[IAEP] Ncomputing

[Kevin Cole]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:58, Luke Faraone<luke at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 15:29, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>
>> > One thing we spoke about here locally was getting some thin client
>> > device that was really certified to work with Sugar and whatever
>> > distro... It would be a necessary requirement for country level
>> > deployments...
>>
>> Sounds good, what's the work that needs to be done in order to reach
>> there?
>
> Sorry to revive an ancient thread, but I recently met with some of the folks
> from NComputing at a recent conference. They seemed very interested in
> getting Sugar "verified" as working with their thin-client-like hardware, so
> that they can offer it as a supported (by them) option to their deployments.
> I'm currently in the process of getting it to work with the most recent
> releases of Fedora and Ubuntu, and will report back with my progress.
>

A few months ago, Mark Beckford, VP of Business Development for
nComputing  showed up at one of the DC Learning Club / DC Sugar Labs
"business" meetings (as opposed to our regular monthly meetings).
Apparently there's a lot of common ground between us: He spoke of how
nComputing is doing deployments of their equipment to small,
underserved schools in Africa.

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