[IAEP] FOSS VT Went Amazingly Well!

[Walter Bender]

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-walter

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Roland Gesthuizen
<rgesthuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a contact with Sun Microsystems, Jeremy Stagg who has expressed a
> keen interest to see if they can help organise somebody from Sun to see if
> they can enable it on their terminal services environment for schools,
> perhaps also get it to run better within Virtual Box, their VM environment.
> Joel and I had a brief look at this last year with Tony Forster at the VITTA
> 2008 conference in Melbourne and I had a chance to walk through the idea
> with Jeremy.
>
> Regards Roland
>
> 2009/4/11 Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Caroline Meeks
>> Solution Grove
>> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>>
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> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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