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Summer of Code/2014/AnaBalica/Social Help (view source)
Revision as of 08:29, 16 March 2014
, 08:29, 16 March 2014→About the project: Comparison between Discourse and Sugar Network
====Functional requirements====
====Functional requirements====
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! Nr !! Description !! Priority !! Time to implement !! Comments
! Nr !! Description !! Priority !! Time to implement !! Comments
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| 9 || Create the Code of Conduct for Social Help channels || Minor || 3 days ||
| 9 || Create the Code of Conduct for Social Help channels || Minor || 3 days ||
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====Comparison between Discourse and Sugar Network====
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! Criteria !! Discourse !! Sugar Network
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| Showcase/Example || http://try.discourse.org/ || http://network.sugarlabs.org/
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| UI and UX || Has a clean, modern UI, contains categories, information about posts, likes, latest activity, suggested topics. It is mobile-friendly. Since it is a general purpose discussion software, it has a decent universal-like design. Discourse is skinnable and themable, therefore can be easily adapted to Sugar needs. || Follows the Sugar style guidelines, is [oriented towards low aged students http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Sugar_Network#Clients]. Hence represents a well-known and intuitive tool for users. Contains a grid of activities with sections divided into questions, ideas, problems, reviews, all resources and artifact gallery. Moreover has lists of resources and artifacts.
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| Current status || [http://www.discourse.org/faq/#switch Late beta], approaching version 1.0 || [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network/1.0/Roadmap Version 1.0]
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| Registration and authentication || Provides access to stand alone registration or using available services (Google, Github, Facebook and others). Respectively authentication is done using forum credentials or external credentials. || Sugar Network has an RESTful [API http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Sugar_Network/API] and a client side application on top of it, which allows [authentication and authorization http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Sugar_Network/API#Authentication]. ''At the moment I can find any relevant information regarding the registration process. Is it already integrated with Sugar Environment via users GUI?''
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| Usability || It is a discussion software, intuitive and easy to use (sounds like a subjective option, nevertheless it is also based on the community voice and the project scope as a whole). Provides a user profile with some data about the user and his activity on the forum. || Sugar Network is a content sharing and social activity system for Sugar Learning Environment, which represents a central point for collaboration between [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network/Concept#Targeted_audience students, educators, software developers]. It offers a social network to [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network/Declaration_of_purpose ask questions, propose ideas, complain about problems and express ideas]. It provides access not only to Internet users, but also to primary and secondary educational institutions including those without Internet connection.
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