NA Fedora Developer XO Program
For a variety of reasons Fedora (and specifically the Ambassadors) is running the NA Developer XO program now.
Want an XO? Here is how you qualify:
Package and maintain a sugar-* package for 2 releases or more
To get involved the Fedora-OLPC SIG is where you want to start. They hang out and have meetings in #fedora-olpc on irc.freenode.org. Ask for help there to get started. I will note that there are some substantial deadlines due to the desire to get stock F11 working for the next OLPC release.
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Build a Sugar activity that helps meet the ‘holy list of 4th grade maths‘
While we aren’t trying to say that any $sugaractivity isn’t cool, we’ve decided to focus on the 4th Grade Math curriculum because once assembled it should bring dramatic value to Sugar and thus to OLPC both of which of course benefits Fedora as well. The goal for assembling a 4th grade math curriculum is August 1, so we have just under 6 months.
If you want to get started with this #sugar on irc.freenode.org is the place to start as well as SugarLabs.
Regardless of which avenue you want to take, if you find you need help, please don’t hesitate to contact me, I am on irc.freenode.org as ke4qqq and hang out in #fedora-olpc quite a bit of the time. You can also fire an email off to me at david.nalley@fedoraproject.org
Since OLPC kindly provided ~75 XOs for QA purposes back in November we really aren’t seeking to put any of these to use for QA since we hope to leverage the people who already have some experience there and an XO in hand, though for a really compelling QA arguement (you have lots of QA experience, know Linux very well and have XX hours a week to dedicate to it, we might make an exception)
More info here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_developers_XO_program
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February 23rd, 2009 at 11:07 pm
[...] part of David’s campaign to have open source developers work on suiting up the XO-1 for classroom use, I took an XO-1 under [...]
May 1st, 2009 at 3:56 pm
[...] bunch of OLPCs to hand out to interested developers. To find out more and how to get involved, see here. Plus we discuss how the OLPC can help you get a [...]
May 7th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
[...] Do you want a free OLPC? Help develop a 4th grade math curriculum app for the OLPC. David got a boat load of OLPCs to hand out to interested developers. To find out more and how to get involved, see here. [...]
May 7th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
very nice of the great work…..I am interested to get a free laptop please do me the favor..thank you