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