[IAEP] Fwd: An interesting project I stumbled across

[Sameer Verma]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Frederick Grose<fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
> Forwarding to the community...
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> From: William Schaub
> Date: Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM
> Subject: An interesting project I stumbled across
> To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
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> This looks like something that is right up the alley of the OLPC groups and
> sugar labs etc.
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> http://www.wizzydigital.org/index.html
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> using UUCP and memory sticks and couriers they are able to connect schools
> to the internet in areas where there is ZERO connectivity.
> ...
> However this whizzy digital courrier could be VERY successfully used on a
> classroom server or a specially outfitted XO laptop with some extra storage
> via an added USB storage device.
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+1

Some similar approaches: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sneakernet and
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Motoman

Sameer
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Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
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