Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-18 Thread Bobby Powers
Hi, I'm a master's student at the University of Bergen and I'm interested in bringing System Dynamics to the XO. Before I start, if there is a better mailing list for this just let me know (I briefly looked through the other ones liked from the Wiki, and this seemed the most appropriate). System D

Re: Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-19 Thread Don Hopkins
That's a wonderful idea, and I encourage you to pursue it! Alan Kay was suggesting doing something like that to document and model the behavior of SimCity (aka Micropolis), so kids can understand and modify it. I've posted some stuff on the OLPC wiki and my blog about that: http://wiki.laptop.

Re: Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-19 Thread Blaine Booher
I just signed up to the developer's list a few days ago (After seeing an XO live for the first time at SigCSE 2008 in Portland) and would love to work on the OLPC as a Google Code project. I look forward to seeing more information on this. In the mean time I'm going to continue figuring out how t

Re: Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-19 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, if you are interested in hacking Sugar, please check the roadmap in the mail below and find something you would have fun working on: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-March/004546.html I would recommend people interested in participating in the google summer code to send an email

Re: Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-19 Thread Charles Merriam
And, as additional advice, always check the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Summer_of_code and the talk page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Summer_of_Code Have a great day! On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > if you are interested in hacking Sugar,

Re: Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-19 Thread Edward Cherlin
2008/3/18 Bobby Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, I'm a master's student at the University of Bergen and I'm interested in > bringing System Dynamics to the XO. Before I start, if there is a better > mailing list for this just let me know (I briefly looked through the other > ones liked from the W

Re: Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-19 Thread Bobby Powers
Great, I am glad there is some interest! I just found your older email thread, Don, [1] on ideas for Micropolis, and I think that what I would like to do with system dynamic (SD) modeling can easily encompass the visual programming [2] ideas you and others have talked about. I believe the backend

Re: Interested in the Google Summer of Code

2008-03-20 Thread karl
Bobby Powers wrote: > Great, I am glad there is some interest! I just found your older > email thread, Don, [1] on ideas for Micropolis, and I think that what > I would like to do with system dynamic (SD) modeling can easily > encompass the visual programming [2] ideas you and others have talke