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Re: Schooltool in natty

 

this is awesome news, I have always wanted t try out schooltool, now
it is even easier :)
the enefit for schools is enourmous

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Daniel Holbach
> <daniel.holbach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I'm very glad to announce that through a combined effort of Schooltool
>> upstream developers, some Ubuntu NGO members and some other Ubuntu
>> developers we got schooltool into the archive in natty.
>
> Also on the SchoolTool/NGO front:
>
> * SchoolTool is an integral part of the server that's shipped with
> Intel Classmate laptop deployments.  This is not Ubuntu but a custom
> server put together by a company called Critical Links.  There are
> quite a few large Classmate deployments both in Europe and the
> developing world.
>
> * OLE Nepal has put together Fedora packages that they plan to pilot
> with OLPC deployments in Nepal and Rwanda.
>
> * We've been working with the Open Institute NGO in Cambodia to create
> a customized version of SchoolTool (on Ubuntu) for Cambodia which we
> hope to start piloting Soon, with plans for a national deployment to
> Cambodian high schools.
>
> --Tom
>
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