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A list of projects potential participants might contribute within GSoC program. Every project is shortly described with mentioning secondary skills for possible participants (the primal skill is desire to do something useful). | A list of projects potential participants might contribute within GSoC program. Every project is shortly described with mentioning secondary skills for possible participants (the primal skill is desire to do something useful). | ||
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| − | + | === Sugar Framework for writing activity in full HTML5 === | |
| − | + | [[File:Sugarhtml5.png|300px]] | |
| − | + | The objective is to develop a JavaScript framework allowing to write Sugar activities in full HTML5/JavaScript. The framework will expose to JavaScript an API to call Sugar features: | |
| + | * Journal/Datastore, | ||
| + | * Collaboration/Telepathy, | ||
| + | * Toolbar handling, | ||
| + | * Sugar look&feel - for example via a CSS style sheet usable on HTML controls | ||
| + | * Access to Sugar settings (buddy name, colors, current language, ...), | ||
| + | * View source. | ||
| + | Like PhoneGap/Cordova, the framework will come with a template to develop and package easily a new HTML5 activity. A basic tutorial will be include too. | ||
| + | The work could be inspired by the work done with Enyo Framework in [http://booki.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/_draft/_v/1.0/developing-sugar-activities-using-html5/ 1]. By the way, the resulting framework should be JavaScript framework agnostic (no need for jQuery, Enyo, ...). | ||
| − | + | ''Mentor'': [mailto:lionel@olpc-france.org Lionel Laské] | |
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| − | ''Co- | + | ''Co-Mentor'': Daniel Narvaez |
=== Unified journal view === | === Unified journal view === | ||
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| − | Create a Project Hosting Site similar to the Scratch website where kids can share the projects they have created using various Sugar Activities. The site should foster collaboration and sharing of projects. The Web Site should be built using a free web framework so that it can be installed at deployment sites. | + | Create a Project Hosting Site similar to the Scratch website where kids can share the projects they have created using various Sugar Activities. The site should foster collaboration and sharing of projects. The Web Site should be built using a free web framework so that it can be installed at deployment sites. Some features include: |
* Ability to engage and connect with friends and classmates using various Social Networking sites/techniques. | * Ability to engage and connect with friends and classmates using various Social Networking sites/techniques. | ||
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| − | === | + | ===Finish work on Ubuntu Sugar=== |
| + | This could be a series of tasks to update and complete the porting of Sugar in Ubuntu. | ||
| + | : Finish work started by dfarning | ||
| + | ::'''ubuntu-sugar-remix''' | ||
| + | *Previous Ubuntu sugar effort headed by David Farning | ||
| + | :wiki :https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar | ||
| + | :Download files: http://people.sugarlabs.org/dfarning/ | ||
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| + | *Browse | ||
| + | :Never worked | ||
| + | :: had to install [http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Surf-115.xo surf-115.xo] as work-around | ||
| + | #This allowed installation of [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/ activities] from ASLO | ||
| + | #Install activites using:[[Sugar_Creation_Kit#Copy_with_drag_.26_drop|Drag-Drop from 2nd USB]] | ||
| + | ====Proposed work: Fix sugar and bring up to current sugar version 0.98==== | ||
| + | :Currently 0.90; 0.88, 0.86 in Ubuntu | ||
| + | *[[Ubuntu#sweets-sugar_0.94_does_work_in_Ubuntu_12.10_.28unity_and_cinnamon.29|sweets-sugar_0.94_does_work_in_Ubuntu_12.10]] | ||
| + | *Nice version of sugar with ''Dextrose'' features. | ||
| + | :Shares features with software used on XO laptops. | ||
| + | ::''Contact'': alsroot on #sugar | ||
| + | =====Example of install of Sugar with ''Synaptic'' in [[Tuquito| Tuquito ]]===== | ||
| + | :Multilanguage Ubuntu 12.04 LTS | ||
| + | *Testing 03/22/2013 | ||
| + | :System Tools/Control Center/Add/Remove programs with Synaptic: | ||
| + | ::Search: "sugar" check [x] sugar-session-0.90 | ||
| + | ::Apply | ||
| + | *Installs working sugar-emulator which sees jabber | ||
| + | :Known Bug in sugar 0.90: the users XO icon disappears in f1 screen within a few minutes. | ||
| + | ::Sugar 0.90 is no longer supported so this will not be fixed. | ||
| + | :[f1] screen showing sugar neighborhood: | ||
| + | [[File:Tuquito-6-jabber.png|300px]] | ||
| + | :Only 2 activities are installed and they fail to start: | ||
| + | ::Turtle Art 98 | ||
| + | ::Pippy 37 | ||
| − | + | *This is an example of one of the many; outdated and incomplete [[Sugar_Creation_Kit#Linux_distributions_where_Sugar_is_available|Distributions based on Ubuntu where sugar is available]] : | |
| − | + | ''Mentor'': needed | |
| − | ''Contact'': [[User: | + | ''Contact'': [[User:Satellit]] |
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| + | === Write Turtle Blocks in Turtle Blocks === | ||
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| + | In support of making Sugar as transparent and fungible as possible, we'd like to make it not just Free, but provide affordances for end-user modifications. Turtle Blocks is a possible stepping stone towards that end: a programming environment approachable by children as young as five-years old. So as a first step, let's write Turtle Blocks in Turtle Blocks. From that experience, we'll hopefully know how to approach the more general Sugar problem. | ||
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| + | ''Contact'': [[User:Walter]] | ||
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| + | ''Co-mentor'':Tony Forster | ||
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| + | === Portfolio videos === | ||
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| + | Working with the maintainer of [[Activities/Portfolio|Portfolio]] to add a mechanism for exporting .ogv (voice over still images) of a portfolio presentation. This is a request that has come from deployments: they'd like to be able to post videos of student work, which is currently available as a slide show with audio voice-over. | ||
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| − | + | A working knowlewdge of Python and some gstreamer skills are a must. | |
| − | + | ''Contact'': [[User:Walter]] | |
| − | + | ''Co-mentor:'' [[User:Aneesh Dogra]] | |
| − | + | === Implement collaboration in Paint Activity === | |
| + | Paint Activity does not implement collaboration yet. The easy part is send the mouse positions and draw in the different machines, but you need have the status of the different tools used, copy/paste operations and undo/redo. Another task to do is port the graphics operations to cairo. | ||
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| − | + | * [[Activities/IRC]] is built around an all-Python IRC client, [http://urk.sourceforge.net/ Urk] which is no longer maintained since 2007. Thus, its better to port the activity to a newer and a better all-python IRC library. | |
| + | * [[Activities/IRC]] is significantly slower than other IRC clients available on other platforms. The reason being its not multi-threaded. Thus, adding multi-threading support will be very useful. | ||
| + | * [[Activities/IRC]] is missing some useful features including sound on highlight (play a sound when the user is highlighted in a channel), user info (whois data) and many others. Look at some popular IRC clients running on other platforms and research about the features which can be added to [[Activities/IRC]] and how can they be added. | ||
| − | + | Requires familiarity with Python and IRC protocol specifications. | |
| − | + | ''Mentor'': [[User:Aneesh Dogra]] | |
| − | [[ | + | ''Co-mentor'': [[User:RafaelOrtiz]] |
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| + | *'''Above ^ Example of a chat where to 2 people connected by chat could not talk to each other.''' | ||
| + | : Due to language barrier | ||
| + | *Add a drop-down box that translates of the chat messages coming from another user. | ||
| + | :Similar to the private/shared drop down shown. | ||
| + | *This could work like the #sugar / #sugar-es channels on IRC | ||
| + | ''Contact'': [[User:Satellit]] | ||
| − | ''Co- | + | ''Co-mentor'': [[User:Aneesh Dogra]] |
Revision as of 08:41, 26 March 2013
A draft copy of our application
Project candidates
A list of projects potential participants might contribute within GSoC program. Every project is shortly described with mentioning secondary skills for possible participants (the primal skill is desire to do something useful).
- Note
- Potential mentors, please feel free to add ideas to this list. Also, feel free to add your name to a project you'd be willing to co-mentor.
- Note
- Potential students, more project ideas can be found on our Features page.
Sugar Core
Sugar Framework for writing activity in full HTML5
The objective is to develop a JavaScript framework allowing to write Sugar activities in full HTML5/JavaScript. The framework will expose to JavaScript an API to call Sugar features:
- Journal/Datastore,
- Collaboration/Telepathy,
- Toolbar handling,
- Sugar look&feel - for example via a CSS style sheet usable on HTML controls
- Access to Sugar settings (buddy name, colors, current language, ...),
- View source.
Like PhoneGap/Cordova, the framework will come with a template to develop and package easily a new HTML5 activity. A basic tutorial will be include too. The work could be inspired by the work done with Enyo Framework in 1. By the way, the resulting framework should be JavaScript framework agnostic (no need for jQuery, Enyo, ...).
Mentor: Lionel Laské
Co-Mentor: Daniel Narvaez
Unified journal view
Rather than viewing the details of a Journal entry on a separate page, the idea is to make the details appear in an expandable in-line format on the main Journal view. The look and feel would be more like Google+ or Facebook. Performance will be a major challenge.
This project requires some working knowledge of the low-level Sugar Journal and datastore code.
Contact: User:Walter
Plugin support
A number of activities, notably Turtle Art, are supporting plugins -- the ability to extend features by downloading additional modules. However, the mechanism for installing plugins is anything but friendly. It would be nice to design a uniform plugin bundle type and modify the activity installer to recognize this new type. Caveats include dependencies -- presumably the plugin would take care of that -- and version control -- plugins are often incumbent upon a specific version of an activity. ASLO hosting] should also be considered.
Strong Python skills and experience with Sugar toolkit required.
Contact: User:Walter
Co-mentor: User:Aneesh Dogra
Co-mentor: User:Francis
End-user modifications of Sugar source
We have an existing mechanism for duplicating and modifying Sugar activities: a copy of the bundle can be creaed in ~/Activities, where it can be modified by the end user. We also have a mechanism for viewing the Sugar toolkit source, but no such convenient way for making changes without risking messing up the system. While it should be easy enough to make a duplicate copy in the user's home directory, and to change the Python paths to use the modified code, we need some mechanism -- presumably at boot -- to choose which version to run: the installed version or the modified version.
Strong Python skills and experience with Sugar toolkit required.
Contact: User:Walter
Project sharing website
Create a Project Hosting Site similar to the Scratch website where kids can share the projects they have created using various Sugar Activities. The site should foster collaboration and sharing of projects. The Web Site should be built using a free web framework so that it can be installed at deployment sites. Some features include:
- Ability to engage and connect with friends and classmates using various Social Networking sites/techniques.
- Ability to post projects from various Sugar Activities (ex: Turtle Blocks, Etoys, Memorize, Physics, etc.)
- Separate landing pages for different audiences (kids, teachers, parents, etc)
- Section to share kid created art from projects
- Ability for users to create galleries (of their own projects, favorite projects, subject specific topics, etc).
- Ability to have “private classroom spaces”
- Tools to support community management of the site
- Multi-language support
Contact: User:MrSteve
Co-mentor: User:dogi
Sugar as a Service website
Create a Site for managing multiple "Sugar in a Browser" sessions like treehouse or broadway gnome Some features include:
- Ability of integration of Chrome Remote Desktop
- Ability to share or to allow other user watch this session
- Ability to scale the infrastructure onto local (virtualbox}, private (kvm) and other public clouds (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG, http://xvm.mit.edu/ or http://cloud.ubuntu.com/)
Contact: User:dogi
Co-mentor: User:Aneesh Dogra
Finish work on Ubuntu Sugar
This could be a series of tasks to update and complete the porting of Sugar in Ubuntu.
- Finish work started by dfarning
- ubuntu-sugar-remix
- Previous Ubuntu sugar effort headed by David Farning
- wiki :https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar
- Download files: http://people.sugarlabs.org/dfarning/
- Browse
- Never worked
- had to install surf-115.xo as work-around
- This allowed installation of activities from ASLO
- Install activites using:Drag-Drop from 2nd USB
Proposed work: Fix sugar and bring up to current sugar version 0.98
- Currently 0.90; 0.88, 0.86 in Ubuntu
- sweets-sugar_0.94_does_work_in_Ubuntu_12.10
- Nice version of sugar with Dextrose features.
- Shares features with software used on XO laptops.
- Contact: alsroot on #sugar
Example of install of Sugar with Synaptic in Tuquito
- Multilanguage Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Testing 03/22/2013
- System Tools/Control Center/Add/Remove programs with Synaptic:
- Search: "sugar" check [x] sugar-session-0.90
- Apply
- Installs working sugar-emulator which sees jabber
- Known Bug in sugar 0.90: the users XO icon disappears in f1 screen within a few minutes.
- Sugar 0.90 is no longer supported so this will not be fixed.
- [f1] screen showing sugar neighborhood:
- Only 2 activities are installed and they fail to start:
- Turtle Art 98
- Pippy 37
- This is an example of one of the many; outdated and incomplete Distributions based on Ubuntu where sugar is available :
Mentor: needed
Contact: User:Satellit
Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard
Mallard is a markup language that makes it easy to provide user help. It would be a nice feature to add Mallard-like help to activities, accessed through a mechanism similar to the view source mechanism. We need to sort through two issues: integration into Sugar and intergration into our i18n / L10n system.
Contact: User:Walter
Co-mentor: User:Aneesh Dogra
Co-mentor: User:Francis
Activity Development Framework
This framework should allow to:
- Make toolbars from factories removing many lines of code.
- Start a project through typing a command.
- Doing collaboration easier to implement.
- Any other work which makes the development process hard and can be framed.
Contact: User:Francis
ASLO Enhancements
The current Activity Library is based in an old version of the Mozilla Add-ons Library.
This project is divided in three parts:
- Update the old platform and have the corresponding modifications to distribute Sugar Activities instead of Mozilla Plugins.
- Add an activity manager to the control panel. Allowing the installation/update of activities from ASLO.
- Add to the Sugar Bundle Builder a way to auto-upload activities to ASLO.
Contact: User:Francis
Sugar Activities
Write Turtle Blocks in Turtle Blocks
In support of making Sugar as transparent and fungible as possible, we'd like to make it not just Free, but provide affordances for end-user modifications. Turtle Blocks is a possible stepping stone towards that end: a programming environment approachable by children as young as five-years old. So as a first step, let's write Turtle Blocks in Turtle Blocks. From that experience, we'll hopefully know how to approach the more general Sugar problem.
Contact: User:Walter
Co-mentor:Tony Forster
Portfolio videos
Working with the maintainer of Portfolio to add a mechanism for exporting .ogv (voice over still images) of a portfolio presentation. This is a request that has come from deployments: they'd like to be able to post videos of student work, which is currently available as a slide show with audio voice-over.
A working knowlewdge of Python and some gstreamer skills are a must.
Contact: User:Walter
Co-mentor: User:Aneesh Dogra
Implement collaboration in Paint Activity
Paint Activity does not implement collaboration yet. The easy part is send the mouse positions and draw in the different machines, but you need have the status of the different tools used, copy/paste operations and undo/redo. Another task to do is port the graphics operations to cairo.
Requires familiarity with Python.
Contact: User:Godiard
IRC Activity fixes
- Activities/IRC is built around an all-Python IRC client, Urk which is no longer maintained since 2007. Thus, its better to port the activity to a newer and a better all-python IRC library.
- Activities/IRC is significantly slower than other IRC clients available on other platforms. The reason being its not multi-threaded. Thus, adding multi-threading support will be very useful.
- Activities/IRC is missing some useful features including sound on highlight (play a sound when the user is highlighted in a channel), user info (whois data) and many others. Look at some popular IRC clients running on other platforms and research about the features which can be added to Activities/IRC and how can they be added.
Requires familiarity with Python and IRC protocol specifications.
Mentor: User:Aneesh Dogra
Co-mentor: User:RafaelOrtiz
Chat Activity with translation
- Above ^ Example of a chat where to 2 people connected by chat could not talk to each other.
- Due to language barrier
- Add a drop-down box that translates of the chat messages coming from another user.
- Similar to the private/shared drop down shown.
- This could work like the #sugar / #sugar-es channels on IRC
Contact: User:Satellit
Co-mentor: User:Aneesh Dogra