[IAEP] Sugar Labs Chile proposal

[Walter Bender]

Sounds great...

-walter

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Werner Westermann<wernerio at gmail.com> wrote:
> To David Farning, best regards from Santiago, Chile.
>
> I'd like to officially nominate Chile as a Local Lab:
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs_Chile
>
> We, Educalibre (http://www.educalibre.cl), were hoping to be ready as a
> formalized NGO, but the process will not end before 2 or 3 months (it
> started August 2008).  It woud be best to sign the MOU once we are
> formalized completely.
>
> But things are starting to work out with Sugar in Chile.  We are starting a
> pilot in Punta Arenas, where the Sugar on a Stick will be running over
> Classmate 1, and another pilot is on it's way in Huechuraba County, outside
> of Santiago.  We have the support of interesting allies such as initiatives
> related to school innovation through ICTs, universities (inlcuiding a
> educational university), Intel (who's shown great interest and commitment).
> This year, Classmate 1 Mobile Labs (on a cart) were distrubuted to public
> schools oriented to 3rd graders, and SoaS+Classmate is seen as a great
> alternative.  We are also have close contact with Sugar Labs Colombia, who
> are also starting to roll out pilots, and we've commited to share and build
> collaborately (we are starting to design a course oriented to teacher
> profesiona development, and have a basic Sugar course and agenda as well).
>
> All of the above has pushed to finaly run Sugar Labs Chile.  Hope to hear
> from you soon,
>
> werner
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Walter Bender
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