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[[Summer of Code/2013/Application|A draft copy of our application]]
[[Summer of Code/2013/Application|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).
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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=== Write Turtle Blocks in Turtle Blocks ===
== Sugar Core ==
=== 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]
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
''Co-mentor:'' [[User:Aneesh Dogra]]
''Co-Mentor'': Daniel Narvaez
=== Unified journal view ===
=== Unified journal view ===
=== Project sharing website ===
=== 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:
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.
''Co-mentor'': [[User:Aneesh Dogra]]
''Co-mentor'': [[User:Aneesh Dogra]]
=== Implement collaboration in Paint Activity ===
===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 [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:Godiard]]
''Contact'': [[User:Satellit]]
=== Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard ===
=== Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard ===
''Co-mentor'': [[User:Francis]]
''Co-mentor'': [[User:Francis]]
=== Activity Development Framework ===
=== Activity Development Framework ===
''Contact'': [[User:Francis]]
''Contact'': [[User:Francis]]
''Co-mentor'': [[User:Aneesh Dogra]]
== 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 [[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.
[[File:Portfolio-Tool.png|300px]]
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, [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]]
[[File:Sugarhtml5.png|300px]]
''Co-mentor'': [[User:RafaelOrtiz]]
=== Chat Activity with translation ===
''Mentor'': [mailto:lionel@olpc-france.org Lionel Laské]
[[File:Chat.JPG|300px]]
*'''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'': needed
''Co-mentor'': [[User:Aneesh Dogra]]