On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 15:32, Raul Gutierrez Segales <r...@rieder.net.py> wrote: > Tabitha, > > thanks for your excellent summary! > > IRC logs are here: > http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.log.20100527_1409.html > > Big thanks to every deployment member that assisted.
Yes, thanks all and specially Raul and Tabitha. When is the next meeting? Regards, Tomeu > Cheers, > Raúl > > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 07:30 +1200, Tabitha Roder wrote: > > This morning I joined in a deployment meeting on IRC. It's aim is to provide > feedback, learn about deployment concerns, talk about migration to 0.88 and > how to better integrate deployments and upstream work. > > > First up was Anurag talking about Delhi, India, where he is going from June > to August to work with 100 students in two schools. They plan to use Sugar > on a Stick - 0.88 - and school server. Each student will be getting a thumb > drive for use in the schools computer labs. Anurag will provide details of > the hardware in the computer labs so we can test his planned install. > More info http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_India and http://www.seeta.in/j/ > They want to be sure the "send to" function works in the Journal so students > can "send to" the teacher. They are also struggling with the XS setup. > We can see some of the planned activities on the Seeta website. > > > Daniel_C, Esteban and Ebordon talked about Uruguay. With 360,000 XO-1.0 > laptops, 100 employees (teachers, sociologists, engineers). There are 5 > people working on software. > They are currently on 0.82 but are making their first Fedora 11 image thanks > to Paraguay. They will email the testing list with their test request when > the image is ready. Plan for deploy around July / August. > > > Tony Forster talked about multiple deployments - Timor Leste (East Timor) > 25+25 laptops, Australia 1500 laptops and Oceania 3000 G1G1 laptops. > The first 25 laptops for Timor Leste (East Timor) are about to arrive. The > identified issues so far are lack of resources in Tetun, the national > language and quality open source textbooks. Also the relationship between > the constructionist self-directed learning Activities and the more > conventional curriculum. That is, the expectation for the equivalent of > textbooks, worksheets and lesson plans in electronic form. Resources for the > Timor Leste deployment are at http://www.seaton-olpc-ug.org/?q=node/54 > OLPC Australia has been very active. For Australian indigenous communities, > low English literacy coupled with a large number of indigenous languages > each with a small number of speakers is an issue. (Localization seems to > have been effective for large deployments sharing a single language but less > successful for smaller deployments and languages). > oceania, each has a satellite station mainly solar, Timor Leste no net, one > unreliable mains other solar, au will have net and quality solar/diesel > > > Dirakx spoke from Colombia. http://co.sugarlabs.org/ > They have a mix of XOs with 0.82 and Sugar on a Stick blueberry already. > There are 7 district schools at Bogota who will use Sugar installed on old > computers. Most places have electricity and internet but not very good > connectivity. We need more information to test for Colombia. > > > Icarito and alfredogutierrez spoke from Lima, Peru. > http://somosazucar.org/ and http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ > They are working with native Amazonian schools in Lima and going to Puno > next. They have XOs and there is an etoys expert local (zdenka). They will > get connectivity in the school from the education board. They plan to > discuss with the board how to get schools collaborating. They use Sugar > 0.82. > > > tch (Martin) spoke from Paraguay where they have 4000 F11 Sugar 0.84 XO-1.0 > they want to update to 0.88 in August and want to deploy next 5000 XO-1.5 > with 0.88 in September. They are working on some sugar activities like poll > and adding new features. > > > I look forward to being able to test for these deployments and any other > that requests testing - mail test...@lists.laptop.org your test request. > > > There were two closing questions: > 1) how do we (deployments) aggregate our feedback so developers can know > better how to act upon problems > 2) how do we (deployments) share our lessons learned to make it easier for > new/others deployments > I am hoping someone else can summarise this as I had to leave. :-( > > > Tabitha > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep