On 12 April 2013 22:52, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > The initial work seems very encouraging, yet it seems Sugar Labs doesn't > currently have the resources to make an Android offer available anytime > soon. But: now is the time. I believe fundraising is vital to achieve this > goal, at the very least to facilitate face to face Sugar Camps for the > community. I have ideas how to go about this, but I agree the community > needs to be clear about where we are going. An Android offer would of > course be of great interest to OLPC. >
To be completely honest, I think a migration to HTML/Android is never going to happen unless someone invests in it *and* the community rallies around that effort. Even a small team of experienced, full time developers could lay the framework foundations. And then writing enough activities for the framework to be of any interest would take a *lot* of work from the community. But are there the conditions for that to happen? There are also initiatives we could take to multiply the size of the > community. In particular, support for the Raspberry Pi (which has topped 1 > million units in sales - half of these since September -, is shipped > without an OS, and is arriving in junior high and high school computer > science classes) could be an ideal "OEM" platform for Sugar. > I also see Raspberry PI as a tempting opportunity. Though I think there is some conflict between trying to extend the reach of the current platform and bootstrapping a new one. I think it's important for people to understand that porting to Android is not really porting but a full rewrite. We can reuse designs, artwork, ideas and some of the experience we made so far, but no code at all.
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