[Solar-general] Fwd: [Its.an.education.project] Support of current deployments... Or: The core mission.

[Pablo Manuel Rizzo]

Más allá del asunto planteado acerca de olpc (aún no saben cómo darán
soporte a los paises que implementen olpc+linux+sugar?) es interesante
lo que le responden acerca de la situación general en Perú.


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From: Alfonso de la Guarda <alfonsodg en gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Its.an.education.project] Support of current
deployments... Or: The core mission.
To: Christoph Derndorfer <e0425826 en student.tuwien.ac.at>
Cc: its.an.education.project en tema.lo-res.org


At least,

Hernan Pachas, a friend and Fedora Embassador, could help because
their key position on the OLPC Peruvian Deployment.  I have speak with
Hernan some days ago and we will coordinate some efforts in the
precise time, by the way, our current expositions of OLPC on many
events always will join XO+FLOSS, is another way?.
 The peruvian issue is an marketing job and currently the goverment is
trying to "legalize" all the software because the arrives of Free
Trade Agreement with US.  By example, my company is currently
migrating all the servers and desktops for Ubuntu solutions for the
Peruvian Army, the same way with other goverment institutions.  If we
consider that the politicians wanna follow the "flow" and stop
microsoft agenda, surely Sugar 2.0 with Linux will still present.

2008/5/5 Christoph Derndorfer <e0425826 en student.tuwien.ac.at>:
> Hey all,
>
> amongst all the things that have been discussed on this list over the
> past days and weeks there's one issue that I feel hasn't received the
> attention it deserves:
>
> How are we / the Sugar 2.0 people / the "learning² foundation" going to
> support and work with the current deployments in Peru, Nepal, Mongolia,
> Haiti, et al?
>
> In my mind this core question directly relates to many other things that
> have been discussed such as feedback loops and collaboration between
> stakeholders such developers, teachers, deployment teams on the ground,
> local volunteer organizations, people with experience in sustainable
> development, large entities such as MoEs, UNESCO, NGOs, etc. (another
> core topic in my opinion)
>
> At one point very early in the discussion - probably before many of you
> joined in - Ivan Krstic wrote the following:
>
> "Bottom line, I think the idea of a single organization consulting on
> software/content/deployment is compelling: let OLPC turn into a laptop
> vendor as they appear determined to, but have *a place where countries
> can go to make the laptops actually serve an educational purpose,
> regardless of which laptops they're buying*."
>
> We / the Sugar 2.0 people / the "learning² foundation" could (and in my
> opinion should) be that place. We can talk about constructivism, APIs,
> documentation, packages, etc. all day long but it won't make a
> difference unless actual deployments are effected by our efforts.
>
> On a more personal level for me this core mission also answers the
> question that Antoine van Gelder asked over the weekend: "Education is a
> huge project, where do I see myself fitting in?"
>
> My €0.02,
> Christoph
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