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Summer of Code/2014/AnaBalica/Social Help (view source)
Revision as of 12:03, 16 March 2014
, 12:03, 16 March 2014→Abstract: screencast link
*''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?''
*''Describe your project in 10-20 sentences. What are you making? Who are you making it for, and why do they need it? What technologies (programming languages, etc.) will you be using?''
====Abstract====
====Abstract====
:Social Help is a system wide mechanism to access a range of social channels like IRC, forums or social networks (i.e. Sugar Network) within a specific context. Basic implementation is available on [https://github.com/ana-balica/sugar/tree/prototype-social-help github branch prototype-social-help]. The prototype includes a system-wide handling of a keypress combination - <Shift><Alt><c>, which pops up a window that has 2 options: to join IRC or to open the Browse activity. At the moment the following window looks like that:
:Social Help is a system wide mechanism to access a range of social channels like IRC, forums or social networks (i.e. Sugar Network) within a specific context. Basic implementation is available on [https://github.com/ana-balica/sugar/tree/prototype-social-help github branch prototype-social-help] and the interaction workflow is screencasted and posted on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x316a6JX84Q youtube]. The prototype includes a system-wide handling of a keypress combination - <Shift><Alt><c>, which pops up a window that has 2 options: to join IRC or to open the Browse activity. At the moment the following window looks like that:
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File:screenshot_sugar2.png|Social Sugar window within TurtleArt activity
File:screenshot_sugar2.png|Social Sugar window within TurtleArt activity
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:Here is a simple UI design of the window (made in Inkscape). The Discourse button is merely an example (in case the community decides on using a different forum platform).
:Here is a simple UI design of the window (made in Inkscape). The Discourse button is merely an example (in case the community decides on using a different forum platform).