<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>Booted Sugar OS last night using Quemu on WindowsXP. It also boots nicely with MS Virtual PC. However I have reservations about the OLPC user interface. Surely there is a better way to connect to a pc than a keyboard and mouse/touchpad?<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 2/2/09, Marco Rosa <i><marcorosa@mweb.co.za></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Marco Rosa <marcorosa@mweb.co.za><br>Subject: Re: [Olpc-za] OLPC in Cape Town<br>To: "'OLPC South Africa Interest Group'" <olpc-za@lists.laptop.org><br>Date: Monday, 2 February, 2009, 12:51 PM<br><br><pre>Sounds good. I'm meeting with Simon Sizwe Mason at UCT on Friday morning. He<br>is the director of a project called Inkanyezi and is very interested in<br>OLPC. I will be taking along the XO that I have to show him.
Would you be<br>interested in coming along? If so, we could always sit together for a while<br>afterwards and catch up?<br>Let me know.<br><br>Kind regards,<br>Marco<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: olpc-za-bounces@lists.laptop.org<br>[mailto:olpc-za-bounces@lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Morgan Collett<br>Sent: 02 February 2009 11:12 AM<br>To: OLPC South Africa Interest Group<br>Subject: Re: [Olpc-za] OLPC in Cape Town<br><br>On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:03, Marco Rosa <marcorosa@mweb.co.za> wrote:<br>> Hi Morgan<br>><br>> I hope you're well. I see that there is, all of a sudden, quite a bit<br>of<br>> interest in OLPC from all over the place. Good thing! I've had a<br>request<br>to<br>> meet with someone at UCT too. I'd like to know if you would be keen to<br>meet<br>> with a few of these people together so that we can maximise our efforts?<br>If<br>> so, we could just send each other meeting requests and co
ordinate<br>diaries.<br>> I think it would be good for us to meet up anyway? Please let me know your<br>> thoughts.<br>><br>> Kind regards,<br>> Marco<br><br>Sounds good. I arranged two XOs for LEAP Science and Maths School<br>(http://www.leapschool.org.za/) as the principal, John Gilmore, is an<br>ex-teacher of mine. He's away raising funds in the USA at the moment<br>(maybe even for XOs). I haven't actually met with him yet but I think<br>it would be a good opportunity for us to chat to him as LEAP's focus<br>is relevant to OLPC's mission.<br><br>I'll let you know when he's back and we can set up a time.<br><br>Regards<br>Morgan<br>_______________________________________________<br>Olpc-za mailing list<br>Olpc-za@lists.laptop.org<br>http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-za<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Olpc-za mailing
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