[Olpc-open] OwNet

[Chris Leonard]

Possibly Sugar Network?

cjl

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Martin Lipták" <mliptak at gmail.com>
>> Date: Nov 1, 2012 10:49 AM
>> Subject: [Olpc-open] OwNet
>> To: <olpc-open at lists.laptop.org>
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We are a group of students from the Slovak University of Technology. Last
>> year we took part in an international competition called Imagine Cup. We
>> created an application, called OwNet, that enables users with poor Internet
>> connection browse the Web more effectively and even offline by providing a
>> local proxy that intelligently caches and prefetches Web pages. It also
>> contains some educational features, as it is intended for schools in Africa.
>>
>> OwNet is currently being deployed in Kenya, at schools in Nanyuki and Voi.
>> Because of the rules of the Imagine Cup competition, our application is
>> implemented using Microsoft technologies. However, this year we are going to
>> reimplement it using cross-platform technologies so that it can also be used
>> under Linux.
>>
>> Recently we came across the project OLPC. We find it very interesting and,
>> if possible, we would like to contribute to the project. Could our
>> application be somehow useful to OLPC? Possibly some parts could be
>> integrated into the Sugar interface (e.g. intelligent caching, prefetching
>> or educational features). Since we intend a full reimplementation, we could
>> choose features based on your preference or suggestions.
>>
>> We would really appreciate your feedback, questions or ideas.
>>
>> You can also find more information about the project on our website:
>> http://ownet.fiit.stuba.sk/?l=uk
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
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> Would seem the best place for them to intervene would be on the XS???
>
> -walter
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