Sugar on a Stick - Activities

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Sugar on a Stick - Activities Thu, Jun 17. 2010


Sugar on a Stick is a project which aims to create a live learning environment on a USB stick. This environment is a Fedora spin hosting the Sugar environment (the learning software original created as part of the OLPC project).

In previous versions of SoaS, the activities were not thoroughly screened before inclusion in the Spin, and so the SoaS Activity Criteria were introduced. I've been working with some other POSSE RIT participants to try and get three activities - Abacus, Maze, and Memorize - to the point of meeting the criteria. It's been a frustrating experience, but we've made some progress:

  • Abacus
    • Performed a package review (not passed, but close) of Peter Robinson's sugar-abacus package in Fedora
    • Created a basic page for recording smoke test results
  • Maze
    • Filed a bug against the sugar-maze package in Fedora (apparently missing an essential .py file)
  • Memorize
    • This activity meets most of the criteria, but we weren't able to save to the journal (know issue) and could not confirm that collaboration works (might have been our Sugar configuration or networking)
It's apparent that the Sugar project needs more contributions, including wiki gardening, testing, and documentation -- all of which are areas in which new contributors can become quickly involved.
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