[Sugar-devel] Turtle Art on Activities.sugarlabs.org

[David Farning]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:08:41PM -0600, David Farning wrote:
> > The other day during an infrastructure meeting, Walter brought up some
> > thought on how to enable kids to exchange Turtle Art projects....
> >
> > Alsroot has been thinking about how to do this through a.sl.o since he
> > became the activities.sugarlabs.org code maintainer.
> >
> > The high level view is that someone can easily upload Turtle Art
> creations
> > to somewhere and then they, or others, can go to a portal to download
> other
> > Turtle Art creations.
> >
> > Client side, this would require:
> > 1. Adding a widget to either the journal or the TA activity to upload the
> TA
> > Bundle.
> > 2. Adding a TA bundle installer to handler TA Bundle downloads.
> >
> > Server side, this would require:
> > 1. A place to accept TA bundle uploads.
> > 2. A search-able place from which to download TA bundles
> >
> > We have some similar systems we can look to as examples.
> > 1. Scratch -- Scratch has an upload button and users can download scratch
> > projects from --  http://scratch.mit.edu/galleries/browse/newest
> > 2. ASLO --  Users upload XO bundles via a web interface and download via
> a
> > web interface.
> >
> > My initial instinct is to see if ASLO can be adopted to fit this need.
> > Primarily because we have it, it works, and it is scalable.  On the other
> > hand, if the only tool in one's toolbox is a hammer, everything looks
> like a
> > nail. (How is that for over using clichés and buzzword?)
> >
> > Considerations:
> > ASLO rocks:)
> > ASLO can be adapted to handle various file types.  For example:
> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3
> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:2
> >
> > Each file type can have a separate look and feel.
> >
> > Is the activity creation and upload process too complicated for young
> users?
> >
> > Moving forward:
> > Would it be possible to journal or TA widget which:
> > 1.  Walks the student though a upload wizard.
> > 2.  Combines the TA project into a into a bundle with the metadata
> generated
> > in the wizard.
> > 3.  Sends the bundle to activites.sl.o/uploads
> >
> > Would it be possible to setup/adapt ASLO to:
> > 1. Handle TA files types.
> > 2. Accepts TA bundles+metadata uploads and inserts them into the review
> > queue.
>
> At the end there could problem, current AMO workflow stuck to web uploading
> UI
> only, so we'll have to get rid of uploaders UI and use only browsing part
> (thus will have to not trivial patching AMO).
>
> >
> > david
>
> there is also another way, implement it only in special activity
> http://idea.olpcorps.net/drupal5/ideatorrent/idea/19
>
> --
> Aleksey
>

I think we are talking about the same thing.  I don't know understand the
journal well enough to understand if it should be a separate activity,
widget in TA, or Widget in the Journal.  But a good starting point might be
a client side library (ALSO) activity which can push a bundle+meta data.  It
will be an easier task creating a separate activity and proving it works
rather than going straight to a journal feature.