[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a low-cost tablet for an NGO in India

[Simon Schampijer]

On 02/11/2013 04:18 PM, badday wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> first of all, this is my first post to this mailing list, so a warm
> welcome to everybody.
>
> I am currently working in an NGO in India and want to use Sugar as a
> tool of education. Therefore I bought a low-cost tablet, rooted it and
> installed Fedora ARM in a chroot environment together with Sugar. Now
> all that works and via VNC I have the graphical interface running
> smoothly including all activities (at least I did not find any not
> working). If there is a general interest in this project, I will post a
> detailed way to do that.
>
> However, the reason I started to get some interest in this project was
> an article on MIT Technology Review (
> http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/
> ) describing the great success of using tablets in Ethiopia.
>
> I now face some struggle where to find all the software and material
> used in that project as in the sugar labs activity website I can hardly
> find what I was looking for. It would also be nice if somebody could
> tell me about the localization process regarding Hindi as I could not
> find too much on the web about it.

I think this is one app used in this project: 
http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cjb/android-matching/

Chris can probably say more about this.

Regards,
    Simon