[IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

[Paulo Trezentos]

Hi everyone.

My name is Paulo Trezentos.
I'm technical director of Caixa Mágica.

Can you please give me more information about yourselves and the idea?

BTW, I was chairman of Scott Ananian's talk in FISL.
Is the same Sugar project where Scott is involved?

Cheers.


Eduardo H. Silva escreveu:
> 2008/10/7 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>:
>   
>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> Morgan Collett wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 21:54, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Am 29.09.2008 um 11:51 schrieb Morgan Collett:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/27/europe/EU-Portugal-Venezuela.php
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "The blue-and-white laptops — based on Intel Corp.'s Classmate PC
>>>>>>>> design — are manufactured under license in Portugal and are primarily
>>>>>>>> aimed at schoolchildren in developing countries."
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>> No word on software - does anyone know more?
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> I read somewhere that they will ship with a linux flavor developed in portugal:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/a_index.php
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Not very informative to techies.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> It's based in Mandriva, maybe we can make sure Sugar is there?
>>>>>>             
>>>>> A little more information.
>>>>> http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=caixamagica&month=all&year=all
>>>>>
>>>>> kernel 2.6.22
>>>>>
>>>>> Originally based on SUSE, now on Mandriva.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anybody tried running the Fedora Sugar packages on Mandriva?
>>>>>
>>>>> Do we need a distro lab where we can run lots of VMs at once?
>>>>>           
>>>> More information, although I'm not sure how credible:
>>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/740ao/venezuela_orders_1_million_intel_classmates_this/
>>>>
>>>> "The 30 GB hard drive is partitioned in 3 drives. 10GB Windows and
>>>> 10GB for Caixa Mágica (Portuguese commercial Linux distro), and 10GB
>>>> for the user profiles. All computers will dual boot the two OS by
>>>> default."
>>>>         
>>> Very interesting.  Someone should contact the people behind Caixa
>>> Magica and propose Sugar running on top of their OS.
>>>
>>> Here is some comtact information:
>>>    http://www.caixamagica.pt/pag/j-cotct00.php
>>>
>>> Now, who speaks Portuguese here? ;-)
>>>       
>> Eduardo, do you think the Caixa Magica guys would be interested in
>> packaging Sugar for CM and/or Mandriva?
>>     
>
> It is hard to say. This would best be answered by them, so I'm CCing
> Caixa Magica general e-mail.
>
> Just for background to Caixa Mágica folk: a new version of the Sugar
> learning environment (http://sugarlabs.org/go/Main_Page) has been
> released ( http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.82 )
> and will be in the next versions of some major distros (at least
> Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSuse). The question is, how could the future
> users of Caixa Mágica in Magalhães get Sugar with the smallest fuss
> possible (for all parties, kids, teachers, schools, but from you as
> well)? And some more questions bellow, like, how would packaging Sugar
> in Mandriva help you, CM folk, to provide it as an alternative desktop
> to the users of Magalhães?
>
>
> Eduardo
>
>   
>> David, have you already approached the Mandriva community about this
>> as part of your outreach efforts? Do you know of any effort on which
>> CM could build their own packaging work?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>>     


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