Hi Christoph, Christoph Derndorfer <[email protected]> writes:
> I was wondering whether anyone happens to know of any OLPC / Sugar > community activity happening in China? I was in China last month and I did a presentation about Sugar (and other stuff) to the Beijing Linux User Group: http://www.slideshare.net/bzg/the-ict-for-education-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet There I met people working on the Gdium, mainly trying to use it as a tool for education in remote areas. They are not using Sugar, they are using mandriva and a selected set of educational applications, but they are interested in trying Sugar. OLPC France plans to continue to work on the Sugar-for-Gdium issue, and perhaps they'll try Sugar in remote chinese areas one day. I also met people from the Beijing Normal University, a university to train teachers' trainers. I presented Sugar to them, and they were very interested. I gave them 2 USB keys with Soas v1, I hope this will start a discussion and maybe some deeper testing in some primary schools. BNU is also running a nice community here: http://sociallearnlab.org, this can be a place where to let teachers know about Sugar. > Doing a quick Google search revealed that a small deployment by > OLPC.Asia was recently started in Sichuan > (http://www.olpc.asia/en/2009/06/first-olpc-deployment-in-sichuan-china.html) > but other than that I'm not really aware of any activities in the country. I didn't know about this, but I will forward this to the people I know in China, thanks! > Any pointers and help are much appreciated! HTH, -- Bastien _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
