Thanks Walter :-) Jeremy, the two links to pass onto your Sun contacts are http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/VirtualBox http://wiki.laptop.org/go/VirtualBox
After giving this a tryout, they can then directly work with Walter and the Wiki pages. If they get it working ... they could also publish and share the working images here, http://virtualboximages.com Regards Roland 2009/4/13 Walter Bender <[email protected]> > We are here to help if we can. > > -walter > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Roland Gesthuizen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a contact with Sun Microsystems, Jeremy Stagg who has expressed a > > keen interest to see if they can help organise somebody from Sun to see > if > > they can enable it on their terminal services environment for schools, > > perhaps also get it to run better within Virtual Box, their VM > environment. > > Joel and I had a brief look at this last year with Tony Forster at the > VITTA > > 2008 conference in Melbourne and I had a chance to walk through the idea > > with Jeremy. > > > > Regards Roland > > > > 2009/4/11 Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> > >> > >> I wanted to thank everyone and especially the Sugar on a Stick technical > >> team. This may not be too coherent I'm pretty tired but I wanted to > give > >> feedback. > >> > >> It worked on tons of different computers. Dave Bauer even got it > working > >> on the macs. There was one little HP that seemed not to work. A number > of > >> computers, including a new eepc couldn't get to the wireless. > >> > >> Everyone loved it! They were thrilled with Sugar and we had a room full > of > >> people playing with Turtle Art by the end of the session. People also > >> really got it. They got how having a stick gave the kids access to a > known > >> system at multiple locations. They got how valuable working on existing > >> computers would be for them. The lucky ones who were going to get 1-1 > >> netbook deployments want sugar for those too! > >> > >> Walter has pictures. We were the hit of the show. > >> > >> This is the result of so much hard work by so many people, on Sugar on a > >> Stick, on Sugar, and let us not forget all the geeks who came before us > who > >> made Linux and all the drivers work on all those machines. I don't know > if > >> these teachers really understood how many people worked to make this > >> possible, but what is important is how much they were able to see in a > short > >> time about what a difference it could make to their students. > >> > >> Thank you, > >> > >> Caroline > >> > >> -- > >> Caroline Meeks > >> Solution Grove > >> [email protected] > >> > >> 617-500-3488 - Office > >> 505-213-3268 - Fax > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > > > > -- > > Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College > > http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au > > > > "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can > change > > the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > -- Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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