[IAEP] Announcing a development sprint in Maine to work on getting Sugar in the Maine based 1 to 1 for netbooks in schools spin.

[Caryl Bigenho]

Wow!  This is "good stuff." Thanks for passing this along.  I wonder what other FOSS projects there are out there?  A central resource place where all could be collected and shared would be nice. 
I think I will try to run their software on my netbook and see what it has.

Wish I could attend the event, but will be in MT doing "Camp Grandma & Grandpa" with our grandkids then.  

Caryl
From: caroline at solutiongrove.com
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:07:43 -0400
To: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
Subject: [IAEP] Announcing a development sprint in Maine to work on getting	Sugar in the Maine based 1 to 1 for netbooks in schools spin.

FOSSED is a major open source for educators conference in Maine that both teachers and developers attend.  This year we will be working to bring together developers with interested in Sugar are invited to come and work with the developers are already working with schools in Maine.


Here is some background: 
Many of you may know that Maine has lead the way in the US with 1 on 1 Apple laptops for middle schoolers, paid for out of the state budget for the last several years.  


What you may not have heard is when the state expanded the program a bit over a year ago the state wanted many districts to pay $250 per year to lease apple laptops with software for middle and high school students.


Many of Maine's towns and rural areas thought that was too much! So they came together and formed a coalition. They created their own open source distro packed with educational software: open1to1.org.  They negotiated a deal to buy netbooks for $289 (buy not lease!)


About 3000 students are using open source in Maine today!  The project url is: http://open1to1.org
Now they want to add Sugar to Open 1 to 1!! :)


Please come help us kick off this effort in Maine July 7th to 9th!!!  
The conference url is http://www.fossed.com/.  Developers will receive a VERY significant discount (probably about half price, details are being worked out now) and still get lodging, all you can eat great food and access to sessions.



-- 
Caroline Meeks
Solution Grove
Caroline at SolutionGrove.com

617-500-3488 - Office
505-213-3268 - Fax

 		 	   		  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/attachments/20100505/93a52fb2/attachment.htm