[Sugar-devel] Sugar as desktop os

2009-07-10 Thread Philippe Clérié
I am looking into implenting sugar for a Montessori school. The current plan is to start with 10 to 20 (depending on budget) computers for a group of about 100 students from 6 to 13, and usage would be on a rotating basis by groups. At this stage, there is no plan to supply each child with a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar as desktop os

2009-07-10 Thread Dave Bauer
2009/7/10 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net: I am looking into implenting sugar for a Montessori school. The current plan is to start with 10 to 20 (depending on budget) computers for a group of about 100 students from 6 to 13, and usage would be on a rotating basis by groups. At this stage,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar as desktop os

2009-07-10 Thread Luke Faraone
2009/7/10 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net Specifically, is it possible and how difficult would it be to have share use of a computer with Sugar as the only desktop OS? Trivial, if you use fedora as Dave said. You can create an account for each user and have them log in using GDM or another

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar as desktop os

2009-07-10 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 07/10/2009 07:09 PM, Philippe Clérié wrote: I am looking into implenting sugar for a Montessori school. The current plan is to start with 10 to 20 (depending on budget) computers for a group of about 100 students from 6 to 13, and usage would be on a rotating basis by groups. At this

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar as desktop os

2009-07-10 Thread Edward Cherlin
2009/7/10 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net: I am looking into implenting sugar for a Montessori school. Maria would be so pleased. +1 Where is your school? Is there a Sugar/XO user group nearby? The current plan is to start with 10 to 20 (depending on budget) computers for a group of about

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar as desktop os

2009-07-10 Thread Philippe Clérié
We're located in Haiti. Sorry I left that off. And before anyone asks :-) we're not part of the pilot that was scheduled to begin in Haiti last year. I briefly worked with them. As far as I can tell, after the last cabinet shuffle, the project has gone dormant. Officially, I don't know why.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar as desktop os

2009-07-10 Thread Bastien
Hi Philippe, Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net writes: We're located in Haiti. Sorry I left that off. And before anyone asks :-) we're not part of the pilot that was scheduled to begin in Haiti last year. I briefly worked with them. As far as I can tell, after the last cabinet shuffle,