Hi there, This may seem like a bit of a premature email, but it comes in reference to questions I was asked at the guadalinex offices about adding Sugar to their distribution. They mentioned there is a lot of freedom as to what content and activitities/applications can be put into the distro, but not so much freedom when it comes to marketing, naming, base foundations, etc. Thats a shame because the name guadalinex really sucks :p but its great because they are genuinenly interested in running sugar activities in guadalinex. I explained that with the move to metacity this would be a possibility in the not too distant future (I hope I did not speak out of tone.) There is also the very strong likeleyhood that they would use LTSP and iTalc as a method of distribution and control. The team I saw was MUCH bigger than I expected (a good 300 people working behind computers) and the interview process was highly formal, modern and professional. It even included a type of psych evaluation, although many of the questions were related to my experience in the field (logical) and what kind of tech we should be iImplementing today, so that in 5 years time we would be in the right playing field. They asked where I saw the distro and linux for education being in 5 years, which is an amazingly difficult question to answer. In fact, I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on that one... They also wondered how it was possible that I would take such a job for so little money, so I guess its not totally obvious to many people that tech in education is actually a lot of fun and worth being paid less for, than doing some boring sysadmin job that really does nothing more than fill the pockets of the company being worked for. Anyway, I really hope I get a positive answer soon, and when I do, the job they want me to take there is a kind of linux ambassador... that is to say, someone who connects up with the necesary folk and finds out whats happening and whats worth implementing in the land of education and linux... One thing is relatively sure... Sugar will be running on these roughly 1 million computers in one form or another.,.,., So the playing field just got a whole lot bigger... in fact, it would mean the xo would suddenly be a minority... lol For general information, though this is not very known, in sheer numbers, they are the biggest edu linux initiative in the world, and have been around for 6 years now. They seem to have bypassed many hurdles other such initiatives had and they say their schools are generally very happy. But, like all projects, they lack content...
kind regards, David (nubae) Van Assche _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
