[Sugar-devel] Hi; GSoC?

[Isaac Dupree]

Hi, I'm a student interested in the Sugar GSoC -- I've been reading this 
list for a while so I thought I'd ask about how I might be useful. For 
the summer, I'm near Boston (is anybody else? I'd love to chat with 
enthusiasts in person). I'm a big fan of constructivist learning; it's 
kind of how my parents "taught" me, and some parts of my college studies 
are learning-related.  Last year I did GSoC for Haskell.org refactoring 
part of their technical infrastructure.  Two years ago my college had an 
OLPC Seminar class where we got to play with one of the XO-1's.  I'm 
open to anything that gets me more involved in this ecosystem!

One thing I've noticed happening, that I know something about -- I'm 
also on the Zero-Install mailing-list -- is an attempt to integrate 
Zero-Install and Sugar activities somewhat.  This makes me really happy 
because before, I didn't see a real market/goal for Zero-Install; and 
conversely, easy, potentially decentralized Activity distribution does 
need a technological backing a bit unlike the well-established 
Linux-distribution-mechanisms (I've used Linux -- several different 
distros -- for the past five years).  I wonder if this Zero/Sugar 
project could use some GSOC support, or if there are more 
useful/important things to work on?

-Isaac