I definitely like this idea. It is a fun way for kids to provide information services such as technical support. I would give it a simple eliza-like engine and let the kids go crazy with it. Of course, should you be accepted for GSoC, your primary responsibility would be to your project... Jameson <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Vamsi Krishna Davuluri <<a href="mailto:vamsi.davuluri@gmail.com">vamsi.davuluri@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <a href="http://pyglet.org" target="_blank">http://pyglet.org</a> 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 _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div>