Talk:Application Developers

There are people in the OLPC management team and there are people working in the OLPC offices and laboratories and there are people working on the OLPC project as part of their employment at various companies and orgnaizations. There are people called interns working on the project over the summer.

There are also people around the world who are interested in the project and who would like to participate in developing applications to run on the laptop. Some of these people may be just making the attempt on home computers or maybe computers in public libraries and even internet cafés, doing the best they can with the equipment to which they happen to have access.

Remembering the concept of External Students of Universities and influenced by the Overwhelmed section of the Setting Up a Sugar Development Environment on Windows page, it seems reasonable to introduce the concept of External Developers. Thus facilities can be provided for External Developers, hopefully most of them by External Developers themselves.

The situation which started off this line of thinking, namely setting Up a Sugar Development Environment on Windows, could be a good example. Maybe External Developers could document step by step what is necessary to install the system on various types of PC, not necessarily the latest equipment.

Could there be a web-accessed system so that people who can only use a PC in a public library or in an internet café can develop applications without needing to install anything on the local PC? Is that even feasible?

Please use this page to develop the concept of External Developers and what facilities are needed.

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