On Nov 22, 2007 2:18 PM, Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu <<a href="mailto:chad-jm@hower.org">chad-jm@hower.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've read what is on the web of course - but from reading messages here for<br>a few days and also playing with some builds it seems that there is still a<br>fair bit of polishing left to do?</blockquote><div><br>Depends on what you mean by 'polishing'. :)
<br><br>Our ship code (one of the many milestones we have reached) is stable, works quite well and is complete for what it tries to do. It doesn't fill all the features we have planned for the 'Grand Scheme Of Things', but it a big first step. Sharing activities works, discovering users works, mesh networking works, applications run, websites load, pictures render, games are fun and kids gravitate to the laptop without prompting. The hardware is amazingly solid, reliable, efficient and environmentally friendly. The folks at OLPC have made a great product, that will--even if they stopped writing code today--go a long way toward changing the world.
<br><br>Now, having said all that, OLPC has barely scratched the surface on the features and abilities they want provide to the children that use this laptop. Check out the Roadmap [0] that tracks some of the near- and medium-future things developers will be working on.
<br><br>Hope that answers your question. If you have others, please do ask. Cheers!<br><br>[0] <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap">http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap</a><br>
<br></div></div>-- <br>Michael Burns * Student<br>Open Source {Education} Lab