[Sugar-devel] Introducing myself

[Ricardo Moran]

Hi Gonzalo,

I kinda left the project descriptions a little vague in order to let the
students decide for themselves how they want to develop each project. But
I'll tell you what I think would be needed for each project.

For the Physical Etoys XO bundle we would need:
- Getting familiar with Physical Etoys source code, specially the one that
talks to the underlying OS.
- Check what has been done to support linux, see what works on the XO and
what doesn't.
- Implement whatever it's necessary to make all Physical Etoys modules (or
at least the most important ones) work on the XO.
- Wrap all necessary files and libraries into a Sugar Activity bundle.
- Testing, a lot of testing!

For the Etoys Touch UI:
- Getting familiar with the source code of the Etoys VM and Morphic.
- Check what has been done by Bert Freudenberg in implementing multitouch
for iOS.
- Implement whatever it's necessary to enable multitouch events on Android.
- Extend Morphic's event handling code to trigger multitouch events.
- Implement a default behavior in all morphs that matches what is expected
for eash gesture (scale, rotate, etc.)
- Test and document everything.

In both cases the student would need to be at least familiar with Smalltalk
programming and willing to learn a little about its internals.

Cheers,
Richo


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> Hi Ricardo,
> In order to evaluate these projects, we would need a detailed description
> of what tasks are needed to do.
> Welcome!
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> My name is Ricardo Moran and this year I proposed myself as a GSoC
>> mentor. Although I've already participated in previous years as a GSoC
>> student and mentor for the ESUG organization, this would be my first time
>> for the Sugar Labs community so I guess I should introduce myself.
>> I'm 25 years old and I'm a programmer from Argentina. As probably
>> everybody here I'm very interested in the use of technology for education,
>> in my case I'm specially interested in the use of robotics in education. I
>> work at a research center here in Argentina where we developed Physical
>> Etoys (http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/projects/physical-etoys/), an
>> extension of Etoys that allows kids to program robotic kits such as
>> Arduino, Lego Mindstorms Nxt, DuinoBot (an argentinian version of Arduino),
>> among others. I encourage all of you to try it, it's not perfect but I
>> think it's pretty nice :)
>>
>> So for this GSoC I would like to help as a mentor for the following
>> projects:
>> - Physical Etoys XO bundle: I would really like to have Physical Etoys
>> working on the Sugar platform so I proposed this project in order to
>> finally finish the sugar port, which although it's on its way I haven't
>> been able to finish it yet. I'm sure having another visual programming tool
>> for robotics will be extremely beneficial to Sugar users, specially given
>> the rise in popularity of robotics in education.
>> - Etoys touch UI: For this project we want to redesign the Etoys UI in
>> order to make it usable in a multitouch device. Even though this project is
>> specific to Etoys I think it could be very important to the Sugar community
>> considering the upcoming XO Touch model (and actually the use of tablets in
>> education, which is currently very popular).
>>
>> Anyway, I'm very happy to participate and I hope we get a lot of
>> succesful projects. Nice to meet you all :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Richo
>>
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>
>
> --
> Gonzalo Odiard
>
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