On 19 April 2016 at 23:14, Justin Overton <justin@polymath.ninja> wrote:
> I did look to see if I could find a way to buy an XO-4, but I ended up > rooting my chromebook instead. It mostly runs fine on the chromebook, but > several of the apps don't work. EToys, Speech, and a couple of others. Cool! I think Sugar Labs should buy some XO-4 stock and sell them, mainly to developers :) I'm curious why etoys won't run; squeak should run everywhere, and it seems to me to be one of the most important activities. On the main topic, I do think the web platform may be a bad bet - http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-biggest-mistake-with-mobile-was-betting-too-much-on-html5/ :) - and in this case I think porting Sugar to Qt might be worth considering. Should starting the effort to follow Wireshark et al and go Qt be part of the 2016 vision/mission? Today the www.qt.io/company seems to be profitable, and PyQt is profitable GPL software, and survived Nokia's anti-gpl attack. If we don't have anyone with links to the Qt Company in our networks, we can easily build up a relationship there! :) As I delved into Alan Kay, it seems that squeak (which etoys is built on) has dried up, and now the leading libre non-web smalltalk is http://pharo. org That community seems like a good case study in how to set up a free software project that harnesses finance: http://pharo.org/community http://association.pharo.org/web/about http://consortium.pharo.org/ http://consortium.pharo.org/web/Membership http://files.pharo.org/consultants/pharo-consultants.html http://www.eventbrite.com/e/pharo-days-2016-tickets-22454533113
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