Here is another important point. We have a lot of Sugar and XO
documentation at FLOSS Manuals, with only a few titles in Spanish. We
are organizing a major push to get all of our materials translated.
The manual for Terminal should be out in Spanish soon, and its
translator promises another title
While working at guadalinex I seriously pushed to include sugar. Resistance
was futile as the Borg might say. You see they have a pretty established
Linux environment that has many custom educational tools. It is an
extremely uphill battle to get them using even a tiny part of sugar, and
that
If we take a step back I think David's observation really hits the nail
on the head in a broader sense.
While FLOSS solutions don't have the traditional vendor lock-in they do
often seem to come with some sort of platform lock-in (as per David's
example wrt custom educational tools).
Hence for
Bah... ok...perhaps that was a bit of harsh statement. meh would
be better... However, I have met many south Americans down here who
want to get involved and us the sugar environment in their future
endevours once they return home. I worked for Guadalinex.-edu, the
largest single Linux
Gustavo, David,
thanks for the information, background and links, keep 'em coming.
Given the constraints of my situation (mainly time) the main (only)
thing I'd like to do is try and establish some sort of olpc/Sugar
presence while I'm here. Especially given how much Linux is used around
schools
2011/3/21 Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at:
Especially given how much Linux is used around
schools in the country and that Latin America is the hotbed for all
things OLPC and 1-to-1 computing at the moment I'm simply surprised that
there's no established olpc/Sugar community
Not an OLPC project, but there is a lot of Linux in the schools in
Extremadura. You could talk to the local government about using Sugar
on their laptops.
http://news.squeak.org/2006/11/17/squeak-in-extremadura/
Have you asked on the OLPC-SUR list?
There seems to have been a very modest OLPC
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote:
Not an OLPC project, but there is a lot of Linux in the schools in
Extremadura. You could talk to the local government about using Sugar
on their laptops.
http://news.squeak.org/2006/11/17/squeak-in-extremadura/
more
In spain, most autonomous regions have their own distro, which means
that in essence getting pro-linux, and even quite techinically savy
folks in that domain should be pretty easy to find. I know Madrid
itself has its own autonomous linux distro called distro MAX (Madrid
Linux) Of course, it often
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:02 AM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.comwrote:
In spain, most autonomous regions have their own distro, which means
that in essence getting pro-linux, and even quite techinically savy
folks in that domain should be pretty easy to find. I know Madrid
itself has
Hi all,
as some of you might know I moved to Madrid about a month ago and will
be here at least until the end of May but possibly also until late summer.
Now I was wondering whether anyone here knows people working on
olpc/Sugar/ICT4E who are based here in Madrid or elsewhere in Spain?
I've
2011/3/18 Christoph Derndorfer e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at:
Now I was wondering whether anyone here knows people working on
olpc/Sugar/ICT4E who are based here in Madrid or elsewhere in Spain?
Sorry, can't help here
plus similarly minded communities
(e.g. LUGs, hacker spaces, etc.) also
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
olpc/Sugar/ICT4E who are based here in Madrid or elsewhere in Spain?
In Spain the Moodle community is very strong -- peaks around
Catalunya. Vasque country is strong on alternative linux distros for
you might want to write to Diego Gomez Deck http://diegogomezdeck.blogspot.com/
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
Hi all,
as some of you might know I moved to Madrid about a month ago and will
be here at least until the end of May but
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