[Linux-aus] [SLUG] $11.7m for OLPC Australia in the federal govt budget

[Paul Shirren]

On 9/05/12 12:19 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>
> A core belief of OLPC Australia is that technology cannot be
> successfully deployed without teacher training and buy-in from the
> school, children and community. Our programme to address that is
> called One Education: http://www.one-education.org/
>

If you want to look at the software download Sugar 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads

Or if you want a slow half-arsed laptop wanabee buy a netbook.

And if you want to get involved in an education project, Raspberry Pi 
has a much more interesting focus on stimulating interest in programming 
and engineering careers. And despite the closed source Broadcom 
contribution the project is much less of a cathedral and has actively 
sought out community involvement whereas OLPC, apart from a few 
conference give aways to the lucky few, is inaccessible to most of us.