Re: [Chandler-dev] Chandler and Sugar

Hi Ben,

I'm the product designer on the Chandler Project. Chandler on OLPC  
sounds interesting indeed.

As Davor pointed out, porting the existing codebase isn't practical.  
However, we are in the midst of a re-architecture effort that might  
of interest to your development team.

Grant recently kicked off a thread about it on the dev-list: http:// 
lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2008-September/ 
010300.html

I imagine though that the OLPC's target user (young students in  
developing countries) will have different use cases for Chandler than  
the target user we envisioned when designing the current app.

I'm happy to talk more about how you envision OLPC users making use  
of an app like Chandler. It might be interesting to build a "Lite"  
version of Chandler on the re-architecture branch that is more suited  
to the needs of your user base.

Best,
Mimi

On Sep 28, 2008, at 6:39 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:

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> Dear Chandler devs,
>
> My name is Ben Schwartz, and I'm a volunteer with OLPC (the One  
> Laptop Per
> Child foundation) and Sugar Labs, the spinoff charitable foundation
> working on the OLPC system software.  That software is called  
> Sugar, and
> it implements a new UI for mobile devices.  Its design is intended to
> enable easy collaboration, communication, and presence, with the  
> end goal
> being to improve education.  Technologically, Sugar is implemented
> primarily using Python and GTK, as well as some other components of  
> the
> Gnome and FD.o stack.
>
> Obviously, Chandler and Sugar have a lot in common.
>
> Sugar currently lacks a PIM/calendaring application.  Chandler  
> might be
> well suited for this, especially from the perspective of the Chandler
> mobile-devices target (Sugar is targeted at the new ultralight
> subnotebooks that Intel is calling "netbooks").
>
> I doubt that Sugar Labs or OLPC would be able to provide funding for
> Chandler, though these things are far out of my purview.  However,  
> OLPC
> controls over 550,000 currently deployed Linux laptops, and  
> Chandler could
> easily be installed on virtually all of them in a matter of months  
> if a
> compatible version can be developed.  My hope is that such an  
> install base
> would prove valuable to the Chandler organization, not to mention  
> the users.
>
> I would like to start a dialogue between the Sugar development  
> community
> and the Chandler developers.  I'm not sure what the best forum is  
> for this
> discussion.  I know very little about Chandler.  I would like to  
> learn more.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ben Schwartz
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