[Marketing] [IAEP] Fwd: An interesting project I stumbled across

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 09:07:04 EDT 2009


There is also http://www.firstmilesolutions.com/ and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP

-walter

On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very interesting!
>
> I saw this too:
> http://blog.wizzy.com/post/OLPC-and-Classmate-in-Nigeria
>
> The wizzydigital.org website seems dated, is it an active project?
>
> I couldn't find any technical information about the solution, although
> it seems to be based on FOSS
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Frederick Grose<fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Forwarding to the community...
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: William Schaub
>> Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM
>> Subject: An interesting project I stumbled across
>> To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> This looks like something that is right up the alley of the OLPC groups and
>> sugar labs etc.
>>
>> http://www.wizzydigital.org/index.html
>>
>> using UUCP and memory sticks and couriers they are able to connect schools
>> to the internet in areas where there is ZERO connectivity.
>> ...
>> However this whizzy digital courrier could be VERY successfully used on a
>> classroom server or a specially outfitted XO laptop with some extra storage
>> via an added USB storage device.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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