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== Sugar on a Stick - ʻŌhelo ʻai ==
:''a Sugar environment you can carry in your pocket''
{|
|-
| colspan="2" style="border: 0; border-width: 0;" |'''ʻŌhelo ʻai''' is the 8th version of '''[[Sugar on a Stick]]''' released '''15 January 2013'''.
ʻŌhelo ʻai is the name of a native [[wikipedia:Vaccinium_reticulatum|Hawaiian berry]].
| rowspan="3" style="border: 0; border-width: 0; width: 350px;" | [[File:SugaronastickQuandong.png|320px|link=http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/#downloads]]
|- style="border: 0; border-width: 0; text-align: center"
|<span class="linkgroup">[[File:Download Mirabell.png|link=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/releases/18/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso]]</span>
x86_64
|<span class="linkgroup">[[File:Download Mirabell.png|link=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/releases/18/Spins/i386/Fedora-18-i686-Live-SoaS.iso]]</span>
i686
|-
| colspan="2" style="border: 0; border-width: 0; text-align: center"|[[Sugar on a Stick/ʻŌhelo ʻai/hashes| hashes to verify downloads]]
See these [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation|installation instructions]].
|}__TOC__
=== What's new in ʻŌhelo ʻai ===
'''Sugar version 0.98.2''' The most recent release of the Sugar Learning Platform features more activities with new toolbars, activity duplication features, view source for the Sugar toolkit, and improved support for booting on Intel-based Apple computers.
More information about the 0.98.2 release of Sugar is available at [[0.98/Notes]] and [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_Notes/ Fedora 18 Release Notes].
The major changes in Sugar 0.98 have resulted in a less stable release compared with the previous version ([[Sugar on a Stick/Quandong]]). The following bugs would welcome your attention:
* A Jabber connection is lost if one changes the name or color in Sugar's My Settings/About Me control panel after the initial setting - http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4289
* [[fedora:Common_F18_bugs#Live_installation_on_machines_with_WWAN_network_card_freezes|Installation to a hard disk on machines with WWAN network cards fails]]
* See also [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F18_bugs Fedora 18 Common Bugs].
=====SoaS Release Announcement: pending=====
<!-- [http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg02429.html Release Announcement by Peter Robinson]:
There's been a lot of work go into this release from a lot of
communities from Fedora and all the Fedora 17 features that give us
new and exciting hardware support to the Sugar Labs community and all
the new features that come with the Sugar 0.96 release on which SoaS
v7 is based.
Thanks go to all the people that have contributed to this release
including Kalpa and Thomas who helped directly with SoaS, the Sugar
development team and other Sugar developers. A lot of work has been
done to ensure we can get working core Activities like Read and Browse
and what should a good working base for deployments to test and add
to.
Some of the key new features of this release include:
:- Based on Fedora 17 and it's new features [1]
:- Massively improved x86 Mac support [2]
:- Sugar 0.96 with initial support for GTK3 Activities and many other improvements [3]
:- Return of Browse, now based on WebKit
:- The long awaited return of Read and inclusion of GetBooks
:- Enhanced hardware support with the 3.3 kernel
:- An increase in default Activities by nearly 50%
Almost all of the previous Activities have seen updated releases including but not limited to:
- Abacus 35 (GTK3)
- Record 95
- Physics 9
- TurtleArt 138
Newly added Activities include:
- Browse 137 (GTK3)
- Countries 33
- Finance 7
- GetBooks 11
- Help 14 (GTK3)
- Infoslicer 14
- Labyrinth 12
- Paint 43
- Portfolio 21
- Read 99 (GTK3)
There are many more Activities available through the usual Fedora repositories.
The release name, Quandong, continues the tradition of naming releases
by types of fruit. The Quandong [4] or Native Peach is a native
Australian bushfood.
You can download the release from the following link.
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/
It can also be installed as part of a standard Fedora 17 install and
is shipped as part of the official Fedora installer DVD and the Fedora
Multi Spin Live DVD. It can also be installed from the GUI package
tool within a running Fedora install or by command line "sudo yum
install @sugar-desktop".
:[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList
:[2] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html
:[3] [[0.96/Notes]]
:[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santalum_acuminatum -->
==='''Customize your own remix of Sugar on a Stick.'''===
We realize that we'll never be able to create an Activity selection suitable for all deployments. Quandong now includes a set of teacher-tested Activities in the default image. The following links point the way to building alternative customizations.
#[[Build Your Own Remix with Fedora]]
#[http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/customization-guide customization guide]
#[[Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone]] A quick, but less pristine, method of build customization
#[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sck/ASLOxo ASLO Activity Collection] DVD full of ASLO xo activities to Drag Drop into Soas Journal from DVD for Individual customizations.
'''Sugar on a Stick is a Fedora Spin.''' Sugar on a Stick is recognized by the [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora Project] as an official [http://spins.fedoraproject.org Spin]. These close ties with Fedora's release cycle and resources from their engineering and marketing teams extends the reach of Sugar on a Stick and makes the project itself more sustainable. In exchange, users of Fedora have access to an easily deployable implementation of the Sugar Platform; it's a great example of a mutually beneficial upstream–downstream relationship.
=== Contributing to Sugar on a Stick ===
The team recognizes the need to continue to improve its release processes and engineering sustainability. New contributors are urged to get involved and help us move towards our long-term vision of bringing stability and deployability to Sugar's personalized learning environment.
If you'd like to contribute to the next version, due for [[fedora:Releases/18/Schedule|release]] in December of 2012, please join our [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas mailing list], review '''[[Sugar on a Stick]]''', and visit '''[[Sugar on a Stick/Beta]]'''. All types of contributions are welcome, from the technical to the pedagogical, and we're happy to teach what we know and learn what you have to share.
Thank you to all the people involved for their awesome work!
== Release history ==
To better understand release history, previous release notes can be found here,
{{Template:Platform Cycle Linkbar}}
and further information on previous releases may be found here: [[Sugar on a Stick/Project sitemap#Older versions of SoaS]]
<!-- === Feature process ===
The way features happen in Fedora is that early in the release process, developers propose features, and they are approved by a feature freeze date (which is before the alpha release). They have to meet certain criteria by certain deadlines - if they don't, they're dropped and not eligible for mention as features. Major features must be in and testable by Alpha; minor changes need to be in and testable by Beta, after Beta only bugfixes are allowed.
This feature process is not unique to Fedora. Feature processes are things that happen in basically every major FOSS project, and really in every major engineering project (even non-software) - it's how we systematically make sure we build something that's good and working.
The feature process also aids with marketing. The Marketing team in Fedora makes their plans according to the feature list that's set by Alpha - this lets us plan how to target those features early in the process.
Since SoaS relies on both Sugar and Fedora as upstreams, we rely on their feature processes - most SoaS features come from either Fedora features or Sugar features. (For reference, our main upstreams are Fedora, Sugar Labs (sugar-core), ASLO (Activities), GNOME, and Python.) For v5, we built the release using a lightweight feature process for SoaS that inherits from those two upstreams. -->
== QA ==
Much thanks to Peter Robinson who did a majority of the work to program, prepare and coordinate the work with many other sugar developers for this release.
:Thomas Gilliard did field-testing (building real SoaS sticks from .iso files and testing on those) - it's the closest thing to systematic testing we've had yet, though we still have a ways to go.
:Thank you also to James Cameron in Australia for his testing help!
:Much help was also provided by the team at #fedora-qa; freenode IRC
== [[Sugar on a Stick/Virtual machines|Virtual machines]] ==
== Documentation ==
A new release of documentation should come out with each new release of SoaS (although resources have prevented this).
The Fedora-site documentation may not be an improvement over our Sugar Labs, ad hoc wiki documentation methods, as the tools needed to participate are more complicated, and the Spin page documentation is not open to editing. The Fedora Sugar on a Stick pages have not been edited since Mirabelle was released in May 2010.
The attempt to better support a small number of known, working, "how to set up SoaS", instructions has not yet been fulfilled.
== Press coverage ==
Feel free to add links to press coverage you find about ʻŌhelo ʻai to this section.
== Sugar on a Stick - ʻŌhelo ʻai ==
:''a Sugar environment you can carry in your pocket''
{|
|-
| colspan="2" style="border: 0; border-width: 0;" |'''ʻŌhelo ʻai''' is the 8th version of '''[[Sugar on a Stick]]''' released '''15 January 2013'''.
ʻŌhelo ʻai is the name of a native [[wikipedia:Vaccinium_reticulatum|Hawaiian berry]].
| rowspan="3" style="border: 0; border-width: 0; width: 350px;" | [[File:SugaronastickQuandong.png|320px|link=http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/#downloads]]
|- style="border: 0; border-width: 0; text-align: center"
|<span class="linkgroup">[[File:Download Mirabell.png|link=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/releases/18/Spins/x86_64/Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-SoaS.iso]]</span>
x86_64
|<span class="linkgroup">[[File:Download Mirabell.png|link=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/releases/18/Spins/i386/Fedora-18-i686-Live-SoaS.iso]]</span>
i686
|-
| colspan="2" style="border: 0; border-width: 0; text-align: center"|[[Sugar on a Stick/ʻŌhelo ʻai/hashes| hashes to verify downloads]]
See these [[Sugar on a Stick/Installation|installation instructions]].
|}__TOC__
=== What's new in ʻŌhelo ʻai ===
'''Sugar version 0.98.2''' The most recent release of the Sugar Learning Platform features more activities with new toolbars, activity duplication features, view source for the Sugar toolkit, and improved support for booting on Intel-based Apple computers.
More information about the 0.98.2 release of Sugar is available at [[0.98/Notes]] and [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Release_Notes/ Fedora 18 Release Notes].
The major changes in Sugar 0.98 have resulted in a less stable release compared with the previous version ([[Sugar on a Stick/Quandong]]). The following bugs would welcome your attention:
* A Jabber connection is lost if one changes the name or color in Sugar's My Settings/About Me control panel after the initial setting - http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4289
* [[fedora:Common_F18_bugs#Live_installation_on_machines_with_WWAN_network_card_freezes|Installation to a hard disk on machines with WWAN network cards fails]]
* See also [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F18_bugs Fedora 18 Common Bugs].
=====SoaS Release Announcement: pending=====
<!-- [http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg02429.html Release Announcement by Peter Robinson]:
There's been a lot of work go into this release from a lot of
communities from Fedora and all the Fedora 17 features that give us
new and exciting hardware support to the Sugar Labs community and all
the new features that come with the Sugar 0.96 release on which SoaS
v7 is based.
Thanks go to all the people that have contributed to this release
including Kalpa and Thomas who helped directly with SoaS, the Sugar
development team and other Sugar developers. A lot of work has been
done to ensure we can get working core Activities like Read and Browse
and what should a good working base for deployments to test and add
to.
Some of the key new features of this release include:
:- Based on Fedora 17 and it's new features [1]
:- Massively improved x86 Mac support [2]
:- Sugar 0.96 with initial support for GTK3 Activities and many other improvements [3]
:- Return of Browse, now based on WebKit
:- The long awaited return of Read and inclusion of GetBooks
:- Enhanced hardware support with the 3.3 kernel
:- An increase in default Activities by nearly 50%
Almost all of the previous Activities have seen updated releases including but not limited to:
- Abacus 35 (GTK3)
- Record 95
- Physics 9
- TurtleArt 138
Newly added Activities include:
- Browse 137 (GTK3)
- Countries 33
- Finance 7
- GetBooks 11
- Help 14 (GTK3)
- Infoslicer 14
- Labyrinth 12
- Paint 43
- Portfolio 21
- Read 99 (GTK3)
There are many more Activities available through the usual Fedora repositories.
The release name, Quandong, continues the tradition of naming releases
by types of fruit. The Quandong [4] or Native Peach is a native
Australian bushfood.
You can download the release from the following link.
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/
It can also be installed as part of a standard Fedora 17 install and
is shipped as part of the official Fedora installer DVD and the Fedora
Multi Spin Live DVD. It can also be installed from the GUI package
tool within a running Fedora install or by command line "sudo yum
install @sugar-desktop".
:[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/FeatureList
:[2] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12037.html
:[3] [[0.96/Notes]]
:[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santalum_acuminatum -->
==='''Customize your own remix of Sugar on a Stick.'''===
We realize that we'll never be able to create an Activity selection suitable for all deployments. Quandong now includes a set of teacher-tested Activities in the default image. The following links point the way to building alternative customizations.
#[[Build Your Own Remix with Fedora]]
#[http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/customization-guide customization guide]
#[[Sugar on a Stick/Sugar Clone]] A quick, but less pristine, method of build customization
#[http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sck/ASLOxo ASLO Activity Collection] DVD full of ASLO xo activities to Drag Drop into Soas Journal from DVD for Individual customizations.
'''Sugar on a Stick is a Fedora Spin.''' Sugar on a Stick is recognized by the [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora Project] as an official [http://spins.fedoraproject.org Spin]. These close ties with Fedora's release cycle and resources from their engineering and marketing teams extends the reach of Sugar on a Stick and makes the project itself more sustainable. In exchange, users of Fedora have access to an easily deployable implementation of the Sugar Platform; it's a great example of a mutually beneficial upstream–downstream relationship.
=== Contributing to Sugar on a Stick ===
The team recognizes the need to continue to improve its release processes and engineering sustainability. New contributors are urged to get involved and help us move towards our long-term vision of bringing stability and deployability to Sugar's personalized learning environment.
If you'd like to contribute to the next version, due for [[fedora:Releases/18/Schedule|release]] in December of 2012, please join our [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas mailing list], review '''[[Sugar on a Stick]]''', and visit '''[[Sugar on a Stick/Beta]]'''. All types of contributions are welcome, from the technical to the pedagogical, and we're happy to teach what we know and learn what you have to share.
Thank you to all the people involved for their awesome work!
== Release history ==
To better understand release history, previous release notes can be found here,
{{Template:Platform Cycle Linkbar}}
and further information on previous releases may be found here: [[Sugar on a Stick/Project sitemap#Older versions of SoaS]]
<!-- === Feature process ===
The way features happen in Fedora is that early in the release process, developers propose features, and they are approved by a feature freeze date (which is before the alpha release). They have to meet certain criteria by certain deadlines - if they don't, they're dropped and not eligible for mention as features. Major features must be in and testable by Alpha; minor changes need to be in and testable by Beta, after Beta only bugfixes are allowed.
This feature process is not unique to Fedora. Feature processes are things that happen in basically every major FOSS project, and really in every major engineering project (even non-software) - it's how we systematically make sure we build something that's good and working.
The feature process also aids with marketing. The Marketing team in Fedora makes their plans according to the feature list that's set by Alpha - this lets us plan how to target those features early in the process.
Since SoaS relies on both Sugar and Fedora as upstreams, we rely on their feature processes - most SoaS features come from either Fedora features or Sugar features. (For reference, our main upstreams are Fedora, Sugar Labs (sugar-core), ASLO (Activities), GNOME, and Python.) For v5, we built the release using a lightweight feature process for SoaS that inherits from those two upstreams. -->
== QA ==
Much thanks to Peter Robinson who did a majority of the work to program, prepare and coordinate the work with many other sugar developers for this release.
:Thomas Gilliard did field-testing (building real SoaS sticks from .iso files and testing on those) - it's the closest thing to systematic testing we've had yet, though we still have a ways to go.
:Thank you also to James Cameron in Australia for his testing help!
:Much help was also provided by the team at #fedora-qa; freenode IRC
== [[Sugar on a Stick/Virtual machines|Virtual machines]] ==
== Documentation ==
A new release of documentation should come out with each new release of SoaS (although resources have prevented this).
The Fedora-site documentation may not be an improvement over our Sugar Labs, ad hoc wiki documentation methods, as the tools needed to participate are more complicated, and the Spin page documentation is not open to editing. The Fedora Sugar on a Stick pages have not been edited since Mirabelle was released in May 2010.
The attempt to better support a small number of known, working, "how to set up SoaS", instructions has not yet been fulfilled.
== Press coverage ==
Feel free to add links to press coverage you find about ʻŌhelo ʻai to this section.