On Fri, June 10, 2011 8:24 pm, Simón Ruiz wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Clifford Garwood <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sheesh Simon,
>>
>> What are you doing in China?
>
> Teacher cultural exchange program, through my work. We visited an
> international school in Hangzhou, and had a home stay experience. The
> rest of the trip is going to feel more like a tour group experience.
>
> Simón in Yangshuo

There is a huge amount of Free Software activity in China. The government
bought Linux computers for every government employee that uses computers
several years ago. China has its own Linux distribution, Red Flag, and is
working on a joint distro with Korea and Japan to provide seamless support
for all three languages. (They each use Chinese characters as part of
their writing system.) A project that is still small, OLPC-China, has the
eventual aim of getting OLPC XOs, Sugar education software, and free
digital textbook replacements to about 150 million children at a time. I'm
writing some of the materials, and recruiting translators.
-- 
Edward Mokurai
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&#1580;) 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


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