On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Russell Brown<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Please accept my apologies if this is the wrong list for this, and > please be kind enough to direct me to the correct one if you have the > time. > > I've been aware of OLPC for some time. It is only with the recent > Sugar On A Stick release that I have actually tried the Sugar platform > for myself. On its own it is brilliant, but with a Jabber server for > collaboration thrown in it is truly astounding. I often lament the use > of Windows and Office (!!!, can you believe it?) at schools. My son is > in primary school and he hates their ICT classes too. And when I hear > how much my local authority just spent on providing Vista and Office > to all High School children... > > I have been thinking of starting a computer club at my son's school > for some time and now, with Sugar On A Stick the barrier to entry is > suddenly miniscule. They Already have a bunch of PCs on a network... > > I have some Sugar instances and a patched Ejabberd server running in > VMs and the collab is awesome. I also have an Asus eeepc running SOAS > my kids love playing "memorze" against each other. And having robot > chat blows them away. > > So...I can see that what you have is the most amazing platform and > with the Ejabberd platform it is streets ahead of the alternatives... > > My question is: am I allowed to make money from this? I have a few > ideas including
In a word, "Yes." > 1) Computer course for kids in summer holidays...this would just be a > day or two, but I would want to charge > 2) Sell school server and SOAS devices to schools/clubs/whoever > > The 2nd is way ahead of what I can do right now, but the 1st is well > within reach I think for the next holidays. > > If I learn anything that can be used by the community I will gladly > contribute back. And if I make any money I will donate a portion of it > to the sugar program. I can see that collab is not perfect, for > instance, even on my local network it can take a while for a new > joiner to show up, and people sometimes vanish straight away, so there > must be stuff that I can do to help. > > > Sorry for the rather unfocussed and gushy introduction, the summary > is: wow what a platform, may I try and run a business using it? > > Thanks > > Russell > _______________________________________________ > 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
