[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] ASLO Suggestion

[David Farning]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> umm... I'm trying to understand how that assists in keeping Activities
> up-to-date... what plays the role of the FF browser, phoning in for
> version availability?

As far as FF goes, the FF updater ping the addons.mozilla.org
periodically with a list of installed addons and version numbers.  AMO
responds with a list of updateable addons.

The sugar updater would need to be extended to handle this additional
level of polling to activities.sugarlabs.org.

david

> thanks
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:04 AM, David Farning<dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yes, that's the procedure when running Sugar and using Browse... which
>>> I wasn't doing. A couple of phrases removing the mystery will help us;
>>> it's a lowering-the-barriers issue... we can't assume everyone will
>>> alertly figure it out.
>>>
>>> After all, common sense tells you that Software Update in the Control
>>> Panel should check for Activity updates, which it sort of does, but
>>> also doesn't. I understand that that infrastructure is on the OLPC
>>> side, but a friendly checkbox for activities.sugarlabs.org (with of
>>> course the server-side magic necessary) would help a lot.
>>
>> Aslo is set up to handle automatic activity updates using the same
>> mechanism firefox uses to check for addon update.
>>
>> david
>>
>>> I have stringent wireless security at home and it's a pain to connect
>>> my XOs wirelessly, so I usually temporarily run a cable to an Ethernet
>>> USB adapter (the green Zoltan thing I got from XOexplosion). But I got
>>> stuck with ASLO by downloading the xo packages on another computer, to
>>> a USB stick; with no idea how to bring them into an XO or a netbook
>>> running SoaS. I only recently figured out how to browse files on a USB
>>> key from within Sugar :-)
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:28 AM, James
>>> Simmons<jim.simmons at walgreens.com> wrote:
>>>> Sean DALY wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> GCompris is fine where it is; it is very well known in Europe and
>>>>> elsewhere and has a five year headstart on us in word-of-mouth and
>>>>> credibility with teachers. Although marketing/branding of GCompris has
>>>>> been minimalist, it has a well-deserved reputation for quality. I'm
>>>>> very excited GCompris is arriving in Sugar and I hope collaboration
>>>>> will work in those Activities too.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK with me.  I hadn't heard of it before OLPC, so I assumed nobody else had
>>>> either.
>>>>>
>>>>> I disagree that common baseline Activities should be absent;
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I never suggested that they be *absent*, just not featured.  I'm thinking
>>>> that a new Sugar user finds his way to ASLO by clicking a link on the Browse
>>>> start page and the featured items ought to be things he doesn't have yet.
>>>>
>>>> I like the term "Featured Activity" better than "We Recommend" too.  "We
>>>> Recommend" implies that the Activity is among the best and most robust we
>>>> have, which limits what you can put in there.  "Featured Activity" implies
>>>> nothing more than "We think this is cool and worth a look."  For instance, I
>>>> would not hesitate to put "Story Builder" or "GCompris 3D Maze" as a
>>>> Featured Activity, but would have a harder time saying I recommend either of
>>>> them.  Plus you could change what is a Featured Item every month or so.
>>>>  That would make this site a bit more interesting to visit, and you wouldn't
>>>> have people wondering why last month we recommended Read Etexts but this
>>>> month we don't.
>>>>>
>>>>> We need a short intro explaining
>>>>> the install procedure (it took me days to figure out how to do it). I
>>>>> had mentioned this a while back but I don't remember if someone
>>>>> besides me had volunteered to look at that
>>>>
>>>> I just hit the Download button from within Browse.  The Activity gets added
>>>> to my Journal and is ready for use.  I know there are other ways to install
>>>> something, but downloading to the Journal works just fine for me.
>>>>
>>>> James Simmons
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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