<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> As discussed before, <a href="http://tutorius.org/">Tutorius</a> is a project done by 9 students from Université de Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada) aiming to integrate interactive tutorials inside Sugar to guide Sugar users in learning the platform and its activities.  Our goal for december is to be able to cover most of the content of the <a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/sugar">Floss manual</a>. We are doing this along 3 axis: <ol> <li>Execution: Add the mecanisms needed to Sugar to support execution of tutorials</li> <li>Creation: Provide tools to create tutorials from within Sugar in a GUI environment</li> <li>Sharing: Provide a platform to share tutorials on the web</li> </ol> We have shown demos in the past of basic capabilities (in chronological order), <a href="http://tutorius.org/blog/the-first-iteration/">here</a>, <a href="http://tutorius.org/blog/more-progress-with-a-second-iteration/">here</a> and at a <a href="http://tutorius.org/blog/first-public-presentation/">presentation</a> given last April. Next Friday, we will hang around on IRC at 13h EST and give a live demo of the current state of the project using Yuuguu or something equivalent, with an execution engine running in a separate process than the activity, an overhauled tutorial creator (still running inside the activity process) and maybe a quick overview of the sharing platform based around the addon sharing platform from Mozilla. We would like to exchange ideas with people and discuss technical matters with the following goals: <ol> <li>Receive feedback on the work done so far</li> <li>Discuss the possible integration of our system with Sugar, the SugarLabs sharing platform and the official release cycle </li> <li>Anticipate possible evolutions</li> <li>Exchange ideas and pointers to similar work and papers to inspire ourselves and avoid duplicating research efforts</li> </ol> Our team will disband around mid-december, but I'll keep maintaining the project and there might be possibilities for another team of 6-8 people from Université de Sherbrooke to push the project further in January for another year. It would be really exciting to see a collaboration with SugarLabs continue in the future! For those interested in a more technical view of the inner working of the system, see <a href="http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgd9j7sf_9gjxkrff6">Tutorius Architecture</a>, especially the <a href="http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgd9j7sf_9gjxkrff6#Components_2405436521573161_98">Component</a> section. See you on IRC on Friday at 13h EST! Erick Lavoie for Tutorius </body> </html>