On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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.
Sorry. I only meant that the OLPC mission and deployments are in the OLPC Wiki. But I should have given both URLs anyway. > -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 > -- Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams fivethirtyeight.com, 3bluedudes.com Obama still moving ahead in EC! http://www.obamapedia.org/ Join us! http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
