Hi everyone, It's been a while since my last email, but I just want to share what we've been up to lately.
Last Thursday (Sept. 10), Ryan (Letada), Sandeep, and myself were at Y4IT (http://y4it.up.edu.ph) and had a 40 minute presentation primarily about Sugar, then moved to OLPC and introduced eKindling to around a hundred students at the UP Film Institute. We talked about the relevance of Sugar as a learning platform and a technology project, not to mention that it is an open source project with a thriving user and developer community. After showing how Sugar works, we showed a real-use case with the OLPC XO-1 machine (letting it fall as well) and Sugar on a Stick (SoaS). Ryan and Sandeep gave an overview of what we are doing at eKindling and the presentation was generally lauded. I have to admit, the XO-1 laptop still has charm despite its age which only shows that there is still an audience to reach out to. On Sept. 19, we will participate at Software Freedom Day happening at the National Computer Center in Quezon City. Here's the official info: "Bluepoint Linux Users Elite (BLUE) in cooperation with the Commission on Information & Communications Technology-National Computer Center (CICT-NCC), University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU), Ateneo de Manila University Department of Information Systems and Computer Science (DISCS), and Bluepoint Foundation will celebrate Software Freedom Day with the rest of the world on September 19, 2009 at the National Computer Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City." Magie Antonio of Bluepoint was so gracious to invite us again to be part of SFD. Last year's booth was a very successful one and we intend to expand further by separating OLPC and Sugar by doing demos of the OLPC XO-1 machine and Sugar on a Stick. We currently have 2 functional OLPC XO-1 laptops for display as well as a prototype B2 unit to let people see the internals of the machine. For SoaS, I will bring a full sized laptop and perhaps add another Mac to show how it can run on other operating systems. If you would like to help, please let me know! -- Cheers, Jerome _______________________________________________ OLPC-Philippines mailing list OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines