Hi Folks, I had a very interesting talk today with the team from App Dev for All.
App Dev for All is a non-profit company developing two open source projects to fix some problems in the world. This group is focused on providing tools to develop applications on android phones that do not require internet access. The main audience for this work is people living in countries with very limited internet access whose only compute platform may be a phone such as some Indian states and territories. I'm bringing this group to your attention for two reasons. First, the size of the application is not large and the team is welcoming so this may be a community that you may want to join. The second reason is that App Dev for All has internships available for students, paid or unpaid, for students who would like to learn about professional programming, artificial intelligence, computer vision, or accessibility. The community is supporting two main projects. The first project is Code On the Go, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that runs on Android phones for creating Android apps. It is intended for people who need to create apps to improve their lives but aren’t of interest to Western capitalism, or who are barred from accessing schools and institutions of higher learning. Code On the Go is an industrial-strength IDE for building full Android apps, without compromise. It runs fine on low-end phones and Internet access isn’t required. The product includes documentation, textbooks, and a curriculum for classroom use and for stand-alone learners. Code On the Go has an optional local Large Language Model to help software developers and it can access larger remote models when an Internet connection is present. It will use computer vision and speech to provide a more pleasant user interface than the soft keyboard. The second project is Internet-in-a-Box on Android. It is a port of Internet-in-a-Box to run on old Android phones, like the one in your junk drawer. This will allow every teacher and parent to offer Wikipedia, Open Street Maps, and other Internet-in-a-Box modules to their students and children at no cost, repurposing phones that would otherwise be e-waste. Users get access to information in a safe, offline environment. Both projects are hosted at https://github.com/appdevforall/ under GPL3. Contributions are encouraged. Please send inquiries to David Schachter (davidschach...@appdevforall.org). Enjoy! Heidi _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org https://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/
