Changes

The second phase is packaging. Sugar Labs needed to reduce the barrier to entry to test and use Sugar. Greg and his team have been getting Sugar prepared on [[Community/Distributions/Fedora]]. Jonas has been shouldering the load at [[Community/Distributions/Debian]]. Morgan, Luke and James have been getting Sugar ready to ship on [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu]]. Aleksey has been working on [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo]].

The second phase is packaging. Sugar Labs needed to reduce the barrier to entry to test and use Sugar. Greg and his team have been getting Sugar prepared on [[Community/Distributions/Fedora]]. Jonas has been shouldering the load at [[Community/Distributions/Debian]]. Morgan, Luke and James have been getting Sugar ready to ship on [[Community/Distributions/Ubuntu]]. Aleksey has been working on [[Community/Distributions/Gentoo]].

We are a few weeks away from Fedora based liveCDs and liveUSBs. Ubuntu will follow when some Abiword version issues are resolved.

*We are a few weeks away from Fedora based liveCDs and liveUSBs. Ubuntu will follow when some Abiword version issues are resolved.

We have still have a way to go before Sugar is available on all desktops. Our next step in the packaging phase is to work on the server side

*We have still have a way to go before Sugar is available on all desktops. Our next step in the packaging phase is to work on the server side.

===Partnering===

===Partnering===

The third phase is partnering. Sugar Labs needs to partner with existing open source in education projects. Some of the most successful projects are [www.skolelinux.org SkoleLinux], a Debian based project that has had good penetration in Northern Europe. In the next few months they will be join [www.linex.org LinEx], a distribution which originated in the Extremadura region of Spain. [k12linux.org K12Linux], formally know as k12LTSP, is base on the Linux Terminal Server Project. [edubuntu.org Edubuntu] is Ubuntu's education projects.

The third phase is partnering. Sugar Labs needs to partner with existing open source in education projects. Some of the most successful projects are [www.skolelinux.org SkoleLinux], a Debian based project that has had good penetration in Northern Europe. In the next few months they will be join [www.linex.org LinEx], a distribution which originated in the Extremadura region of Spain. [k12linux.org K12Linux], formally know as k12LTSP, is base on the Linux Terminal Server Project. [edubuntu.org Edubuntu] is Ubuntu's education projects.

There are many other project that are either regionally based, distribution based, or hardware based.

*There are many other project that are either regionally based, distribution based, or hardware based.

The biggest advantage of partnering is our ability to leverage their existing marketing, customer support, and feedback processes.

The biggest advantage of partnering is our ability to leverage their existing marketing, customer support, and feedback processes.