Re: [IAEP] Los Angeles ditching Apple/Pearson iPad program

2015-04-17 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Wow! Thanks for gathering this all into one place Sean. My family has long-term ties to LAUSD as both teachers and students for 3 generations so we are always interested in what is happening there. When I was still working there I received several technology grants and I can tell you that the b

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Numbers

2015-04-17 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Really? On January you wrote: "I am following OLPC as part of a research paper on open source organizations." http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2015-January/017152.html Followed a thread with replies from different members of the community and you finished with: "Thank you for the inform

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Numbers

2015-04-17 Thread Dan Tenason
I work as a researcher for a foundation which received a grant proposal for a laptop project. There were several issues which needed clarification. I suppose that can be seen as trolling. Thanks and good luck with you project. Friday, April 17, 2015 8:11 AM -03:00 from Gonzalo Odiard : >Dan,

[IAEP] Los Angeles ditching Apple/Pearson iPad program

2015-04-17 Thread Sean DALY
A large-scale ($1.3 billion budget for iPads, pearson software, wifi infrastructure, target 650K students) education ICT project started in 2013 and meant to eliminate the digital divide which has gone awry. The superintendent resigned and is under FBI and SEC investigation for corrupt bidding proc

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Numbers

2015-04-17 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Dan, You was qualified as a troll because you said we should divide the 3M number by 10 and you assume we were deceiving. See the Wikipedia definition of troll: "In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people,

Re: [IAEP] [support-gang] Update to ProjectBernie

2015-04-17 Thread Richa Sehgal
Hi, I was very busy with labs and assignments over the past few days, and would like to apologize for not replying sooner. Great efforts! I tried different things and would like to discuss some of these: I tried opening the 4 sections of "Python Programming". So, for "Inventing your own games wi

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 85, Issue 13

2015-04-17 Thread Tony Anderson
You are a troll according to the Wiktionary definition of 'to troll': "(to post inflammatory material so as) to attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment and/or gratuitous disruption, especially in an online community or discussion". Tony On 04/17/

Re: [IAEP] New try on a better sugarlabs site

2015-04-17 Thread Sean DALY
Dan - two years ago we arrived at 3 million by estimating 2.6 million XO laptops delivered, Sugar on Intel Classmates in Argentina (between 50K and 100K of the approximately 1.5 million locally assembled from 2011 - the others had been running Windows and may have been reconditioned to GNU/Linux),