Hi<br><br>The New Zealand Wellington based Volunteer group meet EVERY WEEK and if you ask us to test we will. See us at: <a href="http://laptop.org.nz">http://laptop.org.nz</a> or <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/WellyNZTesters">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/WellyNZTesters</a><br>
<br>Volunteers who participate in our group are a mix of developers,
testers, humanitarians, educators and advocates who want OLPC and Sugar to succeed in bringing education opportunities
to children in developing countries.<br><br>We can test on XOs on whatever build you want. We can test any activity you want. <br>We can test SoaS from USB and we can test Sugar running on virtual machines. <br>We have a variety of hardware available to us (as in our own laptops seem to be varied). <br>
<br>Be clear on what tests you want, how you want the results to be delivered and who is the contact person/group for each test. We spend most of our time wondering who wants us to test things, so without instruction we aim our efforts at raising awareness of OLPC and Sugar wherever we can, speaking at events and writing in our blogs and on our sites. <br>
<br>Contact us at <a href="mailto:olpc-nz@lists.laptop.org">olpc-nz@lists.laptop.org</a> and tell us what you would like us to test.<br><br>Thanks<br>Tabitha<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/19 Adam Holt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org">holt@laptop.org</a>></span><br>
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I agree with Tomeu below if we can begin very deliberately working with
him and others to plan here -- we cannot spread ourselves too thin
supporting too many builds/ditstros or we will quite simply fail.<br>
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Expanding support for new hardware (XO-1.5) is confusion enough, as we
are barely surviving the torrent of <a href="mailto:help@laptop.org" target="_blank">help@laptop.org</a> emails today.<br>
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But if the 200 of us can unite around a particular build (similar to
Release 8.2.x whose stability is the only reason we survived the past
year!) for the coming year then we Have A Shot :)<br>
--A!<br>
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<td>Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 94</td>
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<td>Tomeu Vizoso <a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><tomeu@sugarlabs.org></a></td>
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<td>Daniel Drake <a href="mailto:dsd@laptop.org" target="_blank"><dsd@laptop.org></a></td>
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<td>David Farning <a href="mailto:dfarning@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><dfarning@sugarlabs.org></a>, Jim Simmons
<a href="mailto:nicestep@gmail.com" target="_blank"><nicestep@gmail.com></a>, <a href="mailto:sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>, Adam Holt
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<pre>On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 19:45, Daniel Drake <a href="mailto:dsd@laptop.org" target="_blank"><dsd@laptop.org></a> wrote:
> 2009/9/17 David Farning <a href="mailto:dfarning@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><dfarning@sugarlabs.org></a>:
>> One step in that direction might be to clearly communicate and try to
>> gather momentum around a series of stable releases.
>>
>> One thought that might work is to set .84, .88, .94, and 1.0 as stable
>> releases for down streams to unite around.
>
> That would be useful but actually the critical area lacking resources
> right now is people working on OS building and deployment
> technologies. If I can tame your interest in getting new Sugar on XO
> in a deployment-quality release, finding resources to work on these
> resources would be the biggest help you could provide.
I personally think that making possible for XO-1 owners to upgrade to
recent Sugar releases is very important for Sugar Labs, and if we are
the only organization that can take this challenge, then we should do
it.
But if we decided to go for it, I see two fundamental pieces missing:
- someone to coordinate the effort,
- a team of people willing to test new images, file bug reports, help
with triaging, etc.
How can we get that? Maybe the OLPC Support Gang would like to get
involved in this? People from existing deployments?
Regards,
Tomeu
--
«Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar.
What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David
Farning
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