[Its.an.education.project] We need your advice

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On 5/1/08, Martin Sevior <msevior at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> >  >  Please folks, lets have a bit of imagination about *could* happen with
> >  >  a bit more community engagement at the high end as well.
> >
> >  Can you extend on this, please?
> >
> >  Thanks,
> >
> >  Tomeu
> >
>
> Hi Tomeu,
>              What I was getting at is that we (the free software
> community) have a great stack of powerful, fast desktop apps already.
> These can be reused to provide the appropriate UI for school children
> and which avoids the MS Office. They could a killer feature not
> present in MS Office or anywhere else. I had some discussion with Jody
> Goldberg about a feature similar to abicollab for gnumeric and I
> believe we decided it was possible. But that was about 3 years ago.

Definitely, I think that many big apps for GNOME are now interested in
providing widgets that wrap all the functionality but allow to embed
in very different UIs. Not only for Sugar but also thinking here of
GNOME Mobile.

Thanks,

Tomeu