Sounds great... -walter
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Werner Westermann<[email protected]> wrote: > To David Farning, best regards from Santiago, Chile. > > I'd like to officially nominate Chile as a Local Lab: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs_Chile > > We, Educalibre (http://www.educalibre.cl), were hoping to be ready as a > formalized NGO, but the process will not end before 2 or 3 months (it > started August 2008). It woud be best to sign the MOU once we are > formalized completely. > > But things are starting to work out with Sugar in Chile. We are starting a > pilot in Punta Arenas, where the Sugar on a Stick will be running over > Classmate 1, and another pilot is on it's way in Huechuraba County, outside > of Santiago. We have the support of interesting allies such as initiatives > related to school innovation through ICTs, universities (inlcuiding a > educational university), Intel (who's shown great interest and commitment). > This year, Classmate 1 Mobile Labs (on a cart) were distrubuted to public > schools oriented to 3rd graders, and SoaS+Classmate is seen as a great > alternative. We are also have close contact with Sugar Labs Colombia, who > are also starting to roll out pilots, and we've commited to share and build > collaborately (we are starting to design a course oriented to teacher > profesiona development, and have a basic Sugar course and agenda as well). > > All of the above has pushed to finaly run Sugar Labs Chile. Hope to hear > from you soon, > > werner > _______________________________________________ > 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
