On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Hilaire Fernandes <[email protected]> wrote: > OLPC moto is based from day one on the use of dynamic language to design the > content coming with their notebook. > > It is to write content but also to allow kids to examine source code, edit > it and test it ; as we are doing continuously in Smalltalk. > They even think about a source-code key in the keyboard to instantaneously > open a source code browser exposing the code of a running application. > > Now that Pharo 1.1 is in good sigh and as we are not ashame any more to show > how Smalltalk looks like we could also produce a release of Pharo for OLPC > XO Sugar environment. It is definitely a good opportunity to bring an > interesting tool to neutral mind (kids). In the other hand, it will > definitely help to bring awareness about Pharo. For example, without any > action of my part, DrGeoII was downloaded about 180'000 times in one year > for XO. > > Any takers?
I'm interested ! I'm involved in OLPC Vietnam and we would like to develop more contents in Vietnamese. Our website is here: http://olpc.vn/ Some vietnamese students (one of them is in CC on this message) are working to port Magic Words (http://comikit.se/page_magicwords.html ) to the XO and we are looking for an Smalltalk image for deployment (at the moment we are considering using the EToys image). What should be done: - build a specific VM (reuse EToys work), - port D-BUS to Pharo : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/D-BUS This is mostly used to communicate with OLPC-services. There is already an EToys version: http://www.squeaksource.com/dbus.html - package Pharo as an xo package, - adapt PBE to have a PBE-Sugar edition. > Hilaire > > PS: I have a couple of XO machines for testing purpose. I've got one. Regards, -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/ _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
