On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:06:07PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: > > Many people will likely hate my promotion of Flash for learning > > activities. It's OK if you hate me and Flash. I do hope you > > recognize that we need a more developer-centric activity framework > > that uses web technologies. > >Making activity development easier is an unarguably fine goal, but I >don't think there are any simple solutions.
So what? > For example, do we even have a Flash editor under Linux? What does this have to do with Brian's real points about the economic factors underlying availability of programmer time? (Tangentially: where did the GIMP, Inkscape, and Blender come from?) > Is the first instruction on how to write activities for someone in the > developing world going to be "First, pirate a copy of Windows and > Adobe Flash Professional, and then.."? Can we propose a workable counter-offer? Michael _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
