Re: [Sugar-devel] A bot activity for sugar

2009-04-14 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
We have now a kinda-like bot activity. it's called hablar con sara, it's mainly a chatter bot in union with speak, you type things and she interacts with you..it can be taught to tell about how to make activities etc. http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4033 you might want to check

Re: [Sugar-devel] A bot activity for sugar

2009-04-14 Thread Nirav Patel
Sounds like cool idea. Just some issues you may run into. IIRC, most of pyglet uses OpenGL, which would require hardware that most of what Sugar runs on doesn't have (XOs, netbooks) or Mesa, which may not be fast enough. Pygame is already a Sugar dependency, but combining pygame with pyGTK in a

Re: [Sugar-devel] A bot activity for sugar

2009-04-14 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
Yep, python is an amazing scripting language in itself though (and there are a couple of skeletal code lying on the net), there is implementation still remaining , for instance seen, karma, and msg passing. A day or two and it will be done. We better not deviate from the topic though :p >On Tue, A

Re: [Sugar-devel] A bot activity for sugar

2009-04-14 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
Lucian, that would be awesome. Maybe we can dev this as a combination. If we get in and get through this, post GSoC at sugar is going to be amazing fun. The idea kinda stemmed off while I've been developing a bot for irc in python, I was trying to make a female pair for xobot. >On Tue, Apr 14, 200

Re: [Sugar-devel] A bot activity for sugar

2009-04-14 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
cool, thanks for your response. And yep, my gsoc project will definitely be my top and only responsibility till august, but there are so many things I can do for sugar, and it excites me greatly to think about them :D On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote: > I definitely like this

Re: [Sugar-devel] A bot activity for sugar

2009-04-14 Thread Jameson Quinn
I definitely like this idea. It is a fun way for kids to provide information services such as technical support. I would give it a simple eliza-like engine and let the kids go crazy with it. Of course, should you be accepted for GSoC, your primary responsibility would be to your project... Jameso

[Sugar-devel] A bot activity for sugar

2009-04-14 Thread Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
Hello, So I have been working on an IRC bot for a while, and an idea had occurred, what if we have a graphical bot with a few limited animations for now, make it an activity, and feed it with help and documentation on every other activity and itself ofcourse. In the future a language dictionary an