[Stellarium-pubdevel] Fwd: Stellarium for the OLPC XO...

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Someone interested?
Fabien

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From: Thomas Jacobson <th...@tc...>
Date: Sep 20, 2007 4:09 AM
Subject: Stellarium for the OLPC XO...
To: ste...@fr...

 Hi.

Last week I gave a talk on networking and satellites to the MIT One Laptop
Per Child group. (see www.laptop.org, www.olpcnews.com for gossip, and
www.olpc.tv for some videos) The night before I had been laying under the
clear dark sky at my cabin in Wisconsin, and it occurred to me that somebody
ought to port Stellarium to the OLPC XO laptop. No doubt somebody like
www.timothyferris.com would tell you how important it would be to children
in the developing world.  I suggested this to several OLPC folks, and
everyone agreed... it was an excellent idea, but they are totally swamped
just getting the XO out the door with the basic functionally.

The display on the OLPC is outstanding... and there may be some nifty tricks
you could do to leverage its very high contrast high resolution screen...  I
would bet that if someone in the Stellarium developer community were to
offer to undertake a port, that the OLPC folks would supply an XO or two to
do it on...

I think the OLPC website has information on how to propose such a project.

Good luck!

Thomas Jacobson