On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Lynn Bender<[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings from Austin! > > I've been following the work at sugarlabs and have been meaning to contact > you guys. I am going to be swamped until the first install fest is over this > Saturday, but I will be sending you a followup email soon after.
Thanks. Please just remember to keep any functioning computers without hard drives until we can discuss Sugar on a Stick. > -- > -Lynn Bender > http://linuxagainstpoverty.org > http://geekaustin.org > http://twitter.com/linearb > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<[email protected]> wrote: >> > Wouldn't be cool to have Sugar installed as well on these computers? >> > >> > http://linuxagainstpoverty.org/ >> >> Indeed. At some point we will be able to talk to installfests about >> creating school servers, too. >> >> I don't see anything on the page about what distribution they are >> installing, but perhaps Lynn Bender (copied on this message) can tell >> us. If it's one of the distros at >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Supported_systems other than Ubuntu >> Jaunty, we can talk about how to do that with packages. Presumably >> somebody could fix the Sugar packages for Jaunty, too. >> >> A point that we need to make is that a $5-10 USB stick with Sugar on a >> Stick education software will make discarded computers without hard >> drives viable for elementary school education. Every installfest I >> have worked with has had a significant number of these left over at >> the end. It would make sense to have one at school and one at home for >> the littlest children, so they would only have to carry the stick on a >> lanyard back and forth. >> >> There should be a fair number of small-capacity sticks available at no >> cost to installfests. SoaS downloads run under 400 M. >> >> > Regards, >> > >> > Tomeu >> > _______________________________________________ >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name >> And Children are my nation. >> The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. >> http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) > > > > -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
