[ubuntu-za] XO MOD groups needed on Ubuntu Forum and Wiki

[David Robert Lewis]

Dear Forum, Ubuntu, Clug, Lug, OLPC, XO-Booters,

I am writing this as a proposal to save the Sugar XO desktop 
platform/environment within Ubuntu (and my home gnome). Heard that sugar 
was getting dumped in favour of some-other Tux flava and my Gnome is 
like seriously upset, lwhat did it think, I was going to stick to one 
desktop, ignore KDE and all the rest? Once the rabbit is out of the 
habit, is there any way of turning back, I forgot where I was and now 
the evolutionary process?

All I am suggesting (see http://indlovu.wordpress.com) is that the XO 
project is interesting enough to actually develop 
applications/packages/uses. I can't see myself coming up with anything 
of any interest to any of you in Gnome, except of course for the Ubuwiki 
"Data-Mp3" see http://ubuwiki.sourceforge.com which is slowly but surely 
evolving and needs some young minds to tackle the meta-programme goals 
---- assemble wikispaces of well-known distro's and port them to a 
format that can be carried around in ones pocket - offline.

Okay, so here is the XO Sugar thing - I demand a kickass Music Playa and 
Video-editing suite that will allow everybody, especially global teens 
to whiteboard and mashup in realtime, guess the games will pop in one of 
the activities, let's seperate the game playa from the audio and video 
tools, in an entire XO layer or compartment in which you can code 
without interferences or the need to remember anything.

To be able to lock-off spaces or x-zones would be amazing. Imagine this 
you key in your password and boom, the box is an entertainment tool away 
from school. During school, pack your play things away where they can't 
disturb your neighbours. This is pedagologically correct, and why XO 
computing needs some attention, away from the potential clutter of gnome 
once you start wrapping up libraries.

Found a wonderful Deblib tool that will pack 32 bit for 64. Wish I could 
blueprint, or etch my daily work to a clean slab of silicon and be done 
with the anxiety of backups or not actually having a means of backing 
the machine up. Where is the undo? I've gone and destroyed gnome trying 
to upgrade my system. Details later when I get down to it. So this isn't 
even my own ubuntu that I am writing from and I sound like a total noob.

(partial upgrade failed to download, session locked down, gnome refusing 
to budge on policy issues, demands real attention I don't have time 
right now, so this project locked down I guess)