[SLUG] OLPC to consider trialling laptops in Australia
The SMH had some very exciting news today. http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/australia-trials-low-cost-laptop/2007/01/12/1168105153500.html The OLPC are looking at trialling the laptops in remote indigenous communities. Whooo h! My .2c worth. Regards, Patrick -- Registered Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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H... Howard, I'm not quite sure what to make of your comment. Regards, Patrick Howard Lowndes wrote: elliott-brennan wrote: The SMH had some very exciting news today. http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/australia-trials-low-cost-laptop/2007/01/12/1168105153500.html The OLPC are looking at trialling the laptops in remote indigenous communities. Are the plastics petrol proof? -- Registered Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 09:33 +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: H... Howard, I'm not quite sure what to make of your comment. Regards, Patrick I am, and may I just send a Grow Up Howards way? -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Open Source On The Air A LocalFOSS Production http://www.localfoss.org irc: #localfoss on irc.freenode.net signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OLPC to consider trialling laptops in Australia
Thats awesome. I hope they let us buy two get 1 dave elliott-brennan wrote: The SMH had some very exciting news today. http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/australia-trials-low-cost-laptop/2007/01/12/1168105153500.html The OLPC are looking at trialling the laptops in remote indigenous communities. Whooo h! My .2c worth. Regards, Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OLPC to consider trialling laptops in Australia
elliott-brennan wrote: The SMH had some very exciting news today. http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/australia-trials-low-cost-laptop/2007/01/12/1168105153500.html The OLPC are looking at trialling the laptops in remote indigenous communities. Not that exciting. They are going to evaluate it in one classroom. There's a significant chance the trial will fail as the amount of application software aimed at children on the OLPC is currently zero and the amount of supprting training and curriculum material is currently zero. The OLPC has the potential to become an expensive white elephant unless this basic low tech and boring issues are seen to. There's been enough fads imposed on remote communities by special interests with a barrow to push. Let's not add another one before the basics of health, housing and employment are less shameful. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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Hi Glen, I agree that the standard of living (housing etc) for the Aboriginal population is poor, and I'm not aware of the limitations of the project (you seem to have more info about that than I do). However, as someone who has taught rural Aboriginal people at a tertiary level - one of my favourite students had sand as a floor, with carpet over it, and no grid-electricity - this is one of the things that provides encouragement and shows interest and commitment beyond the basics of living. I agree, also, that should it fail it would be shameful. The knowledge to make these things works exists. I hope the people involved are committed to ensuring it does. Regards, Patrick Glen Turner wrote: elliott-brennan wrote: The SMH had some very exciting news today. http://www.smh.com.au/news/laptops--desktops/australia-trials-low-cost-laptop/2007/01/12/1168105153500.html The OLPC are looking at trialling the laptops in remote indigenous communities. Not that exciting. They are going to evaluate it in one classroom. There's a significant chance the trial will fail as the amount of application software aimed at children on the OLPC is currently zero and the amount of supprting training and curriculum material is currently zero. The OLPC has the potential to become an expensive white elephant unless this basic low tech and boring issues are seen to. There's been enough fads imposed on remote communities by special interests with a barrow to push. Let's not add another one before the basics of health, housing and employment are less shameful. -- Registered Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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This one time, at band camp, elliott-brennan wrote: The OLPC are looking at trialling the laptops in remote indigenous communities. Very cool. One thing I don't get about OLPC is their opposition to selling the machines to people like us. It would increase their volumes and provide a corpus of people making Cool Shittm for the machine. Sure, we're not all educators, but we'll still help. What's more, charge a commercial margin on it while offering a no support guarantee and they can pour the profits back into the project. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. - Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OLPC to consider trialling laptops in Australia
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 03:10 +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: One thing I don't get about OLPC is their opposition to selling the machines to people like us. It would increase their volumes and provide a corpus of people making Cool Shittm for the machine. Sure, we're not all educators, but we'll still help. A few days ago the BBC was reporting that one idea recently floated by the OLPC guys was a buy two get one scheme, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6246989.stm . If you're going to the LCA open day, make sure you ask them about it. :-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
