#tux4kids chat log for 2001-08-06 18:30 GMT

Summary

The chat began with a discussion between David Marshman (BeOS release manager) and Sam Hart about the following topics:

BeIDE project file inclusion in the official Tux Typing CVS. David said that he would post the files on his web-site.
Mac OS X port is waiting on SDL_image (which is apparently causing some trobles on MacOS X)
Tux Typing could really use some more BeOS testers (heck, it could use more testers overall ;-)
Talked about a possible new educational racing game where the player has to answer questons in order to steer the car. It could be a shape to word regonition game, where the car moves towards objects, and the player must select the word for the object from a list of possible words to "steer" the car away from the object.

Then Frank Ellis and Jacob Grieg showed up and we discussed:

TuxReader and "Catch the Goblin" (working title).
Potential porting problems of TuxReader (such as the use of Festival which may or may be available for non-Unix OSes, and the possiblity of using Qt's QFileDialog and what that would mean to a BeOS port).
We talked more about Tux4Kids, what its goals are, and what it means to schools.
There was some discussion about "Free-Software", "Open-Source", what their differences are (superficially) and what they can mean to schools.

Finally, Aaron Chomjak joined and we discussed some Tux4Kids administrative/organizational topics: