[olpc-nz] Fwd: Fwd: olpc-nz Digest, Vol 9, Issue 11

[Tabitha Roder]

FYI - CHC based Neil Graham is working on a project for XOs...
something for us to keep an eye on.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Neil Graham <Lerc at screamingduck.com>
Date: 2009/9/23
Subject: Re: Fwd: olpc-nz Digest, Vol 9, Issue 11
To: Tabitha Roder <tabitha at hrdnz.com>


On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 20:58 +1200, Tabitha Roder wrote:
> Did I read correctly that you are based in Christchurch? I go to
> Christchurch every few weeks and on occasion have taken XOs down and
> given them to the likes of Dave Lane at Egressive Limited and Dan
> Marsden at Catalyst.
> Not only can our testers in Wellington help out, but we are also keen
> on getting a Christchurch group together. Are you interested?

Yup,  I'm about 500m from the University of Canterbury.

I'm interested in meeting up with other XO people, but I've got a bit
much on my plate to do much regular testing or organising.  On the other
hand I'm hopefully going to be producing a few things of interest.

Here's what I achieved tonight.  I got my easy project bundle system
working.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMtleAzJ3AE&fmt=22

With this, Making a program that actually does something is remarkably
easy.

There's another clip showing the same dev system actually running on my
XO.  It shows a simple demo program using the Whio library. Whio is also
designed to be an extremely low barrier to entry environment.  A
fullscreen graphics program is just a few lines of code.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD95e9G1SiQ

The overall 'Master Plan' is coming together quite quickly at the moment
so I'll try and get an Archive together of the whole thing shortly for
you to have a go.