To sweeten the pot, I'm offering a delicious stone soup for anyone who those who pitch in on the port. You need only supply a few extra ingredients. --scott On May 21, 2011 10:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI. Anybody who would like to port Sugar to a $25 computer (requiring > only monitor, mouse, and keyboard) should contact Eben, and let us > know too. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, May 21, 2011 at 22:10 > Subject: Re: [Sur] linux system por $25 > To: Eben Upton <[email protected]> > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:22, Eben Upton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Edward >> Thanks for your mail, and apologies for the delay in replying. The >> devices should be available to the general public later in the year; >> I'll add you to our mailing list, and will keep you posted as we get >> closer to launch. > > Thank you. > >> We've heard of Sugar, but need to find out more about it. Do you think >> it's suitable for a machine with limited processing power and only >> 256MB of RAM? > > That's what it was designed for. > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specifications > AMD Geode 433 Mhz processor > 256M RAM > Fedora Linux > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Getting_Started > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities > >> Cheers >> Eben Upton >> Director, Raspberry Pi Foundation >> >> Follow us @Raspberry_Pi on Twitter >> >> >> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Your Web site asks >>> >>>> Do you have open-source educational software we can use? >>> >>> The answer is Yes. Sugar education software runs on a variety of Linux >>> distributions, including Ubuntu. It is currently in the hands of more >>> than 2 million children. >>> >>>> We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost > computer, >>>> for use in teaching computer programming to children. >>> >>> Sugar includes Python and Smalltalk (Etoys). One Laptop Per Child XO >>> computers also run Open Firmware, written in FORTH, and including the >>> complete FORTH development library, the editor, and an assembler. OFW >>> is available for systems based on ARM processors. >>> >>> The Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks project, which I started recently, >>> will include a variety of materials for teaching programming and >>> Computer Science, and for applying those languages to every school >>> subject. We have compiled a list of successful projects for teaching >>> programming in the elementary grades, including projects using Python, >>> Smalltalk, Logo, LISP, BASIC, and APL. >>> >>> The real question is one that Seymour Papert asked in 1970: Can we >>> design an environment in which children learn math and programming >>> languages as readily as they learn human languages, largely from each >>> other? Some of us think so, and we are working on it. >>> >>> I will be happy to answer further questions, or to direct you to those >>> who know more about some aspects of Sugar than I. >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Sean DALY <[email protected]> >>> Date: Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:28 >>> Subject: Re: [Sur] linux system por $25 >>> To: "OLPC para usuarios, docentes, voluntarios y administradores" >>> <[email protected]> >>> Cc: Gleducar <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2011-May/003273.html >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Ajoy <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> linux system por $25 >>>> >>>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/ > > -- > Edward Mokurai > (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر > ج) Cherlin > Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
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