Reply from my local paper. <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Schuler, Rory <<a href="mailto:rschuler@cnc.com">rschuler@cnc.com</a>> Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:13 AM Subject: RE: Sugar on a Stick - Article To: Caroline Meeks <<a href="mailto:caroline@solutiongrove.com">caroline@solutiongrove.com</a>> <div> <div dir="ltr" align="left">Caroline, Would you be willing/able to write a first-person piece on the endeavor? Since you're pretty much the local hook, I think that would be the best way to approach it. Please let me know.</div> <div> </div> Rory Schuler Editor The Winchester Star 781-674-7740 (o) 610-764-3405 (c) Be the first to know when news breaks in Winchester … Sign up for breaking news e-mail alerts at: <a href="http://wickedlocalcontests.com/signup/Winchester/winchester.php" target="_blank">http://wickedlocalcontests.com/signup/Winchester/winchester.php</a> Visit The Star's Web site, <a href="http://www.wickedlocal.com/winchester" target="_blank">www.wickedlocal.com/winchester</a> <div> </div> <div lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left"> <hr> From: <a href="mailto:solutiongrove@gmail.com" target="_blank">solutiongrove@gmail.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:solutiongrove@gmail.com" target="_blank">solutiongrove@gmail.com</a>] On Behalf Of Caroline Meeks Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:32 PM To: Winchester Star (News) Subject: Sugar on a Stick - Article </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"> <div></div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> Dear Mr. Schuler, <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> I am a Winchester resident (49 Thornberry Road) and I am involved in </div>an education project for elementary school aged children with the nonprofit Sugar Labs foundation. Sugar Labs (<a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a>) provides the free open source software environment used in the One Laptop per Child computer, designed in the Boston area and over a million of which have been distributed to kids in developing countries. Sugar Labs has created a version of the OLPC software called Sugar on a Stick (<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick</a>) which can run any PC (and many Macs too) from an ordinary thumbdrive. </div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Sugar Labs and students from Harvard Graduate School of Education and Boston University are running a pilot at a Boston Public School in Allston and we need donations of used computers and sponsors for USB sticks. Any publicity would help our project enormously and we were hoping we could interest you in publishing an article about what's happening at the school - the teachers and learners are very excited! <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> A recent BU journalism graduate wrote a piece on us and we have not yet placed it, perhaps it could be a starting point?</div> Thank you, Caroline Meeks Details on the computer donations: Email Caroline Meeks <a href="mailto:cmeeks@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">cmeeks@sugarlabs.org</a> to arrange pickup. We are looking for Pentium 4 or better computers. We can only accept monitors less then 19" in size. </div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax </div></div>The preceding e-mail message (including any attachments) contains information that may be confidential, may be protected by the attorney-client or other applicable privileges, or may constitute non-public information. It is intended to be conveyed only to the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender by replying to this message and then delete all copies of it from your computer system. Any use, dissemination, distribution, or reproduction of this message by unintended recipients is not authorized and may be unlawful. </div> </div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax