[Sugar-devel] Email client

[Shikhar]

On 01/30/2009 09:53 AM, Grant Bowman wrote:
> Thank you Caryl and Caroline for forwarding this (originally) from
> olpc-sur (south) mail list.  As the Spanish description of the
> original email mentions, developers don't always know how they are
> used in the classrooms.  I'm curious from a Sugar development
> perspective exactly how they are working with email in their class.
> As the teacher says in the video, email is "fundamental."
>
> Are they using a web based email client or something running locally?
> The first girl who spoke said it's asynchronous and you don't have to
> be connected.  She may be talking about downloading from email,
> working locally and then copying and pasting finished work to a
> web-based email client but it doesn't sound like it to me.
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/xomail is the best summary of email
> client writing to date but the code for sweetmail has little
> documentation so far and few commits.  I hope Shikhar can speak a bit
> more about it's status.

It's status is basically that it needs a few weeks of full time work on 
it (at least for me..) before it can really work as an email activity. I 
intended to do that this January but paid work came along. I still want 
to make it happen though, but it'll happen alongside school now, which 
is whenever I get time from my thesis :-)

The wiki page talks of using Tinymail; that did not work out however 
because the Python bindings for Tinymail were incomplete. Right now it's 
using very rudimentary code relying on poplib and smtplib and I would 
like to use twisted instead.

Last screenshot there is -- from last summer -- 
http://wiki.laptop.org/images/0/0e/Xomail_msglist.png

Since there is a lot of interest I welcome anyone else to pickup where I 
left. From the git.sl.o sweetmail repo, I would say only the code in 
model/ is worth keeping, the rest is mainly me getting my toes wet in PyGTK

Shikhar

>
> -- Grant Bowman<grantbow at gmail.com>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Caroline Meeks<solutiongrove at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How is "Forms" discussed at the end of the second video implemented? Is that
>> a Sugar activity or is it using Moodle?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Caroline
>>
>>
>> PS Awesome videos!
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Caryl Bigenho<cbigenho at hotmail.com>
>> Date: 2009/1/29
>> Subject: FW: [Sur] videos de Rivera, Uruguay (Excellent!)
>> To: OLPC Support Gang<support-gang-bounces at lists.laptop.org>, Developers
>> List<devel at lists.laptop.org>
>>
>>
>> Hi...
>>
>> Someone in Uruguay has posted two videos showing how they are using the XOs
>> in the classrooms.  It is difficult to understand the children at times, but
>> someone has put in sub-titles in English. So, for us, that is ok (some of
>> the Spanish speakers are having trouble with it though).
>>
>> There are amazing things in here...how the students and teacher keep in
>> constant communication, how the teacher keeps track of what the students are
>> doing, how and what they are learning from TurtleArt, how they use email,
>> how they figured out how to convert and play YouTube videos, and how the
>> teacher uses them as part of the curriculum.
>>
>> The tool they used for the subtitles, Overstream, seems pretty fantastic
>> too.  The possibilities of using it for other things seem endless.
>>
>> This is really good stuff.  Take the time to check it out!
>>
>> http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2ueryser0rz
>>
>> http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i4m7lvmniztl
>>
>>
>> Caryl
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:03:01 -0200
>>> From: geirea at gmail.com
>>> To: olpc-sur at lists.laptop.org
>>> Subject: [Sur] videos de Rivera, Uruguay
>>>
>>> Estimados:
>>>
>>> En el edublog un maestro de Rivera (Jorge Cancela creo que es su
>>> nombre, su alias es JUCL) publicó dos videos con una presentación del
>>> uso de la XO en clase, hecha en conjunto con algunos alumnos. Me
>>> pareció muy bueno y me pareció que debía ser conocido por mucha gente.
>>> Sobre todo pienso en quienes trabajan en forma voluntaria para hacer
>>> el proyecto una realidad y muchas veces no saben qué es lo que pasa en
>>> los lugares donde se realiza el proyecto.
>>>
>>> Entonces le puse subtítulos en inglés y los publiqué aquí:
>>>
>>> http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2ueryser0rz
>>>
>>> http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i4m7lvmniztl
>>>
>>> ¿Qué les parece? Algunos tramos no entendía bien lo que decían y quedó
>>> como puntos suspensivos, cualquier sugerencia para rellenarlos será
>>> bienvenida.
>>>
>>> Saludos,
>>>
>>> Gabriel
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