[sugar] sugar roadmap

[Bryan Berry]

I have looked at all 3 docs and they look good

have some comments

1. Who is in charge of Sugar? the team lead. I remember that Blizzard
used to be the team lead. Is it JG now?

2. Need a really easy way to play music and video files including ones
w/ proprietary codecs. Kid finds mp3 file on the internet using browse,
kid double-clicks file. It should open with the activity that supports
that file type.

Use Case:
The kid should be able to access the same file again later from the
Journal and open up in the appropriate activity/player (should one be
loaded)

OLPC won't have to pre-load the proprietary codecs for this to work.
Leave that to deployment people like myself. just make it easy for us to
load them using mechanisms like the customization key.

Yes proprietary is bad but allowing kids to explore on their own -- an
essential aspect of constructionism -- is more important. We cut off
many avenues of exploration when we make it hard for them to access
content that happens to use proprietary codecs -- which is the majority
of interesting content on the Internet. 

2.1 The XO needs a rock-solid media player. To me this is as essential
as the Journal.

3. Need easy way to group links to activities, such as in a lesson
plan. 

Use Case:
Kid reads through geometry tutorial and clicks on first activity which
opens up Dr. Geo. After finishing w/ Dr. Geo he does some more reading
in the tutorial and then clicks on a second link which opens up a
related GCompris activity. 

We need a way to launch different activities from within a graphical
context, e.g. a tutorial. HTML is the most practical way to do this. I
know there are issues w/ Rainbow and activities calling other activities
but this is very important to the learning process.

4. Don't see olpcfs in the roadmap, is that just a proposal?

5. Get long-term funding for Sugar Development. OLPC needs to set aside
funding to support Sugar long term (5+ years) as an open-source project.

6. Graphical control-panel needs way to increase default font-size of
the sugar UI

7. Need graphical activity manager for removing and adding activities


Keep up the great work and make your way to Kathmandu some time.

Bryan
OLE Nepal
Kathmandu