Tomeu - yes, thanks for the reminder. olpc asia is starting to publish their posts in both English and Chinese, and just relaunched their site; people who haven't are encouraged to give it a read.
SJ On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:51, Bastien<bastiengue...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Hi Christoph, >> >> Christoph Derndorfer <e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at> writes: >> >>> I was wondering whether anyone happens to know of any OLPC / Sugar >>> community activity happening in China? >> >> I was in China last month and I did a presentation about Sugar (and >> other stuff) to the Beijing Linux User Group: >> >> http://www.slideshare.net/bzg/the-ict-for-education-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet >> >> There I met people working on the Gdium, mainly trying to use it as a >> tool for education in remote areas. They are not using Sugar, they are >> using mandriva and a selected set of educational applications, but they >> are interested in trying Sugar. OLPC France plans to continue to work >> on the Sugar-for-Gdium issue, and perhaps they'll try Sugar in remote >> chinese areas one day. >> >> I also met people from the Beijing Normal University, a university to >> train teachers' trainers. I presented Sugar to them, and they were very >> interested. I gave them 2 USB keys with Soas v1, I hope this will start >> a discussion and maybe some deeper testing in some primary schools. BNU >> is also running a nice community here: http://sociallearnlab.org, this >> can be a place where to let teachers know about Sugar. >> >>> Doing a quick Google search revealed that a small deployment by >>> OLPC.Asia was recently started in Sichuan >>> (http://www.olpc.asia/en/2009/06/first-olpc-deployment-in-sichuan-china.html) >>> but other than that I'm not really aware of any activities in the country. >> >> I didn't know about this, but I will forward this to the people I know >> in China, thanks! >> >>> Any pointers and help are much appreciated! > > Awesome news! > > SJ, can we have the OLPC Asia blog in the planet? > > http://www.olpc.asia/en/atom.xml > > Thanks all, > > Tomeu > >> HTH, >> >> -- >> Bastien >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep