Sugar on a Stick - Sugar Labs

[wayne]

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.