[OLPC library] Nortel LearniT animations (Seth Woodworth)

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Edward Cherlin Wrote:
>  > That might be the quickest strategy, but I don't agree that it is the best.
>  >
>  > * Gnash needs funding and developers. Let's do it. Rob Savoye says, as
>  > I understand it, that more codecs have been cracked but not coded for.
>  > Rob, can we get the list? Is there a roadmap for implementation? I
>  > didn't see it in any of the obvious places.
>
>  Sugar needs more developers, the XS needs more developers and resources,
>  this project as a whole needs a lot more resources.
>
>  There are a lot of awesome flash-based modules for magnetism,
>  electricity, math, and basic science. Flash is pervasive in educational
>  courseware development. We shouldn't make kids wait until we come up
>  with a completely free alternative to Flash.

Can these modules be recoded for Gnash? I don't see this as an either/or.

I am willing to discuss bundling Flash on the XO if Adobe will give us
a license. I am willing to work out an easy download process if not.
Regardless of that we need to finish Gnash, and get as many Flash
videos as possible recoded for Gnash. Different people can choose
which of those paths to work on, if they like.

>  One aspect of this project is that kids can discover things on their
>  own. If we have very limited flash support we are limiting what kids can
>  discover to works that we have transcoded or Gnash fully supports.
>
>  OLPC can't bundle flash into their images but they can make it
>  significantly easier for deployment teams to add it as an .xo bundle
>  just as we currently add custom activity bundles.
>
>  I agree that the long-term strategy should be to support Gnash and/or
>  get Adobe to open up their Flash player. But we have pilots running now
>  and kids that want to learn science, mathematics, English, etc. Let's
>  not make them wait.
>
>  Bryan
>  Kathmandu

We seem to agree on the principles, and we can recruit for each of the
alternatives.
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