[odf-discuss] One Laptop Per Child Project

[Nicu Buculei]

marbux wrote:
> 
> My impression is that software development for the project is not yet at 
> a point where hard decisions have been made about file formats. If 
> someone has time, it might be good to plug into the project and see 
> whether ODF would be a good fit with the development plans. They seem to 
> be fairly agreed that a modification of Fedora Core will be the 
> operating system, so MOOX should not be in the running.

The user interface on OLPC is called Sugar: 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_demo_2 and Abiword seems to be the best 
positioned word processor to run on it 
http://cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/2006/07/27/summer-of-code-update-abiword-on-olpc/

> Given that this is in effect an entire computer system being created 
> largely from the ground up with millions of advance orders, a strong 
> role for ODF in software system design has the potential to have a 
> whopping mid- to long-term impact on ODF adoption. E.g., if ODF is the 
> default file format where appropriate, then later versions of software 
> and add-on software will tend to use ODF as well.


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