Hi Dan, I don't know where you get these numbers. Situation in every deployment is different. The only deployment that I know that publish reports with state of laptops is Plan Ceibal The more recent numbers (Oct 2014) show 84% of laptops are working [1] They also prepare a annual evaluation, about the use of the laptops and other resources provided by the project. The latest is [2] More information here [3]
[1] http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/institucionales/Evaluacion-del-Plan [2] http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/Documents/Evaluacion%20Anual%20Primaria%202013%20_Resumen%20Ejecutivo_.pdf [3] http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/art%C3%ADculo/noticias/institucionales/Evaluacion-del-Plan On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Dan Tenason <dan.tena...@mail.ru> wrote: > Is there any proof that sugar is used everyday by nearly 3 million > children at stated on the website? My research from 2 countries which have > purchased over 100,000 laptops has indicated that due to non-deliver, > breakage, and disuse, the term 'used daily by 3 million children' is > overstating use by an order of magnitude. > > Optimism can be valuable. Deceit, even if you mean well, is not > appropriate when dealing with some of the worlds most needy populations. > > Dan > > > Friday, April 10, 2015 5:49 PM -03:00 from Gonzalo Odiard < > godi...@sugarlabs.org>: > > Today in #sugar, user anindya shared a new proposal to improve > http://sugarlabs.org/ site (the proposal is > anindya.github.io/www-sugarlabs) > > This is the third proposal from a volunteer in the last months. > > But in the different proposals, developers worked with the content > available, > then we have a new design, but the result is the same. And we, > the developers usually are not good graphic designers. > > As discussed before we need: > * Something simple and fast. > * With a clear message. > * With a professional design. > * With links to places where the user can download easy ways to use Sugar > (VM if the user don't use Linux) > * A place to point developers to the right places. > > I know Walter contributed to the content, but I am sure he is not going to > get angry, > if I say he is not a marketing guy. (Me neither, of course) > > Sean said we need images and he requested that in the past without success. > Maybe we can try again? > > We still need a graphic designer (someone in IAEP available?) > > It's possible work in the sugarlabs.org as a project, with the marketing > guys, > the developers and the designers together? I sent this mail to sugar-devel, > IAEP and marketing lists. We can follow where is better. > > -- > Gonzalo Odiard > > SugarLabs - Software for children learning > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > <https://e.mail.ru/compose?To=IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs - Software for children learning
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