<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Jerry Vonau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jvonau@shaw.ca" target="_blank">jvonau@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 07:40 +0200, Tony Anderson wrote:> By the way, the need for the school server is closer to 50 hours per<div class="im"><br>
> week than 24/7. Normally it needs to be booted only during the hours<br>
> when children are in school.<br>
<br>
</div></div><div class="im">Valid point, that should be taken into account when calculating total<br>
power requirements.</div></blockquote><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Certainly this changes dramatically in orphanage-school environments
in Haiti, where I and volunteers are finding newfound success.<br>
<br>Kids
need to read in the evenings (and unforeseen times) on their XOs, from
<a href="http://internet-in-a-box.org" target="_blank">http://internet-in-a-box.org</a> and most importantly much younger material,
rare colorful ebooks we've been granted in Creole.<br><br>So 100
hours/week or 24x7 appears to be the need (in this dominant Haiti use
case) across the
growing number of "true community schools" where we're working with in
Haiti, some orphanages, some not. This is certainly a change from when
Tony helped us so much in Haiti 2 years ago, as 1 unique school. Now
Haitian schools are
ask us for "digital library" service morning, afternoon and evening.<br><br>And
while we're certainly not always able to provide this, George Hunt and others are doing
our best to MoE (movin' our electrons ;) when the Right to Read is so
central to so many things. EG. we have 5000 books sitting in a warehouse
near LA that tragically cannot be shipped to Haiti due to shipping
costs -- meanwhile lowpower XS(CE) digital libraries purring through
most evenings appear to be unlocking this central problem, long before
the boat arrives from LA years later.<br>
</div></div><br>--<br><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div></div></div></div></div></div>