On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
* We desperately need (documented) sample code for:
o Hippo, particularly for activities, particularly more
advanced layouts showing both how and *why*
o Telepathy, we need sample code for "how to share activity
state among multiple participants"
o Hardware access from Python (for all special hardware)
Yes, yes, and yes to the sample code. Yes. Yesssssssss, precious.
There are thousands of developers willing to work, where do we need them
tomorrow.
There are gobs of PyGTK applications that could be usefully ported. I
don't think we necessarily care *which* ones get ported -- the overhead of
managing that process could be... um... onerous.
That said, we *desperately* need a way to coordinate what work *is* being
done. The biggest problem I see is that there's no clear, *simple* way to
know if your work is being duplicated. I was stumbling my way through a
port of Kye only to discover that by the time I'd figured out what I
needed to do, someone else had already done it.
Let me ask you all to do something: go to the OLPC wiki and search for
"activities". Go on, go on. I'll wait.
(Hmm, hmmm hmmm, da dum da deee....)
OK, what did you find? You found the HIG. Which is ok, I guess -- but
IMHO, the *first* thing you should find... is *activities*! But instead
you get the HIG, a very long page about how to make activities "just so".
Except that in reality, the way you learn how to make activities is by
dissecting other people's activities. Right? A page like the current
Activities/HIG page is good as a reference, but not as a starting point.
So in that spirit, may I propose...
THE ACTIVITY CLEARINGHOUSE.
It's a wiki page. That's all. Nothing fancy. An entry looks something
like this:
* Chess
+ Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+ URL: http://people.redhat.com/gdk/OLPC/chess.xo
+ Desc: I'm working on porting GnuChess and PyChess to an
XO activity. Still early on, but comments welcome.
And once we have this simple page, we drive *everybody* to it. "Wanna
help! Sure! Go find something you think would be neat to see on the XO,
and then claim it at The Activity Clearinghouse." Refer to the URL on
mailing lists. Put the URL on the front page of the wiki. Get the URL
tattooed on your upper lip.
We could probably come up with somethign *much* more complicated and
"robust", of course. And at some point, we'll need to. But I think we
need to start somewhere, and soon.
--g
(And maybe this page already exists -- but if it does, I certainly haven't
found it.)
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