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Hi, Dave<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/25/2016 09:17 AM, Dave Crossland
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Tony
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<div>Would you be willing to post this wonderful email to the
group thread? :)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 24 April 2016 at 21:11, Tony
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I hope you can continue your quest for information on how
XOs are used in deployments.<br>
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The strategic need is to establish direct communication with
folks at these deployments to get first-hand information.
This direct communication can put the community in direct
contact with the user community and help us provide more
relevant capabilities.<br>
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I think this is going to be a deployment-by-deployment
process.<br>
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I received this in a communication from Anish Mangal:<br>
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If the issue is about XO's then perhaps contacting Prof.
Nagarjuna and Rafikh from TIFR, Bombay might yield
something, as they have a deployment in the city and another
near it.<br>
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And this you may remember from Walter:<br>
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I know nothing about G1G1 Round Two but the laptops from the
first round went to many more places than just Mongolia. For
example, it was from that program that the first batch of
laptops went to Caacupé in Paraguay, a program that
continues to be robust today.<br>
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Caryl Bigenho has supported a deployment at a shelter in Los
Angeles where the residents are not allowed access to the
internet. I haven't heard much on this recently.<br>
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The webpage is a good start (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs/Contacts"
rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Local_Labs/Contacts</a>).
However, it is connected to the local labs program. You may
want to find out from Walter about its current status. The
idea died aborning because under our agreement with the
Conservancy, Sugar Labs was not permitted to establish
subsidiary groups. So I think the wiki effort should be
independent of that initiative.<br>
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We also need a format where we can gather significant
information - perhaps a link from this page to a page per
deployment. The key in each case is to have a local contact
(e.g. email address) where we can get direct answers to
questions as they come up and propose capabilities which may
be of help. The questions we need answered go far beyond
whether XOs are used inside a classroom or elsewhere. For
example, if users are allowed to take laptops away from the
institution, what has been the impact on wear and tare. If
users 'own' the laptop; how does the institution replace
them for incoming students.<br>
How has the Uruguay Plan Ceibal impacted learning in later
grades - e.g. in readiness to use computers effectively in
secondary school learning. The list could go on.<br>
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Tony<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div class="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>
Dave</div>
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