bravo!! encore :) -walter
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs.de> wrote: > A new Technical Report has been posted to the VPRI website, titled > "Etoys for One Laptop Per Child" by Scott Wallace, Yoshiki Ohshima, > and Yours Truly: > > http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php > > Abstract > > We present an overview of the "OLPC Etoys" system, describe the > intensive two-year development effort that produced the system, and > discuss lessons learned. OLPC Etoys is an end-user authoring system > for children, which was chosen to be distributed with the OLPC XO > laptops at an early stage of the OLPC project. > > Since we planned to derive OLPC Etoys by evolving an existing, mature > system ("Squeakland"), it was expected to be a relatively > straightforward undertaking. However, the OLPC XO platform's special > hardware characteristics, the evolution of the Sugar software stack, > and the fundamentally international and multilingual nature of the > project, all conspired to make the development effort challenging. > > Over the two-year course of the project, we successfully kept up with > the challenges, and delivered usable Etoys systems for every OLPC > release. We steadily improved the UI, added a few high-leverage > features, and fixed bugs, with a small and widely-distributed team and > with help from the community. > > - Bert - > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep