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[Tomeu Vizoso]

2009/3/18 Bryan Berry <bryan.berry at gmail.com>:
> Felipe,
>
> "never bet against the browser" is absolutely true
>
> However, gnash is roughly 2-3 developer years behind macromedia flash.
> the big hurdle is adding support for ActionScript3 to Gnash.
>
> I don't think that better integrating Gnash into Sugar would be the best
> use of your time. The better bet is to integrate activities created with
> javascript + html5 into Sugar.
>
> I earlier advocated a framework called "Karma" for integrating flash
> swfs into Sugar. I now believe that javascript + html5 is a much better
> bet because it better adheres to our common belief in open-source and
> allows "View Source." Also, there are far more javascript developers out
> there than flash developers. This new rework of Karma could take
> advantage of projects like jquery-UI and new javascript animation
> libraries like processing.js and GX.

That looks very interesting, but what about authoring tools for
javascript+html5? Are any that compare to the flash authoring tools?

Regards,

Tomeu

> You could start out by trying to recreate some of OLE Nepal's existing
> flash activities as javascript + html5. You can find some here:
> http://www.pustakalaya.org/external-content/static/epaath/E-Paath-2.activity/activity/Activity/MenuStage.html
>
> If you are interested in such a project, I am definitely be interested
> in mentoring you. I have to warn you though that I am professionally a
> project manager and not a software engineer. In fact my software
> development skills are extremely limited beyond writing broken python
> scripts.
>
>
> --
> Bryan W. Berry
> Technology Director
> OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
>
>
> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 15:37 -0600, Jameson Quinn wrote:
>> Flash is still not open source, and that creates issues when
>> distributing it (Adobe does not let you include it pre-installed in
>> images for download).
>>
>> Bryan Berry from OLE Nepal (cc:ed on this mail) has some good ideas
>> about how that idea should work, though he's not signed up as a
>> mentor. You should think about your design, and then discuss it with
>> him AND on the sugar-devel mailing list.
>>
>> Jameson
>>
>> 2009/3/17 Felipe López Toledo <zer.subzero at gmail.com>
>>         Thanks.
>>
>>         I'm interested:
>>                         SWF Sugar
>>                               * Integrate SWF (Flash/Gnash)
>>                                 applications into Sugar.
>>                               * Ideally, develop a demo activity which
>>                                 could be used as a template for
>>                                 sugarizing Flash/Gnash activities.
>>                               * Priority for Sugar: Very High ("never
>>                                 bet against the browser")
>>                               * Difficulty (as a GSoC project): hard
>>                               * Skills needed: SWF/Python integration
>>
>>         why Gnash?, there is already a stable version of adobe player
>>         for linux.
>>
>>         really have very good ideas. Interesting!
>>
>>         Greetings.
>>
>>
>>         On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Jameson Quinn
>>         <jameson.quinn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>                 http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/ProjectIdeas
>>
>>                 Good hunting :)
>>
>>                 Jameson
>>
>>
>>                 On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Felipe López Toledo
>>                 <zer.subzero at gmail.com> wrote:
>>                         Hi.
>>
>>                         I'm Felipe López Toledo, a university student
>>                         I read your message
>>                         (http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_thread/thread/0cf911eb31087cd7?hl=en)
>>                         I visited
>>                         http://sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=learners
>>
>>                         relly good work!.
>>
>>                         it would be nice to see you in the GSoC 2009.
>>                         by the way, do you have a project list?
>>
>>                         thanks.
>>
>>                         Felipe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> --
> Bryan W. Berry
> Technology Director
> OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
>
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