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> Hi,
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> My name is Arun. I maintain bunch of packages
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/sagarun . I'd like to
> contribute to your efforts in creating education spin. I'd also love to know
> the current status of the spin.
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>   
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Education_Spin
says:

"The Fedora Education Spin was in development from F10 to F12 and has 
ceased production since then."

Look at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Build_Your_Own_Remix_with_Fedora

su -c 'yum install livecd-tools spin-kickstarts'

I have sucessfully used livecd-tools to build a remix in f15 using the 
spin-kickstart file for gnome and adding @sugar-desktop to the Remix .ks
This can be also done in reverse with Soas.ks with @gnome being added.

Cordially;
Tom Gilliard
satellit on #sugar IRC freenode

> Here is some background information,
> Last December some of our folks from India started an effort to create a
> spin/remix that targets children and education
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraForKids . I was  part of it. Some how
> we stopped working on it due to various reasons.  we started  a discussion
> about the spin very recently in fedora India list
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/india/2011-August/004796.html. We
> have handful of people willing to help.
>
>   

Hi fellows from education SIG, maybe anyone of you can help this guy 
with an installation of one specific package on the XO?

Thanks is advance, any help would be very appreciated.

-- 
Jesús Franco

-------- Mensaje original --------
Asunto: 	GCompris and xo-1
Fecha: 	Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:27:03 -0300
De: 	Leonardo Rojas <lrojas-HVym9dYRnQ2B+jHODAdFcQ@...>
Para: 	olpc@...
Grupos de noticias: 	gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.olpc

Hello
First of all, sorry if my english its not very goods since its not my
native languaje. I need to modify some GCompris activies and install
them on a xo-1 with
Build number:852       Sugar: 0.84.16     Firmware : Q2E45
because the teachers dont like all the activities as they are, there are
some activities that are easy to modify because i can do the changes
with gcompris administration, like GCompris MissingLetter, but for the
others i need to recompile them.  I made changes on several, like
MemoryEnumerate, AlgebraGuesscount, Babymatch and others, then i run
gcompris, and all the changes are there, the activities work as intended
but when i try to install them on the xo, they dont start, i dont even
get the

Cannot find cached 0sugar-launch implementation. or another error  (i
know a workaround for the 0sugar-launch imlmentation error, i get this
error with version 13 of activities mostly, all version 12 activities
run perfect in the xo

the icon appears then afther a while the activitie close, i tried using
the  ./bundleit.sh and  using setup.py, tried using GCompris 9.5 then
Gcompris 9.3 (modifying the source files from the activities that come
in that GCompris version)
So my question is, someone knows how to compile and install a modified
GCompris activity in this xo?, really need help plz, im suposed to have
them installed and working on the xo next week.
sorry for the inconvenience
thx, bye

Mirabelles have arrived! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/enil/3892066169/)

I am proud to announce the availability of Sugar on a Stick v.3,
code-named Mirabelle. More information about Sugar on a Stick,
including download and installation details, are available at
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/.

Changes in Sugar on a Stick since the last release (v.2 Blueberry):

Sugar version 0.88. The most recent release of the Sugar Learning
Platform features support for 3G connections, increased accessibility,
and better integration with our Activity Portal
(http://activities.sugarlabs.org) allowing students and teachers to
update their sticks with additional Activities. More information about
the 0.88 release of Sugar is available at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Notes.

Customize your own remix of Sugar on a Stick. You'll notice that v.3
Mirabelle has a smaller Activity selection than its predecessors,
Blueberry and Strawberry. We realized we'll never be able to create an
Activity selection suitable for all deployments - instead, we've
chosen to include and support a core set of basic, teacher-tested
Activities in the default image, and invite deployments to use this as
a base on which to build a customized Activity selection for their
classrooms. Instructions on how to do this are available at
http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/customization-guide/.

Sugar on a Stick is now a Fedora Spin. After two prior releases of
being based on the Fedora distribution, Sugar on a Stick has
recognized by the Fedora Project as an official Spin. This ties us
more closely to Fedora's release cycle and gives us resources from
their engineering and marketing teams, which extends the reach of
Sugar on a Stick and makes the project itself more sustainable. In
exchange, users of Fedora have access to an easily deployable
implementation of the Sugar Platform; it's a great example of a
mutually beneficial upstream - downstream relationship.

The biggest difference in v.3 of Sugar on a Stick has been in its
release processes and engineering sustainability; it's now much easier
for new contributors to get involved. We continue to move towards our
long-term vision of bringing stability and deployability to Sugar's
personalized learning environment, and invite all interested parties
to join us.

If you'd like to contribute to the next version, due for release in
early November, join us at our Contributors Portal at
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick. All types of
contributions are welcome, from the technical to the pedagogical, and
we're happy to teach what we know and learn what you have to share.

Thank you especially to the Sugar on a Stick team and all the people
involved for their awesome work on this release!

Sebastian Dziallas
Sugar on a Stick Project Lead

Hi all,

as you may have noticed, there are a couple of changes coming to Sugar 
on a Stick to keep the whole project sustainable. In the upcoming month, 
from March 28 (I'll be off starting Sunday night) to May 7, my ability 
to devote time to the project will cease. I have to prepare for my major 
A-level exams; more importantly, I have to secure a significant amount 
of funding in order to be able to attend college later this fall. (If 
you're interested in helping, see 
http://sdziallas.com/blog/sebastian/2010/03/sebastian-needs-100k.html 
for more details - any advice would be appreciated.)

This does not affect the release date. Sugar on a Stick will be released 
as a spin through Fedora's release engineering process on May 11. We are 
bound to this date and will have a working release in time. The general 
release schedule including all relevant policies is available here [1]. 
Nightly builds are also available [2] (and will contain a fixed IRC 
activity within a couple of days, as soon as [3] has been pushed to stable).

Activity authors are also advised that the final freeze date for package 
updates is April 27, so make sure to get fixes pushed well in advance to 
give package maintainers and the update system time to process.

Peter Robinson has kindly agreed to act in case something is needed. 
Please make sure to post to the appropriate lists, though, so that 
everybody is in the loop. Finally, please file bugs at 
bugs.sugarlabs.org as explained in [4] to save all of us time.

Thanks,
--Sebastian

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule
[2] http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/
[3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-xoirc-6-4.fc13
[4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick/Getting_Involved

FYI, these were the notes from last Monday's Board Strategic Working
Group meeting, where your responses to the Board's questions were
noted and discussed.  From this, there are several specific actions we
would like to see taken:

# the problems hampering Spins due to long GNOME dependency chain
  requirements has a ticket open for FESCo to discuss.
  https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/345

# hosting space for Spins for direct http downloads will be made available by Infrastructure.
  Each spin should file a request for space with infrastructure.
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/RFR

# being able to offer AutoQA
  individual Spins should get involved with QA Team to ensure their
  needs are addressed as well as those of the rest of the Project.
  This is highly dependent on Spins owners contributing to the QA
  methodologies and even direct test efforts - QA is already feeling
  overwhelmed, and we need to scale this process out across more volunteers.

# banners on get.fp.o -> spins.fp.o
  https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/16
  People with web site building experience are asked to participate in
  the websites team to remove "waiting on someone who can" as a possible
  bottleneck.

I thank you all for your valuable input and continuing contributions
to Fedora.

Thanks,
Matt

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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:17:37 -0800
From: John Poelstra <poelstra@...>
To: advisory-board@...
Subject: Board SWG Meeting 2010-03-01 Recap
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_strategic_working_group_2010-03-01

== Roll Call ==
* Attendees: John Poelstra, Paul Frields, Chris Tyler, Mike McGrath, 
Colin Walters, Matt Domsch
* Notes from last meeting: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_strategic_working_group_2010-02-22

== Spins Work ==
* Background:
** Matt and Colin have been collecting feedback to questions asked
** 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_TargetAudience
** 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_ChangeDistribution
** http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/spins/2010-February/000996.html
** https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mdomsch/SWG_Spins
* Each spin producing group does believe they can and should define a 
target audience
* John: would it help clarify our message to refer to the live gnome 
desktop as the ''default offering'' rather than referring to it as a spin?
** Paul: Spins were initially conceived as a range of things the 
community can produce that are alternatives to what we feel must be 
created, or add-ons that narrowly focus on special use cases
* Matt: Rel-eng sits in the middle of the spin creation process right 
now -- a couple communication breakdowns have happened over time, 
sometimes spin producers didn't know their spin was being built
** Matt: semi-OT -- at some point need to reconsider the question of who 
builds the spins. Does it always have to be Release Engineering?
** Paul: more narrowly aimed spins (FEL, Games, ...) seem to nail their 
use cases quite well
* Top of mind problem seems to be some dependency chains 
(system-config-keyboard), whether or not that is the most serious 
problem or not isn't clear
* '''PAIN POINT IDENTIFIED''': Dependency chain requirements cause 
alternate desktop spins to still pull in a large portion of the GNOME stack.
** '''NEXT STEPS''': Mike will file ticket with FESCo requesting they 
look at dependency chain requirements.  This could be a Fedora 
Engineering Services task.
** Colin willing to look at helping with dependency chain issues
** ''TICKET''': https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/345
* '''NON PAIN POINT''': Spins SIG does feel that resolution processes 
have been working well when they're needed.
* Resources:
** Infrastructure now has the ability to host additional content, 
including spins.  This has been a long time incoming, and needs to be 
implemented and announced, but the capacity is there now.
** Ambassadors who want to pass out specific spins can make requests for 
monetary resources to CommArch, to be evaluated in the scope of media 
requests and budget.
*** The Board is not taking a stance on what medias should be produced 
for any particular event.
* Not sure what to do with feedback from survey work that showed that 
some people don't want the board to help or ask questions about how they 
can help

=== Next Steps & Positive Outcomes ===
# dependency chain requirements
#* https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/345
# hosting space for Spins
#* Each spin should file a request for space with infrastructure
# (tentative) being able to offer AutoQA
#* individual Spins should get involved with QA Team to ensure their 
needs are addressed as well as those of the rest of the Project.
# banners on get.fp.o
#* https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/16
# Update wiki pages for information collected

== Default Offering  ==
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/Current_default_offering
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/Different_default_offering
* Give feedback to Paul by tomorrow, 2010-03-02
* Paul will send to Board for approval on 2010-03-02

== Topics and plan for next meeting ==
* John/Chris will take up topic of "What is a target audience?"
* Meet next week, 2010-03-08 at 20:00 UTC (3:00pm EST/12:00pm PST)
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Self Introduction ( was Re: education Digest, Vol 48, Issue 1)

Re: education Digest, Vol 48, Issue 1

Re: Contents of education digest...

Self Introduction

Fwd: GCompris and xo-1

CICE-2011: Call for Papers!

Announcing Sugar on a Stick v.3 (Mirabelle)

What's going on with Sugar on a Stick?

SWG Spins discussion and follow-up actions

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​Call for Papers: Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2012)!

​Call for Papers: Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2012)!

Self Introduction ( was Re: education Digest, Vol 48, Issue 1)

Re: education Digest, Vol 48, Issue 1

Re: Contents of education digest...

Self Introduction

Fwd: GCompris and xo-1

CICE-2011: Call for Papers!

Announcing Sugar on a Stick v.3 (Mirabelle)

What's going on with Sugar on a Stick?

SWG Spins discussion and follow-up actions

Call for Papers: Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2012)!

Call for Papers: Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2012)!