I suggest you approach Chuck Kane at OLPC directly. If for some reason he cannot accommodate the request, then we should discuss alternative means to deploy Sugar.
-walter On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (from Werner Westermann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) > > Best regards from Santiago, Chile. > > In May of this year, we had exciting news where the ICT-Schools program of the > Department of Education, Enlaces (http://www.enlaces.cl), asked Educalibre > (http://www.educalibre.cl/) to propose a OLPC deployment project. Enlaces > previously met > with a OLPC and Brightstar representatives asuring a total of 1000 XOs. We > went on to > develop the proposal and negociate where to deploy the iniciative (Enlaces > required us > to engage rural areas, outside of the Metropolitan Area, among others): > > http://wiki.educalibre.cl/index.php/Propuesta_OLPC_Chile > > Unfortunately, as you can see, the proposal was frustrated, because as > Brightstar > distributor and partner of the OLPC Foundation, argued that it would not be > possible for > the Chilean State to purchase only 1,000 XOs, but would consider a minimum of > 10,000 XO. > Faced with this sudden change of turn and the impossibility of buying that > quantity > off-budget, Enlaces decided to discard the possibility that the XO came into > the hands > of our children. > > Seeing pilots open in Latin America (Paraguay, Colombia, Nicaragua) promoted > by NGOs or > other non-profit institutions, we are once again dreaming of implementing an > OLPC pilot > in Chile. Educalibre has been formalized as an NGO Corporation and also has > the support > of other NGOs that relate to free culture (http://www.derechosdigitales.org/) > and > pedagogical universities (http://www.ucsh.cl/). We have certainty of being > able to > gather the financial and human resources to successfully depploy OLPC in > Chile. > > How and through what channel we can raise a formal proposal to deploy OLPC in > Chile? > > To whom can we turn for this possibility? > > With harmless envy, we watch (and also colaborate) how OLPC can be a real > strategy to > transform education, teaching, and especially, children's learning. From here > we want to > join and contribute in that process. I look forward to your contact. > > Best regards, > > Werner Westermann Juárez > ONG Corporación Educalibre > http://www.educalibre.cl > (+562) 632 3660 > (+5609) 7 805 7501 > > > _______________________________________________ > Localization mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/localization > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
