Martin,<br><br>Sonya wanted me to reply on her behalf. I have written a brief explanation of our attempts to "just install Flash" on the XO with the ex-factory, that is, the factory installed, operating system. I just sent it to the developers' list. What someone like Sonya needs is an OS on the XO that has Adobe FlashPlayer installed ex-factory, or easily added by downloading it, but the story of Flash on the XO is not so simple. Since OPLC's developers seem to want nothing to do with the proprietary, but free to use, FlashPlayer, and since Gnash isn't even running a close second place to FlashPlayer, someone who wants to use Flash-based web applications is stuck unless he/she knows enough about computers to go around Sugar and get FlashPlayer and a browser that plays nicely with it. She was hoping to create a tutoring capability that works within Sugar, but building it from scratch using Python and Sugar just isn't feasible nor cost-effective when web apps already exist to do what she needs, just not within Sugar.<br>
<br>I'm hoping that when the new version of Fedora for XO-1.5 is released, a backport to XO-1 will also be released, and that it will support FlashPlayer, the real one from Adobe, without requiring the user to be an IT expert.<br>
<br>Stan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Martin Langhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi -<br>
<br>
just install Flash. You don't need anything from me or OLPC.<br>
<br>
kind regards,<br>
<br>
<br>
martin<br>
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Sonya Sokolow <<a href="mailto:sonyasokolow@gmail.com">sonyasokolow@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> 4/12/10 12:40pm CA time<br>
><br>
> Hi Martin,<br>
><br>
> I am Sonya Sokolow, PhD, owner of Internet Math Tutoring (IMT):<br>
> <a href="http://www.internetmathtutoring.com" target="_blank">http://www.internetmathtutoring.com</a> . I also maintain the blog about using<br>
> XO's in Africa and India for IMT: <a href="http://www.internetmathtutoring.com/olpc" target="_blank">http://www.internetmathtutoring.com/olpc</a><br>
> .<br>
><br>
> In my experience, having a web cam and an interactive white board as tools<br>
> for internet math tutoring make the teaching very much more effective than<br>
> having only type chat or delayed email responses. I use <a href="http://www.Vyew.com" target="_blank">http://www.Vyew.com</a><br>
> as an interactive whiteboard. It is flash-based. I use an SD card on the<br>
> XO which my husband Stanley Sokolow made for me. I hope that soon in the<br>
> future I won't have to use the SD card anymore. That is, I am hoping that<br>
> the XO's will become compatible with Flash.<br>
><br>
<br>
<br>
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