Any Advice for a fledging developer

Paul Sherman psherma1 at rochester.rr.com
Tue Jan 8 04:51:22 EST 2008


Any advice? -- 

I created/maintain WPClipart, along with writing a viewer/editor 
(wpclipper) specifically to easily work with clip art for documents 
(paste into AbiWord after viewing and/or editing.)

The clipart is in PNG format, all public domain and there are nearly 20k clips.
The entire collection is freely available for download.
I originally wrote WPClipper using wxWidgets, but have since rewritten 
in Python/pyGTK and all libraries are on the XO except for PIL 
(Python Imaging Library) -- I specifically did this to facilitate possible 
use with the XO.

I would like to make this installable on the XO, as well as possibly 
making the "school server" host the images (not the web site) so that 
the kids could have all the images at their disposal without 
having to scour the web or load 600+ MB of images onto a machine, which 
is obviously not possible.

Anyone have any ideas how I could go about this or get some help doing so?
>From what I have read, setting up the Sugar environment seems a bit 
daunting, much less trying to get an equivalent of the school server going...

Or maybe it would not be appropriate?
Any feedback is appreciated.

-- 
Paul Sherman <psherma1 at rochester.rr.com>



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