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== Summary ==
== Summary ==
The official SoaS image that is released can be used as a base to re-spin custom (unofficial and unsupported) SoaS remixes using the instructions on our official [[Sugar_on_a_Stick/Documentation_SOP|Customization Guide]] and a few additional FOSS tools outlined in the Guide.
This feature proposes:
* The development of a page on the SL wiki for highlighting classroom-made remixes, their kickstart files, and details on their usage
* The creation of 2-4 sample remixes for specific types of classrooms to pre-populate that wiki page
* An experimental remix image-building service available for the first 2 months after the Mangolassi release
* Edits to the Customization Guide version for Mangolassi that reflect these changes
== Owner ==
== Owner ==
== Current status ==
== Current status ==
* Targeted release: (Soas v4)
* Targeted release: (Soas v4 [[Mangolassi]])
* Last updated: (07/27/2010)
* Last updated: [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] 23:01, 2 August 2010 (EDT)
* Percentage of completion: 100%
* Percentage of completion: 70%
* Content of Instructions on how to build and required format for naming of remixes needs to be discussed and decided
== Detailed Description ==
=== Wiki page ===
The creation of a page that:
* Describes remixes
* Makes it clear that remixes are unsupported
* Links to the Customization Guide as the canonical resource on how to make remixes
* Lists existing community-made remixes so that people can see and try what others have created, with each remix listing having...
** The .iso available for download
** The .ks available for download
** A blog or a link to some resource that describes how this remix is being used in a live teaching setting
The page might look something like this:
<pre>
+---------------------------------------------+
| Unofficial SoaS Remixes |
| |
| +-----------------+ +---------+---+----+ |
| | SoaS Mangolassi | |remix #01|.ks|blog| |
| | summary | +---------+---+----+ |
| | | |remix #02|.ks|blog| |
| | <link to main | +---------+---+----+ |
| | SoaS project | |remix foo|.ks|blog| |
| | page> | +---------+---+----+ |
| +-----------------+ |remix bar|.ks|blog| |
| +---------+---+----+ |
| description of | Your remix here! | |
| remixes, including | | |
| clear text on how | Here's how: | |
| they are UNSUPPORTED | <link to Custom- | |
| | ization guide> | |
| +------------------+ |
+---------------------------------------------+
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=== Sample remixes ===
In order to pre-populate the [[#Wiki page]], we would follow the Customization Guide's instruction to create and post remixes for 2-4 deployments before Mangolassi's official release date. These would be specific, teacher-driven remixes that would be used in live deployments.
The "blog" link for each of these remixes would go to a description - written either by or in conjunction with the teacher - on why the remix was designed that way, and what their plans for classroom usage are. ("Ms. Smith created this remix for her middle-school Spanish-language classes with the following localization and activities so she could do the following things with Sugar in her syllabus...")
=== Image-building service ===
Provide and advertise an experimental remix image-building service available for the first 2 months after the Mangolassi release. For this time period, the feature owner takes responsibility for accepting emails with .ks files attached, building the resulting images, and responding to those emails with a link to a built .iso of the remix generated by that .ks.
The mechanism of this back-and-forth is up to the feature owner to determine, so long as the mechanism (and the unsupported nature of the remixes generated by it) are clear. The current proposal is as follows:
::Please send e-mail to:
::Please send e-mail to:
To: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org
To: soas@lists.sugarlabs.org
Notes and Any Bug No's submitted :
Notes and Any Bug No's submitted :
=== Customization guide edits ===
The Customization Guide would be edited to reflect the above changes, and reviewed and tested by a few new remixes for ease-of-use.
== Benefit to Sugar ==
== Benefit to Sugar ==
Promotes our already-existing technical flexibility to customize Soas-v4 for Deployments and individuals.
* add/delete desired applications to standard set on .iso
* add/delete desired applications to standard set on .iso
== Scope ==
== Scope ==
The technical ability to create remixes has worked for a long time.
: all entries labled xxxx-remix were built using these instructions
: all entries labled xxxx-remix were built using these instructions
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Features/Soas_V4/Install_Test_Table#Test_results
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Features/Soas_V4/Install_Test_Table#Test_results
The implementation of this feature depends on:
* the editing of the Customization Guide
* the creation a wiki page
* the running of a Remix Image Building Service for 2 months after release
==UI Design==
N/A
N/A
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== User Experience ==
== User Experience ==
Wider choices for users of Soas-v4 due to ability to Customize.
Wider choices for users of Soas-v4 due to ability to Customize.
== Dependencies ==
== Dependencies ==
None that I know of.
None that I know of.