[IAEP] Books Books Books

[Aleksey Lim]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:35:01AM -0400, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> Sounds great! Do you have an expected timeline?

so, at the end
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Library#Roadmap

> 
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:51 AM, 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:
> >
> >  * 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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Aleksey