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:The web is moving towards websites-as-applications and there are many projects to help integrate these new applications with the various desktop environments ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime AIR], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlight#Silverlight_3 Silverlight Out-of-Browser Experience], [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Prism Mozilla Prism], [http://fluidapp.com Fluid]). There is also the bold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_webOS webOS] from Palm, that fully embraces web technologies by making them the default toolkit for building applications for the platform.
 
:The web is moving towards websites-as-applications and there are many projects to help integrate these new applications with the various desktop environments ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime AIR], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverlight#Silverlight_3 Silverlight Out-of-Browser Experience], [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Prism Mozilla Prism], [http://fluidapp.com Fluid]). There is also the bold [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_webOS webOS] from Palm, that fully embraces web technologies by making them the default toolkit for building applications for the platform.
 
:It would be great to bring these ideas to Sugar, as they would enable easier usage of web applications and in general more orientation towards the web. It would also allow web developers to easily extend those websites to better integrate with Sugar, increasing the developer pool of and raising awareness towards Sugar.<br />
 
:It would be great to bring these ideas to Sugar, as they would enable easier usage of web applications and in general more orientation towards the web. It would also allow web developers to easily extend those websites to better integrate with Sugar, increasing the developer pool of and raising awareness towards Sugar.<br />
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<strong> Tomeu Vizoso</strong> <br />
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: "Without needing to get into what is better for our deployments, I do see value in making easier to make Sugar activities using technologies such as HTML, CSS, etc" [feel free to edit/remove]
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  Are you a mentor? Could I please get a paragraph in here from you? Pretty please?
 
  Are you a mentor? Could I please get a paragraph in here from you? Pretty please?
 
* Sugar Labs will be working to set up a small (5-30 unit) Sugar pilot near each student project that is accepted to GSoC so that you can immediately see how your work affects children in a deployment. We will make arrangements to either supply or find all the equipment needed. Do you have any ideas on where you would like your deployment to be, who you would like to be involved, and how we can help you and the community in your area begin it?
 
* Sugar Labs will be working to set up a small (5-30 unit) Sugar pilot near each student project that is accepted to GSoC so that you can immediately see how your work affects children in a deployment. We will make arrangements to either supply or find all the equipment needed. Do you have any ideas on where you would like your deployment to be, who you would like to be involved, and how we can help you and the community in your area begin it?
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* Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
 
* Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
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* Is there anything else we should have asked you or anything else that we should know that might make us like you or your project more?
 
* Is there anything else we should have asked you or anything else that we should know that might make us like you or your project more?
    
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