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Sugar on a Stick Improve Deployability

Make it easier for a teacher or school to customize a spin and then copy it for a hundred kids

Tickets on this topic:

Red Hat - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448030 - RFE: create a bootable Live USB stick from the running livecd SugarLabs Ticket 74 - http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/74

Use Case A teacher should be able to create a USB stick, add activities, add some content, change the language, change the jabber server etc. Then create new sticks that reflect these changes but do not copy the name, color or collaboration key.

It would be great if the teacher could use an inexpensive USB hub to burn more then one stick at a time.

Sticks are dieing a lot - Make sticks more robust

Backup and recovery=

What is a reasonable expectation for the role of the XS in Sugar on a Stick deployments in the next 6 months?

Collaboration is unreliable and thus frustrating

Its working fairly well in the wired network at the GPA lab, but no other use case seems to work reliably.

Using a CD helper takes a lot of prep time before and after class

A floppy helper would reduce it. A VM solution might also reduce it.

Tickets

* Ticket 598   Boot Helper Virtual Machine [[1]]
* Ticket 907  change the format we use for the USB stick [[2]]


See also Sugar on a Stick/Goals.

This is an the general todo list for SoaS. If you've any ideas or requests, please add them here.


Task Name Priority Status/Notes
solicit USB key donations from companies 1 info needed
allow direct recreation of USB keys (cloning) 2 needs testing [3]
add additional activities, if requested 3 get them on a.sl.o
work on a keyboard layout control panel 3 work in progress [4]
be able to backup and restore from a School Server 3 to be worked out
support printers, scanners, cameras 3 to be worked out
activity for cloning USB Sticks and .iso files (cloning) 3 to be worked out [5]

Here's a list with completed tasks; feel free to move them from the table above.

Task Name Status/Notes
get SoaS included in liveusb-creator done
create a virtual appliance (builds) done [6] [7]
release a helper CD for boot from USB done [8]
add sample content done - add more if needed
fix blockers for release most important point, check rawhide, as it progresses towards beta
update remaining RPMs good progress done so far
check localization support done
get artwork and branding together done
change default Browse location done