[Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity - subject proposal for GSoC

[Sameer Verma]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:29 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lionel,
>
> I think this is definitely a great idea for GSoC.  I like the work you've
> done in this area, but there was a fair amount of discussion on this list
> recently about different ways you could go about making an HTML 5 Activity
> and maybe this task could involve looking at several of these options.
>
> I definitely like the idea of having a sort of Phone Gap for Sugar where you
> could package up HTML 5 as an Activity without writing Python code.
>

Very interesting. I had this very same conversation with Seth
Woodworth in Cambridge a few weeks ago. We also talked about the
possibility of some of the apps from the FirefoxOS world finding their
way into re-wrapped Sugar activities.

I've cc'd Seth on this.

cheers,
Sameer

> James Simmons
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:16 AM, <lionel at olpc-france.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m thinking to do a proposal for GSoC around “Sugar Framework for writing
>> activity in full HTML5/JavaScript”.
>>
>> My idea is to package and enhance the work I’ve done on [1], specifically
>> to fully avoid the need to write any Python code.
>>
>> I’ve got experience of student mentoring but never on GSoC mentoring.
>>
>> Plus I’m not fully aware of Sugar internal and about the capacity to build
>> something like a new sort of activity packaging.
>>
>> So, if you think that it could be a good GSoC subject for Sugar and if
>> someone is okay to co-mentoring with me, I could do a proposal.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tell me.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards from France.
>>
>>
>>
>>                 Lionel.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/_draft/_v/1.0/developing-sugar-activities-using-html5/
>>
>>
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