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.

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.