[sugar] Sophie and the XO

[msevior at physics.unimelb.edu.au]

Hi Steven,
          Regarding the XO as an authoring tool, I suspect you will find
it a challenge to present the features of your applicaton is a
way that is useful to Children. For example, Write currently
exposes a tiny fraction of the features of AbiWord.

I think making extensive use of drag and drop will be the key and is
something I'm focussing on for write.

Good Luck!

Martin


> Hello!
>
> My name is Steve Riggins and I am working on the Sophie project
> (http://www.sophieproject.org).  Along with Michael Rueger and Nick
> Matelan, I have been charged with ramping up quickly on the
> requirements for Sophie running on the XO.  SJ mentioned that this
> was a good place to do as such, so here we are. :)
>
> We are very excited about the possibility of having a role in this
> project!  In order to determine the possibilities, here is a first
> round of basic questions:
>
> language support
> ---------------
>
>    * How many languages does the XO OS support?
>    * Are there input managers for getting multi-byte characters from
> the user?
>    * Do you require right-to-left rendering for v1?
>
> Authoring
> --------
>
>     * Are you looking for both an Authoring tool as well as a Reader
> on the XO, or only a Reader?  (I like to be very clear about things)
>
> Documentation
> -------------
>
>    * How is documentation for software on the XO being distributed?
>
> Fonts
> -----
>
>    *  If you would like to develop books for the XO on Mac/Windows/
> Linux using Sophie, is requiring the author to use a specific font
> set acceptable?  Opposed to embedded any font in the book (bloating
> books, etc)
>
> Deliverables
> ----------
>
>    * When do you need a beta version?
>    * When is gold master to be delivered?
>    * What other milestones would you have for us?
>
> Video/Movies
> -----------
>
>    * Which video library are you supporting on the XO?
>    * If you would like to develop books for the XO on Mac/Windows/
> Linux using Sophie, are there Mac/Windows versions of the library so
> everything would be cross platform?
>
> Storage Space
> ------------
>
>    * How much storage space would we have for the Application,
> Preferences, caches, temporary files during authoring, etc?
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