Olin/SugarOnAStick

December 5, 2008
We met with Caroline. (e-mail?)

How to enter bugs: 
dev.sugarlabs.org 
(Trac)

Where to talk about it (instead of a mailing list)
schools.sugarlabs.org
Soas-1 - Moodle
Towards bottom of the page, Sugar on a Stick

Where to document it
sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
Wiki

Collaboration server
schoolserver.media.mit.edu
schoolserver.solutiongrove.com - temporarily broken

Why Sugar on a Stick?
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Great for conferences, publicity.
Benefits of booting from flash drive.
School computers had viruses, were broken.
Sugar seemed more exciting to people than something looking like Windows
Fill need of software focused for k-5 grades.

Mel's Offers
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Bug advocacy workshop
  iff you pay it forward.
  Need: 2.5 hr, 24 hour notice, ride from Eliot

Sugar hacking mentorship
  over winter break

Expo something
(Eventually it'd be cool to have a curriculum)

More notes
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School server is critical for sugar on a stick
   need to be able to restore data if the kid loses stick
sugar-on-a-stick uses a newer version of Fedora than xo.

middle/high schoolers, getting them excited

hr 4 start doing something to help developers
hr 40 
hr 200 start writing code

Fudcon coming up.

Tasks
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View source
"view source" doesn't work. Needs someone to make it work.
Someone who knows Python, 2-5 days?

Add collaboration to activities.
Change over time. Make collaboration. 
Identify an activity and incorporate. Get on the neighborhood. 
Someone who knows Python, 3+4 days + 1week.

Teach a local group
Help at Fudcon
Sugar roadmap helping/hacking list

Running a local test team. Testing is really fun. 

"sugarizing" Linux apps. A hard process still. 

ethnography/classroom observations

Eventual goal:
a curriculum for students in the area. 

To run on Olin laptops
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Press F12 when booting, to choose to boot from USB/removable