Hi, Sean
I thought the strategy of OLPC was very clear - sell national
governments on providing laptops to all of their children. However,
OLPC, independent of this strategy, made two critical decisions: G1G1
and using open software that have made all the difference.
The open software
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:48 PM, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote:
Good analysis Tony. I live in the Get1 world that started me to work on
the Give1 world. In fact the Give1 world has changed to Loan1 world. With
that I could try to predict the chance of success before scaling up or
saying No.
I could be wrong but many people won't have time/stamina to try new things.
The web sugarizer is a good attempt for quick start with limited activities.
Hope this can change quickly.
Personally I suggest:
1. The quickest was to get users to have a taste of sugar is have a usb stick
with
Hi,
Sean’s idea of 1-click installers for Windows / MacOS / GNU/Linux makes a lot
of sense. If possible, by default it could be so that in a start screen on
could choose 1) Sugar 2) The other. Having installers for Android and iPad
would be great, too.
Why?
Bring your own device (BYOD
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 11:53 PM, tkk...@nurturingasia.com wrote:
The web sugarizer is a good attempt for quick start with limited
activities. Hope this can change quickly.
Are you thinking the change will be the addition of new activities, or the
2. Support the idea that Sugar must be
Interesting article!
That's why, he says, One Education designed a device that won't lock
children or schools into an operating system – it works with Android,
Windows and Linux – and why it concentrates on primary schools, with an
emphasis on equality.
This quote seems to reflect their lack of
Hoi,
Have you all seen this ?
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/meet-rangan-srikhanta-the-former-refugee-who-wants-to-change-the-world-one-laptop-at-a-time-20150221-13l07r.html
I guess the answer is yes but just in case...
Christophe
On 27 February 2015 at 18:14, Gonzalo Odiard
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi...
I agree with Sean that the browser based distro like Lionel's Sugarizer is
a good way to go. Having Android and IOS versions too is good since many
students already have access to devices that will be able to
