And honestly they are one of the most persistant companies supporting opensource locally. kinda of a fit.. maybe contact system76? On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:12 AM, wayne wrote: > Eric Shubert wrote: >> I stumbled across this just now: >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick >> "The Sugar on a Stick project gives children access to /their/ Sugar on >> any computer in their environment with just a USB memory stick. Taking >> advantage of the Fedora LiveUSB, it's possible to store everything you >> need to run Sugar on a single USB memory stick (minimum size 1GB)." >> I must have missed/ignored this being mentioned here before. >> >> This could be big. Kids no longer need their own computer. They can use >> their parent's computer without trashing it. Plus the student's >> computing environment is the same no matter which computer they're >> using. Heck, I might do this myself! >> >> I wonder if we might find some sponsor who would buy a bunch of 1G thumb >> drives (with their name/logo on them of course)? RedSeven comes to mind, >> but I'd like to find a less geeky sponsor. We could load them up with >> Sugar and distribute them to our local schools or other groups, along >> with a simple pamphlet explaining what to do with it. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> > Great Idea - and why NOT RedSeven? "Geeky" or not. Seems to be it is the > CAUSE that counts. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss