As a data point for other decision makers and a follow up to some of the recent threads on the future of Sugar, I would like to share Activity Central's Sugar priorities for the next six months.
Activity Central supports the recent HTML5 + JS work that is going into sugar .100. It has the potential to take the OLPC vision to any device which runs a browser while simultaneously increasing the potential activity developer pool by several orders of magnitude. This is an excellent area for community lead research. Activity Central will be doing activity side work to test the viability of the framework for client deployments. As a more incremental approach, Activity Central will continue our deployment-centric work by porting Dextrose to Ubuntu. A concern among deployments is the future availability of hardware to support their current investment. Deployments are concerned that laptop support will stop before tablets are ready for use in the field. Because of the controversial nature of this work and the potential for disruption it may cause to the Association, we understand if some people would prefer to sit this out. Would either of these list be appropriate to continue these discussions about this downstream efforts to port sugar to Ubuntu for use on hardware not sold by the Association? Phase one has been a poof of concept as seen at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Ubuntu (ongoing) Phase two will be opening the project to the community. Phases three will be testing and piloting by deployments. -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
