[OLPC library] Nortel LearniT animations (Seth Woodworth)

[Bryan Berry]

Seth Woodworth Wrote:
>Holy Crap!  That's amazing.
>We need this *on* the laptops.  Curse you flash!
>Does it work alright in gnash?  Or should we transcode it?

There are a lot of great education activities done in Flash and their #
will only increase simply because it is very easy to develop animations
using flash. Check out www.eshikshaindia.in for more great learning
animations. Those did not work w/ Gnash when I tried it last month.

I have a lot of respect for what the Gnash guys have done but the best
strategy would be to make it easy for deployment teams to bundle flash
w/ the XO. So many Internet sites depend on it. From my understanding of
the Adobe license terms, you can distribute Flash w/in an intranet,
which I judge to mean I can install it on the XO's for Nepal's pilot
schools. One thing is definitely clear, you cannot bundle flash into an
xo image available on the internet. However, I believe that I can make
the flash plugin to a school intranet via the XS and still conform to
the Adobe license. 

AFAIK the flash plugin only requires one file to be installed as far as
I can tell  libflashplayer.so

The easiest way technically to do this would be to put in a symlink
from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to /home/olpc/mozilla/plugins

and then modify the customization key script to look for flash and other
plugins and copy them to the home/.../plugins folder

Bryan
Kathmandu