Deployment Team
This section of the wiki is dedicated to the needs of those who are running Sugar deployments. We'll be holding regular bi-weekly meetings on Wednesdays at 14 UTC (10 EST) on irc.freenode.net (channel: #sugar-meeting). Please add to the agenda below and please join in with your ideas.
Mission
DRAFT—please help to improve this mission statement: To voice the needs of Sugar deployments to the Sugar community, to find ways to support those needs and to organize forums for the exchange of experiences between Sugar users and Sugar developers.
Meetings
2008-09-10 meeting
DeploymentTeam/Meeting minutes/Deployment-2008-09-10-minutes
2008-09-24 meeting
DeploymentTeam/Meeting minutes/Deployment-2008-09-24-minutes
2008-10-01 meeting
DeploymentTeam/Meeting minutes/Deployment-2008-10-01-minutes
2008-10-15 meeting
Agenda
Resources
The team
Please feel free to add yourself to the list.
A Roadmap
- Please contribute to our Roadmap.
Mailing lists
There are a number of mailing lists where deployment issues are discussed. We've agreed to use OLPC-Sur and IAEP as the primary channels for the moment.
- OLPC Sur OLPC in South America
- India OLPC in India
- Nepal OLPC in Nepal
- It's an education project (IAEP) A discussion list for Sugar and the learning theories that it espouses
Deployment guides/ Sugar manuals
- OLPC deployment guide
- Guide to a small Sugar deployment
- Guide for Latin American Sugar deployments
- Guide to community outreach
- Sugar Manual (PDF)
- Sugar Activity manuals can be found here
Please contribute to these forums or set up your own and add it to this list.
- http://olpc-ceibal.blogspot.com/ – blog about one computer per child in Uruguay
- http://walterbender.org/ – weekly digest about Sugar and deployment-related issues
- http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/ – blog focusing on learning (and occasional Sugar deployment issues)
- http://waveplace.com/news/blog/ – blog focusing on Waveplace deployments (featuring Sugar)
- http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/ – wiki maintained by students using Sugar in Australia
Meeting opportunities
What are some forums for meet-ups between teachers and developers? Please add to this list.
- http://www.k12openminds.org – an International event specifically for K-12 educators designed to make OPEN SOURCE software and OPEN SYSTEMS more available and easier to use.
- http://www.ups.edu.ec/portal/page/portal/congresosl
- http://xo.org.uy/ “III Jornadas de Educación y TIC, the XO a tool to empoderate technology” Uruguay 25/28 september.
- http://congreso.softwarelibre.org.bo/ Free Software conference Bolivia
Proposals
We have a number of proposals submitted to garner support of different deployment scenarios:
- Gray Matters
- UROPeru
- Sugar in Community
- Young Voices Multiplier
- Education without boundaries