soas

Hi NZ volunteers

If you are looking for something to test this week, how about testing Mirabelle. This is a good opportunity to test Sugar on hardware other than the XO which helps get Sugar into the hands of more children. :-)

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mirabelle

Thanks
Tabitha

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Walter Bender
Date: 26 May 2010 11:00

9. Mirabelle has landed. The Fedora Sugar-on-a-Stick (SoaS) team,
which includes Sebastian Dziallas, Peter Robinson, and Mel Chua, has
released a new version based on Fedora 13 and Sugar 0.88. The goal of
this release was to integrate SoaS more completely into the Fedora
"Spin" process, provide a structure for longer-term maintenance and
stability. While there are only ten Sugar activities bundled with
Mirabelle, Tom Gilliard has put together a collection of activities
that can be loaded onto a separate USB key from which they can be
installed locally. For information about further customizations,
please contact the SoaS team at soas AT sugarlabs.org.

Hi NZ testers

Just letting everyone know that we went to Auckland Linux User Group "install fest" today and showed off the XOs. I had some of them have a go at SoaS with some USB keys I took along, that was a great start and a few have downloaded Sugar for themselves while we were there. We had one SoaS fail - a Dell Inspiron 1270 I think it was called - but the other computers all were successful in running SoaS and starting some activities. We didn't go through full testing for wifi, camera and mic, etc but did test sound worked and a few activities started. This has a few interested in joining olpc testing group up here so good news. Again we are getting questions about buying XOs and I am considering taking orders this year to get 100 more in the country.

:-)

Sugar Labs has released Sugar on a Stick v2 Blueberry - the platform agnostic version of the Sugar Learning Platform.

Sugar is the educational software used on One Laptop PEer Child XO laptops. It's an entire operating system, and there are zillions of educational activities for Sugar.

"Sugar On a Stick" is the same educational environment, bundled up onto a bootable USB memory stick. Simply plug in the "Sugar on a Stick" to almost any PC's usb port, and reboot. Children's files and lesson progress is saved to the same usb memory stick so it's all kept for next time, and the USB memory stick can be used at home and at school.

This latest version of Sugar offers simpler navigation, improved wireless networking, streamlined updating of Activities for children, easier keyboard configuration, better Gnash support for Adobe Flash content, and more. New Activities such as Physics and OOo4Kids join updated favorites such as Browse and Read, suitable for reading e-books.

So what are you waiting for? Download Sugar today!

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry