[IAEP] XOs used in primary elections in Uruguay
A generally private-but-the-taxpayer-pays-expenses company in Uruguay, Conex, is said to have charged the Electoral Court US$ 2 million for software that was used in the recent primary elections in Uruguay. Central to this was the use of XO laptops, locally knows as Ceibalitas Now, in the middle of a pass-the-buck media war, the XO's filled-up memory and in some circumstances slow response are blamed for some issues during the counting of votes and the data transmission to Montevideo. Conex insists those problems had an easy solution that insufficiently trained users did not follow. Connectivity problems, lack of extension cords also occurred, among other. My opinion is that this was a valiant attempt to use the XOs for Real Life needs. Also, I would like to see Conex upstreaming some of what they charged (I have no knowledge of any upstreaming that has happened by Uruguay in many years, and over a million XOs, except in a courageous and devoted individual basis) for the free operating system and software that they got - though I agree that the current browser is very heavy, and slow responses and bad connections are obvious results. Maybe if they had developed a lighter browser - maybe even a text based one. Since an efficient system or UX has seldom been a priority in XO/Sugar software development (looks and ideology preempt UX), it is possible they never thought of such an option. Too bad, since originally the Ceibalitas were to be it for the National Elections in October. THAT would have been a great thing, IMHO. Link to article (Spanish) http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/organismos-se-culpan-demoras-eleccion.html -- *STEMginery* Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yamaplos/stemginery-3d-build-learn-play-make-game-free2copy ATXinventor's blog http://blog.atxinventor.com *STEM* and other montessori materials: kits-to-build, or pre-assembled www.etsy.com/shop/ATXinventor http://www.etsy.com/shop/ATXinventor ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] olpc-sf June Meeting hosted by Inveneo
Hey folks, please note the new location this month. Inveneo will be hosting this month's olpc San Francisco monthly meeting on Saturday, June 21st, from 10AM - 1PM. The address is 972 Mission St, 5th floor, note this is *not* our usual location. Everyone is welcome to join us for our monthly meeting! We'll be discussing the latest in olpc events and give updates on our local (and global) projects. There will be plenty of XO laptops with the latest builds to play around with, too. This month we're going to kick off our meeting with project needs requests. Do you need help with your project? Do you have skills or areas of expertise to help a project in need? Let us know and we'll announce it at our meeting. We're hoping to get a temperature for what needs our community is looking for and match people up with projects. Agenda * Meet and greet * Needs requests announce * Madagascar update * Project updates * July meeting space * 2014 Summit planning Please post with any additional agenda items. -- Aaron Borden Human and Hacker signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] olpc-sf June Meeting hosted by Inveneo
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Aaron Borden adbor...@live.com wrote: Hey folks, please note the new location this month. Inveneo will be hosting this month's olpc San Francisco monthly meeting on Saturday, June 21st, from 10AM - 1PM. The address is 972 Mission St, 5th floor, note this is *not* our usual location. Everyone is welcome to join us for our monthly meeting! We'll be discussing the latest in olpc events and give updates on our local (and global) projects. There will be plenty of XO laptops with the latest builds to play around with, too. This month we're going to kick off our meeting with project needs requests. Do you need help with your project? Do you have skills or areas of expertise to help a project in need? Let us know and we'll announce it at our meeting. We're hoping to get a temperature for what needs our community is looking for and match people up with projects. Agenda * Meet and greet * Needs requests announce * Madagascar update * Project updates * July meeting space * 2014 Summit planning Please post with any additional agenda items. * We have a copy of the Internet-in-a-Box dataset. If you want a copy, bring a 1TB USB drive with you. USB3 preferred. I'll have a local copy as well, so we can always duplicate at a later date as well. * We'll also have a functioning version of XSCE 5.0 school server running on a XO 1.75 (laptop becomes a server) running among other services, Pathagar (https://github.com/PathagarBooks/pathagar), XOVis (https://github.com/martasd/xovis), Munin (http://munin-monitoring.org/), Ajenti (http://ajenti.org/), Internet-in-a-Box (http://internet-in-a-box.org/) and such. * Some updates on Bhagmalpur, India (http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com). I hope Bruce will highlight RACHEL and some of his solar stuff. cheers, Sameer -- Aaron Borden Human and Hacker ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sur] XOs used in primary elections in Uruguay
On 17/06/2014 16:10, Yama Ploskonka wrote: the use of XO laptops, locally knows as "Ceibalitas" --- The "Ceibalitas" aren't only the XO. "Ceibalitas" is the nickname to the Ceibal's Laptops. (Clasmates, Xo, Tablets, ETc etc, there are 12 different models). On the last elections in Uruguay there was used the "Magallanes" (similar to the classmates), not the XO. http://www.180.com.uy/articulo/40346_El-uso-de-las-ceibalitas-en-las-elecciones-internas. Those Laptops comes with Ubuntu. They were used on the elections for administrative task, not for voting. Ther was many kind of problems , problems with the internet, with the power, and also with the software, but One of the most common problems was human, not technical. normally they have to fill a handwrite form with the votes of each voting location, and the totals and sub-totals sometimes don't match. In the handwrited form those errors don't matter. But in an electronic form the sub-totals has to match, because the computer refuses to close the form if the sub-totals and totals don't match, so you have to re-count all the votes by hand another time, loosing hours and hours. Paolo Benini Montevideo ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
