[GNHLUG] Seacoast/UNH/Durham/SLUG - Mon 8 Feb - Sugar on a Stick
Robert E. Anderson
rea at sr.unh.edu
Thu Jan 28 13:13:55 EST 2010
Who : Caroline Meeks
What : Sugar on a Stick
Date : Mon 8 Feb 2010
Time : 7 PM to 9 PM
Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH
Sugar on a Stick - Good for Kids Minds and School Budgets
An introduction to Sugar on a Stick and what needs to be done to bring this
promising technology to a New Hampshire Seacoast elementary school.
Sugar is an alternate GUI for Linux that was designed as part of the One
Laptop per Child project. We are bringing it to the United States via
bootable USB sticks and SD cards.
Advantages:
+ Open Source Software designed for elementary school
+ Hundreds of great activities
+ Collaboration and portfolio tools baked in
+ Has the potential to work on PCs, Macs, old donated computers, computers
without diskdrives and netbooks
+ The child owns their experience and can take it home, day care, grandma's
house.
+ Automatic backup of files and single sign on to Moodle Server
Challenges: (this is where you can help!)
* Driver issues - Porting from Fedora to Ubuntu is underway and needs
volunteers to help.
* Setting up a BIOS is not trivial - QEMU Puppy is an example of a way
forward that lets you use running windows and macs.
* Collaboration not fully baked - need Jabber hackers to help
* Bugs and features needed as always
* Need local geeks to partner with local schools
For more information about Sugar and this project visit:
http://www.sugarlabs.org
For information about SLUG or directions to this meeting visit:
http://slug.gnhlug.org
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Robert E. Anderson email: rea at sr.unh.edu
Systems Programmer phone: (603) 862-3489
UNH Research Computing Center fax: (603) 862-1761
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