And, as additional advice, always check the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_code and the talk page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Summer_of_Code
Have a great day! On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > if you are interested in hacking Sugar, please check the roadmap in > the mail below and find something you would have fun working on: > > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-March/004546.html > > I would recommend people interested in participating in the google > summer code to send an email to the sugar mailing list presenting > themselves and, most importantly, stating the mini-projects they would > like to work on. > > Chances are high that, if the area to work on is in the roadmap, one > core developer will offer his mentorship. Unfortunately, in this > precise moment developer's time is very scarce and there's not much > time for medium-term goals. > > But of course, everybody is free to work on whatever they want and I > personally will try to answer as many questions as possible. > > Tomeu > > 2008/3/19 Blaine Booher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I just signed up to the developer's list a few days ago (After seeing an XO > > live for the first time at SigCSE 2008 in Portland) and would love to work > > on the OLPC as a Google Code project. I look forward to seeing more > > information on this. > > > > In the mean time I'm going to continue figuring out how to get Sugar up and > > running and get my feet wet with the development platform. > > > > Thanks! > > Blaine > > > > 2008/3/18 Bobby Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, I'm a master's student at the University of Bergen and I'm interested > > in bringing System Dynamics to the XO. Before I start, if there is a > better > > mailing list for this just let me know (I briefly looked through the other > > ones liked from the Wiki, and this seemed the most appropriate). > > > > > > > > > System Dynamics (SD) [1][2] aims to help people understand the world by > > explicitly modeling how pieces of it work and then performing experiments > in > > these models. It is used around the world, frequently in majority world > > countries, in development planning [3], for example. More formally, its a > > methodology for examining and describing the behavior of complex systems > > with an emphasis on the effects that feedback loops and time delays have. > > At a basic level you have to specify the mathematical equations for the > > different parts of your system. The same problems can be solved by > writing > > code in a programming language (I had a course taught in Fortran a year > > ago...), but usually in SD the modeling is done using a visual editor where > > you can show causal relationships, stocks and flows graphically. I > > personally think the biggest short-fallings of the discipline are the > > barriers to entry: the current software is far from intuitive and all the > > major commercial offerings (there are no FLOSS products) [4][5][6] are very > > expensive (educational licenses alone are frequently > $500 USD). > > > > > > > > > Will Wright studied SD and used ideas from it when designing SimCity [7]. > > So I have several things I would like to work on: first is a core > simulator > > that can transform equations into code (I'm currently working on this for > my > > master's thesis, but don't have and funding. eesh): I'm using the JIT > > library from the LLVM project to be able to do this. Second I want to > > create a Sugar modeling interface that makes it easy and fun to create > > models and explore their results (collaboratively, I hope!), and third I > > want to hook this into Metropolis. I think it would just be so cool if you > > could click an icon in Metropolis and have the visual model that controls > > the Metropolis world pop up (in the aforementioned editor) and be able not > > only to fiddle with parameters, but change the structure! If all of this > > goes smoothly and there is more time, I would love to add the ability for > > models to interact with and manipulate geospatial data. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I guess I am looking for people's reaction, is this something people > like? > > I'm certainly willing to adapt myself to the collective needs and I wanted > > to get a discussion started before the application deadline. Oh I guess a > > little more background on me: I attended RPI in NY, USA for 2 years > > studying computer engineering, but transferred because I wanted to do > > something more applied. I studied environmental studies (at SUNY ESF) for > a > > couple years, and got back into coding through classes on ecological > > modeling and GIS. I've been pretty heavily coding models, algorithms and > > interfaces for the past 2 years, mainly in C#, ObjC and some Fortran, but > > the past 3 months I've been using C++ for 8 hours a day and Python here and > > there. I've got a Mac with Linux (both FC8 and openSUSE10.3) and Windows, > > and I've just started over the past few weeks to pick up GTK, although I've > > used Cairo in a project for a couple months. I've only dabbled with the > XO, > > but am really looking forward to developing bundles for it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm eager to hear what you think! > > > yours, > > > Bobby Powers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics > > > [2] http://www.systemdynamics.org/ > > > [3] http://www.millenniuminstitute.net/ > > > [4] http://www.vensim.com/ > > > [5] http://www.powersim.com/ > > > [6] http://www.iseesystems.com/ > > > [7] http://www.futuresalon.org/2004/11/will_wright_kic.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Devel mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
