* Brennan Holten <[email protected]> [090810 13:54]: > Dear all, > > I'm currently spending the summer teaching high school mathematics and > science in Kathmandu, Nepal. Thus far, I've found the computer education > here to be drastically substandard; so when I get back to the States, I'm > planning on donating some hardware for them to use with Skolelinux > installed.
do you have contact to the local OLPC people? When I remember right, at the moment there are arriving 6000 OLPC Computers in Nepal. Christoph Derndorfer is engaged in deploying them. @Christoph: What do you think? > > I was just curious if anyone else was working on getting Debian/Skolelinux > in schools in Nepal. For obvious reasons, I think it would be a great > blessing for them, as the only way most of them can afford computers is to > use pirated proprietary software -- and even then, the computer education > simply consists of learning to type in notepad. We have also the Linux4Afrika Projekt in Germany, an NGO which collects Hardware and brings them to schools in Africa. I will inform them, perhaps we could join forces. > Kind regards, > Brennan Holten > Our plans are, to have the OLPC Software running on Skolelinux too. Jonas is packaging sugar to have all as debian-package. So if you need some help, do not hesitate to ask for. Regards/AmicaLinuxement/Saludos/Viele Gruesse! Kurt Gramlich Projektleitung skolelinux.de -- [email protected] GnuPG Key ID 0xE263FCD4 http://www.skolelinux.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
