@bastien -- Java works fine on the XO; you should try it with specific apps.
@ Gary -- Model is very close to a new release; nudge Bobby about it :-) SJ On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3 Sep 2008, at 13:36, Greg Smith wrote: > > > Cmap tools (http://cmap.ihmc.us/) is a client server application that > > appears to have pretty good traction in schools, mostly in South > > America. We have a request to make it work on the XO. I exchanged some > > e-mails with Alberto Canas (con enye) who is the main application > > owner. > > ... > > > The first point seems solvable if they just install Java afterwards. > > Then we don't need to worry about licenses. Its a big install but > > probably not a deal breaker. The performance may be challenging but > > again I think we can make it fit. > > > > The second point is a tougher problem. Alberto thinks they could > > re-write the application to work with tiled windows so they all fit on > > the XO. The other idea I have heard is that we could run an activity > > which is X-Windows. Then you could launch this activity within that > > one. > > That may affect performance and would need testing. For the first idea > > of rebuilding the Cmap tools for sugar, we would need engineers to > > work > > on that which brings me to the third point. > > > > I'm not sure what free but not open source means. I think it means > > that > > we can not take a snapshot of their code and fork it nor can we modify > > it and push it back to them. We need to find a way for Alberto to hire > > more engineers if we want them to improve the implementation for the > > XO. > > > > The only good idea so far is the X-windows in Sugar idea. > > > > I'm open to other suggestions on this. Questions and comments > > welcome too. > > > > I know of one opportunity in Latin America which is being held up by > > this. There may be more in the future, we'll see. The pedagogical > > specialists here tell me that concept maps are pretty hot in education > > right now. They also pointed me to a commercial tool which some > > schools > > use: http://www.inspirationsoftware.com/ > > > > Does anyone know of an open source solution in this area? > > I'm a bit of a mindmapper/diagrammer type. If you're looking for free > and Open Source you want to look at freemind. It's very competitive vs > the commercial mapping tools and also supports a number of external > file formats, it's another Java app so would need that extra install. > > http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > > The other tool worth a poke is the more general purpose graphviz, also > free and Open Source, it's command line but there are some GUI's out > there also. Could be a very nice Activity to wrap a simple GTK GUI > around the tool chain: > > http://www.graphviz.org/ > > Also want to point you to the Model activity if you've not tried it. > It's rough and incomplete at my last testing, but seems to be a > potentially interesting diagramming tool. The wiki talks of "easily > sketch and simulate system dynamics models" which seemed a pretty > scary opening paragraph – I'd be happy with just a good diagramming > tool :-) Dev work seems to have gone quiet :-( > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Model > > > If the customers want cmap tools, my first choice is to make that > > work. > > That's what I'm focusing on right now albeit lower priority than > > shipping 8.2 :-). > > --Gary > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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