Deployment Platform

Deployment Platform version cycle: | 1.0 | 1.1 | 2.0 |

Summary

A customizable platform based on the Sugar Learning Environment which is intended to be a basis for downstream distributions. The targeting audience for this platform are educational distributors and deployments who might be interested in these features:

A robust content sharing system, Sugar Network;
Getting feedback from the field;
Providing remote educational and technical support using Sugar Network's capabilities; which are especially needed in an offline scenario;
Supporting the offline scenario;
Centralized gathering of usage statistics;
Supporting heterogeneous deployments, i.e., not only XO laptops.

Components

Base software

Base software is the foundation to start exploring the rest of the system. It will be accessible from Sweets Distribution native packages. Repositories of packaged software will be provided for all supported platforms and can be used as-is on top of existing operating system, e.g., GNU/Linux distribution for regular desktops, or OLPC OS for XO laptops.

Content

This class of software is based on Sugar Network, with master services hosted on Sugar Labs resources. It provides a broad variety of content, such as Sugar activities, artifacts derived from Sugar activities, books, etc., and the community social activity centered around this content. It is the common information forum to embrace all participants. Software provided on this level, in comparison to Base software, will be supported out of native packages.

Deployment scenarios

Deployment scenarios are a set of solutions adapting all the previous components in order to support differing Sugar deployment scenarios. For example, "Keep the LTS releases for an Operating System and its Base software", or "Provide tools to sort out Content to make it useful for specific deployment needs".

Downstream distributions

The Hexoquinasa project created by Peruvian community to support Sugar Learning Platform deployments.

Getting involved

Subscribe to the sugar-devel mailing list and email with the subject prefixed with [PLATFORM].
Ask your question on IRC channels, #sugar (not logged) or #sugar-newbies (logged).

Activity Testing

Sugar Network Activities only half completed --Satellit 10:16, 19 May 2012 (EDT)

Sugar Network Activities Alphabetic-not updated for latest SN--Satellit 09:44, 19 May 2012 (EDT)

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