[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs

Bryan Berry bryan at olenepal.org
Wed Mar 18 22:49:43 EDT 2009


I have spent time playing w/ opencroquet but not seaside. They are both
great projects but are very academically focused (sorry bertf!) and have
tiny communities.

I think a GSoC project focusing on creating an AJAX sugar app is a great
way to go forward. Getting it to work w/ a popular IDE is a separate and
less important probelm.

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 17:14 +0000, Frederick Grose wrote:
> How about something in Croquet,
> http://www.opencroquet.org/index.php/Main_Page, or  Seaside,
> http://www.seaside.st/, that would create a Sugar environment for the
> web, say Honeycomb?
> 
> I, too, need to spend more time under those hoods or in those hoods.
> --Fred
> 
> 
> 2009/3/18 Jameson Quinn <jameson.quinn at gmail.com>
>         I think that for a GSoC project, we care less about
>         development kits/IDEs like aptana, than about
>         desktop-apps-with-AJAX solutions like Appcelerator Titanium,
>         Mozilla Prism (and in closed-source world, Adobe AIR and
>         Curl). I think it would be a great project to take Titanium or
>         Prism and make a generic sugar-like hello-world which used
>         Javascript to save to the journal, set some tags, open a file,
>         coexist with Rainbow, and have a sugary toolbar. Whether you
>         worked on that activity with Aptana or whatever is a separate
>         issue.
>         
>         Disclaimer: I know nothing under the hood about any of the
>         products mentioned here, so I could be totally wrong.
>         
>         Jameson
>         
>         On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Bryan Berry
>         <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
>                 They don't compare currently but they are developing
>                 rapidly,
>                 particularly aptana http://www.aptana.com. The great
>                 thing about aptana
>                 is that there is for-profit company behind it that
>                 seems to do a good
>                 job of sponsoring open-source development.
>                 
>                 Also, Apple, Palm, and maybe Android are pushing for
>                 js+html5 for all
>                 apps place of flash.
>                 
>                 
>                 On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 10:47 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>                 > 2009/3/18 Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com>:
>                 > > Felipe,
>                 > >
>                 > > "never bet against the browser" is absolutely true
>                 > >
>                 > > However, gnash is roughly 2-3 developer years
>                 behind macromedia flash.
>                 > > the big hurdle is adding support for ActionScript3
>                 to Gnash.
>                 > >
>                 > > I don't think that better integrating Gnash into
>                 Sugar would be the best
>                 > > use of your time. The better bet is to integrate
>                 activities created with
>                 > > javascript + html5 into Sugar.
>                 > >
>                 > > I earlier advocated a framework called "Karma" for
>                 integrating flash
>                 > > swfs into Sugar. I now believe that javascript +
>                 html5 is a much better
>                 > > bet because it better adheres to our common belief
>                 in open-source and
>                 > > allows "View Source." Also, there are far more
>                 javascript developers out
>                 > > there than flash developers. This new rework of
>                 Karma could take
>                 > > advantage of projects like jquery-UI and new
>                 javascript animation
>                 > > libraries like processing.js and GX.
>                 >
>                 > That looks very interesting, but what about
>                 authoring tools for
>                 > javascript+html5? Are any that compare to the flash
>                 authoring tools?
>                 >
>                 > Regards,
>                 >
>                 > Tomeu
>                 >
>                 > > You could start out by trying to recreate some of
>                 OLE Nepal's existing
>                 > > flash activities as javascript + html5. You can
>                 find some here:
>                 > >
>                 http://www.pustakalaya.org/external-content/static/epaath/E-Paath-2.activity/activity/Activity/MenuStage.html
>                 > >
>                 > > If you are interested in such a project, I am
>                 definitely be interested
>                 > > in mentoring you. I have to warn you though that I
>                 am professionally a
>                 > > project manager and not a software engineer. In
>                 fact my software
>                 > > development skills are extremely limited beyond
>                 writing broken python
>                 > > scripts.
>                 > >
>                 > >
>                 > > --
>                 > > Bryan W. Berry
>                 > > Technology Director
>                 > > OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
>                 > >
>                 > >
>                 > > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 15:37 -0600, Jameson Quinn
>                 wrote:
>                 > >> Flash is still not open source, and that creates
>                 issues when
>                 > >> distributing it (Adobe does not let you include
>                 it pre-installed in
>                 > >> images for download).
>                 > >>
>                 > >> Bryan Berry from OLE Nepal (cc:ed on this mail)
>                 has some good ideas
>                 > >> about how that idea should work, though he's not
>                 signed up as a
>                 > >> mentor. You should think about your design, and
>                 then discuss it with
>                 > >> him AND on the sugar-devel mailing list.
>                 > >>
>                 > >> Jameson
>                 > >>
>                 > >> 2009/3/17 Felipe López Toledo
>                 <zer.subzero at gmail.com>
>                 > >>         Thanks.
>                 > >>
>                 > >>         I'm interested:
>                 > >>                         SWF Sugar
>                 > >>                               * Integrate SWF
>                 (Flash/Gnash)
>                 > >>                                 applications into
>                 Sugar.
>                 > >>                               * Ideally, develop
>                 a demo activity which
>                 > >>                                 could be used as
>                 a template for
>                 > >>                                 sugarizing
>                 Flash/Gnash activities.
>                 > >>                               * Priority for
>                 Sugar: Very High ("never
>                 > >>                                 bet against the
>                 browser")
>                 > >>                               * Difficulty (as a
>                 GSoC project): hard
>                 > >>                               * Skills needed:
>                 SWF/Python integration
>                 > >>
>                 > >>         why Gnash?, there is already a stable
>                 version of adobe player
>                 > >>         for linux.
>                 > >>
>                 > >>         really have very good ideas. Interesting!
>                 > >>
>                 > >>         Greetings.
>                 > >>
>                 > >>
>                 > >>         On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Jameson
>                 Quinn
>                 > >>         <jameson.quinn at gmail.com> wrote:
>                 > >>
>                 http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/ProjectIdeas
>                 > >>
>                 > >>                 Good hunting :)
>                 > >>
>                 > >>                 Jameson
>                 > >>
>                 > >>
>                 > >>                 On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:18 PM,
>                 Felipe López Toledo
>                 > >>                 <zer.subzero at gmail.com> wrote:
>                 > >>                         Hi.
>                 > >>
>                 > >>                         I'm Felipe López Toledo,
>                 a university student
>                 > >>                         I read your message
>                 > >>
>                 (http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_thread/thread/0cf911eb31087cd7?hl=en)
>                 > >>                         I visited
>                 > >>
>                 http://sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=learners
>                 > >>
>                 > >>                         relly good work!.
>                 > >>
>                 > >>                         it would be nice to see
>                 you in the GSoC 2009.
>                 > >>                         by the way, do you have a
>                 project list?
>                 > >>
>                 > >>                         thanks.
>                 > >>
>                 > >>                         Felipe
>                 > >>
>                 > >>
>                 > >>
>                 > >>
>                 > >>
>                 > >>
>                 > > --
>                 > > Bryan W. Berry
>                 > > Technology Director
>                 > > OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
>                 > >
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>                 
>                 --
>                 
>                 Bryan W. Berry
>                 Technology Director
>                 OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
>                 
>                 
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