sdziallas talks tag:sdziallas.com,2010-03-27:/blog/sebastian//2 2010-06-05T14:08:58Z Movable Type Pro 5.0rc3 Sugar and EL-6: It Is Real. tag:sdziallas.com,2010:/blog/sebastian//2.57 2010-06-05T13:52:22Z 2010-06-05T14:08:58Z 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... Sebastian Dziallas 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).
]]> Fedora Classroom: Sugar Packaging tag:sdziallas.com,2010:/blog/sebastian//2.44 2010-01-04T23:22:35Z 2010-01-05T00:22:28Z So you're interested in the Fedora Sugar effort? Awesome. Well, as promised, we're going to have a Sugar Packaging Session through the Fedora Classroom program this Wednesday. We'll be in #fedora-classroom, on 1500 UTC, so make sure to drop by.... Sebastian Dziallas Fedora Sugar effort? Awesome. Well, as promised, we're going to have a Sugar Packaging Session through the Fedora Classroom program this Wednesday. We'll be in #fedora-classroom, on 1500 UTC, so make sure to drop by. If you can, please have Gobby installed, which we'll use for collaboratively working on docs!
]]> Thinking of contributing to Sugar? tag:sdziallas.com,2009:/blog/sebastian//2.1 2009-12-30T12:30:14Z 2010-01-01T12:36:37Z Here's your chance! Join us for the upcoming weekly Fedora Sugar meetings in #fedora-olpc starting tomorrow, Dec 31 on 1500 UTC.We're going to talk about packaging (especially Sugar Activities) and all kinds of stuff that helps us making the F13... Sebastian Dziallas #fedora-olpc starting tomorrow, Dec 31 on 1500 UTC.

We're going to talk about packaging (especially Sugar Activities) and all kinds of stuff that helps us making the F13 Sugar experience better.

You don't know how to package things for Fedora? Don't worry, we've a Fedora Classroom session coming up on Jan 6 - more details here.]]> SoaS v2 Beta Release - "The Next Big Thing" tag:sdziallas.com,2009:/blog/sebastian//2.6 2009-08-29T22:00:00Z 2010-01-01T12:36:37Z Here we go! I'm pleased to announce the availability of the Sugar on a Stick v2 Beta Release. This release includes already a preview of the features of the upcoming final release, which is due to November 24 right now.Major... Sebastian Dziallas Here we go! I'm pleased to announce the availability of the Sugar on a Stick v2 Beta Release. This release includes already a preview of the features of the upcoming final release, which is due to November 24 right now.
Major updates have been applied and we are now shipping the Fedora 12 Alpha base system as well as the latest Sugar 0.85.3 release. Additionally, we are now shipping the zyx-liveinstalller by default.

Please download and test your version of this release from here:

http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-2-beta.iso

6b2a235251d545013c020ded05a8336eceff8114 soas-2-beta.iso

When placing the image on your USB key, please use either liveusb-creator for Windows or livecd-iso-to-disk for Linux. We are also providing an appliance image for use with VirtualBox, as well as VMware, to allow even Mac users to test Sugar on a Stick. Later in the development cycle, SoaS will also feature specific images the XO.

Finally, please note also that we are going to have a test day on SoaS together with Fedora QA this Thursday (September 3). Let us know how it goes! In case you encounter any issues, please report them at our bug tracker: https://launchpad.net/soas
]]> the way we walk: linuxtag & fudcon tag:sdziallas.com,2009:/blog/sebastian//2.9 2009-06-29T22:00:00Z 2010-01-01T12:36:38Z Day 1. Arrival. LinuxTag. FUDPub.So there I went. Having celebrated a friends birthday the night before, I was rather tired when taking the train to Berlin. In the end, I arrived there at 10:30 am. After checking in at... Sebastian Dziallas
Day 1. Arrival. LinuxTag. FUDPub.
So there I went. Having celebrated a friends birthday the night before, I was rather tired when taking the train to Berlin. In the end, I arrived there at 10:30 am. After checking in at the hotel, I met Mathieu Bridon. Actually, that was a pretty good accident, as we two were wandering through the city of Berlin then, trying to find a way to the trade fair. In the end, we arrived at hall 7. Later, than originally expected, but we arrived.
It was great to meet all the Sugar folks - some of them I had already met a FOSDEM - again and so I spent most of the time at the Sugar booth. Later this evening, we all went to FUDPub, an event happening at en passent. Mo has some more coverage here... errr? Here!

Day 2. talks, talks and still more talks.
After a rather short night, back to LinuxTag again. Went there with Thorsten Leemhuis and some other folks. Attended Paul's keynote at FUDCon and moved after spending some time with the Fedora people on to more talks. Greg was giving an impressive talk on education and open source. Basically, there's still a lot of work to be done to spread open education. Better get started now. In the evening, Simon gave a talk showcasing Sugar, its concepts and features. He did an awesome job introducing Sugar itself, even to new users.
That night, we all went to a BBQ at c-base hosted by the Ubuntu folks. Just sitting there, talking and enjoying the time was great. We had a bunch of ideas, which were to be discussed deeply the next day.
Day 3. Hackfest. Departure.
10:00 am meeting at FUDCon. Some people were late, some weren't. We went searching a room and finally got one. And so there were Fedora and Sugar folks and the same room, discussing how to improve Sugar.
In the end, it was a very productive meeting: we set the course for the upcoming Sugar and Sugar on a Stick releases - great work everyone! :) More information to follow soonish. Eventually, in the evening, some of us went having dinner together, before I took the train back home.
Did I already say it was awesome? It was. Looking forward to meeting all of you again. For now on IRC. Then later in real life.
]]>