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us reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects today 2PM EDT,
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AGENDA:<br>
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* New Libraries!<br>
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries</a><br>
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* Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring?!<br>
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href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects</a><br>
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href="http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27">http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27</a><br>
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* Fast Review of the 5 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals:<br>
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1. Webified: Sugarizing Web Apps GSoC [UK]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39547">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39547</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Webified</a><br>
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Requests 1 XO for 3-4 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
I'm making a template <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser"
class="external text"
title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser"
rel="nofollow">SSB</a>
activity and a small utility that can create activities out of websites
using that template. This combination will make sugarizing web apps
almost entirely automatic.<br>
The purpose of this project is twofold:<br>
<ul>
<li> it would make it easy to "sugarize" web apps (like gmail).<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p> Users could press a button in the Browse activity (or there
could be
a separate activity for this) and a small tool would help them create a
sugarized web app as a new activity.
</p>
<ul>
<li> there are a lots of web developers out there that are familiar
with HTML(5), CSS and JavaScript and it would be great to take
advantage of their skills.<br>
</li>
</ul>
Web developers could use Webified to port their web apps to sugar
using only web technologies, without having to learn Python.<br>
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2. abcube:3D edu game [MOROCCO]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39624">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39624</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://code.google.com/p/abcube/">http://code.google.com/p/abcube/</a><br>
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Requests 1 XO for 3 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Test the possibility of the use of 3D interactive games and
applications regarding the hardware limitation of the xo laptop. See
above link!<br>
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3. Adding Print Support GSoC [INDIA]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39752">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39752</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Print_Support">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Print_Support</a><br>
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Requests 1 XO for about 4 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Add print support to the laptops.For the time being, the print
requests will be sent to the school server through a moodle print page
then the teacher can view the files through his login in the
same application, and approve them for printing to a print server. We
will also be including a fallback strategy that is usb printing.<br>
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My refined version of the print support idea is actually a
better way of ensuring that paper abuse will be curbed, as the kids
wouldn't really take into account :all the predicaments associated
with :printing. And needless to say printing does take place with the
teacher's intervention. And everything takes place in a moodle
environment, plus there is the added benefit of printing in the No XO
case.<br>
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(The first step would essentially mean a Save as PDF hack and put
the jobs for processing on moodle ) <br>
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4. Karma project [MEXICO, mentor in NEPAL]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39761">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39761</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Karma/application">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Karma/application</a><br>
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Requests 1 XO for 5 months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
The main idea is to boost educational Web Develop.<cite><br>
There are lots of designers-particularly in developing
countries-that want to contribute to OLPC. The bad news is that they
don't know python. or GTK+. They may not even be familiar with linux.
They do know HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Adobe Flash.
...
Due to rise of the Internet and related boom in outsourcing, the vast,
vast majority of programmers in developing countries are web
developers(according to my own grossly unscientific survey). The rise
of the Internet has also led a lot of talented graphic designers in
developing and developed countries to learn web technologies.
...
Unfortunately, there aren't any IDE's that provide WYSIWYG animation
editing for DOJO, JQuery, and Processing.js and so on tools. While real
programmers use emacs (or vi, joe, sam, etc.), designers use WYSIWYG
GUI's.
</cite> <a
href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-January/003433.html"
class="external text"
title="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2009-January/003433.html"
rel="nofollow">from How to Make Activity Designers Happy , Parts I and
II</a>
<p></p>
<p> I propose using web technologies for completely offline
activities. Allowing activity designers to quickly build activities
utilizing widely-used tools. We need Karma (original idea <a
href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:BryanWB" title="User:BryanWB">
Bryan Berry</a>)
to enable web designers to quickly build activities for the XO without
having to learn a whole new skillset. So...I will creat an educational
framework (Karma) using html5 + JavaScript, it will handle animation (
through <canvas>), sounds (through <audio>), also
client-side i18n (according to browser locale) and general persistence
(Gears) at the end we will have a re-usable javascript libraries for
lesson plan reader (ideally with plain html rather than a pdf or other
proprietary format), navigation and help (ideally reusing widgets from
popular javascript libraries like Jquery, Prototype, Mootools or DOJO),
etc. this framework will allow web designers to reuse their existing
skills and tools.
</p>
<p> The objective is to provide a single prototype activity which
could be used as a template for sugarizing AJAX activities. I will
recreate an existing activity such as one of <a
href="http://www.pustakalaya.org/external-content/static/epaath/E-Paath-2.activity/activity/Activity/MenuStage.html"
class="external text"
title="http://www.pustakalaya.org/external-content/static/epaath/E-Paath-2.activity/activity/Activity/MenuStage.html"
rel="nofollow">OLE Nepal's flash activities</a>. </p>
<p> I am planning to use
</p>
<ul>
<li> Webkit for html rendering engine.
</li>
<li> Google Gear's Filesystem API because it seems to have the most
traction in the linux world.
</li>
</ul>
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5. Craftsmann Laptop Library [GHANA]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39880">http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39880</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.craftsmannfoundation.org">http://www.craftsmannfoundation.org</a><br>
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Requests 40 XO's for unlimited months<br>
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Project Objectives:<br>
Craftsmann Laptop Library is design to introduce the students in
the
Rural Communities to the Information and Communication Technology and
to enable schools in different geographical communicate to each other
through our low-cost telecommunication infrastructure.
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