[IAEP] [support-gang] How Many XOs?

[Reuben K. Caron]

On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Walter Bender wrote:

> FWIW, we've been in discussion about Sugar as part of the offering.

How has that idea been received? Can you clarify -- offered on top of  
Windows or as an additional window manager on the Linux side?


>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> Am 02.03.2011 06:34, schrieb John Watlington:
>>>
>>> On Mar 1, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 01.03.2011 13:36, schrieb Christoph Derndorfer:
>>>>> Am 28.02.2011 22:59, schrieb John Watlington:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm still absolutely clueless about the total figures but what  
>>>>>>> I do know
>>>>>>> is that Argentina's Conectar Igualdad program
>>>>>>> (http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/) will distribute 3 million
>>>>>>> Classmate PCs in part of its public secondary school system by  
>>>>>>> the end
>>>>>>> of 2012. By late December approximately half a million of them  
>>>>>>> had
>>>>>>> supposedly been distributed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> According to the web site at the URL provided above, none have
>>>>>> been delivered to children as of Feb. 28.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I was in Buenos Aires in mid-December for a 3-day workshop
>>>>> organized by the Argentinian MoE I also met my former  
>>>>> Argentinian host
>>>>> brother and his cousin who had received their Classmate PCs in  
>>>>> late
>>>>> November.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I know that at least two of them have actually been  
>>>>> distributed (and
>>>>> no, this time not based on dubious information from Kigali;-)
>>>>>
>>>>>> We continue to hear that Classmates are being deployed, but  
>>>>>> nobody
>>>>>> can provide concrete information about where and how many.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll get in touch with some people in Buenos Aires to try and  
>>>>> figure out
>>>>> what the current figure there is.
>>>>
>>>> Okay, just found
>>>> http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/sobre-el-programa/evaluacion-y-seguimiento/informe-de-avance-de-entregas/
>>>> which supposedly provides the number of distributed netbooks and is
>>>> updated on a weekly basis.
>>>>
>>>> The count as of today is 358,227.
>>>
>>> Impressive number.  What software are they running ?
>>
>> It's dual-boot with Windows and Linux.
>>
>> According to a manual
>> (www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/wp-content/themes/conectar_igualdad/pdf/Manual_alumnos.pdf)
>> on the Conectar Igualdad Web site for Linux they're using the
>> Debian-based (IIRC) OS from http://www.pixartargentina.com.ar/  
>> however
>> one of the project leads just told me that it's Ubuntu so they might
>> have changed their mind since the manual was written.
>>
>> On the Windows side there's also slightly confusing information with
>> again the manual making a reference to Windows XP whereas
>> http://www.conectarigualdad.gob.ar/la-netbook/descripcion-de-los-equipos/tecnologia/tecnologia/
>> talks about Windows 7 Professional. But again I've asked that project
>> lead for a clarification and will report back once I know more.
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>> --
>> Christoph Derndorfer
>> co-editor, www.olpcnews.com
>> e-mail: christoph at olpcnews.com
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