[Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Project: Journal Rethink discussion

[Abhijit Patel]

Hi all,
I will be working on the Journal-Rethink project during GSoC'16. I would
like to discuss with the community regarding the designs and your
expectations from this project.

A brief description of project:

Focus -> enhance Journal such that students could use it as a platform to
do their project-work.

Major features that will be added are:

1. Shared mini-journal:

Present-> Sugar Journal shares only single instance of an activity with a
group of participants.

Idea-> creating one single instance (a mini-journal) which has instances of
all the activities to be shared.

UI -> Journal contains list of projects (mini-­journals) in Projects List
View [1]. Project [2] contains a list of activities that are shared with
the same participants under the same project in the mini ­journal.

Flow chart to explain the feature [3].
[1] Project List View <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Project_Lists.png>
[2] Mini-Journal (project) View
<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Project_View.png>
[3] Flow-Chart <http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Flow_chart_journal.png>

2. File Syncer System for mini-journal:

Use -> sync the files ​when the user does not have the activity running.
Further use to alert the user for the changes that occur in the state of
shared activity by implementing the alert tool.

UI -> A alert tool box with a palette box which could be used as an
indication of new notifications or alerts that will be prompted when the
state of shared activity changes.

Other features are like
 -> Icon View for Journal,
 -> "Add new entry" tool,
 -> Integrating chat activity in mini-journal.

More details about the project are in my proposal [4].
Any suggestions or advice regarding the design or any other aspects of the
project are welcomed :)

[4] Journal-Rethink-Proposal
<https://www.docdroid.net/hbalTLC/1458885012-journal-rethink-proposal.pdf.html>

Best Regards,
Abhijit.
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