Fedora, meet OLPC. OLPC, meet Fedora.

[Debarshi Ray]

>> These packages are either unavailable in Fedora, or are currently being
>> maintained, poorly, by overworked OLPC engineers who can't invest enough
>> time to do them justice. There are lots of simple issues that even novice
>> packagers could handle. Missing or broken dependencies. Creation of
>> dead-simple activity packages. And so on.

> I think we need an overriding goal.  Can we get a Fedora Sugar Desktop
> Spin for standard pc hardware on the map and a SIG organized around
> that effort? Would that put the right people together in the same
> headspace to start working on packaging activities?

Dumb question:

Can someone running vanilla Fedora (8/9/etc.) without any physical
access to the XO hardware maintain/use OLPC packages?

Cheers,
Debarshi