I mentioned earlier that I was working on integrating Smolt into Sugar. That's still the case. However, there's now a repository and a ticket for that. And there's a real screenshot. Yez. Rly!
June 2010 Archives
Looks like I'm a little late at catching up with my backlog. Oh well.
I attended LinuxTag earlier this June (thanks Simon for hosting me!) and had the chance to meet and catch up with a lot of folks I hadn't seen in a while. Sugar Labs also had a booth there and it was really good to see people (especially kids) playing with Sugar. Most popular activities included Maze, Physics and Speak. However, also Walter's new Abacus activity quickly gained interest.
I also learned that waking up three hours late (when having a talk scheduled in the morning) is probably not the best of all ideas -- probably unless you ask the cab driver. Got there in time, though and gave my talk on Leveraging Communities.Sugar Labs also announced Sugar on a Stick v.3 (Mirabelle) widely at LinuxTag. Shameless plug goes here. Was a good time.
LinuxCon is happening later this year in August in Boston. We're going to run to an education mini-summit there on August 9. Are you interested in the latest updates on what Teaching Open Source, Sugar Labs and others are doing and would like to meet the people behind the projects in person or just get involved? Drop by and wave!
All interested people, especially those who're from the education sector but new to open source, are welcome: go ahead and add yourself to the wiki! (http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/LinuxCon_2010_Participants)
More details and the scope of the summit live here. We're also still looking for speakers! If you're interested in presenting a project or idea of yours, please email us! The main wiki page (http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/LinuxCon_2010) has more information on that.
Looking forward to seeing you in Boston!
All interested people, especially those who're from the education sector but new to open source, are welcome: go ahead and add yourself to the wiki! (http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/LinuxCon_2010_Participants)
More details and the scope of the summit live here. We're also still looking for speakers! If you're interested in presenting a project or idea of yours, please email us! The main wiki page (http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/LinuxCon_2010) has more information on that.
Looking forward to seeing you in Boston!
As you may know, Sugar runs on the RHEL 6 Beta. I went ahead and did an actual compose using Smock together with an updated config file for EPEL-6. The results live here and it should be possible to use them directly as a yum repo:
It's also worth noting that work is going on to make this actually happen in EPEL (kudos to Peter Robinson and others too).
It's also worth noting that work is going on to make this actually happen in EPEL (kudos to Peter Robinson and others too).
GSoC has started and I'm working on improving Sugar on a Stick, as previously noted. We've just released Mirabelle (which you can download here and has a contributor portal now), so that a good chunk of time went into release preparations and a release recap. I also worked on creating a remix for the upcoming POSSEs.
However, one of the things I'm going to work on for Sugar Labs is the integration of Smolt into Sugar, for example allowing users to contribute to issue reports by attaching their hardware information easily. Here's a mockup of how it might possibly look like. More coming soon!
However, one of the things I'm going to work on for Sugar Labs is the integration of Smolt into Sugar, for example allowing users to contribute to issue reports by attaching their hardware information easily. Here's a mockup of how it might possibly look like. More coming soon!
