Sebastian Dziallas wrote: > David Van Assche wrote: >> Yeah we are doing the same with edubuntu... which should include sugar >> in Jaunty+1, when it is a little more mature (activity wise.) Kde-edu >> has made massive advances in their edu tools and the kde team seems >> very committed to getting the whole distro known as the 'edu' distro. >> Part of the reason for this is that the Brazillian government made a >> commitment to put 60 million users infront of kde 4... (not LTSP >> sadly) but thats a pretty big market... so now they've decided to >> really focus on edu... think of the possibilitiy of making learning >> objects that are plasmoids... the sky is the limit... Anyway, edubuntu >> is a mix of gnome and kde edu apps... and soon sugar edu stuff too.... >> >> kind Regards, >> David Van Assche > > Yeah, I agree! The folks at KDE are doing a great job with their kdeedu > stuff. I came across this here recently, looks like a good plan to me > [1]; thanks to Greg for referring me to it. ;) > > I'm not feared either of mixing Gnome, KDE and Sugar apps (XFCE is also > our Fedora spin), but there're some questions coming into my mind: > > * How can we promote Sugar best? > > So. Obviously the question would also be whether it makes sense to > include Sugar in a general Fedora Education Spin (e.g. which includes > also kdeedu). But how would this work? I mean would we just have to > desktops there, or how can we provide the best usability? And would > something like this worth targeting F11? > > If the answer to the last question is 'yes', I'd need to hurry a bit > with modifying the kickstart and talking other folks. > > * How can we prevent us from doing duplicated work? > > Does it make sense to release Sugar on a Stick and a Fedora Sugar Spin > at the same time, with just marginal differences (e.g. having more > activities in SoaS but the Fedora trademark in the latter one)? > > Or would it e.g. be worth considering to drop e.g. the Fedora Sugar Spin > and focus instead on SoaS *and* and inclusion of Sugar on a complete > Education Spin? > > I think this really needs to be discussed. If you want to, even at > FOSDEM ;). These are just some thoughts and I'm not quite sure, where > this will end up, though. > > --Sebastian
/me reminds himself of adding links before pushing the "send"-button. [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Education >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebast...@when.com> >> wrote: >>> Simon Schampijer schrieb: >>>> David Van Assche wrote: >>>>> What's wrong with offering kde, sugar, or gnome from the login manager >>>>> (whatever that might be... that could be made as simple or complicated >>>>> as one wanted.) Kde has an amazingly powerful group of edu apps, as >>>>> does gnome, as does Sugar... all for different age groups... so it >>>>> might make sense to make something all encompassing that is useful for >>>>> all educational groups... >>>>> >>>>> David >>>> If that is the desire from whoever is using those Sticks - off he goes. >>>> Caroline wants to offer GNOME as well - great. Those images are easily >>>> customizable - so as marco said there could be different versions. >>> I just created a very first draft of a slimmed-down version including Gnome >>> and Sugar on the same spin. Though, I didn't get to testing it yet. You can >>> just have a look at the GIT repo here: [1] >>> >>> The soas-*.ks files are the ones which should also work on other hardware >>> than the XO. >>> >>> --Sebastian >>> >>> [1] http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/fedora-xo;a=tree >>> >>>> Subnote: There is a size limit as well to some sticks - for example 1 GB >>>> sticks are quite common - not sure if you can fit all the desktops on that >>>> and offer space for the user he can write to as well. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Simon _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel