[OLPC-Philippines] Back-up using Sugar on a USB.

[Mel Chua]

Charles Chen wrote:
 > Hi Caroline,
 >
 > Please inform us once you have completed testing on the process of
 > backing-up files using Sugar on a USB.

Since some people here might be unfamiliar with Sugar Labs activities, 
an attempt to fill in some background info (Caroline et. al, please 
correct any mistakes I've made):

Caroline is the de-facto project manager (more by meritocratic action 
than formal title, as open-source projects typically are) for SoaS 
development, has an engineering department in the Philippines helping 
out with that (I'm guessing Hamilton is there?) along with several 
volunteers from around the world (Sebastian Dziallas comes to mind), and 
is running Boston-area pilots in addition to doing technical testing.

They're generally awesome about keeping development transparent and 
informing the community about what's going on. 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick is the project page, and I 
believe most if not all of the discussion happens on a combination of 
#sugar (IRC, freenode) and the iaep and sugar-devel lists at 
http://lists.sugarlabs.org. If you want to be sure to stay on top of 
what's going on with SoaS, I highly recommend lurking those places... it 
takes a lot of effort to do the development, testing, and deployment of 
a project like SoaS, so the people involved may not have the bandwidth 
to make sure their updates spread further than the channels they're 
already using (and in fact I bet they would appreciate it if someone 
would help them with that!)

--Mel

PS: Request - can we please only quote the parts of emails that we're 
directly responding to? Especially when the daily digest gets involved, 
it's hard for me to sift through the long emails that result otherwise. 
Thanks!