* Tony Anderson (deployment expert, hacking ShowNTell in the last minute
> to give a demo)
> * David Van Assche (the OpenSuse link, more than 50 activities in the
> OpenSuse Soas version)
> * Sean Daly (marketing expert, table full of netbooks and XOs)
> * Sebastian Dziallas (Mister &q
http://tech.sina.com.cn/s/2009-06-30/0541964963.shtml
Sorry to bother everyone, but we have just been picked up by Sina.com
(tech news section) and Baidu.com (a blog post).
These are China's top portals. Sina claims 230 million registered
users last I heard.
The risk exists of a tsunami,
thanks
flood waters
> somewhat.
>
> -walter
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
>> http://tech.sina.com.cn/s/2009-06-30/0541964963.shtml
>>
>> Sorry to bother everyone, but we have just been picked up by Sina.com
>> (tech news section) and Baidu.co
download the Sugar", but it
> doesn't seem to be a live link.
>
> cjl
>
> http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.sina.com.cn%2Fs%2F2009-06-30%2F0541964963.shtml&sl=auto&tl=en&history_state0=
>
>
>
>
00 million
Sean
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:58 AM, David Farning wrote:
> Yesterday, China was one of the top sources of hits for *.sugarlabs.org
>
> david
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
>> http://tech.sina.com.cn/s/2009-06-30/0541964963.shtml
>>
Bastien, Lionel et les amis d'OLPC France,
Qu'en pensez-vous d'une liste Sugar Labs en français? Est-ce que ça
ferait double emploi avec la liste OLPC-France ?
merci de vos retours
Sean
2009/6/30 Edward Cherlin :
> 2009/6/28 Bernie Innocenti :
>> [cc += syst...@]
>>
>> On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 01
We have had a successful media launch of the Strawberry release of
SoaS; coverage is ongoing a week after the launch.
I feel very strongly that a successful launch like this can only work
if everyone is on board together, from developers to marketers, from
packagers to designers, so I have preferr
I really like this one, the stack of books and mini-Browse tell the story.
Sean
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:28 PM, David Farning wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Frederick Grose wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Jim Simmons wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I'm still interested in other
http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/releases/education/20090629.shtml
NECC announcement of partnerships with hardware providers
eInstruction, eScholar, Promethean, Qwizdom and Renzulli Learning.
"First-ever all digital K-6 math curriculum offers unprecedented level
of technology interactivity between curr
Now is a good time to work on this, as the SoaS launch is behind us.
My understanding is that Sugar Learning Platform releases such as
v0.84, v0.86, v0.88 are of interest to our downstream partners and
projects... distros naturally, but in particular the OLPC XO-1.5 and
the Sugar on a Stick Fedora
at 4:01 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 15:39, Sean DALY wrote:
>> Now is a good time to work on this, as the SoaS launch is behind us.
>>
>> My understanding is that Sugar Learning Platform releases such as
>> v0.84, v0.86, v0.88 are of interest
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I don't know Tomeu, what do you think?
Sean
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 16:37, Sean DALY wrote:
>> OK Tomeu
>>
>> To be clear, I'm making a distinction between marketing (in the
>> spreading the word to
or joel's video
> showing two kids pulling it apart and putting it back together
>
> Possibly some high quality, high profile videos - some illustrating specific
> interesting features or with an original creative twist (educational
> bloggers might pick up on that) - would help pr
Netbook is not a neutral word and as such is a very useful one.
It's important however to make a context distinction: the word makes
no sense in developing countries which lack Internet infrastructure
let alone electricity in rural areas. So it's perfectly understandable
that Professor Negroponte
verpromise" very
seriously (difficult as it is). I think we can go further by being
smarter, and part of that is not interfering with the free software
way. I do think though that it's worthwhile for us to share
timetables.
thanks
Sean
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrot
Many thanks Klaas for reporting the error and proposing a workaround!
Mathieu, could you or someone you know get this info to the LiveUSB
Creator people?
Sebastian, do you think we should update the wiki with this workaround?
thanks
Sean
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:08 PM, klaas langhout wrote:
...@lists.sugarlabs
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ists.sugarlabs.org
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This is totally true, a protruding stick is asking for trouble.
I usually use SD Cards, most netbooks have slots.
Well-designed machines (XO-1, EeePC, Dell education Latitude 2100)
keep the cards recessed, flush with an edge; no protrusion=no
accidents
other machines protrude even the SD Card, s
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,634718,00.html
I'm not sure if this was in their print edition or not, but if it was,
a million German speakers
(http://media.spiegel.de/internet/mediaeng.nsf/Navigation/8EFA9D805F70BCFDC125718100449209?OpenDocument)
have potentially read about SoaS
Sean
We discussed recently making improvements to the Getting Involved page
( http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-June/001510.html
).
I feel it would serve us to maintain "job" listings, on the Getting
Involved page, linked to from each team's page and posted at the end
of Walter's Sugar
> I wasn't thinking either of posting articles about recruitment on
> those places, rather to get our organization known. Most of the people
> that know that Sugar exists think we are part of OLPC, or that we have
> funding and a paid development team or that we have abandoned the OLPC
> cause and
Greetings Russell,
The Sugar Labs Marketing Team has developed some marketing materials
you can use and adapt (posters, visuals).
We are very interested in starting an ecosystem for Sugar deployers,
at the front line supplying support to schools. We are not sure yet
ourselves what model(s) would
Hi Caroline great! just a question, why 2 Gb instead of 1 Gb ?
Sean
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Caroline
Meeks wrote:
> I'm going to place an order for more Sugar Labs branded USB sticks.
> The cost will be in the $7.50 to $9 per 2GB stick, depending on how
> many I order.
>
> Would anyone
A website counterpart to Sugar, whether demo or live extension, could
multiply our impact by allowing teachers and parents (not to mention
journalists) to discover and try Sugar without the barriers of
downloading an ISO, loading a stick and configuring BIOS, or obtaining
an XO.
I concur that the
IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to
all teachers and Learners. The observations and take-aways need to be
triaged of course, starting with what can/should be done by Sugar
Labs, but I am convinced many learnings will benefit large
deployments. Until reliable means
Just to clarify, when I spoke of studying a small deployment closely,
I was thinking of both the GPA pilot and any other closely studied
small deployment, which could be anywhere, including Nepal.
Similar findings (e.g. first-time difficulty of quitting Activities?)
in disparate conditions will be
This seems like a perfect fit!
Sean
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Caroline
Meeks wrote:
> http://www.computerclubhouse.org/
> The Computer Clubhouse is
> an international network of computer centers for youth. Their "flagship" clubhouse is housed in the Museum of Science in Boston
> and they
Sugar Labs suffers from OLPC's lack of interest in press
communications and in combating misperceptions (in particular the
wholly inaccurate meme that XO-1s are delivered with Windows).
Although we manage to get mostly positive coverage for Sugar, it's two
steps forward, one step back when OLPC doe
very interesting thanks Caroline
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> This is a very nice article on our competitive landscape in open source.
> My
> concern about the thin client solutions is the students do not have access
> out of school and that severely limits their pote
An excellent article indeed.
When a journalist contacts us, it's important to respond immediately
if not sooner; most have a deadline within several hours at most. Our
press phone number has not rung often, but several of the most widely
picked up articles were written by journalists who reached u
The popup could work if it was accompanied by a suggestion like "write
in what you were doing to help you find this again easily."
Learners (or teachers) encountering difficulty locating Journal
entries will I think find motivation to write in metadata.
Ideally, the popup could be set in the cont
I agree with Bastien. Helping teachers doesn't disadvantage Learners.
Teachers need our support. The great advantage of Sugar is its
collaboration. Learners should be able to easily identify the teacher
with a larger avatar for example. Teachers need to know what's going
on without running around t
Hi Martin
The idea is ice cream flavors and Blueberry works since I had rollup
banners and posters made in both the Strawberry and Blueberry colors,
keeping them current for at least a couple of years (considering their
cost).
However, as stated previously it hasn't been our plan to name SoaS
rel
s complex as actually processing data.
Sean
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Martin Dengler wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:10:40PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
>> Hi Martin
>>
>> The idea is ice cream flavors
>
> Ok. I hadn't picked up on this, despite being
ized companies... all we have to
do is be smart, consistent if we can (damage control wastes precious
resources), and create initiatives instead of waiting for the phone to
ring.
Sean.
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Martin Dengler wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:57:00PM +0200, Sean DA
ory misreported by others. Of course,
anyone with the time could read through all our list postings, attend
all our IRC meetings, come to SugarCamps, and mail us with questions
in order to be perfectly up to date about the project. But at that
point, they are on the cusp of being a "contrib
erry release (we chose to have banners done in both
red and blue logos so they would stay current longer) so I think we're
all set with Blueberry?
thanks
Sean
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Martin Dengler
wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:41:31AM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
>> I'
Great thanks Gary!
Sean
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 12 Sep 2009, at 21:40, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>
>> Martin Dengler wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:30:30PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
>>>>
>>>&
Bill - I completely agree our numbering systems are byzantine and
difficult to grasp... there is the Sugar version number, the Fedora
version number, the OLPC-OS version number and the XO build number.
Our marketing strategy is to push Sugar on a Stick, so to simplify
that we picked the next relea
t you think?
thanks
Sean
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Martin Dengler
wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:18:55PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
>> Bill - I completely agree our numbering systems are byzantine and
>> difficult to grasp... there is the Sugar version number, the Fedor
Sebastian - I cannot speak as a SLOB (only a candidate ;-) but I sense
that this an important question for everyone to deal with.
As you know I believe Sugar on a Stick to be a pillar of our
marketing/PR effort, reaching out to teachers (probably geeky teachers
first) on a very wide scale.
Howeve
SoaS is a game-changer. In a world where approximately 93% of desktops
run a version of Windows, 5% run a version of Mac OSX, and GNU/Linux
distros make up the remaining 1-2%, SoaS offers the possibility to
boot on 90% of them and run in a VM in the other 10%. Not to mention
reader devices neither
For those of you who haven't been following the Marketing list, Sugar
Labs and the Free Software Foundation will be issuing a joint press
release today celebrating Software Freedom Day. It is visible on our
site at http://www.sugarlabs.org/press and on the FSF site at
http://www.fsf.org/news/sugar-
http://try.webex.com/mk/get/STEVE_WOZ_EM
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I'm sorry, I couldn't disagree more. The public has no idea what Sugar
is. Believe me, without marketing, that won't change. We're just at
the beginning, and for now paying marketing expenses out of pocket.
The Sugar on a Stick name and what it means wouldn't matter so much if:
a) GNU/Linux distr
I'm sorry, I couldn't disagree more. The public has no idea what Sugar
is. Believe me, without marketing, that won't change. We're just at
the beginning, and for now paying marketing expenses out of pocket.
The Sugar on a Stick name and what it means wouldn't matter so much if:
a) GNU/Linux distr
Trademark registration has a cost.
I've laid out several thousand USD for marketing expenses this year
(yesterday's press release for example was $600) and I could cover
SoaS trademark registration if money was the problem. I feel this is
the way to go.
Announcing a policy works with friends, but
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090918110925298
http://lwn.net/Articles/353419/
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/09/18/windows_seven_sins_ngos/
Also note that from yesterday morning on, the top Google News result
for "Software Freedom Day" has been Reuters' reprint of our press
r
Hi Mel that wiki page is helpful
To my knowledge, "Sugar on a Stick" has not been trademarked yet by
Sugar Labs; my position is that it should be.
Sugar on a Stick is the heart of the Sugar Labs strategy for spreading
Sugar use beyond OLPC. Although other technical solutions are
promising, at thi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/09/can_a_laptop_change_the_world.html
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A "mobile phone video" report, following the dot.life blog post:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8268301.stm
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/09/can_a_laptop_change_t
Yes, thanks Mel & Tomeu, it is certainly the case that I need clarity
too, since the Sugar Labs message is part of a strategy designed to
achieve massive adoption of Sugar beyond OLPC, while supporting the
latter.
Sugar on GNU/Linux alone cannot be a vector of massive adoption, but
SoaS (as I defi
In my view, the mailing list should be called "SoaS-Fedora". That's
the specific project the mailing list is intended to support, and we
haven't reached consensus that "Sugar on a Stick" should always refer
to the Fedora liveUSB project. Although that's clearly the case today
and for the forseeable
contributors; surprises are always difficult to handle if different or
contradictory from previous communications (a situation we dealt with
in June, fortunately with a happy ending).
Sean.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Sean DALY
gling "Sugar on a Stick" will find (as it finds
today) the Sugar Labs website and the download page.
Sean
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
>> I thought about that, but in that case it wouldn't be
Mel, Sebastian, Walter, Bernie, David and the others, thanks for that
ad-hoc yet fruitful IRC discussion tonight. I trust someone can post
the transcript? Meetbot seemed revived.
I fully support the new list as a gathering place for any liveUSB
Sugar project, even if Sebastian's project is and wil
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1555781/one-laptop-per-child-marches
I'm quoted in this one... an exception, since I'm not a self-promoter
by nature
Sean
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I volunteer as well thanks
Sean
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> I volunteer. I don't have a strong opinion yet, but am interested in
> the future of SoaS. When I give talks about OLPC and Sugar, there are
> almost always audience members who have used it.
>
> SJ
>
> On
http://www.teleread.org/2009/09/25/e-reading-still-neglected-by-the-olpc-laptop-folks-yep-at-least-for-now-but-the-future-may-be-brighter/
http://www.teleread.org/2009/09/25/olpc-e-reading-software-the-choices-available/
I was disappointed at the first post, but pleased to find my comment
was upg
It's always difficult to come up tp speed with an active project list.
And technological barriers exist. I myself can only do the most basic
wiki editing, and I struggled with the trac system; but I have learned
how to moderate the Marketing mailing list and participate in IRC
discussions only this
I don't agree with this at all.
Nobody chooses an iPod based on its model number.
The best approach is for us to discuss with distros their Sugar plans
so we can build Sugar use in an organized way. That includes names,
which is a marketing issue.
Sean
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Caryl Bi
Cross-posting to the marketing list, since this is a marketing discussion.
Caryl, I apologize if I seemed a bit short last night, I had had a
long day. My "nobody" is the hypothetical "typical" person... and
certainly not you. It's likely a different "nobody" than the "nobody"
I heard of who likes
Rubén, this is great news and very exciting.
I look forward to checking out your work!
thanks
Sean
2009/10/1 Rubén Rodríguez Pérez :
>> > I have no illusions about the difficulty of jumpstarting an
>> > ecosystem, but since that is necessary to the success of Sugar, we
>> > need to make it hap
http://www.economist.com/world/americas/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14558609
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Cross-posting to Marketing, since this is a marketing idea :-)
It's true that cereal-box promotion is the ideal platform for
marketing to children, especially as prescriptors ("Papa, I want Sugar
Coated Frosted Bombs instead of Extra Sugar Hyper Doobs because
there's a scary tarantula hidden in th
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/USB_ethernet_adaptors
I have a pair of Zoltan adaptors and they have always worked
flawlessly with my XO-1s.
Sean
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:27 AM, John Watlington wrote:
>
> Caryl,
> There are two easy solutions that jump to mind.
> The decision is independent of a s
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20091006edu.htm
http://www.comtradegroup.com/ComTradeGroup/Media/News.aspx?articleId=192
53,000 Classmates plus 22,000 EeePCs for the teachers.
Deployment to be done by January.
Intel to provide teacher training on their Learning Series tools.
$15
http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,53825,00.html
This report is being widely reported in the tech and mainstream press, e.g.:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jSEAAZS_Y9QD8xiVACWhSDFzHXQQ
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idCNN0853892120091008?rpc
Greetings Iris!
I apologize, I don't have any Spanish :-)
Tomeu mentioned your project during today's Sugar Labs marketing
meeting (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-October/002207.html),
it seems you had my good idea a long time before I did :-)
Could you briefly describe your p
The official webpage for Sugar on a Stick can be found here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
Sean
Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Maria Droujkova wrote:
> Wednesday, October 14th the Math 2.0 interest group hosts its open weekly
> webinar in the
s part of my bio and in the context of the original page that was
> clear. Sorry if I'm being oversensitive to being judged right now!
> Thanks,
> Caroline
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
>>
>> The official webpage for Sugar on a Stick can be fo
t part missing). Sorry
> about this.
>
> Cheers,
> Maria Droujkova
> http://www.naturalmath.com
>
> Make math your own, to make your own math.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
>>
>> I am very, very concerned about confusion.
Hi Rubén
Many thanks for asking about this... potential difficulties are best
avoided by discussion first :-)
I have cc'd the Sugar Labs e-mail alias for trademark questions
(tradem...@sugarlabs.org).
Sugar Labs is indeed a registered trademark, although we are still
drafting our trademark polic
Thanks Alan, you spotted that one as soon as it went up :-)
I'm pleased that Sugar rated a mention, often not the case.
Sean
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:01 PM, alan c wrote:
> Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8309583.stm
> --
> alan cocks
> Ubuntu user
>
I am pleased to report that I shall be present at Bolzano from late
Tuesday evening the 10th until the evening of the Friday the 13th (!)
While there, with a little help from my friends I wouldn't mind taking
baby steps in Python ;-)
Sean
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/
http://www.nook.com
This is an excellent opportunity to study B&N's marketing and learn
what their market studies analysis and focus groups have found
concerning eBook perception in consumers. Remember however that their
target market is not ours, although ther
Rubén, Apple Intel Macs can indeed boot from USB drive with the
"bless" command, see for example:
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-September/019920.html
http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-May/005882.html
A possible scenario I unfortunately haven't been able to test is
yes, not at all straightforward I'm afraid :-(
2009/10/21 Rubén Rodríguez Pérez :
>
>> Rubén, Apple Intel Macs can indeed boot from USB drive with the
>> "bless" command, see for example:
>>
>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2009-September/019920.html
>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Events/Cebit-2010-CFP
deadline: Nov. 20.
Perhaps we can prepare a submission at SugarCamp Bolzano?
The "relevant to the business world" criteria is iffy, but I think
it's worth a shot.
Sean
from the page:
Determination of Participation:
An international jury
t to thank Adam for relaying my call for wikipedia editing and
Martin for stepping up. We'll have the page shipshape for the
Blueberry launch for sure.
thanks
Sean
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 14:19, Sean DALY wrote:
>> http://en.w
http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/
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k they are mentioning that the books are available in a more
>>> light-weight format. "having a 10-kilobyte file beats the heck out of
>>> a 5-megabyte file" maybe EPUB?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Tomeu
>>>
>>>> James Sim
http://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2009/091026_Qualcomm_Room_to_Read.html#at
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http://www.livemint.com/2009/10/29231117/The-question-of-open-source.html
"Free software embodies the values of learning, sharing and open
collaboration that have been the basis of knowledge creation
throughout history. In Kerala, hundreds of thousands of children are
not only learning with high-q
Potentially, this could be particularly interesting for press briefings.
Effective PR involves inviting a small group of journalists to
briefings, usually just prior to launches, or to put out PR fires.
When the group is small, listen/talk can be open to everyone. For
larger groups, it's listen-o
It's important to have a mechanism for overruling anyone who might
wish to be obstructionist... or simply totally absent.
None in the present company of course :-) but longer term to conserve
decision-making ability we need a safety valve to escape paralysis if
for any reason an OB member always v
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/04/playpower-80s-computing-21st-century
I taught myself BASIC and then 6502 assembly language on a Commodore
VIC-20 with COMPUTE! magazine back in the day.
But what I really liked was the incredibly friendly little manual,
such as this priceless advic
there is unfortunately no shortage of very misinformed comment, e.g.:
http://www.timeslive.co.za/opinion/columnists/article182183.ece
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Martin Langhoff
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> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/20
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/arts/09iht-design9.html?_r=1
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http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2009-11-09-Cheap-laptops-for-worlds-poor-One-man-and-his-dream
"techies absolutely loathe its in-built operating system"
I shall mail them forthwith.
It's tiring putting out fires like this, and the zombie meme of
Windows on the XO continues to mutate (!
Yamandu, I don't think it's at all fair to imply that OLPC has
attempted to "corner" any market. It's easy in hindsight to suggest
ways some things could have been done differently or better (I do that
too), but market cornering is something corporations do to other
corporations or to nonprofit
The editors very graciously agreed to update their article.
Sean.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
> http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2009-11-09-Cheap-laptops-for-worlds-poor-One-man-and-his-dream
>
> "techies absolutely loathe its in-built operating
http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=11644
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http://www.e-learningforkids.org/media.html
http://www.e-learningforkids.org/Documents/EFK_PR_nov-09.pdf
"e-Learning for Kids has recently developed an application in
collaboration with its Swiss Partner Avallain Education 4D to run
courseware on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) XO PC. This has bee
; of "little/no educational content on the XO"
...
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Sean DALY wrote:
> http://www.e-learningforkids.org/media.html
> http://www.e-learningforkids.org/Documents/EFK_PR_nov-09.pdf
>
> "e-Learning for Kids has recently developed an application
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jEvsVQEnfo1Y-ibxGgcsCqTzjOJwD9BT4BD81
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