[IAEP] FOSS VT Went Amazingly Well!

[Caroline Meeks]

I wanted to thank everyone and especially the Sugar on a Stick technical
team.  This may not be too coherent I'm pretty tired but I wanted to give
feedback.

It worked on tons of different computers.  Dave Bauer even got it working on
the macs.  There was one little HP that seemed not to work.  A number of
computers, including a new eepc couldn't get to the wireless.

Everyone loved it! They were thrilled with Sugar and we had a room full of
people playing with Turtle Art by the end of the session.  People also
really got it.  They got how having a stick gave the kids access to a known
system at multiple locations.  They got how valuable working on existing
computers would be for them.  The lucky ones who were going to get 1-1
netbook deployments want sugar for those too!

Walter has pictures.  We were the hit of the show.

This is the result of so much hard work by so many people, on Sugar on a
Stick, on Sugar, and let us not forget all the geeks who came before us who
made Linux and all the drivers work on all those machines.  I don't know if
these teachers really understood how many people worked to make this
possible, but what is important is how much they were able to see in a short
time about what a difference it could make to their students.

Thank you,

Caroline

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Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com

617-500-3488 - Office
505-213-3268 - Fax
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