Re: [WSG] $100 laptop WAS: why liquid layout is important.

2005-11-21 Thread James Ellis
Hi Yes, funnily enough I was reading about Edubuntu Linux (http://edubuntu.org/) today - a version of Ubuntu (http://ubuntu.org) specially targeted at school age kids.The ideas raised in this thread seem to mesh well with what's described at the above links. It's a small step from providing

[WSG] $100 laptop WAS: why liquid layout is important.

2005-11-20 Thread Herrod, Lisa
Well the idea of the $100 laptop is to 'work with developing nations' to provide low cost access to knowledge via the Internet. What I'm doing is putting this out to our community to see who is interested in being involved in a project like this. Naturally we would need to discuss exactly what it

Re: [WSG] $100 laptop WAS: why liquid layout is important.

2005-11-20 Thread Christian Montoya
On 11/20/05, Herrod, Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the idea of the $100 laptop is to 'work with developing nations' to provide low cost access to knowledge via the Internet. What I'm doing is putting this out to our community to see who is interested in being involved in a project like

RE: [WSG] $100 laptop WAS: why liquid layout is important.

2005-11-20 Thread Herrod, Lisa
: Re: [WSG] $100 laptop WAS: why liquid layout is important. On 11/20/05, Herrod, Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the idea of the $100 laptop is to 'work with developing nations' to provide low cost access to knowledge via the Internet. What I'm doing is putting this out to our community

Re: [WSG] $100 laptop WAS: why liquid layout is important.

2005-11-20 Thread Jonathan O'Donnell
On 21/11/2005, at 2:23 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: On 11/20/05, Herrod, Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the idea of the $100 laptop is to 'work with developing nations' to provide low cost access to knowledge via the Internet. What I'm doing is putting this out to our community to see

Re: [WSG] $100 laptop WAS: why liquid layout is important.

2005-11-20 Thread Jonathan O'Donnell
On 21/11/2005, at 2:40 PM, Herrod, Lisa wrote: ... I worked in indonesia for a short time teaching basic internet skills to a very poor school for deaf children. if they can pick up HTML, (which, remember is in english) taught by someone with basic indonesian and little Indo sign language,