I'm a retired computer science teacher with a limited amount of python experience. About a month and a half ago I decided to volunteer about 8-12 hours a week of time to Sugar Labs. Unfortunately Sugar Labs is using a software stack that I am not very familiar with. I managed to learn git enough to get a project up and down. Being familiar with Ubuntu I set up an Ubuntu 10.4 LTS virtual machine running a Sugar emulator and an Eclipse/Pydev development environment. I got the FLOSS manual on Sugar Activities and learned that I needed to use the GTK framework. I wrote one or 2 simple gtk programs but did not port them over to Sugar.. Also at this time I agreed to work with someone from Columbus Girls School. Unfortunately her mother became ill and she had to leave for California. So I decided to learn "Python + GTK" developing a practice program. The program was a simple server that would ask drill math questions. Clients, either on the same machine or on a nearby machine would answer the math questions. This was not to be fully developed with error checking and all defs fully implemented but simply a proof of concept work to keep me on track in improving my Python skills. Twisted looked like a good match with GTK. So I wrote 1 or 2 simple Twisted client/server programs. Unfortunately learning and making 2 event driven frameworks Twisted + GTK play together nicely became very frustrating. It reminds me of the time I had to make Ubuntu and Windows play together nicely- I did it but it took me time and effort. So I have a following set of questions. <ol><li>Will Twisted play nicely with Sugar (i.e. should I keep going on with this model- writing a twisted (GTK?) question server with a Twisted + GTK answer client. My thinking on this model is from my years of teaching is that students like to compete with each other and this model may add some collaborative learning when tweaked. Is this something worth continuing? I believe I can make Twisted + GTK work with difficulty but I'm not sure that about Twisted in Sugar. There are two many unknowns for me. </li><li>If anyone thinks Twisted + Sugar(GTK) is worth pursuing, does anyone know of any good tutorials or information on this.</li><li>If this is not worth pursuing what would be a good way I could devote about 8-12 hours to Sugar Labs Activities</li> </ol>cheers, Mike -- Mike Rehner Groveport(Columbus) OH 43125 614 497 9774 <a href="http://www.e-wrench.com" target="_blank">www.e-wrench.com</a> <a href="http://myitclass.dyndns.org" target="_blank">myitclass.dyndns.org</a>