On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Robert Stephenson < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, folks, allow me to introduce myself. I work at The Tech Museum of > Innovation in San Jose, and we have been talking with Ed Cherlin about > the possibility of setting up an XO cluster (or two). It started with > this question: > > The Tech has a lot of Title 1 schools that visit the museum as part > > of their educational program. We are planning a classroom area that > > will be within and a part of the regular museum -- in other words > > dual purpose: exhibit when not in use and classroom otherwise. Is > > it possible that we could get enough laptops (24-30, plus spares) to > > outfit a whole class of students? > > The focus of the classes, and of the exhibit the rest of the time, > would be on media (music, remixes, graphics, videos, etc.) > production. We can easily provide access to OLPC folks, either > physically or virtually (no firewall). We have thousands of kids > running loose every day, so it would be a great user and endurance > test. Does this sound like a possibility? The one thing you'd have to worry about: While the XOs are very resilient to harsh conditions, they are _not_ "childproof", ie. if a kid throws it off a desk or picks at the rubber mesh keyboard then he _can_ break the XO. It would be a *highly* useful tool, however, in testing and research. Assuming we can have the teachers/whoever survey the children and note where they have problems, it would provide a load of real-world data easily accessible and tweakable. -- Luke Faraone, who loved going to the Tech as a child and still visits today http://luke.faraone.cc
_______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
