[OLPC-Philippines] Sugar, OLPC and eKindling at Y4IT and Software Freedom Day

[Jerome Gotangco]

I forgot to add, for more info about Software Freedom Day, visit the
site and the event schedule at
http://bluepoint.com.ph/index.php?entry=20090803000007

thanks!

Jerome

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Jerome Gotangco <jgotangco at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> It's been a while since my last email, but I just want to share what
> we've been up to lately.
>
> Last Thursday (Sept. 10), Ryan (Letada), Sandeep, and myself were at
> Y4IT (http://y4it.up.edu.ph) and had a 40 minute presentation
> primarily about Sugar, then moved to OLPC and introduced eKindling to
> around a hundred students at the UP Film Institute. We talked about
> the relevance of Sugar as a learning platform and a technology
> project, not to mention that it is an open source project with a
> thriving user and developer community. After showing how Sugar works,
> we showed a real-use case with the OLPC XO-1 machine (letting it fall
> as well) and Sugar on a Stick (SoaS). Ryan and Sandeep gave an
> overview of what we are doing at eKindling and the presentation was
> generally lauded. I have to admit, the XO-1 laptop still has charm
> despite its age which only shows that there is still an audience to
> reach out to.
>
> On Sept. 19, we will participate at Software Freedom Day happening at
> the National Computer Center in Quezon City. Here's the official info:
>
> "Bluepoint Linux Users Elite (BLUE) in cooperation with the Commission
> on Information & Communications Technology-National Computer Center
> (CICT-NCC), University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU),
> Ateneo de Manila University Department of Information Systems and
> Computer Science (DISCS), and Bluepoint Foundation will celebrate
> Software Freedom Day with the rest of the world on September 19, 2009
> at the National Computer Center, University of the Philippines,
> Diliman, Quezon City."
>
> Magie Antonio of Bluepoint was so gracious to invite us again to be
> part of SFD. Last year's booth was a very successful one and we intend
> to expand further by separating OLPC and Sugar by doing demos of the
> OLPC XO-1 machine and Sugar on a Stick. We currently have 2 functional
> OLPC XO-1 laptops for display as well as a prototype B2 unit to let
> people see the internals of the machine. For SoaS, I will bring a full
> sized laptop and perhaps add another Mac to show how it can run on
> other operating systems.
>
> If you would like to help, please let me know!
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Jerome
>



-- 
Cheers,

Jerome