On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Given how dependent Sugar Labs and OLPC are on the upstream software > stack, there are certain to be tasks for projects that will have > benefits that will flow downstream to us. Anything that improves any of the packages listed in a recent OLPC Release packages.txt file would have direct benefits to our users. x86 (XO-1) http://build.laptop.org/13.1.0/os6/xo-1/31006o0.packages.txt Just as an example, ARM architecture is new to a number of upstream projects. Anything that improved the ARM version of a package would be a big win for Sugar Labs / OLPC. ARM (XO-4) http://build.laptop.org/13.1.0/os6/xo-4/31006o4.packages.txt Of course, it remains to be seen which orgs are selected to participate and what tasks they set, but my point is that there there is lots of room for upstream work that is directly relevant to our community. Working with the upstream is also a fine lesson in the social and technical aspects of FOSS development you an aspiring young coder to learn. If I had to guess I would say the chance of the Sugarista recruiting their mentor to working on Sugar is probably greater than the chance that the mentor would pull the Sugarista away from Sugar into the upstream project :-) cjl _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel