[OT] Regards

[Duncan Patton a Campbell]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:22:01 -0700
MBurns <maburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/18/06, Duncan Patton a Campbell <campbell at neotext.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Lemme know if you have any luck... I've run into some deafening silence, hereabouts.
> >
> A lot of these people are hard at work, no doubt, and so some
> introductory questions slip through their fingers.
> 
> > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:46:14 -0300 "Gabriel Bulfon" <gbulfon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, i am signing into the mailing list. I want to know if i can help. I am
> > > developer. I don't know anything about oplc operating system, applications,
> > > etc.
> 
> Most everything you need is covered in the wiki. If you want to help
> code, you are most welcome, the more help the better. First you'll
> probably want to read up a bit on Sugar [1]. To write an app for the
> laptop/sugar, you have to make an activity bundle for it [2]. The
> preferred language for new applications is Python, though many ported
> C/C++ apps are being brought to the laptop's system(see: Abiword,
> others).
> 
> To get up and testing, you'll want to have qemu installed and download
> a recent snapshot image of the system going [3]. Shouldn't be too hard
> to do at all; instructions for Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows XP and others
> are available on the wiki as well.
> 
> >From that, you can either port your preferred application, debug an
> existing application (great), or find applications that are ported and
> working and make them work better.
> 
> Last but not least, your absolute best place to find information(yes,
> on the wiki) is the "Getting Involved" page [4]. Read it, find what
> you are best at, and work toward making the laptop better.
> 
> I hope that answers both your questions. Happy Hacking.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar
> [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_Bundles
> [3] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software
> [4] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Getting_involved_in_OLPC
> 

Yes, thanks.

Dhu

> Michael Burns
> Oregon State University
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