Summer of Code/2014/bulletinboard

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 - 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, Summer of Code/2014/native/Bulletin Board.

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 the bulletin button - self.board.button at 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 -

Screenshots and Demo

Short Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyjLfKBn4BQ