[Sugar-devel] Friends view UI affordances?

[Gary C Martin]

On 4 Sep 2009, at 06:59, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Eben Eliason <eben at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Caroline Meeks<solutiongrove at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> > My vision is that we would create Moodle Classes for all the various
> > groupings that students have throughout the day.
> > Then maybe the Neighborhood view shows only people who share a  
> group with
> > you, or maybe those people get preference if the Neighborhood gets  
> too
> > crowded.
>
> I think giving preference to people one knows/interacts with is a
> logical approach.
>
> > On the Friends view it might be useful to pick just one of these  
> groups. So
> > if I'm in Reading Group A right now I could choose Reading Group A  
> in a drop
> > down in the friends view and it would show only people in my  
> reading group.
> >  Later I am in Mr. J's Afterschool club and I pick that so I can  
> work with
> > them.  After that I'm in homework time and I want to work on my  
> Reading
> > Group, I can use this to easily see if anyone else from my Reading  
> Group is
> > around to work on the homework assignment with.
>
> +1. This has been our intent for the groups view all along, and the
> lack of groups (naturally) has left it mostly useless. I think we
> should retain the ability to make friends, who should also appear in
> the view (and give it some utility until the rest is built), but the
> ability to filter the view to see and interact with specific groups of
> individuals is key to the collaborative experience.
>
> We had an ambitious view of what groups should be in the absence of a
> server, before Moodle was investigated. Perhaps we can start with a
> moodle approach and merge/sync that with a server-less approach later.
> Or perhaps the server-less "ideal" isn't actually needed, and Moodle
> is the appropriate means of introducing this much desired feature.
>
> Mmm, seeing that many deployment schools (a) don't seem to have a  
> school server or (b) might have a school server but one that's not  
> in use (due to config issues, power supply issues, etc.) I'm not  
> convinced that making Moodle a hard requirement for that kind of  
> functionality is a good idea. If there's a school server / Moodle  
> installation then let's use it by all means but I do believe that we  
> must try to offer a reasonable solution to places without that kind  
> of infrastructure.

+1

Regards,
--Gary