Thanks Walter :-) Jeremy, the two links to pass onto your Sun contacts are <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/VirtualBox">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/VirtualBox</a> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/VirtualBox">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/VirtualBox</a> After giving this a tryout, they can then directly work with Walter and the Wiki pages. If they get it working ... they could also publish and share the working images here, <a href="http://virtualboximages.com">http://virtualboximages.com</a> Regards Roland <div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/13 Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> We are here to help if we can. -walter <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Roland Gesthuizen <<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I have a contact with Sun Microsystems, Jeremy Stagg who has expressed a > keen interest to see if they can help organise somebody from Sun to see if > they can enable it on their terminal services environment for schools, > perhaps also get it to run better within Virtual Box, their VM environment. > Joel and I had a brief look at this last year with Tony Forster at the VITTA > 2008 conference in Melbourne and I had a chance to walk through the idea > with Jeremy. > > Regards Roland > > 2009/4/11 Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> >> >> I wanted to thank everyone and especially the Sugar on a Stick technical >> team. This may not be too coherent I'm pretty tired but I wanted to give >> feedback. >> >> It worked on tons of different computers. Dave Bauer even got it working >> on the macs. There was one little HP that seemed not to work. A number of >> computers, including a new eepc couldn't get to the wireless. >> >> Everyone loved it! They were thrilled with Sugar and we had a room full of >> people playing with Turtle Art by the end of the session. People also >> really got it. They got how having a stick gave the kids access to a known >> system at multiple locations. They got how valuable working on existing >> computers would be for them. The lucky ones who were going to get 1-1 >> netbook deployments want sugar for those too! >> >> Walter has pictures. We were the hit of the show. >> >> This is the result of so much hard work by so many people, on Sugar on a >> Stick, on Sugar, and let us not forget all the geeks who came before us who >> made Linux and all the drivers work on all those machines. I don't know if >> these teachers really understood how many people worked to make this >> possible, but what is important is how much they were able to see in a short >> time about what a difference it could make to their students. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Caroline >> >> -- >> Caroline Meeks >> Solution Grove >> Caroline@SolutionGrove.com >> >> 617-500-3488 - Office >> 505-213-3268 - Fax >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > > > > -- > Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College > <a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a> > > "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change > the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > -- </div></div>Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </blockquote></div> -- Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College <a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead