[IAEP] OLPC computers spotted on a photo from 2015

[Christoph Derndorfer]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi Christoph,


Hi Gary,


> On 3 Oct 2011, at 15:54, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>
> > If I'm not mistaken they're simply running the Scratch activity - which
> visually hasn't been adapted to Sugar so far.
>
> If I understand their design decisions, I think 'so far' is hoping too much
> for a closer UI fit with other Sugar activities. Their goal is that it
> should look as identical as possible on all supported platforms, making it a
> standard 'a platform' in its own right.


Thanks a lot for the clarification, that certainly makes sense. I had simply
never considered this angle as 99% of my (still quite limited) exposure to
Scratch have been on the XO:-D

Though admittedly I do have to wonder whether they'll re-consider this
decision as the current UI doesn't lend itself to touch input IMHO and it
seems like tablets are increasingly popular in the user populations Scratch
targets. Or what are your impressions of using it on your touchscreen
developer unit?

It does at least now offer the support of saving to the Journal (thanks
> Bert). You still have to go through their save dialogue, select the
> 'Journal' and type a file name, but it at least remembers all that if you
> resume a project previously saved to the Journal.
>
> Reminds me... I must try sending those new Scratch Journal entries to a
> friend and see if it transfers OK between machines (should be fine as long
> as the correct MIME details have been set).
>

Good point, please let us know how this experiment goes!

Thanks again,
Christoph


> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> > Cheers,
> > Christoph
> >
> > Am 03.10.2011 16:45, schrieb James Simmons:
> >> The computers don't seem to be running Sugar, though.
> >>
> >> James Simmons
> >>
> >> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com<mailto:
> droujkova at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>    http://www.futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2015.htm
> >>
> >>
> >>    Cheers,
> >>    Maria Droujkova
> >>    919-388-1721 <tel:919-388-1721>
> >>
> >>    Make math your own, to make your own math
> >>
> >>
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Christoph Derndorfer

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volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]

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