[IAEP] Books Books Books

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 15:51, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:39:52PM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>> Yes!  In theory there are thousands of free books.  We need people to be
>> able to experience that there are books available for Sugar when they try
>> Sugar.
>>
>> I like the idea of hooking the readers to a library. I don't know how much
>> work that is or who is available to do it now.
>>
>> Does anyone know where we are in terms of books on the activities portal?
>
> I've just initiated Library activity. The major ideas were:

Seems like this activity has a lot of functionality. Do you have
already a mockup of how the UI would look like? Something as basic as
this would be enough:

http://expressionflow.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/paper-mock-up.png

Thanks,

Tomeu


>  * to have central mechanism to access to shared(by other users or
>    activities portal) objects(not only activities)
>    "shared" means not shared in running activities but in terms of
>    "sharing books from your bookshelf"
>
>  * fix LTPS issue - then we need all activities that should be
>    preinstalled on client machines packaged into rpm/deb/etc.
>    with new mechanism we could preinstall/upgrade bunch of
>    activities(Journal Objects) w/o need of packaging them
>
>  * implementation in activity(not in Shell/Journal) because we already have
>    0.82 and 0.84 platforms w/o this feature, new mechanism intended to support
>    all platforms beginning from 0.82
>
>  * support "offline" mode when user who has internet connection could
>    download all objects from Activities Portal and share them for
>    others users
>
>  * objectless sharing when only metadata will be shared
>
>  * patch activities.sugarlabs.org to support this mechanism
>    Activities Portal will be just another sugar user with Library activity
>
> So, with new mechanism implemented you could put your book to Journal,
> register(or so) it in Library activity and share it for other users
> (including Activities Portal)
>
> --
> Aleksey
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