Re: [IAEP] InfoTech Report and link to Photos

2010-04-25 Thread Gerald Ardito 
Caryl,

Thanks for all of your work to make this happen.
Please keep us posted.

Thanks.
Gerald

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.comwrote:


 Hi All,

 Today was showtime for SoaS at the LAUSD InfoTech and Parent Summit at
 the Los Angeles Convention center. This year's event was sponsored by Target
 as one of their community involvement projects. Everything was free... even
 parking and a great lunch!  They said there were about 4000 people there
 including kids.

 We had a lot of parents and teachers stop by and ask about getting XOs for
 their schools and about SoaS.  I gave them a special handout with links to
 lots of info. Some also signed up for the olpc-SoCal mailing list. Their
 names will be added sometime next week.

 You can see some photos of the event here. I wish I had had time to take
 more (and to see the other booths).

 http://bit.ly/9xfTAz

 We showed SoaS Blueberry running on the eeePC and MacBook (with a boot
 helper cd) and it worked fine.  This was a non-persistant version.  A couple
 of teachers who stopped by were very interested in trying it and may help us
 work on the Grannies Guide. I will keep working on it myself in the next
 couple of weeks.

 Thanks again to all of you who helped me get the project this far!
 Hopefully by CUELA's Tech Fair in November we will be ready for a hands-on
 make and take workshop... BYOLT and usb, take home SoaS ready to go!

 Caryl

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[IAEP] InfoTech Report and link to Photos

2010-04-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho 


Hi All, 

Today was showtime for SoaS at the LAUSD InfoTech and Parent Summit at the 
Los Angeles Convention center. This year's event was sponsored by Target as one 
of their community involvement projects. Everything was free... even parking 
and a great lunch!  They said there were about 4000 people there including kids.

We had a lot of parents and teachers stop by and ask about getting XOs for 
their schools and about SoaS.  I gave them a special handout with links to lots 
of info. Some also signed up for the olpc-SoCal mailing list. Their names will 
be added sometime next week.

You can see some photos of the event here. I wish I had had time to take more 
(and to see the other booths).

http://bit.ly/9xfTAz

We showed SoaS Blueberry running on the eeePC and MacBook (with a boot helper 
cd) and it worked fine.  This was a non-persistant version.  A couple of 
teachers who stopped by were very interested in trying it and may help us work 
on the Grannies Guide. I will keep working on it myself in the next couple of 
weeks.

Thanks again to all of you who helped me get the project this far!  Hopefully 
by CUELA's Tech Fair in November we will be ready for a hands-on make and take 
workshop... BYOLT and usb, take home SoaS ready to go!

Caryl ___
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IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org
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