> He needed (would still appreciate it) 30 XOs for one primary school class,
> calculated everything using prices from G1G1.
This is a good example, thank you... I will follow up off list; but
you are right, this is the sort of project we are not supporting
outside of G1G1.
By not supporting medium-sized deployments of, say 30 to 5000 laptops (a typical order from a school or an educational authority) the OLPC Foundation betrays an instinct for paternalism. We have too much paternalism in education already, and the technologies in Sugar were designed to give children democratic access to education.
The award-winning Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar offers an alternative to traditional "office-desktop" software.