I forgot to add, for more info about Software Freedom Day, visit the site and the event schedule at http://bluepoint.com.ph/index.php?entry=20090803000007
thanks! Jerome On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Jerome Gotangco <jgotan...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- Cheers, Jerome _______________________________________________ OLPC-Philippines mailing list OLPC-Philippines@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-philippines