[K12OSN] Sugar desktop.

Nils Breunese nils at breun.nl
Tue Aug 19 06:43:05 UTC 2008


David Farning wrote:

> Is anyone interested in helping make Sugar[1] available on the  
> k12ltsp?
>
> We have recently spun off development of Sugar from One Laptop Per  
> Child
> to Sugar Labs in an effort to make Sugar more widely available.
>
> I am currently working on 'getting Sugar into the classroom' outreach.
> The main concern I am hearing from educators is the importance of easy
> to install and maintain Sugar distributions.
>
> I have been working with the distributions to include Sugar packages  
> in
> their upcoming releases.  We are making particularly good progress at
> Fedora with the help of Gregdek.
>
> Does this sound like an interesting and useful project?  Does it align
> with the technical and social goals of k12ltsp?  If so, please feel  
> free
> to contact me here or at the k-12 Open Minds conference[2].
> .

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the successor to K12LTSP (and the  
previous non-EL K12LTSP releases) are based on Fedora, so doesn't that  
automatically make Sugar available?

Nils Breunese.




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