Learn1: How do Ethan's principals apply to my project: Sugar on a Stick

Comment by Joanna Chaplin on March 6, 2010 at 2:46am

I was thinking about your project. Most people so far have posted projects that have inspired them that they are not actively involved with. You were one of the first I've seen to post one that you're working on. So if you don't mind, what's the scope of the project now? What are the challenges and needs now (besides donations, I think everybody needs funding)? How do you want to grow the project over the next 5 years? What hurdles need to be jumped to achieve that growth? Please help me break this down into some concrete needs, and perhaps we can find someone here who has the knowledge or skills to help.

Comment by Caroline Meeks on March 6, 2010 at 4:18am

Hi Joanna,

I am part of a team working on Sugar and OLPC. My focus is on portable Sugar, Sugar on a Stick, but that is just one part of the full vision.

For Sugar on a Stick, what we need is Geeks! We need help with Virtual Box on the Mac, we need help porting to Ubuntu and doing packaging. We need help with the Moodle -Sugar integration. None of these words may even make sense if your not a major geek with the right specialty.

But once we get a few of these bugs squashed I think we will be set to expand rapidly, we'll need teacher and geeks to partners with them. We will need people to run programs at libraries, to collect used computers and refurbish them and give them out. We will need lesson plans, organization of lesson plans, testing, testing and more testing. :)

Comment by John Tsangaris on March 6, 2010 at 1:34pm

Hi, Caroline. I'm still reading up on the Sugar Labs stuff, but it looks great!. I don't have a Mac to help with Virtual Box, but I run Ubuntu at work under Virtual Box and at home as a server. I was also playing with moodle a couple years ago when I was researching educational delivery systems for cops.

I can try to help on a small project at this time. Where do you need me?

Comment by Joanna Chaplin on March 6, 2010 at 3:02pm

So I'm a biologist, but I went to school and was in a club with a wh*** pile of computer scientists. I'll get on the horn and see if there's anyone willing to help.

Comment by Caroline Meeks on March 6, 2010 at 3:22pm

Thanks guys!

This week's need is Ubuntu Packaging, which is somewhat specialized.

But in the next year we need geeks of all flavors to team up local teachers, after school teachers, librarians, summer camps etc. and help them use this tool.

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