Walter Bender is a good source of OLPC news for those of you in Python Nation tracking the spread of Python by this vector (both as an under the hood engine, and as a user friendly API).
Not to worry, I won't be flooding edu-sig with cross-posts; I save most of the OLPC stuff for my blogs. That being said, I'm all ears re exciting Python applications set to run on the XO, either in these early iterations or down the road a piece. I'm especially interested in applications that take us beyond Latin-1 at the interface level (not expecting a lot of non-Latin-1 3rd party py modules this early in the game, though I do know people are poking around with this stuff, given 3.x is in testing). Kirby still in Greater LA (working vacation -- got a new paying gig at PPS LEP High for more Python, is this morning's good news). """ Michael Burns of the Oregon State Open Source Lab has been working each night improving and growing the Community Support forum (See http://olpc.osuosl.org/), which is now exceeding 1,000 posts; 200 registered users have answered hundreds of first-time computer questions from G1G1 donors. There is already a growing community of users helping other users on the site. The site includes a live (IRC) chat (See http://olpc.osuosl.org/chat), a feature that works from any computer, including directly from the XO, and a volunteers map (See http://olpc.osuosl.org/forum/phoogle_map.php) that lets developers, enthusiasts and users put a push-pin next to their home town. """ Source: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2007-December/009072.html
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