Olin university chapter/Software

Goals

The goal of the OLPC Software team is to

1. learn about programing for the xo
2. participate in any ongoing software development and maintenance

Schedules

The software team tries to arrange for as many trips to 1cc as possible to learn about the going-ons of OLPC. Starting next semester, we will offer

1. a trip to 1cc every Sunday for support gang meetings
2. (suggestions?)

Ongoing projects

Ongoing projects include

1. /AroundtheWorld
2. Educational RPG Description: A large scale english-learning RPG game written by all of us in an effort to learn Python People interested: Yifan, Colin, Elsa, Zach Brass
3. Simulink Lite for the OLPC Description: A lightweight simulink - like program that could be used to make flow diagrams, circuit diagrams, all sorts of nifty things. It's just lines and boxes, right? People interested: None
4. English learning Description: A flikr - like program that links users to all kinds of useful existing English apps. If this works out well for the OLPC, ultimately it coudl be taken to the web. People interested: Elsa Culler, Colin Zwiebel
5. IRC bots Description: a useful program to help with trac and that sort of stuff. Consult Stevo for bots. People interested: none
6. App testing Description: testing apps! People interested: Colin Zwiebel, Zachary Brass
7. Yalp Description: A music-mixing program People interested: Ben Fisher
8. Text Twist: Description: Just like the Yahoo game, but for the xo People interested: Arash Ushani
9. Musical notation (aka Finale or Sibelius) Description: a notation program for music People interested: None
10. Incredible Machine Description: A Rube Goldberg simulation game Peole interested: Colin Zwiebel
11. Crayon Physics Description: A physics simulation game, very much like the existing game People interested: Yifan Sun
12. Chatbot Description: A chatbot, like Eliza People interested: Zachary Brass

Other Links

[Meeting Notes] - where we keep our meeting notes