From Sugar Labs

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

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