I'm fine with that! Please do.
Caryl
> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:22:06 +0100
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> Subject: Re: As requested: RE: Thoughts on RE: SOAS decision panel : thoughts
>
> Any objections if I rudely post these discussions to the soas@ list?
> So far attempts to get people to post to it seem to be meeting some
> friction but nobody's telling me why.
>
> Martin
>
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 06:36:19PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> >
> > SJ wrote:
> > >
> > > Caryl, your input on the recent thread on the soas-list would be
> > > appreciated. I think Bill got some of this summary right, but some of
> > > it needs to be clarified. (And I'm not sure that many of the people
> > > who would like to *see* a 'set of versions that can be run on all
> > > kinds of machines' understood the support costs and prioritization
> > > required when saying that.)
> >
> > Hello All...
> >
> > Greetings from beautiful (50 years ago) Butte MT, the country's largest
> > Superfund site. Over half the town has disappeared into the huge Berkeley
> > Pit (open pit copper mine). What is left is very contaminated with metal
> > dust and asbestos.
> >
> > But, enough of that. First I want to apologize for the flood of old
> > messages from me that arrived this afternoon. They were sent 4 days ago on
> > 9/28 when I was having trouble with my sign-up to the list. So today, they
> > show up as sent at 2:04 p.m. MDT... I assure you not by me. I was riding
> > down I-90 in MT far from any internet signal. Now, I still have the
> > problem of getting 2 of everything sent to the [SoaS] list.
> >
> > So let's get back to the issues at hand. SJ asked me to go over the
> > message I sent several days ago and clarify some of the things I wrote.
> >
> > Re: A new mailing list... a dead issue, we are already functioning on the
> > regular [SoaS} list.
> >
> > Re: Several different distributions and if so, for what machines?
> >
> > This is a really huge issue. First of all, has anyone really done any
> > research, even informal, to see what machines are used regularly in the
> > schools? Probably not. Without this information, the question can't be
> > answered in any meaningful way.
> >
> > There is a way that we could make this happen, thoughnot nearly soon
> > enough, but better late than never. It would take some effort on the part
> > of both Sugar Labs volunteers and OLPC volunteers. It goes like this:
> >
> > 1) Send representatives (preferably 2 or more) to every Tech Conference for
> > educators that we can find. Take XOs and SoaS, Live CDs, SD cards and
> > different non-XO machines to demonstrate that Sugar will run on them.
> > People will be curious and want to try things. Set up in a booth if
> > possible or in their internet cafe area (or do a presentation!). We may
> > have to actually pay to attend.
> >
> > 2) Have a simple survey for educators to fill out asking what machines they
> > have at their school, how many, how old, are there any plans to replace
> > them, if yes, with what machines and, finally, how much use do they get and
> > by who. While we are at it we might as well ask what level or subject they
> > teach and what kinds of new programs would they like to have to use with
> > their students.
> >
> > 3) If they have something that will run SoaS, a Live CD, or Sugar on a SD
> > card, offer to help them download their own copy. Maybe even give away
> > some Live CDs.
> >
> > I will be presenting at the CUELA/LAUSD Tech Fair in mid-November. I will
> > make up a survey like this and ask teachers to complete it. Can we get
> > others to do the same sort of thing? Even just having a presence with a
> > few XOs and other computers running Sugar for folks to try and getting them
> > to fill out the survey would help a lot. Not a lot of prior prep needed for
> > that!
> >
> > In other words, don't just guess what students and teachers need.. ask
> > them. Until we do this, we are just taking wild stabs in the dark. Students
> > and teachers won't care what we call the
> > Sugar software they are using. They will just care that it is easy to use
> > and works.
> >
> > Re: the XO-1 Glad to hear the batteries will be interchangable. That is
> > one crisis we won't have to face.
> >
> > This might not be the right time and place to discuss activating the entire
> > track pad, but someone else mentioned it and I thought it was a great idea.
> > I still do. While some might think this is a topic for OLPC, I thought I
> > read somewhere that it is a software matter. That could be a Sugar Labs
> > project.
> >
> > Too long... and I will get 2 copies.
> >
> > Got to read all the other emails I got since yesterday.
> >
> > Thanks for reading!
> > Caryl
> >
> > P.S. I did a reply all on this. If I missed anyone who should read it,
> > please forward. Thanks!
> >
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