There is also http://www.firstmilesolutions.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP
-walter On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Sean DALY<sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very interesting! > > I saw this too: > http://blog.wizzy.com/post/OLPC-and-Classmate-in-Nigeria > > The wizzydigital.org website seems dated, is it an active project? > > I couldn't find any technical information about the solution, although > it seems to be based on FOSS > > Sean > > > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Frederick Grose<fgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Forwarding to the community... >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: William Schaub >> Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM >> Subject: An interesting project I stumbled across >> To: Frederick Grose <fgr...@gmail.com> >> >> >> This looks like something that is right up the alley of the OLPC groups and >> sugar labs etc. >> >> http://www.wizzydigital.org/index.html >> >> using UUCP and memory sticks and couriers they are able to connect schools >> to the internet in areas where there is ZERO connectivity. >> ... >> However this whizzy digital courrier could be VERY successfully used on a >> classroom server or a specially outfitted XO laptop with some extra storage >> via an added USB storage device. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel