I am still learning Python but I think this is a great idea. OLPC is designed for children in developing nations and that would be a great resource for people trying to spread God's word to them.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Jan 14, 2008 12:38 PM, DJ Ortley <<a href="mailto:djortley@gmail.com">djortley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Having started at least one of those conversations, I still mildly<br>have an interest. Especially as I've learned Python since then. :)<br><br>It seemed that the conversation ended with people thinking the intent<br>
was to get sword stuck on the the laptops before they ship, which<br>obviously isn't going to happen (and definatly weren't my original<br>thoughts.)<br><br>As I said, I'm still mildly interested, but I don't know how involved
<br>I can be in the short term as I have many other plates spinning (and<br>falling down.)<br><font color="#888888"><br>-DJ<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>On Jan 14, 2008 10:02 AM, Jason Galyon <
<a href="mailto:jtgalyon@gmail.com">jtgalyon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> There were various conversations in the past relating to Bible related<br>> software for the One Laptop Per Child or XO project. I would like to
<br>> start the discussion back up if anyone is interested.<br>><br>> At my local Python Users Group meeting (<a href="http://dfwpython.org" target="_blank">http://dfwpython.org</a>) we had<br>> three of the units and played around with them including messing with
<br>> the mesh networking and collaborative activities.<br>><br>> These are very cool, I can't say enough good about them.<br>><br>> While large amounts of text are out due to storage (and RAM) is there
<br>> interest in developing client or server software for and lesson<br>> management applications?<br>><br>> For example, you could still have bible reading assignments (including<br>> the follow along in the class) using either the browser or just the
<br>> normal pyGTK interface receiving its information from the class (school)<br>> server.<br>><br>> There have been some great ideas generated already however having seen<br>> some of these, I can say that the potential for teaching the world the
<br>> Word is limitless. Combining these with general education setup<br>> missions would be a great boon for witnessing.<br>><br>> Some resources:<br>> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home" target="_blank">
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Home</a> - general website<br>> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers</a> - development info<br>> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild" target="_blank">
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_with_sugar-jhbuild</a> - development<br>> checkout of the sugar environment<br>><br>> note that with sugar, you have the latest development versions available<br>> (my preference) with sugar-jhbuild, downloadable packages for many
<br>> platforms, and vm images such as for VMWare, Parallels, and QEMU.<br>><br>> Download a copy and see what the potential is!<br>><br>> Jason<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________
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