0.84/Everywhere

Run everywhere

People

Owner: Marco Pesenti Gritti

Peers

• Simon Schampijer
• Morgan Collett

Ideas

• Encourage Fedora and Ubuntu communities to produce Sugar LiveCD. Advertise them, get schools to use them and to provide feedback.
  • LiveUSB is also important, as it means someone can make changes;
  • making sure that multiple Live media Sugars can talk to each other so that people can experience the collaboration features is very important.
• Sugar chooses a font based on the screen size and dpi (graphics/style.py); we need to make this work better for non-xo devices.
• Sugar should adapt itself to the screen resolutions of other non-xo laptops, such as Classmate 2's 1024x600 resolution.
• bundlebuilder should be improved to use the correct system paths when doing a system installation, so that activities can be more easily packaged into rpm or deb. For example, translations should go in /usr/share/locale.

Activities

We should make sure that activities works well on our various livecd. Here is a list of important ones, provided by Bill Kerr.

• X2o: A puzzle solving and critical thinking game similar to the Incredible Machine; make crazy contraptions to get the O back on top of the X
• vu.lux.olpc.Pacmanpacman: A Pacman clone
• gcompris: educational games
• guido van robot: Educational programming language, IDE and lessons; Stable with 18 lessons included
• simcity: Construct and maintain your own city
• Terminal – linux command line (explore some linux commands)
• Story Builder - Graphical story constructor with a variety of characters and backgrounds and simple word-processing capabilities (MaMaMedia)
• Speak – An animated face that speaks whatever you type
• Scratch - multimedia visual programming language
• Slider puzzle- Slider Puzzle to improve on puzzle solving skills (MaMaMedia)
• Pippy – Python Programming language/environment (run samples by clicking on grey horizontal line)
• Maze - Maze game
• Jump - A Marble-Jumping Solitaire Game. Works in Sugar; Created by a Team at Carnegie Mellon University
• Jigsaw Puzzle - Classic picture-constructing game (MaMaMedia)
• DrGeo II - Euclidean Geometry
• Etoys - Learning / visual programming / authoring environment; includes Kedama which can simulate hundreds or thousands of objects
• FlipSticks - org.worldwideworkshop.olpc.FlipSticks Using keyframes, program a stick figure to twist, turn, tumble and dance (MaMaMedia)
• Cartoon Builder - Animate a cartoon character by creating a sequence of poses inside a filmstrip (MaMaMedia)
• Chat - Text chat
• BlockParty – Tetris-inspired game
• Browse - Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox

Status

• Some work on bundlebuilder has been done. Fedora packages for activities are really trivial now.

Deploy to a larger user base

People

Owner: ???

Actions

• For Sugar to be useful to the elderly (and to help with accessibility) we need to make sure we can do some scaling of fonts and other interface components.
• Establish a testing/feedback regime to make sure that these tools really work in the field.

Status

• We need an owner and to start fleshing out the actions.