Re: Skolelinux in Nepal?

[Christoph Derndorfer <e0425826@student.tuwien.ac.at>]

Kurt,

thanks a lot for forwarding the message.

Brennan,

as Kurt mentioned I'm also currently here in Kathmandu volunteering with 
OLE Nepal (http://olenepal.org/), the local Nepali NGO designing 
interactive educational content in English, Mathematics and Nepali for 
grades 2, 3 and 6. The organization has currently deployed almost 2200 
XOs in 6 different districts and will be adding more XOs at the 
beginning of 2010.

If you're interested in more information you can ping me off-list at 
this e-mail address or christoph@olpcnews.com, alternatively you can 
also find me on IRC on Freenode's #sugar from 9AM to 5AM on workdays.

Cheers,
Christoph

Kurt Gramlich schrieb:
> * Brennan Holten <brennan.holten@gmail.com> [090810 13:54]:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I'm currently spending the summer teaching high school mathematics and
> > science in Kathmandu, Nepal. Thus far, I've found the computer education
> > here to be drastically substandard; so when I get back to the States, I'm
> > planning on donating some hardware for them to use with Skolelinux
> > installed.
>
> do you have contact to the local OLPC people?
>
> When I remember right, at the moment there are arriving 6000 OLPC
> Computers in Nepal.
>
> Christoph Derndorfer is engaged in deploying them.
>
> @Christoph: What do you think?
> > I was just curious if anyone else was working on getting Debian/Skolelinux
> > in schools in Nepal. For obvious reasons, I think it would be a great
> > blessing for them, as the only way most of them can afford computers is to
> > use pirated proprietary software -- and even then, the computer education
> > simply consists of learning to type in notepad.
>
> We have also the Linux4Afrika Projekt in Germany, an NGO which
> collects Hardware and brings them to schools in Africa.
> I will inform them, perhaps we could join forces.
>
> > Kind regards,
> > Brennan Holten
> Our plans are, to have the OLPC Software running on Skolelinux
> too. Jonas is packaging sugar to have all as debian-package.
>
> So if you need some help, do not hesitate to ask for.
>
> Regards/AmicaLinuxement/Saludos/Viele Gruesse!
> Kurt Gramlich
> Projektleitung skolelinux.de

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