[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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