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Level: Advanced
Level: Advanced
Benefits to the Student: A chance to learn from touching almost every corner of an advanced system.
Benefits to the Community: We'll greatly expand the reach of the project by opening the door to JavaScript programmers. Plus it will force us to clean up our APIs.
=== Unified journal view ===
=== Unified journal view ===
Level: Advanced
Level: Advanced
Benefits to the Student: A chance to exercise both design/UI and programming skills
Benefits to the Community: Long-overdue feature that will make this core Sugar feature more visible and appealing to our users
=== Plugin support ===
=== Plugin support ===
Level: Intermediate
Level: Intermediate
Benefits to the Student: A chance to touch lots of code
Benefits to the Community: A simple way to develop and deliver customizations to activities and Sugar itself. Sugar can remain simple and stable, while the extensions can be more of a play ground for new ideas
=== End-user modifications of Sugar source ===
=== End-user modifications of Sugar source ===
Level: Advanced
Level: Advanced
Benefits to the Student: A chance to touch lots of code
Benefits to the Community: We'll come further towards our goal of enabling and encouraging our users to "own" through modification all aspects of our code.
=== Project sharing website ===
=== Project sharing website ===
Level: Advanced
Level: Advanced
Benefits to the Student: Learn more about web services
Benefits to the Community: We need more mechanisms for sharing ideas and work. This is low-hanging fruit.
=== Sugar as a Service website ===
=== Sugar as a Service website ===
Level: Advanced
Level: Advanced
Benefits to the Student: Learn more about web services
Benefits to the Community: We need to reach out to people who are not yet comfortable with virtual machines et al. by developing less invasive mechanisms for distributing Sugar.
===Clean up Ubuntu Sugar packaging===
===Clean up Ubuntu Sugar packaging===
Level: Advanced
Level: Advanced
Benefits to the Student: Learn about packaging
Benefits to the Community: Ubuntu is widely used and we should have our best bits bundled with it in order to reach more potential users.
=== Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard ===
=== Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard ===
Level: Advanced
Level: Advanced
Benefits to the Student: Learn about lots of cool tools.
Benefits to the Community: Most of our help is in the wiki and in English. This will enable us to reach our users more directly and in their first language.
=== Activity Development Framework ===
=== Activity Development Framework ===
''Contact'': [[User:Francis]]
''Contact'': [[User:Francis]]
Benefits to the Student: Learn to articulate to others how to do something useful.
Benefits to the Community: We don't provide enough support for our developers. Time to address that deficiency.
=== ASLO Enhancements ===
=== ASLO Enhancements ===
Level: Advanced
Level: Advanced
Benefits to the Student: Learn about web services
Benefits to the Community: Our "app store" is not as accessible as it needs to be.
== Sugar Activities ==
== Sugar Activities ==
Level: Advanced
Level: Advanced
Benefits to the Student: Lots of good Python hacking involved
Benefits to the Community: We'll learn how far we can push on the idea that end users *can* modify code.
=== Python export functionality for Turtle Blocks ===
=== Python export functionality for Turtle Blocks ===
Level: Advanced
Level: Advanced
Benefits to the Student: Lots of good Python hacking involved
Benefits to the Community: We'll have a vehicle for studying whether or not we can bring students of programming from block worlds to text-based programming and debugging.
=== Portfolio videos ===
=== Portfolio videos ===
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[[File:Portfolio-Tool.png|300px]]
A working knowlewdge of Python and some gstreamer skills are a must.
A working knowledge of Python and some gstreamer skills are a must.
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
Level: Intermediate
Level: Intermediate
Benefits to the Student: Learn how to master GStreamer
Benefits to the Community: We need more vehicles of express for our users. Video tools are to scare in Sugar.
=== Implement collaboration in Paint Activity ===
=== Implement collaboration in Paint Activity ===
Level: Beginner
Level: Beginner
Benefits to the Student: Learn about our collaboration stack
Benefits to the Community: More shared spaces for expression is aligned with our pedagogical goals.
=== IRC Activity fixes ===
=== IRC Activity fixes ===
Level: Intermediate
Level: Intermediate
Benefits to the Student: Learn Python and some UI design
Benefits to the Community: We use IRC as the backbone of our community discourse so we should better support it within Sugar itself
=== Chat Activity with translation ===
=== Chat Activity with translation ===
Level: Intermediate
Level: Intermediate
Benefits to the Student: Learn about machine translation and web services
Benefits to the Community: The better we can accommodate users across multiple languages, the farther we'll reach.