Deployment Team

This section of the wiki is dedicated to the needs of those who are running Sugar deployments. We'll be holding an initial meeting on Wednesday, 10 September 2008 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

Agenda (2008-09-10)

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.

Mailing Lists

There are a number of mailing lists where deployment issues are discussed:

OLPC Sur OLPC in South America
India OLPC in India
Nepal OLPC in Nepal
It's an education project A discussion list for Sugar and the learning theories that it espouses

Deployment guides/ Sugar manuals

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/
http://www.fedaro.info/