[Sugar-devel] Network version of Abecedarium: why and how

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Hi Lionel,
Almost 65 MB are in the html/images/database directory, I think you can
reduce the size of these images to 1/4 of the actual size, just saving as
gif or jpg and playing a little with the properties, without loosing too
much quality.
I tried with one on gimp, but you can use imagemagick or similar to
reprocess all the directory
Look:
[gonzalo at localhost abc]$ ls -l
total 152
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gonzalo gonzalo 19228 abr 24 17:59 accountant2.jpg
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gonzalo gonzalo 16029 abr 24 17:59 accountant3.jpg
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gonzalo gonzalo 21789 abr 24 17:56 accountant.gif
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gonzalo gonzalo 28391 abr 24 17:57 accountant.jpg
-rw-r--r--. 1 gonzalo gonzalo 62549 dic  9 22:57 accountant.png

(accountant2.jpg is with quality 70% and accountant3.jpg with 50%)
I don't know about the audio, but maybe is possible improve there too.

I would like have the list of words represented on these images on pootle.
I imagine many activities
can use this if is a shared resource.



On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:38 PM, <lionel at olpc-france.org> wrote:

> Hi all,****
>
> ** **
>
> I’ve released last week my Abecedarium activity for Sugar 0.96+. One issue
> with this activity is that, due to number of contents (1500 images and
> sounds), its size is about 100Mo.****
>
> ** **
>
> We want to deploy the activity on our Nosy Komba deployment this year: 150
> XO-1 and 50 XO-1.5.****
>
> Because we’ve got other activities to deploy, we compute:****
>
> **-          **The free space on a XO-1 and XO-1.5 with Sugar 0.96
> without any activity: 550 Mo for XO-1, 2645Mo for XO-1.5.****
>
> **-          **The size of all activities that we planned to install, see
> the spreadsheet [1].****
>
> Unfortunately 100 Mo is too big for the XO-1 with some other big
> activities (GCompris, Tuxmath, TurtleArt, Speak, …).****
>
> ** **
>
> So I choose to develop a new version named “Abecedarium Net” [2] without
> any content included, so with a size of only 6Mo.****
>
> The idea is to deploy all contents on a school/web server instead of into
> the activity. A config file in the activity has to be set with the URL of
> the content, or it could be set from a dialog popup. The activity test the
> network regularly and display the status.****
>
> Because Abecedarium is wrote in HTML5, deploying the web server just mean
> to copy the content of the full activity on the server.****
>
> I’ve explained the full process in the activity description.****
>
> I will test it myself on our School Server at Madagascar but do not
> hesitate in the meantime to test it and give me feedback.****
>
> ** **
>
> Best regards from France.****
>
> ** **
>
>                 Lionel.****
>
> ** **
>
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApkC1NVMZoZodDg5em1vaS04VC1vSDdoZ1Z5SHNJUXc#gid=0
> ****
>
> [2] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en/sugar/addon/4661 ****
>
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