On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Bert is probably correct and has been to SCaLE so he knows what he is > talking about. The folks there are really rabid open source advocates, so > much so that you can't even do a presentation in Powerpoint or Keynote. It > has to be in Open Office or a pdf file.
Not an Etoys or Turtle Art project??? (/me hasn't used Open Office for a presentation since befoe LCA in 2009 > > However, according to the Android web site, it is an open source platform > http://source.android.com/index.html and, as such should be of interest to > folks at SCaLE. And, no matter what, I expect there will be questions about > the new XO-3 tablets. So... FWIW, this is not the XO-3. That project is abandoned. This is the XO Learning Tablet :) > > What I will probably need to know are things like: > * How will the profits from the use of the OLPC and XO names be used? > * Are there any plans to port Sugar Apps to Android? There are some in the works. > * Will the new tablets also work on hand cranks and solar panels? Not the ones shown at CES. > * Etc. > > I'm sure you all can use your imagination to come up with more. Well... we > have 6 weeks to find answers. I think the second question is probably the > most important. SCaLE will have hundreds of developers who love to > "develop." This is a perfect place to recruit more hands and minds to an > effort to do just that. It would be great if some of the folks on SLOBS > would chime in if they think this (maybe call it SOAS for Android) is a > viable idea that should be pursued. > > Having an XO-3 tablet in our booth would probably be a very bad idea. In > fact, other than answering questions and recruiting volunteer developers, we > probably shouldn't mention the tablet at all. Our booth will be provided > free of any charge to us for the 5th straight year. They have always given > us a great spot and provided free registrations for all of the volunteers > who come to run the booth. We should want to keep it that way. We don't sell > anything! We only inform and recruit. > > However, having a working touch screen XO-4 there would really be a plus! We > always set up a "hands on" area that has been very popular, with adults as > much as children. Bert has offered his office-mate's early model if we can't > come up with another. But, having the (as Adam always says) "the latest and > greatest" model would be so much better. > > I can bring the solar panel I bought at the SF Summit. so if it is sunny we > could even take it outside to demonstrate. I also can bring an hand crank > for folks to try. So, if any of you have one that you can lend for SCaLE Feb > 22-24 or, better still, bring to SCaLE it would be perfect! We will put you > on the volunteer list and your registration will be covered. It is a fun > event. > > If you have answers to the three listed above... send them on. If you have > other questions you think folks will be asking, send those too... whether > you have an answer or not. Someone else may have the answer! > > Thanks! > Caryl > > >> From: [email protected] >> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:53:11 -0800 >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [support-gang] XO-4 Questions After Viewing CES video >> >> On 10.01.2013, at 23:26, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I know I will be flooded with questions at SCaLE 11X in just 6 weeks. I >> > would rush right out to Wally-mart tomorrow and get one if I could so I >> > would be prepared! >> >> Well, Android isn't even mentioned on the SCaLE page: >> https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/cfp It is a Linux Expo, after all, but "XO >> Learning" appears to not be Open Source licensed, and they have not reached >> out to our community yet. >> >> The only official information from OLPC so far seems to be the two press >> releases (http://blog.laptop.org/). In there it states "XO Learning will be >> offered through licensing agreements to tablet manufacturers, governments, >> book publishers, and international distributors". >> >> I wish them luck with that (it certainly sounds better than just giving >> kids a generic Android tablet), I'm just saying that SCaLE might not be the >> right place to promote it. >> >> - Bert - > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> support-gang mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang > > _______________________________________________ > 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
