[IAEP] [Marketing] OLPC Australia press release

[David Farning]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.olpc.org.au/news/27May09.shtml
>
> See quote about school attendance.
>
> Here's an example where Sugar can bridge the gap between the
> disadvantaged indigenous communities of Australia and the more
> well-off children there; XOs with Sugar for the former (goal of
> 400,000), SoaS for the latter.
>
> Regrettably, Sugar is not mentioned, although the richness of 30 Activities are.

On the flip side.  Some months ago Sugar's inability to compete with
Windows was widely considered the limiting factor for OLPC deployment.
(at least in the press)

Since that time, OLPC has stabilized the hardware part of the equation
and Sugar Labs has improved the software end of the equation to the
point that Sugar is no longer regarded as the weak link:)

That is progress.

david

> Of interest: the teacher training programme
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