Hi Ben,
I'm the product designer on the Chandler Project. Chandler on OLPC
sounds interesting indeed.
As Davor pointed out, porting the existing codebase isn't practical.
However, we are in the midst of a re-architecture effort that might
of interest to your development team.
Grant recently kicked off a thread about it on the dev-list: http://
lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2008-September/
010300.html
I imagine though that the OLPC's target user (young students in
developing countries) will have different use cases for Chandler than
the target user we envisioned when designing the current app.
I'm happy to talk more about how you envision OLPC users making use
of an app like Chandler. It might be interesting to build a "Lite"
version of Chandler on the re-architecture branch that is more suited
to the needs of your user base.
Best,
Mimi
On Sep 28, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
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Dear Chandler devs,
My name is Ben Schwartz, and I'm a volunteer with OLPC (the One
Laptop Per
Child foundation) and Sugar Labs, the spinoff charitable foundation
working on the OLPC system software. That software is called
Sugar, and
it implements a new UI for mobile devices. Its design is intended to
enable easy collaboration, communication, and presence, with the
end goal
being to improve education. Technologically, Sugar is implemented
primarily using Python and GTK, as well as some other components of
the
Gnome and FD.o stack.
Obviously, Chandler and Sugar have a lot in common.
Sugar currently lacks a PIM/calendaring application. Chandler
might be
well suited for this, especially from the perspective of the Chandler
mobile-devices target (Sugar is targeted at the new ultralight
subnotebooks that Intel is calling "netbooks").
I doubt that Sugar Labs or OLPC would be able to provide funding for
Chandler, though these things are far out of my purview. However,
OLPC
controls over 550,000 currently deployed Linux laptops, and
Chandler could
easily be installed on virtually all of them in a matter of months
if a
compatible version can be developed. My hope is that such an
install base
would prove valuable to the Chandler organization, not to mention
the users.
I would like to start a dialogue between the Sugar development
community
and the Chandler developers. I'm not sure what the best forum is
for this
discussion. I know very little about Chandler. I would like to
learn more.
Sincerely,
Ben Schwartz
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