Greetings programs, I did a project in Graduate school four years ago that I think might be interesting for OLPC to look at, and I'm writing in hopes of getting some honest feedback from people about it.
My classmate and I wrote a program called "SymLogo" which implements a subset of the logo language with only graphical symbols: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/courses/ci407su02/students/mthunter/project-final I recently moved to Atlanta for my wife to take a new job, and I am currently -- what's a polite way to say "unemployed...." -- weighing my options of projects to work on. On the long drive from California, I read an article about OLPC which pushed me over the edge from "sounds fun" to "I should work on this!" It's definitely a graduate school project and not a production tool at the moment, but my new-found "freedom" means that I could put some more effort into it. During my working career I've been subscribed to several FreeBSD mailing lists, and it was there that I learned the following paradoxical course of these sorts of discussions: "Hey everybody, I have an idea, if I make it would you commit it?" "Depends; show us the finished product and we'll talk" "But I'm not going to do the work unless I know you'll use it" ... But when you stay on the lists for long enough, you learn that this is actually the correct approach, because there's really no other way. Having said that, I'd appreciate any initial guidance the group has on this. Is this idea already covered by a different application (I've been reading up on eToys; very cool stuff, but I think there's room for this, especially for younger kids and for the no-need-to-localize factor). Thanks sincerely for your consideration and keep up the good work! Mike Hunter _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
