[Edu-sig] Alan Kay - another one of his ideas

[Gregor Lingl]

Hi everyone,
let's go on pragmatically ;-)

Recently Daniel Ajoy on LogoForum posted a link to a description of one 
of Alan Kay's projects, called logowiki, by himself:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/olpc-software/ 
<http://www.redhat.com/archives/olpc-software/>2006-April/msg00035.html

Worth reading!  He not only writes about how this project fits into his 
"children first" efforts, but also (in some detail) about the  
difficulties of implementing such a system using DOM and JavaScript). 
And he manages it easily to mention Smalltalk only once, marginally ;-)
Imho in the first place his initiative has to be considered as a 
political one. (As is the initiative to reimplement Squeak in Python.)

The logowiki can be found here:

http://www.logowiki.net

I wonder if something similar could be done for Python easily? For 
instance using xturtle, which is built on a rather small graphics interface.

I think the project has some similarities with Andre Roberge's Crunchy Frog.

A thing like this certainly could be another building block in our 
efforts to bring Python to the people. 

Perhaps one of the web frameworks TurtboGears or Django or the 
Ajax-people have some ressources ready to implement this.

So I've simply two questions:

(1) Which Frameworks, Libraries, tools are adequate for a Python project 
similar to logo-wiki?

(2) Who is interested in undertaking it or assisting it?

Regards,
Gregor