On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:22:01 -0700 MBurns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/18/06, Duncan Patton a Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Lemme know if you have any luck... I've run into some deafening silence, > > hereabouts. > > > A lot of these people are hard at work, no doubt, and so some > introductory questions slip through their fingers. > > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:46:14 -0300 "Gabriel Bulfon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, i am signing into the mailing list. I want to know if i can help. I am > > > developer. I don't know anything about oplc operating system, > > > applications, > > > etc. > > Most everything you need is covered in the wiki. If you want to help > code, you are most welcome, the more help the better. First you'll > probably want to read up a bit on Sugar [1]. To write an app for the > laptop/sugar, you have to make an activity bundle for it [2]. The > preferred language for new applications is Python, though many ported > C/C++ apps are being brought to the laptop's system(see: Abiword, > others). > > To get up and testing, you'll want to have qemu installed and download > a recent snapshot image of the system going [3]. Shouldn't be too hard > to do at all; instructions for Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows XP and others > are available on the wiki as well. > > >From that, you can either port your preferred application, debug an > existing application (great), or find applications that are ported and > working and make them work better. > > Last but not least, your absolute best place to find information(yes, > on the wiki) is the "Getting Involved" page [4]. Read it, find what > you are best at, and work toward making the laptop better. > > I hope that answers both your questions. Happy Hacking. > > [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar > [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_Bundles > [3] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software > [4] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_involved_in_OLPC >
Yes, thanks. Dhu > Michael Burns > Oregon State University > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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