Hi Folks, who wants to design and build a laptop out of an EFIKA?

We have a budget and a need for 5-10 prototypes. If you are interested in developing this product please contact us.

This is an employment opportunity.

Best regards,
R&B :)

For CHS Greece, we have identified four categories of users and their needs:

1) Staff members, who will either use the laptops that they already own or who can use a desktop Efika with a good amount of disk space and with access to OpenOffice (for word processing and spreadsheets), an email client, a web browser (Firefox), and GIMP (for generating PR). These machines would have wired or wireless connections to the Internet and to the LAN for printing.

2) Academic public users, students or professors, Greek or American, whom we would want to be able to use a web browser for access to bibliographic resources at Harvard and only to web-based email clients. They should be able to download articles from the bibliographic databases they have access to and print them or save them onto USB jump drives or email them to themselves. We don't want users to clutter up the machines with their own stuff, so disk space should be limited, either that or the machines' disk space should be wiped of data every night. We don't want people to hang out surfing the web and writing email on these machines. Some mixture of desktop and portable machines that are wireless, so that people can move about the building or sit in comfortable environments to do this work, would be good. So these machines would also be wired up to the internet and to the LAN for printing.

3) Non-academic public users, people from the community who would come to CHS Nafplio to get inititated into open source programming or networking. They would need access to a compiler and the basic set of Unix/Linux programmer tools and interfaces and, again, a limited amount of disk space, and internet connecitivity.

4) Archaeologists: People who are working in the field and who want to keep logs, enter data, and record images on laptops that would not be subjected to the best physical conditions (dirt, sunlight, maybe even moisture, though in the summer that's scarce in Greece).They would need spread sheets and word processors and some means of backing up the data on their machines and transferring it to other machines when they return from the field.

As for CHS Washington, my colleagues and I are excited to get some EFIKA machines for our homebase. We could replace the clunky PCs in our public spaces with the EFIKAs; they would also be absolutely perfect for interns. We have had problems in the past with students downloading junk and leaving it on our machines.

Can wacom be used to make a touchscreen solution out of it. More info here: http://www.wacom-components.com/english ... t/adk.html

This could make a tablet pc out of an efika.

PS this make me wonder, do a4 sized lcd panels exist?