[IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

[Edward Cherlin]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> but it's all in the Wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/
>
> Maybe not all. I'd recommend you check out http://sugarlabs.org as
> well, as the key is the software, since the hardware is presumably the
> Classmate PC in this case.

Sorry. I only meant that the OLPC mission and deployments are in the
OLPC Wiki. But I should have given both URLs anyway.

> -walter
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Eduardo H. Silva <hoboprimate at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Eduardo.
>> l
>>> 2008/10/7 Paulo Trezentos <Paulo.Trezentos at caixamagica.pt>:
>>>> Hi everyone.
>>>>
>>>> My name is Paulo Trezentos.
>>>> I'm technical director of Caixa Mágica.
>>
>> Bemvenido!
>>
>> (Well, that's nearly it for my Portuguese, except for some old Bossa
>> Nova songs. Sorry.)
>>
>>>> Can you please give me more information about yourselves and the idea?
>>
>> I don't know how much background information you have, but it's all in
>> the Wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/ if you need more than I have room to
>> tell you about. Some people find my video on Expanding the Vision of
>> OLPC helpful. You can get to it from my page,
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mokurai.
>>
>> We are out to save the world through education on computers, leading
>> to the end of poverty and some other consequences of general interest.
>> Peru and Uruguay have ordered OLPC XO laptops for all of their
>> schooldchildren, and we have smaller deployments and trials in dozens
>> of other countries. See, for example,
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:OLPC_Brazil. Our Sugar software for
>> Linux is being localized into both português and português do Brasil,
>> along with 80 or so other languages.
>>
>> Venezuela has ordered a million laptops for schoolchildren, using your
>> Caixa Mágica Linux. We would like to put our Sugar education software
>> on CM and thus on those laptops. We have RPMs of many of our
>> Activities that were developed for Fedora Linux, and we have started a
>> discussion with Mandriva about getting those RPMs into their
>> distribution. So everything is lined up, and now we want to talk with
>> you about getting our packages into your distribution, and get our
>> volunteers and staff working with your volunteers and staff.
>>
>> You should get acquainted with Walter Bender, head of Sugar Labs, and
>> also David Farning; Jim Gettys, Scott Ananian, S. J. Klein, and others
>> in software at OLPC; Ivan Krstić, our security maven; and others whom
>> they can introduce you to.
>>
>> What else do you need to know?
>> --
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>> The Cosmos is my dwelling place,
>> The Truth my destination.
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