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==Project Definition==
Sugar on a Stick is is a project to distribute and deploy the Sugar Learning Platform on inexpensive USB and SD flash storage devices, which people can easily ''carry from home to school to library to clubhouse to any computing device and back home again'' for seamless continuation of their learning Activities and collaborations.
 
Simultaneously, the project must
# overcome the technical challenges of building and distributing a transportable GNU/Linux operating system&mdash;in the sense that each installation must work on multiple and diverse computing platforms to provide the individual with continuous accessibility to their friends and activities, and
# develop the social structures to best deploy this new, on-line, off-line, resumable, collaborative technical capability within and between the communities where learning occurs.
 
Thus, '''[[wikipedia:Linux distribution|distribution]]''' no longer just means ''get the software onto an end user's computer'', where it can be stably configured for a single hardware environment.  The installation must be ready to be picked up and moved to another, wholly different environment.  This goal presents many technical challenges that are new, or made more significant by the goal's importance to the project's essence.
 
Developing the social mechanisms to imagine, plan, and deploy this leap in technology is also at the core of the project. We must take existing community resources, often old and institutionalized, and reconstruct them around the movements of the learners and their collaborators.  Just as the human brain grows and develops in a social context, the Sugar Learning Platform aims to offer a constantly accessible, electronic, supplementary companion set of tools for learning, and ultimately, growing our capabilities.
 
Having persistence of availability of the learner's Activities and collaborations permits repeated and deep exploration of concepts and phenomena, and moves the external system closer to being an adaptable learning appendage.


==Project Planning==
==Project Planning==
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=== Installation Methods ===
=== Installation Methods ===
# Windows/Mac/Linux
# Windows/Mac/Linux
## LiveUSB creator script - ''implemented''
## Live USB creator script - ''implemented''
# Windows
# Windows
## [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas-emu SoaS-emu] - installer for a SoaS appliance on the local machine - ''work in progress''
## [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas-emu SoaS-emu] - installer for a SoaS appliance on the local machine - ''work in progress''
## MokaFive portable player installer - ''investigating''
## MokaFive portable player installer - ''investigating''
# Virtualization environments
# Virtualization environments
## Boot a SoaS image on a USB device in VirtualBox.  See this [http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg00259.html discussion thread].
## Boot a SoaS image on a USB device in [[VirtualBox]].  See this [http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg00259.html discussion thread].
## Live CD which boots a Mac OS X version of VirtualBox and uses a SoaS USB device as the guest OS.  See this [http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg00312.html discussion thread].
## Live CD which boots a Mac OS X version of VirtualBox and uses a SoaS USB device as the guest OS.  See this [http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg00312.html discussion thread].
## Live CD which boots to live user and autostarts VMware Player (installed in CD SquashFS). Then students can sequentially insert their USB Stick and work on same PC - "idea" [satellit 07/05/2009]
## Live CD which boots to live user and autostarts VMware Player (installed in CD SquashFS). Then students can sequentially insert their USB Stick and work on same PC - "idea" [satellit 07/05/2009]
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### Install the live image to the USB device by executing the following, <u>single</u> command with arguments:<br><code>/mnt/live/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --noverify --overlay-size-mb 300 --home-size-mb 160 --unencrypted-home --delete-home /dev/sr0 /dev/sdb1</code>
### Install the live image to the USB device by executing the following, <u>single</u> command with arguments:<br><code>/mnt/live/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --noverify --overlay-size-mb 300 --home-size-mb 160 --unencrypted-home --delete-home /dev/sr0 /dev/sdb1</code>
###:'''Note:''' If you have more than 1 hard disc or USB device, you should verify the name of the USB storage device by reviewing the output of the <code>mount</code> command before step 5 above.
###:'''Note:''' If you have more than 1 hard disc or USB device, you should verify the name of the USB storage device by reviewing the output of the <code>mount</code> command before step 5 above.
## zyx-liveinstaller (in Terminal) in SoaS v2 betas can be used to make USB installations from the running live CD. - "works in latest iso"
## zyx-liveinstaller (in Terminal) in SoaS v2 Blueberry can be used to make USB installations from the running live CD. - "works for v2 Bluberry, not yet working in Nightly Composes (v3, F13)"
## dd install to USB device with F12 dual mode .iso "works, but offers no persistence"
## dd install to USB device with F12 dual mode .iso "works, but offers no persistence"
## liveinst command from terminal, install to USB - "works for v2 Bluberry, not yet working in Nightly Composes (v3, F13)"
## Prebuilt USB .img/vmx/vdi files to download [http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/] ext3 real install USB .img file [http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry-direct-cleared-3GB.img.xz] [http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/soas-2-blueberry-direct-cleared-3GB.txt]
===Upgrade Paths===
# With a Journal full of learning, how does one upgrade to a new version of Sugar?
## Will Journals restored from a School Server work?
## Is a persistent home overlay usable?
## Is Home.img exchangeable from one device to another?
=== More Information ===
=== More Information ===
* [[fedora:Sugar on a Stick]] - The Fedora Project home for the project.
* [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas SoaS Gitorious home] - Tools to build Sugar on a Stick images.
* [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/soas SoaS Gitorious home] - Tools to build Sugar on a Stick images.
* SoaS Desktop Manager [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/sdm]]
* SoaS Desktop Manager [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/sdm]]
* For a testing drawing space, check [[olpc:User_talk:FGrose/sandbox/SoaS| this]].
* Other [[:Category:Live USB|portable Sugar distributions]] that share the Sugar on a Stick goals.


=== Home View Design ===
=== Home View Design ===
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Discussion of which Activities should be visible on initial display of the Home view is appropriate here.
Discussion of which Activities should be visible on initial display of the Home view is appropriate here.
See this [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg03685.html sugar-devel thread] for the background.
See this [http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg03685.html sugar-devel thread] for the background.
== Marketing resources ==
* [[SoaS Blueberry Banner]]
* [[SoaS Blueberry Instructions]]
* [[SoaS Blueberry Notes]]
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