[IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

[s.boutayeb at free.fr]

Quoting Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>:

> Maybe we should ping education ministries as well, these are the ones
> that are being questioned right now by the public opinion about the
> convenience of spending so much money on laptops. They may be
> receptive to putting some more education (for free) on the machines ;)
>
That is exactly the state of our reflexion, here at OLPC France. We are planning
on 15-16 Nov. a CodeCamp (
http://olpc-france.org/wiki/index.php?title=CodeCamp_OLPC_France/La_Cantine ).
One of the possible workshop will be a "sugarize-workshop" during which we will
experiment the installation of sugar on various platforms with various methods
(external media, HD installation, emulation, liveCD, etc.). We have contacted
some netbook-manufacturers to this end... but we are at the very beginning of
our reflexion.

We want to demonstrate the versatility of the sugar environment and the
activities initially developped for the xo an to ping more ministers (Lionel
Laské and Bastien Guerry meet a few weeks ago with the cabinet of the French
Minister in charge of the  "économie numérique" and we will continue.

Bests
Samy


> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I've pinged Intel about Sugar on these machines... (and the original
> > Portugal order as well)...
> >
> > -walter
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:10 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
> >>
> >> It's based in Mandriva, maybe we can make sure Sugar is there?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Tomeu
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Walter Bender
> > Sugar Labs
> > http://www.sugarlabs.org
> >
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