Ask HN: donate a few hacker hours for education

by Edmond on 9/17/2012, 6:56 PM with 7 comments

I want to port the hundreds of science Sims on PhET (http://phet.colorado.edu/)...These are pretty cool research based Sims for teaching science at various levels.

Unfortunately they are all programed in Java and some in flash. I want to port them to the Phyzixlabs.com platform which is an HTML5 (specifically SVG) platform...

Any Javascript hackers on HN willing to pickup a couple of Sims and port them to Phyzixlabs? It will all be open source and free. Also I am working on making the platform itself open source.

I am willing to donate a copy of the platform to the PhET group along with the ported Sims.

I welcome suggestions.

Let's disrupt PhET!!!

  • by lucastx on 9/17/2012, 7:48 PM

    Some 30 minutes before reading this, I was outlining what could be a good -- on features/simplicity balance and usability -- free software class platform.

    The APPY Notebook [1] looks pretty good! Is it free software?

    Also, I don't know if I got it right: is Phyzix Labs a kind of APP store for APPY notebook?

    Is there a way for me to keep track of this? I don't have time to contribute to it right now, but it's a really cool project.

    [1] http://appynotebook.com/

  • by bartonfink on 9/17/2012, 6:59 PM

    Edmond - I'll take a couple. My e-mail address is in my profile - please ping me if I can help.

  • by chris_p on 9/22/2012, 3:08 PM

    This sounds very interesting. Drop me an email if you want, my email is in my profile.