<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16809" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Arial"> <DIV>Roland</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Posting to Sun these details and thanking the team behind this for their effort - well done !</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Regards</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff>Jeremy Stagg</FONT><BR>Network Help Pty Ltd</STRONG><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV> <HR> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#000080>Ph. +61-3-9459-2122<BR>Fax +61-3-9459-5322<BR></FONT></STRONG><A href="http://www.networkhelp.com.au/"><STRONG><FONT color=#000080>http://www.networkhelp.com.au</FONT></STRONG></A><BR> <HR> </DIV><BR><BR>>>> On 13/04/2009 at 10:03 pm, in message <8c788a890904130503i135328beyd25393823311bb4f@mail.gmail.com>, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen@gmail.com> wrote:<BR></DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 7px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 15px; BORDER-LEFT: #050505 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f3f3f3">Thanks Walter :-)<BR><BR>Jeremy, the two links to pass onto your Sun contacts are<BR><A href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/VirtualBox">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/VirtualBox</A><BR><A href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/VirtualBox">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/VirtualBox</A><BR><BR>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,<BR><A href="http://virtualboximages.com/">http://virtualboximages.com</A><BR><BR>Regards Roland<BR><BR> <DIV class=gmail_quote>2009/4/13 Walter Bender <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</A>></SPAN><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">We are here to help if we can.<BR><BR>-walter<BR> <DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=h5><BR>On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Roland Gesthuizen<BR><<A href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> I have a contact with Sun Microsystems, Jeremy Stagg who has expressed a<BR>> keen interest to see if they can help organise somebody from Sun to see if<BR>> they can enable it on their terminal services environment for schools,<BR>> perhaps also get it to run better within Virtual Box, their VM environment.<BR>> Joel and I had a brief look at this last year with Tony Forster at the VITTA<BR>> 2008 conference in Melbourne and I had a chance to walk through the idea<BR>> with Jeremy.<BR>><BR>> Regards Roland<BR>><BR>> 2009/4/11 Caroline Meeks <<A href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</A>><BR>>><BR>>> I wanted to thank everyone and especially the Sugar on a Stick technical<BR>>> team. This may not be too coherent I'm pretty tired but I wanted to give<BR>>> feedback.<BR>>><BR>>> It worked on tons of different computers. Dave Bauer even got it working<BR>>> on the macs. There was one little HP that seemed not to work. A number of<BR>>> computers, including a new eepc couldn't get to the wireless.<BR>>><BR>>> Everyone loved it! They were thrilled with Sugar and we had a room full of<BR>>> people playing with Turtle Art by the end of the session. People also<BR>>> really got it. They got how having a stick gave the kids access to a known<BR>>> system at multiple locations. They got how valuable working on existing<BR>>> computers would be for them. The lucky ones who were going to get 1-1<BR>>> netbook deployments want sugar for those too!<BR>>><BR>>> Walter has pictures. We were the hit of the show.<BR>>><BR>>> This is the result of so much hard work by so many people, on Sugar on a<BR>>> Stick, on Sugar, and let us not forget all the geeks who came before us who<BR>>> made Linux and all the drivers work on all those machines. I don't know if<BR>>> these teachers really understood how many people worked to make this<BR>>> possible, but what is important is how much they were able to see in a short<BR>>> time about what a difference it could make to their students.<BR>>><BR>>> Thank you,<BR>>><BR>>> Caroline<BR>>><BR>>> --<BR>>> Caroline Meeks<BR>>> Solution Grove<BR>>> Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<BR>>><BR>>> 617-500-3488 - Office<BR>>> 505-213-3268 - Fax<BR>>><BR>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<BR>>> <A href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</A><BR>>> <A href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target=_blank>http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</A><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> --<BR>> Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<BR>> <A href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au/" target=_blank>http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</A><BR>><BR>> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change<BR>> the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead<BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<BR>> <A href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</A><BR>> <A href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target=_blank>http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</A><BR>><BR><BR><BR><BR>--<BR></DIV></DIV><FONT color=#888888>Walter Bender<BR>Sugar Labs<BR><A href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" target=_blank>http://www.sugarlabs.org</A><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College<BR><A href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au/">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</A><BR><BR>"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<BR></DIV><BR> <div> <b><font color="#3333ff" face="SansSerif">Network Help Pty Ltd</font></b><font face="SansSerif"> </font> </div> <div> <strong><font color="#000099" face="SansSerif">Phone:</font></strong><font color="#000099" face="SansSerif"> +61-3-9459-2122<br><strong>Facsimile: </strong>+61-3-9459-5322<br><strong> Website:</strong> <a href="http://www.networkhelp.com.au"> http://www.networkhelp.com.au</a></font><font size="1" face="Arial Narrow"> </font> </div> <p align="left"> <b><u><font size="1" color="#000099" face="Arial Narrow"><i>Disclaimer</i></font></u><font size="1" color="#000099" face="Arial Narrow"><i> :</i></font></b><font size="1" color="#000099" face="Arial Narrow"><i> This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. 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