Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread Manuel Quiñones
2013/11/6 Peter Robinson : > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Daniel Narvaez 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 And

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Yes, but we never provided a easy way to install in classmates, or tried to approach hardware manufactures to propose them to invest on that. Gonzalo On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote: > 2013/11/6 Peter Robinson : >> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: >>>

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread Daniel Narvaez
Are classmates somehow available to developers? It sounds like making images (or whatever) for them might be a pretty good idea. On 6 November 2013 16:25, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Yes, but we never provided a easy way to install in classmates, > or tried to approach hardware manufactures to prop

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread Daniel Narvaez
On 6 November 2013 16:20, Manuel Quiñones wrote: > > > 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. > > Yep. Sugar is running in classmates out of the box. In Uruguay for > example. > You mean people ar

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > Are classmates somehow available to developers? It sounds like making images > (or whatever) for them might be a pretty good idea. You should be able to use the SoaS images on them straight up, there's an installer option. If it's aimed at a

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread Manuel Quiñones
2013/11/6 Daniel Narvaez : > On 6 November 2013 16:20, Manuel Quiñones wrote: >> >> >> > 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. >> >> Yep. Sugar is running in classmates out of the box. In Uruguay

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread Walter Bender
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: > Clock, Speak, and part of Memorize use gstreamer just to do text to speech. > I would like to have tts provided by Sugar as a service, probably using dbus > and a api in sugar-toolkit-gtk3. That would simplify these activities and > solve >

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread nanonano
/>On 06/11/2013 13:31, Daniel Narvaez wrote:// //>You mean people are using them in Uruguay deployments? Which distro?/ -- In Uruguay we have Classmates II (called "Magallanes") in some High Schools,

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread David Farning
Please see the link at the bottom left of http://dextrose.ac/platform/ for the Sugar on Ubuntu images which Activity Central and Plan Ceibal are jointly developing. For stability it is based on Ubuntu 12.04 and Sugar .98. The testing is done on classmate to meet Plan Ceibal's specifications. I sho

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread Daniel Narvaez
Cool stuff. As for Fedora it would be great to have builds with the latest sugar (stable and unstable) releases. I'm not saying to ship those to deployments of course, but they would help upstream development, marketing and testing... And they would help AC to make the transition to the next sugar

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Tech roadmap

2013-11-06 Thread David Farning
I agree :) Right now, we are sitting back and seeing what roll OLPC-Australia is going to play in the ecosystem. The One Education distribution out of Australia is a combination of Dextrose, Sugar .100 and some custom patches. My semi-informed guess is that Walter and Rangan ( https://www.laptop.o