[IAEP] Venezuela orders 1 million laptops from Portugal

[Walter Bender]

> but it's all in the Wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/

Maybe not all. I'd recommend you check out http://sugarlabs.org as
well, as the key is the software, since the hardware is presumably the
Classmate PC in this case.

-walter

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Eduardo H. Silva <hoboprimate at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Eduardo.
> l
>> 2008/10/7 Paulo Trezentos <Paulo.Trezentos at caixamagica.pt>:
>>> Hi everyone.
>>>
>>> My name is Paulo Trezentos.
>>> I'm technical director of Caixa Mágica.
>
> Bemvenido!
>
> (Well, that's nearly it for my Portuguese, except for some old Bossa
> Nova songs. Sorry.)
>
>>> Can you please give me more information about yourselves and the idea?
>
> I don't know how much background information you have, but it's all in
> the Wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/ if you need more than I have room to
> tell you about. Some people find my video on Expanding the Vision of
> OLPC helpful. You can get to it from my page,
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mokurai.
>
> We are out to save the world through education on computers, leading
> to the end of poverty and some other consequences of general interest.
> Peru and Uruguay have ordered OLPC XO laptops for all of their
> schooldchildren, and we have smaller deployments and trials in dozens
> of other countries. See, for example,
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:OLPC_Brazil. Our Sugar software for
> Linux is being localized into both português and português do Brasil,
> along with 80 or so other languages.
>
> Venezuela has ordered a million laptops for schoolchildren, using your
> Caixa Mágica Linux. We would like to put our Sugar education software
> on CM and thus on those laptops. We have RPMs of many of our
> Activities that were developed for Fedora Linux, and we have started a
> discussion with Mandriva about getting those RPMs into their
> distribution. So everything is lined up, and now we want to talk with
> you about getting our packages into your distribution, and get our
> volunteers and staff working with your volunteers and staff.
>
> You should get acquainted with Walter Bender, head of Sugar Labs, and
> also David Farning; Jim Gettys, Scott Ananian, S. J. Klein, and others
> in software at OLPC; Ivan Krstić, our security maven; and others whom
> they can introduce you to.
>
> What else do you need to know?
> --
> Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज ) is my name
> And children are my nation.
> The Cosmos is my dwelling place,
> The Truth my destination.
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Walter Bender
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