<div dir="ltr"><div><br>+1 for linking to the Sugar Network Context (forum) of an Activity from within the Activity. <br><br>I may be able to help if you have questions regarding UI of the first SN Client; the WebUI.<br><br>
Good luck with your proposal Ana.<br> <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-03-17 9:57 GMT-05:00 Ana Balica <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ana.balica@gmail.com" target="_blank">ana.balica@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> Sugar currently has static activity help. You get there by frame > activity icon > help. I think it would be nice to have them all in one dialog, maybe a bit like the view source with 2 icons at the top.</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, sans-serif">@Sam, that's a brilliant idea. I will make the appropriate changes to have static Help and Social Help all in one window.</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> Anyway, this means that if the social help project is selected, either</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> one of our proposals will be selected and the other will be rejected</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Yep, unfortunately that's the deal. Nevertheless discussions, collaboration and bringing up different ideas will help create a better product in the end :)</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, sans-serif">> </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">2. I however do not know whether the addition of IRC is necessarily a</span></div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> good idea. IRC is, well, stateless.</span><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I agree with everything you said about IRC and have suggested that IRC might be left as an option along with the discussion platform because of rather small advantages. It is faster - unfortunately some people will not want to read previous posts or try to figure out the category they set up their question. Posting in this case results in duplicates (behavior often seen on stack exchange websites). If one has a short clear question, IRC is still a valid solution. The problem here arises when the same questions are asked all over again (of course a forum wins it all in this case) and it become a nuisance to those who answer it.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">About channels: imho one channel specifically dedicated to social help should be enough.</font></div><div class=""><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">> </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">3. It appears to me that Ana hasn't finalized whether she is going to</span></div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">> use Discourse.</span><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Indeed i didn't make a decision. All I wanted is to provide a diff between one other option, which seems plausible to me. Naturally I didn't dig too deeply into other forum platforms, since most of the solutions look obsolete, just like <a href="http://www.discourse.org/about/" target="_blank">Discourse says it</a> :)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I will try to explain why Sugar Network seems a rather good idea to me:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* it perfectly covers the scope of the Social Help project in its <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network/Declaration_of_purpose" target="_blank">Declaration of Purpose</a></span></div>
<div>* it is a unified platform, a whole ecosystem for discussions and sharing specifically designed for Sugar. It contains a categorization skeleton based on Sugar activities. Each activity offers discussions on problems, ideas, question and others.</div>
<div>* it can be used in <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network/Concept#Infrastructure_overview" target="_blank">offline environments</a>, there is a synchronization mechanism between nodes with master server</div>
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<div>Discourse has a very friendly environment as well (I will set up one for our university group discussions for sure). If we choose to use Discourse, then considering that Sugar Network is also being used by some users, then we will have <b>information fragmentation</b>. That is definitely not a good idea.</div>
<div><br></div><div>@Prasoon, I will take a look at your proposal asap :) And thanks for the feedback!</div></div>
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