Android on the XO-4

[Walter Bender]

I am guessing that OLPC's short-term goal is just to get Android
running... a dual-boot system would be attractive to many of their
potential customers.

-walter

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is the goal just to run Android on the XO or this related to Sugar and the
> HTML 5 effort?
>
>
> On Wednesday, 9 October 2013, Sameer Verma wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Not sure this helps us get around the Marvel bottleneck, but worth
>> > investigating.
>> >
>> > -walter
>> >
>>
>> Thx. I've heard about this bottleneck but not sure what it is. Can you
>> tell us a bit about what it is, or point to it?
>>
>> Sameer
>>
>> > On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>> >> I was at the Internet Archive for some work on Pathagar
>> >> (https://github.com/PathagarBooks/pathagar). Also there that afternoon
>> >> was John Gilmore (cc'd). We got to talking about the XO-4, Android,
>> >> HTML5, etc. A bit of doodling on Physics, and John put together a two
>> >> cylinder engine, complete with a rocker arm :-) He also suggested the
>> >> possibility of CyanogenMod on the XO-4 as a starting point.
>> >>
>> >> If there is any interest in this, please submit a proposal for the
>> >> upcoming OLPC SF summit
>> >> http://www.olpcsf.org/CommunitySummit2013/proposal
>> >>
>> >> John,
>> >>
>> >> If you are in town Oct 18-20, we'd love to have you there.
>> >> http://olpcsf.org/summit
>> >>
>> >> cheers,
>> >> Sameer
>> >> --
>> >> Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
>> >> Professor, Information Systems
>> >> San Francisco State University
>> >> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
>> >> http://commons.sfsu.edu/
>> >> http://olpcsf.org/
>> >> http://olpcjamaica.org.jm/
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