Hi Daniel, et. al., Do you think Ubuntu could be an (easier) option for sugar to piggyback upon...
This is not a because-i-think-ubuntu-is-cool opinion, but testament to the fact that canonical have been working to get ubuntu running on tablets and smartphones. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation Even I'm not sold on the idea, but I guess it should be part a discussion and research efforts concerning sugar's future. Best, Anish On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Anish | an...@sugarlabs.org
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