Now that we’ve created our first demo it’s time to hammer out a really good way of working. Some of our most important goals are:

• Create learning activities individually. We’re a team of developers and we each need to create and modify activities (Squeak "projects") using our own computers. We want people in other countries to be able to do this too, open-source style.
• Distribute the learning activities as a complete integrated package for the XO.
• Distribute the learning activities individually on the web too. We want everybody to run our activities using the Squeakland browser plugin.

We’ve prepared the demo in a "monolithic" way: there’s a single Squeak image that contains all the code, sound clips, images, and Projects that make up our work so far. We’ve prepared this using a single computer and we distribute it as a single huge (54MB) image file.

So now we want to split this into stand-alone project files that we can create, maintain, and distribute by themselves. We’ll need to export the projects with the right code (our OLE package), the right sound clips, the rights fonts, etc. Tips welcome!

In other news I’ve spent a day or so rewriting activity code from Smalltalk into drag’n'drop Etoys scripts and the results have been excellent! More on that later.