Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Eduardo H. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Eduardo. l 2008/10/7 Paulo Trezentos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everyone. My name is Paulo Trezentos. I'm technical director of Caixa Mágica. Bemvenido! (Well, that's nearly it for my Portuguese, except for some old Bossa Nova songs. Sorry.) Can you please give me more information about yourselves and the idea? I don't know how much background information you have, but it's all in the Wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/ if you need more than I have room to tell you about. Some people find my video on Expanding the Vision of OLPC helpful. You can get to it from my page, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mokurai. We are out to save the world through education on computers, leading to the end of poverty and some other consequences of general interest. Peru and Uruguay have ordered OLPC XO laptops for all of their schooldchildren, and we have smaller deployments and trials in dozens of other countries. See, for example, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:OLPC_Brazil. Our Sugar software for Linux is being localized into both português and português do Brasil, along with 80 or so other languages. Venezuela has ordered a million laptops for schoolchildren, using your Caixa Mágica Linux. We would like to put our Sugar education software on CM and thus on those laptops. We have RPMs of many of our Activities that were developed for Fedora Linux, and we have started a discussion with Mandriva about getting those RPMs into their distribution. So everything is lined up, and now we want to talk with you about getting our packages into your distribution, and get our volunteers and staff working with your volunteers and staff. You should get acquainted with Walter Bender, head of Sugar Labs, and also David Farning; Jim Gettys, Scott Ananian, S. J. Klein, and others in software at OLPC; Ivan Krstić, our security maven; and others whom they can introduce you to. What else do you need to know? -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज ) is my name And children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal
but it's all in the Wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/ Maybe not all. I'd recommend you check out http://sugarlabs.org as well, as the key is the software, since the hardware is presumably the Classmate PC in this case. -walter On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Eduardo H. Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Eduardo. l 2008/10/7 Paulo Trezentos [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi everyone. My name is Paulo Trezentos. I'm technical director of Caixa Mágica. Bemvenido! (Well, that's nearly it for my Portuguese, except for some old Bossa Nova songs. Sorry.) Can you please give me more information about yourselves and the idea? I don't know how much background information you have, but it's all in the Wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/ if you need more than I have room to tell you about. Some people find my video on Expanding the Vision of OLPC helpful. You can get to it from my page, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mokurai. We are out to save the world through education on computers, leading to the end of poverty and some other consequences of general interest. Peru and Uruguay have ordered OLPC XO laptops for all of their schooldchildren, and we have smaller deployments and trials in dozens of other countries. See, for example, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:OLPC_Brazil. Our Sugar software for Linux is being localized into both português and português do Brasil, along with 80 or so other languages. Venezuela has ordered a million laptops for schoolchildren, using your Caixa Mágica Linux. We would like to put our Sugar education software on CM and thus on those laptops. We have RPMs of many of our Activities that were developed for Fedora Linux, and we have started a discussion with Mandriva about getting those RPMs into their distribution. So everything is lined up, and now we want to talk with you about getting our packages into your distribution, and get our volunteers and staff working with your volunteers and staff. You should get acquainted with Walter Bender, head of Sugar Labs, and also David Farning; Jim Gettys, Scott Ananian, S. J. Klein, and others in software at OLPC; Ivan Krstić, our security maven; and others whom they can introduce you to. What else do you need to know? -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज ) is my name And children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 21:54, Edward Cherlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php The blue-and-white laptops — based on Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC design — are manufactured under license in Portugal and are primarily aimed at schoolchildren in developing countries. No word on software - does anyone know more? I read somewhere that they will ship with a linux flavor developed in portugal: http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/a_index.php Not very informative to techies. It's based in Mandriva, maybe we can make sure Sugar is there? A little more information. http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=caixamagicamonth=allyear=all kernel 2.6.22 Originally based on SUSE, now on Mandriva. Has anybody tried running the Fedora Sugar packages on Mandriva? Do we need a distro lab where we can run lots of VMs at once? More information, although I'm not sure how credible: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/740ao/venezuela_orders_1_million_intel_classmates_this/ The 30 GB hard drive is partitioned in 3 drives. 10GB Windows and 10GB for Caixa Mágica (Portuguese commercial Linux distro), and 10GB for the user profiles. All computers will dual boot the two OS by default. Regards Morgan ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal
The person who should know the most about these matters, specifically what Ministries of Education think (or at least what they say they think) is Nicholas. I have not found him to be as well-informed as I hoped, but we must ask him. Also, there is supposed to be a paid employee at OLPC whose job includes knowing such things. I have no idea who that would be, however. On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we should ping education ministries as well, these are the ones that are being questioned right now by the public opinion about the convenience of spending so much money on laptops. They may be receptive to putting some more education (for free) on the machines ;) Even if they aren't, if Sugar works on the machines some schools will try it. Regards, Tomeu On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've pinged Intel about Sugar on these machines... (and the original Portugal order as well)... -walter On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php The blue-and-white laptops — based on Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC design — are manufactured under license in Portugal and are primarily aimed at schoolchildren in developing countries. No word on software - does anyone know more? I read somewhere that they will ship with a linux flavor developed in portugal: http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/a_index.php It's based in Mandriva, maybe we can make sure Sugar is there? Regards, Tomeu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams fivethirtyeight.com, 3bluedudes.com Obama still moving ahead in EC! http://www.obamapedia.org/ Join us! http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal
Quoting Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe we should ping education ministries as well, these are the ones that are being questioned right now by the public opinion about the convenience of spending so much money on laptops. They may be receptive to putting some more education (for free) on the machines ;) That is exactly the state of our reflexion, here at OLPC France. We are planning on 15-16 Nov. a CodeCamp ( http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=CodeCamp_OLPC_France/La_Cantine ). One of the possible workshop will be a sugarize-workshop during which we will experiment the installation of sugar on various platforms with various methods (external media, HD installation, emulation, liveCD, etc.). We have contacted some netbook-manufacturers to this end... but we are at the very beginning of our reflexion. We want to demonstrate the versatility of the sugar environment and the activities initially developped for the xo an to ping more ministers (Lionel Laské and Bastien Guerry meet a few weeks ago with the cabinet of the French Minister in charge of the économie numérique and we will continue. Bests Samy Regards, Tomeu On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've pinged Intel about Sugar on these machines... (and the original Portugal order as well)... -walter On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php The blue-and-white laptops based on Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC design are manufactured under license in Portugal and are primarily aimed at schoolchildren in developing countries. No word on software - does anyone know more? I read somewhere that they will ship with a linux flavor developed in portugal: http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/a_index.php It's based in Mandriva, maybe we can make sure Sugar is there? Regards, Tomeu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ 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
