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. 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 [email protected] 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!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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