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application rejection notice
{{Note/important|Sorry|Our application was rejected [http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg13412.html] (item 2), so no project this year.}}
Our application page is [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/application/google/gsoc2012/7284202].
== Project candidates ==
== 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).
'''Note: Potential mentors and participants, please feel free to start adding things to this list.'''
'''Note:''' Potential mentors, please feel free to add ideas to this list. Also, feel free to add your name to a project you'd be willing to co-mentor.
'''Note:''' Potential students, more project ideas can be found on our [[Features]] page.
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=== Turtle Art Nutrition ===
=== Turtle Art nutrition ===
Working with the maintainer of [[Activities/TurtleArt|Turtle Blocks]] to further develop the prototype [[Activities/TurtleArt#Nutrition|Turtle Nutrition plug-in]] into a stand-alone activity. In its current state, Turtle Nutrition is a plug-in to the Turtle Blocks application. The plug-in aims to raise awareness of nutritional values through visual programming elements.
Working with the maintainer of [[Activities/TurtleArt|Turtle Blocks]] to further develop the prototype [[Activities/TurtleArt#Nutrition|Turtle Nutrition plug-in]] into a stand-alone activity. In its current state, Turtle Nutrition is a plug-in to the Turtle Blocks application. The plug-in aims to raise awareness of nutritional values through visual programming elements.
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
=== Portfolio Videos ===
=== 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.
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.
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
=== Unified Journal View ===
=== Unified journal view ===
Rather than viewing the details of a Journal entry on a separate page, the idea is to make the details appear in an expandabe in-line format on the main Journal view. The look and feel would be more like Google+ or Facebook. Performance will be a major challenge.
Rather than viewing the details of a Journal entry on a separate page, the idea is to make the details appear in an expandabe in-line format on the main Journal view. The look and feel would be more like Google+ or Facebook. Performance will be a major challenge.
=== Sugar "Sweets" Trisquel GNU/Linux Distro ===
=== Sugar "Sweets" Trisquel GNU/Linux Distro ===
What we need to get Sugar into classrooms and community centers is a software distribution that works "out of the box" with both Sugar and Gnome. The Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution is the most promising of the efforts to make this a reality. I'd like to pilot it in my ICT lab in Arlington, Virginia, and would love to mentor a GSOCer hack the packages needed to make it work.
What we need to get Sugar into classrooms and community centers is a software distribution that works "out of the box" with both Sugar and Gnome. The Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution is the most promising of the efforts to make this a reality. I'd like to pilot it in my ICT lab in Arlington, Virginia, and would love to mentor a GSOCer to hack the packages needed to make it work.
''Contact'': [[User:Jelkner]]
''Contact'': [[User:Jelkner]]
=== Background Image on Home View ===
=== Background image on Home View ===
Since we are replacing Hippo, it is relatively trivial to add a background image to the Home View. The image could be set from the Sugar control panel.
Since we are replacing Hippo, it is relatively trivial to add a background image to the Home View. The image could be set from the Sugar control panel.
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
=== Plugin Support ===
=== Plugin support ===
A number of activities, notably [[Activities/TurtleArt#Plugins|Turtle Art]], are supporting plugins -- the ability to extend features by downloading additional modules. However, [[Activities/TurtleArt#How_to_install_a_plugin|the mechanism for installing plugins]] is anything but friendly. It would be nice to design a uniform plugin bundle type and modify the activity installer to recognize this new type. Caveats include dependencies -- presumably the plugin would take care of that -- and version control -- plugins are often incumbent upon a specific version of an activity. [http://activities.sugarlabs.org ASLO hosting]] should also be considered.
A number of activities, notably [[Activities/TurtleArt#Plugins|Turtle Art]], are supporting plugins -- the ability to extend features by downloading additional modules. However, [[Activities/TurtleArt#How_to_install_a_plugin|the mechanism for installing plugins]] is anything but friendly. It would be nice to design a uniform plugin bundle type and modify the activity installer to recognize this new type. Caveats include dependencies -- presumably the plugin would take care of that -- and version control -- plugins are often incumbent upon a specific version of an activity. [http://activities.sugarlabs.org ASLO hosting]] should also be considered.
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
=== End-user Modifications of Sugar Source ===
=== End-user modifications of Sugar source ===
We have an existing mechanism for duplicating and modifying Sugar activities: a copy of the bundle can be creaed in ~/Activities, where it can be modified by the end user. We also have a mechanism for viewing the Sugar toolkit source, but no such convenient way for making changes without risking messing up the system. While it should be easy enough to make a duplicate copy in the user's home directory, and to change the Python paths to use the modified code, we need some mechanism -- presumably at boot -- to choose which version to run: the installed version or the modified version.
We have an existing mechanism for duplicating and modifying Sugar activities: a copy of the bundle can be creaed in ~/Activities, where it can be modified by the end user. We also have a mechanism for viewing the Sugar toolkit source, but no such convenient way for making changes without risking messing up the system. While it should be easy enough to make a duplicate copy in the user's home directory, and to change the Python paths to use the modified code, we need some mechanism -- presumably at boot -- to choose which version to run: the installed version or the modified version.
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
=== 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:
''Contact'': [[User:MrSteve]]
''Contact'': [[User:MrSteve]]
=== Learn to program -- in Turtle Art ===
''Co-mentor'': [[User:dogi]]
=== Sugar as a Service website ===
Create a Site for managing multiple "Sugar in a Browser" sessions like [https://one.treehouse.su/gar treehouse] or [http://cscott.net/junk/ta-broadway.png broadway gnome]
Some features include:
* Ability of integration of [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp Chrome Remote Desktop]
* Ability to share or to allow other user watch this session
* Ability to scale the infrastructure onto local (virtualbox}, private (kvm) and other public clouds (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Cloud_SIG, http://xvm.mit.edu/ or http://cloud.ubuntu.com/)
''Contact'': [[User:dogi]]
=== Learn to program in Turtle Art ===
In much the same way that [http://www.codecademy.com/courses/programming-intro/0#!/exercises/0] walks newbies through the basics of programming in Javascript, it would be nice to walk newbies through the basics of Turtle Art. There is already a provision within Turtle Art for programatically creating and moving blocks and executing program stacks. So it would be a matter of developing the exercises.
In much the same way that [http://www.codecademy.com/courses/programming-intro/0#!/exercises/0] walks newbies through the basics of programming in Javascript, it would be nice to walk newbies through the basics of Turtle Art. There is already a provision within Turtle Art for programatically creating and moving blocks and executing program stacks. So it would be a matter of developing the exercises.
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
''Co-mentor'': [[User:tonyforster]]
=== Implement collaboration in Paint Activity ===
=== Implement collaboration in Paint Activity ===
''Contact'': [[User:Godiard]]
''Contact'': [[User:Godiard]]
=== Implement a presentation mode in Fototoon ===
Fototoon allow the user to work with all the boxes in the same screen, but should be good have a view to edit one box using the full screen.
We need implement a way to display the comic created one box after another, maybe adding sound saved for every box.
The presentation can be saved in a pdf, one box by page or exported as a video.
Requires familiarity with Python.
''Contact'': [[User:Godiard]]
=== Port GBrainy to Python ===
GBrainy have many good logic games, but is programed in Mono. We can put Mono inside a activity but is not ideal.
The games are defined in xml files, and the UI is GTK and cairo, should be not very dificult to port it to python.
More info [https://live.gnome.org/gbrainy/Extending]
''Contact'': [[User:Godiard]]
=== Implement a robotics plugin for Turtle Art ===
Numerous efforts have been made to made a robotics plugin for TA,
but these are not yet completed and rely upon specific platforms,
a new plugin is needed that recognize different platforms like Arduino, Lego nxt. Lego WeDo and Butia. As this work is only for the summer I'll recommend that the plugin only supports Arduino and some Lego robotics family, The main improvement is that the plugin is fully functional, and could be integrated to upstream TA.
''Contact'': [[User:RafaelOrtiz]]
''Co-mentor'': [[User:Hpachas]]
=== Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard ===
[http://projectmallard.org/ Mallard] is a markup language that makes it easy to provide user help. It would be a nice feature to add Mallard-like help to activities, accessed through a mechanism similar to the view source mechanism. We need to sort through two issues: integration into Sugar and intergration into our i18n / L10n system.
''Contact'': [[User:Walter]]
===Tam Tam for Sugar on a Stick ===
Develop a cross-platform version of Tam Tam Mini that will work with SoaS on most, if not all, PCs and Intel Macs. Start with Tam Tam Mini to solve the problems (mostly sound) and add the other three Tam Tam Activities if time permits.
''Contact'': [[User:GrannieB]]
===Collaboration in Etoys ===
Develop a robust collaboration method in Etoys. Improving collaboration so that kids can easily share and control objects they created directly between computers.
''Contact'': [[User:Ritafreudenberg]]
===Finish Physical Etoys port to Sugar ===
Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced): Intermediate
Possible mentor: Ricardo Moran
Possible second mentor: ...
Physical Etoys is an extension to Etoys that allows the user to communicate with robots as if they were virtual objects in the computer. With Physical Etoys, it becomes posible to program real world objects (such as robots) to perform any task you want, or sense the world and use that information to control virtual objects (such as drawings on the screen).
The hardware platforms currently supported by Physical Etoys include: Arduino, Lego Mindstorms Nxt, Nintendo Wiimote, Microsoft Kinect, and others.
Making Physical Etoys work in Sugar would bring a platform for teaching robotics to all Sugar users, letting each kid that owns a XO transform his laptop into a robot. The port is currently half finished, but it lacks some details that need to be taken care about in order to finally publish it.
Technical Details:
All Physical Etoys modules should work well in Linux and specifically in the XO laptop, this can involve porting some libraries and generally dealing with platform-specific issues. Finally, Physical Etoys will have to be wrapped as an Activity bundle for the XO.
Benefits to the Student:
The student will learn about the inside of Physical Etoys and its communication model with the outside world, making it work seamlessly in different platforms.
Benefits to the Community:
The Sugar community would gain a visual programming tool for teaching robotics that is based on a currently popular platform, as it is Etoys.
''Contact'': [[User:Ritafreudenberg]]
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