Hi NZ volunteers<br><br>Lots of things are happening in the sugar community right now, which means lots of things to test.<br><br>Below this email (sort of attached) is a request to test Sugar release 0.90 in Fedora 14 on Sugar on a Stick.<br>
<br>os851 aka 10.1.2 is a new signed build for XO 1 and 1.5 from olpc based on Fedora 11 and Sugar 0.84 - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.2">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.2</a><br><br>
os373pyg aka Dextrose is the latest "Paraguay build" for XO 1 and 1.5 from Bernie, Sugar Labs and several South American deployments based on Fedora 11 and Sugar 0.88. They're calling this one a Release Candidate and hope we don't find any more significant bugs - <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose</a><br>
<br>For those that can come to the Windsor, 144 Parnell Road, Auckland, you can hear first hand about our experience volunteering in Samoa at two deployments and setting up their server and access points. For everyone else, we will release the report shortly and give you access to photos.<br>
<br>If you want to look at the bugs we discovered during the Samoa deployment (we gave them os300py which you can get from <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/f11-0.88/xo1/py/">http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/f11-0.88/xo1/py/</a> -- they have made two more releases since, but they were too late for us in Samoa), here are the tickets we have raised so far (not raised all the tickets yet): <br>
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<font size="1"><a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2186"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2149</span></a></font></li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2186">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2186</a><br>
</span></font></li><li style="list-style-type: disc; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="1"><a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2185"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2185</span></a></font></li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="1"><a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2184"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2184</span></a></font></li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="1"><a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2183"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2183</span></a></font></li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="1"><a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2182"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2182</span></a></font></li>
</ul>If you want to create something useful for Samoa, they need ideas on how to integrate the laptops as learning tools into the curriculum. The core subjects are: Samoan, English, Mathematics, Basic Science and Social Science. The students are year 4 to 6. <br>
<br>This page has a template for learning activities: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Constructionist_learning_activity">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Constructionist_learning_activity</a><br>This page has an activity template: <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_template">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_template</a><br>
<br>I think we need to work out a better way to store lesson plans so that a teacher (or more likely a volunteer) can go to the sample lessons repository and easily print a set of lesson samples by selecting criteria like age range and curriculum area. This would have been very useful to us in Samoa so likely it would help other deployments start seeing how the laptop can become a learning tool in the classroom instead of a curriculum area of its own to be studied separately to the other subjects. <br>
<br>Thanks volunteers<br>Tabitha<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Simon Schampijer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@schampijer.de">simon@schampijer.de</a>></span><br>
Date: 18 August 2010 21:52<br>Subject: [Sugar-devel] Help testing new sugar packages in F14<br>To: Sugar-dev <<a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>><br>Cc: Sugar on a Stick List <<a href="mailto:soas@lists.sugarlabs.org">soas@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>>, fedora-olpc-list <<a href="mailto:fedora-olpc-list@redhat.com">fedora-olpc-list@redhat.com</a>><br>
<br><br>Hi,<br>
<br>
to get the new Sugar release 0.90 [1] into shape and make it a stable<br>
release we want people to test the nightly Soas snapshots [2]. In order<br>
to get the new packaged tarballs into those builds they have to meet<br>
certain criteria first [3], hence we need people testing them.<br>
<br>
You can simply do this by getting the rpms from koji and install them<br>
into your latest soas snapshot and restart Sugar. What I do in short is:<br>
<br>
- open the Browse activity and go to <a href="http://koji.fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">http://koji.fedoraproject.org</a><br>
- search for the package (sugar, sugar-toolkit...)<br>
- click on the latest F14 version and then right-click on the download<br>
option of the 'noarch' rpm and choose 'copy link' from the palette (if<br>
you download directly it is stored in the Journal)<br>
- then open the terminal activity log in as root and you can copy in the<br>
address here using ctrl+shift+v or the edit tab in the toolbar<br>
- the command for updating the rpm is: 'rpm -U [name of rpm]'<br>
<br>
Once you tested the package you can comment on bodhi [4] about your<br>
findings and give karma points. If you have not done so yet, you should<br>
create a Fedora account [5], so your comments have a higher value.<br>
<br>
Why not start today? Here are some packages that would need your testing<br>
[6] [7]. Btw, there will be a Fedora testing day [8] this Thursday and<br>
we want to give a go on Sugar, too. More info to come.<br>
<br>
If you have questions please feel free to ask. I am as well on irc<br>
#sugar most of the day.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Simon<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Roadmap#Schedule" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.90/Roadmap#Schedule</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/" target="_blank">http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_acceptance_criteria" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_update_acceptance_criteria</a><br>
[4] <a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates</a><br>
[5]<br>
<a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new?_csrf_token=88fb044408f6ad820284d0a7f38dc7731efb1808" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new?_csrf_token=88fb044408f6ad820284d0a7f38dc7731efb1808</a><br>
[6]<br>
<a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-artwork-0.89.3-1.fc14,sugar-toolkit-0.89.3-1.fc14?_csrf_token=88fb044408f6ad820284d0a7f38dc7731efb1808" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-artwork-0.89.3-1.fc14,sugar-toolkit-0.89.3-1.fc14?_csrf_token=88fb044408f6ad820284d0a7f38dc7731efb1808</a><br>
[7]<br>
<a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-toolkit-0.89.2-1.fc14,sugar-presence-service-0.90.0-1.fc14,sugar-0.89.3-1.fc14,sugar-base-0.90.0-1.fc14?_csrf_token=88fb044408f6ad820284d0a7f38dc7731efb1808" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-toolkit-0.89.2-1.fc14,sugar-presence-service-0.90.0-1.fc14,sugar-0.89.3-1.fc14,sugar-base-0.90.0-1.fc14?_csrf_token=88fb044408f6ad820284d0a7f38dc7731efb1808</a><br>
[8] <a href="https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/108" target="_blank">https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/108</a><br>
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</div><br><br>Actually, you can use as well the updates testing repository to test new<br>
rpms. Completely forgot about that.<br>
<br>
yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update sugar sugar-toolkit...<br>
<br>
And Bernie pointed out that fedora-easy-karma [1] can be used for people<br>
who do not like to use web interfaces.<br>
<br>
Gary pointed out that he has issues running the latest snapshot under<br>
virtualization (Virtual Box) does not work for him (black screen). If<br>
anybody has an idea...<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Simon<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Easy_Karma" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Easy_Karma</a><br>