[Sugar-devel] GSoC 2015 Project

[Tony Anderson]

It seems sad that this effort will be devoted to redoing what is already 
done. There are many
new web activities such as Connect The Dots, Foodchain, Gears, Get 
Things Done, Grid Paint, Last One Loses, Markdown and Tank Operation.
Couldn't at least some of this energy and creativity be devoted to the 
development of new capabilities?

If we are going to emphasize programming in javascript, shouldn't we be 
trying to implement some of the interactive tools available on the 
internet such
as jsfiddle? There are also excellent tutorials for these technologies, 
couldn't we provide some learning materials?

How are these web (not Python) based activities to be delivered to 
deployments without access to the internet. Are we to abandon the
other 60% who do not have access? Perhaps GSOC could deliver a Sugar 
build which works on all XO models and supports the sugar web service.

Tony

On 03/06/2015 09:39 PM, sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org wrote:
> Just a quick explanation of these projects.  They are all based around
> existing activities (apps) available for sugar.  These activities are
> written in python, so can only run in sugar and not on the web.  The tasks
> are all about making a HTML5 version of these activities.