[IAEP] Fwd: [bytesforall_readers] OLPC eyes 1 mn laptop sales in India

2008-09-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
Anybody know anything about this? -- Forwarded message -- From: Frederick FN Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:15 AM Subject: [bytesforall_readers] OLPC eyes 1 mn laptop sales in India To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Hardware/OLP

[IAEP] Let's compare books

2008-09-29 Thread Edward
hi iaep, I'd like to connect with you on Goodreads so we can share book recommendations. http://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?n=iaep&i=LTM2MDU1MjYwNzk6Mzc1 &[EMAIL PROTECTED]&utm_medium=email&utm_source=invite - Edward ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To opt-out of future invites to Goodre

Re: [IAEP] [OLPC India] Fwd: [bytesforall_readers] OLPC eyes 1 mn laptop sales in India

2008-09-29 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Monday 29 Sep 2008 1:52:22 pm Edward Cherlin wrote: > Anybody know anything about this? I usually pass up such articles. There are too many weasel words like "plans to ..." and "sources say ...". If this were a properly researched article or press release, then it would have specific details.

Re: [IAEP] Fedora Live CD for Sugar

2008-09-29 Thread Bryan Kearney
Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: > > Sure. Here it is. At some point I'll upload it into git somewhere. I built an image for this which can be run in en/kvm. To use it: 1) Download [1] 2) Uncompress it 3) run virt-image sugar-rawhide.xml This will default to 1024 megs of memory. If you would prefe

[IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

2008-09-29 Thread Morgan Collett
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php "The blue-and-white laptops — based on Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC design — are manufactured under license in Portugal and are primarily aimed at schoolchildren in developing countries." _

Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

2008-09-29 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett: > http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php > > "The blue-and-white laptops — based on Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC > design — are manufactured under license in Portugal and are primarily > aimed at schoolchildren in de

Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

2008-09-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett: > >> http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php >> >> "The blue-and-white laptops — based on Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC >> design — are man

Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

2008-09-29 Thread Walter Bender
I've pinged Intel about Sugar on these machines... (and the original Portugal order as well)... -walter On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morg

Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

2008-09-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Maybe we should ping education ministries as well, these are the ones that are being questioned right now by the public opinion about the convenience of spending so much money on laptops. They may be receptive to putting some more education (for free) on the machines ;) Regards, Tomeu On Mon, Se

Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

2008-09-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett: >> >>> http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php >>> >>> "Th

Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

2008-09-29 Thread Morgan Collett
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 21:54, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett: >>> http:/

Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

2008-09-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
The person who should know the most about these matters, specifically what Ministries of Education think (or at least what they say they think) is Nicholas. I have not found him to be as well-informed as I hoped, but we must ask him. Also, there is supposed to be a paid employee at OLPC whose job i

Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

2008-09-29 Thread s . boutayeb
Quoting Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Maybe we should ping education ministries as well, these are the ones > that are being questioned right now by the public opinion about the > convenience of spending so much money on laptops. They may be > receptive to putting some more education (for fr

[IAEP] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))

2008-09-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
This is the first time I have heard that G1G1 will start up again on Nov 17. As far as I can tell, nobody in the outside world has picked up on this yet. Is this a leak? Is it true? Has there been any outside announcement? Since it doesn't show up in Internet news searches, I am certain that there

Re: [IAEP] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))

2008-09-29 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
Edward, there's this litte Web site called olpcnews.com and they (no, wait, that was me;-) wrote something (http://www.olpcnews.com/sales_talk/g1g1/g1g1_v2_price_launchdate_unveiled.html) about this back on September 8 after laptopmag's Joanna Stern originally posted the information that day

Re: [IAEP] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))

2008-09-29 Thread Jim Gettys
See www.laptop.org - Jim On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 16:50 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > This is the first time I have heard that G1G1 will start up again on > Nov 17. As far as I can tell, nobody in the outside world has picked > up on this yet. > > Is this a leak? Is it true? Has

Re: [IAEP] [sugar] Sugar on Mandriva

2008-09-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:51 PM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone on the list have contacts at Mandriva. I know Pablo Saratxaga, their localization guru. I'm copying him. Pablo, Kaixo! We have just heard of a sizable education project using a Portuguese Linux distro based

Re: [IAEP] G1G1 (was Re: [Community-news] OLPC News (2008-09-29))

2008-09-29 Thread Walter Bender
FWIW, I saw a billboard in the Indianapolis airport this weekend advertising last year's G1G1 program!! -walter ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep

[IAEP] Fwd: Sugar USB testing

2008-09-29 Thread David Farning
I am forwarding a conversation that I have been have with Caroline Meeks to iaep so that we can archive her experiances. Caroline is a researcher who is interested in testing Sugar as part of a research project. I will let her fill you in on more of the project details herself. thanks david ---

Re: [IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

2008-09-29 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Morgan Collett wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 21:54, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan C

[IAEP] Sugar Talk to Chilean's Edu-ICT National Program

2008-09-29 Thread luis ACEVEDO
As we communicated last week, we exposed Sugar and it's activities to Enlaces, Chilean's Edu-ICT national program (http://www.enlaces.cl/). We described generally the project and it's features and future implications, through a brief presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/wernerio/sugar-int

Re: [IAEP] Sugar Talk to Chilean's Edu-ICT National Program

2008-09-29 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi luis On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:55 PM, luis ACEVEDO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > As we communicated last week, we exposed Sugar and it's activities to > Enlaces, Chilean's Edu-ICT national program (http://www.enlaces.cl/). We > described generally the project and it's features and future impl