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Activity Team/TODO

2009-01-12T19:50:15Z

Ysun: /* Math */

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==High Impact Tasks==
These are tasks which will have a big impact on Sugar deployments. This is your chance to affect hundreds, if not thousands of children in the developing world! This section will be updated frequently to feature the most urgent work the Activity Team has to do.

====Labyrinth====
Labyrinth is a mind mapping activity. Gary C Martin is currently leading the port of this PyGTK program to Sugar, it's current at an alpha stag. Mind mapping software has been specifically requested by teachers at deployments. Labyrinth needs help improving and extending the user interface, so PyGTK skills would be important. Or, collaboration would be a great addition!

====Typing Turtle====
Typing Turtle is a touch typing activity with a turtle mascot. We are developing activity this with the Nepal and Afganistan deployments. Peru has also requested this activity as a high priority. TT is in pre-alpha but is close to its first release. Help is mostly needed testing and fixing the activity for use with foreign languages, and developing the lesson builder script. GUI programming experience is not critical, but Python skills and i18n knowledge, as well as the ability to work in a language other than English would be very useful.

====Math====
A request by the Peru deployment is simple math games. I have started working on some math puzzles with Peter Moxhay, based a suite of Java lessons he wrote in the past. These are very early in development but there are a lot of games to write. Also, examples are available, so it's really just porting and the work goes quickly. [[User:Ysun|Ysun]] 19:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)ysun

====Maze collaboration====
Maze is currently the most addictive multiplayer game on the XO, and it needs a further dusting of crack, including better statistics, handicaps, etc.

====Speak collaboration====
This has the potential to be an awesome communication method; not only a chat option for the blind but a way of teaching specific words, and a fun way to engage small clusters of people around an XO: sound carries well to people who aren't currently reading the screen.

====SWF activity launcher====
The Nepal deployment have created a suite of Flash based learning activities but are currently having to jump through many hoops to package them correctly. We would like to have a launcher which creates an activity window and launches Gnash in it, with a .SWF file. This launcher would then be used to easily make activity bundles out of SWF files.

====Web activity launcher & framework====
Other deployments are using HTML+CSS+Javascript to make learning activities, but they currently have to be installed using the Library Collection feature of Sugar which is not well developed. We would like to build a 'web-activity' launcher script which allows Web based activities to be first class activities with icons on the home screens. This would involve making a new framework out of the source code to the Browse activity and submitting it upstream to the DevelopmentTeam, in addition to writing the launcher script.

==Community Tasks==
* <strike>Announce availability of ATeam contacts page to mailing lists. [[User:Wade|Wade]] 17:26, 12 January 2009 (UTC)</strike>
* Query ATeam members about skills, interest, time commitment. [[User:Wade|Wade]] 17:26, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
* Look for at least one additional coordinator.
* Contact former + current activity developers. [[User:Wade|Wade]] 17:26, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
** Ask about moving activities to git.sugarlabs.org (or mirroring).
** Ask about joining the ActivityTeam or coming to meetings.

==Infrastructure Tasks==
* Make activities.sugarlabs.org (or addons.sugarlabs.org) work.
* Bug IT to get us admin accounts for SL services.
** Downloads
** Trac (component creation etc)
* Ask IT about activity repository mirroring. A read-only Git repository on SL which automatically pulls from a remote repository.
* Flesh out structure for ActivityTeam wiki.
** Where does the Activities list from the SL home page go?
** How should development information be structured?
** In the (temporary) absence of activities.sugarlabs.org, should we create per-activity Wiki pages? Should we anyway?

==Development Tasks==
* Move projects owned by ATeam members over to git.sugarlabs.org and downloads.sugarlabs.org.
** <strike>Log [[User:Wade|Wade]] 19:22, 12 January 2009 (UTC)</strike>
** Bounce
** Colors
** Typing Turtle
** Math
** Finance
** Add more activities here, then strike them out when moved!
* Help SoaS and other distro packagers to get as many activities as possible working on plain Sugar (outside the XO software environment).
** Log
** Bounce
** Colors
** Typing Turtle
** Math
** Finance
** Add activities here, strike them out when tarballs released and tested!
* Build a list of "Rescue" activities: Ones which have not been worked on in a while but are close to being usable.
* Build a list of "Help Wanted" activities: Great ideas or existing projects which need to be sugarized.
* Generate spec for Web, SWF activities and deliver to DevelopmentTeam.

Activity Team/Contacts

2009-01-12T19:44:18Z

Ysun: /* Contributors */

User:Ysun

2009-01-12T19:43:34Z

Ysun:

==Hi==
I'm Yifan Sun. I work with the F.W.Olin OLPC chapter in Needham, Mass. as software person and driving puppet. I'm interested in all things electrical/computer engineering, and have been excited about OLPC since I first heard about it in high school. I'd like to see what I can contribute software-wise to the project, and thereby learn from OLPC what goes into good development.

==ToDo ==

Still pending...

==Ideas==

* Modify Abiword so that Write has instant spell-check and mouse-over dictionary lookup for many languages.
* Either produce an activity or modify Write so that it has features like NJStar, an Asian word processor that allows for pinyin input and mouse-over dictionary lookup for any common phrase.
* Simple education games, similar to those provided by neopets
* Hearing your ideas!

==Olin OLPC==

You can view our [chapter wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olin_university_chapter] to see some of the projects we do, and communicate with our other members. Some things I'm interested in from a software leader point of view is

# how to quickly teach programmers how to program for the xo
# how to make ideas become reality in the midst of mounds of homework

Please discuss your experiences with me!

User:Ysun

2009-01-12T19:42:58Z

Ysun:

==Hi==
I'm Yifan Sun. I work with the F.W.Olin OLPC chapter in Needham, Mass. as software person and driving puppet. I'm interested in all things electrical/computer engineering, and have been excited about OLPC since I first heard about it in high school. I'd like to see what I can contribute software-wise to the project, and thereby learn from OLPC what goes into good development.

==ToDo ==

Still pending...

==Ideas==
Modify Abiword so that Write has instant spell-check and mouse-over dictionary lookup for many languages.

Either produce an activity or modify Write so that it has features like NJStar, an Asian word processor that allows for pinyin input and mouse-over dictionary lookup for any common phrase.

Simple education games, similar to those provided by neopets

Hearing your ideas!

==Olin OLPC==

You can view our [chapter wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olin_university_chapter] to see some of the projects we do, and communicate with our other members. Some things I'm interested in from a software leader point of view is

# how to quickly teach programmers how to program for the xo
# how to make ideas become reality in the midst of mounds of homework

Please discuss your experiences with me!

User:Ysun

2009-01-12T19:41:00Z

Ysun: New page: ==Hi== I'm Yifan Sun. I work with the F.W.Olin OLPC chapter in Needham, Mass. as software person and driving puppet. I'm interested in all things electrical/computer engineering, and have ...

==Hi==
I'm Yifan Sun. I work with the F.W.Olin OLPC chapter in Needham, Mass. as software person and driving puppet. I'm interested in all things electrical/computer engineering, and have been excited about OLPC since I first heard about it in high school. I'd like to see what I can contribute software-wise to the project, and thereby learn from OLPC what goes into good development.

==ToDo ==

Still pending...

==Ideas==
Modify Abiword so that Write has instant spell-check and mouse-over dictionary lookup for many languages.

Either produce an activity or modify Write so that it has features like NJStar, an Asian word processor that allows for pinyin input and mouse-over dictionary lookup for any common phrase.

Simple education games, similar to those provided by neopets

Hearing your ideas!

==Olin OLPC==

You can view our [chapter wiki http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olin_university_chapter] to see some of the projects we do, and communicate with our other members. Some things I'm interested in from a software leader point of view is

1) how to quickly teach programmers how to program for the xo
2) how to make ideas become reality in the midst of mounds of homework

Please discuss your experiences with me!