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

STUB: To voice the needs of Sugar deployments to the Sugar community and to organize forums for the exchange of experiences between Sugar users and between Sugar user and Sugar developers.

Meetings

2008-09-10 meeting

Agenda

• Brief introductions
• Define mission of the deployment team
  • Communication
  • Support.. events, can local institutions support sugar deployments trough Sugar Labs?
• Review/define processes for communication (mailing lists, irc, wiki)
• Discuss potential opportunities for support
  • Localization support for Sugar ?

Floss manuals.

Log

DeploymentTeam/MeetingLog/2008-09-10

Resources

The team

Please feel free to add yourself to the list.

• Rafael Ortiz
• Pilar Saenz
• Gloria
• Walter Bender
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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

Sugar-related blogs/wikis

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” Uruaguay 25/28 september.