[Olpc-socal] Booth @ SCalE 10X & SoaS Pineapple

Sun Nov 13 02:17:28 EST 2011

Hi Folks,

Great News! I've received confirmation that we will be able to have a booth for OLPC/Sugar Labs at SCaLE 10X. This also means we will need some volunteers again to help with the booth.  Also, it would be great if we could offer something special to people who stop by. I have an idea of what that might be...

In case you missed it, there is a brand new version of Sugar on a Stick (SoaS Pineapple).  It is built on Fedora 16 and the Fedora project is distributing it as a Fedora Spin: "Discover. Reflect. Share. Learn." via DVD with several computer magazines in Europe, and hopes to do the same elsewhere.  But, you don't have to wait for that, you can download it yourself and start playing right away!

My thought is that we can either get some of the disks from Fedora or make some ourselves to give out at the booth.  We could also set up an "SoaS Creation Station" in our booth where people could bring their own usb sticks and we could make the bootable SoaS sticks for them. We will need someone with a PC-type laptop to do that to run the Live USB Creator program.

For this. we will need a crew who knows how to do it, and the best way to learn is to try it for yourselves!  I am including Peter Robinson's email re the new SoaS version so you can learn more about it and follow the links to learn more about it and try it. 
I'm sure some of you may have other ideas of things we can put in the booth! We need to share....  Maybe a running slideshow of Contributors Program projects from around the world?  Anyone have equipment to do this? (And know how?).

We will need to do some planning for this.  Watch for a suggested meeting FTF sometime in early December. Meanwhile, let's set up a Google Docs place to work on it and to put everyones great ideas for this. Any volunteers to set it up for us?
A reminder, SCaLE 10X will be at the Hilton LAX on the weekend of January 20-22, 2012. The CFP is still open but will close soon, so if you would like to do a presentation, now is the time to register as a speaker and submit your proposal. Here is the link for that:
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/cfp

The original email is below.  Have fun exploring SoaS Pineapple!

Caryl Bigenho, OLPC Support Volunteer****************************************************************************************
> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 13:31:06 +0000
> From: pbrobinson at gmail.com
> To: soas at lists.sugarlabs.org; marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org; iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org; sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: [SoaS] Announcing the release of Sugar on a Stick 6 (Pineapple)
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'd like to like to announce the release of Sugar on a Stick version 6
> (codename Pineapple).
> 
> Available for both i686 and x86_64 platforms this release brings the
> newly released Sugar 0.94.1 to a base of Fedora 16. It includes a lot
> of new and updated Activities as well as improved support for booting
> on Apple intel based devices.
> 
> The latest release of Sugar includes improved functionality in the
> Joural including options to Duplicate entries and enhanced copy and
> exchange functionality. There is also improvements in the viewing and
> duplication of source code and in search. Full details can be found in
> the release notes [1] including changes that affect developers. The
> latest features of Fedora 16 (Verne) can be discovered in their
> release notes [2].
> 
> New Activities in this release include Ruler, Maze, Moon, Clock, Image
> Viewer, Jukebox, Typing Turtle and Visual Match
> 
> Improved and updated Activities include the usual candidates Write,
> Chat, Caclulate, Memorize, Physics, Pippy, Record, Surf, TurtleArt,
> Abacus, IRC and Speak.
> 
> More details about the SoaS project and how to get involved can be
> found on the Sugar on a Stick home page [3].
> 
> You can download the latest Sugar on a Stick at it's spin page below
> as usual. A few new options for getting SoaS are going to be available
> with this release. For the first time SoaS is going to be shipped on
> the Fedora Multi Spin DVD which means we'll be shipping on the front a
> number of computer magazines across Europe and likely elsewhere in the
> coming months. I am also working with On-Disk [4] to get SoaSv6 on
> their site very soon so that its available in a variety of live media
> formats to make it easier for interested pilots and end users, more
> details will be available about that soon.
> 
> Download: http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas
> 
> I'd like to thank all those who assisted in getting such a good
> release out the door including Kalpa who's joined the packaging team,
> Thomas with his tireless testing, Daniel for his assistance with
> NetworkManager porting and the entire upstream Fedora crew (who are
> too many to name!).
> 
> Regards,
> Peter
> 
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.94/Notes
> [2] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/index.html
> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
> [4] http://on-disk.com
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