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[Grant Bowman <grantbow@xxxxxxxxx>]

The people working to deploy these laptops are associated with the
OLPC San Francisco group that I have worked with for over a year now.
The deployed machines do not run Ubuntu yet, but the 1.5 hardware with
a 4 GB ssd hard disk and thanks to the work of the
https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam will allow the running of Ubuntu on
that hardware. Right now the 1.4 million deployed 1.0 XO-1 machines in
kids hands in many countries uses a highly customized and stripped
down version of Fedora (not even man pages) on a 1 GB ssd hard disk
which must also leave room for data files, etc.  I welcome discussion
and comments.

Regards,

Grant Bowman
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sameer Verma <sverma@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:03 PM
Subject: [OLPC-SF] Fwd: [Olpc-open] OLPC Afghanistan Briefing Note
To: OLPC SF <olpc-sf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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From: Mike Dawson <mikeofmanchester@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 10:13 PM
Subject: [Olpc-open] OLPC Afghanistan Briefing Note
To: olpc-open <olpc-open@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: matt@xxxxxxxxxx


Dear All,

Here in Afghanistan we have worked over the last couple months to put
together a thorough briefing note on the state of education here; the
barriers to effective education as they are understood through
conventional research and how OLPC can rapidly change the input
variables to effective education.

I'm quite sure that a lot of the challenges mentioned in the Briefing
Note in Afghanistan are applicable to quite a few other countries.

Just to be clear here in Afghanistan we and I'm sure no one else is
arguing against the need to improve conventional educational systems
like school buildings, teacher training, etc.  But unfortunately
Afghanistan doesn't have the luxury of waiting as long as this might
take.

http://www.paiwastoon.af/olpcbn/

Any comments/ discussions more than welcome.  Please feel free to
reference / quote the document / use it to construct new arguments;
just we ask for attribution.  If anyone is interested in helping out
here in any way (advocacy, software, etc) please do email info@xxxxxxx
.

Regards,

-Mike
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