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

[Sameer Verma]

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
>
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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
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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/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/