Sugar on a Stick - Sugar Labs

[Michael Butash]

I dunno about any of you, but I know of no schools using sugar, let
alone linux here locally.  I've worked with a few school districts
around town for infrastructure, and they're all very linux-ama-whuzzit?
As far as I can tell they have issues grasping/maintaining networked
windoze environments, and I can't imagine them wanting to now inject a
whole new os even they themselves haven't a clue how to maintain.
Combine this with being already overworked and underpaid, it'll die on
the butchering floor for anyone to support it within the organization.

Now look at this from a kids perspective, if they can't run games or
even apps they're *familiar* with, I think most would immediately
dismiss it.  Combine this with probably scaring the hell out of their
windoze-loving parents booting their system even temporarily into linux,
they'd ban such a thing thinking it's a virus or something equally
asinine.  I think only the most geek-inclined would bother, others would
just format it to hide their pr0n on.  Microsoft and scammers (one and
same?) have done a good job of getting people to think that nothing good
can possibly be free...

As good as the intentions, without some serious persistence and
education, it'd be moot to bother with IMHO.  Cisco has done a good job
of trying to push themselves into high school education curriculum, as
has Microsoft, but I don't see the same happening with any linux.  There
is no singular beast of a self-serving company producing and
incentivizing it with the same capacity for pulling money off trees for
pet projects as they do.  Well, at least until google steps forward with
ChromeOS perhaps...

-mb


On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:51 -0700, Stephen wrote:
> even further out on a limb maybe contact any of the big companies
> wanting to tout their opensource support? dell hp ibm ect...
> 
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Stephen<cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And honestly they are one of the most persistant companies supporting
> > opensource locally. kinda of a fit..
> >
> > maybe contact system76?
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:12 AM, wayne<waydavis at cox.net> wrote:
> >> Eric Shubert wrote:
> >>> I stumbled across this just now:
> >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick
> >>> "The Sugar on a Stick project gives children access to /their/ Sugar on
> >>> any computer in their environment with just a USB memory stick. Taking
> >>> advantage of the Fedora LiveUSB, it's possible to store everything you
> >>> need to run Sugar on a single USB memory stick (minimum size 1GB)."
> >>> I must have missed/ignored this being mentioned here before.
> 
> 
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