On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:50 PM, K. K. Subramaniam<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 14 Jul 2009 12:03:35 am David Farning wrote: >> Have you considered using Sugar or Sugar on a stick for your program? > The project was conceived before SoaS. We faced severe constraints with power > budgets and tech support. Wifi and ethernet couldn't compete with sneakernet > ;-). It was a back to basics project. Any use of computer had better be worth > all that extra pain; else the initial enthusiasm will fizzle out. This ruled > out many games, audio/video/picture work. > >> What have been the issues preventing you from using Sugar? What >> blockers still exist which would prevent you from using Sugar? > LaTeX and Stellarium were two big show stoppers. We just wanted a 'digital > kit' that children could use to read/write in their local languages > (Kannada/Hindi/English). A lot of work in Sugar was focussed around UI and > storage models but not in multilingual support and immersive learning. >
Could you outline the issues you have faced while trying out local language support ? I would definitely love some feedback on this area - especially for Indic languages. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
