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Sugar Bulletin Board

Bulletin Board is a project under Google Summer Of Code which aims at building an interface to promote interaction among users on an activity.

For detailed information refer to the link - http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2014/native/Bulletin_Board.

Chat Channel

It is overlaid on any activity and is a spatially contextual chatting interface comprising of chat bubbles throughout the screen.

For detailed information about the project refer to Bulletin Board Proposal [[1]]

Instructions to setup on any Sugar Activity

Clone the sugar toolkit gtk3 repo. - https://github.com/native93/sugar-toolkit-gtk3.

Also in the sugar-artwork, include the icon hand1.svg and add it in the corresponding Makefile.

Choose any activity on which you want the Bulletin Board to be overlaid. - Shown as an example for the Paint Activity - https://github.com/native93/Sugar-paint-activity.

In the activity code base, search for the Activity class i.e, Class which inherits activity.Activity of sugar3. - OficinaActivity in case of Paint Activity

Import BulletinBoard class from sugar toolkit - from sugar3.activity.widgets import BulletinBoard

Initialize an object of the class say self.board - self.board = BulletinBoard(self).
Insert self.board in the activity container (depends on activity) - refer to Paint Activity.
Also insert all the buttons - self.board.box_button, self.board.share_button and self.board.button in order to the end of the activity toolbar box.

That's it ! Bulletin chat channel is ready for use with the activity !.

Hand Icon to be included -