Olin/SugarOnAStick
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Revision as of 10:21, 7 December 2008 by 209.94.128.120 (talk)
December 5, 2008 We met with Caroline. (e-mail:caroline@solutiongrove.com) 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? ================= 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 ================== 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 ============================================ 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 ================ 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 =========== Press F12 when booting, to choose to boot from USB/removable To set your computer to always check for USB, do the following: Restart your computer. When you see the Dell logo, hit F2 to go into the BIOS settings. Under the System menu (left hand side of the screen), use the arrow keys to navigate down to Boot Sequence and hit enter. Highlight "USB Storage Device" and use the U (move up) and D keys (move down) to move that device to be first in the list. Then press ESC and exit the BIOS. Restart your computer and it should boot from USB first.
