[OLPC India] Use of XOs for Vocational Training & Back Office Support

[Asksst at aol.com]

Thanks Marc, Walter, Sameer , Ankur and others. What I gather is that  
dual-boot XOs could be used in the classrooms as well as for vocational training  & 
Back Office Support with attached key-board & mouse, but performance  may be 
an issue. 
 
Can you also educate us on other associated aspects:
1. Server Requirements & estimated cost, if we start with 20 XOs  and add up 
to 100 in a year or two
2. Power Backup / UPS and other infrastructure requirements as at RK Girls  
College, we rarely get more than 6-7 hours electricity and voltage  
fluctuations are often from 110V-350V. The supply is during days some weeks  and during 
night other weeks.
3. Networking between XOs and use of email thru XOs. Currently  we are using 
Tata Indicom wireless (Web Serf) services available from  Kanpur dealers.
4. Best way of using VOIP services of Vonage or other service from US  
providers 
 
Regards .......... Sheel
 
 
In a message dated 9/30/2008 11:46:41 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
sverma at sfsu.edu writes:

On Tue,  Sep 30, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>  
wrote:
> I cannot speak for OLPC, but in general, the Sugar learning  platform
> is configurable as a session option such that a computer can  be
> switched back and forth between a conventional Linux desktop and  Sugar
> at the granularity of the login session. So yes, it would be  possible
> to support the scenario that you are  proposing.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
>  --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
>  http://www.sugarlabs.org
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Ah! You are proposing  using a GNOME-like environment on an XO to have
access to things like  OpenOffice, etc. but I suspect Sheel's approach
is leaning towards  "vocational" as in turn-the-handle-and-the
mill-will-produce MS Windows +  MS Office. Sheel, is this correct? Are
you thinking of specific platforms,  or are you thinking of specific
skills? If it is the latter, Walter's  suggestion will work well.
Skills for word-processing, spreadsheets, etc.  can be obtained easily
with OpenOffice on Linux on an XO, without the  overhead of an
anti-virus suite :-)

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





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