Sugar Labs

[Morgan Collett]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 21:55, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:28 +0100, Jono Bacon wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 15:50 -0500, David Farning wrote:
>> > Hey Jono,
>> >
>
>> > I have found a few people who are interested in working on Sugar on
>> > Ubuntu so I thought it was time to start a LaunchPad and Wiki presence.
>>
>> Sounds good. :)
>>
> I have cc:ed the our mailing list so people can introduce themselves.
>
> Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam
> Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam
>
> Morgan collett https://launchpad.net/~morgan is handling the team admin.

Hi Jono!

I'm herding cats here, as well as being one of the upstream developers.

We'll announce more publicly as soon as we have something to show in
universe - then we'll want people to start banging on it and
contributing :)

> The team's key efforts are:
> 1.  Bring uptodate sugar packages into the ubuntu distro.
> 2.  Establish relationship with debian to ease the effort of syncing
> from upstream.
> 3.  Consolidate the various sugar related efforts the have started over
> the past couple of months into the sugarteam.
>
>> > I am working entirely from a _community_ perspective.  So, please let me
>> > know if I am stepping on any toes between OLPC and Canonical.
>>
>> Sounds fine to me. :)
>
> I have shifted my emphasis to raising the awareness level of Sugar to
> the various educational spins that are orbiting Ubuntu and Fedora.
>
> I will be speaking at a few education conferences this fall.  Hopefully
> we can leverage the 450,000+ XO user base into launch point for
> Edubuntu;)
>
>
>>       Jono
> thanks
> Dfarning

Regards
Morgan