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

Mon Nov 14 13:11:46 EST 2011

I can send some people from UCSB at least one of the days

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Kenneth Wyrick <kmw at caltek.net> wrote:

> I have not asked to have a booth this year, yet and I'm thinking of
> submitting to give a presentation on School2.0 http://etoolkit.org
> but
> if it works for you, instead of having my own booth i could help at the
> OLPC booth. at least i could potentially leave to attend some of the OSSIE
> especially if my presentation is selected. i didn't go to much of
> anything, last year because i was talking to people in the booth all the
> time.
>
> also, how can i get pineapple on the XO's? i downloaded the .img file from
> http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/883/
> which i think i found on
> http://distrowatch.org
> But I did not know how to create the .zip file.
>
> Oh!  I just saw the:
> http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/883/os883.img.fs.zip
>
> I'll try using it with the corresponding:
> http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/883/os883.img
>
> the other thing i'm most interested in is learning how to deploy is the
> OLPC server and then get it running in a virtual server. that's something
> i'd like to do at the scale11 olpc booth.
>
> 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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