[IAEP] Fwd: Earth Treasury Africa Project

[Edward Cherlin]

This is what I have been missing. I knew about booting from a USB
stick, but didn't put 2 and 2 together until just now. Earth
Treasury's Africa project can now go full steam ahead.

"2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2."--Geek humor, with a point

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:15 AM
Subject: [sugar] Sugar Digest 2008-10-20
To: community-news at lists.sugarlabs.org
Cc: iaep <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, sugar List <sugar at lists.laptop.org>


=== Sugar Digest ===

2. Sugar on a stick: Caroline Meeks and I visited a Boston public
school to discuss with them the possibility of piloting a USB Sugar
deployment, where the children would use USB sticks to boot Sugar at
school and at home, using whatever computers are available. This
deployment enables a school to use Sugar without making an upfront
investment in new computers. It could be a very cost-effective
approach to bootstrapping Sugar communities.

-walter

--
Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
http://www.sugarlabs.org
_______________________________________________
Sugar mailing list
Sugar at lists.laptop.org
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar

=====

This means that we don't have to wait for OLPC XO
deployments in order to roll out our program.

o We can get shipping container loads of donated computers running
Ubuntu Linux with Sugar, and deploy them _two_ per student, one at
school, and one at home, anywhere in Africa that we can get a truck
to. It isn't as good as being able to carry an XO laptop everywhere,
but it allows students to collaborate on homework from their homes, an
essential part of the program.

o We can use computers already in schools without disturbing whatever
is installed on them.

o Engineers Without Borders is starting work on a catalog of
appropriate renewable energy technologies for every terrain and
climate.

o I will approach Barefoot Coffee Roasters and Red Rock Cafe about
joint fundraising to build up business in coffee-growing communities
on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Mt. Elgon in Uganda, two of the
premier coffee-growing regions of the world.

o Tony Cratz of Hematite.com and OneVillage Foundation Ghana can put
together a WiMax broadband Internet operation. I'l see whether Tim
Pozar or Clif Cox of the free San Francisco Bay Area wireless networks
would be interested.

o Fantsuam Foundation in Nigeria can provide microfinance to place
electricity and Internet, to be paid back out of new economic
opportunities.

o There is another large piece that we have been offered, which I
cannot announce yet.

Now, who here has ideas about how to make more of this happen? Who can
take a piece of this and run with it?

--
Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name
And Children are my nation.
The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children