[Marketing] FW: Follow-up XO Laptop/Sugar

[Caroline Meeks]

Hi John,
What grade levels are they doing one-to-one with?

Does Oakland country still have free wireless for all? As I recall they are
one of the countries leaders in broadband and wireless and a pretty wealthy
area.

I think Sugar on a Stick competes well with virtualization where you have
students without internet access at home and schools without good bandwidth.
 That is most of the US except wealthy suburbs and a few cities that have
really invested in broadband.

I do agree that technically we could get it work with virtualization and it
would be great if someone was working on that but I don't know anyone who
is.

Unless I'm confused about my demographics Detriot might be a better target.

Good luck! no one said it was easy. :)

Caroline

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:39 PM, John Tierney <jtis4stx at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hello All,
>
> This email is from Marc Dubois who is Career Focused Education Technology
> Manager for Oakland Schools ISD who
> helps support and deliver services to the 29 school districts in Oakland
> County, MI. It gives you an idea of the
> technical direction large US school districts are going in. For this
> particular situation it would seem Sugar running
> in a virtual machine would be the answer? Do we have something presently
> available that fits this scenario?
> Would Sugar delivered through a virtualized desktop work along with Sugar
> on a Stick?
>
> Any suggestions on what I should get to Marc to test/take a look at would
> be helpful. In this situation Sugar's
> ability to run alongside all the other applications in a larger system
> seems to be the key. Not being a technical
> guru I need some guidance in this area.
>
> The BMMT refers to Business, Management, Marketing, and Technology
> Instructors who I will be meeting with
> here in the near future to discuss creating an Open Source curriculum for
> High School students at the four
> technical schools they operate. Hacking and testing Sugar will be high
> priorities for me to get embedded into
> the curriculum structure. Their idea is to test drive some things at the
> four technical campuses and then offer
> them to the districts when they are refined. Figuring this out gives access
> to the 199 elementary schools they
> serve.
>
> Along with the two XO's I lent him, I also gave him a Sugar on a Stick and
> Sugar on a SD card to test out.
>
> Your thoughts would be appreciated!
>
> John Tierney
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Subject: RE: Follow-up XO Laptop/Sugar
> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:28:19 -0400
> From: Marc.DuBois at oakland.k12.mi.us
> To: jtis4stx at hotmail.com
> CC: Mary.Kaye.Aukee at oakland.k12.mi.us
>
>  John – Thanks for following up.  With the start of school we’ve been very
> busy.
>
>
>
> The XO laptops are being used by the BMMT instructors at the SE and NE
> campus – I’m hoping they’ll have lots of insight for you when you meeting
> with them via Mary Kaye’s meeting.
>
>
>
> I haven’t had any time to review them myself but the research I’ve done
> leads me to believe that they sugar OS would not really support the type of
> applications we deliver to the students.  So, I don’t see this OS or device
> as being part of the infrastructure that Oakland Schools Career Focused
> Education delivers to students like a one-to-one initiative.   I’ve also
> installed the Sugar OS on a netbook and again think that we’d go with a more
> standard XP, windows 7 or virtual client to support our applications.  We
> are undertaking the virtualization of our devices used by students and plan
> to provide student access to applications and data via a browser interface
> in the classroom and at home.  Perhaps a different computing device would be
> more appropriate in this situation.
>
>
>
> I do, however, hope that our BMMT instructors will jump on this as a great
> teaching and learning tool as part of an open source curriculum.  That is
> out of my scope but I’m sure you’ll have a good experience with the BMMT
> instructors.
>
>
>
> I also appreciate your loaning the devices to us.  At any time I will be
> happy to return them to you.  They are hopefully being used by the BMMT
> instructors.
>
>
>
> Thanks again,
>
> marc
>
>
>
> Marc DuBois
> Technology Manager, Career Focused Education
> (248) 209-2183
>
> *From:* John Tierney [mailto:jtis4stx at hotmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 29, 2009 11:53 AM
> *To:* Dubois, Marc
> *Subject:* Follow-up XO Laptop/Sugar
>
>
>
> Hi Marc,
>
> Just wanted to check in while I await next meeting with Mary Kaye Auckee
> and
> BMMT Group.
>
> I was wondering if you might have some time in next couple of weeks to meet
> and discuss some
> of the technical implications for you and the other IT Administrators in
> moving down or thinking
> about moving down the Open Source path. Would also like to get your
> feedback on XO and Sugar.
>
> Please let me know what might work for you.
>
> Best-
>
> John Tierney
> Educational Outreach-Sugar Labs
> #248-613-7392
>



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Caroline Meeks
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