> Can these modules be recoded for Gnash? I don't see this as an either/or.
Frankly I don't have the time for this, preparing for a deployment is extremely time-consuming. If I were to recode them, I fear I would find a whole new set of flash-based materials that would need to be recoded. On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 00:58 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel