<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 4:46 AM Tony Anderson <<a href="mailto:tony@olenepal.org">tony@olenepal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p>Hi Walter,</p> <p>I have been working on an alternative 'aslolite' to ASLO which will work on a schoolserver. This requires all of the activity bundles be local. Access is by a simple web interface The entire aslolite is < 5GB. If this space were available somewhere online, I could share aslolite with the community. <br></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is the code in a repo somewhere where we can all look at it? Is the ALSOv3 work not compatible with the goal of a local server? </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><p> </p> Users with an Ubuntu Sugar would download the folder (could be tarball). From <a class="m_-2099718551848541058moz-txt-link-freetext">file://home/username/aslolite/index.html</a> they can browse all 514 activities, click on one of interest, which Browse will download and install. The activity can be immediately launched from the Home View. Bundles for activities in github were built by setup.py from the repository. Others were downloaded directly from ASLO. <br> <br> Current limitations are some missing icons, summary descriptions are from ASLO and need the ones from activities with summarize in <a href="http://activity.info" target="_blank">activity.info</a>. The update to TurtleBlocks-218 has not been made. If it is ready, a bundle of MusicBlocks should be made and included.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We are working hard to clean this up. That is in fact why the ALSOv3 has been delayed.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <br> The activity tile does contains a help button for those activities with Help.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <br> Aslolite should work from an XSCE server for an XO deployment.<br> <br> Tony<br> <br> <div class="m_-2099718551848541058moz-cite-prefix">On Thursday, 24 May, 2018 11:29 AM, Walter Bender wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:26 PM Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>> wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="auto"> <div><br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 23, 2018, 8:54 PM James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br> </blockquote> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br> <br> Tony's insistence on ASLO continues to amuse me. Most distribution of<br> activities now happens through bundles, tarballs, and GitHub. ASLO is<br> rarely used by distributors or indeed useful for anything except<br> personal searches for broken activities. Tony's numbers make it<br> plain. My own plan is to remove the link to "activities" in Browse<br> default page; plenty of disk space these days to include all working<br> activities in a build.<br> </blockquote> </div> </div> <div dir="auto"><br> </div> <div dir="auto">Good to hear real world usage of aslo has entered terminal decline. When will it be turned off?</div> </div> </blockquote> <div><br> </div> <div>I am not a fan of the current activity server, but I am a fan of having lots of activities for our users to explore beyond the ones that were chosen for them. So it seems we need some way for them to explore, even if deployments (and deployers) feel otherwise.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>-walter </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div dir="auto"> <div dir="auto"> <div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> _______________________________________________<br> Sugar-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> </blockquote> </div> <br clear="all"> <div><br> </div> -- <br> <div dir="ltr" class="m_-2099718551848541058gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"> <div dir="ltr"> <div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br> <font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div> <div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br> <br> </div> </div> </div> </div> <br> <fieldset class="m_-2099718551848541058mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre>_______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a class="m_-2099718551848541058moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a class="m_-2099718551848541058moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </pre> </blockquote> <br> </div> _______________________________________________<br> Sugar-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> </blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font></font></a><br></div></div></div></div>