[Sugar-devel] A bot activity for sugar

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

We have now a kinda-like bot activity. it's called hablar con sara,

it's mainly a chatter bot in union with speak, you type things and she
interacts with you..it can be taught to tell about how to make activities
etc.

http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4033

you might want to check it

Rafael Ortiz


On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Nirav Patel <olpc at spongezone.net> wrote:

> Sounds like cool idea.  Just some issues you may run into.  IIRC, most
> of pyglet uses OpenGL, which would require hardware that most of what
> Sugar runs on doesn't have (XOs, netbooks) or Mesa, which may not be
> fast enough.
>
> Pygame is already a Sugar dependency, but combining pygame with pyGTK
> in a meaningful way on Sugar is currently an unsolved problem.
> Combining pyglet and pyGTK may result in similar problems, though I
> haven't tried it.
>
> There are UI libraries for pygame, but using pyGTK with cairo would
> probably result in a visual style more consistent with the rest of
> Sugar.
>
> Nirav
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
> <vamsi.davuluri at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > So I have been working on an IRC bot for a while, and an idea had
> occurred,
> > what if we have a graphical bot with a few limited animations for now,
> make
> > it an activity, and feed it with help and documentation on every other
> > activity and itself ofcourse. In the future a language dictionary and
> such
> > can be embedded into this bot.
> > The bot's graphical features can be coded with pygtk(for the widget
> frame,
> > text input), some pyglet/pygame for animations
> > http://pyglet.org
> >
> > This will be most entertaining/ fun for any kid. As I remember my own
> > experiences with such bots from a particular os. Kids love interaction,
> > graphical interaction is by far the fastest way to plant knowledge about
> > anything.
> >
> > Give me your opinions on this, maybe this will be something I will work
> on
> > for sugar in the near future ;)
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Vamsi Krishna Davuluri
> >
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