> but it's all in the Wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/
Maybe not all. I'd recommend you check out http://sugarlabs.org as well, as the key is the software, since the hardware is presumably the Classmate PC in this case. -walter On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Eduardo H. Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Eduardo. > l >> 2008/10/7 Paulo Trezentos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Hi everyone. >>> >>> My name is Paulo Trezentos. >>> I'm technical director of Caixa Mágica. > > Bemvenido! > > (Well, that's nearly it for my Portuguese, except for some old Bossa > Nova songs. Sorry.) > >>> Can you please give me more information about yourselves and the idea? > > I don't know how much background information you have, but it's all in > the Wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/ if you need more than I have room to > tell you about. Some people find my video on Expanding the Vision of > OLPC helpful. You can get to it from my page, > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mokurai. > > We are out to save the world through education on computers, leading > to the end of poverty and some other consequences of general interest. > Peru and Uruguay have ordered OLPC XO laptops for all of their > schooldchildren, and we have smaller deployments and trials in dozens > of other countries. See, for example, > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:OLPC_Brazil. Our Sugar software for > Linux is being localized into both português and português do Brasil, > along with 80 or so other languages. > > Venezuela has ordered a million laptops for schoolchildren, using your > Caixa Mágica Linux. We would like to put our Sugar education software > on CM and thus on those laptops. We have RPMs of many of our > Activities that were developed for Fedora Linux, and we have started a > discussion with Mandriva about getting those RPMs into their > distribution. So everything is lined up, and now we want to talk with > you about getting our packages into your distribution, and get our > volunteers and staff working with your volunteers and staff. > > You should get acquainted with Walter Bender, head of Sugar Labs, and > also David Farning; Jim Gettys, Scott Ananian, S. J. Klein, and others > in software at OLPC; Ivan Krstić, our security maven; and others whom > they can introduce you to. > > What else do you need to know? > -- > Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज ) is my name > And children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, > The Truth my destination. > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
