Summer of Code Update: AbiWord on OLPC
Our Summer of Code student Erik Pukinskis has been hard at work doing research, UI mockups, and even some code, despite some communication problems and other issues within the OLPC design groups! Check out a screen shot of AbiWord running inside the Sugar OLPC interface here on Flickr!
Patches to add this support have hit the development mailing list, and further development is going on as I write this in the AbiWord IRC channel! Way to go, Erik! [Edit: your name was staring me in the face in that Flickr link and I still couldn’t spell it right - sorry Erik!]
For more information about his general process, visit: http://snowedin.net/archives/001035.php (See if you can find the sketch of a rabbit!)
For information about the feature set of OLPC AbiWord, visit http://snowedin.net/ideas/AbiWord+OLPC+Feature+Inventory
on August 25th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
Isn’t the Children’s Machine meant to be online, meaning can’t users just use Writely or some such web based equivalent?
on August 25th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
It is meant to be networkable, but not necessarily always with an uplink to the internet. The machines are to enable communication but not be dependent on anything external (such as a stable internet link)
on August 27th, 2006 at 10:36 am
[…] Tremendous progress has been made this summer on the Sugar user interface system that will be shipped with the CM1. Funded by Google, AbiWord, although still experimental, has successfully been integrated into the Sugar environment. Artists and developers continue to work on the evolving Sugar interface, and the fruits of their labor can be seen in demoes, mockups, and design reviews. […]
on August 27th, 2006 at 10:40 am
[…] Tremendous progress has been made this summer on the Sugar user interface system that will be shipped with the CM1. Funded by Google, AbiWord, although still experimental, has successfully been integrated into the Sugar environment. Artists and developers continue to work on the evolving Sugar interface, and the fruits of their labor can be seen in demoes, mockups, and design reviews. […]