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Fedora Sugar Session
General point to make
This is the power of community and The Open Source Way. How much time/effort/resources would it have taken to get to this level of deployability for a radical software experiment under *your* (big company's) current IT paradigm?
Outline
- history: Greg DeK started the effort to get Sugar into Fedora (ref: OLPC relationship)
- Sugar got into Fedora, became accessible for people not having XOs
- about a year ago, I started maintaining Sugar on a Stick, based on Fedora
- started talking to folks at conference, got involved quickly
- {work description goes here}
- Sugar became actually deployable
- successful v1 launch in June {press coverages go here}
- same for v2 launch in December
- more examples; successful deployments (Berlin & Boston)
- is now even available on RHEL, the enterprise solution
- you can have Sugar on your rock-solid systems
- all of this happened in one year, pushed by an 18 year old high school student who was 16 at that time
- what projects do you have that you'd like to test and make more deployable?
- evaluate on the power of remixing, of different targets
- skills I had to learn in order to get this to happen (and how to learn them)
- packaging
- build system
- spins process
- feature process (roadmaps & stuff)
- how to engage with the community (culture of asking for feedback, accepting patches, etc)
- bug reporting and issue tracking
- version control
- wiki
- documentation
- IRC