[Sugar-devel] JournalShare status

[Simon Schampijer]

On 03/27/2013 10:57 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> I have created a page in the wiki to describe the status of JournalShare
> activity.
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/JournalShare
>
> Enjoy Easter
>
> Gonzalo
>

Thanks Gonzalo for the write-up!

The first thing that caught my eye was the way to define which items 
should be shared. I wouldn't use the favorite metaphor for that. That 
works for the Portfolio activity well, but here it is the wrong one, imho.

It should be explicit which items I want to share, using the 
Objectchooser looks like the right approach. You might actually as well 
to share an object from a usb key or an external sd-card, here the 
metaphor of a favorite item works even less.

Another thing that is important is the notion of other members of the 
session. I presume the communication should happen in all directions 
(e.g. a teacher and five students each member of the session can share 
items with the other one), therefore it is important to know who is in 
the session and who has offered what.

Actually, we should think as well whether it should be a push or a pull 
model. The current file transfers (with friended buddies) are a push 
model where the receiver can accept or decline. I think here it is more 
of a bulletin board (some ideas for wording and similar you might find 
here [1]) where people post items they want to be shared with the group, 
so a pull model makes sense here, imho.

Regards,
    Simon

[1] 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Bulletin_Boards