On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Alan Dechert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed Cherlin wrote, > > >> > >> We are releasing a new demo disk today. > >> > >> > (http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/blog/2008-feb-26/ovc_demo_gaining_exposure > >> ) > > > > This version says that it needs 384 MB to run. I would like to see a > > version that can run on the One Laptop Per Child XO, which has 256 MB > > of RAM and no swap area. Is that possible? > > > I'm sure it's possible, but I doubt we are going to be able to produce a > boot disk any time soon that will work for that.
Since the XO doesn't have a CD drive, the boot disk isn't required. We would need software source and binaries in .xo bundles or RPM packages. I'm pretty sure that we can get volunteers from OLPC and the Python community more generally to work on it, including localizing into 60+ languages. For example, we could have a code sprint at next month's PyCon Python Convention in Chicago.) Students could use the OVC software for school elections, and the community could use it at schools for local elections, knowing that the students can verify the correctness of the code. It may be easier to get our work accepted in other countries where governments are taking up Free Software more rapidly than the US. I wonder whether we could get, say, UNESCO http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=6784&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (From the outset, UNESCO has played a key role in the promotion of democratic values and principles.) or the Soros Foundation http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information/focus/communication/about (Civil Society Communication includes...software tools to meet the special needs of these groups.) to fund such work. Certainly the members of World Movement for Global Democracy, http://www.wmgd.net/, should be interested. We can write up something for their newsletter to ask them to get involved. > I believe the OLPC comes > with Python installed. If you can add Pygame, then our stuff should work. Python and PyGame are standard on the XO. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Games, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Game_development, and http://www.olpcgames.org/. > Alan > > _______________________________________________ > OVC-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/ovc-discuss > By sending email to the OVC-discuss list, you thereby agree to release the > content of your posts to the Public Domain--with the exception of copyrighted > material quoted according to fair use, including publicly archiving at > http://gnosis.python-hosting.com/voting-project/ > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
