Acer Netbooks + Edubuntu

[Lenin]

Looks promising.

We (Seven Oaks) just started an opensource project in Khayelithsa (around 2 
schools ; pre-primary and primary) to assist with the building of early 
learning skills in the foundation phase ( using edubuntu & other opensource 
software). Some aspects of the project: write materials if not available; 
broadly aligning activities with the South African schools curriculum; 
translations in Afrikaans, Xhosa, etc. where required; customization and so 
forth.

We have to set up the lab in one of the primary school classrooms. For cost 
considerations we most probably will have to go for a thin client setup, but 
I do agree (the admin people at school also) that portable solutions are 
better and we need to look at it.

Also we are starting to have presentations around opensource educational 
solutions with creches and pre-schools. Obvoiusly, I cannot speak here of 
units involved since we are just embarking on this journey, but I am very 
interested in a project to get reasonably priced notebooks.

Regards
Lionel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charl Wentzel" <charl.wentzel at vodamail.co.za>
To: "Edubuntu Users Group" <edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 3:57 PM
Subject: Acer Netbooks + Edubuntu


> Hi Guys
>
> My company is trying to negotiate a deal with the importers of Acer
> laptops (in South Africa) to supply Acer Aspire One netbooks with the
> following specs:
>
> Atom 1.6GHz
> 8GB Flash HD
> 10" LCD
> 1GB RAM
> SD card expansion slot (like additional harddrive)
> 3 USB ports
> Built-in WiFi
> Full hardware guarantee from supplier (no grey imports)
>
> These are perfect for running Edubuntu 10.04 with the netbook interface.
> I'm using the same netbook with only 512MB RAM and it boots in less than
> a minute and works well.
>
> We want to supply them to schools/communities/parents/etc for around
> R2,500 with Edubuntu pre-loaded.  (This is the target, it might be more,
> but we'll try to keep it well below R3,000)
>
> I would like to get a feel whether anybody would be interested?  It is
> early stages and I need some indication of interest as part of the
> negotiation.
>
> (This is South Africa only for now, may expand to Southern Africa later)
>
> Please let me know if you think you have a project that would be
> interested and how many units might be involved.
>
> Best regards
> Charl Wentzel
>
>
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