Re: Free Software in education - News collection - September
Sebastian Silva <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:11:32 -0500
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--===============1758516066062058084== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-EyLzgbZ6zNF2NmfVwgPK" --=-EyLzgbZ6zNF2NmfVwgPK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Guido, Thank you for these nice updates and for linking to our community +=20 team's blog often. Just a minor correction. The article regarding the 20.000 users in Peru=20 refers to "Sugar Network" users. Sugar Network is a "community effort=20 to provide a decentralized asynchronous socio-educative network for=20 peer support and sharing of free educational resources". In Per=C3=BA,=20 about 90% users (schoolchildren) don't have access to the Internet,=20 that's why we elaborated a sneakernet-ready solution. In all, there are=20 about 1MM users in Per=C3=BA alone, and 2MM in South America, 3MM around=20 the world, virtually all of them tied to the OLPC but hopefully we'll=20 move beyond those machines soon. Here's a link to the software project at Sugar Labs (technical): http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network And here's a link to the "product" implementation in Per=C3=BA ( "Red=20 Az=C3=BAcar"): http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ir/Red%20Az%C3%BAcar You do a great service to the community by collecting these links,=20 thanks for doing it, and taking into consideration the rest of the=20 world (it's one free world, after all.). Regards, Sebastian -- Sebastian Silva "icarito" #sugar #somosazucar (freenode IRC) Somos Az=C3=BAcar - Fuente Libre - Sugar Labs "Las maestras y los maestros democr=C3=A1ticos intervenimos en el mundo a=20 trav=C3=A9s del cultivo de la curiosidad" - P.Freire >=20 > 29. http://somosazucar.org/2014/09/19/peru-un-despliegue-innovador/ >=20 = --=-EyLzgbZ6zNF2NmfVwgPK Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Guido,<div>Thank you for these nice updates and for linking to our commu= nity + team's blog often.</div><div><br></div><div>Just a minor correction.= The article regarding the 20.000 users in Peru refers to "Sugar Network" u= sers. Sugar Network is a "community effort to provide a decentralized async= hronous socio-educative network for peer support and sharing of free educat= ional resources". In Per=C3=BA, about 90% users (schoolchildren) don't have= access to the Internet, that's why we elaborated a sneakernet-ready soluti= on. In all, there are about 1MM users in Per=C3=BA alone, and 2MM in South = America, 3MM around the world, virtually all of them tied to the OLPC but h= opefully we'll move beyond those machines soon.</div><div><br></div><div>He= re's a link to the software project at Sugar Labs (technical):</div><div><a= href=3D"http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network">http://wiki.sugarlabs.= org/go/Sugar_Network</a></div><div><br></div><div>And here's a link to the = "product" implementation in Per=C3=BA ( "Red Az=C3=BAcar"):</div><div><a hr= ef=3D"http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ir/Red%20Az%C3%BAcar">http://pe.sugarlabs.org= /ir/Red%20Az%C3%BAcar</a></div><div><br></div><div>You do a great service t= o the community by collecting these links, thanks for doing it, and taking = into consideration the rest of the world (it's one free world, after all.).= </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Sebastian</div><div><div><br>-= -<br>Sebastian Silva<br>"icarito" #sugar #somosazucar (= freenode IRC)<br>Somos Az=C3=BAcar - Fuente Libre&= nbsp;- Sugar Labs<br><br>"Las maestras y los = maestros democr=C3=A1ticos intervenimos en el mund= o a trav=C3=A9s del cultivo de la curios= idad" - P.Freire <br><br><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div class=3D"plaintext" style=3D"white-s= pace: pre-wrap;"> 29. <a href=3D"http://somosazucar.org/2014/09/19/peru-un-despliegue-innov= ador/">http://somosazucar.org/2014/09/19/peru-un-despliegue-innovador/</a> </div><div class=3D"plaintext" style=3D"white-space: pre-wrap;"> </div></blockquote></div></div>= --=-EyLzgbZ6zNF2NmfVwgPK-- --===============1758516066062058084== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ European "Free Software in Education" mailing list https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-eu --===============1758516066062058084==--