Hi All,<div><br></div><div>This is a very interesting project, and is a *very large change* to how we'll interact with the journal. *Please join the design discourse*</div><div><br></div><div>I think that the idea of providing a way of sorting learning into "mini-journals" is very helpful. Users can make a mini-journal for a unit of work in school, an assignment/project or a group activity that a teacher is running.</div><div><br></div><div>I think it is also quite natural. Currently the journal is like one big box; you put everything in and search for it later. Abhijit's proposal makes the journal into a collection of boxes - one box for each project. I swear that you physically do this in real life at times.</div><div><br></div><div>Another element of the proposal is forcing people to put every activity in a mini-journal/"box". I think this is a nice way to address journal clutter; you have a box of random stuff for each project rather than a huge box with too much random stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>The 2nd element of Abhijit's feature is the collaboration. You can share your box with other people; useful for doing group projects. Your friends can add photos, type more on the "Report" write document, or whatever. I think that this makes the collab system very conceptually simple for us as users.</div><div><br></div><div>Technically, the collab will be quite challenging. While Sugar has a collab system when users are in activities ("online" sync), there is not yet a system to sync when the users are not active in the activity ("offline" sync). We can probably get a system that works in good times (when every user is online and connected), but I think that we will focus on adding conflict resolution UI for when things get out of sync.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Sam</div><div><br>On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Abhijit Patel <abhisandhyasp.ap@gmail.com> wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>A brief description of project:</div><div><br></div><div>Focus -> enhance Journal such that students could use it as a platform to do their project-work. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Major features that will be added are:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Shared mini-journal:</div><div><br></div><div>Present-> Sugar Journal shares only single instance of an activity with a group of participants.</div><div><br></div><div>Idea-> creating one single instance (a mini-journal) which has instances of all the activities to be shared.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Flow chart to explain the feature [3].</div><div>[1] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Project_Lists.png" target="_blank">Project List View</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Project_View.png" target="_blank">Mini-Journal (project) View</a></div><div>[3] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Flow_chart_journal.png" target="_blank">Flow-Chart</a></div><div><br></div><div>2. File Syncer System for mini-journal:</div><div><br></div><div>Use -> sync the files when the user does not have the activity running. <br></div><div><div>Further use to alert the user for the changes that occur in the state of shared activity by implementing the alert tool. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Other features are like</div><div> -> Icon View for Journal, </div><div> -> "Add new entry" tool,</div><div> -> Integrating chat activity in mini-journal.</div><div><br></div><div>More details about the project are in my proposal [4].</div><div>Any suggestions or advice regarding the design or any other aspects of the project are welcomed :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>[4] <a href="https://www.docdroid.net/hbalTLC/1458885012-journal-rethink-proposal.pdf.html" target="_blank">Journal-Rethink-Proposal</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>Abhijit.</div></div></div></div> </blockquote></div>