<div dir="ltr">Es importante aclarar que las laptops utilizadas durante las elecciones pasadas no eran XO, sino las Magalhaes (también distribuidas por el Plan Ceibal, por lo que también se denominan "Ceibalitas")<div>
<br></div><div>El software utilizado corría bajo Linux, con la distribución Ubuntu.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><br>___________________<br>Lic. José Miguel García<br>Tecnología Educativa<div>CODICEN - ANEP</div>
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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:10:48 -0500<br>
From: Yama Ploskonka <<a href="mailto:yamaplos@gmail.com">yamaplos@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: [Sur] XOs used in primary elections in Uruguay<br>
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A generally private-but-the-taxpayer-pays-expenses company in Uruguay,<br>
Conex, is said to have charged the Electoral Court US$ 2 million for<br>
software that was used in the recent primary elections in Uruguay.<br>
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Central to this was the use of XO laptops, locally knows as "Ceibalitas"<br>
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Now, in the middle of a pass-the-buck media war, the XO's filled-up<br>
memory and in some circumstances slow response are blamed for some<br>
issues during the counting of votes and the data transmission to Montevideo.<br>
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Conex insists those problems had an easy solution that insufficiently<br>
trained users did not follow.<br>
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Connectivity problems, lack of extension cords also occurred, among other.<br>
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My opinion is that this was a valiant attempt to use the XOs for Real<br>
Life needs.<br>
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Also, I would like to see Conex upstreaming some of what they charged (I<br>
have no knowledge of any upstreaming that has happened by Uruguay in<br>
many years, and over a million XOs, except in a courageous and devoted<br>
individual basis) for the "free" operating system and software that they<br>
got - though I agree that the current browser is very heavy, and slow<br>
responses and bad connections are obvious results.<br>
Maybe if they had developed a lighter browser - maybe even a text based<br>
one.<br>
Since an efficient system or UX has seldom been a priority in XO/Sugar<br>
software development (looks and ideology preempt UX), it is possible<br>
they never thought of such an option.<br>
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Too bad, since originally the Ceibalitas were to be "it" for the<br>
National Elections in October. THAT would have been a great thing, IMHO.<br>
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Link to article (Spanish)<br>
<a href="http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/organismos-se-culpan-demoras-eleccion.html" target="_blank">http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/organismos-se-culpan-demoras-eleccion.html</a><br>
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