On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Frederick Grose<fgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forwarding to the community... > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: William Schaub > Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM > Subject: An interesting project I stumbled across > To: Frederick Grose <fgr...@gmail.com> > > > This looks like something that is right up the alley of the OLPC groups and > sugar labs etc. > > http://www.wizzydigital.org/index.html > > using UUCP and memory sticks and couriers they are able to connect schools > to the internet in areas where there is ZERO connectivity. > ... > However this whizzy digital courrier could be VERY successfully used on a > classroom server or a specially outfitted XO laptop with some extra storage > via an added USB storage device. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
+1 Some similar approaches: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sneakernet and http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Motoman Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list Olpc-open@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
