[Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Proposals for Create new set of activities

[Vaibhav Aren]

You are right Ibiam, We should have stressed on the idea of giving
priorities to the activity projects though not giving the same we have
invited applicants to be as innovative as they can be with new ideas. I
guess we can still make amends?


On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 4:54 PM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <
ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm happy to see the students bring in their own ideas too, I'm saying
> these activity ideas are being neglected,
> as all proposals suggested so far have been pointing towards creating
> something new, while that's great we also
> need to improve on what already exists.
> Although there wasn't a specified number of activities to be created but I
> don't think creating just one activity would be
> great as proposals so far are only referring to creating just one new
> activity, while the idea says a "new set of activities".
> For Scratch, there's also a mention in the "Port sugarizer activities to
> Sugar" idea but so far I've not seen a proposal for that.
>
> --
>
> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
> ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 9:18 AM Rahul Bothra <rrbothra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the suggestion.
>>
>> I disagree. I am happy to see the students bringing in their own ideas
>> for activities.
>> FWIW, we have already mentioned the suggested ideas, as well as the
>> resources to understand user experience. I would like to give students the
>> freedom to decide what they want to work on
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 5:55 AM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <
>> ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> I've looked at the proposals for create a new set of activities
>>> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2019.md#create-a-new-set-of-activities>
>>> and none has addressed any of the activities proposed in the idea, although
>>> the project idea encourages new ideas but I think that we should clearly
>>> state the importance of the ones suggested as they're very important.
>>> Scratch for one is very important as it's currently widely used and
>>> having it in sugar would mean more users.
>>>
>>> I think that the importance of these ideas should be stated and they
>>> shouldn't be neglected as they have.
>>>
>>> Issue #63 <https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/issues/63>.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
>>> ibiamchihurumnaya at gmail.com
>>>
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