On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:51, Bastien<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > Christoph Derndorfer <[email protected]> writes: > >> I was wondering whether anyone happens to know of any OLPC / Sugar >> community activity happening in China? > > I was in China last month and I did a presentation about Sugar (and > other stuff) to the Beijing Linux User Group: > > http://www.slideshare.net/bzg/the-ict-for-education-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet > > There I met people working on the Gdium, mainly trying to use it as a > tool for education in remote areas. They are not using Sugar, they are > using mandriva and a selected set of educational applications, but they > are interested in trying Sugar. OLPC France plans to continue to work > on the Sugar-for-Gdium issue, and perhaps they'll try Sugar in remote > chinese areas one day. > > I also met people from the Beijing Normal University, a university to > train teachers' trainers. I presented Sugar to them, and they were very > interested. I gave them 2 USB keys with Soas v1, I hope this will start > a discussion and maybe some deeper testing in some primary schools. BNU > is also running a nice community here: http://sociallearnlab.org, this > can be a place where to let teachers know about Sugar. > >> Doing a quick Google search revealed that a small deployment by >> OLPC.Asia was recently started in Sichuan >> (http://www.olpc.asia/en/2009/06/first-olpc-deployment-in-sichuan-china.html) >> but other than that I'm not really aware of any activities in the country. > > I didn't know about this, but I will forward this to the people I know > in China, thanks! > >> Any pointers and help are much appreciated!
Awesome news! SJ, can we have the OLPC Asia blog in the planet? http://www.olpc.asia/en/atom.xml Thanks all, Tomeu > HTH, > > -- > Bastien > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
