User:Sdz/Summit Session Ideas

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