Sugarizer is the best way to get Sugar into classrooms in the USA. No cost for the devices... The kids already have them. Start small with a mini "Sugarizer For Schools." Have great documentation and easy to use, fail-safe, lesson plans available free online. Present and demo at teachers conferences. Lots of teachers conferences. Do the same at Linux Fests all over the country.
I could (and probably should) expand on this... Such as... Maybe start with one subject area (eg Math). Use Master teachers like Rosamel in Uruguay to help... Caryl Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 9, 2016, at 12:29 AM, Laura Vargas <la...@somosazucar.org> wrote: > > > El 7 de julio de 2016, 7:52, Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> escribió: >> >> On 7 July 2016 at 08:49, José Miguel García <josemig...@argos.edu.uy> wrote: >>> Sin embargo, a través de la experiencia de Argentina en Conectar Igualdad, >>> donde se daba la posibilidad de que cada centro instalara su sistema. >> >> Wow, that's amazing!! :D >> >> I guess in the USA it is common to create bad lawsuits if things go wrong, >> preventing schools from offering this possibility. > > Thank you all for reading. It is a shame we don't have hundreds of teachers > from the US in the member's list! > > Huayra (witch BTW means Wind in Quechua) from Conectar Igualdad Argentina is > probably the most inspiring distro we have in Latam. [1] > > I hope one day other countries like México, Perú and Colombia start using it, > forking it or somehow making their own "Huayra type" libre OS. Unfortunatly, > the program may losse gobernment support as Microsoft is offering no cost > licenses to President Macri [2]. > > Getting back to the subject of this thread, I think we should facilitate the > use of Sugar in the US asap. We may be able to get an easy entry point by > executing the translation of Sugar to Cherokee and/or Navajo. [3] > > Hope to get the SL goals defined soon :D > > [1] > http://wiki.huayra.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/index.php/%C2%A1Bienvenidos_a_Huayra_GNU/Linux! > [2] > http://www.ieco.clarin.com/economia/Microsoft-ofrecio-Macri-software-estudiantes_0_1508849461.html > [3] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140606-why-we-must-save-dying-languages > > -- > Laura V. > I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org > IRC kaametza > > Happy Learning! >
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