FYI. Anybody who would like to port Sugar to a $25 computer (requiring only monitor, mouse, and keyboard) should contact Eben, and let us know too.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Edward Cherlin <echer...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, May 21, 2011 at 22:10 Subject: Re: [Sur] linux system por $25 To: Eben Upton <eben.up...@gmail.com> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:22, Eben Upton <eben.up...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Edward > Thanks for your mail, and apologies for the delay in replying. The > devices should be available to the general public later in the year; > I'll add you to our mailing list, and will keep you posted as we get > closer to launch. Thank you. > We've heard of Sugar, but need to find out more about it. Do you think > it's suitable for a machine with limited processing power and only > 256MB of RAM? That's what it was designed for. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specifications AMD Geode 433 Mhz processor 256M RAM Fedora Linux http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Getting_Started http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities > Cheers > Eben Upton > Director, Raspberry Pi Foundation > > Follow us @Raspberry_Pi on Twitter > > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Edward Cherlin <echer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Your Web site asks >> >>> Do you have open-source educational software we can use? >> >> The answer is Yes. Sugar education software runs on a variety of Linux >> distributions, including Ubuntu. It is currently in the hands of more >> than 2 million children. >> >>> We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, >>> for use in teaching computer programming to children. >> >> Sugar includes Python and Smalltalk (Etoys). One Laptop Per Child XO >> computers also run Open Firmware, written in FORTH, and including the >> complete FORTH development library, the editor, and an assembler. OFW >> is available for systems based on ARM processors. >> >> The Sugar Labs Replacing Textbooks project, which I started recently, >> will include a variety of materials for teaching programming and >> Computer Science, and for applying those languages to every school >> subject. We have compiled a list of successful projects for teaching >> programming in the elementary grades, including projects using Python, >> Smalltalk, Logo, LISP, BASIC, and APL. >> >> The real question is one that Seymour Papert asked in 1970: Can we >> design an environment in which children learn math and programming >> languages as readily as they learn human languages, largely from each >> other? Some of us think so, and we are working on it. >> >> I will be happy to answer further questions, or to direct you to those >> who know more about some aspects of Sugar than I. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> >> Date: Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:28 >> Subject: Re: [Sur] linux system por $25 >> To: "OLPC para usuarios, docentes, voluntarios y administradores" >> <olpc-...@lists.laptop.org> >> Cc: Gleducar <gledu...@gleducar.org.ar> >> >> >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2011-May/003273.html >> >> >> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Ajoy <da.a...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> linux system por $25 >>> >>> http://www.raspberrypi.org/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Lista olpc-Sur >>> olpc-...@lists.laptop.org >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-sur -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Replacing_Textbooks _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel