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Sugar on a Stick v3 "how did we do?" release review meeting
by Mel Chua 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

How did the Mirabelle release cycle go? We're gearing up for making v4, and want to know what went well and what could have been better - everything from technical to deployment to documentation to process sustainability to... well, really, everything! Our next weekly meeting (Monday May 31, 1900 UTC in #sugar-meeting on irc.freenode.net) will be about exactly that. We announced this date several weeks back, but now that the release is out and the meeting date near, it's time for a reminder. If you can't make the meeting, no worries (especially since Monday is a holiday in the US). This meeting is intended to get as much feedback out at one time as possible; release planning for v4 is a separate meeting (June 7th, again at 1900 UTC) that will take the feedback from this release review into account." Anything sent in before that meeting will be considered during the initial v4 planning session. if you can't make the meeting (or even if you can) and have thoughts or suggestions you'd like to share, please send them to soas(a)lists.sugarlabs.org or add them directly to the agenda, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_meetings#Agenda (which includes links to the email feedback I've seen so far). Note that you need to be a member of the soas list to post to it, so if you aren't subscribed, feel free to email it just to me with a request to forward to the list, and I'll do so. I'm only gathering feedback that appears on the soas list, though, in order to preserve my sanity - so if you reply to any of the other lists, we may not see it in time. The three questions to answer: 1. What went well with Mirabelle? 2. What didn't? 3. How would you change things? And then, of course, whatever else you'd like to write. --Mel, who was somehow inadvertently persuaded by Peter and Sebastian to chair this meeting

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Heads-up: POSSE folks hacking in Fedora/Sugar this week and next
by Mel Chua 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Some of you may have noticed some new faces in #sugar - we (Walter Bender, Peter Robinson, and I) are hanging out with a group of professors (mostly from the Worcester area) who are in town this week for http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE, a workshop for learning how to get their students involved contributing to open source projects. (In this case, Sugar, with Fedora as a dev platform.) They've been learning to hack Sugar all week, and are in fact in #sugar at this very moment tinkering away on the Measure Activity. Their feeds haven't yet been added to Planet Sugar Labs (those requests are still pending), but you can read some of their (great!) reflections so far at http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Planet. So if you have a moment, pop in and say hello to: * Peter Froehlich (Johns Hopkins) - pgf * Karl Wurst (Worcester State College) - kwurst * Nadimpalli Mahadev (Fitchburg State College) - Mahadev * Kristina Striegnitz (Union College, Schenectady, NY) - kis * Jerry Breecher (Clark University, Worcester MA) - diamond * Mihaela Sabin (University of New Hampshire) - mihaela * Gary Pollice (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) - gpollice * Aparna Mahadev (Worcester State College) - aparna Next week we'll have another - slightly larger - batch from RIT doing the same thing, with myself, Chris Tyler, and Luke Macken focusing more on how to make Fedora a better environment for running/deploying/developing Sugar - if you have any thoughts in this direction, please send comments our way! (Things we've come up with so far: general Python development stuff, liveusb-creator hacks, SVG rendering working strangely in different recent versions of Fedora... we need to turn this into a proper ticket queue.) Just wanted to let y'all know. I'll blog this to Planet in a moment. --Mel

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os15?
by Yioryos Asprobounitis 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

I noticed that os15 appeared in http://people.sugarlabs.org/smparrish/ However, is not announced anywhere I could find. Is that a full build to be tested or just a partial/problematic one like os14? (Thought to ask first saving some bandwidth and time)

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who is being shown in Neighborhood View
by Mikus Grinbergs 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Been trying out os240py. My current setup is an ethernet LAN, with *no* DHCP server. It was interesting to note (just by changing the /etc/resolv.conf content, plus clicking on an AP icon) that when I do not have a valid /etc/resolv.conf file, Neighborhood View shows the XOs on my local LAN; whereas when I do have a valid /etc/resolv.conf file, Neighborhood View shows the XOs connected to the "My Settings" specified Jabber server (on the internet). mikus

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