[Sugar-devel] New genealogic activity for Sugar

[James Simmons]

Lionel,

I'm involved in transcribing a book for Project Gutenberg that has family
trees going back millions of years:

http://www.archive.org/stream/studyofbhagavata00benaiala#page/48/mode/2up

I'm doing them entirely using ASCII-art, supplemented with page images.

Some of these charts would stress test your Activity.  You have gods with
many wives, brothers marrying sisters, and other strange possibilities.

James Simmons


2011/12/29 Lionel Laské <lionel at olpc-france.org>

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> @Walter and @Gonzalo, thank for your encouragement !****
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> > Family tree construction is a fairly common project in some school
> settings (along with other family history projects, e.g. interview your
> grandparents ****
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> >about what life was like when they were your age, etc.) so I think that
> this is a wonderful idea for a Sugar Activity.****
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> @Chris, you’re right. Indeed, the idea of this activity come from Bastien
> Guerry when it worked with teachers to prepare the first Haïti deployment.
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> > I may take a shot at entering my own family geneology (which has been
> traced back to the mid-1600's on my mother's side.) as a test case :-)****
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> Can’t wait to see that :-)  In my initial brainstorm I thought to support
> the “standard” GEDCOM format. However, I want to keep the activity very
> simple, not to compete with existing genealogic software. ****
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> > One small note about the upload to ASLO, I think something was not
> configured correctly.****
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> You’re right, I miss something. Thanks @Gonzalo to fix it.****
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> > As you seek to refine Roots in later versions, I would very much
> appreciate it if you would consider working on internationalization****
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> It’s already the case. The activity is wrote in English but have already a
> localization file in French. So, there is a POT file and a first fr.po file
> here: http://git.sugarlabs.org/roots/master/trees/master/po ****
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> One more thing: it’s the first activity I develop with Python/PyGTK and I
> must say that it’s really a pleasure to do it. It’s great to see how most
> things are easy to do in Sugar and how we could benefit from the work done
> on existing activity (Labyrinth, A toi de jouer, Paint, Memory for me - to
> name a few).****
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> Note also than I’m a Windows developer. So I wrote a “Sugar dummy library”
> to allow developing/debugging the activity on PyGTK Windows (without
> Sugar…). It’s a very partial work but It could interest some other Windows
> developers (
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/roots/master/blobs/master/sugardummy.py).****
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>                 Lionel.****
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