[Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for Android-GSOC Proposal?

[Daniel Narvaez]

Hi John,

honestly my feeling is that we would need to do quite a bit of
research work before being able to write up a project that would make
sense for GSOC. There are several possible approaches and, as far as I
know, they have not been investigated much yet.

On 27 March 2013 00:41, John Tierney <jtis4stx at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Building off your and Lionel's conversation on HTML5
> and Sugar to Android conversation and the comments on
> them being somewhat interconnected. Would it be possible
> for you to write up a project for GSOC coming from the
> Sugar to Android perspective?
>
> In our Sugar Marketing meeting in February-Sugar on Android
> was a goal we chose to shoot for this year.
> http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2013-02-13T16:04:45
>
> If you think there is a possibility to push this forward through
> a GSOC project that would seem very beneficial and might help our
> chances of being chosen. Please let us know your thoughts and its
> understandable if you don't think its possible at this point.
>
> Thanks!
> John Tierney
>
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:40:38 +0100
> From: Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
> To: "lionel at olpc-france.org" <lionel at olpc-france.org>
> Cc: Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>,
> 	"sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org" <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Framework for full HTML5 activity -
> 	subject proposal for GSoC
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> On Friday, 22 March 2013, wrote:
>>
>> HTML activities on Sugar could be a first step to Android porting but IMO,
>> the two projects are not necessarily interconnected.****
>>
>> I do like the James idea of a ?PhoneGap? framework for Sugar. This is the
>> way I think this GSoC proposal.****
>>
>> At the end of the GSoC we can hope to have a binding of the framework for
>> Sugar on Fedora, then in few months a binding of the framework for Sugar
>> on
>> Android. So, the framework will be a way to ensure a portability between
>> Sugar/Fedora and Sugar/Android.
>>
>>
> I think we basically agree here. I see them interconnected in the sense
> that the framework is designed to allow bindings on multiple platforms. But
> of
> course the GSoC project should focus on only one of them.
>
>
>> I?m going to write a first draft of the proposal. We could update it
>> collectively.
>>
>>
> Cool. I will read it and comment.
>
>
> --
> Daniel Narvaez



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Daniel Narvaez