Marketing Team/Events/FOSDEM 2009/Notes

Pre-conference community meetup

 * Bernie gives an overview of the current state of Sugar Labs:
 * infrastructure (servers, services, etc.) in in place
 * mode of governance has been established
 * getting away from the old mindset (thinking like a company, asking for permission before doing something)
 * show me the code, we will support you but you should do things yourself
 * Sugar Labs is a community not a company
 * more developers are needed
 * people should be pointed to join.sugarlabs.org
 * a few thousand dollars have been collected via individual donations
 * no success in getting grants so far
 * Sugar Labs has no employees, should work like the Gnome foundation, people getting paid by companies who want Sugar to suceed
 * in the larger context Sugar Labs should be responsible for high-levels decisions and setting the framework for activities
 * focus on setting up Local Sugar Labs, direct contact to educators and other relevant parties in their respective communities
 * Remora as a central hub for activities (downloads, reviews, etc.); should be available in a couple of weeks
 * Collaboration:
 * (as previously also discussed on the mailing-list) it would be good to have a minimum-level of collaboration in all activities in the form of a view-only mode
 * activities should also declare a max. number of collaborators, any additional users who join are automatically connected in a view-only mode
 * Sugar 0.86:
 * goal is to make Sugar more usable in the classroom and for teachers
 * define a process to help deverlopers in finding what's important in the classroom (participatory design, educator-driven development)
 * announce a call-for-proposals to aid in the collection of ideas, desired features, etc. for the next release
 * end of call in mid-March
 * don't make promises whether these things will be implemented (because most of them won't be!)
 * Sugar 0.84 demo by Tomeu:
 * To-Do:
 * Update FlossManuals and other documentation for the 0.84 release by early March (=>contact FlossManuals folks and others who have previously already contributed to documentation efforts)
 * Maybe make a nice video intro highlighting the new features
 * neighborhood view will only show 40 XOs when connected to an ejabberd server due to the use of collabora-gadget
 * there's a server running at jabber.sugarlabs.org
 * Mesh circle / networks not shown in the neighborhood view anymore, only in the frame
 * the Start menu (currently only accessible via hovering over the center of the homeview) is no accessible from the frame and also the neighborhood view
 * coloured icons in the home-view indicate that the last instance / Journal entry of the respective activity will be launched
 * devices such as removable storage is now also viewable in the frame
 * Journal includes an icon for "favorites-only" search
 * view-source (fn + space) now opens source code for activities in a view-only mode and saves them in the Journal
 * apart from a regular Testing team that mainly looks for bugs there's also a need for a dedicated UI testing effort to evaluate UI changes

FOSDEM'09

 * SoaS at the Fedora booth: http://erikos.sweettimez.de/?p=359
 * Planning for LinuxTag 2009