For those of you north of Boston I will be at a LUG tomorrow. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert E. Anderson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rea@sr.unh.edu">rea@sr.unh.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:13 PM<br>Subject: Seacoast/UNH/Durham/SLUG - Mon 8 Feb - Sugar on a Stick<br>To: GNHLUG Announcements <<a href="mailto:gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org">gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org</a>><br>
<br><br>Who : Caroline Meeks<br>
What : Sugar on a Stick<br>
Date : Mon 8 Feb 2010<br>
Time : 7 PM to 9 PM<br>
Where: Room 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham, NH<br>
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Sugar on a Stick - Good for Kids Minds and School Budgets<br>
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An introduction to Sugar on a Stick and what needs to be done to bring this<br>
promising technology to a New Hampshire Seacoast elementary school.<br>
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Sugar is an alternate GUI for Linux that was designed as part of the One<br>
Laptop per Child project. We are bringing it to the United States via<br>
bootable USB sticks and SD cards.<br>
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Advantages:<br>
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+ Open Source Software designed for elementary school<br>
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+ Hundreds of great activities<br>
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+ Collaboration and portfolio tools baked in<br>
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+ Has the potential to work on PCs, Macs, old donated computers, computers<br>
without diskdrives and netbooks<br>
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+ The child owns their experience and can take it home, day care, grandma's<br>
house.<br>
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+ Automatic backup of files and single sign on to Moodle Server<br>
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Challenges: (this is where you can help!)<br>
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* Driver issues - Porting from Fedora to Ubuntu is underway and needs<br>
volunteers to help.<br>
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* Setting up a BIOS is not trivial - QEMU Puppy is an example of a way<br>
forward that lets you use running windows and macs.<br>
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* Collaboration not fully baked - need Jabber hackers to help<br>
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* Bugs and features needed as always<br>
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* Need local geeks to partner with local schools<br>
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For more information about Sugar and this project visit:<br>
<a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br>
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For information about SLUG or directions to this meeting visit:<br>
<a href="http://slug.gnhlug.org" target="_blank">http://slug.gnhlug.org</a><br>
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Robert E. Anderson email: <a href="mailto:rea@sr.unh.edu">rea@sr.unh.edu</a><br>
Systems Programmer phone: (603) 862-3489<br>
UNH Research Computing Center fax: (603) 862-1761<br>
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</font></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Caroline Meeks<br>Solution Grove<br>Caroline@SolutionGrove.com<br><br>617-500-3488 - Office<br>505-213-3268 - Fax<br>