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@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.
>>
>> This could be big. Kids no longer need their own computer. They can use
>> their parent's computer without trashing it. Plus the student's
>> computing environment is the same no matter which computer they're
>> using. Heck, I might do this myself!
>>
>> I wonder if we might find some sponsor who would buy a bunch of 1G thumb
>> drives (with their name/logo on them of course)? RedSeven comes to mind,
>> but I'd like to find a less geeky sponsor. We could load them up with
>> Sugar and distribute them to our local schools or other groups, along
>> with a simple pamphlet explaining what to do with it.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
> Great Idea - and why NOT RedSeven? "Geeky" or not. Seems to be it is the
> CAUSE that counts.
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