On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire.fernandes@gmail.com> 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. Â 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/