Sounds great! Do you have an expected timeline? <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Aleksey Lim <<a href="mailto:alsroot@member.fsf.org">alsroot@member.fsf.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">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? </div>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 <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">activities.sugarlabs.org</a> 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 </blockquote></div> -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove Caroline@SolutionGrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax