On Mar 27, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Angela Kahealani wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-27 16:13:40 Jim Thompson wrote: >> On Mar 27, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Dave Burns wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> The Kuokoa project got mentioned. I don't see that as competing >>> with e-waste much. If we had volunteers with the required skills >>> and motivation, it should have made more progress. Perhaps Jim is >>> going to take the lead and change that. It might be possible to get >>> a grant from the state or Bishop estate or some such and actually >>> pay people to work on it. There might be a professor at UH to team >>> up with. There is plenty of potential. >> >> What I'd like to do is get a grant (I'm thinking Campbell Estate, but >> I'm open to other options, Bishop being the most likely) to basically >> create >> the training classes to effect Kamehameha Schools (and/or the >> charter/ immersion schools) to effect a Hawaiian distribution of >> Ubuntu. > > Most *NIX software is keyed to Locale, and it seems that locale is > keyed > to ISO country/language codes, so it seems to me that the first step > is > to get an ISO code for O'lelo Hawai'i, but maybe I'm behind the times > and this has already hapened?
The ISO 639-2/639-3 code for Hawaiian is "haw". >> My concern with additional school labs is that we're butting heads >> with DOE and many (not all, but many) tech coordinators, >> who all want the "shinny new stuff" (and there are hard-science >> reasons for it beyond its attractive shinny surface). > > e.g. greeness of power consumption? Thats one. Core 2 (and recent AMD CPUs) support 64-bit computing, while P4s do not. Likely that the newer machines are also (mostly, if not 100%) lead-free. >> We're literally attempting to introduce last-gen computers running a >> decidedly foreign software stack into a program that promotes the use >> of PowerPoint by students beginning in First Grade, thereby crushing >> any vestige of non-linear thought process and helping educating a new >> generation of middle managers who will toe the line and conform. > > Xerox is not a verb. Photocopy is a verb. > Presentation Software is a category, PowerPoint is a specific > implementation, so it's time to get right with the language, > as perception starts with language. I choose my words carefully. >>> Is Scott in or out? >> >> At this point, its his decision. I hope he's "in". > > In or out of what? 64studio? HOSEF? FLOSS? I answered the query in reference to HOSEF. Jim _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-hosef.org