[IAEP] Quiz making activity - was Re: thin clients

[Caroline Meeks]

Dave, Pyclic looks very interesting. Let me know when its ready for testing.

As I am working to get Sugar on a Stick working within the realities of the
5th grade GPA classrooms I'm very interested in tools that let the kids
create things they can share and use to practice their skills.

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 6:57 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>wrote:

> Actually without getting people wirngingling their fists, I'd have to say
> that due to Open Suse's policy of basically lending an open hand to anyone
> with magical ideas, and then not only allowing you to use their name, but
> also their inframagic, from Opensuse Buidle Service to Suse Studio, to
> creating yout own web domain hosted under novel, yet without the requirement
> to carry novell only soft on it, (linux-for-education.org is a good
> example) it has allowed them to kind of leap frog over some of the
> competition, though no one likes to admit this. For example in the case of
> LTSP an easy visual setp facility was built in, along with trying it out
> even before installing, Sugar on kiwi-ltsp was working just fine the last
> time I took a look, though that has admittadly beena while. I made back then
> to include as many well working fully functional sugar apps on both the
> sugar only cd and the whole edu dvd. The whole EDU dvd is truly a work of
> art, and is where a lot of the other distros could be at it if werent for
> politics. But hey.... I'm currently mixxed ina small telepathy based
> collaborative quiz (git.sugarlabs.org/projects/pyclic) and some larger
> telepathy based/LTSP/Sugar/Wirelss/XMPP based suff... but I'll try and get
> this email to push me update sugaresuse..
>
> anyw more questions... just ask..
>
> D
>
> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:32 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Deborah Boatwright
>> <boatwrightd at newmarket.k12.nh.us> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am intrigued by many aspects of Sugar on a Stick.  My school uses
>> Novell with Windows XP on the desk top.
>> >
>> > Then I have a thin client network using LTSP-KIWI Opensuse that does not
>> work well. It is two servers and 72 thin clients.
>> >
>> >  I have a mobile laptop lab of 24 PC that are R30 thinkpads.
>> >
>> > My question is I found this site and wondered if I can use Sugar as an
>> application on my thin clients.
>> >
>> > http://en.opensuse.org/Sugar
>>
>> Short answer is yes you can.
>>
>> Longer answer it might take some work.  From what I have seen,
>> OpenSuse is the current leader in education solutions base on thin
>> clients.
>>
>> I am ccing David Van Assche, the opensuse package maintainer.  He will
>> be most knowledgeable about (or can refer you to knowledgeable people)
>> deploying Sugar on OpenSuse in a thin client environment.
>>
>> david
>>
>> > The district has said it is switching to linux 100% and will use a
>> windows application server to deliver apps that are necessary otherwise.
>> >
>> > Sincere Regards,
>> > Deb
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