[squeak-dev] Summe of Code 2008 Project ideas

cdrick cdrick65 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 15:17:21 UTC 2008


in the same spirit, I think squeakNOS for eeepc would be excellent
:)... especially in a touch screen version
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VaerIGpO5Q&feature=related only a mod
for windows right now but should be in production for newer version).

Cédrick



2008/3/5, Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name>:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 03:18 +0200, Tansel wrote:
>  > I have a couple of ideas for Summer of code projects, I don't know how
>  > relevant they are but they are useful projects for people who are interested
>  > in rnning Squeak on small devices.
>  >
>  > One is porting Squeak natively to and/or making it work efficiently on
>  > Chumby.
>  >
>  > http://www.chumby.com
>  >
>  > Chumby is interesting in a way that it is very hackable both in hardware and
>  > software terms.
>  >
>
> Very good. It would be wonderful to have a good support for the
>  most prominent arm cores. There are a lot of nice devices which
>  have an arm core. The openmoko phone (FIC 1973) [1] and the Nokia
>  N810 [2] are just two of them. And they all feature a touchscreen.
>  I'm not sure if the chumby is based on openembedded [3] but it looks
>  like. So chumby and openmoko are both based on openembedded.
>  There is also a openembedded support for maemo [4]  which tries
>  leverage the barrier to develop for it [5].
>
>  The native porting initiative could care about integrating to
>  build of squeak into openembedded. Tony Garnock-Jones has done
>  this [6] for the openmoko phone.
>  I don't know what interfaces exist in squeak to have access to
>  a touchscreen. A way to go could be to enable support for tslib
>  [7]
>
>  And, of course, I would like to have a calibration software for
>  my wiimote in squeak [8] :)
>
>  Norbert
>
>  [1] http://www.openmoko.com/ and http://www.openmoko.org
>  [2] http://www.nokia.co.uk/N810
>  [3] http://www.openembedded.org/
>  [4] http://maemo.org/
>  [5] http://dev.openbossa.org/trac/mamona/
>  [6] http://www.lshift.net/blog/2007/08/23/squeak-and-openembedded
>  [7] http://tslib.berlios.de/
>  [8] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
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