51 PM, David Farning <dfarning-agl9EP5VjmEgsBAKwltoeQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> There is a Edubuntu developer planning session on Nov 5th.  At that point,
> we will see about the process of making Subuntu an official release.  Ubuntu
> educational efforts have not seemed to pay off for them yet.  They have
> recently shifted their inhouse edubuntu developer to Ubuntu mobile.
>
> thanks
> david
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu-XCtybt49RKsYaV1qd6yewg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:19 AM, David Farning <dfarning-agl9EP5VjmEgsBAKwltoeQ@public.gmane.org>
>> wrote:
>> > It looks like our friends at Ubuntu have been hard at work building a
>> > Subuntu live usb.  Simon Peter, also know as probono, has posted
>> > information
>> > on downloading and building the usb at
>> >
>> > http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/
>> >
>> > Thanks to the Ubuntu SugarTeam for packaging Sugar on Ubuntu and to
>> > Probono
>> > for building the sugar.squashfs.
>>
>> Awesome! Congrats to all the Ubuntu Sugarteam.
>>
>> Have already been any discussions about adding Subuntu to the list of
>> official Ubuntu derivatives for the next release? Something similar to
>> the Fedora Sugar spin?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>
>

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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline <at> solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a request for technical assistance for "Sugar on a Stick".
>
> It looks like we have a pilot school for our USB boot project,

Earth Treasury is making arrangements for two more, in Ghana and
Uganda. Perhaps we can work together on this.

Our use case is one donated desktop computer at school, and one at
home, per student, with transfer of work over a network or on USB
stick. Students should also be able to carry their work with them, and
plug in a USB stick to boot Linux+Sugar on any computer they are
allowed to use.

We are told that the computers plus local network and other
peripherals are available in Africa for the cost of trucking them to
the site. OneVillage Foundation Ghana and Winneba Linux User Group
will join in to provide wireless networking, and Fantsuam Foundation
for microfinance. We will need to provide primary electricity
(probably solar) for one site, and backup power for both. We will work
with University of Education Winneba on teacher training, curriculum,
and teaching materials.

Once we get through these pilots, we expect that we can expand this
program, at a very low cost per student, to whatever extent that
funding can be arranged, and that companies will donate their used
computers when they upgrade.

> and a grant
> proposal in so I am trying to think through various use cases around
> creating ubiquitous access with a USB storage device.  I've written up some
> use cases here:
>
> http://www.sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/School_Key#Vision_of_different_ways_the_USB_might_work_in_the_students_environment
>
> I'd love thoughts on what is feasible, how hard, and how much benefit would
> each scenario actually provide.
>
> I've done tests to show that "Home" and "Grandma's" are feasible.  I'm
> curious as to whether putting some of the boot files on the hard drive (Zoo)
> could reduce boot time or have any other advanatages as most of our donated
> computers will likely have working disk drives.  I wonder if combining with
> a LTSP or other virtualization scheme is possible (YMCA/School).
>
> Note all scenarios are fictional.
>
> Write your ideas here or on the Wiki page as you see fit.
>
> Thanks!
> Caroline
>
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It looks like our friends at Ubuntu have been hard at work building a Subuntu live usb.  Simon Peter, also know as probono, has posted information on downloading and building the usb at

http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/

Thanks to the Ubuntu SugarTeam for packaging Sugar on Ubuntu and to Probono for building the sugar.squashfs.

David


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