Sugar on a Stick - Sugar Labs

[James Finstrom]

If you have been to an east side meeting at sequoia you know 1 school
that uses linux. I think charter schools are a perfect target. I just
signed my kids up at a charter school that doent have a computer lab
they have laptops that come to the classrooms I thought that was neat

On 8/7/09, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
> 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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