On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I think Sugar Labs needs to express a clear, realistic technology roadmap. >> For example, we have been talking a lot about Sugar on Android, mixing a lot >> of different things under that name. We need to clarify what that really is. >> >> Here are my thoughts, inspired by the oversight board meeting thread. >> >> * Wait and see what happens with the XO. Support existing deployments by >> producing images with the most recent Sugar release. Stick to a Fedora 18 >> base system, the work to upgrade is highly non trivial. Provide custom rpms >> for the sugar modules and a few dependencies, most importantly Webkit, which >> is required by web activities. > > In the short term, we don't need backport Webkit2 to F18. In the long term, > we need find a solution to move to a newer Fedora in the XOs, maybe 20 or 21. > >> * Ensure web activities run well in web browsers. This will cover Android >> and other non-Linux systems. >> * Reuse the work done by OLPC on Fedora to get Sugar running nicely on one >> or two ARM boards (Beagle board black and Cubox-i seems to be the best we >> could pick at the moment). Talk to the manufacturers to get publicity on the >> images we produce and devices for the developers. > > Maybe not only ARM hardware. At least in South America, many places > are using Classmates in educative projects. I know talks between OLPC > and Intel were difficult in the past, but is a different world now.
Classmates are basically just x86 netbooks, I've not tried it as I don't have HW but I don't see any reason they shouldn't work OOTB. Peter _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing