One Laptop Per Child

The XO Laptop is a $175 laptop manufactured by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and which is being distributed to schoolchildren in developing countries. Every XO Laptop runs Linux and Python, and is equipped with wireless, peer-to-peer networking.

Vecset for the XO

A scaled-down version of Vecset will be developed for the XO Laptop. It will be written in Python, and instead of having support for the Vecscript built-in scripting language, Python will be its built-in scripting language.

Playing games over the Internet will not be supported. Instead, XO users can not only play games with other nearby XO users using the wireless networking capability of the XO Laptop, but they can also create their own games.

A cross-compiler will be developed to translate games written in Vecscript for the Java/Windows version of Vecset into Python, so they can be played on the XO Laptop. This cross-compiler will itself be written in Python for the XO Laptop.

Giving Back to OLPC

In order to thank the OLPC community for helping in the development of the XO version of Vecset (and possibly helping out with the Java/Windows version of Vecset as well), vecsworld.com pledges to donate one dollar from the sale of every $24 annual membership fee to One Laptop Per Child. The XO version of Vecset is of course free for all XO users.