Re: Blue Sky project OLPC [ was Re: gnuplot projects, terminal modules]

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> The OLPC project (One Laptop Per Child) is inviting contributed
> software suitable for educational use on the OLPC platform.
> 	http://wiki.laptop.org/Software
> 
> I note with interest that the prefered software API is via the
> Pango/Cairo/GTK+ library layer.
> 
> Several people here have expressed interest in a gnuplot GUI.
> My first reaction was "who would want one?", but the coincidental
> arrival of the OLPC invitation may have answered the question.
> 
> So here's the challenge:
>   - design a GUI for gnuplot usable by school-age kids to explore
>     math and functions.  Probably using GTK+
>   - provide a single terminal driver based on Pango/Cairo 
>   - make the existing gnuplot components modular enough that
>     we can select a set of configuration options suitable for
>     the OLPC platform (366 MHz Geode, 128 MB, custom display)

What school age?  3rd-6th?  Are you thinking something where the student types a function in a box and the plot appears?  Then they hit a button that will print out their plot on a printer?

Dan