On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote: > > On 10/13/12, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Alexandro, > >> > >> I think you are grossly underestimating the connectivity problem in > Peru. > > > > Yes maybe, but I understand most educational systems dont have enough > > budget to acquire connectivity so getting connectivity from other > > sources like public buildings, libraries, will allow other resource to > > come through without needing to be funded by the educational budget. > > > > Now if we are talking about, the whole town not having ways on > > connecting, then the next option would be looking for alternative > > sources, in Mexico they used Satelite modems. > > > http://www.scribd.com/doc/10324524/Capacitacion-Para-Maestros-Uso-Del-Aula-Enciclomedia#page=15 > > > > But other mediums like DSL modems attached to a wifi router will be > > able to get some basic Internet for HTML/images, IRC, etc. The big > > question is about the level of connectivity for copper phone lines. > > > > It seems that a fair number of offline requirements will be served by > the XS school server, but I don't see that show up in any of the > conversations. Does any location in Peru use any version of the XS? > (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/School_server) > I'm not aware of any schools having school servers, at least they didn't have them when I was there in 2010. The next best thing were USB drives with some collections of offline materials compiled by DIGETE but as far as I can tell only a certain percentage of teachers ever received theirs. Cheers, Christoph > cheers, > Sameer > > > > >> > >> regards. > >> > >> -walter > >> > >> -- > >> Walter Bender > >> Sugar Labs > >> http://www.sugarlabs.org > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Devel mailing list > >> Devel@lists.laptop.org > >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > >> > > > > > > -- > > Alexandro Colorado > > PPMC Apache OpenOffice > > http://es.openoffice.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Christoph Derndorfer volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu
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