OpenAlchemy

Atul Chitnis announced on his blog that -

The OpenAlchemy Project is the opensourced version of Alchemy - the user interface used on the Amida Simputer. Everytime I have shown the Simputer to people abroad, the first thing people have commented on was the interface, and have asked if it was possible to make the code available.
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If you are interested in contributing to the project (especially if you are a student), go over to http://openalchemy.org, join the mailing list (you will find some familiar people there already), read through the archives, find out what needs doing - and go for it!