hi JN,
I appreciate this sentiment.
(& I've been a little involved with the RJDJ project as well, though I
don't own an iPhone and even my iPod mini is many generations old now,
but still does its job well).
In some senses, the wealth argument is a slippery slope - and any of
us with a laptop or even a decent desktop are much more wealthy than
the majority of the world.
But rather than debate this, I'd like to point out the positives:
- The RJDJ project has actually injected quite a bit of new energy
into making Pure Pd abstractions.
& Pure Pd is useful to everybody, and probably very useful to a
project to get Pd onto OLPC.
- Also, RJDJ ultimately want to work with other suitable mobile
devices as well.
I am interested in the PD on OLPC idea, and I'm in France (though I'm
busy this month) - so I'll contact you and see if I could help.
(although my linux skills are not as deep as many, so if more capable
people can contribute first that's great)
Nicholas Mariette
On Oct 17, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Jean-Noël Montagné wrote:
Hello from real world,
As several of you might already know, now it is official. Check this out:
A fully functional Pd just hit the iphone appstore, and you can
create Pd patches with the system and run them on the iPhone.I really appreciate that some of you, developpers, like to invent PD devs for such mobile devices. Great developpements. Big fun. But you spend a lot of time for those games for rich, for an elite. In many countries, just the price of an Iphone and accessories is enough to feed one starving family FOR A YEAR ! [For the first time ever, this year, this evening, about 850 million humans will go to bed hungry, like yesterday, and may be tomorrow]. When some of our best PD brains are working (with FLOSS) for few riches only, it is a mystery for me.
BUT some PD-developpements for handheld devices have been done to run PD on small CPUs: has someone succeeded in installing PD on an OLPC XO ? I have no competency to do it, but if some people in france want to try, we have some XO available in the hackerspace tmp/lab in Vitry. Contact OLPC-france.
JN
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