[IAEP] Technical Report on OLPC Etoys

[Walter Bender]

bravo!! encore :)

-walter

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> A new Technical Report has been posted to the VPRI website, titled
> "Etoys for One Laptop Per Child" by Scott Wallace, Yoshiki Ohshima,
> and Yours Truly:
>
> http://www.vpri.org/html/writings.php
>
> Abstract
>
> We present an overview of the "OLPC Etoys" system, describe the
> intensive two-year development effort that produced the system, and
> discuss lessons learned. OLPC Etoys is an end-user authoring system
> for children, which was chosen to be distributed with the OLPC XO
> laptops at an early stage of the OLPC project.
>
> Since we planned to derive OLPC Etoys by evolving an existing, mature
> system ("Squeakland"), it was expected to be a relatively
> straightforward undertaking. However, the OLPC XO platform's special
> hardware characteristics, the evolution of the Sugar software stack,
> and the fundamentally international and multilingual nature of the
> project, all conspired to make the development effort challenging.
>
> Over the two-year course of the project, we successfully kept up with
> the challenges, and delivered usable Etoys systems for every OLPC
> release. We steadily improved the UI, added a few high-leverage
> features, and fixed bugs, with a small and widely-distributed team and
> with help from the community.
>
> - Bert -
>
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