Math4 History: Each member of our team contributed something about the history or the people of the Math4 Project to the wiki. Most of the information was gathered straight from Math4's wiki. It's a relatively new project so there isn't much history to really go over, and only a few main contributers are mentioned. The correspondence from the mailing list is a little more encouraging, and we receive pretty frequent updates, especially about ideas for contributing. I think ideally our group would be able to make our own Activity based on one of the yet-to-be-addressed curriculum goals on their site, but that could easily put us in over our heads, so it's probably better to try to contribute to an existing project (with easily-accessible and knowledgeable developers) first.
Presentations: All the other groups' presentations were interesting. I think our class is covering a wide variety of projects though the Flux Capacitors is most relevant to our own. Since we aren't focusing on Sugar Labs specifically, we didn't really look into its history, but the other team definitely gave us some good background information. We will also be addressing the same issues when installing the source code for the main Sugar Labs component so it might be a good idea for all of us to stay in touch during that process.
Other news: I successfully installed the Sugar Desktop Remix using Ubuntu 10.10 following simple instructions here, though the other SugarLabs team pointed out that a different installation method might be better for development purposes, but I guess we'll be finding out very soon. Installing specific Math4 Activities proved to be a bit more difficult since most do not have final releases. Most of the Activities seemed to be located in the git repositories, but I haven't had enough time to do a lot of the "diving in" that's so regularly encouraged.
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