[OLPC-GSoC] GSoC Mentoring

Alex Levenson alev742 at gwmail.gwu.edu
Thu Mar 19 16:12:30 EDT 2009


I would also be glad to mentor that project or a similar one - that is
exactly what activity developers need, and olpcgames doesn't quite cut
it.

--Alex

On 3/19/09, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Great!  I agree that starting with OLPCGames might be a good idea (but
> you would want to strip out a lot of stuff).  I even proposed the idea
> to Mike Fletcher a few weeks ago but he didn't seem interested.
>
> It sounds like you have a good idea what's required - Feel free to
> write it up on ProjectIdeas and I'll take a look at it and maybe add
> some stuff.
>
> Cheers,
> Wade
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Nirav Patel <olpc at spongezone.net> wrote:
>> Wade,
>>
>> I would be up for that.  My suggestion is to propose a wrapper similar
>> to OLPCGames or even a fork of OLPCGames rather than a fork of Pygame,
>> to avoid the cost of keeping up to date with upstream.  Unlike
>> OLPCGames though, it would need to reflect the modern reality of
>> running Sugar on diverse hardware.
>>
>> Nirav
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Nirav,
>>>
>>> If I write a proposal on the Ideas page for 'sugargame' (a fork of
>>> PyGame with Sugar specific features such as the ability to mix GTK and
>>> PyGame in a single activity), would you feel up to mentoring that?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Wade
>>>
>>
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