Huayruro GNU/Linux

Huayruro is an effort to curate and localize a specialized SugarBlend tailored mainly for deployment within the rural south-american public school context.

Huayruro is a volunteer driven project, started by request of DIGETE / Ministry of Education of Peru, to provide a suitable operating system for deployment in ODATIC Project's laptops.

While ODATIC project itself has been de-prioratized by the Ministry of Education of Peru, the need for Huayruro remains as computers continue to reach children in remote locations.

Peru's prior investment in Sugar (in the form of teacher training and use for years), makes it certain that Huayruro will be both welcomed and used in schools around the country.

Technical Details / Development Objectives

Should be done «upstream» (with narrow exceptions such as branding)
To focus on localization and curation of user experience
To include Sugar 0.106
To include XFCE
To offer consistent interface across both desktops
To target regular Classmate-class education netbooks
Based in Debian 8 «Jessie»
To include experimental School Network

Sugar Activities Wish List

This is a list of Activities that are relevant to Peruvian users

Fructose

Chat
Browse
Read
Calculate
Write
Terminal
Etoys
Image Viewer
Jukebox
Turtle Art

Honey

Record
Memorize
Speak
Labyrinth
Paint
Implode
Measure
Jigsaw Puzzle
Sudoku
I Can Read
Conozco America
ServidorVNC
Simple Graph
Turtle Bots (TA Robotics Plugins)
Tam Tam Mini
Wikipedia Spanish Activity
Peru Learns English

XFCE Desktop functionality wishlist

l10n-es where applicable (Iceweasel, LibreOffice)
LibreOffice Writer,Calc,Impress
system-config-printer
pdf viewer (atril? evince?)
image viewer (eog? eom? ristretto?)
compressed file manager (file-roller? engrampa?)
media player (parole? quod-libet?)

Desktop Tweaks

XFCE Panel:

avoid annoying "start with blank panel" question
battery monitor (add to default panel)
whisker menu (add to default panel)
gdebi package installer

XFCE Desktop:

background / theme

Other:

lightdm greeter w/user icons

Hardware-specific

Deployment will involve use of Intel Classmate PC "?MarblePoint", with a few unigue issues:

Elantech touchpad freezes (requiring cold boot) if touch with two fingers (official linux-image-4.0.0-2-amd64 not adequate)
- https://github.com/HuayraLinux/elantech-marble-dkms
  - auto-recovers most freezes after 1-2 seconds
  - seems to be some ps2 driver including patched elantech.c from HEAD of Linux 3.13, hardcoding some custom routines (i.e. likely not working with other Elantech devices and lacking recent improvements for other PS/2 devices)
Wireless NIC Realtek 8723be requires unofficial driver + firmware (non-free realtek-firmware not adequate)
- https://github.com/HuayraLinux/rtl-8723-dkms

Collaboration Tools

Chat: Huayruro is discussed on IRC at #sugar or #somosazucar on Freenode.
Tracking system: http://tareas.somosazucar.org/huayruro/
Local Wiki: Documentation in Spanish at http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ir/Huayruro
Mailing list: Probably the pkg-sugar mailing list is a good place to discuss Huayruro

Project Collaborators

Debian SugarTeam
Sugar Labs Platform Team
Somos Azucar R&D Team

References / Inspiration

Huayruro is a seed which is believed by villagers to have magical properties. Children and infants wear for instance necklaces or wristbands which are given to them by their elders, to protect theirs spirits, their freedom, and their prosperity.

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