User:Probono

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Name

  • Simon Peter

Location

  • Germany

Projects

  • klik (software distribution; in the process of evaluating a port to OLPC)
  • OLPC activity bundles such as childsplay (educational games), mplayer (media player), audacity (sound editor), leafpad (simple text editor for real files), firefox (web bowser), gpodder (podcast client), idle (Python IDE)
  • Script to install MP3, Flash, and set up Livna and Freshrpms repositories on the XO
  • OLPC4Mac: Script to download OLPC software image and convert it into a virtual machine for use with VMware Fusion on the Mac
  • Supporter of OLPC Germany

Interest areas

  • Application virtualization
  • Software packaging
  • Usability testing
  • Robust design
  • Unconventional solutions
  • Complexity reduction and encapsulation