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To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.

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Thu, 2009-08-06 09:51

Wellington OLPC "Friends in Testing" need usb sticks.

We use these for:

1) Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) - that's a full educational environment on a bootable usb stick. Schools that already have PCs use SoaS. We test the latest version of this every week on whatever hardware we can get our hands on.

2) Data packet by Bicycle (and similar scenarios). We test scenarios where there is no direct internet access, and instead a swarm of usb sticks travel to the internet access point on a bicycle and then back to the school, to retrieve data such as wikipedia pages, text books, activities (applications) and software updates.

3) Activity Sharing - OLPCs share applications using usb sticks for installation. We fill USB sticks with educational "activities" and then distribute to the team for testing. This is the same method used in schools for installation.

4) more..

If you are generous and wonderful, and would like to send a USB stick (1Gbyte or bigger) to the wellington team, please post to:

Normal post:
Brenda Wallace C/- Catalyst IT PO Box 11-053 Manners St. Wellington 6142 New Zealand

Courier post:
Brenda Wallace C/- Catalyst IT Level Six, Catalyst House 150 Willis street Wellington New Zealand

In return we will (optionally) list you on this website so the world can know of your awesomeness.