Sugar on a Stick - Good for Kids Minds and School Budgets
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Caroline Meeks
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last modified
Jan 27, 2010 09:04 AM
An introduction to Sugar on a Stick and what needs to be done to bring this promising technology to a New Hampshire Seacoast elementary school.
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Feb 08, 2010
from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM |
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| Contact Name | Caroline Meeks |
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Sugar is an alternate GUI for Linux that was designed as part of the One Laptop per Child project. We are bringing it to the United States via bootable USB sticks and SD cards.
Advantages:
- Open Source Software designed for elementary school
- Hundreds of great activities
- Collaboration and portfolio tools baked in
- Has the potential to work on PCs, Macs, old donated computers, computers without diskdrives and netbooks
- The child owns their experience and can take it home, day care, grandma's house.
- Automatic backup of files and single sign on to Moodle Server
Challenges: (this is where you can help!)
- Driver issues - Porting from Fedora to Ubuntu is underway and needs volunteers to help.
- Setting up a BIOS is not trivial - QEMU Puppy is an example of a way forward that lets you use running windows and macs.
- Collaboration not fully baked - need Jabber hackers to help
- Bugs and features needed as always
- Need local geeks to partner with local schools to partner
