Snowed In

I still have a lot of design work to do, but given that this is Summer of Code, I need to be coding too. So, I’ve been picking at the Sugar codebase and got a “Hello World” activity working:

It’s not much, but my Summer of Code mentor, Robert Staudinger, knows a thing or two about embedding AbiWord in Python, so hopefully getting AbiWord documents in there shouldn’t be too hard.

Also, I talked to Wendy on the phone, and she said she will try to put me in contact with the after school program she used to work for, which means that I may get to do observations, and possibly even usability testing, with some kids up in Boston this summer.

It was interesting talking to Wendy anyway because she’s had some experience watching kids who can’t really read yet use computers. She said a lot of kids just go straight for the games, which was also true in the Hole In The Wall project. But Wendy said some of the older kids really got into Word Processing. It made them feel professional and grown up, and they’d spend an entire afternoon typing one paragraph if they had to.

Hopefully I can learn more.

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