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Location
Thursday, Dec 4th 2009 (1700 UTC) on irc.freenode.org #sugar-meeting

Attendees

 * Bernie Innocenti
 * Chris Rowe
 * Benjamin Schwartz
 * Manusheel Gupta
 * Eben Eliason

Topics

 * eBook reader requirements (chrowe)
 * Architecture proposals (bryan? bernie?)
 * Resource availability and coordination (manu? arjun?)
 * Tentative roadmap/schedule (chrowe?)

Wanted
The perfect eBook reder would...


 * work both on Sugar and on traditional desktops
 * provide functions to organize/search an offline bookshelf
 * interface with one or more online library backends
 * support several formatted text formats (html, pdf, scanned pages, ...)
 * allow taking side nodes, overlays, editing
 * be free and open source
 * be ready for tomorrow, thanks :-)

Existing Projects

 * Miro
 * ICDL
 * Calibre
 * OLE Nepal's Pustakalaya
 * OLE's Global Learning Library
 * Sugar Jurnal
 * Sugar Browse Downloads
 * Open Library OLPC book reader

Meeting Minutes
http://meeting.laptop.org/sugar-meeting.log.20081204_1210.html