Great to hear Finance has been translated and will be offered! Please let me know if there are any features that would make it more useful for you guys.<br><br>Note that it's not in any way Tax related, it's simply for planning and recording personal finances - income and expenses over time.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Wade<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Mike Dawson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikeofmanchester@gmail.com">mikeofmanchester@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear Wade,<br>
<br>
Thanks for that - I got it co-operating - I found that something had<br>
gone wrong with inkscape.<br>
<br>
Indeed there is some relation to the finance activity - we are<br>
focusing on finding the economic info and presenting it (e.g. we have<br>
a listing of common businesses that people start such as a fruit cart,<br>
how much capital is required etc).<br>
<br>
Basic accounting is definitely nice and we have translated your<br>
Finance activity into Dari and Pashto. The challenge we face is that<br>
people here can be very suspicious as the tax system is 'under<br>
construction' - so we will make it available - and as we establish<br>
trust we should be able to watch how it used.<br>
<br>
Thanks/Regards,<br>
<br>
-Mike<br>
<br>
2009/2/12 Wade Brainerd <<a href="mailto:wadetb@gmail.com">wadetb@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Hey Mike,<br>
> Make sure to restart Sugar between activity changes (Ctrl+Alt+Erase) as the<br>
> shell doesn't automatically pick up changes yet.<br>
> Also, make sure the .SVG is located in the same folder as the <a href="http://activity.info" target="_blank">activity.info</a><br>
> file. You might try copying a .svg from another activity (say Browse) and<br>
> renaming it to activity-econdev.svg just to make sure the correct file is<br>
> being found.<br>
> Finally, make sure the activity is Starred in the list view or it will not<br>
> appear in the circle.<br>
> -----------------------------------------<br>
> Your home finance initiative sounds like it dovetails nicely with my<br>
> <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Finance" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Finance</a> activity. It's an extremely simple home<br>
> financial calculator ala Quicken. I wrote it in the hopes that children<br>
> might help their parents keep track of income and expenses and make budgets.<br>
> If you have time, please take a look and let me know what you think!<br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Wade<br>
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Mike Dawson <<a href="mailto:mikeofmanchester@gmail.com">mikeofmanchester@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hey All,<br>
>><br>
>> The offline spec is indeed something very cool - I had some time back<br>
>> done some work with XSL to try to create something that would have a<br>
>> similar effect with Apache cocoon - but nothing can (or should) beat a<br>
>> w3c standard.<br>
>><br>
>> What we are trying to do in Afghanistan to see if we can offset the<br>
>> cost of the laptop is deliver info to the parents using the XO to see<br>
>> if we can help them to increase their income - things like home<br>
>> business ideas (e.g. Afghan carpets), CV writing etc. for when the<br>
>> kids are asleep...<br>
>><br>
>> As HTML seems to be the most portable / compact choice we have made a<br>
>> collection of info as such - but as per the previous post we would<br>
>> rather have it a bit more prominent than making the .xol collection<br>
>> file.<br>
>><br>
>> I hence copied the help activity to a new folder Econdev.activity:<br>
>><br>
>> Left helpactivity.py as it was except for changing the line:<br>
>><br>
>> HOME = os.path.join(activity.get_bundle_path(), 'econdev/index.html')<br>
>><br>
>> Created activity<br>
>> [Activity]<br>
>> name = Economic Development<br>
>> activity_version = 10<br>
>> service_name = af.asmed.EconomicDevelopment<br>
>> icon = activity-econdev<br>
>> class = helpactivity.HelpActivity<br>
>> license = GPLv2<br>
>><br>
>> Then there is an SVG I made in Inkscape activity/activity-econdev.svg<br>
>> - yet somehow when this folder Econdev.activity is copied to<br>
>> ~/Activities and sugar etc. is restarted - no icon turning up. I also<br>
>> tried packaging it as a .xo file and then running the install script<br>
>> that put it under /usr/share - it turns up, but no icon...<br>
>><br>
>> I went through the log viewer and there didn't seem to be any special<br>
>> mention of it... Is there possibly a problem from not changing the<br>
>> Class name of the helpactivity to be unique - or some naming<br>
>> convention that I have neglected here?<br>
>><br>
>> Our stuff (in English, Dari and Pashto) will go up on <a href="http://olpc.af" target="_blank">olpc.af</a> and as a<br>
>> collection...<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks,<br>
>><br>
>> -Mike<br>
>><br>
>> PS:<br>
>> I have to hang my head in shame that I have not yet done much Python /<br>
>> XO activity coding (yet) - I've done more Java/J2EE and Linux server<br>
>> admin thus far. I will take time over the "weekend"...<br>
>><br>
>> 2009/1/13 Sameer Verma <<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>>:<br>
>> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:15 AM, S Page <<a href="mailto:info@skierpage.com">info@skierpage.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >> Carlos Nazareno wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >>> - I'd also like to see more work done on a method to easily bundle<br>
>> >>> Gnash or HTML-based/Browser applications as stand-alone activities, or<br>
>> >>> at least launch the browser with the wrapped activity loaded upon<br>
>> >>> startup.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> See the Help activity in 8.2.0, it instantiates the WebView from<br>
>> >> hulahop<br>
>> >> that underlies Browse and points it at help/XO_Introduction.html.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> But is it so bad to make your "HTML-based application" an installable<br>
>> >> collection that shows up in the "OLPC Library" navigation on the Browse<br>
>> >> home page? See <<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_collection" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_collection</a>>.<br>
>> >> Just<br>
>> >> because most library content is static non-interactive ebook material<br>
>> >> is<br>
>> >> no reason really cool browser apps shouldn't go in the OLPC Library.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> One thing that might make collections more appealing and feel like<br>
>> >> applications is if the collection's <a href="http://library.info" target="_blank">library.info</a> icon (which seems<br>
>> >> otherwise unused?!) or the web site's favicon would appear in the<br>
>> >> Journal instead or as well as the generic globe icon of Browse. I<br>
>> >> filed<br>
>> >> a confused ticket #9188 for this enhancement.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >>> - Using a local daemon or service of some sort, the method I<br>
>> >>> previously outlined can also be used here for "standalone" mode of the<br>
>> >>> tests. This way, the learner can also practice with them and learn<br>
>> >>> outside of class hours.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> The WikiBrowse activity (WikipediaEN.activity on G1G1 8.2 laptops)<br>
>> >> starts a local python Web server and fires up a WebActivity (Browse)<br>
>> >> instance pointing at it.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Better, Browse's engine is XULRunner 1.9 and it has support for most of<br>
>> >> the HTML 5 offline application spec<br>
>> >> <<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#offline" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#offline</a>>.<br>
>> >> E.g. <a href="http://starkravingfinkle.org/projects/offline/todo.html" target="_blank">http://starkravingfinkle.org/projects/offline/todo.html</a> is an<br>
>> >> expanding form you can fill out while offline that will update the web<br>
>> >> server when next online. It should work on an XO (I can't try it, my<br>
>> >> wireless router is bust! :-( ).<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> I concur with where you're going. *Never* ever bet against the<br>
>> >> browser.<br>
>> >> Browse or a custom WebView activity can do everything that Firefox 3<br>
>> >> can do, without worrying about compatibility with abysmal MS Internet<br>
>> >> Explorer that's keeping the web stuck in 2004.<br>
>> >> E.g. <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FindTheCountry" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/FindTheCountry</a> -- why bother with crappy<br>
>> >> static PDF atlases when interactive technology like that is available?<br>
>> >> And you can View > Source it!<br>
>> >><br>
>> ><br>
>> > This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time!!! This is<br>
>> > definitely going down in the SVG examples section for my class in<br>
>> > Spring.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Sameer<br>
>> > --<br>
>> > Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>
>> > Associate Professor of Information Systems<br>
>> > San Francisco State University<br>
>> > San Francisco CA 94132 USA<br>
>> > <a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br>
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