Re: [IAEP] Any olpc/Sugar/ICT4E people in Spain?

2011-03-21 Thread Juan Rafael Fernández García 
2011/3/21 Christoph Derndorfer :

> Especially given how much Linux is used around
> schools in the country and that Latin America is the hotbed for all
> things OLPC and 1-to-1 computing at the moment I'm simply surprised that
> there's no established olpc/Sugar community here already.

I'm also surprised that I've seen a bigger OLPC/Sugar community in
France than in Spain. I have an explanation, though: PCs with some GNU
Linux educational distro are deployed all around Spain, taken care of
by the regional authorities, which makes the situation different from
the French one (individual or local initiatives) or the Central/South
American one (OLPC or similar hardware).

Consider the case in Andalusia. All the computers, the thousands of
them, are administered and updated remotely - so the operating system
has to be the same all around, the network configuration and services,
etc. From the Spanish point of view, Sugar running on GNU LInux, as an
environment like Squeak, would be more interesting than as an
alternative independent approach.

IMHO.
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Re: [IAEP] Any olpc/Sugar/ICT4E people in Spain?

2011-03-18 Thread Juan Rafael Fernández García 
2011/3/18 Christoph Derndorfer :

> Now I was wondering whether anyone here knows people working on
> olpc/Sugar/ICT4E who are based here in Madrid or elsewhere in Spain?

Sorry, can't help here

> plus similarly minded communities
> (e.g. LUGs, hacker spaces, etc.) also seem to be quite rare around here.

Well, in a country in which several hundred thousands of computers in
schools use FOSS, maybe your observation is not very accurate. MAX is
the name of the GNU Linux distro used in Madrid, you may start trying
to contact them, there's a very active group (I live some 600km from
Madrid, in Andalusia).

Maybe these pointers could help you:
http://speeches.ofset.org/jrfernandez/rmll2006/present_distros_en.pdf (2006)
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/html/adjuntos/2010/05/31/0002/index.html
(2010)

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