Hi Harv, I'm a OLPC Volunteer, and work mainly with eKindling<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EKindling>in the Philippines and also live here in Copenhagen, Denmark currently since July last year!
Where are you based now, Harv? Christoph' is right, I'm waiting for a single RPi unit on back-order here, see what comes of it when I get my hands on one for testing. Yes, I also do see RPi, Arduino, and Lego WeDo/Mindstorms as nice advanced add-ons and would like to see some of these units reach our deployment schools in the near future. I think the main bulk of Sugar UI work is focusing around: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/GTK porting, which got kicked off last year. It will be interesting with the XO 3 given the choice of distro - what Andriod GUI/launcher environment is going to be supported by OLPC, developed? And what is going to make sense in the context of primary-age school children. Regards, Mitch On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Harv Stanic <h...@subsignal.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 22:45:26 +0100 > Christoph Derndorfer <christoph.derndor...@gmail.com> wrote this: > > > Hi Harv, > > > > great to hear from you. > > > > Are you still based in Denmark? Because there's at least one student at > > Aarhus University who's currently working on a PhD thesis which is > > related to OLPC, plus in the past two other students did similar > > research work there as well. > > Hi Christoph and others, > > I have left LEGO Education and Denmark last year which was a quite > difficult decision, as it was a great place to work, but as you know big > companies are run by marketing and not by research results. > > > Additionally Mitch (in CC) who supports an OLPC project in the > > Philippines is currently working for the university in Copenhagen. > > Seeing that he's currently looking into the Raspberry Pi module and how > > it could potentially be used for education in the OLPC context I think > > that your interest in GUI programming of robots could make for some good > > discussions. :-) > > Oh yes. I think that Raspberry Pi is great and inexpensive solution as an > "add on" for advanced classes - as in CS, as well as in robotics - however > it depends on external peripherals so it is not "all-in-one" solution. > What makes OLPC amazing is its screen and in its second incarnation > its touch-screen. Ui should be discussed, but it was always a work in > progress. > > One thing that I find great those days is "Ubuntu for Android" and an idea > that OLPC and RaspPI would benefit greatly being a blend of both. > > But there, I think it would be useful to open a discussion and see which > OS blend would suit the best for future incarnations of OLPC concepts. > > my best > > Harv > > > > > -- Mitchell Seaton eKindling Technology Support msea...@ekindling.org www.ekindling.org
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