Info on developer key request page on XO

[Ed McNierney]

No, all I'm thinking about is having .devkey.html contain the postal  
instructions in the HTML local to the machine, so it can be read by  
someone without Internet access at all.  Someone can launch the Browse  
activity, click on "get a developer key", and read the instructions  
(and also, presumably, click the Submit button to make an online  
request, too).

	- Ed


On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:30 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Ed McNierney <ed at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Yes, that's exactly the point.  We currently offer developer keys  
>> by postal
>> mail for users who do not have Internet access, but users without  
>> Internet
>> access cannot get the instructions on how to make such a request.   
>> The
>> "Getting Started" pamphlet refers users to www.laptop.org/source  
>> for source
>> code and mentions it is available on media, but without Internet  
>> access you
>> can't find out how to order the media.
>
> Yes, I understand the point, but I don't see how this is worse than
> the alternative.  If I had hard-coded the activation lease info in the
> build, it *still* wouldn't have information about postal mail access,
> and there would be no way to put it there.
>
> For 9.1 we should have both: the library-common bundle is the right
> place to put information about dev keys; I hope that we will also
> replace the current form with a sugar control panel, which can have
> more information as well.
> --scott
>
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