<div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Message: 4 Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 23:03:11 -0500 From: Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugar Online (was Re: <a href="http://www-testing.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://www-testing.sugarlabs.org/</a>) To: Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> Cc: IAEP SugarLabs <<a href="mailto:iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:fd535e260903012003t1ace6480ne51ecc3c3daa4c61@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">fd535e260903012003t1ace6480ne51ecc3c3daa4c61@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:12, Sean DALY <<a href="http://sdaly.be" target="_blank">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> Building a website for kids seems like a great idea to me. An online >> extension of the Sugar interface could foster interaction between >> Sugarized schools in a country and even beyond borders. The commitment >> of choosing a username is not major for an existing Sugar user. And, >> it could provide curious grownups with a (partial) idea of the Sugar >> experience. > > This remembers me something that has been in the back of my mind since > FOSDEM, when Patrick Sinz showed me the custom UI that they have > designed for the Gdium. > > They use gdesklets to display some widgets in the screen that relate > to some online activity of the user. Those desklets can display info > from facebook, gmail, rss feeds of all kinds, etc. The idea being (as > I understood it) that the gdium is not only the physical device on the > hands of the user, but also a medium through which sync a global, > virtual identity with the local, real identity of the user. Of course > this assumes an internet connection of some reliability. > > This may be related to a global "bulletin board", concept so often > discussed but still so far from being implemented: > > <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Bulletin_Boards" target="_blank">http://sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Bulletin_Boards</a> > > What do people think? Accessing, caching and displaying some online > content inside the Sugar shell instead of only inside Browse seem like > an idea worth discussing? Seems like a good idea. Perhaps we should start a separate thread for this discussion: building a kids website and/or making Sugar shell more web-friendly are very different problems from the problem of reaching out to parents and teachers. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> ------------------------------ </blockquote><div> Great idea. Manu </div></div>