[Sugar-devel] GSOC 2016 query regarding project : Redesign and recreate Sugar Labs webappearance

[James Cameron]

I agree with Sam; being able to try it out, and engaging new people,
are the critical goals.

The web site is http://sugarlabs.org/

The content should guide and inform people who have never heard of
Sugar or activities.

Other web sites have used HTML5 features and style sheets to make them
accessible on desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone browsers.  Good idea,
but not if it makes the site less accessible to environments where
Sugar is used; environments with low bandwidth internet.

Sugarizer might be used for try it out.  A prepared virtual machine
would be useful.  But without easy tools for preparing bootable
drives, trying it out on a computer is difficult.

The site has links to activities-2.sugarlabs.org, which currently
return 502 Bad Gateway from nginx.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 07:24:58AM +1100, Sam Parkinson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I didn't write the project idea, but I did argue with lots with people about
> the website before.
> 
> Really I think that it is not about how the website looks, it is about how the
> users experience the website.  So right now, we have a website with pictures
> right.  But we don't have easy tools to create sugar-on-a-stick liveusbs.  We
> don't have any evil email stealing things [1] that let's us put people through
> email series so that they become engaged with Sugar a convert from a random
> teacher/student using it to somebody involved in the community.  Maybe making a
> better native app to do the sugar-on-a-stick creation, and creating an email
> mini-course that we introduce people to sugar with could be a great project?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sam
> 
> [1]  [1]https://www.mautic.org/
> 
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 1:20 AM, Neelansh garg <neelansh5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     hi, 
>     i went through the Sugar labs Gsoc 2016 ideas page and want to contribute
>     to the project "Redesign and recreate Sugar Labs webappearance ".
>    
>     if somebody can tell me more about the project and sites that will be
>     redesigned it would be really helpful
> 
>     Thanks 
>     neelansh
> 
>     On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Neelansh garg <[2]neelansh5 at gmail.com>
>     wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>         I’m Neelansh Garg. I am studying B.Tech computer science(2^nd year) at
>         USIT (IP university ,Delhi). I have gone through the Sugar labs Gsoc
>         2016 ideas page and want to contribute to the project "Redesign and
>         recreate Sugar Labs webappearance ".
> 
>         I have a good knowledge of javascript, HTML, CSS, bootstrap and
>         material design. I have completed web development course including
>         javascript, html, css, Django, python.
> 
>         currently implementing a smaller version of quora in django
> 
>         I also did some other projects:
> 
>          1. 2048 game clone: [3]https://github.com/neelansh/2048
> 
>          2. Web crawler to download all the images form html and css of a
>             webpage : [4]https://github.com/neelansh/
>             CrawlerToGetImagesFromWebpages
> 
>          3. Gradebook.com : a site to show gradebook of university students
>             using php and bootstrap : [5]https://github.com/neelansh/Gradebook/
> 
>         I would like to contribute to redisining and recreating sugar labs web
>         appearence. Please tell me where should i get started
> 
>         Please recommend things I should include in my GSOC 2016 proposal ?
> 
>         and should i send a draft copy of proposal to you for review?
> 
>         Thanks
> 
>         Neelansh (ircname = neelansh)
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] https://www.mautic.org/
> [2] mailto:neelansh5 at gmail.com
> [3] https://github.com/neelansh/2048
> [4] https://github.com/neelansh/CrawlerToGetImagesFromWebpages
> [5] https://github.com/neelansh/Gradebook/

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