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== About ==

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This is a dumping ground for crazy ideas~~. Suitable for farming out to interns, Google SoC folks, or eager community members~~.

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This is a list of project ideas. For now the focus is on giving [[GSoC]] students an idea of the kind of thing we're looking for. It also includes dumping ground for less-explicitly-explained crazy ideas at the end.

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* Adding hooks between Browse / Write / Google Docs to provide a killer offline mode for Google Docs. Google Gears allegedly makes this easy.

* A better, more fun, Paint option for small children - One way - Use eToys - http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys/2008-November/002770.html

* See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:GSoC_proposals

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== ~~Core Software~~ ==

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== Well-explained ideas ==

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=== ~~Accessibility Support~~ ===

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==== Template ====

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~~Sugar currently doesn't have anything available for the visually impaired.~~

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=== Speech Synthesis integration into Sugar ===

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A quick explanation of the idea

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*Priority for Sugar: Low/Medium/High

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*Difficulty (as a GSoC project): Easy/Medium/Advanced

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*Skills needed: Experience with WikiCode and copy-paste.

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=== Core Software ===

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=== Toolkits / Frameworks (for activity developers) ===

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=== Stand-alone activities ===

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== Brainstorm / unexplained ideas ==

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=== Core Software ===

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* Accessibility Support: Sugar currently doesn't have anything available for the visually impaired.

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==== Speech Synthesis integration into Sugar ====

Integrate speech synthesis with all activities, not just [[Speak]], and provide for karaoke coloring. See [[User:Mokurai|Mokurai]]'s [http://www.olpcnews.com/content/ebooks/effective_adult_literacy_program.html article] on adapting [[Same Language Subtitling]] for literacy to the XO.

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* Accent gets set on the basis of locale

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=== Java ===

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==== Java ====

Package and integrate the IcedTea open source bootstrap of OpenJDK Java with browser plugin for the XO. Deliverables would include:

* Binary, source and rpm dependencies for icedtea and icedtea browser plugin

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* Integration of packages into autobuild branch

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=== Print Support ===

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==== Print Support ====

Print support in Sugar would be useful in many scenarios. The ideal project deliverables would include

* Integration of a printing infrastructure (CUPS ??) into the XO-1 software images

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:I am highly interested in working on this project. Would the project leader mind contacting me at bmw.stx@gmail.com?

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=== JavaScript-Python Communication ===

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==== JavaScript-Python Communication ====

JavaScript Python Communication through the following strategies: PyXPCom, hulahop, and xulrunner. Ideally, develop a demo activity which could be used as a template for sugarizing javascript activities.

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=== Graphical toolkit ===

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==== Graphical toolkit ====

Important work left to do:

* Give focus feedback by showing a rounded rectangle in gtk buttons and HippoCanvas icons.

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* Improve keyboard shortcuts - make them easier to create and implement a UI to make them more discoverable, such as transparent letters which appear when you hold <ctrl>

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=== Mono/.NET ===

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==== Mono/.NET ====

The use of Mono could really enhance the number of Sugar developers due to the huge existing .NET community.

Thanks to Torello Querci, developing a Sugar activity in Mono is already possible using the Mono/Sugar bindings Sugar.dll (more [[Mono here]]).

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* MonoDevelop integration.

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=== Titanium Sugar ===

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==== Titanium Sugar ====

* Integrate Titanium-made apps to Sugar.

* Do a titanium activity to develop html/javascript/css appilcations inside Sugar.

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== Activities ==

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=== Activities ===

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=== VideoChat activity ===

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==== VideoChat activity ====

telepathy-python has support for audio and video streaming and has recently gained support for using gstreamer, which means that we could easily do efficient videoconferencing using fully open source codecs.

So a really nice project would be to do a proper Sugar activity for video conferencing.

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=== Language Trainer ===

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==== Language Trainer ====

A language trainer with text to speech support would be very nice. Something that could start with letters and then teach words.

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=== Thesaurus ===

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==== Thesaurus ====

Working together with openthesaurus -- someone could create a thesaurus for kids to learn different words (synonyms and antonyms)

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=== Improved Read activity ===

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==== Improved Read activity ====

Use Gecko to implement a reader for [http://www.openebook.org/ epub] format ebooks. This is superior to PDF because such books can be reflowed to better fit the screen and user preferences. Also, (although it would break the standard) it would make it very simple to include AJAX-style active features to books.

Extra credit if you support textual and graphical annotation. Deployments have also asked for a page-turn animation.

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=== KDEEdu ===

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==== KDEEdu ====

Sugarize any [http://edu.kde.org/ KDEEdu] activity, especially the ones which have no corresponding Sugar activity.

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=== Gnash ===

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==== Gnash ====

Put some code around Gnash that allows to easily do activities based on Flash content. Also develop Gnash extensions that allow flash activities to interact with the journal, presence service, telepathy, etc

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=== UCB Logo ===

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==== UCB Logo ====

We need to add journal support (and a standard Sugar toolbar).

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=== FoodForce2 Activity ===

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==== FoodForce2 Activity ====

* Integrate story board into the game.

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Link : http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/

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=== Educational Toolkit ===

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==== Educational Toolkit ===

* Enable collaboration scenarios

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