[OLPC-Chicago] Language learning (TinyLanguage Project)

[Mel Chua]

Scott + all,

TinyLanguage sounds like an amazing - and important - project. I love 
your description and justification, and hope you don't mind if I've put 
it up on a wikipage for you - [[TinyLanguage]]. It's undoubtedly 
inaccurate and out of date - please go for it, edit it, make it yours. 
In particular, you might want to contact the "interested people" listed 
at bottom (and add yourself) and the developers of the "similar projects."

Scott, what's the status of development on TinyLanguage? Do you need 
artists, designers, developers, linguists, testers? Would you be 
interested in scheduling a Chicago-area code/hacking sprint some weekend 
to get code started (or to the next level)? Using PyGame or PyGTK would 
make the program easy to run on XOs as well as many other types of 
computers on all different kinds of platforms and operating systems. If 
you're using Python as a language, this might actually make a pretty 
sweet sprint at PyCon (to bring up something Feihong mentioned earlier).

Once this project is up and running and there's software for people to 
test as a rough first draft, you can apply for [[Project hosting]] and 
shout out to the global grassroots and library lists (see 
lists.laptop.org) to get many others in the global OLPC community to 
test, translate, and hack yet more. (This applies for other projects as 
well.)

Thoughts? Ideas? Feedback? Pile on stuff on the wiki page, but chat on 
here, too.

-Mel [[User:Mchua]]

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